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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1924
Page
4
A short adage cites Proverbs 20 20 about honoring parents with a lamp going out in obscurity. It echoes Thomas Randolph urging honoring one's parents to prolong life.
Under the old Russian empire and today, princes and princesses are numerous. The piece notes many claimants in Europe, explains how royalty titles spread through marriage, and observes how wealth and status tempt American girls to chase a "prince" amid a market flooded with titles.
The Forum discusses fears that women's suffrage would trigger sweeping moral laws. Ednad Kenton notes women’s groups avoid prohibitive laws and current data on impact is scarce. NY League backs birth control information amendment. overall, women’s political influence remains untested and statistically unclear.
A Dawson citizen shared a clipping listing 27 maxims kept in his pocketbook for 20 years and linked to a New York mayor who perished on the steamship Henry Clay in 1852. The well preserved notes begin with Keep good company or none and urge useful work for idle hands.
The text presents 27 moral maxims stressing self control, honesty, temperance, and prudent finances. It urges looking others in the face, avoiding debt, earning before spending, saving for old age, temperate drink, modest wealth, and daily reflection. It ends by advising weekly reading of the maxims to improve disposition.
A Buff Orpington from Hutchinson Kansas known as Biddy amazed locals by changing from a laying pullet into a hen with a rooster's head and full comb. Presented in 1922 and 1923 shows she won top prizes, then ceased laying in 1924. Owner George J Burke reports moulting but experts suspect sex characteristics shifting.
Georgia hosts sugar refineries in Savannah and Brunswick. The state claims 11,000 miles more territory than Louisiana, 175,000 more electric energy capacity, and 1,200,000 more people. Georgia’s seacoast lies 1000 miles closer to European and Northeastern American markets. Louisiana has 3.5 million dollars invested in New Orleans docks and wharves. Georgia’s 1923 crops were worth about 24 million dollars more than 1922 due to higher corn and potato values. 1924 crops expected even higher.
Historical notes discuss Deep Oil men drilling deep wells hoping for large oil pools. At Latrobe Pennsylvania the deepest well yet strikes gas at 7428 feet. The piece contemplates costs of $200,000 and the possibility of deeper oil deposits as older pools exhaust. It also includes a mix of unrelated items on redhaired wives, Boston’s mechanical cashier, and the rise of the mechanical age.
From The Times Recorder December 8 1914 the council wareroise on Jackson and Wheeler streets nears occupancy finishing touches added for use. Farmers expect a cold wave to permit hog killing and meat salting. N A Ray farms fifty hogs to supply meat for next year. Maude Hitt returns from Atlanta. Three of five Americus fertilizer and acid plants resume operations for the season. output may be down but all run.
A collage of stray notes and oddities. anecdotes range from oversized pumpkins to tax misadventures and wild headlines. Detroit to Chicago voice punchy with humor and social quirks, noting peculiar crimes, odd promos, and weathered woes.
The Times Recorder recalls events from December 8 1904 and December 8 1894. Highlights include seven cents cotton affecting holiday trade, Mayo residence sale to J W L Daniel, bazaar music program, Viola Fowler purchasing S R Johnson store on Forsyth, a boy injured by a buggy on Jackson Street, quail and rabbits outing for Lynn Fort and Tom Stallings, manyDispenser problem solutions drawing local interest, and commentary on social mores.
The piece notes a trend toward self sufficient families while national debt is retired over about 20 years. Local governments push deeper into debt, with 500 million in new bond issues approved at the recent election. Debts total a tenth of national wealth and interest costs lift living costs. A separate obituary mentions a Thursday hemorrhage death in a lingering illness. Castro family remarks indicate exile life and wealth abroad, yet modest living in the country.
General Cipriano Castro, who ruled Venezuela for nearly a decade, died at midnight and was buried in San Juan Puerto Rico. He lay in exile but in foreign soil, shrouded by the flag of his homeland.
Central of Georgia and Seaboard schedules show arrival and departure times for passenger trains between Americus and nearby hubs. Times range from early morning to late night with multiple connections including Chicago St Louis Atlanta Miami Jacksonville and Cordele Helena routes. J A Bowen listed as local agent.
Loans on improved farm lands available at 5 7 or 10 year terms with pre payment option. Prompt funding and a current outstanding $1,100,000 on Sumter county farms. Middleton McDonald, Atlanta Trust Co. correspondent, Sunter area. Plans Bank building Americus Ga. Phone numbers 89 or 211.
The Standard promotes a two day value event not a closure sale. Readied prices include Genuine Lad Lassie Cloth 25c, Pevonshire Cloth 25c, Moen's Silk Socks 35c, Wool Driving Gloves 35c, Infant Vests 25c, Silk and Wool e-Nof-2 50c, Turkish Towels 25c, Kid Gloves 75c, Madras Dress Shirts 98c, and Ay 2.48 Velvet Rugs with a range of items like Christmas Handkerchief boxes at 29c and 35c.
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