Cotton Mill Project Not Abandoned By Americus Leaders
The Board of Trade meeting drew over thirty members including prominent citizens to discuss Am ericus growth efforts. They backed continuing the cotton mill project and a broad city canvass, aiming for a feasible mill size given financial conditions, while noting rail and road issues and urging unity for progress.
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Board of Trade
Andersonville
Americus
Lanier
Americas
Reports of House Raiding Made to Police
Americus faced a lull in burglaries this summer as night prowlers were not yet reporting incidents. The piece notes the tendency of burglars to strike when residents leave doors and windows open for air. A proposed salute for the burglar is mentioned to discourage future visits.
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Americus
Bumper Corn Crop Report From Southwest Georgia
Albany July 13 G A Wallace a white farmer near Albany reports oats 320 bushels on four acres eighty bushels per acre Several hundred farmers in the region compete for prizes for best corn yields per acre Mitchell County expects prizes over 100 bushels per acre likely not less than 120 The Williamson method is widely used The article notes record oat and corn crops and a shift away from cotton acreage due to increased food crops across Southwest Georgia.
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Albany
G. A. Wallace
Mitchell County
Georgia
It Depends How Do You Pronounce Stingy
A playful classroom exchange from London shows a teacher asking how to pronounce stingy and a witty student answering it depends on whether the reference is a man or a bee. A fashion note mocks Mrs Crawford and Mrs Crabshaw with talk of costly seaside coats at a hundred dollars a week.
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London News
Puck
Crawford
What happened to the Calhoun statue in Charleston
In Charleston, questions persist about the fate of the marble statue of John C. Calhoun brought from Italy in 1854 or 1855. Created by Powers in Rome, it showed Calhoun in a Roman toga with truths of the Constitution. Various tales place it at City Hall, then Columbia, with possibilities of destruction by fire or burial.
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Charleston
D. C
Jno. C. Calhoun
Italy
Rome
Powers
Calhoun
Nome
New York
Fowers
Stonscut
Walker
Columbia
City Hall
Mrs Pauline Hill Dies After Short Illness in Americus
Mrs Pauline Allen Hill passed away at 6 30 pm at her home after a four day illness. Born December 27 1853 in Houston county she later moved to Les county before settling in Americus with her husband David B Hill who died about fifteen years ago. Survived by four sons Allen Dave B Eugene Judson and a daughter Mrs William D Moreland plus a late daughter Mrs R S Broadhurst. Funeral 4 30 pm at her Hil street home conducted by Dr Lansing Burrows First Baptist.
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Pauline Allen Hill
Hill
David B. Hill
Americus
Hildreth Allen
Houston County
Les County
Allen
Baptist Church
Hil Street
Lansing Burrows
First Baptist Church
William D. Moreland
Dave B
Eugene
Judson Hill
Messia
A.W. Smith
G. T. Miller
John
A. Cobb
J. B. Felder
C. A. Fricker
Arthur Rylander
J. W. Furlow
W. A. Dodson
J. A. Davenport
P. B. Williford
Foley's Honey and Tar stops coughs and aids lung strength
Foley's Honey and Tar claims to stop chronic coughs that weaken the constitution and to heal and strengthen the lungs. It is advertised as giving comfort and relief in chronic bronchitis asthma hay fever and other lung troubles and is sold by all druggists.
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Foley
L. M. Rugwiles
Reasner
Iowa
Bright
Oliver to Face Hearing in Embezzlement Case
Oliver, known as Bank er Oliver of Climax fame, is jailed in Valdosta on embezzlement charges and will be heard before Referee Williford Lane in Bainbridge next Monday. He has not yet filed an assets schedule, Deputy Frank Riley of Macon has been guarding him, and authorities say he drained the bank funds, with only about thirty cents found in the vault at arrest.
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Standard Grocery Co
Americus
C. R. Whitley
Standard Co
Chicago
Standard Company
Proudfit
Telegraph
Whitley
Standard Grocery Company
Nathan Kroneman & Co
Roche & Bro
New York
Chattanooga Brewing Company
Tennessee
Sumner Superior Court
Americas
Oliver
Climax Fame
Valdosta
Williford Lane
Bainbridge & Week
Frank Riley
Macon
Mott’s Nerverine Pills Adverts Health Tonic
Real iron and tonic restorative for men and women promises strength and renewed vigor. Sold by W. A. Rembert in Americus with prices 1.00 per box, six for 5.00, available by mail or at druggists.
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Mott
W. A. Rembert
Americus
DeSoto Wins Second Game In Double-Header
In DeSoto Georgia on July 14 the hometown team defeated Leesburg 5 to 3 in the second of two contested games. DeSoto pitchers Tudor McCarvey and Clements held Leesburg as McClung McMichael and Gill batted. Umpires Johnson and Clements officiated before a large crowd.
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Times-Recorder
DeSoto
Leesburg
Tudor
McCarvey
Clements
McClung
McMichael
Gill
Johnson
Capacity of steamers taxed as merchants plan fall purchases
Americas merchants aim to the East for fall goods and pleasure travelers rush for berths. Reservations are made far in advance with scarce staterooms and one American could not secure an August berth. Georgia travel, led by Savannah liners, is expected to break summer records.
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Americas
Georgia
Savannah
Georgia Weekly Press Association selects Americus for 1910 meet
The Georgia Weekly Press Association voted unanimously to hold its 1910 gathering in Americus. About 100 to 200 newspaper workers will attend. The group adjourned for an outing at Tallulah Falls, spending two or three days in the North Georgia mountains.
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Times-Recorder
Douglas
Georgia Weekly Press Association
Americus
Tallulah Falls
North Georgia
Fishermen exchange blunt tips in Detroit humor
In a terse Detroit Free Press exchange the questions How's fishin and How's catchin reveal sharper humor as one fisherman answers Good and Rotten respectively, illustrating local wit and casual river chatter.
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Detroit Free Press
A Rustic Cloths and Linens Sale Headlines Loom
Beautiful self striped Reps 33 inch 25c yard 36 inch Madras 10c yard and more value fabrics in linen cotton and silk styles. New goods Phenix linen 36 inch 15c yard Economy linen white and color 15c yard printed muslins and silks note affordable yardage with wide color range and accessories including beltings pins corsets buttons and pearl items.
Extraordinary Values In Ladies Lingerie Waists And Skirts
Trade sale notice highlights deep discounts this week on ladies waists at 1.50 value and 1 dollar waists reduced to 50 cents. All white skirts and tailor-made woolen and wash suits sacrificed to clear stock. Includes Panama skirts and many department items to satisfy shoppers.
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Panama
Farm banks shift to perishable product lending
Chas L Ansley, Kansas City banker, notes a surge in finance for perishable goods as farm income rises. He cites butter and egg shipments expanding due to cold storage, reducing traditional farm loan demand while creamery and poultry trade grow, with example of a 6,000 resident town storing four carloads of eggs.
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Kansas City
Kan
Country Bank
Unless He Stars In Another Divorce
A brief item from the Chicago Tribune cites Colonel W. F. Tucker of the U. S. A. and a sharp exchange about civility and manners, noting a stance on being addressed as a gentleman amid vacation plans and a related conversational quip from the Cleveland Leader.
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Cleveland
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M. M. Lowrey
Ameri
W. F. Locke
Castoria
Pauline Hill
SUI In
D'Soto
Press Association Meets
Avnauntant
Pete
Otr Cstaitt
Bradfield
Atlanta
Chas. L. Ansley
Chicago Tribune
W. F. Tucker
Foleys
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