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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
4
Leaves broaden and flowers bloom as our stock meets any reasonable demand. This store offers the best selection with absolute fairness and justice in prices. There is no humbug in honesty as we tie summer equipment to all who are rightly dealt with.
Our store showcases 10 dozen ladies or misses ribbed gauze and bleached Undervests with reinforced yokes and elastic wings. Also offered are Jersey Undervests, Swiss ribbed, drop stitched stockings in black and white, plus several lengths of hose and stockings in white black and tan. Stockings priced at 1.02 per pair and 2d per pair on select items, with several styles described as fast black and hindering.
Americus social notes list residents and visitors traveling to and from nearby towns. Scattered arrivals and departures include Mies Marilu Noyes, Mrs. J. O. McArthur, Miss Louise Turpin, Miss Mary Pickett, and others visiting Cedartown, Milledgeville, Fort Valley, Macon, Webster County, and Cuthbert. Fresh shipment of Hoyler's Justin Hudson's drug store.
The Central of Georgia Railway will stop carrying passengers on any through or local freight trains in Georgia starting Thursday Jane Star. The change follows a Georgia Supreme Court ruling nullifying the company’s liability release contract, ending a long standing convenience for traveling salesmen and mileage book holders who rode freight trains. Traveling men regret the loss of this arrangement.
A Manchester In resident says exposure and severe coughing led to consumption and hemorrhages before Dr King s New Discovery cured him. He would pay 500 a bottle and reports hundreds used it with success for throat chest and lung troubles. Free trial bottles offered at E J Eldridge s drug store. A note about a shipment of bananas and a seller named Joe Yesbik advertising bargains.
Col Henry M. Johnson, a model farmer on Felder street two miles from town, gathered part of his several acre onion crop yesterday. More than two hundred bushels were loaded on three large farm wagons for shipment. The onions are large and promising, and the farm also boasts a thriving vineyard and full orchards with heavy fruit and grape loads. Once a barren red hillside, the land has been transformed by Johnson’s energy into a valuable Sumter county tract yielding abundant results.
A local retailer markets a wide sale of men shirts in madras and percales at 50c and 75c, remnants of calicoes at 2c yd, pleated linen bosom shirts at 69c and madras shirts at 85c. Men summer suits cut from linen colored crash reduced to 139, while numerous ladies vests and ribbed vests go cheap. Also offered are clearance prices on fine shoes mostly in kidskin styles, with limited sizes.
A healthful lifestyle is described with ample outdoor exercise, nutritious meals, and a glowing complexion. The text notes a gentle cleansing option via Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Co for occasional laxative relief.
An old promotional blurb for Tate Springs Tennessee markets the resort as a health and pleasure center with two hotels, cottages, extensive grounds, ballrooms and amusements. It claims electric features and lists digestive and kidney benefits amid bold wartime style sales language and a free book offer.
Chief Wheeler's Philadelphia trip ends with telegram to Mayor Hixon stating the negro is dead, fueling belief Perry has been executed for involvement in Prof. White's murder. Officials admit uncertainty on death details as Wheeler returns toward Americus. The article also includes unrelated ads and notices placed at the end.
An office notice states the speaker will be in the office on and after the eighteenth. It mentions H McKee and Jane Oth dated 1900 and adds a maxim about deserve and welfare.
A local bank cashier recounts experiences with a carpenter who sought quick riches by thievery. The tale urges caution and underscores the value of reputable remedies from Chamberlain and other trusted medicines, noting their use by pharmacists’ own families.
A compact moral maxim asserts that personal joy is linked to concern for others. It cautions that those who disregard others' well being cannot expect true happiness for themselves. The line emphasizes empathy as a path to fulfillment.
A dubious 19th century advertisement dense with medical claims for Hall’s Great Discovery curing kidney and bladder trouble, diabetes, rheumatism, and other ailments. It includes testimonials, mail order availability from St. Louis and Texas, plus other patent medicines like Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and Cod liver line.
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