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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1899
Page
6
The Times-Recorder reports on Mr George Hepworth’s failed search for anti lynching remedies in Georgia and Newnan, noting southern conditions differ from the North. It cites Savannah News on criminal elements and suggests an escort idea for Dewey. It mentions strawberry shipments, rewards for Hopkins, cotton receipts in Houston, and Dewey versus Sampson debates with various editorials.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes reunions drift from wartime bitterness to reconciliation. Gen Fitzhugh Lee misses Charleston duties while serving in Cuba. Gen Joe Wheeler attends, representing North and South. Ex Gov Northen to speak in Boston. four thousand German-Americans protest US-Germany tensions. Other items mention Lina and social remarks, and upcoming Democratic meeting in St Louis.
Readers share testimonials praising Peruna with cures for catarrh jaundice and other ailments. A booster notes Dr. Hartman will counsel fifty thousand women free this year and urges all women to request his health and beauty book. The piece also cites a German editor, a jail sentence for a Kaiser remark, and a Hot Springs visit amid Georgia farm crop forecasts.
Grain and provisions prices varied as markets closed mixed with naval stores showing shortages and firm rosin values. Turpentine receipts and white oil prices were listed alongside pine oil and spirits reports from Savannah to Raleigh. Also included are crime brief notes from Raleigh on two jailed lynching suspects and a short historical note on England’s first fire company, The Phenix, established 1682.
Strikers nearly repudiated Bishop Quige rley and President McMahan as the grain trade faces disruption. The Covage board of trade calls for Conners contract termination, boosting belief the Lake Cal ness may yield. Shot incidents near docks and police action mark tense streets while grain elevators lift to multiple cities amid labor unrest.
May 20 London report quotes Lord Charles Beresford hoping Admiral Dewey will visit an English port on his Manila homeward voyage. He says Britons would greet him in true fashion and that Dewey will receive fitting receptions at British naval stations, possibly Gibraltar, if his route allows.
News from Dumden New Zealand to Stanwell Park New South Wales recounts the loss of the Werfa schooner with 19 aboard. only one survivor. A bottle found at Stanwell Park dated October 20 1898 confirms the tragedy and location off the coast of New South Wales. Additional items note Chattanooga chosen by Cumberland Presbyterian General Assembly, a headless body found near Fitzgerald Georgia, the resignation of Santiago archbishop, the death of James G Harris former Union Pacific treasurer, a drowning of Eugene Loeb at Columbia South Carolina, Texas House tax on personal incomes over 2000 dollars, wage increase for American Pipe and Foundry workers in Bessemer Alabama, and a one day strike leading to concessions in Monro County Tennessee.
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