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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1891
Page
8
Wheatley Ansley announces specials for tomorrow featuring high class dress materials and black goods. The ad promotes low prices on tricot and wool fabrics, stockings, gloves, linings, and a new line of children's kilt suits plus anew cloak and curtain selection.
Mr. J F Ross leads Sumter's display at the Piedmont Exposition in Atlanta shipping novelties that showcase the county’s resources. Praise cited for his perseverance and call for broader local support to improve Sumter’s standing among Georgia counties. A separate report notes a man, Henry Brown, attempting suicide via morphine by drinking poison and whisky, treated by Dr. Winchester.
The Southwestern is preparing for expo week with eight service coaches overhauled for 100 passengers each. A special train will run daily from Cuthbert to Macon starting Sunday week, enabling large crowds to attend the fair and visit the Central City. The piece also notes the birth of a baby girl to Dr. and Mrs. Albert Hinkle and lists upcoming court dates for the Southwestern circuit in Stewart Lee Macon and Sumter counties.
Aggregated clippings show a playful mix of infant news and political satire. Citations from the Cleveland era reflect congratulatory notices for a newborn daughter and tongue in cheek quips about Grover Cleveland, with jokes on public life and domestic duties.
A Charleston capture uncovers African cargo hidden in swamps near Savannah river. Emancipation occurred there and refugees stayed in isolation until waters rise. The piece notes locals and surrounding negroes cannot speak freely with them and mentions a current Atlanta Journal clipping on railroad depots and a Shakespearean aside on indigestion cures.
Market quiet as receipts arrive by wagon and railroad. Prices for good middling and middling shown with unclear figures and low middling not listed. Overall notes indicate slight activity from previous totals.
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