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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1890
Page
2
The article notes Brice with a decided lead for Ohio Senate, Augusta hosting a grand carnival and trades display on the Hth and T5th inst, and $14,000 raised for the Grady monument with expectations to double. It cites Gov. Campbell’s planned attendance at Atlanta Chamber banquet and various regional issues.
The Sun of New York interviews leading business figures in New York and other cities and finds widespread optimism for 1890. Financiers note tight money but confidence remains, with easy credit seen as key to handling a strong crop-driven surge in industrial activity and railroad demand.
Faith sparks progress as American cities grow with streetcars lights and public works. English capitalists buy Hartwell Tarver lands in Twiggs county to create fifty acre farms for emigrants. Macon Telegraph editor F H Richardson may join a literary campaign bureau, while Judge Gustin resigns the Macon circuit judgeship and local candidates emerge.
An excerpted analysis by the late Jefferson Davis refutes Northern charges of Confederate cruelty at Andersonville Ga. Davis argues removal of prisoners due to failed Federal exchange and rail limits, claims Confederate officials provided parity with Confederate soldiers’ rations, and criticizes the blockade and disease factors as misattributed to climate or water. He cites General Howell Cobb and Major Wirz as tasked with humane care, and notes Jacksonville transfers and Federal refusal to exchange. The piece frames the controversy as a historical corrective.
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