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MONDAL, APRIL 24, 1916.
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® GOOD
TO THE LAST DROP
SCALED TINS ONLY
AT YOUR GROCERS
Cheek-NealCoffee Co.
NASHVILLE HOUSTON
. JACKSONVILLE
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Fresh Asparagus
Tender white tips, cut daily
Fresh tomatoes, celfery,fresh
peas, strawberries. Every
thing good to eat.
Sparks Grocery Company
43 Phone 279
I BOTTLED
It’s the drink that sati
fies.
Because—
It’s Pure.
It’s Wholesome.
It refreshing.
It’s always the same
m flavor and in good
ness.
15c
AMERICUS COM COLA
BOTTLING CO.
J. T. WARREN, Mgr.
The Union Central Life’s
reduced rates and The Un
ion Central Life’s liberal di
vidends offer you the best
insurance at a lower cost
than you can buy it else
where.
Lee M. Hansford
Agent
• oom 18 Planters Bank Bldg.
Phone 715 Americus, Ga.
F. G. OLVER
Seeing Machines and Supplies; Ke,
na Dock Fitting; Umbrellas Repalrec
and Covered.
LAMAR STREET jfEAR WELL.
•IMPORTANT!
rt will be to your interest to investi
gate what we have in the Fresh Meat
>.na Green Grocery line. We will give
you value received for your money.
Give us a trial. Your business will be
appreciated. Fresh Meats and Grocer
ies always on hand. We have fresh
Vegetables every day and fresh Fish
especially. We are sanitary in every
respect, and we assure you of prompt
delivery when you order from us.
LEE STREET CASH MARKET
kone 698 Hudson Building
Coal In Argentine Hard to Get
At $35 Per Ton In Gold Money
BUENOS AYRES, April 24.—C0al for
ordinary consumption in the Argentine
is now $35 gold per ton, and hard to
purchase even at that figure. To pre
vent the reduction of the present me
agre supply, the national government
has ordered the principal steamship
companies not to put on board any
outbound vessel more coal than nec
essary to carry it to the nearest Bra
zillian port of call. This coal is the
property of the steamship companies
stored here as a precautionary meas
ure and the fact that the government
has been obliged to place an embargo
on this private property is indicative
of the seriousness of the fuel prob
lems in this country.
The railroads liwekise have been
forced to economize by cutting down
the summer time-tables of trains, and
in the meantime they have placed ord
ers for 1,500,000 tons of hai d wood for
fuel. But even wood has gone up to
$5 a tom within a week, and is now
quoted at $33 paper, or sl4 gold. Char
coal which is largely used for domes
tic purposes is also $5 a ton dearer.
The situation is such that even the
ships of the Argentine navy are de
clared to be impotent owing to the
lack of coal. The American-built bat
tleships Rivadavia and Moreno were
constructed to burn oil, but apparently
the oil problem is nearly as serious as
the coal situation. Crude petroleum
from the Argentine wells is being of
fered in limited quantities at SBO pa
per, $34 gold, per ton. Although re
ported inferior only to the best Rum
anian oil, the Argentine government
and people have displayed a skeptical
attitude toward the native oil.
The deposits have been said to be
unlimited, but despite this the output
has been small and neither the navy
or manufacturers generally avail
themselves of the native product. The
German Electric Light and Power
Company, which supplies this city
and suburbs, and which formerly used
coal exclusively, began to use the Arg
entina oil after the outbreak of the
war but has lately discontinued that
and is now burning the Mexican, pro
duct. This notwithstanding the recent
grant by the government of $15,000,000
t > develop the Argentine oil regions.
An official report of conditons pre
vailing in and around Comodoro-Riva
davia oil area shows some inefficient
conditions under which the develop
ment of the field is being undertaken.
Water is lacking in that region and
has to be brought from a place more
than thirty miles away, and labor is
also scarce. Being a government
monopoly, and heavily flscalized, the
operations have been elaborate and
costly, but, it is charged, extremely
inefficient. It is said to be doubtful
whether the oil fields will ever re
spond to elaborate hopes based upon
the casual discovery of them in 1907.
A government inspector, just returned
from the district, expresses his sur
prise that the locomotives playing to
and from the petroleum zone are still
being fired with costly coal.
