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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1900
Page
4
A fashion advertisement touts new summer fabrics from cotton textiles to lace pattern lawns. It highlights prices, including 7c yd for gallopes, 8c yd for Juno Percales, 15c for certain silks, and other varieties like Zephyr Gingham, Madras Cloth, and Lace Pattern Lawns, stressing quality, fast colors, and attractive garb options.
Early this morning foundation work began for a Confederate monument at the courthouse corner. Excavation at the Lee and Forsyth streets crossing will serve as the base, eight feet square, with a marble shaft to be erected atop a brick foundation. The statue is to be unveiled on April 26th with ceremonies.
A volatile cotton day ends with prices rising from a nine cent level as May and August recover from a sharp decline. Traders question if prices will reach ten cents while liquidation cools and spot cotton holds firm. A patient from Plainfield credits Dr King s New Discovery for consumption with a full recovery after initial warnings. Free trial bottles available at E J Eldridge s drug store.
Mr A A Murphey of Atlanta visited Farlow school and offered a prize for best critique of his address I Will Find a Way or Make One Miss Alice Boyd won the handsome award Prof Miller forwarded essays to Mr Murphey for judging The Times Recorder also notes the Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York 1899 assets up 24 327 212 and total policyholder security now 901 844 537 52. A Chicago resident testifies Foley's Honey and Tar relieves cough in a 50 cent bottle and a 500 bottle is advertised by Davenport Drug Co.
Prof W C Toole a former Americus resident now in Jacksonville Fla will wed Miss Olive Crandell of St Marys on Sunday. Mrs George Poole sister of the groom left for Jacksonville to attend the ceremony. Also a promotion of Parx Kinten medicine extols its stomach liver and bowel benefits amid debility and melancholy with Perry Davis Pain Killer priced at 25 and 50 cents.
The ad lists linens and textiles offered Monday and Tuesday including Huck Towels in bulk at 1.23 each, crash toweling at 3c yd, damask tableware at 19c yd, ladies hose at 8 1/3c pair, barbers towels, table damask at 26c yd, silk petticoats, Torchon lace at 5c yd, dimities at 10c yd, embroideries at 2c–12c, and cottonades short lengths priced around 10c yd, with emphasis on quantities and sale conditions.
Attorney General Terrell lowers compensation for solicitors in manslaughter cases to 30 dollars for appearances before the supreme court, down from 50 dollars. The notice cites changes in state treasury disbursements and related reforms. Also mentions tonic advertisements and a local furniture inquiry.
A Black man was charged with trespass after entering hospital grounds without a permit. Police court imposed a fine of 30 dollars or sixty days on the streets. The notice also lists a banana sale and a photography offer from local vendors.
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