25 Sep 1891
Page 1
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1891
Page
1
Mayors and council members named include J W Kitchens as mayor. Councilmen listed are Dorsey Griggs Burks Garrison Blalock and clerk marshal J F Smith.
Detectives followed Delauter Perkins and Turner from Savannah to Madison then to Mosely Hall where a staged drummer aided by Sheriff Dickinson led to their arrest. DeLauter confessed to planning with Turner and Perkins as family tears and fear mounted.
A Leadville reporter encounters a rail resting tramp who recalls fleeing a New England farmer father, drifting to New York, surviving by saloons and petty theft, and rejecting reform as an old tree cannot be straightened. The piece juxtaposes a Georgia editor offering odd barter for subs, and a prompt to visit Blalock’s new goods line.
Historical note describes Niagara Falls briefly drying up on March 29 1848 due to a massive ice jam on Lake Erie. A strong east wind pushed ice into the Nisra River mouth forming a solid barrier that blocked the outlet, halting water over the falls for hours while spectators gathered along banks before the barrier broke and the river resumed its flow.
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