The peat deposits of Tierra del Fu
ego are declared to contain inexhaus
tible supplies of that fuel, but with
scarcity of coasting vessels and the
difficulty of securing labor for that
bleak region, it is more that doubtful
REGAIN
Your Normal
WEIGHT
You can add one-fourth to
one-half pound a day by drink
ing one pint of this delicious, digestive
tonic with each meal.
SHIV AR GINGER ALE
Gives you a hearty appetite, vigorous
digestion, rich blood, clear complexion
and firm flesh. Your money back on
first dozen pints if you are not de
lighted. At *ll grocers.
Bottled only by the celebrated
3HIVAR MINERALSPRING, SHELTON, S.C>
If your dealer has none in stock teß
him to ’phone
GLOVES GROCERY CO.,
Distributor* ior America*.
whether it will ever pay. Os wood
there is an enormous supply, but it
grows in the remote and generally in
salubrious regions.
As for American coal, the freight
charged, 90 shillings per ten, rules it
out of consideration, in view of the
fact that the British product is sup
plied ot SSO a ton. This can be done
because freighters are sure of picking
up profitable charters in the River
Platts for England or France.
To give an idea of the manifold ways
in which the lack of fuel affects the
currents of commerce, it is sufficient
to note that the great hotel proprietors
have met and deliberated upon the
best course of action in view- of the
increased kitchen and laundry ex
penses, which are nearly double what
they were.
NOTICE.
We, the undersigned banks, compos
ing the Americus Clearing House as
sociation, hereby agree to close Wed
nesday, April 26th, 1916, the same be
ing a legal holiday, and we also agree
to close at twelve o’clock on Thursday
ai d Friday, Apri 27-28, on account of
the Elk’s convention.
COMMERCIAL CITY BANK, by E. T.
Murray.
BANK OF COMMERCE, by E. D. Shef
field.
THE PLANTERS BANK, by T. E. Bol
ton. 23-3 t
PHYSICIANS OF STATE
BEGINJCHT FOR LAIN
ATLANTA, Ga., April 24.—An ag
gressive campaign by the physicians of
Georgia against the practice known as
‘ fee-splitting',” and the enactment of a
law making the practice a criminal of
fense, are expected to grow out of the
address of Dr. W. S. Goldsmith, of
Atlanta, in retiring as president of the
Georgia Medical association.
In this address, delivered in Colum
bus, Dr. G-oldsmith denounced doctors
who split fees as "contemptible thieves
and grafters, preying upon the ills and
ignorance of their patients, taking ad
vantage of friendship and confidence
reposed in them to enrich their purses
with unnecessary surgical operations."
The particular practice which Dr.
Goldsmith hurled his denunciation is
that of a physician advising a patient
that he or she needs an operation, and
advising the patient to have the same
performed by a surgeon in some near
by city, with whom the family physi
cian splits the surgical fee.
Dr. Goldsmith’s address was en
thusiastically received and the associa
tion passed resolutions urging the
legislature to enact a law making fee
splitting a criminal offense, which iow
is now in effect in several other states.
Hospital Caring for American Wounded in Mexico
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This is- the field hospital established by General Pershing where sick or wounded American) soldiers on
the hunt for Villa are cared for. The photograph was taken near Casas Grandes, and has just been sent by the
army censor.
The American soldiers who were incapacitated in Colonel Dodd’s dashing fight with Villa a week ago,
will be cared for in this field hospital.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
Thirty Eight Per Cent of The
People In Mexico Are Indians
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.
There are more Indians living today
within the territory originally com
prising Mexico than ever existed at
any one time in all the rest of the
Western Hemisphere combined, ad
cording to a bulletin issued today by
the Nati.nal Geographic society of
Washington.
“Os the 15,000,000 inhabitants of
Mexico, uUy 38 per cent, are pure
Indians, end 43 per cent, of mixed
blood, only 19 per cent being whites,"
continues the bulletin.
“These six million Indians, many oi
whom are descendants of that wond
erful race the Aztecs, are divided in
to many families and tribes, the num
bers varying according to the stand
ards of differentiation adopted by
each enthnologist. Some authorities
group them into fourteen families,
with fifty-one languages and thirty
with fifty-one languages and sixty
nine dialects, while others make six
teen family divisions, subdivided into
one hundred, thirty-two tribes.
