Low Prices Spark Lively Buying in City Stores
Local merchants boast season after season of lower prices and greater value. The message emphasizes persistently cheaper goods and a commitment to improving past offerings.
14 Sep 1897
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1897
Page
1
Local merchants boast season after season of lower prices and greater value. The message emphasizes persistently cheaper goods and a commitment to improving past offerings.
The store advertises updated departments with Silk wares including Plaid Taffetas and Roman Stripes ideal for shirt waists. It promotes five yard Silk Waist patterns from 2.00 to 7.50 and notes unmatched richness and quality. Black Silks, Tinsel Brocades for trimming, and expanded Wool Dress Goods at lower prices amid tariff concerns.
This sale offers wool goods at old prices. Buyers are invited to select winter dresses while stock lasts and prices remain low. The notice highlights a clearance of warm apparel with immediate availability.
The SMOE Department highlights Chil arene School Shoes and is exclusive agent for Hill & Green's Little Giant School Shoes with every pair warranted. It promotes a large stock of ladies and gent’s fine shoes, firm on prices under competing makes and featuring ladies kid button shoes at 3.00 and gents handsewn cordovan at 5.00 along with heavy tan winter boots.
On sale Monday morning the greatest line of Eton and golf caps for boys and girls in the city. Ideal for school wear and bicycle use. Available in velvet plush leather cloth and other fabrics in colors. Prices 25c 35c 50c and 65c. For night wear needs see prices call on.
Charley Gibson an ex convict is shot by deputies after a pursuit in Macon Georgia. He confesses to assaulting Miss Chapman and Mrs Couch as a mob gathers. He is fatally wounded and lynched before authorities can take him into custody.
Report from Camden on September 13 describes tense scenes as authorities prevented a lynching over allegations against J H Stephenson a Canton merchant and the related transport of a white prisoner for trial. Also noted are a black man convicted of assault and a fatal stabbing between cousins in White Plains Georgia.
Reports from Hazleton Pennsylvania recounts fiery Social Democracy meetings condemning the Hazleton miners shooting. Resolutions denounce the mine owners and urge resistance and armed action, with speakers advocating force and torch use against capital. Indignation meetings in the Polish quarter called for federal action.
Hasleton Pennsylvania faces serious tension as soldiers patrol streets around Valley hotel and brigade HQ. Mayor Altmiller and General Gobin impose liquor ban and passes are cut. militia readies for action as rumors of disturbances among miners spread.
Lee Trammell has been acquitted of murdering George Cumbeer in Chambers County Alabama. The trial followed a heated political incident the day after the state election, with witnesses describing intense local rifts and public tension.
New Orleans reports seven remaining yellow fever cases with no new deaths. City, under quarantine, sees limited travel but busy parks and theaters. Latest boletins say infections are contained. notable cases tie to Ocean Springs and Barkley deaths in Mississippi.
Report from Washington states the Hawaii legislature and senate have ratified the treaty to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. Lorin M. Thurston, Hawaii’s chargé d affaires, says both houses are pledged to annexation and ratification is unanimous.
In Georgia near Watposta Sam Parker a farmer was killed by Shelton Dampier who had earlier been convicted for stealing meat and sent to chain gang Dampier swore he would kill Parker on sight after his term. Local officials anticipate lynching attempts amid tensions following the case.
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