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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
NOW GO ON WITH STORY
Michael Tells Story:

mot on my account" I insisted.
THE transaction must remain ex.
ectly as It is until give the word"
I rang off. filed my bag, as usual,
with stationery-samp1es and took the
tube 70 Bond Street, whence I
walked on to South Audley Street.
Upon arrival at my destination,
was Informed by an !niposlngIook-
Ing butler that Lord Ilinders,sy was
at home but It wea scarcely likely
, that he would receive mo unless I
had an appointment, risked the
buuors being human and bought
my way as far as the vailng.room.
Once arrived there, I managed to
impress an uatdy and bespeotaoled
secretary with the idea that it might
be worth Lord Eindrsley'B while to
spaza me a few minutes Of his time.
II the end I was ushared into the
ggeac man $ sanCtum,
what can I do for you-er-1Ir.
Bucar95s7F he inquired glancing at
my card.
I was anxious 10 test ny new
identity, and / stood full in the light.
Il was obvious, however, that Lord
k.n5arsley had not an idea that we
had ever met before.
Il have come to see you on q very
serious matter, Lord Kindersleyr"
said, and I am anxious that there
should be no misunderstanding.
do not wish for q penny Of your
money, I am here, IN fact, to save.
you from the loss OF q great deal Of
1t. My visit. nevertheless, has a
very serious side"
TIE looked at me steadily from
under his bushy eyebrows.
go on" he invited curtIy.
Last March," I continued, you
averted the threatened shipping
strike and saved yourself the loss of
at least one Of your millions by brib-
ing a welI.known Labor leader to
declare for peace instead Of war
You and one other great shipowner0
were alone concerned IN this mat
teR That other man, gather, is.
dead"
Lord KindersIay was staring at.
me with a queer look IN his eyes.
His voice when ne answered me,
was unsteady.
What on earth are you talking
about?"
7 took the two documents from.
my pocket and moved a little nearer
to him.
Here" 7 said, as Rendalrs pro-.
posed speech, couaseling the strike.
and signed by the leaders Of the.
various unions. Here, also, is y6or.
letter to Kendall, making him the
offer Of $4,000 pounds to withhold it,
which sum was paid to him the next
evening at the National LIBERAL
Club"
All the initial afability and conde-l
scension had gone from Lord Kin
dersIey's manner. He looked like 9
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
SOME TIMELY HINTS FOR
THE BARBERING TRADE

0, ye Americas BARRIERS, get a
Delilah in your shop. They say its
great. News comes to us from out
Of the wilds Of Wyoming, a region
once noted for its bad men and
more recently because of its
"petticoat government with the
women holding the most important
municipal offices, that they have
women BARRIERS at Jackson Hole,
and now an epidemic Of carefully
trimmed hair and whiskers has hit
that town, and the reason for all
this is that one Mrs. Hattie Brody
has opened a tonsorial emporium
in that burg.
They do say that trappers and
ranchmen whose faces have for
years resembled dense jungles are
now walking about with whiskers
as carefully trimmed as jim Ham
Lewis pink ornaments. Hair
that once trickIed over the collar
in the mode made famous by Gus
ter, Cody and Ebert Hubbard. is
now trimmed SO closely as to
achieve undue prominence. Bucka-
roos who once though a weekly
shave a bore, now walk around
with faces smooth as silk seven
days in the week-if they do have
to ride 20 miles a day to do it.
1t might be said in passing that
Atlanta is another up-to-date
burg which We know of. She has
EN-, and they do say business is
picking up. Great is Delilah!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
WHICH FACE?

1t was lunch hour at the lime works
and Pats two buddies, deciding to
play a little joke on him during his
absence, drew the features of don
key upon the back of his coat, which
he had left behind. In due time Pat
returned and presently hove in sight
bearing the lime-decorated coat.
whats the trouble, Pat?" asked
one, trying to appear Indifferent.
Nothing much" replied Pat,
equally Indifferent; "only I'd loike to
know which one of yez wiped your
face on me cat"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
BEGIN HERE TODAY
"a - betMaen

