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THE BUSIEST TOWN OF ITS SIZE IN THE WORLD-EAST POINT, GEORGIA’
EAST POINT IS
MAGNET WHICH
DRAWS MONEY
Merchants Who Locate There
Find Instant Success, Despite
Many Live Competitors.
The busiest town of its size in the
'.orld —East Point, Ga.!
Pulsating- with prosperity, humming
with commerce, ablaze with industry,
the western metropolis of Fulton
ounty, this little city of commercial
latisfaction is not only one of the
vest centers, but also the most re
markable from a standpoint of sub
stantial resources.
Dotted with industries of every de
scription. it defies the approach of
"hard times.” With such a varied
outlay of manufactories, even the
most stringent of financial troubles
< ould hardly result in halting the
wheels of industry there. Add to this
its location in the midst of a rich
agricultural section, and make it a
perfect residential town, and the ideal
of municipalities is presented.
City Makes Everything.
It is doybtful if any one city with
:»n times the population has as va
ried a line of industries as East Point.
There are small plants and plants of
large dimensions. There are manu
factories of everything from a wagon
to a spool of thread, horse collars to
metal culverts, saws to building sup
plies.
The most noticeable fact of all is
that every plant in East Point is run
ning to its full capacity, while ex
tensions are being planned. Rumors
< f new plants are plentiful, and it is
regarded as assured that before an
other twelve months pass at least
three or four new concerns will locate
in the town. Within the past two
COTTON DUCK HORSE COLLARS
They are guaranteed to not only prevent galls and sore shoulders, but to actually
heal those already existing, and do it while the animals work.
A large Louisiana sugar planter says: “Before using the Lankford it was noth
ing uncommon for me to have eight or ten head of stock laid up at one time, with
galls and sore shoulders, during heavy plow time, but since adopting the Lankford Col
lar such a thing now would be almost a curiosity/’
There are over three million in use.
Write us for booklet, giving the history of the inventor and his unique mode of travel.
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MADE ONLY BY
COUCH BROS. MANUFACTURING COMPANY
ATLANTA, GA. MEMPHIS, TENN. CINCINNATI, OHIO FT. WORTH, TEX. WATERLOO, IOWA SANTA ANA, CAL.
BEAUTIFUL CHURCH STREET, ONE OF THE SHOW RESIDENCE AVENUES OF EAST POINT
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years half a dozen new industries
have begun operation.
AH Become Bosters.
Every man who has located in East
Point has developed Into a booster. A
significant fact of the substantial
foundation upon which the town rests
is that a number of merchants locat
ing here in the past three years have
found instant success awaiting. Com
petition has served to develop busi
ness, and the "old-timers” and "new
comers” alike have experienced the
benefits of increased business.
There is money to be made by the
man who has money to Invest; there
is a job for every able-bodied man.
Ask any man in East Point what he
thinks of his town.
"The best and busiest town of it«
size in the world,” is his Instant re
ply.
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1913
Alimony Dodger in
Peril of Jail Again
Sheriff in ‘Believe Me, Xantippe,’
Must Pay $1,750 —Spent Half
Year in Jail.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Theodore
Roberts, who has been playing the
part of the sheriff in “Believe Me,
Xantippe,” must pay his wife $1,750
for alimony’ or go to Ludlow street
jail for another six months.
He spent six months there and con
sidered himself alimony-proof until
Justice Delaney informed him he had
made himself immune only from col
lection of alimony due prior to the
trial of his wife’s separation action.
THE
CFNIUNEMMIKfOWI
Are Humane, Durable and Economical
Borrow Umbrella;
Don’t Take Raincoat
Washington Judge’s Decision Shows
That Latter Offense Is
More Serious.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Chief
Justice Clabaugh. of the District Su
preme Court, has handed down an
opinion on the mooted question:
"Which is the worse crime—to steal
a raincoat or to borrow an umbrella
while it is raining?”
He thinks that the taking of a
raincoat is a trifle more heinous than
borrowing an umbrella, for to-day
he sent John Nelson to the peniten
tiary for two years for taking a rain
coat without the owner's leave.
Many Masons to
Get Master Degree
Henry Banks, of LaGrange, Past
Master, Will Lecture Be
fore Candidates.
One of the most Interesting events
In local Masonary’ will be the lecture
of Henry Banks, of LaGrange, past
grand master of the Masons of Geor
gia, to be delivered next Tuesday
evening to a large class of candidates
who will receive the degree of mas
ter mason at that communication.
The ceremony will conclude at 9
o'clock and the lecture will be given
at that hour. The Masons of the city
and near-by towns have been invited
to attend.
200 Trains Every 24 Hours
Pass City at B=Mile Pace
Every Freight Takes or Leaves Something,
Every Local Has Fares for East Point.
Two hundred trains pass through i
East Point every 24 hours, and every i
train either leaves or takes som"- 1
thing. The Central of Georgia anl '
the Atlanta and West Point Railroads
i
have immense trackage, the invest- (
meat in steel rails alone totaling sev- .
eral hundred thousand dollars. i
Every local train handles a large '
amount of travel for East Point. The '
travelers on the great ten and twelve
coach through trains catch a wonder
ful view of the prosperity of the town
as they move through It at an eight
mile-an-hour pace. The city fathers
of the little city displayed sagacity m
putting an eight-mile limit on trains,
for it reali.v furnishes a sightseeing
trip to East Point s industries. The
traveler can not help but be forcibly’
struck with the prosperity of the
place.
Factories Line Tracks.
The Central of Georgia sweeos
around to Hapeville from East Point,
while the Atlanta and West Point
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Bell Phone 228-J. East Point, Ga. Atlanta Phone 68.
road curves to College Park, thus
making East Point a junction. Fac
tory after factory is to be found along
each line.'
Within the past two years both
roads have found it necessary to in
crease the size of their depots as wail
as of their yards. AU day and night
sw’itch engines are kept busy snaking
out long lines of cars filled with the
manufactured product of the town’s
finished products of the town's
alive with railroad commercial agfAi.s
fairly fighting for the handling of the
many heavy shipments.
Interurban Express.
An interurban express furnishes ths
merchants of the section with a quick
means of transportation for their
hurry-up orders from and to Atlanta
and to each corner of "Prosperi-.y
Triangle."
A ten-minute schedule puts East
Point in quick trolley connection with
both Atlanta, College Park and Hape
ville. The six miles to Atlanta is cov.
ered in twenty minutes.
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