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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1886
Page
5
Dawelling house on Church street offered for sale or rent with contact to R. Honexstory. Notice dated June 2.
Waycross and surrounding towns report lively social notes from last week. Mrs Slarris of St Augustine visits relatives. Miss Mamie Strickland of Blackshear stays in Waycross. readers hear of protracted church meetings, local politics, and a kerosene lamp incident. Thunderstorm heat noted in Illinois contrasts with southern coolness.
Refused permission blocks the regimental monument at Gettysburg as Marylanders sought to place it inside Union lines at the farthest advance point. Also notes Savannah hotel pricing and a patent medicine advertisement for Backsen's Salve with a money-back guarantee.
Samuel Dunlap of Atlanta recounts relief from chronic rheumatism after using Hunnicutt's Rheumatic Cure, bought when it was offered to friends. He notes kidney benefits and describes two bottles restoring health, with $1.00 per bottle pricing cited by manufacturers and wholesale availability. An accompanying note advertises Electric Bitters for kidney and liver complaints and other ailments.
The Hesprant explains its move from the iron house near the post office to expand printing and jewelry work. It pledges to advocate for public rights, education, and local interests while noting past growth, and dissolves the partnership B J Apple & Co with H A Bennett continuing the business and settling debts.
English physician Dr Mary A Gregg introduces a female disease remedy to the United States offering a free one month trial to any woman sending her address and 1 2d stamps plus additional charges. The package includes instructions and a price list, with the promise of a permanent cure, available until August 1886 from Guoroa Rewxpy Comrary, Parwrra, N. Y.
Insurance firms in Georgia faced a looming deadline to file annual returns with the Controller General. By yesterday's close, some had complied while others remained unfiled. Delinquent companies risk a $500 penalty each, with a few spared by legislative relief for prior indifference and explanations.
A cluttered post Civil War style column urges July 24 public meeting at the courthouse to discuss a school site. It promotes an insurance offer from Home Insurance Co of New York and a feather bed cleaning service by J F Palmer. Also features opinions on social behavior, a political note about Hon R B Johnson seeking reelection, a tax or legal notice, a festival at Krom's Hall to aid the Waycross Silver Cornet Band, and a brief item about a blind man at a New England railroad train playing whist with raised card spots.
The document advocates sustaining the railroad commission, opposing sale of the State road but backing a protected lease to a Georgia stockholder led company, opposing convict leasing with a reformed penitentiary, amending Sabbath laws to curb Sunday work by railroads and mills, revising the tax oath, and promoting a Waycross branch of the state university. Griffin Sun reports $50,000 backing Griffin and Monticello railroad with aims to connect Macon and Athens and Richmond and Danville. Griffin praised as progressive among Georgia towns.
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