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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1897
Page
4
A sales page lists bargain fabrics and garments including colored dress silks, wool gabardines, and all wool coats with low prices. It highlights blankets, undergarments for all ages, and sample offers, urging readers to request samples and act quickly on value items.
Readable ad notes prices for dress trimmings and novel braid items. Includes tubular braids Soutache in various colors and widths with price points from 1 to 135 cents per yard and related fabrics.
The column lists random town happenings including lodging registrations at Castle Sumter, Daughters of the Confederacy event at Miss Flora Wheatley, tours to Nashville at a low round trip rate, and marriage fever with ten couples planned. It notes cool mornings, forecasts frost unlikely, cotton market stalls, a Macon boy found and sent home, and new residences on Taylor Street. It also mentions Masons gathering in Macon, and seed and buckwheat products for sale.
A frame Stallings grocery on Felder Street burned after 3:30 AM fire spread from an unknown cause. Two alarms were sounded, the second at 10:20 AM, with three bales of cotton on the lower press catching fire and threatening the lot. Hose lines controlled the blaze. damages to the bales and building were likely minor.
A stream of brief sightings shows residents and visitors in Albany. Names include J. B. Stapleton Preston Dr. H. H. McGee Pisins H. W. Webb Augusta W P Bart Atlanta J A Fort Atlanta Mrs F E Anderson Nashville Sam B Wight Albany Lawson Stapleton Atlanta Lumpkin G R Ellis and Mrs Ellis en route to Atlanta Mrs George Fields Thomasville L M Felton Marshallville Mrs L M Felton travels to visit Mrs Thomas E Allen Jackson St Gid Ledsinger Nashville for New York Life Col James Taylor Lumpkin W D Murray J P Woods Ellaville Albert Reet Plant System Savannah city council sets tax rates Tutt's Pills advertisement.
At a city council meeting the bond election results were declared in Americus establishing a bond issue of 85000. The bonds mature January 1 1927 bearing 4 percent interest from November 15 next with annual interest due January 1. Proceeds go to the city treasury for stated purposes. The bonds are non-taxable and a sinking fund is created from a special one tenth of one percent tax.
Sumter's able representatives Mosars Black and Dodaos with other county lawmakers will be on the scene when the gavel falls tomorrow. Senator Hedson of Schley will join this morning, while Senator Cook and Representative Duncan of Lee are already present.
The Wilber Company opens a seven night engagement at the opera house starting Monday November 1 with a repertoire of comedy drama and new songs and dances. Tickets range from 10c to 30c and a matinee is scheduled. The company adds advertisements for cigars and a street fair as part of the bill.
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