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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1921
Page
3
Post office clerks, including R Walker, report that despite talks of a broke country, Christmas parcels are arriving in large numbers. Mail volume is up and packages are being distributed promptly, with postmasters noting rapid inbound and outbound traffic across the nation.
Public notice explains that all Christmas fund money will go to Ms C J Sherlock for Associated Charities unless donors request otherwise, with Salvation Army donations available on request. Capt Knox notes Salvation Army needs aid but will not press for a share. The American Legion probes reports of a soldier buried in a jammed cheap casket and plans a thorough inquiry.
Agnes Ayres and Rudolph Valentino star in Paramount's The Sheik shown at Rylander theater December 22 and 23 with two daily performances. Ayres rejects the brutal hero trope, sparking debate among women readers and critics who follow Edith Hull's story adapted by Monte Katterjohn.
Booth Tarkington’s fictional Canaan houses two social strata with Judge Pike as arbiter of respectability. The story follows Joel Louden and Ariel Tabor, two unrespectables who conquer Main Street’s norms, while Ariel's Parisian inheritance and Joe Louden’s rejection of conformity drive the conflict.
Washington reports cotton ginned to December 15 total 7,799,458 bales with Alabama 581,080 and Georgia 815,623 among states. Prices rose briefly on bullish ginnings data though profits trimmed gains. Period since December 1 at 158,588 bales, below expectations. Dec 1 total was 7,640,870. In horse news, Miss Shemwell acquires a prized saddler mare, priced at 650 dollars, valued by experts at least 2,000.
Chas L Ansley sells mare Mabel Crim to D Shemwell of Albany president of Citizens Bank and Georgia Alabama Power Co He is an expert horseman who immediately coveted the fine saddle mare after seeing her and promptly completed the sale.
The Paramount picturization stars Thomas Meighan as Joe Louden and Doris Kenyon as Ariel Tabor in a tale of town bigness and pettiness. The screening is slated for Wednesday December 21.
Tifton Lodge No. 47, F. and A. M., elected officers for the year at Saturday night’s meeting. FE. Lloyd Knight named worshipful master, R. H. Little secretary, E. P. Bowen treasurer, G. P. McCranie senior warden, S. R. Bowen junior warden, C. B. Burk senior deacon, L. Pickard junior deacon, A. Pope senior steward, C. D. Moore junior steward, and other lines.
A vintage advertisement promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound to restore natural hair color. It claims easy application with a sponge or brush, fading gray to a dark, glossy look in days and denies disease treatment.
Steward T. M. Chestnut, Chaplin J. S. Goulding, Tyler J. T. Sirles and wife and J. M. Duke and wife depart tonight for Owensboro Ky for Christmas with friends and relatives. Sirles, founder of Model Bread, has retired from active business likely to reside there. Duke has taken a traveling sales position with Pilsbury flour mills, based in Richmond Va.
Widow Mrs J W Barwick expresses gratitude to friends for kindness during her husband’s illness and death and for the floral offerings.
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