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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1891
Page
16
Advertises a rapid restock sale offering vast dress goods and accessories at reduced prices. Highlights 1000 yards of fabrics, Onyx dye hose, gents and ladies hosiery, gloves, table linens, damasks, and kid gloves with steep discounts. Promises new goods arriving, urging prompt in-store purchases to avoid missing items.
The fragmentary text mentions Wheatley and Reece in connection with a penned piece. Details are unclear due to OCR damage. no full names, dates, or events are readable to establish a concrete note.
The street scene highlights crowded sidewalks and overflowing stock as fall cotton shipments energize wholesale and retail houses in Americas. Jostling crates, new invoices, and a metropolitan variety of goods from dry goods to furniture fill windows. Local merchants emphasize fair dealing and a thriving commercial fabric, with celebration notices and community updates interwoven.
At Atlanta on October 20 Major U W Robertson offered a resolution endorsing harbor improvements at Savannah and urging Congress to appropriate state funds. Resolutions urged southern governors to back a regional road plan with delegate expenses paid, while an executive committee of eight named to choose the next session's time and place. The session adjourned subject to committee call.
A busy Atlanta scene reports Richards and Pringle's Georgia Minstrels at the opera house tonight. Public notices include the Avera Grocery Project on Lamar Street and a new street from Forsyth to Lamar. Also announced is Prof. Simmons's November nuptials and various local anecdotes.
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