“The degrees of civilization to be
found among the many tribes are as
tonishing, ranging from the abject
Seri Indians of Sonora, as pitiably un
developed as the Indians of Terra del
F.iego, to the highly developed and
splendid specimens of manhod found
among the Nahuatl and Maya tribes.
“The finest examples of aboriginal
civilization on the North American
continent were to be found in the
neighborhood of the present City of
Mexico, with the possible exception of
that prehistoric race of temple build
eis whose ruins dot the Yucatan pen
insular. It was on the site of the Cap-
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
Thedford’s Black-Draught
McDuff. Va.—“l suffered for several
/ears," says Mrs. J. B. Whittaker, of
[his place, "with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Thedford's Black-Draught, which 1 did,
and 1 found it to be the best family medi
cine for young and old.
I keep Black-Draught on hand all the
lime now, and when my children feel a
little bad, they ask me for a dose, and it
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught.”
Thedford’s Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been found to regu
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
leadache, sick stomach, and sinnlai
tymptoms.
It has been in constant use for more
lhan 70 years, and has benefited more
han a million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Slack-Draught. Price only 25c. Get a
lackage to-d/ y. n. c 123
tu’ that the Toltecs left their imprints
from 650 A. D. to the twelfth century
when the Chichimecs, a cruder tribe,
replaced them, not by conquest but
because the Toltecs died out, some
antiquarians attributing their grad
ual disappearance to the ravages of
pulque, the insidious drink that has
ever teen the curse of that country.
“Then came the highly civilized
Acolhuas, and a few years later, ,be
fore the opening of the thirteenth cen
ti ry, the Aztec began to pour in, leav
ing in their wake, as they came up the
plateau, the remarkable structures
now known as the ruins of Casas
Grandes, They built Tula, fifty miles
north of Mexico City, and eventually
founded Tenochtitlan, on a site select
ed for them by the gods, according to
legend, the sign being an eagle perch
ed on a clump of cacti, with a serpent
in its talons. It is this sign which re
mains today the national emblem, ap
pearing both on the coins and on the
flag of Mexico.
“One of the most interesting leg
ends about the tribes from which the
Indians of today are descendants is
that recorded of the Colhuas, who are
supposed to have enslaved the Aztecs
during the latter’s migratory march
up the plateau. The conquerors soon
released their enemies because they
were horrified at the Aztecs’ custom
of offering human sacrifices to their
gods.
“It was largely to the cooperation
oi the Tlaxacalans, a neighboring
tribe, that Cortez owed his triumph j
over the Aztecs. The latter were as
brave and as chivalrous soldiers as
were the Spanish adventurers who
er joyed the decisive advantage of gun
podwer and horses, both of which
were unknown to the natives. The
generosity of the Aztecs as fighting
men is exemplified in a single incident.
Learning that the enemy was with
out food, the (Mexicans’ dispatched an
ample supply of provisions, because
they scorned to fight a starving foe!
“The majority of the pure-blooded
Indians of Mexico are a quiet, some
what melancholy people. Even on
holidays, of which there are 131 on
the Mexican calendar, they move sil
ently among the crowds, the men
either barefooted or wearing woven,
sandals, their shoulders covered with
their striped sarapes, and the women
with their dingy rebosas wrapped
about them. In attire the young girls,
like the children of Holland, are min
iature replicas of their mothers.
"The pure-blooded Indian of the re
mote regions untouched by civilization
is more frequently than otherwise a
stalwart individual of upright charac
ter, moral, honest, and loyal. One of
the finest examples of his race was
Benito Juarez, a member of the Zap
otecas tribe of Oaxaca. He was by
turns a shepard, a student of divinity,
Purse Strings That Reach
Across a Continent
To open your heart, or close your
deal, the safest, surest, swiftest way
to send money is by
WESTERN UNION
The cost is small, the convenience
great. To know how ask any
Western Union Office.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGBIPH CO.
governor of Oaxaca, minister of Jus
tice, and finally president of the re
public.
“Porfirio Diaz, the outstanding fig
ure in Mexican history during the last
quarter of the nineteenth century, was
also born in Oaxaca and according to
his official biography was one-fourth
Indian, however, some genealogists
ihold that he was more nearly three
fourths Indian.”
