City Council approves budget cuts and salaries trimmed
City council meeting extended into midnight with major salary reductions totaling 2040 dollars. Mayor salary drops to 1000, clerk and treasurer to 1200, city engineer to 1200, and assistant engineer position abolished. Remaining salaries set but modest. The council also delayed mayor pro tem election and referred fire department chief selection to committee.
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Bivins
John Ansley
Board of Health
Sexton Oak Grove
Sexton Colored Cemetery
Artesian Well
Bank of Cordele names Col W S Thompson president
The Times-Recorder notes Cordele's Bank of Cordele elected Col W S Thompson as president. Former president Col J E D Shipp resigns to devote time to Cordele ventures. New lumber plant and twelve houses rise, a female college nears completion, and city prospects look bright.
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Cordele
Times-Recorder
Thomson
Bank of
Clinton
N. C
Bank of Cordele
J. E. D. Shipp
Rome
Confederate Veteran to be published in 1803
S A Cunningham, general agent for the Davis monument, will publish a thirty-two page monthly starting January 1803 at fifty cents yearly. The periodical will feature contributor names, Confederate history and information on disabled soldiers, aiming to broaden support for Confederate survivors and commemorations. The paper will be mailed free with prepaid 1893 subscriptions.
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S.A. Cunningham
Davis Monument
Work of Judge Lynch and Mob Violence in North Carolina
A mob of 600 seized Calvin Snypes at Bakeraville jail and lynched him after he killed Isaac Osborne, amid clashes that left seven of the sheriff’s posse dead and about twenty five mob members killed. The incident followed a murder in Mitchell County and generated a wide local response amid ongoing election results and several community notices.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Bakeraville
North Carolina
Calvin Snypes
Isaac Osborne
Mitchell County
California Senator’s Tight Race Sparks Dark Horse Talk
Sacramento dispatch reports both houses organized with Democrats controlling the assembly and Republicans the senate. Stephen White, leading Democrat candidate, claims to have Burke and Carieon votes but fears one more defection. Rumor suggests Lloyd Lewis as a potential dark horse candidate tied to Wells Fargo and Co with a $10,000,000 fortune and strong political aim.
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White
Sacramento
Cal
Assembly
Senate
United States
Stephen White
Burke
Carieon
Lloyd Lewis
Wells, Fargo & Co
Bank and Express Company
Lewis
Untitled Stock Sale Notes From Early 1900s
Fragmented dealer notes describe stocking challenges over Xmas and January with reduced stock, rising costs, and planned price cuts. It mentions selling remaining stock in February and May, moving to wholesale pricing, and timing to favor trade and jobbers. References to locations and partner lines appear in garbled form.
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Nancy Hanks
Ter
USA
Burore & Bruny
P. Poms
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