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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1891
Page
16
A dense advertisement highlights a limited time sale with deep discounts on fabrics, garments, and accessories. It lists 10c ginghams, 4c calicoes, 25c hose, 49c damasks, 75c gloves, 98c bedford cords, and many other fabrics and dress goods. The retailer promises new stock Friday and Saturday and urges prompt purchases before prices revert.
Pungent brief items recount crowds on the streets, taxes due, and a note on a strike at a local compress. The column mentions a Graeco Roman wrestling match, a circus slated for the 28th, and a family rates push for clothing at lower prices. It lists patents granted to Southern inventors and quotes Dr. C. B. Jones praising Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
A collage of brief items: reduced watch prices and sales at Americus Jewelry, Mr Reed Jones and Miss Belle Shaw visiting Columbus, Dr R C Black and wife returning to Americus, W W O’Quinn returning from Atlanta Piedmont Exposition, fashion ads for overcoats and dress shirts, Spider and Fly pantomime praised at the opera house, Dried peaches and apples at Avera’s, strike at Americus compress over pay schedule, Bee Hive stock expansion from Rome via J Kattner, Isaac May overseeing removal of goods, Cream cheese and toiletries at local stores, Dr Black returning to Americus and planning to stay, and a notice about change of advertisement deadlines and a general tax and fortune quotation.
The issue notes a mistaken arrest report for Freeman Partee in John Fulton murder. praises Carter's The Fast Mail as the standout of seven melodramas with realistic stage effects including a freight train and Niagara scenes. Also mentions King & Franklin circus, onion planting season, and local notices about religion and supplies.
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