Georgia Excursion Club Promises 1893 World Fair Trip
An Atlanta based prospectus offers a Georgia Excursion Club trip to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair. For 75 cents a week for 100 weeks, subscribers secure Pullman palace car seating, meals, hotel lodging for seven days, fair admission, and transport, with deposits in Capital City Bank and oversight by a board including Major T. H. Blackwall and Col. J. C. Courtney.
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Avera Grocery Tips For Sweet Potato Dish
Directions describe boiling four large sweet potatoes until done, draining, drying, mashing smooth with butter and cream, seasoning with salt and pepper, then shaping into cylinders, dipping in beaten egg and bread crumbs, and frying to serve after a meal.
Fresh Provisions Plentiful at Local Store
A local merchant announces new stock including black buckwheat flour maple syrup apples Malaga grapes cocoanuts evaporated peaches apricots cheese macaroni olives pickles cabbage onions rutabaga turnips Irish potatoes cod fish California honey pork mackerel breakfast bacon ham sausages canned goods and cheaper prices. The dealer touts McFerrin's Lard and Alcamo Coffee and invites customers to purchase a money-saving book.
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World Fair trip offer through Georgia Excursion Club
An advertising notice details a Chicago based World’s Fair excursion plan. It promises round trip tickets, club amenities, and a transferable certificate for seventy‑five cents weekly for 100 weeks, with a club badge for subscribers and endorsements from local merchants. It targets workers and families seeking affordable travel and education.
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Georgia Excursion Club
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