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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1923
Page
4
Vienna reports the government has enacted a 100 percent hike in telephone charges, a 40 percent rise in domestic first class postal rates, and a 70 percent increase in second class mail rates. The measures take effect immediately, affecting residents and businesses nationwide.
Announcement notes Fumie Ly arrangement with Associated First Regional Pictures to screen Oxen by Gertrude Atherton. Corinne Griffith to star as Countess Zattlany in the forthcoming film adaptation produced by Frank Lloyd. Copyright 1923 by Gertrude Atherton.
In a tense scene, Mary Ogden confronts Clavering after a night of coercive passion. She explains her past, her marriage to Count Zattiany, and her intent to disenchant him by revealing the truth. He promises to wait until Monday to hear her full story, while she insists on speaking without interruption.
Columbus police report two more arrests in the killing of H. F. Underwood, medicine salesman, near Reynolds, Taylor county. Homer Jones and his wife, linked to 18 year old Willie Jones and Gervis Bloodworth, were brought to safety and jailed on warrants. An alleged confession followed a dramatic moment as Jones declared he would tell the truth.
A Norfolk Southern cross at Woodland Georgia on a Friday afternoon saw train No. 1 strike an automobile driven by Leon Posey of Geneva. Homer Downs age 13 and Woodall Bussey of Talbotton were seriously injured, while the other occupant Gus McCreary and another man escaped with minor injuries. The car was demolished and both injured were taken to Manchester City Hospital.
Rome officials ban street venders of corn plasters and wares, declaring them a nuisance and fake sellers. The measure bars future activity and marks venders as perop non grata, forcing Romans to seek fakes elsewhere.
Ada Bullock, 58, recently moved from Americus to Columbus, died after her dress caught fire from a grate at 1315 Eleventh Avenue. She screamed for help as flames spread to her waist and hands. her son, who aided her, suffered burns tending the blaze.
Mrs Bullock was well known in Americus with many friends in the city. The body will arrive in the afternoon and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Newnan will gain a sufficient water supply as the water and light commission spends about $100,000 on a dam and equipment due for completion around January 1. The earth dam is 45 feet high and 450 feet long, faced with rock to form a reservoir holding 100,000,000 gallons. The dam costs about $35,009 with two large sand and gravel filters at $13,000 and filter buildings wash tanks and coagulating basin at $18,000.
Reports from Berlin dated December 10 say typhus and trachoma linked to filth and poverty are gradually controlled in Germany. Diptheria and scarlet fever also show decreases and practically all contagious diseases are disappearing as time passes since the war.
More than 250 singers from Americus and surrounding communities gathered at the Dudley Opera House for a Sunday singing meet. Attendees traveled from miles away in automobiles and other conveyances, praising the hospitality of the Americus singing public. Leaders included C. O. Nobles Cordele Dr Stewart Ellaville S. M. Roberts Cordele J. J. Barry Vienna J. C. Sutton Cordele J. T. Frazier Leslie John Cheek Leslie Alfred Cheek Leslie J. M. Stephens Americus C. B. Pouncey Americus and W. S. Roberts Cordele.
Vienna reports a correction to an August dispatch stating theft losses in the first five months of the year were under nine milliards of paper crowns. Police records show far less crime than previously claimed, with shops displaying jewels and fine dresses as in Paris.
Manchester reports from Egypt say the Alexandria General Produce Association estimates the current season’s cotton crop at 5,960,000 cantars, down from 6,684,000 cantars last season and 3,488,000 cantars in 1921 22. Manchester officials, though cautious, expect no less than 6,509,000 cantars.
A Cole's Hot Blast Heater owner boasts that savings of one third to one half in coal from last winter will heat the home for two winters. The manufacturer pitches the stove as a worthwhile saving for households facing the coming cold season.
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