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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1921
Page
4
This item lists postal details for Americus Georgia with second class matter status, rates by mail and carrier, yearly and weekly costs, and a New Year blessing from Numbers 5 24 26. It notes churchlike benediction language and legal post office phrasing for the period.
The Cordele Dispatch agrees with Americas Times-Recorder that taxing light wines and beer to fund veteran bonuses clashes with wartime sacrifices. The Tifton Gazette praises Georgia beef contracts for state institutions, urging Georgia products to boost a home market. The page riffs on editors, crime, fashion, submarines, and social pearls with wry, punchy humor typical of a 1920s regional paper.
The piece notes 1921 was hard on pocketbooks and predicts 1922 will bring improvement as the world recovers from war. It urges readers to inventory their personal progress, set resolutions, and treat the new year as a rebirth of ambitions and better judgment.
A Georgia Market Bulletin ad from State Commissioner of Agriculture J J Brown promotes a “free Electro-Condite” beverage purifier that supposedly ages liquor and purifies drinks. The piece mocks the ad as a blatant invitation to violate liquor laws and questions the printer’s role in printing such content.
Nancy Nick and Buskins ride forth from Balloonstick in a quest to the balloon nursery hidden in rubber tree woods. They mount green elephant pink ig blue poodle balloons and learn the babies cry to grow, while the balloon city folk fear the squawking infants.
Summary notes a December 31 1911 Times-Recorder lookback. Night school at the Y M C A will aid young men barred from day classes with instructor W H Kennedy. Cotton receipts near 42 000 bales mark Americus as a growing cotton center. Chehaw Memorial work completed locally, to be moved to Lee county for erection on a marble base. Social life highlighted by a third supper at the Country club for Miss Maurine Woodurn, Elks Club dance with DeWitt's orchestra, Windsor hotel parties, and gifts from New Mexico craftsman. Gas bill concerns prompt debate in Americus. Qui Vive club hosts public program at Mrs Elf ridges. Gift jokes end with marriage planning quips.
Thirty years ago today December 31 1891 a merry go round or flying Jenny will be in operation once installed providing entertainment for children and a source of revenue for owners. New Year calling will boost the day as Mrs Bloom Brown and companions host visitors from five to eight with Mrs Fricker and others aiding in the reception.
Reformers oppose artists painting in the nude and protest their landscape work outdoors, noting the cold conditions and discomfort of outdoor nude art sessions.
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