Teenage Texas minister presides at sermons at Southwestern
Charles Tally a 17 year old licensed Texas minister and Southwestern University freshman lives in Beaumont. He has delivered over fifty sermons, showing a precocious religious calling despite youth. In St Louis a man argued with his wife for 36 years before she shot him, a long simmering domestic dispute ending in violence.
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Charles Tally
Texas
Southwestern Unversity
Beaumont
St. Louis
Times-Recorder Office Note on Americus Post Office
The Times-Recorder notes publisher entered no second place metier at the post office in Americus Georgia in the era of Congress. The Associated Press retains exclusive rights to republication of all news dispatches credited to it or other cretived to this paper and local news published here im. Rights reserved for special dispatches and national advertising reps listed.
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Mettier
Americus
Georgia
Congress
Associated Press
A THOUGHT on wisdom and knowledge
A short religious reflection cites Proverbs 1 7 about fearing the Lord as the start of knowledge and warns fools who scorn wisdom and instruction.
Editorial fire and policy clashes in Georgia and Florida
The piece attacks J. J. Brown over state budget cuts to the bureau of markets and oil-division salaries, notes restored cuts, and accuses Brown of lobbying from the House balcony. It laments Miami real estate speculation, urges taxation and development of affordable homes, and warns Florida tourism gambles threaten small investors while profits go to big operators.
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Bureau of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
J. J. Brown
House
Brother Brown
Miami
Florida
Southeast
Florida rent hogs blamed by papers including Miami Herald
A Miami Herald backed critique cites skyrocketing rents as a threat to new Florida residents. It tells of a newly married couple paying 50 dollars for a two room unit with rent rising to 150 dollars by November 1, while salaries remain around 40 dollars a week. Many others face similar pressures and eventual displacement. The piece also condemns tax revision in Miami and criticizes speculative land owners.
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Florida
Miami Herald
The
Payrolls Highlight Central of Georgia Railway Lifeblood
L A Downs, president of the Central of Georgia Railway, calls payrolls the lifeblood of commerce. Last year the company paid $13,489,821 in wages, about $37,000 daily. Roughly 49.5 percent of payroll dollars went to Georgia and Alabama regions, with an average wage of $1,409 per worker. Over 9,500 employees, mostly in Georgia and Alabama, sustain more than 40,000 local residents based on Census estimates.
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Central of Georgia Railway Company
Central of Georgia
Georgia
Alabama
Central
Central president advocates public confidence for railroad
The Central president, following predecessors yet forging new paths, urges newspapers and employers to inform and comfort travelers. His motto is to involve the public, courteous treatment, and prioritize passenger welfare, earning broad support for the railroad. A sarcastic aside notes a sunburned man behind the back pat.
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Central
Downs
McCrory argues for Georgia school book state publishing
Schley County representative C R McCrory writes to the Times-Recorder urging House Bill 74 to publish school texts by competitive bids or manuscript, sold to students at production cost. He cites Ontario prices and historic Georgia costs, claiming state production would cut costs, reduce illiteracy, and end book trusts, arguing for royalities or manuscript adoption for 28,000 books and noting past high prices and printer shifts. He appeals for support from Georgia’s 1 million school children.
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Supreme Court
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Missouri
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Ballard
Mathis
Atlanta
M'Crory
Daddy Pays Daddy Pays
A reflective verse about fatherhood tracing a man’s journey from joyous family life to lonely later years. It laments how early happiness with wife and children gives way to a sense of emptiness as time passes and the familiar daddy days fade.
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Sis
God of Fate
Farmers expect cotton crops halved by drought in Sumter county
In Americus, farmers report cotton yields may drop by half due to continued drought after partial rains. The scene notes eight cent cotton prices, local shopping, and residents traveling to Demorest and New York for shopping and visits, with social mentions of Gatewood and Bell families.
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Times-Recorder
Aug
Americus
Sumter County
T. F. Gatewood
Agnes
Will Gatewood
Demprest
Americas
Nannie Sue Bell
Columbia
James Fitzgerald
John J. Hard
New York
Viola Ruffand
Callie Slappey
Twenty Years Ago Today Social Roundup and Sales
A 1905 notice recalls a rush for dollar shirts at Duncans, selling at thirty eight cents. Hostess Miss Amzie Daniel hosts a house party near Americus with guests from Smithville Richland Forsyth and Macon. Moonlight at Myrtle Springs honors Misses Lillie May and Morto Menard of Abbeville and Miss Laramort of Leesborne. The Jossey plantation, about 1999 acres of prime farming land in Sumter's Fifteenth district, is offered for sale at a bargain.
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Times-Recorder
Duncans
Amzie Daniel
Americus
Blanche Pryor
Smithville
Lillian French
Richland
Maude Maynard
Forsyth
Inez Menter
Macon
Myrtle Springs
Lillie May
Morto Menard
Abbeville
Laramort
Leesbore
Jossey Plantation
Sumter
Bicycle race accident at Lee ton Park injures rider
In the Lee ton Park bicycle races, J H Allison suffered a broken left shoulder after a collision with Harvey Weaver. Also noted: Charles L Ansley and E D Ansley traveled to New York and other eastern markets to buy goods, Arthur Rylander shipped two carloads of LeConte pears to eastern markets from his orchard, and Misses Rosalie Gertrude Smith Elizabeth Harrold and Mary Davenport departed for Columbus to visit Misses Annie and Mattie Pfohl.
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Leeton Park
J. H. Allison
Harvey Weaver
Mr. Allison
Messrs
Charles L. Ansley
E. D. Ansley
New York
Arthur Rylander
Strange happenings under the moon in old tabloids
The fragment discusses wealth as a burden, costly divorces hinting at actors with money woes. It notes a red nose no longer signals drink, hints at a partner using rouge, and asserts that though nothing is new under the sun, strange events occur beneath the moon.
Skinny friend Mabel urged to take cod liver oil tablets
An advertisement urges a lean man to gain weight using McCoy Labs Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets sold at Howell's Pharmacy and by druggists nationwide. The claim promises five pounds in 80 days with a refund if not met, noting a woman who gained 15 pounds in six weeks and recommending the original genuine product for children.
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McCoy Laboratories
New York
McCoy
Nathan Murray
Howell
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