Newspaper advertisement: "Hobby & Post, -Agents For- Wright's Georgia Iron Cotton Screw! Galveston, Texas. The Simplicity Of This Screw Is one of its chief recommendations. It is as simple as the Wooden Screw, and more powerful. So great is this advantage that one mule hitched to a lever 16 feet long, will press a 500 pound bale without difficulty. It Lasts For Years! Requires little lumber, 16 foot levers and timers 12 feet long. It is Cheap and Expeditiously Built. The Price so Low as to be within reach of the smallest planter: $100 00 in Currency. We Subjoin One Of Many Notices - Messrs. Clanks & Lattery, New Orleans. Gents: - This is to certify that I bought last year one of your Wright's Georgia Iron Screw Presses, and packed my crop with it last season, and I have no hesitation in saying that it is the best Cotton Press I have ever seen ; and so far superior to the ordinary Wooden Screw Press that I would not give it for ten of them. W. L. Tanner. The undersigned also purchased the Georgia Press last season, and unite with Col. Tanner in recommending the same, as a Great Labor-Saving Press, and decidedly the cheapest that we have any knowledge of. Very respectfully, J. M. Mothershead, W. W. Wall. Attalla County, Mississippi."
Source
The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Tex.), June 18, 1869.
Original Publisher
Richardson, Belo & Co.
Date Original
1869
Date Digital
2016
Language
eng
Type
text
Artisan or Artist
Hobby & Post.
Subject LC
Machinists
Subject MESDA
Machinist ; Mechanic
Occupation
Machinists ; Mechanics
Coverage Place
Galveston (Galveston County, Tex.)
Coverage Date
1869
Resource Set
The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Tex.)
Rights
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