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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1889
Page
8
An auction preview notes 12 towels at 5c each valued 25c, 9 Turkish tidies at 25c each valued 50c, 2 linen high grade table coverings at 20c valued 40c, and 4 all linen high grade table coverings at 30c valued 60c. A new set of sample corsets is received.
Thousands from Georgia to Alabama will visit Classic Athens for a week of races baseball games balloon ascensions aeronaut leaps music and a chrysanthemum show. Gov Gordon and Messrs Lingston and Northen will discuss Southern questions as the fair opens with Gra l y s eloquence drawing crowds. Unclaimed letters follow in Athens post office listing names such as Connerton Fuller Harley Hill Lord McBride Mosley Perkins Thompson Wimber and others.
In a rural cemetery vignette, a rough sea captain and his daughter Alice anchor a love triangle with Stan Purdy. Alice’s steadfast loyalty to her father tests Stan’s patience, while the cap’n’s volatile temper and a fragile marriage plot unfold through church, vows, and a monument bound by duty and mercy.
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