Tales of the Town Told in Few Lines
Brief town notes recount yesterday’s events. Raiford to close tax books next Saturday. chances your name may not be listed. Real estate demand exceeds supply for small near city homes. Colored Bishop Turner passed through en route to Atlanta. many colored citizens met him at the depot. Sea side and mountain resort tickets sold well. Prof Norman C Miller left for Cumberland Island for Georgia Teachers Association meeting. Central No 6 to Macon was late due to floods. others on time. O W Parrott’s son injured by a rock thrower but recovering. Four revelers paid fines for a church disturbance. one sentenced to two months on the streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Turner
Thomasville
Atlanta
Norman C. Miller
Cumberland Island
Georgia Teachers’ Association
Central No. 6
Macon
O. W. Parrott
Perfect Health And Mountain Breezes At Santee
An item describes Tutt s Liver Pills as a cure for headaches malaria biliousness and constipation. A reader sends a letter from Judge Z A Littlejohn near Santee Georgia noting he relaxes by a roaring fire in a mountain hamlet during summers, escaping the heat of a busy judicial circuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tutt
Jdge Z. A. Littlejohn
Judge Littlejohn
Santee
North Georgia
Rapture of Annie E Springer and Dr King’s New Discovery
A Philadelphia resident praises Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs and Lung troubles noting relief from chest pain and sleep disturbance. Mentions Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as trusted by a New York druggist family. References Dewitt’s Little Liver Pills and Wollford’s Unitary Lotion with endorsements from various local druggists and citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie E. Springer
Howard Street
Philadelphia
Dr. King
Chamberlain
J Emith
Van
Z Woman's Trials and Public Health Letters
The paper prints grateful letters from women about health topics. Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts has fifty thousand letters praising her advice.
Third District Convention Set for Leesburg on July 11
Democratic executive committee chairman T A Collins announced the Third District convention will convene in Leesburg on Wednesday July 11 to nominate Hon E B Lewin for Congress. He noted prior confusion over the date, clarifying it as July 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third District
T. A. Collins
Third Congressional District
Collins
Leesburg
E. B. Lewin
Masks and Faces lecture at opera house for Masonic benefit
Rev. T. C. Tapper D D rector of Osluary church will give his lecture Masks and Faces at the opera house Friday night for the Masonic lodges benefit. A fine musical program features the evening and Bucklen's Arnica Salve is praised for piles. Money matters and real estate offers also appear in this notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tapper
Times- Recorder
T. C. Tapper
D. D
Osluary Church
Opera House
Tupper
Americas
Sfary
Names and travel notices from a Georgia town page
A long list of residents and visitors from Americus, Dawson, Buena Vista, Oglethorpe, and nearby areas travel or visit relatives, with names such as George W. Timmerman, A B Garrold, Emmett McNalty, N G Prince, Marila Ansley, Alva Ellis, Nannie Guerry, Lula Bell, Wylie, W L Simpson, James B Hoyt, B McLain, Dr Cheat ham, Emma May Borum, D T Wilson, W C Carter, Irene Murph, Thad Glover, and others. Also notes on travel to Cumberland Island and Fort Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nannie Guerry
Oglethorpe
Shealy
Lula Bell
Wylie
Boston
Mesers
W. L. Simpson
James B. Hoyt
B. McLain
Dr. Cheatham
Dawson
Blood Balm Co Blood Purifier Offers Free Trial
An advertisement promotes B B Blood Balm for skin and blood disorders including ulcers cancer and sores. It claims to drain poisons from blood and promises cure when others fail. Free trial bottle offered. address given as Atlanta Georgia with free medical advice on request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blood Balm CO
Atlanta
Church Damaged by Lightning in Thunderstorm
Frovita Ga June 26 Baptist church wrecked during a thunder and rainstorm. The stained glass was ground to particles, though the bell remained on its frame. Estimated damage about 1000 dollars with no insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waxnaw
N. C
John Estridge
South Carolina
Estridge
Frovita
Hall's Great Discovery and Patent Remedy Notes
A faded Texas OCR fragment touts Hall's Great Discovery and Dr Hall's remedy for stomach and bladder issues. It mentions testimonial claims of rapid relief and compares favorably to other treatments while referencing local prison admission figures and a bank cashier named Whedon. The text includes medical ad language and scattered personal notes from 1898.
