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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1902
Page
8
The early selling of Wash Fabrics has always been a pronounced success and will repeat itself. We invite you to select from a complete varied equipment of bright fabrics and offer important price concessions to tempt you to buy your entire summer outfit now. Look ahead and plan your summer sewing during the winter.
Bright stock of wash fabrics offered with substantial discounts. 25 Pieces Fancy Embroidered Muslins in dots and stripes and floral designs priced at 15c, 25 Pieces French Batiste with Parisian effects at 0c, 20 Pieces Fine Imported Grenadine at 50c, 10 Pieces Crash Suiting 124c. Deals encourage quick purchase within the week.
This store advertises a wide range of white goods and silks with strong discounts. Offers include 50-Inch White French Lawn at 35c, 45-Inch White French Batikte at 25c, 50-Inch White French Wash Chiffon at 45c, and 27-Inch white effects for waists. Also features 500 yards imported wash silks at 50c, 24-Inch Latin Foullard Silk at 85c, 500 yards Taffeta Silk at 50c, and 10 pieces Peau de Cygne Silk at $1.00.
Dainty Tana announces a Monday sale of 5 000 yards of Swiss Mull Cambric and Nainsook embroideries and insertions with prices from 5c to 50c. The offer includes matching sets and a wide range of all over embroideries for waists and yokes at 50c 75c 1 1.25 and 1.50 per yard.
The South mourns Charles Broad way Rouse a great New York merchant. W H Simmons president of the People s Bank of Americas recalls a deep personal friendship with Rouss. They grew up in Virginia and joined forces after the war with Simmons later returning South for health.
Hay Fever Association members warned their club would collapse if they used Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The text claims it cures Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, grip, croup and whooping cough, with a guarantee and trial bottles offered by E. J. Eldridge.
Americas will be ably represented in the Georgia State Sunday School Convention to be held in Augusta April 1 to 8. Noted workers will attend including Marion Lawrence Charles D Meigs E O Excell and other experts. Reduced railroad rates will apply and Augusta will entertain delegates.
A vintage notice promotes Syrup of Figs as a gentle cleansing remedy. It advertises the true and perfect remedy for cleansing the system in spring, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by druggists at 50 cents per bottle.
March contracts rose to nine cents, highest point of the cotton season, with May and July also advancing. May closed at 8.84 and July at 8.83, signaling firmer tone and prospects of nine cents for finer grades. Lanz & Marnarp note cheap money and definite payment contracts for city property.
Camp Sumter 642 U C V plans to attend the Confederate reunion in Dallas Texas in April with travel funded at one cent per mile. At a Camp Sumter meeting yesterday delegates were chosen including G T Davenport M Callaway A S Lockett J J Murray T J Morgan J M Hansford W D Haynes. Alternates named J P Chapman A S Nano J I Hudson A W Smith J D Glover H H Glover G H Sieg.
In Chicago on March 5 a large crowd cheered Prince Henry while simultaneously over 1,000 Poles held secret sessions citywide to denounce the German Emperor's brother. The Polish National Alliance organized the undercurrents of protest.
The Police Commission yesterday elected new members to the city police force. W D Smith and John L Oliver were not re elected while James M Wilkins and Rob H Miller were chosen to replace them. Chief Wheeler and Lieutenant Cobb retain posts. The two new officers join J L Glaw sop W C Barrow Howell Albritton. The two year term runs from April 1 pending a state supreme court decision on police control. The council fixes salaries while the commission maintains department control.
Yesterday's legal sale featured the S. H. Hawkins residence at Lee and College sold to Planters Bank for 3800 dollars under Southern Building & Loan Association proceedings. Dr. Brooks residence on Lee street went to J. O. McArthur for 1695 dollars. Marshal Feagin sold several small negro houses for unpaid city taxes.
The Macon firm B B Ford & Co through Americus agent Samuel McKay bought the entire cotton crop of Hon James M Smith, about two thousand bales. It ranks as the season’s largest single staple deal in the state, valued near seventy five to one hundred thousand dollars amid strong competition.
Atlanta March 5 Governor Candler is seriously ill and under close watch for possible pneumonia. Attending physician Dr J B S Holmes has returned for frequent consultations at the mansion. Also reports from New York say Martin Curley, thought dead in Worcester ten years ago, writes from Minnewaukan North Dakota promising a Springfield visit, while a Worcester freight-yard death was misidentified as Curley.
The store announces a week of continued clearance across all departments with many remnants added daily. The message notes prior slow February business, promises fresh displays, and urges frequent visits as items across departments are reduced to close out regardless of former prices.
A Northern department store announces deep discounts to clear one hundred waist silks originally 75c to 1.50 per yard with prices from 37 4c to 75c yd. Other remnant bargains include black brocaded silks, foulards, taffetas, linens, ginghams, muslins, and remnants tables. Additional sales target carpets, clothing, undergarments, and household items to reduce inventory.
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