29 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1892
Page
1
An advertisement extols Knox Derbys and Stacy Adams shoes for durability and style, plus Manhattan Shirts with varied sleeve lengths and sizes. It touts Bailey’s Saberdashery for men’s wear, promising comfort and a sharp look, and ends with Campaign Plug Hats for the Democratic Kelly at one dollar each.
Registra tion tallies show white 1027 and colored 1258 with a white majority. Third party prospects debated as black voters considered, urging Democratic turnout to avert Republican influence and the force bill. Also obituary for Dr John Westbrook, Sumter county physician, honored by Masons. Stallings wins Democratic nomination for Second district congress in Alabama.
Enthusiastic Democrats from Sumter and surrounding counties gather at city hall or oak grove near Central depot to hear Georgia speakers including Crisp Grimes Livingston Gary. The event aims to rally support against federal bayonets and alleged negro misrule, with a call for ladies to attend and bolster turnout.
Yale presents The New De Auction a refined dramatic spectacle praised nationwide for scenery costumes music and ballet. It features seven stage rats cost over 610,000 painted by John R Wilkin and a troupe of fifty two performers including Viennese ballerins led by Concettina Chitten Adele Amore and Aurelio Coccia. Mrs George Tilton hosts from the Hotel Windsor while her daughter Pearl studies music in Boston.
Sheriff Turner and deputies escort Walter Beresford aka Sidney Lascelles from Rome to the county jail after a crowd gathers at the depot. The English forger, once famed in high circles, shows tears and claims to be suited for lunatic asylum as he plans appeals from prison to the United States Supreme Court with funds expected from New York and England.
The Columbia Variety Works of Columbia Alabama plans relocation to Americus within two to three weeks with operations and a two story brick building to be erected near J J Smyth Co stables. Removal expected by October 15 adding skilled workers to the city and bolstering Southwest Georgia industry.
STILL AFTER WEAVER. The Weaver Lease barnstorming troupe arrives in Greenboro North Carolina after a Georgia retreat. Weaver's reception is tepid with few applauses as he dodges Pulaski charges while Mrs Lease butts in with war talk. Raleigh follows tomorrow and county court cases mingle with hospital board fights and train collisions in a scattered regional digest.
Friends and acquaintances of Mrs. J. R. Weatherbee are invited to funeral services for the late resident at 6 o'clock this morning. Interment will be in Grove Cemetery.
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