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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1902
Page
4
The Amentets ReconoRH, established 179 and The Ament os Times, established by Consolidated in April 91 and incorporated in January 91 outline subscription rates of 6.00 50 1.00 per mite.
The Vimes Recorder serves as the official organ for Americus city Sumter County and Webster County and the Georgia railroad commission district 34. It proclaims legal notices and local government actions for the region with broad official endorsement.
In Americus a May 16 note says Joe Hall is accused of prohibitionist leanings while Shifting dynamics in Georgia politics surface. Reports claim Hall will grow whiskers until a governor is elected. Voter registration lags as books reopen, and the financing for school teachers remains unsettled. Investigations into Guerry Evans and prison commission clash draw attention.
The New York Evening Post reprints John Temple Graves in Atlanta praising two flags. He salutes the Confederate flag as a memory of sacrifice and the U S flag as the future, symbolizing liberty, peace, and a reunited nation under one people.
The article criticizes the Beef Trust as a长期 force in many cities. It recounts how independents are driven from business when trusts open nearby shops and set prices to capture trade. It notes the public berates the trust yet frequents it when prices are favorable, undermining opposition.
Editor McIntosh warns the state’s gubernatorial race has degenerated into insinuations and recriminations. He says such politics will disgust nonparticipants as the June 5th campaign continues.
Pittsburg May 14 The casualty list from Monday's disaster at Sheraden rises with two more deaths Albert Berry 10 and Conrad Fick 43 increasing the dead to 20 and expected to reach 40 as reports come in. Injured exceed 350 with many not serious. Six houses destroyed and property loss placed at 175000. An official Panhandle company inquiry will determine cause.
Ex-Solicitor H J Sewell of Carthage sues Seaboard Air Line for 15000 damages in Moore County Superior Court. He says a crowd pelting him with rotten eggs occurred at a depot while he waited for a train after addressing a Shelby crowd. He contends the railway property should have prevented the indignity. It is the first suit of its kind in North Carolina.
Washington May 14. Soon after the senate convened today a bill was passed providing that the circuit courts of appeals of the Fifth judicial circuit of the United States shall hold at least one term annually in Atlanta Georgia beginning on the first Monday of October of each year.
An advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a natural liniment for easing childbirth. It claims the product enhances the mother's comfort, health, and mood, and promises a healthy, cheerful newborn. The text promotes the tincture as a widely available drugstore remedy at $1 per bottle and offers a free mailed treatise from the Bradfield Regulator Co in Atlanta, Georgia.
Reports from St Pierre describe a vast charnel house with thousands dead after the Mt Pelée eruption. A correspondent notes lava flows and a tidal surge, with many charred remains and few identifiable bodies. Military rule is imposed as burial parties struggle to manage the scale of death. Separately, lumber importers Baara Dunwody & Co. in Pensacola have assigned assets to Alex Mc Gowin Jr. for creditors.
A fragmented probate citation from Wisden County Georgia notes an annual support claim for minor children of J W iMakely, filed against the estate of J W Havel. The text mentions a county filing date and the appearance of a person named T.3 TH.
About one hundred fifty H. and H. Corsets in the new straight front style are offered at a sale price of 50 cents, compared with the usual 7 cents to 1 dollar elsewhere, while stock lasts.
A local ad promotes two thousand yards of new season laces by Terchon. The collection features handsomely patterned designs measuring 3 1/2 to 4 inches wide. Originally retailing up to 20 cents per yard, the sale offers them at 5 cents per yard as a bargain leader.
A local sale offers 36 inch black taffeta silk guaranteed all silk and of good quality. The fabric, normally selling no less than $1.25, is priced at 98 cents, promising wear and value.
Thousands of embroidery lengths are cut from window displays and priced to move. About fourteen hundred yards, lightly soiled, drop from 35 cents per yard to 19 cents per yard as a clearance offering.
Readable text notes a fabric sale item with 2000 yards of fine grade Nainsook, regularly toc, offered at 45 cents for 10 yards on Monday and Tuesday. The fragment mentions price per 10 yards and a promotional window but lacks full details on vendor and exact terms.
May 14 report from St Augustine says Sheria Terry Deputy Snowden and the sheriff with bloodhounds traveled to Raf Point on the St Johns river following a telegram about a murder. Coroner Mackey joined the quest for an inquest as 16 turpentine camps lie nearby and the suspects’ color is unknown. Mount Vesuvius shows activity with lava and hot cinders in Naples Journal report.
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