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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
2
The thirteen month old son of Mr and Mrs J C Gammage won the prize for handsomest and finest child between none and two years at the bazar last week. The photo is fine and Master Gammage receives many compliments for the achievement.
In a brief New York Press remark a columnist notes the paradox that the average man feels content with his mind because he believes he possesses little or none. The quip reflects a humorous take on self perception and intellect.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a 19th century kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims wide success, offers free sample bottles by mail, and urges readers to mention the paper while sending for a booklet to assess kidney or bladder trouble.
The article argues Mr. Bryan will seek the Democratic presidential nomination again, despite defeats, and warns that his perpetual candidacy rests on party leaders especially in the South. It suggests Roosevelt would win Georgia if he ran, and asks whether the Democratic party can survive with the solid South fractured.
Arthur Moore a seventeen year old cripple Temple Brown sixteen paralyzed from the waist down and Joseph Clyman crippled in the lower body run a back room printshop at 804 Austin avenue Chicago They feed the press by hand with wheelchairs and tables as they set type and run a foot press their workday ending at 3 pm They endure limitations yet produce tickets dodgers and small job work with clear cut precision.
Isaak Singletary, jailed for murder, bolted during a jail feeding distraction and fled into the city. He had previously shot at his wife as bystanders intervened, wounding a child. He was recaptured but escaped custody again amid the commotion. Community reports say he fled toward Muckabee swamp with help from friends.
Sumter farmers report a superb Georgia cane syrup crop, touted for sweetness and purity. M. N. Edwards near Americus finished storing hundreds of gallons in hermetically sealed one gallon cans to preserve flavor for years, as thousands of barrels will be kept in local smoke houses.
Dr Clara Scott a homeopathic physician argues against kissing as a source of many diseases and predicts a future anti kissing movement. She singles out baby kissing as most dangerous and warns that sweethearts kisses spread tuberculosis and diphtheria germs.
A TorONTO lawyer, noted for lecturing staff from junior partner to office boy, overheard a moment showing pay culture. Tommy, the office boy, tells another boy his wages are ten thousand a year. He adds the rest is in legal advice, spoken with blunt humor.
A Boston Globe note hints President Roosevelt may relay the Indiana trapper found stork tale to Congressman Longworth after a swamp discovery. Chicago News cites a woman who loves being first to share news.
Rev Bascom Anthony pastor of the First Methodist church left Americus for Quitman to attend the South Georgia conference. He is expected to be returned to Americus with about 775 members, 75 new, and $700 given to foreign missions. He hopes for an assistant to aid city mission work and church duties.
Reports from Ellaville say Friday excitement over a claimed intrusion by a negro man at Mrs. Andrew Sellars home subsided after hours of search. Mrs. Sellars was unsure any intruder existed and did not confirm seeing a person, leading to abandonment of the chase.
Chas L Ansley advertises half-price mens and boys suits and overcoats in a limited early season sale. Cash discounts, sizes vary, selection includes coats and tailored jackets at reduced prices. Sale runs through the week at the downtown shop with special prices on select lines.
Americas produce dealers are handling field peas in quantity as the crop is gathered and marketed but quotations are well below last season. Last year farmers picked cotton, driving pea prices to 2 to 2.50 per bushel. this year a larger crop and ideal weather pushed prices to 0.80 to 1.00 per bushel. New Orleans quoted 1.15 f o b, with 0.16 freight and 0.06 sacking, about 0.90 delivered. New Orleans, the country’s largest pea market, expects higher prices in early spring but not yet.
A fragment from today's newspaper ad highlights prices under Chas. L. Ansley. A separate lines describe hair color as asign of identity, noting a mother’s description contrasting golden hair with red.
Irving Fisher of Yale estimates the great plague costs over a billion dollars yearly and causes about 134000 deaths in the United States each year. He lists diphtheria typhoid and scarlet fever among killers and urges ventilation and remedies as prevention.
Legal ad records the 1908 petition by C M Council J Lee Ensign and J M Council and R L Dowling to form The Americus Manufacturing Company in Sumter County Georgia for twenty years with principal office in Americus. It sets capital at 50000 dollars (able to rise to 100000), lists manufacturing lumber buying and selling as the business, and seeks authority to borrow own real and personal property and to expand into mills vessels turpentine lands and related trades with power to amend wind up renew and liquidate by stock votes. filed November 11 1908 with clerk H E Allen.
A long, garbled listing of farm land tracts for sale across Georgia counties including Terrell, Sumter, Marion, and nearby areas. Numerous parcel sizes from 40 to 1,960 acres with locations near Americus, Bronwood, Huntington, Perry, and DeSoto. Some entries note easy terms, elegant homes, and vacant lots in Atlanta area surroundings.
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