05 Aug 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
1
We want less goods and more money. The hot weather continues and buyers can save on seasonable goods. Entire stock includes Summer Dress Goods Organdies Dimities Lawns Muslins and Summer Silks Waist-Patterns Remnants and more. Also Ladies Slippers and Gentlemen Shoes Neglige Shirts Underwear Straw Hats and summer clothing all closed out for cash. We aim for brisk trade in the dull season.
A customer praised the store for trustworthy pricing and prompt goods at advertised rates. The ad warns readers to mention the notice and bring cash, as credit cannot be extended for these bargains. The supplier emphasizes no advertising of credit and insists on cash payments.
The Pings Creek strike gains 20 new diggers amid reduced output. Camp life tightens as 600 workers remain in camp with 100 sent to Pinam Creek and 800 sent home. Operators offer no amnesty to restart mines, while disputes over mine capacity and daily cars persist.
In San Francisco on Aug 4 jd Mar quesse alias Harry Kendall a wanted criminal from Utica N Y sought for five offenses two burglary and three grand larceny escaped from a city prison with Sheriff Weaver Pe Oneida peak fe pursuit. He used his medical cloak to rob houses and offices before being recaptured in Syracuse last July and later seized in Los Angeles California.
A pedestrian crossing Broad Way is blinded by a tiny dust speck and killed by a cable car. The piece contrasts this accident with warnings about indigestion and touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for digestion disorders, liver weakness, and nervous ailments.
About 400 workers at Falcon Bag and Cotton Mills walk out in protest after management planned to hire 5-dollar Negro women in the folding department. White workers gathered at the entrance while president Jacob Elias discussed the move. later 600 more workers across the plant joined the strike, forcing closure as tensions rose among men, women, and children. In a separate note, Alabama Governor Johnston orders 16 county tax collectors to show cause why they should not be removed for delinquent filings, citing $27,000 total overdue in Mobile and other counties.
Eli Thomaston a Black man charged with two attempts to commit criminal assault in one day was brought to the area by W J Graves near the Chattahoochee river. The first attempt targeted a 14 year old mulatto girl near Beates o for pa aepee pxd whe be mot hee sad. The second attempt was on Graves at his home where Thomaston was finally captured and placed in custody.
Assistant Secretary Webster Davis declares that the Mexican War era revenue cutter Forward was part of the United States Navy. The decision grants a pension to William F. Rogers, lieutenant, for service from 1844 to 1847, overruling previousdenials and placing the vessel under naval jurisdiction.
News from the Orient reports Japan will end expert duties at the start of the thirty first fiscal year in April. Floods in Fokai threaten about 4 500 homes. Reports from Szechuan indicate continuing high mortality. A Tokio bulletin notes debates on Hawaii's status and potential future actions by Japan.
Gansion Hunsker, a wealthy Salt River Valley cattle rancher, is detained by Mexican authorities at El Plomo Sonora. Officials say he is a witness against local Indians and the Mexican government refuses to release him despite his capture about a month ago after a cattle herd vanished.
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