The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-11-04
\ COPY OF THE JOURNAL
"A ..of Forty Years Ago

pages in size, little more than one
third the size of the twelve-page Jour
nal and Courier of last week, the diff
ference in the pages being that the
columns forty years ago were a little
wider than they are in this day. 1t
looks like the same paper so far as
the heading is concerned. The pub
fishers were r. NJ Goodman & Co,
and the office is given as in THE
Brick Building Near the South Corner
of the Public Square. The subscrip
ton price was So year, twice the
present price of the paper.
The old copy contains the adver-
tisements of few men now living,
though there are many names that are
well remembered
The advertisement of the Marietta
Male Academy announces Edwin P
Cater as principal, the Board of Trus
tees consisting of General William
Phillips, chairman, and Messrs. A. P.
Rood, w. P. Anderson, B. Stripping, j.
w. Bozeman, H. M. Hammett, David
Dobbs, A. S. Edmonston, w. L. Mans
field, r. NJ Goodman, w. F. Groves
John G. Campbell, H. B Wallace, J. A
G. Anderson and T. J. Atkinson, with
A. w. York as secretary.
William Root e Sons were the
druggists, and advertised extensively
J. NJ Wilson conducted the stove
store and tin business
!
E. Page and w R. Montgomery ad-
vertised a general store, and so did
j. G. Campbell, while r. H. McCutch-
| con & Bro. announced in a large ad-
yertisement that they would pay the
highest prices for the skins of otter
| beaver, mink, coon, bear, red fox, grey
! fox, wild cat, mUskrat, house cat, etc
| The advertisement says: Fur skins
! should be taken off whole and cased
over board, stretched we'll and the
bone taken out of the tail In this
way they will sell more readily and for
better prices This information may
be useful even at this late day
McCutcheon e Bro. also advertised
the western Wonder, Cherokee In
dian Bitters", and "McCutcheon's Eu-
reka Ague Specific.
The well-knOWn livery stable adver-
tisement of J. A. G. Anderson is there,
and AgricOla's Bakery, established in
1852, advertises a lot of good things
Winters & Whitlock advertise gro
ceries and provisions.
Among the other advertisers may be
mentioned: William D. Anderson, at
torney; H. B. Wallace, brick making;
Dr. e. ]. Seize and DR.. w. E. Dun
woody, DR.. ]. G. Greer and DR.. E. NJ
Allen, dentists; j. j. Hunt, bookseller;
r ]. Atkinson, R. H. Marchman and
A. Keeter, groceries; E. Page, dry
goods; A. D. Ruede, matchmaker and
jeweler; G. s. Owen and John Nix,
fresh meats; M. T. Grist, harness
maker; W. F. Groves, general mer-
chandise; Joseph Elsas, general store;
Green, groceries, etc.
There is a double-column advertise
ment Of Mark w, Johnson, of Atlanta,
! the guano and seed merchant. In
those days the name of Mark w. John
son was known In every farm house
in Georgia, and it is of interest to
state that Mr.. Johnson is still living
and in business in Atlanta. In per
sonal appearance he has changed very
| little in forty years-the same quiet,
kindly gentleman that he was so long
ago, when he was at the head of prob
ably the largest business of it's kind
in the State. He lives in Inman Park,
and one of his daughters married Mr..
Elijah Brown, brother of the gov
ernor.
| Farmers will be interested in the
cotton quotations. The quotations for
March 18, 1870, were II cents for
middling, 16 cents for low middling,
and IA for good ordinary. Wheat is
quoted at $125 to $1.35; corn, $1.30;
bacon, sides, 20 cents; shoulders, 15c,
and hams, zoe. Peas are SO; sugar,
15c to zoe; butter, 30c; eggs, 15c;
chickens, 18c to Csc; Roswell yarn
50, and hay, 1926 a hundred pounds
The legal advertisements are signed
by c. ]. Shepard, ordinary, and II. A
Baldwin, sheriff.
Among the news items is the
gloomy prediction of the end Of the
world by Professor Wurtz through
the fish in the ocean USING IN I'll the
carbon Forty years have n's--a and
the end OF tho word haa' 70 yet.
or, rather, # h9a MT rr -'--e
when this was Wriue2 IS &c
telling what MAJ happo" "eg @ tie
paper goes to press
Altogether, - Fo''o'
forty years ago was 81 >,is
paper. and it's columns eor 7awe
high standard t1at la. ,-
nal frorl rs re r"nlrc .ro "t
the fortv four ear uf V
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