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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
3
D Wheatley announces the formal opening of holiday stocks as a major seasonal event. The store emphasizes complete, dependable merchandise and expert selection to meet Christmas demand, inviting readers to use the hints as a guide to gift buying.
Holiday sale offers embroidered linen handkerchiefs and pure linen styles, with half dozen sets and special bundles. Also featured are dress gloves, kid gloves, walking gloves, and mocca leather items, plus strong umbrellas in various sizes and prices. Early shoppers urged to pick from the selection.
A local advertises a festive hosiery sale with many varieties packed in threes per box. It touts Ladies and Girls stockings in black and tan, ribbed and heavy for school wear, with numerous sizes and styles offered during the holiday period.
Better and bigger preparations in this section for men’s wear with neckwear dress shirts collars cuffs suspenders and night shirts. Highlighted lines include Wilson Bros dress shirts and fancy colored shirts with ready-to-use fronts and reinforced features. Gazeye brand wear and linen fabrics noted with full-width shirts and varied colors.
Americus city council adopts new rules fining tardy aldermen and those making motions without rising to address the chair. Minutes show various budget items, arbi trations, and requests for reports, with a plan to fund fines via city marshal deposits.
The store highlights a wide range of Christmas ready items including Ladies Pocket Books and Card Cases. Some are plain or mounted in sterling silver or gold, others with celuloid, all in beautiful cases. Prices are advertised as low and economical, with stock described as moving quickly.
A local ad promotes a wide stock of silver items and holiday displays. It highlights nail files letter openers curling irons blotters toothbrushes shoe horns button hooks and novelty boxes in china cut glass and porcelain priced from 25c to 175.
Advertises a wide stationery selection for the holidays with novelties and brushes. Emphasizes price variety from 25 cents to 2 dollars and 50 cents. Encourages customers to visit to see the assortment.
New novelty line features dresser sets including Cologne bottles, comb and brush trays, powder and trinket box. Assortment of design three dollars. Abundant beauty and usefulness highlighted.
A six story tenement known as The Mentor at One Hundred and Second Street and Third Avenue burned, killing five people including a mother and child. Six others were seriously burned or injured as flames spread through the hallway and upper floors. Firemen rescued two women from fourth floor ledges and battled dense smoke. Mary Barrett and Delia O Connell were among the victims. The blaze damaged the building about forty thousand dollars and a second fire in Tenth Avenue prompted evacuations.
A local cotton market update notes 148 bales received yesterday and additional bales received previously. Local quotations are listed as of the current market day.
An article touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a proven croup cure after early hoarseness. It cites twenty five years of use and guarantees refunds after two thirds used. The piece also advertises California dried fruits and canned goods at E D Ansley, a Cotton avenue toy store sale, a charity gathering by Epworth League, and notes fireworks and firearms promotions along with wedding cost concerns.
An unusual advertisement offers dubious claims about a "Frightful Blunder" that could cause injuries and promises cures for various ailments. It touts remedies such as Buckien’s Arica dal o and a gun-autee to heal and kill pain, while promoting discounted fresh candy and imported raisins at E. D. Ansley’s.
Get your Fruit Cakes ready baked at 22 Iba from E D Ansley.
An item listing various collar and cuff boxes offered in childloid leather and china. The design range includes multiple styles and finishes, noting a variety of patterns and wrens as decorative touches.
A jumble of testimonials and stray notices promotes Cham berlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and DeWitt s Witch Hazel Salve. Includes unauthenticated claims about cures and health products, plus assorted misprinted names and stray city notes. The fragmentary text mentions sales outlets and generic charitable sentiments amid advertising chatter.
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