Vendetta begins between
MICHAEL SAVERS. noted criminal.
and
SIR NORMAN GREYES, once Of
Scotland Yard. when Sayersf
beaUUifGi hoUsemail,
JANET 5aFas him from Sir Norman
by shooting dead an officer sent
70 arrest him. Greyes falls I'M
love w!sn Janet and proposes mar.
riage.
2Iichael DISCUSSES himself as
Colonel Escombe and attends the
wedding reception. Having stolen a.
Dearl necklace, gift of Sir Norman
&c his bride, SaYers gives them to.
Beatrice to return TO Janet Michael
answers a cipher message published
"a a paper and buys from the di-i
vorceu wife Of a politician, bundle
of manuscript, evidence against the|
womaa's former husband. Uponl
reading the manuscript Michael
learns that the regulations of al
leading politician and Lord Kinder.
sley are in his hands SHyers pon-l
ders the best way to turn his prizei
into money,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times-Recorder, April
10, 1879
Agent S. A. Pruitt, of the Central


There is something radically
wrong with one who is too radical.
Phoenix (Ariz.) fishing party
claim fish chased them ashore, and
we don't believe it, either.
All of US know what we would
do this spring Il we could afford
it.
A learned professor says coli
Iege women should not marry; but
then, of course, he never was one.
The man who bombed Wall
street in 1920 has been caught
again. He is rather early this
spring.
Make your garden all vege.
tables and a yard wide.
A Detroit auto thief, disguised
as a girl, was caught by police
instead Of by pneumonia.
Hash must be plot. It thick
ems.
France may get the gold, but
Germany has the brass.
They say snakes will not bite
in the water, and a disguised fish
erman tells US fish will not either.
The honeymoon ends when
couple on the sea of matrimony
get out beyond the, three-mile
limit.
The worm has to turn to make
ends meet.
What's worse than the tailor
thinking you said Shorter" when
what you really said was '1ong-
err"
AIS not fair in love. Some
are brunettes.
Two optim;sts are a couple of
DRINKS in a speeding auto sing
ing Near, My God, to Thee"
Johnny Rockefeller, Jr., makes
only a million a month, but per-
haps he gets his gas at cost.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10

HOW DID YOU COME BY THIS
|STORY?"
use for these letters is predestined.
They go to the press"
Lord Kindersley sprang to his
feet.
Listen" he said impressively:l
mo newspaper would deal with you
as literally as am prepared to do.
Those documents must not be publ
lished. If it We're generally known
that 7 Observation-Disclosures Kendall
to hold up that speech, Labor would
declare war against me tomorrow
Not man would stay in my employ
Besides, it would bring discredit
upon my party. It would ruin me
politically as well as actually. Come,
now, Mr.. Bucllross, you look like a
business man, Let's talk business.
III write you a check for ten thou
sand pounds this morning"
Your Lordship," I replied, eff Il
dealt with you in the way you sug-.
gost, it would amount to a criminal
offense. Ny conscience forbids it. I
can deal with the press fairly and
openly. Your political ruin I can
not help. Your financial ruin 1 may.
help you to modify. ] offer you four
days grace, during which time you
had better get rid Of as many OF your
Shares in The KindersIey Shipping
Company as you can"
You promise - do nothing for
four days?" La Kindersley ex-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
OLD DAYS IN AMERICUS

Railway here, is confined to his room
at the Windsor, with a bad ankle,
which may keep him from duty sew
eral days. Agent Pruitt jumped from
fast moving engine up at the ferti-
lizer works, badly spraining his an
kIe.
1t is expected that quite a large
party of Americas people will go to
New Orleans upon the occasion of
the Veterans Reunion in May.
There is no danger of frost and
no longer danger of a fruit crop in
some sections. But I'VE 'uns" here
will have peaches.
One man instantly killed and two
others injured by the electric bolt,
was the story reaching Americas yes
terday east Of the city the afternoon
before. Out on the 0. J. Cannon
place, two sons Of Mr. Cannon to-
gether with a negro youth, San
Scott, took refuge from the storm
beneath the pine tree. Hardly had
they sought the protecting branches
ere a bolt of lightning struck the
tree, shivering it to splinters and
prostrating the three men.
Though life insurance is his long
suit, Fred Arthur, has an open option
for anything else that promises a cash
return, and this is assured him in
a lot of fifty bales of cotton which
he bought a few days ago as a side
line. Arthur paid ten cents per pound
for it and he is going to make money
in the transaction. There was a
sharp advance in the market today.
May contracts closing at 1910.
THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper publish
ed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
Three
Smiles
FIRE AWAY

"Bangw went the rifle at the ma
neuvers.
"Ohw screamed the pretty girl, a
nice, docorous, surprised little scream.
She stepped backwards into the arms
of young man.
"oh, She said, blushing, q was
frightened by the rifles. l beg your
pardon
"Not at ALL" replied the young
man; Tets go over and watch the
artillery"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
SOME FUNNY VIEWS
OF UNCLE SAM

