De Soto Fruit, Agricultural and Manufacturing Company
The Times-Recorder reports a charter application for the De Soto Fruit, Agricultural and Manufacturing Co to grow fruits and vegetables, can can surplus into a Americus cannery, with plans for a cotton factory, oil mill, warehouse, and fertilizer business. Incorporators include C B Coffey, T B Clement, H Clement, Charles J Smith, E L Smith, and Judge Joseph A Ansley.
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Times-Recorder
de Soto Fruit, Agricultural and Manufacturing Company
Messrs. C. 3B. Coffey
Worcester
Mase
T. B. Clement
Fairbault, Minn
H. Clement
Moultrie
Charles J. Smith
E. L. Smith
de Soto
Joseph A. Ansley
Americus
CIA
Itis
Sumter County
The
Takes Position in Arkansas for Railway Post
Mr James A Rigiore received a telegram from Little Rock directing him to a good role in the construction department of the Chickasaw Oklahoma & Gulf railway. He is famed as a top railway builder and roadmaster in the state and will depart tomorrow to Arkansas to begin his new duties amid well wishes from Ameri cas friends.
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James A. Riggiore
Little Rock
Choctaw, Oklahoma & Guif Railway
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Riviere
Arkansas
Americas
Death of Miss Annie Lee Jossey Shocks Family
The death of Miss Annie Lee Jossey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jossey and sister of Mrs. William Dudley Jr. of Americas, was reported Saturday. After several days with typhoid fever she died Saturday. funeral set for this morning at the family cemetery in the Seventeenth district.
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Annie Lee Jossey
Joe Jossey
William Dudley Jr
Americas
Seventeenth
For Sale 70 Saw Pratt Gin and Feeder
For sale one 70 saw Pratt gin and feeder at a cheap price. For further details, write or call Sarravinte Gissixe Co. Smithville Georgia.
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Pratt
Sarravinte Gissixe Co
Smithville
Building a Dwelling There Near Lee and Church Streets
A new comfortable dwelling house is to be erected by Mr 3 Js Mize near the corner of Lee and Church streets on the site of the old frame building on the east side near the Fagan residence. The dilapidated old structure will be removed for a neat building in its stead. The One Day Gold Cure. Cold in head and sore throat cured by Kerrmott's Chocolate Laxative Quinine. Easy to take as candy, children cry for them.
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Js. Mize
Lee and
Church Streets
Fagan
Keremott
Services of Knights Templar for Will C. Furlow Burial
Large crowd attends the Oak Grove cemetery funeral for Will C. Furlow. DeMolay Commandery No. 5 Knights Templar bears the casket with the dead man’s sword. Rev. W. J. Noyes and Rev. I. I. Nease officiate. Rituals by Prelate S. A. Pruett and Eminent Commander George H. Fields as choirs sing Nearer My God to Thee and Rock of Ages.
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Americus
Will C. Furlow
Oak Grove Cemetery
W. J. Noyes
I. I. Nease
DeMolay Commandery No. 5
Knights Templar
Templars
A. Pruett
George H. Fields
Sir Keights
God
Messrs
Payne
Loving
Daniel
Koerper
Sumter County Tax Digest Shows Small Increase
Tax digest figures by Tax Receiver Raiford reveal Sumter County's taxable property at 4,707,948 compared with 4,703,318 last year, a slight gain of 4,570. White property totals 4,825,71 and colored 379,169. land returns show 294,200 acres this year versus 295,051 last year, suggesting a small loss in land records.
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Sumter County
Raiford
Sumter
Johnson's Tonic Grip Cure for Polon Fever
An advertisement touts Johnson's Tonic as a superb cure for grip. It claims the tonic enters the blood within an hour to neutralize polaon effects and within a day places a Gap victim beyond danger. It asserts recovery within a week and a 50 cent price.
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Johnson
Hearing on injunction on Montezuma bonds in Americus
The State of Georgia sues the Mayor and City Council of Montezuma to validate bonds of 15000 dollars for waterworks. Judge Z A Littlejohn will hear the injunction in chambers at Americus on August 10 with many prominent citizens expected to attend the hearing.
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Z. A. Littlejohn
Americus
State of Georgia
Change of Managers at Southern Bell Office
Mr C A Murphy will succeed J C Lumpkin as manager of the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co at this office on August first. Murphy was formerly a bookkeeper for Americus Oil Co and has spent the past year with Cordele Cotton Oil Co, while Lumpkin departs in a few days to take a position with the company elsewhere.
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C. A. Murphy
J. C. Lumpkin
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co
Murphy
Americus Oil Co
Cordele Cotton Oil Co
Lumpkin
Northbound return of Americus shop machinists ends strike era
After a two month confinement in Americus at Seaboard Air Line shops, the imported northern machinists depart as the regular crews resume work. The company prepared quarters, but few were skilled railway machinists and unskilled labor wanes as old hands return. Repair work on engines and rolling stock continues, with a guard presence ending soon.
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Americus
Seaboard
Seaboard Air Line
Deafness Cure Claim By Hall's Catsarrh Cure
An old advertisement asserts deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and not from local ear disease. It promises a hundred dollars for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, urging readers to send for free circulars and buy Hall's Family Pills.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Bankruptcy sale and court ruling on Ansley stock
Judge Emory Speer ordered the E. D. Ansley stock tale set aside after bankruptcy proceedings. The item sold Monday to R. L. McMath for 2400 dollars, deemed insufficient as goods invoiced for more than twice that amount. Public notices advertise TABLER'S BUCKEYE PILE OINTMENT HERBINE and BALLARDS SNOW LINIMENT with prices and seller John R. Hudson.
