Americus Town News Teems With Odd Notes From Relay to Grass
Haphazard town items report a late cotton market push and high demand for goods. Excursion to Savannah planned for mid July. Farmers fight grass swamps and stray catfish visit Americus. Mrs Toho B Ware of Hot Springs faces murder charge. Tax collection slow as some prefer double taxation. Court corridor scene draws audience, Willie from Down the Road described. Vegetable market glut with peaches sees little demand. President Harvie Jordan to convene Cotton Growers at Macon on July 12. Herbaline touted as liver aid with cautioned use.
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Harvie Jordan
Ivorzia Cotton Growers Protective Association
Macon
Grocer’s first shipping venture nets ten cents
A rural American grocer, once a beet farmer and blackberry picker, ships crates of fine beans to an Atlanta buyer. He keeps the ten cent net cash as a memento. The ad promotes Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment as a remedy for piles with prices listed.
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Americas
Atlanta
Amerian Light Infantry Expected Home Today
News from Americus reports the Amerians Light Infantry may return today from Lubridge where the Fourth Regiment has camped for ten days. Troops were said to travel by special Central Railway train with no exact arrival hour yet, as families await news.
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Amerians Light Infantry
Lubridge
Americus
Central Railway
Prominent Sandersville Visitors Tour Americus
Prominent visitors from Sandersville Ga include Louis Cohen and his son Morris Cohen along with Hon T W Hardwick. Morris Cohen and Hardwick attorneys visited Americus to inspect court records while Louis Cohen toured his birthplace. The group plans to return to Sandersville today.
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Louis Cohen
Morris Cohen
T. W. Hardwick
Sandersville
Mr. Hardwick
Americas
Wan
Hardwick
Middle Georgia
Appeal to Supreme Court on Preston liquor license
The Preston liquor license dispute goes to the state Supreme Court. Judge Z A Littlejohn ruled against a local firm, and attorney J B Hudson of Americus says the case will be appealed. The firm may continue operations until a final ruling.
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Supreme Court
Preston
Webster County
Times-Recorder
Z. A. Littlejohn
J. B. Hudson
Americus
Return to home in Georgia for Quartermaster Castleberry
Quartermaster Sergeant James 8 Castleberry of the Twenty Third Regiment returns to his Americus area home after long service in the Philippines and Utah. He was captured by a Utah woman during stationing at Fort Douglas and is now at his parents' home in Webster. A note lists White's Dream Vermifuge for parasitic issues at 25 cents from John R Hudson.
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Quartermster
James 8
Castleberry
Twenty Third
Americus
Philippine Islands
Aguinaldo
America
Fort Douglas
Utah
Utah City
Sergi
Americus Sunday
James W. Castleberry
Webster
John R, Hudson
Prospect Four Fears Boll Weevil Threat to Crops
City Clerk Davis received a letter from his son Will Davis in central Texas about crop conditions. Cotton is knee high and blossoming but the boll weevil threatens yields. some areas last year saw near total losses. Corn is drying up and may fail without early rain. merchants are paying 65 cents per bushel for Western corn.
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Davis
Will Davis
Americas
Texas
Two new outlets to sell non ban drinks amid dry era
The report notes two additional places will sell liquors not banned by local restraint to satisfy thirst for amber drinks. City council has licensed several spots at $50 each and plans two more on Lamar Street and North Jackson in the red light district. HISHERBINE advertises liver relief at 90 cents through John R. Hudson.
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Americas
Lamar Street
North
Jackson
Red
Birds of Passage Coming and Going in Americus
A parade of local residents and visitors is listed with travel and visit notes. Mrs J W Stallings and Miss Stallings go to Preston to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Steve R Johnson return from a Boston pleasure trip. Miss Antoinette Lockett returns home after visiting Cuthbert. others include visits to Hawkinsville Albany Marshalville Columbus Louisville and Portsmouth. Capt John A McDonald attends business at The Plains. Miss Rochelle Carson visits Americus. and local figures like Marion Harper John W Shiver and Dr S S McKee are noted with travel plans and social rounds. COULSEN'S HONEY OF TAR advertised for asthma relief.
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Antoinette Lockett
Cuthbert
Marion Harper
Louisville
Oid
John W. Shiver
Students as machinists in Atlanta strike dispute
The Technological School trustees refuse to intervene as students join Southern Railway shops to fill in for striking machinists. The strikers asked President Lyman Hall, who referred them to the trustees. The trustees said the school will remain neutral and cannot control student actions.
