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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1886
Page
5
A warped OCR notice shows candidates announcing runs for Ware County offices. Bailey seeks Legislature support for Treasurer, Wilson campaigns for Representative, and a Tax Collector bid notes prior service and intent to serve citizens.
Readlight flashes confess a rainy, unsettled season with stray notes on crops, fruit, and local life. Mentions about grapes, sweet potatoes, and a forthcoming October event mix with general town chatter, prices, and remarks on a Chicago anarchist platform. Millwood address on Saturday and local prices offer a snapshot of a small community.
An OCR fragment mentions Backlen's Armee Salve with claims of cure for oats, bruises, sores and more, sold by Folks & Morgan, plus a reference to a deputy sheriff F M Young visiting, and mentions the HANES HOUSE Savannah hotel drawing readers to use the press for sales and information.
Park House for rent located about one hundred yanis from the 8 F. and W. by in Waycross Georgia apply to John C McDonald Waycross Ga A visit to Buchanan and Murphys Planning Mill shows these gentlemen thriving Brace Up ad for Electric Bitters 50 cents at Folks and Morgans Drug Store Local notices mention visitors and moves of Mrs Minnie Cramb and Mrs Tatum and death of Mr E Tennent junior infant and ongoing town chatter about earthquakes politics and repairs
A Waycross letter accuses critics of misusing festival funds for an artesian well project. It lists cash and subscription totals raised by Weiss, Crawley, and others and urges rapid completion, offering to donate more or redirect funds to a schoolhouse if needed. The writer criticizes inquiry about funds and calls for decisive action, signed by J. Atkins and W. A. McDoxan.
Society items list residents moving on Railroad street and in other areas, a wedding rumor, court attendance at Wareboro, travel drummers, a political meeting at Homerville, and a school start at Cleman hall with seventy five pupils. The Ladies Church Aid Society plans a September festival with lemonade cake and grab bag to raise funds for the parsonage, with four presents to pastors and a moonlight event inviting couples to attend.
A plea for reader tips and subscriptions dominates this notice page urging support for the home paper and prompt renewals. An 1886 death notice records the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brown in Folkston Georgia, with burial at King's Ferry and family mourning.
A note suggests that a small amount of parsley dipped in vinegar eaten after onions can destroy the lingering onion odor. The tip presents a simple culinary fix using common kitchen items.
Friends in Pierce county of the Hon. W. G. Brantley request me to thank you for vindicating his fair name from the mudslinging of late. No journal in the state matches yours for liberality during political contests and your absence from mudsling is commendable.
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