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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1891
Page
16
Retail sale in Americus features deeper discounts on dress goods, hosiery, and blankets. New stock arrived with prices slashed on 10c to 75c items, including 1000 yds fabrics, gloves, linens, and table damasks. Cloaks, shawls, and lace trims fill a wide range, with bold bargains aimed at drawing quick purchases.
Wholesalers and retailers of high class dry goods at popular prices. Local shop offers fashionable textiles and household items with updated stock and friendly service.
The Union Depot in Macon Georgia burned to the ground yesterday morning leaving only the shell. The blaze started in the Parker news and lunch stand. clerk Henry Sloan was badly burned and may die. Losses total about 100000 to the railroad with 8000 from Parker and 35000 insured with a New York company. Four men escaped serious injury. baggage and tickets worth thousands were destroyed. depot to be rebuilt though site may face litigation and delay.
The Barnesville accommodation special derailed near Summerville, two miles from Macon, on October 20. Seven people were injured including a seriously hurt man whose name was not learned. Rooms were prepared at the Brown House for the injured. A broken rail was cited as the cause.
A Shawsville area resident recounts the death of Miss Likens after she went berry picking on a mountain slope. A bear climbed a tree, a shot killed the bear, and Miss Likens lay dead at the base, alleged to have been strangled then consumed.
Private dispatches report the steamer Oliver Berne burned near Bin' Bent Swive, twelve lives are said to be lost. The vessel served as an excursion boat in summer and as a cotton carrier on the lower Mississippi.
In Santiano on Oct 29 the Chilean government rejects responsibility for the attack on American sailors in Valparaiso. Washington notified. Egan, Schley, and Consul McCrary urge action. Baltimore sailors barred from shore amid a boycott. legation in Washington reportedly attacked.
The Central branch express car on train No 403 was robbed at Leonora after conductor left the car briefly. Messenger George Garner aided in switching duties then found the safe missing upon resuming travel. Robbers are believed to have used a waiting wagon to remove the safe containing cash. No clues yet.
Paris reports Emperor William desires peace and is sincere, while Jules Simon disputes war likelihood and questions Franco Russian entente. In Suvasuta a Mississippi girl Mamie Bass ponders which lover to marry as two suitors James Sherman and Will Smith arrive with wedding tickets withdrawn. In Washington ex Senator Eustis predicts Cleveland nomination amid silver debate. Sedalia reports murderer Williamson retracts confessions and admits further killings and unknown names.
Portland Maine October 20 Tom Reed relies on Herbert Briggs a political ally and Portland postmaster who also funded and ran the Portland Cement company and publishing ventures now facing insolvency His resignation prompted by debts and bondsmen and Reed advised a successor Salmon in the Merrimack Fish Commissioner G B Hodge of Plymouth reports abundant salmon in the Merrimack river but illegal slaughter occurs at Garvin Falls and Sancoock rivers The Concord Monitor notes Massachusetts New Hampshire fishery agreement shifted costs to the federal government enabling New Hampshire to run a hatchery without state expense
A fragment from a Rochester scene notes a land turtle found by J. E. dating 1818 and other initials likely carved by Samuel Clapp and William Sturtevant. The creature, now ancient, seems capable of living well into a second century. Additional items include humorous clippings about English manners and a cow accident in Tyrone, a tailor joke, and miscellaneous sayings.
A collage of short items covers reporting requests for missed papers, odd postal names in Missouri, long lived residents in Hart County, and various outlandish anecdotes. It includes a railway mail service note from 1864, a Georgia peach weight, a punchline on piano timbre, a weekly bill collection shift, and an English cough remedy advertisement with a local seller in Americus, Georgia.
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