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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1902
Page
8
An old advertising notice for Mozley’s Lemon Elixir claims relief from biliousness constipation malaria indigestion and various nervous and stomach issues. It targets women for organic regulation and lists prices 50 cents and 1.00 a bottle with Dr H Mozley of Atlanta Georgia as the preparer.
After ten years of indigestion nervous prostration bilious kidneys and constipation I am cured by Dr Morleys Lemon Elixir and am well now Rev C C Davis Elder M E Church South No 28 Tatnall St Atlanta Ga confirms the testimonial This notice presents a medical tonic claim from a named clergyman as a persuasive endorsement.
Big price-break on wash goods with discounts on Dimities at 3c, Batistes, and Mercerized Ginghams. Monday morning table at door offers about 25 Batistes and Manchester Chambrays at 5c, plus 15c Mer cerized Ginghams in stripes and dots.
Unloading surplus stock at a loss, makers share the price break. Sale on men’s Negligee shirts, worth 75c to $1, now 25c with a four per customer limit. Also a selection of colors, collars optional, priced at 49c (worth 75c).
A local sale offers four towel lots at markedly reduced prices. Turkish Bath Towels bleached and unbleached sell at 10c each, 10 dozen bleached Turkish Towels extra large at 21 6, Damask towels hemmed with colored borders go to 15c, and 10 dozen all linen Huck Towels extra large heavy quality drop to 174c.
A local advertisement notes many broken lots closing out at low early season prices. Ladies underwear includes low neck lisle thread sleeveless vests reduced from 26c to 15c and lisle thread undershirts in silk lisle with square and V necks, sleeveless, down from 50c to 25c.
Monday the shop will place twenty five pieces of fancy silks on sale. The stock includes taffeta peau de soie bengaline and gross set and figured china silks worth 75 cents and one dollar per yard.
The Americus cotton market has risen half a cent in two weeks with buyers paying eight and a half cents for fine cotton yesterday. Warehouses handled 200 bales, most sold at 8 to 8.5 cents, injecting about $8,000 daily into circulation as receipts rise. The surge boosts all local trade and merchant spirits. Also included is an ad for Electric Bitters praising relief from indigestion and stomach troubles with a 50 cent price, claimed to benefit the liver and kidneys and guaranteed by Edridge Drugstores.
Sumter county completed a biennial revision of its jury lists adding 67 grand jury names and 212 travers jury names. The new totals stand at 207 grand jurors and 852 travers jurors across both boxes, addressing prior ommissions and reducing citizen complaints. Grand and travers jurors for the November term were drawn, including F M Merritt and A Dodson among others.
Local lodge of Elks discusses and plans a fall fair to be held in Americus in late October. Members aim for a neat, clean, profitable event and invite all residents of south Georgia to attend. A meeting last night refined the program and details for the venture. Also included is a testimonial about Foley's Honey and Tar curing a chronic cough.
A fragment suggests promotional copy praising a woman’s appearance and vitality. It claims a secret linked to a product from Ei aridge Drugstores, with a price of 250. The garbled text mentions King’s door Lille and various odd phrases.
A DeSoto resident filed for a license to retail liquor in the town, which lies a dozen miles east of Americus on the Seaboard. DeSoto, an incorporated town, may be among the few in the county where liquor can be sold under charter provisions.
Sam Heys sustained severe head injuries and multiple cuts when his buggy horse ran away after a shaft strap broke near Jackson Hill in East Americus. He was pulled from the wreck, treated by a physician, and confined to his country home for recovery. Officer Glawnon witnessed the incident.
The fall report from the State Department of Agriculture shows Georgia cotton and other crops trailing the state average. Cotton stands at 70 percent of normal, down from 75 last year, with overall conditions well below par. The article notes widespread kidney complaints in the community and mentions Foley's Kidney Cure.
An OCR fragment notes a medicine labeled Liver Pills 100 box. It mentions Onres head ache and liver complaint with a product or brand name Raement's Diva Sronz. The readable text is fragmented and lacks clear context or verifiable details.
Officer Glawson has tendered resignation to the police commission to become effective August. He is praised as courteous, brave, and efficient, among the most popular men to wear a uniform here, and he leaves to accept a better position offered locally.
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