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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1887
Page
1
The official organ of Ware Charlton and Coffee Counties boasts wide circulation extending into Florida and southern Georgia. It targets Coffee Charlton Clinch and Ware by offering an advertising medium for community advancement, stating it is found in nearly every household in these counties.
A local office advertises the largest assortment of new job printing in the section. It pledges to complete past work as a guarantee for future orders and invites customers to send orders for any job printing. They emphasize large and small posters cards notes bills and lead ads.
A promotional notice urges all readers to share Bosehee’s Garmen Syrup for consumption, coughs, croup, asthma, and pneumonia. It promises immediate relief after three doses and touts mass sales with sample bottles at 10 cents and regular bottles at 75 cents. The ad lists tax return dates and locations for book collection ending July 1, signed I. J. Wsikixsos, T.R.W.C.
A fragmented 19th century ad lists Spirit of Oil as a cure for mange in Illinois and itch epidemics. It promotes orders via J G Nelson & Co Savannah and Foles & Carswell Waycross with prices on sugar and stationery. The text names J A Carpenter and Tompkins Medicines. It references Glenmore Georgia and Oxville Illinois and includes trade items like Pearl Meal and Grits.
A mixed item lists church services for M. E. Cacaca Sours-tev and others, including Sunday worship at 11 and 7:30, Sunday School, prayer and experience meetings, and sacramental details. It notes ministers, small-town notices, and a testimonial about Electric Bitters, with purchase details and local store credit.
Linen note heads printed and padded for business men at $2.25 per thousand. Hand-billings at per hundred. Oil prices and denominational prints per thousand. Bill-heads and statements priced to clear stock before full stock arrives. Savannah defied competition, come see the savings. All stock offered dates to clear large stationery inventory.
A messy mix of items from Glenmore to Waycross covers wind damage, fish fry reports, local illness, reductions on clothing and shoes, printing sales, school openings, church activities, business notices, burglaries, and a strawberry of small happenings. Includes the Eastman Times note on a chicken hawk encounter, local auctions, and railroad travel notes through historic battlefields.
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