11 Sep 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1897
Page
1
The hot weather continues and a cash sale offers seasonable goods at well below value. Everything in summer dress goods organdies dimities lawns muslins and silks. Shirt waists summer clothing serge alpaca Sicilian coats and vests linen suits duck pants. Ladies oxford slippers and gents tan shoes. Neglige shirts underwear straw hats all to be closed out for cash.
A customer praised our store for reliable pricing and confidence, noting she always gets the advertised 1s bargains. The ad promises we advertise only what we will do, urges mentioning the ad, and requires cash to secure bargains.
The World reports American influence shapes Honduras governance with millions loaned to back a ruling group of New York financiers. Directors include John Jacob Astor, Chauncey Depew, Melville Ingalls Jr, and Henry Sprague orchestrates a deal to control the railway telegraph and tariff policy, plus a national bank and a Belize steamship line. The arrangement aims to shelter Honduras from bankruptcy for five years and attract migrants to the climate. A separate Athens Ga report describes a mysterious Black assailant striking white women, prompting armed searches as locals fear for safety.
Near Naghead W Griffin of Elizabeth City naval reserves Clarence Winder and a black servant drowned when their boat capsized. A man in another boat called for help while a third man refused rescue saying the cargo was worth more than a life. Bodies washed ashore identified by uniforms. Griffin clung to the boat for 24 hours.
fragmented text presents unclear phrases about healthful vitality digestion and nutrition. no identifiable persons organizations places dates or concrete facts readable. likely OCR garble.
News reports detail a midwest bound Rio Grande passenger train colliding with a Colorado Midland stock train near Newcastle, Colorado. About 200 aboard. roughly 250 killed or injured as fires broke out, with many pinned in wreckage. Names of dead and injured listed. authorities dispatched medical relief and investigations into timing errors and track conditions. The crash damaged stock cars and rails. terrain along the single gauge line contributed to the disaster.
Reports from Corum on September 10 describe a deadly clash at May's Crossroads Salada events where two men died and others were seriously wounded. The fight involved Gilliam and Cogburn with magistrate Still present. one assailant, known as Q urn, fled unscathed as the violence exploded over unknown grievances.
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