Americus Georgia's thriving 19th century boom town portrait
The account extols Americus in southwest Georgia as a fertile, healthy trade hub with a mild climate. It describes abundant crops including wheat and corn, a growing economy, marble structures, hotels, mills, factories, and a well-developed civic infrastructure, praising education, transit lines, and tourist potential while naming notable buildings and industries.
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Sumnet County
Jeon
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Americur
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Macon
Andersonville
Thomasville
Georg Con
Beennies
South
Thaeae
Gulf
Lemand
Court House
Bolen Sims
Georgia
Everage
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Extergive
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Supreme Court reopens income tax hearing May 6
The United States Supreme Court, via Chief Justice Fuller, orders rehearing of the income tax petitions scheduled for May 6 with a full bench. The move signals whether to reopen or limit review and hints at Justice Jackson's health status affecting the court's action. The unusual step follows reports of Jackson’s health and mirrors a rare prior similar action around 1910.
Executive clemency for Daniel Blankenship and Longfellow disaster report
The president commutes Daniel Blankenship alias Michael Manns sentence to a $10 fine and costs for publishing a false affidavit endorsement. He notes he would not grant a pardon. The Longfellow disaster report exonerates officers, blaming pilot view obstruction by a bridge pier and smoke currents near the Kentucky shore. Nyack burglary and postage stamp robbery also reported.
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Daniel Blankenship
Wasmmorey
Michael Mann
Cixcixxati
Chancellor
Kantucky 2
Sophiaton
Unaroida
Fish By The Million The Commission’s Record This Year
The commission aims to nearly double last year’s fish distribution, planning about 600,000,000 fish for stocking lakes and streams nationwide. Projects include 120,000,000 white fish and up to 10,000,000 lake trout from Ohio and Michigan, and 400,000 brook trout from Colorado. Lobster output may double from 80,000,000, with shad eggs beginning at Bergen Point and Delaware. Atlantic salmon breeding shifts and plans to plant 200,000 steelhead trout Pacificward.
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Ohio
Michigan
Colorado
Blantiey
Kentucky
Tennessee
Duluth
Havre de Grace
Fishhawk
Delaware
Massachusetta
Florida
Florida's Lawmakers Debate Election Law Changes
TaLuanasere April 22 The new election law is the top measure before the legislature. The house committee on privileges and elections has framed a substitute bill tied as a special order while the senate favors a conservative approach. Senator Hartridge introduces a Jacksonville charter and election bill to standardize sections and ensure fairness. O Paxton of Hamilton See Comey citizenship bill passes after Paxton, convicted in federal court two years ago of intimidating a postmaster at the Springs.
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Duval
Jacksonville
Phipps
Meares
Ladom
Senate
O. K. Paxton
Hamilton
Comey
Paxton
United States
Springs
In a New Role Ilbvan Saver a Woman Who War En veloped
In Bosfost on April 3 ex champion John L Sullivan heard a woman scream and raced to a rear kitchen fire where Margaret Donnelly was badly burned yet hopes for her recovery remained. News of frauds in graveyard insurance surfaced at Beaufort with two farmers and a medical examiner involved.
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Ilbvan Saver
Bosfost
John L. Sullivan
Dover Street
Margaret Donnelly
Gosta
Herth Cortina Sommer
Beaufort
Representative Ellaworth Proposes Lake Michigan Ship Canal Bill
A bill introduced in the legislature aims to reconstruct a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River. It would authorize state funding and appoint commissions to study a route from the Atlantic via the Great Lakes to the Mississippi, with Chicago serving as the office location. The appropriation amount is not specified.
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Missiesippi
Southometa
Ellaworth
Lake Michgin
Mississippi River
Atlantic Seaboard
Sanitary
Chicago
Ehigan
Nine Months of Revenue Receipts in 1895
The Treasury’s nine month fiscal report shows total receipts of 109,095,015 ending March 31, 1895. Major items include spirits at 63,903,869 and whisky driving the year’s rise, tobacco 22,100,326, fermented liquors 22,301,605, income tax 19,802, and oleomargarine 1,183,222 with miscellaneous 470,273. Net nine month increase stands at 1,059,161.
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Wasinxarox
Macek
Heavy demand for rem mills along the line
U S government notes high demand for rem mills near points north with mills operating at full capacity though orders are tight. Lumber and store prices rise creating a regional boom while northern contractors anticipate further price gains and limited mill acceptance of large orders.
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Iban
Milla
Basinams
Russia's Railways Face Expanding Construction Plans
Consul General Karel in St. Petersburg reports Russia entering a period of railway activity. Berlin and Paris brokers form a syndicate offering an extensive construction scheme. They refuse to build a line from Strasbourg to Kiev, propose joining lines to Kazan and the Uman Elisavetgrad branch, and plan a new route from Uman to Odessa with a government guarantee sought.
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Slavery Victims Lured Northward Face Hardships in Texas
A Houston report says 1,200 escaped captives from a Georgia Alabama colony endure privations after being lured away. The group, including men and women, resides on land they were settled on amid scarce necessities. Other brief notes mention a disaster at Fog Asmasp Ky and northern eastern prospectors flocking to Wayne county fields.
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Republic
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Tex
Georgia
Alabama
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