10 Apr 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1897
Page
1
From 25c to 150 per yard the shop touts beautiful wash goods including Organdies Dimities Jaconettes Lawns and Grass Linens with stocks unmatched in beauty and price. It promises everything needed in the Nation Department and highlights hosiery handkerchiefs woven goods and underwear along with linen specials in Damask Napkins and Towels.
Fire in a Knox Hotel district ruin kills three men from Springfield Massachusetts and Newport Rhode Island and a traveling salesman from Rochester New York. debris and torn walls hinder rescue as insurers estimate 300000 in coverage against a 1100000 loss. officials report missing men and a broad business disruption across the burned block with firms moving to new quarters and the street slated for rebuilding.
Atlanta tinners return to work after a grievance committee persuaded Hunnicutt and Dellingrath to accept union proposals. Key demands include a nine hour day with eight on Saturdays and a two dollar daily minimum for journeymen, plus travel and on job expense provisions.
The aged murderess Mrs. Nobles awaits execution on April 23 and pleads for a commutation from Governor Atkinson. In a final request she names heirs who will receive her clothes and belongings and directs simple bequests to her children and servants.
A late April 92 dispatch from Jackson Mississippi reports Greenville loses all wire service as flood threats grow. New Orleans warns river at 18.2 feet, higher than 1892, with levee blockades planned and relief trains moving by day and night amid stormy April weather. Louisiana levees brace for the worst while engineers push to defend low areas and extend flood works.
Captain General Weyler reportedly stopped the execution of insurgent leader Wasamarox. General Silvers lies wounded near Havana in unknown condition. Inquiry into Rivera’s status yielded lines from the minister denying a shooting order and suggesting outcomes hinge on sympathizers in the United.
Rev Joseph L Moultrie died suddenly of heart failure at his home near Calon Springs Union Sixes Alabama in his eighty sixth year He was a scholar and Methodist preacher who joined the North Georgia conference and helped promote Wesleyan Female College at Macon Ga He later transferred to the Alabama conference before the war then pursued farming Representatives of the Daughters of the Southern Confederacy met in Montgomery Alabama to perfect state organization the note ends with local details remaining unread.
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