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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1901
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text shows Americus, Ga. with Marie Louise Myrick as editor and business manager. Includes editorial room telephone 09 and mentions daily, weekly issues and possible references to consolidated American topics. Details are garbled but indicate a local newspaper masthead fragment.
The Times-Recorder serves as the official organ for Sumter County and Webster County and the railroad commission coverage for the third congressional district. It acts as the official gazette for local notices and regulatory public postings within the region.
A roundup of terse items from Americus and nearby cities covering weather bureau plans for Manila the McKinleys recovery and California health status a NYSE seat sale at 6000 lower than last year Kansas wheat harvest needs and wages, rail expansion in Macon Taft Philippine school teachers and broader remarks on national politics plus Georgia Supreme Court expectations and General Toombs influence on the state constitution.
Georgia Railroad Commission chairman Thomas Crenshaw has applied for a consular post in Havana Cuba. A dispatch from Atlanta says Crenshaw pressed for the Havana consulate after a Washington visit where he conferred with President McKinley. Congressman Livingston cites Crenshaw's Washington filing and request for support to obtain the post.
The South Carolina resignations of Senators Tillman and McLaurin are hailed as liberation from populism and Republicanism. The piece celebrates the day as a decade's best for the state and urges voters to elect Democrats to fill the vacancies.
The Augusta Chronicle summarizes a New England cotton mill situation where several Fall River mills favor a plan combining wage cuts of about 10 percent with reduced production. The aim is to shrink a stock of print cloths from 2,000,000 to about 500,000 pieces and align wages with southern levels. The plan gains momentum as more mills sign on to both measures to counter southern competition.
At Memphis May 2, the Confederate veterans held the second day of their reunion with a full program. Resolutions were moved to memorialize Congress to erect a General Robert E. Lee monument in the Capitol, but no action followed. The history committee report dominated the afternoon, detailing finances and plans for the Battle Abbey cornerstone in Richmond. A memorial to southern women drew support, and greetings from the Sons of Veterans were extended. The session included sacred tributes to Winnie Davis and relatives of Taylor and Beauregard, then adjourned.
In Pretoria on May 28 a 47 inch lyddite shell exploded while General Schoeman his daughter wife and two others were present. The general and his daughter were killed while the wife and two others were badly injured. Schoeman a Kru gerite led the Coleshite commando later captured and released when the British occupied Barberton.
The U S department reports the Chinese government has issued a decree agreeing to pay 150,000,000 taels, about 537 million dollars at current exchange. The indemnity issue is expected to close before month end. if not and evacuation lags, China may be charged one million dollars daily after June 1 to cover foreign military maintenance.
A late bulletin from the Experiment Station at Manhattan Kansas advises Georgia farmers to supplement grass pasture with succulent feeds for winter. It endorses mangel wurzels and sugar beets as profitable root feeds, detailing planting spacing, seed quantity per acre, and timing from mid March to April 10. Mangels aid fattening hogs, enrich milk, and help calves endure winter.
Philadelphia and New York capitalists take options on thousands of acres near Brownshonro Tennessee to build a large industrial town with several million dollars, factories, and river powered motive energy from Flint River. In New Orleans oil gusher near Terre Bonne plantation boosts area land values and excitement in Houma La.
The old Romans called agriculture the noblest avocation. Cincinnatus was summoned from the plow to leadership in crisis. Orators, statesmen, poets of the republic and empire cultivated fields and wrote about fields flowers and bees. Early farmers were often retired merchants and lawyers seeking land and retirement on well tended farms. The State Agriculture Department notes limited access to improved elements then.
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