09 Sep 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1897
Page
1
We offer a final closeout of summer dress goods organ dies lawns muslins silks and patterns. Entire stock includes shirt waists serge alpaca sicilian coats linen suits duck pants and shoes for ladies and men. Big lot of neglige shirts underwear straw hats and more all cash and priced to move during the dull season sale.
A customer tells a salesman that the store is trustworthy and dependable for advertised goods at cash prices. The ad pledges to advertise only what is actually offered and urges readers to mention the advertisement and bring cash to secure bargains.
Horace Stephen Perry was hanged at the DeKalb county jail for mortally wounding Bely Lanier, a young theology student, during a court house shooting in Decatur. Perry claimed innocence and said he killed Lanier to defend his home’s honor. The execution followed appeals and a governor’s respite, highlighting a grim family dispute and Perry’s brief grocery business in Atlanta.
Miss Sallie Chapman of 152 First Street awoke to a choking assault in her bedroom by an unknown man who escaped through a window. The 20 year old victim, shaken and unable to confirm the assailant’s race, is receiving police attention as the town reels from a second similar attack in two weeks.
The Society of the Army of West Virginia met in Columbus with Dr. W. F. Hall in the chair. Governor Bushnell and Mayor Black welcomed the veterans as Captain Thomas H. McKee addressed the gathering. The program includes welcomes, patriotic songs, and band music by the Seventeenth United States infantry band.
General Hugh Lee, U S consul general in Havana, arrives with son George Fishback and others. He discusses Evangelina Cisneros case and says Americans in Cuba are cared for from a fund of 110000, with about 115 spent to date. no improvement in Cuba until the war ends. He notes Cisneros is in Casa Recobidas, treated fairly, and reports on Cuban suffering and business stagnation.
Savannas dispatch reports the Savannah Riflemen to host the Twenty third New York regiment on Thanksgiving Day in Savannah. The visitors boast a strong armament and aim to contest in a likely decisive match, while Savannah’s guard unit prepares to shoot for the local honor.
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