Post Office Disclosure In Americus Georgia
The Times-Recorder reports the editor and publisher entered a cocond claus matter at the Americus post office as per the Art of Congress. The Associated Press holds republication rights for all news dispatches and local news published here. National advertising representatives are Frost, Landis & Kohn with offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta.
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Xe Cocond Claus Matter
Americus
Georgia
Art of Congress
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National Advertising Representatives
Frost ,Landis & Kohn
Fifth Avenue
New York
Peoples Gee Bidg
Chicago
Walton Building
Atlanta
Waiting on the Lord and wings like eagles
A short 1879 Thought cites Isaiah 40 30 31 about renewing strength and mounting up as eagles then adds a comparison noting goldfish and human fish live with water over their heads in a concise, reflective line.
Abolishing Georgia district agricultural schools urged
The editorial argues against abolishing Georgia district agricultural schools, noting 3,000 students affected and low costs for farming families. It urges increasing funding and expanding schools nationwide, with laboratory and inspection roles kept within the districts, to boost farming education and state prosperity.
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Georgia
Americas
Agricultural College
Athens
State College
J. J. Brown
Commissions of Agriculture
Brown
Other Days in Americus Ten Years Ago Today 1919
Dr and Mrs S F Howell left Americus on a motor tour to Lake Toxaway and summer resorts in North Carolina Col Frank Gooding visits Americus weekly on Saturdays The fall business outlook is better than August last despite wartime uncertainties Local merchants feel conditions are improving after wartime crop disruptions and high cotton prices on the eve of the 1919 season
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Toxaway
North Carolina
Frank Gooding
Americus
Uie-iip
Twenty Years Ago Today at District Institute
A Times-Recorder item notes a party of American citizens and farmers traveling to Montezuma for the District Institute next Wednesday. Philo Smith and Roy Parker are in Memphis for the Atlantic Compress Co meeting. Mrs William A Dodson and Misses Mattie L Georgia B Dodson and Will Jr have gone to Atlanta for unspecified plans.
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Wilo
Montezuma
District Institute
Messrs
Philo Smith
Roy Parker
Memphis
The
Atlantic Compress Co
William A. Dodson
Mattie L
Georgia Bena Dodson
Will, Jr
Atlanta
Arart
Seafaring Yarn Shows Old Tactics and Modern Gyroscope
Captain Peter Johnson relates a tale of old days at sea and Hawaii. He contrasts guesswork navigation with Tron Mike the machine guiding ships by gyroscope. The narrative notes Hilo’s rain, dead reckoning for longitude, and crews risking peril to reach islands where survivors settle.
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Peter Johnson
Maui
Hilo
Hawaii
Hilo Harbor
California
Mike
Polynesian navigators and their ocean voyages
Long before European exploration Polynesian pioneers navigated the Pacific in canoes using matting sails and decked double-canoe travel. They carried food water rats and dogs, lacked writing or charts, relied on chants for maps and used a calabash sextant to determine latitude.
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Pacific
Sermon on Evolution and Faith in Scopes Trial Debate
Reverend Richard Simpson critiques the Scopes trial as a religious controversy that won’t settle science or faith. He argues true science and true religion align, cautions against treating evolution as fact, and reaffirms creation by God and Jesus as the Son of God.
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Tennessee
Scopes
God
Darrow
Jesus Christ
Son of God
Virgin
Mary
The Loafing Stunt And The Clock watcher
A clipped verse urges workers to stop loafing and keep steady effort. It warns that idling erodes trust with bosses and lowers personal value. The piece contrasts the clock watcher with the reliable worker, urging honesty about one’s class as a productive member.
Local real estate and school board notes from Americus
The piece notes the sale of FP Coker brick building No 105 for 3000 dollars, Mrs T F Gatewood buying as an investment, and Tucker Ansley’s promotion at Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic. Maggie Buchanan visits Nacoochee Valley, and cotton remains worth ten and a half cents in Americus. The County School Board discussed Montgomery’s History of the United States, with a committee from Camp Sumter UCV presenting objections. Reports mention Drew brothers of Irwin County paying 74000 dollars for land bought by Western settlers headed to Wiregrass.
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M. Coker
C . Hawkins
T. F. Gatewod
Tucker Ansley
Atlanta
Birmincham
Atlantic
Maggie Buchanan
Nacooche Valley
Americus
Camp Sumter U. C. V
Merea A. Wilson
J. H. Black
J. B. Pilsbury
H. H. Sneer
Montgomery
United States
Americas House
Drew Broters
Inwin County
Georgia
Statement of faith and creation views in Oregon text
A reader’s fragment recounts beliefs in Christian atonement and the Bible as God’s revelation, including the immaterial nature of God, the resurrection, and the verbal inspiration of scriptures. It contrasts with rejecting evolution and notes a note about the origin of the word Oregon suggesting “big-eared men.”
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God
State Highway Board Awards Two Contracts
East Point July 22 the State Highway Board awarded two contracts for toll bridge work over the Altamaha River at Glennville and the Ogeechee River on the Coastal Highway. Austain Bridge Company of Atlanta will build the road approach for 14190 dollars and G S Wright of Athens will construct the bridge portion.
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State Highway Board
Everey
Altamaha River
Glennville
Austain Bridge Company
Atlanta
G.S. Wright
Athens
Ogeechee River
You May Have Pellagra II You May Not Have All Symptoms
You may have pellagra if nervousness stomach trouble despondency shortness of breath burning feet constipation rough skin tingling sensations smothering spells diarrhea loss of sleep weight dizziness or head swirling general weakness with loss of energy. Free booklet The Story of Pellagra explains my treatment endorsed by a State Health Department physicians and hundreds treated. Over 2000 treatments solid in last 12 months. Diagnosis FREE. W C Rountree M D Texarkana Texas.
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W. C. Rountree M. D
Texarkana
Texas
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad
Rangeley Maine woman says two years of pain ended after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She reports improved ability to sew wash iron and sweep while caring for a farm and five dependents Over 200000 women replied yes to benefiting from the product and it is sold by druggists nationwide
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Rangeley
Maine
Walter E. Anderson
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