Seaboard Expected to Cut Wages Across Ranks
Reports from Portsmouth Virginia the Seaboard Air Line plans a ten percent wage reduction for all employees earning more than fifty dollars a month. The move would make Seaboard the sixth railroad to cut pay after actions by Southern Railway Western and Atlantic Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Georgia Southern and Florida and Louisville and Nashville. Officials would not confirm the rumor.
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Portamouth
Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company
Seaboard
Southern Railway
Western and Atlantic
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Georgia Southern
Florida
Louisville and Nashville
Hamlet
N. C
Portsmouth
Cypress Rafting to Florida Mills for Export Lumber
Hundreds of cypress logs cut in the Flint river swamp near Americus will be rafted down the river this week to Apalachicola mills in Florida. Logged by the Cypress Lumber Company, the stock is seasoned and ready for conversion to lumber for export. Company representatives left Americus with wagons, camping gear, tents, bedding, and two goats to collect logs and raft them to the mills about 300 miles away.
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Flint River
Americus
Apalachicola
Fla
Cypress Lumber Company
Hon J M Gollum eyed as state school commissioner
Newspapers praise Hon J M Collum of Schley and Americus as a potential state school commissioner candidate. The Athens Daily Banner lauds his decades in education, local leadership, and service in the Georgia General Assembly, noting broad support and high qualifications if he runs. An ad for Dr Shoop's Cough Cure follows.
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J. M. Collum
Agricultural College
Athens Daily Banner
Pres. Collum
Schley County
Americus
Collum
Southern Educational Association
General Assembly of Georgia
Congressional Executive Committee
Georgia
Bankers of State Meet Early in April Albany to host Group Four
Americus bankers anticipate the next annual meeting of Group Four of the Georgia Bankers Association to be held in Albany. Charles M. Council of Planters Bank of Americas, chairman, and Edwin Sterne, secretary, set April 8 as the date after conferring in Albany. The Artesian City pledges provincial hospitality and a warm welcome for the gathering of money changers.
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Americus Bankers
Georgia Bankers Association
Albany
Americus
Charles M. Council
The
Planters Bank of Americas
Edwin Sterne
Devoe Paint Letter Warns Against Fake Goods
A letter from R B English of Americus Georgia argues that two cans of paint may look alike but differ in quality. The writer contrasts genuine Devoe paint with inferior substitutes, noting price, coverage, and longevity to distinguish the good product from trash.
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Devoe
F. W. Devoe & CO
Americus Construction Co
Bunch of Two Dozen Called for a Drink
A candidate’s sprint to reduce costs under prohibition ended with a crowd of twenty four at McLaughlin's drug store soda fountain. A popular runner invited a friend and others joined, each ordering Coca-Cola after the bill was offset by the candidate. Several volunteers offered to host again the next day, and all accepted.
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McLaughlin
Rogers Rexall Gotton Seed Sale Ad
Limited quantity for sale at $2.00 per bushel describes an enormous yielder of a distinct type. For further information apply to A. Rogers in Sumter, Ga. Advertisement notice from local seed supplier.
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A. Rogers
Sumter
Man jokes on girls and late nights in courting quip
A humorous note critiques lingering proposals and delays in marriage from a narrator who mocks women singers and a man who stays out late. The line presents light social satire with playful gendered overtones reflecting a bygone era tone.
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Szow
S. S
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Kentucky
Wu Helton Gore
Sara
ERS
Ons Rai Pas Dees i
N. Y
Chicago News
Tennessee Chemical Co
F. S. Royster Guano Co
Norfolk, Virginia
J. M. Gollum
Athens
Shoop
Davenport
Bankers OF State
R. B
Americus, Georgia
Rodgers
Rexall Gotton
DR. King Gui
Mears
DR. King Medical
Snio Electric
Paton
Sraud Atron
Ang Garmanenhy
Thos. Y. Harrold
Frank P. Harrold
L. A. Council, Sec. & Treas
Guano Co
Americus, Ga
Elf
Chas. Blum & Co
Jacksonville
L. H. Kaufman
Bodinenald & Co
Relia
John White & Co
Louisville, KY
Elphest Wartek Privat Nape
Woden
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