06 Dec 1891
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1891
Page
1
A terse column urges action not passivity during cold November days. The narrator uses blunt tone to scold readers and encourages practical steps to stay warm and prepared amid the season. The piece uses playful phrasing and direct address to the audience.
A bitter ballot race for the U S House speakership neared its last day with no material shift after seventeen ballots. Springer refuses to quit while McMillin and Newberry backers press on. Observers see a possible third candidate emerging as party factions hold firm at the caucus. The first ballot showed votes split among Mills Crisp and others.
Dun and Co reports U S failures totaled 304, Canada 26, overall 330, down from 905 last week with gradual improvement in business. Cotton weakness delays sell orders. iron market shows modest demand while prices weaken. Local notes include editor Lee F Howard’s dispute coverage in Kentucky. theft of whisky in West Virginia. Italy-France tensions over reparations. Curtis Bay sugar refinery shuts down affecting 300 workers. rebels in Africa causing village loot and massacres. Delia Par nel and son John sail to England on route to America.
A coasting captain said his ship, driven far off course by a storm, found an uncharted island with many huts and no living inhabitants. Skeletons lay about, some in huts, suggesting a plague or massacre that wiped out the residents. The story includes other local items about arrests, fires, and political notes.
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