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Atlanta
Technological School
Tech
Southern Railway
Lyman Hall
William D Upshaw Visits Plains Georgia
Plains Georgia on June 25 reports a visit by William D Upshaw known as Earnest Willie. He stayed from Friday the 7th until Tuesday amid rain and large crowds. The article lauds his self sacrifice and aims to inspire youths toward education and faith, noting his book Earnest Willie or Echoes from a Recluse and the formation of Upshaw Literary Club to represent Plains at Mercer next fall.
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Plains
William D. Upshaw
Willie
Tueaday
Youvog
Upshaw Literary Club
Mercer
F. A.M
Tech Students In Overalls At Atlanta Railway Shops
Americas students from the State School of Technology have entered Southern Railway shops in Atlanta replacing striking machinists. A dozen students will work ten hours daily in overalls earning 2.40 to 3.00 dollars per day depending on task. Captain Hall praises their effort and notes they seek experience, not pay, and should not be labeled as geob laborers by unionists.
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Americas
State School of Technology
Southern Railway
Atlanta
Captain Hall
Three Pilgrims Decide To Stay Home In Odd Tax Plot
Amid band music near the artesian well, Marshal Billy Feagin watched three delinquent tax payers hesitate to join an excursion. He leapt from the city hall window in a comic moment, knocking them down in a feint settlement over unpaid city taxes.
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Artesian Well
Buzzardini Dambadsk
Billy Feagin
Blind Tiger
Advertised Letter List for Americus Post Office
Advertised Letter. Americus Ga June 26 2001. Ber low is a complete list of unclaimed mail matter remaining on hand and not called for within 14 days will be sent to the dead letter office in Washington. List includes Bent to dead letter office Bradgen Lewis Cardell Miss Mamie Cook Fronie Collins Cobain Mattie Jenkins Mattie Mathis Westley Perrier Mollie Patrick Lucy Pierce John Colquitt Williams Mat Ward Mrs Ano Youngue Samuel Burn P.M.
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Americus
Berlow
Washington
B—Broaddus
Lostitute
Bradgen
Lewis
Cardell
Mamie
Cook Mics Fronie
Collins
Cobain
Mattie
Johnson
M C
Jenkins
Young Lady Hallie Allen Stricken With Typhoid Fever
Judge T M Allen reports his daughter Miss Hallie Allen ill with typhoid fever at Leslie. Miss Allen serves as depot agent there and her illness saddens friends in Leslie and Americus. Mrs Allen remains in frail health as an long invalid.
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T. M. Allen
Court of Ordinary
Leslie
Hallie Allen
Miss Allen
Americus
Surrender at Santa Cruz Ends Cailles Rebellion
General Cailles surrenders with 650 men in Laguna province. He rejects the sword but hands over rifles and receives 80 pesos per man. Cailles weeps as vows to aid widows and orphans. Sumner returns sword and flag. Cailles pledges allegiance and Laguna Federalists praise the surrender. Deserter Frank Mekin is imprisoned.
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Santa Cruz
Laguna
P. L
Cailles
Hart
Eighth United States Infantry
United States Army
Sumner
MacArthur
Frank Mekin
Thirty-seventh Infantry
Caillos
Lizzie Ruthven's Bash Act Sparks Governor's Pardon Plea
Convmans June 26 Lizzie Ruthven wife of Edwin Ruthven the Cleveland murderer awaiting electrocution at the Caiopententiary sought to sway the governor to commute her husband’s sentence. The alleged plot aimed to secure clemency by offering a meeting, but details remain unsettled.
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Lizzie Ruthven
Convmans
Edwin O. Ruthven
Cleveland
Caio Pens
Storm narrative of Keystone flood and eyewitness account
Eye witness recalls the Keystone flood after six hours of heavy rain. Homes, bridges and the Norfolk and Western fill were washed away, with eight deaths reported locally and rescues by rope lifeline. Destruction along the Elkhorn valley left widespread devastation and missing persons.
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Krystoxs
W. Va
Keystone
Elkhorn
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Price
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Bettie
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Steve R. Johnson
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Marshalville
Stewart Farlow
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Stella McKee
Portsmouth
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Jordan
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Ray Hinton
Brown Street
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Newberry
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