While the Postoffice Depart
ment on the one hand is lament
ing and bewailing its mistaken
idea Of economy by.cutting to the
bone its already crippled service
now comese along the new postal
head ands issued orders for rural
mail carriers to carry along a
sack Of bird seed to scatter to
starving birds along their re@pec-
tive routes, and so long as they
have nothing special to do, must
take special courses SO as to rem
der first aid to those who,cannot
get doctors. But why neglect
the service to look after something
which is entirely foreign to carry
ing letters. What's the big idea
any way?
We grant that this spirit Of
helpfulness is to be commended
but why do so to the detriment
OF a service which the rural free
delivery mail service was created.
is something we can't understand.
Someone has suggested that
this willy politician, Harry New,
will be having these carriers write
wills, and promissory notes and
thus cheat the down-trodden law
yer out of what is rightfully his
1t begins to look very much to
some folks as if Mr.. New is using
MS department to build up a poll
teal machine in this country. So
much for one branch of our gov
eminent.
Next appears Mellon of the
Treasury Department. He comes
forward with a little treatise on
the "tightwad" and designates him
as a. man who saves 60 cents of
every dollar and expends 81 cents
of the balance for living expenses
and one cent each for education,
recreation and giving.
Alongside of its definition of a
"tightwad" it places the spend
thrift, who is described as a man
who saves nothings, spends 58c
Of every dollar on living expenses,
40 cents for recreation, and one
cent each for education and CIV
ing.
The thrifty man is designated as
one who saves 20 cents of every
dollar, eXpends so cents on liv-
ing, and 10 cents each on educa
ton, giving and recreation.
The whole scheme, of course. is
to get the peoples money for as
low rate of interest as possible,
only to waste it in extravaganza
at a time when there is no excuse
for such. One can easily see why
this TRADE of a "tightwad" from
the office Of Secretary Mellon.
If the government would build for
economy, but not at the expense
of service, the heads of the various
departments would have occasion
to use the word "tightwad' less in
making its appeals for funds.
Great county, this
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY

(From the Times-Recorder, April
10, 1929
Leroy Pouncey, the young son of
Policeman Pouncey, was rather seri-
ously injured last night about 8
o'clock when he collided with a hack
on Cotton avenue, as he turned into
that street from Forsyth, riding a
wheel.
/ OF much social interest in Ameri-
Gus as in Plains, the home of the
bride, was the marriage of Miss Floy
Oliver and Mr. Philip Hunter
Jeter of Albany The occasion, had
since it's announcement a month ago,
been anticipated with interest and
pleasure among the many friends Of
the bride and groom, who is also well
known here.
DR. J. F. McMath and Mrs McMath,
of this city, narrowly escaped seri-
Gus injury a day or two ago in a
runaway accident, wherein both were
thrown from the buggy in which they
were driving. Dr. McMath sustained
badly sprained knee and other
slighter injuries while Mrs. McMath
was painfully bruised as well, and
has been confined to her home here.
Of interest in local cotton circles
here yesterday was the advance of
ten or twelve points which had the
effect of putting the value of good
middling again at the twelve cents
mark for the first time in quite a
while. Several lots of cotton aggre-
eating 200 or 800 bales are offered
in the local market, but the grade
will not command top price yet.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
(From the Times Recorder, April
10, 1879
Agent S. A. Pruitt, of the Central
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
A THOUGHT.

To everything there is rea-
son and a time to every purpose
under the heaven.-Eccles, 81.
The ill-usage of every minute
Is a new record against us in heav-
en.-Zinnnerman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
CUCKOO HAS THE FLU

Little Ethel had spent the day at
her aunt's and had been much inter
ested in the new cuckoo clock. Tell
ing her father about it that evening,
she cried excitedly: ooh, daddy!
Aunty has a new clock and every
little while there's a bird comes out
and sneezesPs Sgeysx
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10

Henry Ford says, or had said.
that the farmers Of this country
do not need a credit but a profit.
Which is the truth. Credit means
only temporary help, which must
be paid for with interest. Profit
means freedom from debt, and
progress"
Now they say Pennsylvania
man has Is wives. Police think
he is insane. So do we.
San Jose (CaI) Chinaman bit
off a bandits finger and then
cops caught the rest of the man.
Toxic lawmakers had a fight
and threw ink stands, which
made blot on their regulations.
Georgia peach crop has been
ldlled twce this spring. Jack
Frost viii have his little nip.
They say Cincinnati cafe own
er has been identified as a bandit.
We say it sounds plausible.
A perfect lady never chews to-
bacco in public or shoots any man
unless he is her husband.
The difference between a dance
and a bootIegger's convention isn't
as much as it should be.
Ford has a plan to burn coal
twice. We want one not to burn
it at all.
Many newspapers in Georgia are
with Henry Ford in his views. The
Butler Herald thinks Ford is
right as witness this from that
newspaper:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
F d. T ORAL
co NJ MENT.

