03 Oct 1893
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1893
Page
1
A fragment from Reis and Rayyet of Calcutta offers a lyrical meditation on memory and time. It juxtaposes past and present images, from golden oaks to roses past their bloom, then elevates memory to an eternal now. The poem contemplates forgiveness, remorse, and the unending life of spirit in a mystical key.
In Albania Mehemed’s disciplined auxiliary troops guard a barrel of liquor. Four watchmen drink and sleep allowing Greeks to attack. a fatal chess duel determines one man’s fate as the survivors fight for a single horse amid gunfire. The tale ends with a seven to one boat?
The New York Tribune reports giant ancient people across Peru and neighboring coasts. Skulls were found at Chancal north of Lima and on Puna Island near Guayaquil. Oliva and Zarate describe giants, fierce in war, builders of immense walls and a great water well, perhaps ended by fire from heaven.
The People’s Kitchen in Vienna expands on American kitchen models like New England Kitchen of Boston. It serves 50,000 meals daily at seven cent meals including soup meat bread vegetables pudding and coffee with a seven cent supper and four cent breakfast options. The effort targets uplifting the ignorant classes with appetizing, affordable food and hopes to widen this reform to counter sluggishness.
Georgia notes cover the Augusta exposition plan and Confederate veterans day, annual harvests with cotton shipments, a judge hearing sewing machine fraud case, Sumter County hog and corn initiatives, Cordele turpentine union activities, and Atlanta Technological School openings. Editor Gibson to Beirut posts, peach tree orders, and local business prospects dominate this broad regional digest.
Condensed report covers Whittenton mills at Taunton Massachusetts employing over 1000, with a large mercantile firm Wolf and Goldman of Newport destroyed by fire Tuesday night. Losses run about 500005 and insurance figures. Also notes on treasury gold receipt from New York, a London death of Benjamin Whitworth, smallpox in New York, and various federal and naval dispatches.
At a Wednesday noon meeting Brunswick officials report eighteen yellow fever cases with fear of more. Police recruit twenty five colored men and patrol the city with Winchester rifles to deter unrest while the sanitary drive expands. New cases Saturday bring totals and relief efforts include donations from Georgia towns and reorganization of police and militia readiness.
New York dispatch reports an international heavyweight title bout planned between James Corbett and Charley Mitchell for a $40,000 purse at Coney Island Athletic Club if authorities permit. Mitchell signed the articles Saturday at the Hoffman House binding to meet the Californian in December. Corbett, who is visiting at Lock Arbor Asbury Park, signed them there Monday.
Report from Brookshire Mise notes whitecaps burning cotton houses and a gin in Lincoln county near Frank Biscounty. Frederick Grif and Dan Sasser owned properties attacked. Excitement spreads as masked assailants strike, with widespread fear in the region. Virginia bonds and stock activity quoted at New York exchanges are mentioned amid broader financial chatter from 1891.
A promotional description praising The Weekly Constitution as a daily side of the people paper with wide reach across the Southern and Western States. It extols its world news, magazine‑like content, and educational value, noting famous contributors and broad family appeal.
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