Times-Recorder page summary from 1879 edition
A fragment from the Times-Recorder of Americus Georgia dated 1879 notes ownership by The Times-Recorder Co Inc editor Lovelace Eve and references Associated Press news rights and republication reservations. It lists advertising representatives Frost Isd is & Kohn and addresses in Brunswick Building New York and Peoples Gas Building Chicago.
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Times-Recorder
Times-Recorder Co
Inc
Lovelace Eve
St Americus
Georgia
Congress
Associated Press
NRA
Frost Isrdis & Kohn
Brunewick
New York
Peoples’ Gas
Chicago
Passage on honesty and balance from scripture and Montaigne
A short quotation propounds that a heavy false balance offends the Lord and that all other knowledge harms those lacking honesty and good nature, citing Prov 20 23 and Montaigne.
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Montaigne
Don’t Forget to Control Malaria in Americus Area
The article urges malaria control in Americus and Sumter County, citing 1915 to 1920 International Health Board demonstrations showing per capita costs of 45 cents to $1 annually to nearly eliminate malaria under normal conditions. It notes experiments in fish-based mosquito control, screening, and quinine as protective measures, and expresses optimism for the city and county to reduce the malaria problem.
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Americus
Sumter County
International Health Board
Arkansas
Mississippi
United States Pubew Evice
Inmag H Board
May Yard Tales From the Animal Kingdom
A warm weather tradition brings lighthearted hoaxes about animals roaming from burrows to bear dens. North Carolina is cited for a yearly farmer tale where a red headed woodpecker taps a tree to spur hogs from the woods, a harmless fib readers enjoy each May or June.
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Chuck
North Carolina
Old Days in Americus Ten Years Ago Today
From the Times-Recorder June 11 1953 the column notes marriages of Mittie Lou Carter to LeRoy Hamilton and Kella Rowland to Harry Morgan in Americus with Rev IP Barclay officiating. Weather brings concerns of cotton crop injury due to unusual cold and rains while Miss Mary Parker travels to Thomaston to visit Miss Katherine Black and social notices accompany the events.
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Mittie Lou Carter
LeRoy Hamilton
IP. Q. Barclay
Baptist Church
Pidins
Messrs
S. C. Kelly
G. P. Carsw
Barclay
Kella Rowland
Harry Morgan
Americus
Morgan
Mary Parker
Thomaston
Katherine Black
Twenty Years Ago Today from the Times Recorder 1903
A revived look at events from June 1903 includes Mrs. Charles Snider purchasing the W C Sullivan residence on Forsyth Street for 800 dollars and planning to move. A shoe salesman bought a marriage license. Miss Ira Perry leaves for Waynesboro to visit Miss MacQuinney. Drs Prather and Statham form a medical partnership. James Ward and Willie Randall wed at Rev R E Bivins’s home yesterday afternoon with witnesses. they will reside here.
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Charles Snider
W. C. Sullivan
Forysth Street
Ira Perry
Waynesboro
MacQuinney
Prather
Statham
James Ward
Willie Randall
R.£. Bivins
Farmers and World Court Proposal Shielded by Politics
A Chicago Tribune tone analysis notes Republicans in the Senate may delay American adhesion to the League of Nations World Court by exploiting transportation and tax issues to hinder President Harding. Farmers back European stability for export markets, while tariff history shows 1921 tax policy worsened farmer purchasing power.
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Congress
Harding
International Court
League of Nations
Europe
International Fellowship
United States
Department of Agriculture
Wallace
McKinley
Gloucester county first in South Atlantic to hire negro extension agent
Editorial comment from the Pearson Tribune praises county efforts in aiding negro farmers. Gloucester county Virginia recently hosted a representative from the U S department of agriculture to discuss agricultural extension work.
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Allen
Pearson Tribune
the Tribune
South Atlantic States
Gloucester County
United States Department of Agriculture
Fragmented Italian county column with maxims and odd notes
A drift of miscellaneous sayings and observations appears in a county paper style feature. It mixes comments on family judges bandits and tourists with social notes about local farms and Negro farmers. It references long-running county work since 1908 and local habits while delivering a string of aphorisms and quirky lines.
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Atlantic
Criminal Court
Thirty Years Ago Today Socials and Festivities in Americus
The Times-Recorder notes visitors from Plains of Dura Misses Pearl Walters Minnie Lee Murphey stay with John W Walters on Lamar street. A large party picnics at Legion Park chaperoned by Mrs J C Roney. Augusta belles Miss Lucy Allen Allie Deere Marion Rood to visit Miss Bella Lanier. Americus Light Infantry festival on Friday afternoon on Jackson street school grounds with tables hosted by residents. list of contributing young ladies provided.
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Times-Recorder
Pearl Walters
Minnie Lee Murphey
Plains of Dura
John W. Walters
Lamar Street
J. C. Roney
Legion Park
I Tna
Soiial
Americas
Lucy Allen
Allie Deere
Marion Rood
Augusta Belles
Bella Lanier
Americus Light Infantry
Jackson Street
Emma Dodson
Miss Worthy
Susie Taylor
Hattie Foster
Mervin Calaway
Farnces Bell
Nannie Dodson
Nell Davis
Mattie Ansley
Carrie Brannon
Georgia Lee Hawkins
Lucy Cobb
Jennie Stapleton
Mamie Dudley
Lizar Bell Wheatley
Annie Belle Roney
Vieve Morgian
June Moonlight and Whims of Romance in Tune
A playful verse about June as romance stirs bold feelings from fifty to fifteen. It imagines moonlit encounters, cautious men charmed by feminine wiles, and couples forming as life feels fizzy and dizzy in a breezy theatrical tone.
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Jane
Rebecca
Izzy
Gwendolyn
Reginald
Lizzie
Farm loans offered at five seven or ten year terms
Loans on improved farm lands at low rates with pre payment option. Over 1,100,000 outstanding in Sumter County alone. Middleton McDonald is correspondent for Atlanta Trust Company serving Sumter Lee Terrell Schley Macon Stewart Randolph Webster counties. 21 Planters Bank Building Americus Ga. Phone 89 or 211.
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Sumter County
Middleton M’donald
Atlanta Trust Company
Sumter
Lee
Terrell
Schley
Macon
Stewart
Randolph and
Webster Counties
Planters Bank
Americus
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McBrayer
Frank Cumming
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Americus Undertaking Co
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