ANTIQUE 1871 LETTERHEAD O D GORMAN GROCER & NEWSPAPER OWNER TALBOTTON GA For Sale

9" by 5 3/4" lined paper with printed letterhed of O D Gorman, dealer in groceries, provisions, liquors & western produce, Talbotton, Georgia. Dated October 31, 1871, sent to hardware merchants in Macon to inquire about a wholesale price for a Fairbanks or Howe scale. Some slight soiling and staining. O D Gorman was also a newspaper owner. With his brother John, he ran the Talbotton Standard, and started the Georgia Register in 1877 in Talbotton, Georgia. The paper circulated on a weekly basis at a subscription cost of one dollar per year and supported the Democratic Party.