Robinson Kills Two Men in New Orleans Rampage
William B. Robinson, recently discharged from the state insane asylum, shot and killed a young man named Whittaker and wounded a policeman after a confrontation in his home. A pursuing crowd was held at bay by Sheriff Klock and deputies using Winchesters at the parish prison where Robinson was jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Cxress
Willam Bf. Robinson
State Insane Asylum
William Stessel
Robinson
Whittaker
Sherif Klock
Winchesters
WOUNDED HIS ASSAILANT DETECTIVE PINKERTON SHOT AT DECATUR
In Decatur Alabama on June 9 William Pinkerton a Birmingham saloonkeeper wounded M B Woods after a confrontation at the union station. The clash stems from a Louisville Confederate reunion dispute where Woodward had been arrested. Woodward attacked Pinkerton with a revolver and Pinkerton grazed Woodward with a bullet to the left chest as he knocked the weapon away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinkerton
Woodward
Decatur
Ala
William Pinkerton
Birmingham
M. B. Woods
Union Station
Louisville
Pinkerton Woodward
Series of fatal shootings and violent crimes across towns
A June dispatch reports multiple killings and violent incidents: a drunken man on an Augusta excursion train shoots and maims a flagman before a Brookwood tragedy. in Brookwood and Guntersville, dentists and others are killed after quarrels. a Bladen county overseer is executed, and other card game disputes turn deadly in Granitr and Waycross with deputies killed in Oklahoma Territory and a 15 cent scam shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granitr
Kan
Jeff Gillmore
Bill Anderson
Gilmore
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J. Newton Hathaway
Americus
E.D. Sheffield Company
Taylor
Kentucky
Miller & Clark
Americus, Ga
M. Callaway
Raem Tons
Beasen Eeken
Raiford
DeWitt
Carly Risers
Rombert
BR. Baldwin
Columbus, Ga
I Ipatiencs
Wollford
EB. J, Eldridge
Droggiat
Lydia E. Pinkham
F. M. Higgins
Bences
Inls
Bucklen
E. J. Eldridge
Draggier
Monrox L. Hint
Tebanon
Ind
EJ Eldridge
Draggiat
Americur
Geneses Tree
Dodson
J. HR. Hudson
KJ. Eldridge
Schampert Shop
Company
George W. Timmerman
Augusta
Windsor Hotel
A. B. Garrold
New York
Asheville
Emma May Borum
Albany
John D. Pope
Joseph Rodgers
Miss Rodgers
Buena Vista
Cumberland
Central
George W. Bagley
DeSoto
Johnson
Thad Glover
Galveston
Texas
H. H. Glover
Me. W
Thornton
Fort Valley
Lucile
Floyd Lowe
Cumberland Isl
Irene Murph
Marehallville
D.T. Wilson
W. C Carter
Murph
Huyler
Justin Hudson
Pastors’ Association of
Gro. E. Cary
the Guide
Washington, Va
J. R. Hudson and
Harned
Pmaperria
Mills & Sons
Allen
All Adulees
Adarean Allen
Olmsted
Sa Lege
Lee
Free Blood Cube
Daily Market Reports
Yale
New Haves
Waashinotos
Secretary of the Navy
Es Island
Mary Dakota
I Ceumnere Ee Louis
Milwaukee
Charleston
New
Yor
Mi Gulf
Lea
Chicago
orEeNy
Ane
Ume
Riza
Rosin
Fim
Cuarestos
Texas Worder
Oth Hall
Covin
W A. Rembert
Nate
W. 5. Whedon
First National Bank of
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Iowa
PO. Cuicheeter
New Orleans
Brookwood
Sailors
James Tillery
Tillery
Sellers
Guntersville
Ed Gilbreath
Joe Gregory
Gregory
Chasten
Rateton
Bladen County
Charles Chasten
Waycross
Warcross
Ben McMillan
Henderson Morris
Kirkland
McMillan
Morris
Croup Oumer
O. T
Neal Morrison
Onantorre
N. O
Jim Dakins
Hee Sherlock & Co
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