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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1902
Page
7
GEO D WHEATLEY promotes a summer sale touting honest value as stock reductions hit prices. The ad highlights Outing Shirts handkerchiefs towels and shirt waists with steep discounts including 12 dozen towels 21c 25 dozen Turkish bath towels 10c and waists cut to 69c to 1.35 per pair. Real garments and fabrics from Madras to chambrays feature reduced pricing aimed at mid summer shoppers.
The second annual Georgia Masons Third District Convention opened in Americus with nearly 200 visitors. Judge Hixon welcomed delegates, W E Steed replied, and Leesburg Lodge conferred a special degree as Americus lodges host. A basket barbecue follows at noon with Master Mason degrees planned for the afternoon.
An advertisement asserts thirty years of marvelous cures for burns, boils, corns, felons, ulcers, scalds, bruises, and skin eruptions. It promotes Hucklen’s Arvica Salve as the best and cheapest option, priced 250 at Eldridge d.u. stores.
A grocer recounted a customer attempting to change a one hundred dollar note. After the bank cashier verified the bill, the grocer had to return with smaller currency, and the bank later retrieved the hundred, exchanging it for smaller bills and coins.
Contractor Williams widens the grounds with a large disciplined crew grading the Virginia Carolina Chemical Co site. Where once one negro and one mule worked, now about a hundred laborers and fifty mules tear up and level the earth for a quarter mile as side tracks will soon be laid.
Friends report Mrs Sarah Schumpert is quickly mending from a fall eight weeks ago. Her broken limb has knitted together the splints are removed and she will soon walk again. A new drop of turnip seed from Rawsxnt's Duc Bore has arrived.
Americus residents are urged to invest surplus funds in home manufacturing. Despite external capital, there is demand for smaller ventures and free factory sites with city tax exemptions are offered to spur new plants. A fertilizer factory, an iron foundry, and a large canning operation are under construction or planned, signaling momentum for local industry.
Mrs Lois Cragg of Dorchester Massachusetts credits Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption with ending years of severe lung trouble and obstinate cough. She could scarcely breathe or speak yet was cured after trying the remedy. Eldridge Drug Stores guarantees it priced 50 cents and 1.00 with free trial bottles offered.
Americus claimants seeking 144000 left by Charles Hill press their case through Judge James A. Hixon. He has built a strong evidentiary chain and will travel to California with the evidence to appeal to state authorities. A favorable outcome is anticipated though not yet guaranteed.
George M. Davis’s right arm was amputated below the shoulder to halt blood poisoning after he injured his thumb by a fish fin days earlier. Surgeons acted decisively before noon. Davis recovered through the day, with the operation described as successful in a grave medical crisis.
The period of quiet business ends as prices are cut to attract customers. Extra inducements and further reductions arrive when items fail to move. Thousands of yards of desirable wash goods have sold in recent days.
Black Silks and Black Taffeta Silks advertised as staple stock with low prices to move stock. Deals include 27 inch Black Taffetas at 63 cents, 75 cents, and other guaranteed taffetas at 89, 95 cents, plus proportionate reductions on colored taffetas and various price tiers.
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