Bond issue for good roads eyed by Sumter County
Sumter County Commissioners push for a statewide bill enabling special registration for bond elections. If approved, a roads bonds election may be called soon, with $50,000 for road improvements to ease farming access and boost land values. Convict labor and road works are urged, and Governor Brown’s message supports better roads as tying city and country interests. Delays in kidney issues prompt De Witt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills advertisement.
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Sumter
Frank Sheffield
Brown
Meena
Georgia
Gov. Brown
General Assembly
de Witt
Sumter County Uses State Convicts for Road Work
Sumter County reports the first quarter of state felon convicts used for road construction shows a productive, well managed program. Six overs from other counties brought total workers to thirty. two pardoned due to heart disease reduced the local headcount to twenty eight.
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Sumter
Millionaire overreaches in Bassett sale tale
In a countrified anecdote, a wealthy man offers $950 for Isaac Bassett’s Birch Hill farm, pressuring a quick sale. The price drops when tax sale papers expose the farm’s true value at $650, while Isaac had privately asked $1,000. The tale highlights rich buyers’ fear of being cheated.
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Mr. Bates
Bassett
Birchhill
Isaac Bassett
Isaac
The Birth of the Daisy Legend Explored
A Celtic tale explains the daisy's origin through Malvina who mourns her lost infant. Attendants announce the baby returned as a new flower, white with pink edges, believed to comfort other grieving mothers.
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Malvina
Earth
Run to the station in Swamphurst joke exchange
In a light exchange between Cillman and Subbubs, talk turns to walking versus running to the station in Swamphurst. Subbubs quips that no one there walks, insisting it takes about eight and a half minutes to run, while the other remarks question the idea of a ten minute walk.
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Cillman
Subbubs
Lovely Swamphurst
Catholic Standard and Times
Henry J Lamar Dies in Macon Georgia
Macon as July 3 Henry J Lamar longtime Macon pharmacist and leading local figure died this morning at his home. He was noted as the city's oldest druggist and one of its wealthiest residents with a prominent role in business and civic affairs.
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Henry J. Lamar
Macon
Political Chestnuts and Cash Motifs in Gleaned Quotes
A compact, humorous collection of old quotes. It juxtaposes a Washington Star line about political chestnuts with a party leader’s quip on extracting them. It also includes a quip from Christian Work and Evangelist about Norah and paying cash, reflecting period humor and social commentary.
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Washington Star
Why the Parade Disbanded in Birmingham Inquisition
A Birmingham Age-Herald item notes a suffragette parade dissolved after a department store posted a sale sign offering silks at a deep discount. The snippet implies commercial interference or distraction led to the event’s end, reflectively marking early 20th century public demonstrations and consumer culture.
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Birmingham
Reward notice for suspect details from police records
A fifty dollar reward is offered for information leading to the capture of a suspect described as a 20 year old male, five eleven, black hair and eyes, weight 180, wearing number 9 or 10 shoes. The crime is murder, and the individuals named are B. F. Goss, chairman of the committee, and C. Cole, warden.
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B. F. Goss
Co. Com
C. Cole
Convicts Benefited by Substantial Diet and Outdoor Work
The article notes that state fed convicts both felony and misdemeanor receive a substantial diet. It claims they grow strong and thrive under outdoor road building labor, with insomnia and indigestion never complained of. The text portrays outdoor work as physically beneficial to the inmates.
Inmates Speak of Life Out of Penitentiary Limits
A fragment notes regular hours plain food and open air life as living vitality for inmates. It contrasts with confinement proposing that freedom within limits sustains well being and discourages indulgence in vices. The passage emphasizes rehabilitation through environment and discipline.
Policeman and Girl Escape Girard Jail Break
In Columbus the Girard jail breakout unfolds as H. C. Hillett released himself using jail keys kept on his person. Eliott and Mary Webster were jailed by Marshal Perry and an officer, then freed by the officer who left for parts unknown. The woman remains at large while Elliott faced prior arrest over a similar matter.
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Columbus
Girard
Ala
H. C. Hillett
Eliott
Mary Webster
Marshal Perry
Elliott
Birmingham
Death of Mrs. W. J. Webb in Buena Vista
Mr. Lester Williams received word of his sister Mrs. W. J. Webb dying yesterday afternoon at her Buena Vista home. She was a longtime resident and cherished by all. She leaves a son and two daughters. Mr. Williams and sister Miss Dora Williams will travel to Buena Vista today for her funeral services.
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Lester Williams
W. J. Webb
Buena Vista
Williams
Dora Wiliams
Mott's Nerverine Pills Promoted as Vitality Tonic
Health advertisement touts Mott's Nerverine Pills as a great iron and tonic restorative for men and women. It claims to produce strength, renew vigor, and build up the system, offered at $1.00 per box or six for $5.00 through W. A. Rembert in Americus and via mail.
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Mott
W. A. Rembert
Americus
Lynching of Henry Isaacs in Barwick Georgia
At Barwick, twenty miles south of Moultrie, a Negro man named Henry Isaacs was lynched early this morning by a quiet mob. He had been found under a bed in the room where J. F. Hendley, a lumber man, slept with his young daughter. R. W. Holcomb, among several Atlantans, was staying at the Hotel Windsor last night.
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Moultrie
Gia
Barwick
Henry Isaacs
J. F. Hendley
R. W. Holcomb
Hotel Windsor
Bagley sees Bagley-Ray orchard in Americus tour
President H C Bagley of the Georgia Fruit Exchange visited the Bagley-Ray orchard in Americus amid a party including Miss Helen Bagley and General Superintendent G E Payne of the Postal Telegraph Co. They traveled from Atlanta in Bagley’s Stevens-Duryea seven passenger touring car praised as handsome and fast. The group planned to return to Atlanta later today or tomorrow.
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H. C. Bagley
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Americus
N. A. Ray
D. W. Bagley
Atlanta
Deafness Cured by Constitutional Remedies
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure for deafness caused by catarrh with a $100 reward for any uncurable case. Notes treatment claims by F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Includes a cartoon caption about a teacher praising Lizzie's pronunciation despite a head cold.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Mamma
Lizzie
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