30 Jan 1896
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
1
A local advertisement promotes The Racket store with everyday low prices on mittens lamps pins handkerchiefs writing paper and more. The copy lists numerous items from ladies hats to shoes and spools of thread at deeply reduced rates, inviting city and surrounding residents to visit in coming days.
The notice advertises solid vestibulated trains operating between Atlanta and Washington via Norfolk and New York with sleeping and parlor cars on select routes. It lists departures, routes, and agent contacts at depot and Kimball House, Atlanta, urging advance ticket purchases.
Vienna dispatches report Russia aims to seize Armenia and Constantinople while France would take Syria and Palestine and England Egypt and Persian Gulf shores. A Sebastopol note mentions arming for a spring action. Separately a mission priest in Egypt, Anshalia, was murdered in Syria amid a Christian massacre.
Senator Morgan reports on a substitute resolution urging recognition of Cuban insurgents belligerent rights. The committee cites Spain’s conduct and U.S. duty to protect Cuban civilians, urging a peaceful settlement and adherence to laws of war.
The speaker denounces postwar financial and political decisions, accusing creditors and manufacturers of corruption. He blames federal bonds and perceived inequities for ongoing oppression and warns of a popular uprising if relief is not provided. He invokes 1861 to 1865 emancipation and warns of a reckoning.
The Industrial World reports an active inquiry in pig iron with orders slow, due to northern foundry grade prices $2.50 to $3.00 higher. Finished iron and steel are active, with a pipeline steel contract for 8 000 to 10 000 tons mentioned. Billets at $19.50 and South Chicago works resume on double turn January 27 after a four week shutdown.
San Francisco date January 29 Mayor Sutro leads opposition to C P Huntington effort to pass a refunding bill by Congress for the Central Pacific. Sutro floods Congress with documents asserting favors to Central and Southern Pacific railroads and aims to influence lawmakers and the President.
Dr. A F Nightingale superintendent of Chicago High Schools elected president of joint committees by the secondary department and the department of higher edi tion to in vests ad mnareapoea. The note: text is garbled. readable items indicate election and committee oversight of education standards.
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