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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1900
Page
2
A notice to subscribers warns newspaper carriers to deliver all papers by seven o clock or risk complaints. The Times-Recorder remains the official city organ, while other items note missing persons in Philadelphia, German stamp plans, and the Populists seeking to influence the Democratic ticket.
The Cimbs Border commends the new council and Mayor Hixon for advancing city interests in many particulars. It urges the council to ensure the treasury is carefully scrutinized and free from personal interest in all purchases, contrasting with the Times-Recorder’s handling of warfare coverage.
The article argues the cotton crop will stay under ten million bales and urges Southern farmers to cut acreage. It warns against expanding cotton, favors intensive farming, and proposes reallocating land to food crops to ensure profit as markets adjust. It cites high securities prices and global prosperity but stresses restrained planting and better seed and labor practices.
Jacob O. Roberts, a prominent banker and longtime representative of J. P. Morgan & Co of New York, died suddenly in Boston today at age 73. He had served as a key figure in finance and banking circles for many years.
A jumbled page recounts a self help scam promising painless cures with a low fee, a mayoral move to crack down on slot machines, a fatal streetcar wreck in Savannah, a papal delegate’s arrival in Manta, and a mint coinage report for 1899. It includes ads for Fly’s Cream Balm and a stray medical claim.
Daily market notes mix with disaster and patent medicine pitches from J. T. Bovey and W. A. Bombers. An Akchakaak district tremor in Tulse government wrecks ten villages while medical quackery promotes cures for coughs colds and dyspepsia.
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