The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-30
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HOME. SWEET HOME"
The simple word home" finds respon-
sive chord in every human heart. real
home is one you own. There is an ineen-
tive in the word "home" that causes a
man to plant trees, to beautify grounds 10
cultivate flowers and constantly plan 10
make 1t more attractive.
1t elevates a man to own his own home,
makes him a better husband a better cit
izen, rather. and gives him a force and in
dependence of character that nothing else
can furnish.
With a home he has something to show
for his meager savings other than receipts
for rent paid in which he has no equity.
fve-acre fruit farm at Vinemont will
permit the owner to live in perfect indie
pendence, even if he has no other income
or salaried position. which may have been
lost through sickness or other unavoidable
causes. The small amount of So paid
monthly on the purchase price will give
as home in forty months fully paid-not a
small city lot but five full acres partially
improved and in bearing that will support
him and his family as easily as forty
acres will in the west, and it is located in
n section of health and sunshine whore he
can live fully one-half cheaper than III
Chicago-a home in the heaven-favored
southland.
AN AGE OF COMBINATIONS.
The present is an age of trusts and COM
binations. The weaker merchants, the
weaker manufacturers and the accountant,
clerk or common laborer even is being
driven out of business and ground under
the heel of giant eombina tons of not only
capital, but labor as we'll Why should not
those of smaller means combine their small
capital or earnings in the same manner and
under the same principles of those of
greater wealth? While trusts and comb-
nations remain the order of the day is there
any other intelligent plan of self protection
for those of limited means?
The men who have become sufficiently
wealthy to be independent of laboring for
a mere existence are those who have gained
a start in life by making the few dollars
they have been able to save work for them
and earn them more. W. T. Mackey was
a day laborer; so was John Flood; James G.
Blaine was book canvasser; Jay Gould
peddled maps; Frederick Aver, the multi
millionaire patent medicine proprietor, was
a mule driver on the canal, and so was
James A. Garfield. and so on through the
long list of successful men it will be found
they started without capital building from
the ground floor up.
The combined savings of the common peo-
pie of the United States today are larger
than the combined capital of the rich.
Small investments become large in aggre-
gate.
The intelligent fruit growing plan of the
Alabama Vineyard company offers The
same opening for the combination of cap
ital as the trusts and combinations of the
rich, but opens its doors to those of more
limited means, enabling them to enjoy the
advantages of a plan that reduces the costs
of production and Increases the profits, each
participant retaining absolute ownership of
his property and having, in addition to his
annual profits, the assurance of a home for
the future.
ONLY FIVE TRACTS TO ANY ONE PUR-
CHASER.
AS wide distribution of ownership of
the five-acre fruit farms will be of consid-
cradle advantage to the company for adj
vertising, as well as for the additional i'm
provements that will be made on many of
them, only five tracts of five acres each,
IS per month for forty months.
proved, will be sold to any one purchaser.
Up to this number any person may pur-
chase tracts as follows:
One improved fruit farm five
acres. $25 cash payment, with deed,
s. per month for forty months.
49,. -. 49,. ......... $2O0-Total,$ 225
Two improved fruit farms, ten
acres, $50 cash payment, with deed,
s. per month for forty months =.
...... ......... ......... $400-Total, $50
Three improved fruit farms, fifteen
acres, $5 cash payment, with deed,
SIS per month for forty months :.
...... 49,. .$600-Total, 675
Four improved fruit farms, twenty
500 per month for forty months E.
........ -. ........ 49,. .$S00-Total, 900
Five improved fruit FARMS twenty
five acres SIPS cash payment, with
deed, SIS per month for forty
months $50. -. Isl 000-Total, LIPS
FAMILIES OR NEIGHBORS LOCATED
TOGETHER.
Different members of a family, or neigh
bors who are congenial desiring their fruit
farms adjoining or located on some par
ticular street, can form a club, each sub
scrbing for one of the contract bonds, pay
ing when the deed is issued the $25 first
payment required, and the company will
make the locations together as desired, or
will reserve number of additional tracts
for a short time for the friends of any
purchaser on their assurance that within
reasonable time they will be taken up and
not unnecessarily held from other pur-
chasers who may desire them.
NO EXPENSE TO PAY FOR THREE
YEARS.
1t must not be forgotten that the Ala
bama Vineyard company do at their own
expense all the work on the five-acre fruit
FARMS clearing. planting, cultivating, fenc-
ing, street making, etc, doing all of The
work during the forty months continuance
of the contract without one dollar of ex-
perse to the owner. The $225 covers all.
There are no assessments, additional pay
rnents or any further expenses of any kind.
To positively know what the property costs
when in full bearing is an important adj
vantage to the owner.
NO NOTES REQUIRED OR INTEREST
CHARGED.
Being entirely familiar with the profits Ct
fruit growing in Cullman county, Alabama,
and cognizant of the rapid increase in the
value of a growing orchard in that favored
section, the company does not require from
the purchaser of contract bond any notes
or other obligations to be signed, and no
charges are made for interest on the
monthly payments. If payments are not
made and the property reverts to the COM
pany, 1t will make money on account of
increased valuation, but the company pre-
fers to make the conditions of payment
easy for the purchaser, and thus enjoy, in
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