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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
6
Cotton merchants call Saturday the banner day of the fall as Americus holds a flood of buyers. Receipts reach 1002 bales, with 995 reported earlier and three firms adding seven more. Counties nearby send a large crowd, and business thrives despite a sudden drop in spot cotton demand.
Leesville Indiana man W H Brown endured asthma agony with family around. A son rode for 18 miles to fetch Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption and Coughs. He claims instant relief and now sleeps soundly. The medicine treats consumption bronchitis and throat and lung troubles with guaranteed bottles and free trials at Eldridge drug stores.
Mr J W Sheffield returns from a three month mountain trip in Tennessee and North Carolina reporting great improvement. He stayed at Cloudland on the state line where one end of his table faced Tennessee and the other North Carolina prompting a shift of chair for dinner. He notes July and August required heavy coverings at night. Also includes a water cure remedy for constipation advising outdoor activity and Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets as a mild laxative option sold by druggists.
The Georgia negro population shows reduced wealth as property values drop by 441,742 dollars. Comptroller general reports list six Negro lawyers, fifty four Negro doctors, seven Negro dentists in the state, with land valued at 14,779,208 dollars across 1,752,201 acres. Poll taxes returned by 117,374 Negroes. Total negro property value stands at 15,068,009 dollars.
A short ad describes Grove’s Tast, a remedy claimed to cure malaria with a bottle of Samaesite iron and quin form. It promises “Cure, No Pay,” presenting a simple patent medicine pitch with minimal specifics.
The Americus Elks Carnival plans a bold lineup featuring Prof. Stanley leaping from a 135 foot water tower daily during the November event. He will also jump from the Empire Building in Atlanta at 246 feet during next week’s Atlanta carnival. The Americus committee will visit Atlanta to select top attractions from the Cincinnati Amusement Co. and contract for the first week in November. Balloon parachute feats and a cannon launch promise dramatic free attractions, aiming to outshine all prior Georgia shows.
A recent marriage of Dr Colquitt Logan and Miss Lora Wilson at the bride's father's home, Mr W T Wilson, witnessed by a large assembly of relatives and friends. Rev Harrison of Plains Methodist Church officiated. The couple is widely known and many friends extend congratulations.
A saying notes that raising the devil is easy but laying him to rest is often a difficult job, reflecting on effort required to end a troubling issue or problem.
A crowded Farlow and Rees Park pupil roll signals a record opening for city public schools. Attendance at both white schools nears 600 with growth across grades, especially in tenth and eleventh, foretelling a larger graduating class next year. Supt Mathis and the school board express gratification and plan for extra seats and a prosperous term.
A long standing remedy for croup, Chamberlains Cough Remedy has sold millions of bottles over thirty years with no reported failure to cure. It acts early on hoarseness or croppy cough, is pleasant, contains no opium or harmful substances, and is sold by all draggists.
Efforts are underway to secure a pardon for T J Granade the dental student who killed Dr Jesse Pope of Americus and is serving a five year term. Congressman Wash Taylor of Alabama supports clemency for Granade’s parents near Mobile and may push the executive pardon. A petition to the state pardon board is being prepared with local backing from Mercer and Sumner counties. Nearby, a neighbor’s remedy aided D P Daugherty of W Va who suffered severe diarrhea, and Chamberlain’s remedy cured him within a day.
Cures indigestion headache malaria kidney disease fever chills loss of appetite debility nervous prostration heart failure and appendicitis by regulating the liver stomach bowels and kidneys sold 50 cents to 1.00 a bottle at druggists
Dr H Mozley Atlanta Ga publishes a testimonial from Rev John P Sanders of Verbena Alabama claiming Mozleys Lemon Elixir cured his ruptured appendix after a surgeon urged removal. He says he is now well and a preacher of the M E Church South with brother Rev Porren recommending the remedy. He asks for a shipment of six large bottles.
At 7 PM Tuesday in Skagway the Canadian Bank of Commerce was stormed by an armed man with a dynamite bomb demanding $20,000. The teller and cashier escaped through a window as the bank exploded. The robber died unconscious from injuries, and bystander J. G. Price was hurt. About $1,000 in gold dust was taken.
Salt Lake City Sept 20 Hooper Young grandson of Brigham Young and son of John W Young a railroad contractor is named as a suspect by police in the Mrs Pulitzer murder case in New York He is known in Salt Lake where he lived until recently and was tried under the Edmonds law for polygamy but acquitted on a technicality.
W A Greer of McDonnellsville Ohio writes he endured three years of treatment by good doctors for piles and fistula. Bucklen's Arnica Balm cured him in two weeks. It heals barns bruises oats corns sores eruptions salt rheum piles or no pay. 2C at Eldridge drug stores.
Rev R E Neighbour returns to Americus with a young coonette from Indian Territory after a long western trip. The boy, homesick, charms peers by recounting tales of hunting Indians bears and buffaloes in the wild west.
B L Byer a cooper of this town says Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy saved his life last summer after a month of illness doctors called bilious dysentery. He found no relief until he tried the remedy and received immediate relief. For sale by all druggists.
Americus friends celebrate Will E. Hawkins as state agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Co. with headquarters in Atlanta. The appointment is described as responsible and lucrative, reflecting Hawkins's long insurance experience in Georgia. Also note an advertisement for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets sold by all druggists.
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