It is always the best policy for
truckmen and motorists to look to
the road else you may be a de-
PENDANT in a damage suit same as
two out in California. An ex-
change says:
Helen Holt, pretty Los An
giles (Cal.) movie extra girl re-
Gently crossed a muddy street hold
ing up her dress. Two motor
trucks collided. Now she is CO.
defendant in damage suit
brought by the owner of one truck
against the owner Of the other
She says it wasn't her fault that
the drivers were looking at her."
We give this information to rain
insurers, free gratis. So help
yourself.
Says an exchange, rain is com
ing
When sale is damp.
When the hen crows.
When your corn aches.
When swallows fly low.
When the furniture is creaky
When the cat washes her face.
When parrots refuse to speak.
When the window cord tightens.
When the househy is unusually
troublesome.
When ants are migrating to
higher ground.
When the perfume of flowers is
unusually strong.
When horses stretch their necks
and sniff the air.
When the ducks are ususuallv
noisy and quack loudly.
And when the weather bureau
predicts it will be fair.
THE COLUMBUS INQUIRER
SUN says:
Inc balance of power in the
SlNty-eighth Congress will be vir-
tually in the hands of one man
and he is man whose name was
kissing in the mouth of patri-
otic Americans during the World
War because Of his almost treason
able attitude, Such is the path
of political fortune.
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette.
the Wisconsin frebrand, is the
titular and the active head of a
group of radical senators and
representatives who have formed
into an organization styled the
Peoples Legislative Service. The
avowed purpose Of this group is to
strive for the enactment of legis-
lation which it terms "progres-
sive." Then senators and sixty
members of the house, all of them
ostensibIy wearing the Republi-
can label, constitute the ola Fol-
lette bloc" either as actual mem
bers or through assurances of sup
port,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10
sRABOARD AIR LINE
Central Time.N

(CentraI Ilme.
Arrive Departs
1905 am Cordele-Helena 5:15 pm
1926 pm Cols-Montg'y. $40 pm
$40 pm Cordele-Savh. 1926 pm
6:15 pm Richl.nd-Cols 1906 am
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-04-10

THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Monday morning, no paper publish
d.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-15
ILLICIT LIQUOR TRAFFIC IS
 ORGANIZED ON PRINCIPLES
 OF LEGITIMATE BUSINESSES
Haynes Declares Rum Sellers Have System of Retailers Wholesalers, Brokers, Importers, Jobbers and Manu facturers-Men At Top Work Out In Open, But Pro- tect Themselves With Great Skill

prison sentence is .over
 Thus enforcement workers must use all their ingenuity to devise real hazards-hazards to strike not merely individuals but the business itself. to make it unprofitable, to dry it up as fountain of tremen- dous overnight fortunes. Results of l enforcement are becoming more and more apparent, and in the end man. ufacture and sale of illicit liquor will be made unprofltable.
 Challenging Crime Data.
 Federal authorities have collab- orated with state and local workers in collecting great files of informa- | ton detailing how the wholesale i bootleg business is conducted and the persons engaged in it. This clearing house of knowledge is the first requisite in the task of catch ing the big fellows. Day by day and week by week this store of informa- | tion is being built up. Almost hourly l it Is drawn upon to furnish informa- | tion as to important offenders. Individually, the wholesale boot
 
 l Frequently group of them is caught and convicted. Even more important, however, than past and current activities along this line are the plans for extending the intelli- gence activities on the Illegal liquor trade to the point where wholesoie captures and convictions may be ef- fected. Little do the illicit liquor dealers know and little does the law abiding public of the United States realize what is in store for the men tLe supply of illegal liquor. But that is one of the surprises which can be left Tor the future.
 The fact that the liquor business is systematized makes the detection of violators also a systematic proced- ure. The principal wholesale boot leggers in the United States are To- cated either in New York or New Jersey, or they have agents there, or they visit the city periodically, or they sent their representatives there. This makes New York and it's en- virosn an important centre for the operation of prohibition agents. Most of the liquor smuggled in from the West Inufes is con,roIled Iro il New York, even though the commod- lty itself may not pass near that city.
 Smuggling Into Savannah.
 Another important centre for the business is south Georgia, especially Savannah, and various parts of Flor ida, where liquor is smuggled in from the Bahamas. Similarll, New Orleans and other gulf ports are wet spots where big operators congre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-15
GAS PRICE BATTLE
 FURNISHES P0WER R F0R BEAR ATTACK
Movement Of Stock Market Is Without Any special
 Significance
(Bv WALTER B. BROWN
 Editor New York Commercial Lnnanh NNirn tn ulI,n Ann-nInrnId


