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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1901
Page
5
Americus will celebrate Christmas with religious services, dinners, dances, theatre outings, and holiday gatherings. Citizens from all classes will join in feasting, dancing, and merrymaking, with events including a German at the Americas Club and multiple dinners and a theatre visit.
Express office crowds as Martin and Southern Express staff work late delivering Christmas packages amid holiday rush. Reverend James Kirkman of Bell River praises One Minute Cough Cure for immediate relief from coughs colds and lung troubles, noting its safety and child friendliness.
Mr. W. J. Jenks is named master of trains for the Georgia and Alabama division of the Seaboard system with headquarters in Americus. He comes from Bluefield West Virginia where he worked with the Norfolk and Western Railway and arrived yesterday to assume duties.
A poor complexion comes from torpid liver or irregular bowels. If not cleared, it can cause impure blood and eruptions. De Witts Little Early Risers stimulate the liver and bowels without distress. After exposure or a cold coming on, take Foley's Honey and Tar to stop it if taken promptly.
Dr James W Kidd of Fort Wayne Indiana announces a mysterious compound named Elixir of Life that supposedly cures every disease. The ad claims free samples by mail, cites miraculous recoveries, and urges sufferers to send name and address to receive the remedy. It lists ailments from rheumatism to paralysis and promises universal purification of the body.
Americus reports twenty five thousand bales in cotton receipts at city warehouses yesterday with steady stream continuing. If additions like ginning and shipments are included, total receipts may approach fifty thousand to date. Figures show last year’s Christmas day total was 26 401 bales, slightly under the current pace.
Funeral honors paid to Judge Welborn F. Clarke with military, Masonic, civic rites. A respected native of Stewart County and Americus leader, he died after weeks of ill health and was laid to rest at Oak Grove Cemetery amid guard of honor from The Americas Light Infantry and local Masonry.
Dyspeptics often irritable and anxious, causing household friction. Dr Loyal Ford's Dyspepticide is advertised to settle the stomach and restore health and happiness, per Jono R Hudson.
Hon 0 B Stevens Georgia commissioner of agriculture visits Americus en route to Dawson for holidays and greets friends. Third victim of Marix tragedy dies in Richmond after weeks of illness. James Siff, previously shot by Herbert Marix, dies at home in Weamoreland County.
Christmas rush overwhelmed postal workers as thousands of packages needed weighing and postage. Postmaster Smith stamped stamps non stop while others waited in line for their deliveries. Meanwhile Kansas millers protested railroad minimum weights pushing flour carloads from 24 000 to 30 000 pounds in Topeka.
Jacksonville Fla Dec 19 The United States prosecutes Helen Wilmans Post her husband C C Post and son in law C F Burgman founder of the National Mental Science association on 16 indictments for fraudulent use of the mails nine joint. The Posts are rich and have built a famed Florida city with global practice income estimated at 20000 yearly.
Massachusetts memorial tablet erected on the site of the old prison at Andersonville Georgia was dedicated this morning. Major E S Horton led the gathering with prayer, C G Davis spoke as commission chair, and Lt Governor John L Bates accepted on behalf of the Massachusetts party where all commissioners were former prisoners. South African War casualties reported by Lord Kitchener in Johannesburg dispatch list 45 Boers killed 25 wounded 310 prisoners and 35 surrendered.
Will Redding and John Winton were hanged at 11:10 and 11:49 a.m. respectively in Birmingham Alabama after confessing religiously. Redding shot his sweetheart Annla Green in jealousy and Winton killed his wife with a razor after she threatened to leave. Four additional prisoners await death sentences.
Across northern Florida the coldest December in over twenty years has chilled the region with readings from 20 to 36 degrees. The state agricultural department says orange and other fruit groves should escape serious damage as sap has been driven from trees by the sustained cool spell. Vegetables in north Florida suffer notable damage from the cold snap.
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