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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1900
Page
4
A brief advertisement for Schampert Shoe Company touts a shoe for every foot and a price for every pocketbook, highlighting personal items of interest and a wide range of footwear offerings.
Whitley Grocery Co owner Mr C B Whitley bought 25 000 sacks of salt weighing 100 pounds each, a total of two million five hundred thousand pounds. The shipment required ten trains and covers nearly all of southwestern Georgia, sold for future delivery as a saltyProphecy. Local residents Nan Philpot Darell Graham Capt W W Crane Carrie Addison Thomas G Kenan C D Jordan Clifford Napier Agnes Hillman Alice Wheatley Elizabeth Wheatley Virginia Bryan Davie Clements and others are noted as visiting Americus. Rev Bragg will preach at Elm Avenue Church tonight.
The notice advertises 1 000 yards of fast color lawns with twenty patterns at a regular price of 8c, plus Fairbanks White Fairy Soap cakes in various sizes available Monday and Tuesday. It mentions percale shirts at 39c and ladies crash skirts at 0c with emphasis on quality and value for the sale.
Last week a shipment of Turkish Bath Towels from Eagle and Phoenix mills in Columbus Ga arrived. The towels are large and sold as seckonds though nearly faultless, priced at 10c each or 1.10 per dozen. Also advertised are fresh stylish shirts in percales and madras cloths at 60c, with many on display for 50c.
Americus residents may mark the Glorious Fourth with mild observances next Wednesday. A few picnics and a big Holly Springs picnic are planned. Some merchants expressed willingness to close if a broad closure movement forms, though business generally continues as on Christmas and Thanksgiving.
Advertisement claims Dr. King's New Life Pills end sick and nervous headaches by purifying blood and fortifying nerves. Easy to take and effective, the pills are offered at 250 with a money back guarantee. Sold by E. J. Eldridge, druggist.
Two Mormon elders preached in Sumter county yesterday near DeSoto then may reach Americus today. They shared a country service and dined with a farmer who asked them not to leave literature on his premises.
Short verse like items recount local happenings from the town yesterday. Mention of a Friday opera house benefit for Masonic lodges, rain, artesian water, and a court house crowd. Carl Schneider arriving from Memphis, youths tossing pennies at Windsor Hotel, and a Gatewood Sunday school event for famine relief. Prices for the lecture are 25 cents children, 60 cents adults.
Local shop advertises remaining stock of wash waists under 200 items priced to sell. Percale, lawn, madras waists advertised with normal values from $1.00 to $1.25, now reduced to 49 cents.
Store advertises ready made crash pique and duck skirts offered at deep discounts. Skirts priced originally at 150 to 350 dollars are cut to 183, 175, and 198 dollars respectively with eight inch hems and felled seams highlighted as quality features.
The entire straw hat line is being cleared with drastic price cuts. Hats have been marked down to one half and one third of their former prices to move stock.
Ad lists reduced prices on belts including 50 cent belts now 25 cents and 390 each, 50 cent items labeled 7 5 0 belts now 39 0 each, and references to 1 50 belts now 75 0 and 98 0 each, stating line of pulley and fancy belts.
A local retailer promotes large fabric sales with yardage of shirting prints and muslin priced at 34c and 31c respectively. Various wash fabrics including lawns organdies dimities and others from 10c down to 1c per yard are offered with drastic reductions. A selection of ducks corded piques batistes and percales previously 12c to 15c now sold at 1c to 12 1/2c per yard.
Advertising copy lists discounted linens and garments for the week. Offers include 750 grade hemmed counterpanes at 0c each, large extra heavy crochet counterpanes 25c, Marseilles counterpanes $119 each from $200, and ladies Swiss ribbed odds and ends undershirts and undervests sold at 100 to 200-500 value.
Davenport Drug Co features Foley’s Kidney Cure for Bright’s disease and diabetes fears, DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles and skin ailments, and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for digestion. The ads urge prompt treatment, tout early relief, and warn of neglect’s toll on kidneys.
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