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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1900
Page
3
GEO. B. WHEATLEY and GEO. D. WHEATLEY announce a formal opening of their Holiday Stocks. The store highlights its complete selection and dependable gift options as the Christmas season begins, with emphasis on readiness and careful buying advice for shoppers.
Handkerchiefs are heavily promoted for gifts with a wide range of cambric and embroidered options priced at 10 to 50 cents. The ad advertises better and bigger preparations in men’s furnishings including neckwear dress shirts collars cuffs suspenders and night shirts with the aim to attract holiday shoppers.
The evangelical alliance of the United States holds a week of prayer with services across Americus churches. Each night features a different topic and speaker from May 3 to May 8 except Saturday evening. Topics include Confession, Nations and Their Rulers, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, and Families and Schools. The schedule lists involved churches and pastors, with no meeting on Saturday.
An assortment of notices and ads includes a dissolution of a law partnership due to the appointment of Charles R. Crisp as County Court judge, rental offers for a five room Brooklyn Heights house and a Cotton Avenue store, boarder listings on Jackson Street, bread and baking notes, cotton seed offer, and a Tar and Wild Cherry cough remedy at Rembert's Drug Store.
An ad from Dodson's Pharmacy markets hot water bottles priced at 75 cents for 1 quart and 125 cents for 4 quarts with a promise to make things right if service or value falls short. The copy emphasizes customer satisfaction and guarantees.
An old advertisement lists fountain syringes including the Leader fountain syringe with rapid flow and four quart bag, priced at 100 dollars, and the Triumph syringe with extra large tubing for flushing vagina and rectum, packed in polished wood cases with six foot rubber tubing, priced at 175 dollars.
An honest hair brush lasts long with stiff bristles that stay firm when wet. The store offers many types and prices from 25c to 200 dollars, all promising full value and reliability.
The shop emphasizes a special interest in razors with quality and price confidence. They guarantee each razor and offer a swap or refund if unsatisfied. Prices range from 100 to 300 dollars and they also carry razor straps shaving brushes mugs and soaps.
An old ad notes face powder as essential for women and urges buying the best powders in stock. It emphasizes indispensability and a complete selection of leading makes for facial use.
A local store advertises a complete range of bath and toilet soaps from affordable to expensive. It stresses purity freshness and wholesomeness with soaps like Packer's Tar Soap Capel Lilac Soap and Honey Soap. The copy notes none would injure a babe's skin and mentions prices such as 2c 5c and 15c.
Americus lawyers met at the courthouse to honor Judge Robert L. Maynard upon his retirement from the Sumter County court after four and a half years. The bar praised his probity, efficiency, and courteous conduct, and resolved to commend his record, publish the resolutions, and extend best wishes as he resumes private practice.
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