 NEW YORK, August 14-Gasoline furnished the power for a bear raid upon the oil group of stocks today and succeeded in Unsettling the list for the time being. Later there was fairly substantial recovery but the price movements were without any 'Wecial significance beyond the ini- tial decline. A gasoline price war is on in Is states. Several Standard Oil units posted drastic reductions in gasoline prices, which were immedi- ately met by independent concerns operating in the same territory. It need hardly be said that in some of these instances the prices are below the cost of production. The big companies are equipped to stand a price war, but the smaller companies are not, and, from the nature of things, it cannot continue indefi- nitely.
 If it should happen that gasoline prices are to remain anywhere from 25 to 30 per cent to those recently prevailing it is bound to have some effect upon the motor industry. Automobile people say that 1t will have the effect of stimulating the market for used. cars as well as for trucks. Just now much affect it can have is conjectural because as rule very few who own motor vehicles of any kind are deterred from using them because of the cost of gaso-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-15
LOCAL MARKETS
Apples-winesap. lSs. I5O l6s box 4 30; ITS and smaller box. S4. 50. Bananas-Per lb 71hc

Apples--winesap. lss 15o, 16S box. S4 50; ITS and smaller. box. S4.50.
 Bananas-Per b.. hc.
 Beans--Lima, California, regular, h.. l0lac: navy, California, lb., 9hc; navy. Michigan. lb.. lOe: red kidney. h., l2o; pink. lb Sc.
 Peas-california black-eyed. h.. 6%c. Capbage-Crate. $4.
 EVaporated Apples--seiau brand. 12hc; bU-IU. box. N. r.. lac; 50-l5 oz.. N. r.. Evaporated Peaches-oO-Ib. box. N. F.. II he, 6O-l6 oV., N. r., 21c.
 Peaches-Practieally peeled, sO-11, ox. case. seOG.
 urapefruit--S4 box. s4.76: s4-7o-sO box, t6, 4O box. S4.b0.
 Lemons-Cslilornia. box. S1O.50 import ed, DvX, S9 oU.
 onions-Whlte Texas. crate. S4i yellow TeAas. crate. SS.T5.
 Orangss-Florida Val. l76-smaller. $7; FlOrIua val, loO, $6 .5U; Florida. 126 box. sS, Oatilornia Val, ll6-smalier, Sbi l0U. 10 ib. lzo. SS.
 Pineappie--lrish. old lb.. saS.
 FeaGOts-AIA. raw. h.. Sc, roasted, h., frunes-Calitornia 4O-5c. 25 lbs.. h.. 1o1se, LainOtu4d OV.OV. zJ lbs., To-, IA la Ca4IUrnia bO-iV, zo los. lb., lS%c; So-ll oz.. pitted. ,IOe; 70 lbs, oO -tv. b.. llc; 20 lbs, oO-7O, lb., Uhci oO lbs, bO-oO, lu.. i4c.
 kAIslns--l44-5c. seedless. s4. 50; 25 lbs. Iouse. seedlsss l342c; ssedless. 5U-9 oz.. 674S. sseuIess. 5UlO oz Fac
 Irlsn ToiAtUes-4New rea. No. 1. 3Ac; NU. /, lO.. zAc. white. lb.. 4hc.
 Tonatoes-I ancy, crate. S5, cnoice $4; Miss.ssippI. crate. $2 50
 Caatd4Oupes-CallIvrnia pony. $4. 50; teacnes-CAoice. s2 25; fancy. $s 50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-15

gate. Chicago and San Francisco also are operating centres for i'm portant rings of bootleggers. Other cities in the United States could be recorded as places where the illicit liquor business thrives but they are of secondary importance when it comes to considering operations di- | rected and financed on 8 national scale.
 Clues come in many ways. In one case big bootlegger, who had been very poor, moved from a small house a mansion furnished in accordance
 with the reputed standards of the
 newly rich Oriental and Persian
 rugs covered the floors; architects from a neighboring big city were
 called upon to design elaborate ac- | cessories to the house; the family
 owned more automobiles than any
 other family in the residence section; gowns for the women were imported
 from Paris; and English tailors were