IMERICUS SHOWS
OPERA HOUSE.
MONDAY.
Lillian Tucker and Edwin August in
"Evidence.”
TUESDAY.
Dark.
WEDNESDAY.
Ann Murdock and Richard Travers
in “Captain Jinks of the Horse Mar
ines.”
THURSDAY.
Robt. Mantel! and Genieve Hamper
in "The Unfaithful Wife.”
Friday.
Comedy Day.
SATURDAY.
“The Strange Case of Mary Page.”
ALCAZAR.
MONDAY.
Paramount Picture “The Spider.”
TUESDAY.
“The Kiss of Hate”—s acts.
WEDNESDAY.
Triangle Pictures, “The Winger
1d01.”—5 acts.
"Crooked to the End.”—2 reels.
THURSDAY.
Opens at 10 A. M. Paramount Pic
ture, “Puddenhead Wilson.”—s acts.
FRIDAY.
Opens at 10 A. M. Pathe Film, "The
Red Circle.” |
First Chapter of "The Girl and the
Came.”
SATURDAY.
Triangle Pictures, “Jordan Is a Hard
Road”—Five acts.
“Fatty and Broadway Stars.”—2 reel
Keystone Comedy.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA- 1
Tiy E BROMO QUININS is betterthan ordinary i
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor I
nnifiDg in head. Remember the full name and
’ook fur the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
BENJAMIN A. DANIELS, M. D.
Surgery and General Medicine.
Office: Wheatley Bldg.
Telephone Service.
(standardized)
For All Livestock
i ‘ ,LASY TO USE—EFFTCI£3'n'—ECONOMICAL
* A sanitary Protection Against Contagious Diseases ||
Kills Lice, Ticks, Fleas. For Mange, Sheep Scab and other
common skin troubles. Drives away Flies.
Kreso Dip No. 1 in original packages H
j Aileu’r Drug & Seed Stors.
row nut« ■ooklkts, wffiay'Wm
FRANK STATEMENT
As to the Only Complaints that
A Great Medicine Will Cure.
BY THE NUXCARA COMPANY
The manufacturers of Nuxeara da
not claim that it is an infallible cure for
any and every disease. Nuxeara is pre
pared especially with the object of af
fording permanent relief for all forma
of stomach trouble, and that is all. The
Nuxeara Co. asserts that the object
has been accomplished, and is prepared
to back the statement with their repu
tation. Moreover they have hundreds
of letters from grateful people, whs
have been cured of stomach complaints
by Nuxeara as additional proof of its
value. |
The great majority of people suffer
from some form of stomach trouble.
These may be evidenced now by only
nausea, bad breath, sick
sleeplessness aud the like, but if allow
ed to continue, will probably have se
rious results. Don't delay until yw
have some chronic affliction. Save year
health and your money by using tha
simple, tried remedy, Nuxeara. Write
for it to theNuxcaraCo., Atlanta, Ga
or get it at ’
aaaas-s DRUG AND SEED STORE,
AMERICUS, GA.
The Royal Candy Kilchei
(Recently Opened Up.)
All kind Fruits, Candies and Pro
duce, Bananas, Apples, Oranges and
Grapefruit, Salted Peanuts and Peanut
Candy. All kinds home made candy,
chocolate and taffy that will suit the
taste, price 20 cents per pound. Try a
pound and become a permanent cus
tomer.
GEORGE J. CALLAN, Proprietor.
100 Lee St.
I Shy’s Jitney Bins
Schedule for
10 Ce ts
Car No. 1 leaves Windsor and
Hooks Pharmacy 7 a. m., Jack
son street to College, to Har
rold Ave., to Hill, to Lee, Lee to
City Limit, back Lee to town ev
ery 20 minutes.
Car No. 2 leaves Windsor and
Hooks Pharmacy 7 a. m., for Lee
street to Church, to Horne, to
Reese, to Felder, to Chapman’s
Store; back Felder to Hill, to
Barlow, to Taylor, to Lee, to
town, every 25 minutes. Car No.
2 will not be ready for service
until Sunday, April 23rd. These
cars will positively not go on
streets not mentioned in this
schedule, subject to change with
out notice.
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