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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1891
Page
8
Wholesalers and retailers announce deep discounts on dress goods and dry goods. New stock arrived Friday and Saturday with low prices on 1000 yard ranges of ginghams and calicoes, silk and wool fabrics, gloves, hosiery, and finished garments. Men, women, and children items including cloaks, suits, and laces are featured with substantial mark-downs and early closing to clear inventory.
The Americus Light Infantry plans a military fair starting Tuesday November 24 to raise funds for its armory improvements. Merchants and friends are urged to contribute. pamphlets outline the program. A meeting at the armory will address drills and fair matters.
Macon Georgia opening day draws 5000 visitors from beyond the city. Governor Northen attends a reception at Hotel Lanier with city officials and business leaders. A park ceremony follows, with Mayor Price and Col Dan G. Hughes praising the fair. The fair is described as first class and busy preparations continue.
Pleasant notices list where society people are traveling and whom they visit. Names include Mrs. R T Byrd, Hon Wright Brady, Col Edgar F Hinton, Cols W A Dodson Henry Lumpkin E H Cutts B P Hollis, Mrs Lanier Master Will Miss Bessie Lanier, Mrs Laura F Clarke and Alice Clarke, Mr John Sheffield, Mr Arthur Gardner, Col J A Hixon, Misses Nannie Lou Hawkins Jennie Hollis Alice Wheatley, Mrs M A Allen, Dr J W Hinton, Mr Walter Crisp, J L Mack and family. Also mentions Bee-Hive employee Arthur Gardner leaving for Rome and a fever confinement of Col J A Hixon.
A collage of humorous lines and comic vignettes from The Laurdeville Courier-Journal and Chicago Tribune. It includes a seaside lament about a crab delaying a toe, marital banter about rent and pink gauze, flirtatious chatter from Boston and St. Louis exchanges, a shy wedding moment, a hotel fire drill quip, a waiter’s retort about meat orders, and a note on Austria’s Chicago fair funding.
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