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Emory Speer
E. D. Ansley
R. L. McMath
Favorite Prescription praised by Canadian mother
Mrs John T Smith of Slocan BC writes that Dr Pierce s Favorite Prescription cured her weakness during pregnancy and helped her through the months before delivery resulting in a strong healthy baby girl the happiest of her three children.
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Dr. Pierce
John T. Smith
B. C
Sloan Narrow Escape at Moscow Races
American jockey "Cash" Sloan endured a near fatal mob attack after losing a race at Moscow tracks. The enraged crowd, including men and women, surged against him until military and police forces intervened to rescue him. Also noted is the death of Dr Joshua Miller, a leading anthropologist researching Pueblo Indians connections.
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WN Don
Cash" Sloan
Russia
Moscow
Slow
Miller
Frungstarr
A.t
Joshua Miller
Moonshiners Fight and Illicit Distillery Seizure Near Monterey
Revenue officers seized and destroyed an illicit distillery six miles from Monterey after a Saturday morning clash with moonshiners who fled or hid in the mountains. Also reported: Osceola in Mississippi county under armed insurrection after sheriff and circuit clerk were replaced, receivers appointed in Chicago bankruptcy case, and a York Pennsylvania fire destroying a machine shop with major job losses.
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Nashville
Monterey
Memphis
Little Rock
Ark
Osceola
Mississippi County
Davis Kayleg
Sam Bowen
Driver
J. A. Lovewell
J. W. Rhodes
Public Execution of Anderson in Arkansas
Charles Anderson, a black man convicted of raping Mrs. Belle Edwards near Marche, was publicly executed at 11 AM in Little Rock. About 10,000 spectators, including many women, witnessed the hanging. Anderson offered no apology, dying instantly as the drop broke his neck. This marked the first public execution in 25 years under a new law mandating capital punishment for rapists.
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Little Rock
Charles Anderson
Belle Edwards
Marche
Statehouse
Anderson
Sony
Compromise Reached on Free Pass and Railroad Differences
Mostoomery Ala July 26 report that a compromise on free passes and railroad commission differences has been reached. Section 16 assigns to the legislature authority over regulating freight and passenger tariffs, depot locations, and penalties for unjust rates, with strict limits on passes for legislators and officials. It allows bonafide railroad employees elected as legislators to use passes via their employer.
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Mostoomery
Ala
Railroad Commission
Grandson of Breckinridge commits suicide in San Francisco
In San Francisco on July 26 Lloyd Tevis Breckinridge, grandson of the late Vice President Breckinridge and grandson of Lloyd Tevis, president of Wells Fargo Express, died by suicide at his home. A gas jet tube connected to the bed was found, with despondency and long nervous trouble given as causes. He had just turned 23. his mother and sister were in Paris. Mrs. Lloyd Tevis was said to be near nervous prostration.
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New York
England
House of Common
Bowles
South Africa
Europe
Tracy
Peter DeKuyper
Holland
Javon Wilhelmina
Germany
Russia
Edmund Robertson
Krazer
Rturn
The
Hague
Leys
Lerby
Assels
Paris
Kaiser
Kater
Great Britain
Bate
Breckinridge
San Francisco
Lloyd Tevis Breckinridge
Lloyd Tevis
Wells Fargo Express Company
Marty Tevis
Mra
Frederick W. Sharon
Misa Florence Breckinridge
Hugh Tevis
Japan
Rebels Surrender on Samar Island In First Insurgent Concession
Mawina July 24 Major Shields appointed purchasing agent as Gen Hughes reports first surrender of insurgents on Samar. About 500 men yielded with two field guns 30 rifles and 70 bolos to authorities. Officials foresee a protracted effort to execute General Corbin’s economic plan. Civil and educational authorities stress continued protection of minors.
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Tve
Samar
Mawina
Shields
Thirty-Third Infantry
United States Volunteers
Maesey
Gen
Hughes
Island of
United States
Washington
Shamrock II Sails for America Amid Great Enthusiasm
The Shamrock II and Erin sailed from Gourocg for New York at 10:10 AM amid strong public excitement. Sir Thomas Lipton and designer Mr Watson boarded, cheered crowds waved hats and handkerchiefs, and the vessel set sail with a light easterly wind. Lipton wished the crew a successful voyage as they departed for the Atlantic.
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America
Gourocg
New York
Sycamore
Thomas Lipton
Mr. Watson
Atade
Hered
Gonrock End
Shamrock
Sir Thomas
Challenael
Erin
Sir Thomas Lipton
Challenger
Combranes
Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
War Office
Steinacker
Bremersdorp
Amsterdam
Piettetl
Lea
Abetre
Hollabird Wins Raven Oaks Cup at Onwentsia
William Hollabird, at Lake View Golf Club today, won the Raven Oaks Cup at the Onwentsia Golf Tournament. His 1st was brilliant and he led Wirt L. Thompson throughout, finishing six up with 47 to play.
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Hollabird
Cmcaco
William + Hollabird
Lake View
Wirt L. Thompson
Hoe
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de Soto Fruit, Agricultural and Manufacturing Co
New House
Lee Street
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W. C. Furlow
Littlejohn
Tae
Ansley Grocery
Tabler
John R. Hudgon
John R. Hudson
John R . Hodson
Sloan
Misseapouis
Chicago
T. M. Roberts Supply House
Lochren
Charles M. Way
Frank W. Shawl
York
American Machine and Foundry Company
Hanover
American Tobacco Company
Nog
Coulsen
John R Hudson
Mapa
Bermott
HP Wentyerive
Greae Vetday
Alabama
Smyrna
Constantinople
Silonica
MonTe@oweny
Aia
Citizens’ Bank of Geneva
Secretary of State
Gras Grees Ee Tatum
J. J. Johnson
Shamrock II Sails
Asheville
Southern Railway Company
Asheville Board of Trade
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