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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
4
Moultrie June 8. The Moultrie McNeill U D C chapter closed its year at a meeting hosted by Mrs G L Doster. A Jefferson Davis program honored his birthday and an ar book reading was won by Miss Lucy Barber. The meeting featured the initiation of new officers.
Atlanta officials authorize an immediate survey of the city hall to reduce costs. City auditors Dawson and Eidson will conduct the investigation for the council.
Joseph A. McCord, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, was named head of the welcoming committee for the National Association of Credit Men assembly here next week. The article later offers an unrelated tip on cleaning aluminum canes and removing discoloration with hot soapy water and silver sand.
Advertisement fragment lists trout fish mullet fat hens and fruits vegetables and groceries offered. The note emphasizes service across six days of the week with a local grocery emphasis.
The article describes cocoanuts from the Caribbean being transformed here into shredded coconut. Photographs illustrate plantation harvest by rope aided climbers using a bane, ox-drawn carts moving nuts, palms bearing fruit, husks opened for extraction, and palm trees used ornamental and utilitarian ways.
Legal Ad No 595 announces a forthcoming General Assembly bill to amend the Act incorporating the City of Americus. The act would authorize an ad valorem tax levy starting 1923, raising the current levy to eight mills for funding public schools, and would modify the corporate name of the Mayor and City Council of Americus.
A proposed amendment authorized by the original charter limits levies to twenty mills to cover the present floating indebtedness and related notes. The measure, dated May 30, 1923, aims to constrain future levies while allowing required payments and other stated purposes.
George W. Duncan, a Georgia Railway & Power Co. motorman in Atlanta, reports rapid relief from gas and heartburn after eight years of trouble. He regained his normal weight and energy, praising Tanlac as a strong tonic and body builder. Tanlac is sold by druggists with over 37 million bottles sold.
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