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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1924
Page
8
Local newspaper fragment references republication rights and credit lines for Associated Press dispatches. Mentions editor publisher and advertising reps with partial office addresses in Georgia and New York.
Richard Edmonds of Manufacturers' Record calls Georgia's trouble rotten politics and urges a shift from political focus to business education and development. He cites North Carolina's growth, urges concentration on industry roads and schools, and warns against demagogues hindering progress.
A thought compares biblical and classic maxims on diligence. It cites Proverbs 10 4 and Carvantes stating that slack hands make poor and diligence brings riches, reflecting a mindset linking work ethic to success.
A quatrain by William Drummond contemplates insatiable desire and the instability of beauty wealth honor and knowledge. It laments how pleasures fade time consumes riches and titles mislead the mind. The poem ends with the sobering thought that only wiser death reveals human error.
The author denounces rotten politics and argues for voters to take initiative. For years office seekers have allowed tiny minded self-interest to dominate both executive and legislative roles. Business leaders stay away, letting the rabble win while only a fraction vote. Many wise citizens have quit voting, harming the state. the remedy is that more men and women must vote to enable progress.
In Georgia town two manufacturers discuss state growth praising Georgia’s lands climate and resources. One native Georgian lauds the state as the empire state of the south while a European-born executive touts Georgia’s vast potential despite boll weevil woes and calls for lifting laziness to seize opportunities. The piece ends with a political line: As the candidate spreads his bank so will he lie.
Discussion notes the national debt near 2.348 billion after treasury cash deductions, expects slower decline, and links tax payments to interest on debt. Also reports a 3000 year old northern Africa tribe discovery, Japan US trade tensions and boycotts, synthetic gin in crime lore, Manhattan traffic losses, and city tolls with time savings.
Fragmentary OCR note discusses a golf ball leaving a club head at 135 giles an hour with errors. Mentions 143¢, eras 188 percent, and a golfer leaving an office. Lacks coherent facts or identifiable entities.
Atlanta, June 24. Legislation proposed this month aims to end discriminatory occupation tax rules in Georgia that tax foreign corporations investing in the state. Critics note the tax uses the entire capital stock of a company, though only a small portion is invested locally, discouraging new textile and woodworking plants moving south.
A June 24 1914 Times Recorder retrospective recalls a Albany motor trip by Misses Genevieve Deubler Eva Thompson and Messrs B B Willians and Jack Teague. County boards delay joint Flint river bridge site talks. Helen Lewis returns home from Valdosta after visiting Americus friends. Mrs Sallie Fort nears recovery after surgery. A Americus youth group enjoys Myrtle Springs under Mrs J D Sheffield. Also notes 30 years ago wedding plans for Miss Jennie Stapleton and W Ross Harper plus West Point success for James Furlow and local social notes.
The Times-Recorder notes Eva Jenks Mathis arriving from Jacksonville after a Raleigh wedding and warmly welcomes her as a bride. It mentions improving Americus crops from recent rains and highlights the forthcoming marriage of Hennie May Crittendon to Mercer Bell, a Southwest Georgia social highlight. Also records a surprise wedding of Mary Black and Chesley R. Whitley at First Baptist Church with Rev. R. E. Neighbor officiating.
A reflective aphorism notes that those who overestimate themselves miss true thinking and that attempting to explore the world can end up displacing and unsettling the explorer rather than expanding their understanding.
Local sale notice lists 100 dozen bleached Turkish towels 22 by 44 inches, available Thursday at 8 am at fixed price. Also offers 1000 yards of voiles at sale price, voile dresses, pin checked fabrics, and Irish linen. Includes rugs and assorted fabrics with stated widths, patterns, and guaranteed quality.
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