27 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1899
Page
1
For thirty days the store will occupy the space formerly Finninger used, just behind the current shop. We will not move stock back and offer our summer shoes at 4 cert cotton basis, advertising the cheapest shoes ever sold.
Schumpert Shoe Co promotes itself as the oldest wholesale liquor house in Macon established in 1881. It offers cash purchases, large lots, low prices, and money-back guarantees on all goods with original bottling from the distillery. Give one trial and view the price list.
California Sherry and Port wine offered at 75. ef per gallon with notes on other sherries and brandies. Clarets and Rhine wines priced by the case of a dozen quarts. All other wines and beverages sold in various forms at low prices. Send for price lists and details.
Washington Aug 26 orders were issued for an additional regiment of volunteers composed of negro recruits. Lt Col Duvall will command with white field and regimental officers. Headquarters at McPherson Atlanta. Recruitment starts immediately for service in the Philippines. Five negro regiments were discussed but not adopted now. The unit avoids the president’s ten regiments and is driven by southern black leaders. Supporters argue it will aid the Philippines campaign and counteract native notions of U.S. slavery by showing negro citizenship in military service.
Charleston county truck growers vote to ship by steamer after railroads refused cheaper eastern rates. Clyde steamship line will handle all local cargo, with extra ships added to speed delivery and lower costs.
In Rexnes France on Aug 26 the Dreyfus court martial entered its sixth session of the week as Alphonso Bertillon, Paris police anthropometrist, testified as a handwriting expert. He argued the bordereau was penned by Dreyfus, provoking dramatic exchanges with the prisoner and defense counsel Labori. Major Freystaeter and Colonel Maurel faced cross examination, producing a tense confrontation and hisses from the audience. A separate report notes the gunboat Wilmington arriving in Uruguay with a broken screw and other naval items, plus notes on the Kearsarge war trial timeline and a plague death toll in Shanghai.
An Associated Press sourced report claims Russia seeks to thwart Anglo American unity over Alaska. Diplomats say Moscow aims to derail cooperation between Britain and the United States, with China tensions viewed as a check on Anglo-Saxon power. Canadian officials and British envoys weigh delays, tradeoffs, and the role of an umpire in boundary talks. The Pacific and Samoa context adds further friction as observers warn of renewed hostilities.
President McKinley and Mrs McKinley depart Loxoe Braxcu New Jersey at 9 45 this morning aboard a Pennsylvania Railroad special bound for Pittsburg Accompanying them are Private Secretary Cortelyou and Dr Rixey and two carriages of the party later to be joined by Vice President Hobart as troops guard the route to East Liverpool and Canton. General Merritt to meet them in Pittsburg.
Aug 26 in Paris reports Guerin's death leads to a black flag hoisted at his attic window while the neighborhood around Rue Chabrol is sealed. Two party members are ill, access denied, and Guerin kept watch from the roof as authorities limit contact.
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