Americus Georgia Promoted as Regional Hub and Healthful Haven
The article extols Americus in Sumter County Georgia as a thriving, healthful Southern hub. It highlights climate, diverse crops, and high land values, noting a growing population near 8 000 with rapid housing demand. It describes architecture, churches, schools, hotels, banks, and the new county courthouse, plus extensive industry and rail connections fueling wholesale trade. It portrays the city as a premier southern center for agriculture, manufacturing, and commerce, inviting manufacturers and farmers to settle there.
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Sumter
Counci
Hese
Weatera
Georgia
Si Ces
Anteen
Virginia
Tennessee
South
Kong
Busters
Cutie
County Court House
Ely Hall
Tevats
Windsor Hotel
Savannah
First Baptist Church
Ieem
Sal
We Ice
Planing Mill
Artery Works
Ang Wiuiry
Mer
Ise Ds
Iui
ANU
Cis
Yuivercal
Bhivelty
Georg
Arity
Aumetires
Sumter County
Americus, Ga
Undertaking Department Notices Under Mu ED XL Andrews
An undertaking department notice states management by Mu ED XL Andrews will promptly handle all orders. The fragment indicates organizational oversight and commitment to timely processing within the department.
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Mu. ED. XL
Andrews
Uniform Styles Shown In Window Display This Week
On Monday morning the store will exhibit a handsome line of uniforms in show windows and shop displays, inviting customers to view and compare styles.
Novelty Dress Suits Offer Unique Styles at Low Prices
Advertises Ladies imported novelty dress suits from Lord & Tay, with patterns 1 through 14 in bold hues and silk wool blends priced from 3.50 to 17.50. Highlights yard wide Sea Island Percale at 10c per yard and a broad range of colorings, urging buyers to choose distinct, stylish fabrics to stand apart.
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Lord & Tay
Sea Island
Schley Named Commodore to Command Flying Squadron
Commodore Scott Schley has been ordered to command the flying squadron at Hampton Roads with the Brooklyn as flagship. The force now includes the Columbia and Minneapolis, promising expansion to about a dozen ships, as plans for St. Paul and St. Louis join the fleet. Schley, citing discretion, declines to discuss sending the squadron to intercept Spanish torpedo boats. Forties thousand pounds of ammunition for Ballast Point big guns arrived at Sax Dreco, boosting coastal defense readiness.
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Brooklyn
Columbia
Minneapolis
Mmodore Echlet
Hampton Roads
Schley
Lighthouse Board
Syn
Heven
St. Paul
St. Is
Griscom
Navy Department
W. H. Emory
W. H Brownson
Europe
St. Louis
Texas
Massasetts
Sax Dreco
Cal
Ballast Point
Nature's healing power hunts down lingering diseases
The text extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal remedy for long and bronchial illnesses. It claims nature’s forces, via this preparation, will locate and arrest hidden diseases affecting the liver, digestion, and blood production, restoring vitality and breath.
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Evepater
Mankind
Nature
Pierce
Syrup of Figs touted as a popular health remedy
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant cleansing laxative that aids the kidneys and bowels, relieves colds and headaches, and cures constipation. It emphasizes natural ingredients, broad availability, and urges buyers to avoid substitutes. It lists California Figure Co with locations in San Francisco Louisville and New York and notes 50 cent bottles.
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California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
York
Menace to Our Fleet Warned About Spanish Torpedo Boats
Key West reports rising alarm among naval officers over Spanish torpedo boat destroyers departing from the Canary Islands and nearing Porto Rico. Officials urge prompt action, noting multiple ships' vulnerability and the risk of war spreading.
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United States
Madrid
Porto Rico
Key West
Canary Islands
Cuba
New York
Indiana
Rico Rico
Ison
Benefits the Spaniards and the Cuban relief supplies
Horatio Robens of the Cuban junta argues relief shipments to Cuba aid Spain by financing war munitions, keeping reconcentrados in peril, while critics say humanity’s funds should relieve the Cuban condition. Negotiations to buy the tug Edward Timmins are reported, with a test submarine Holland planned for Washington demonstrations.
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New York
Horatio
Robens
Cuba
Spain
United States
Edward A Timmins
Maine Board Finds Maine Explosion Outside Attack Unproven
The Board of Inquiry into the loss of the Maine concludes the blast originated outside the ship and does not assign responsibility. The testimony suggests a powerful submarine mine, though the exact explosive type remains undetermined. The report, delivered to President McKinley, details the two explosions and the transfer of the document from the Navy to the White House.
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McKinley
Marix
Court of Inquiry
Long
White House
Carl Jungen
Epbite
Junger
Navy Department
Exsert
Secreta Long
Judge Advocate
Lemly
Lemley
Messrs
Wooden Poller
Mr. Marix
Groupe
Spanish Report On Maine Loss Delayed Publication
The Spanish government has received the report on the Maine loss but it is described as confused and parts of it may be withheld until findings are public. Correspondence notes Spain sending a dispatch to Washington asking for reconsideration and notes about congressional stance.
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Manni
Maine
Shales Court of Iote Correspondencia
Sayr
Spanish Paciament Sentarith
Fashington
Congress
France seeks to avert conflict amid Cuban crisis
A Paris dispatch to The Herald reports Figaro publishing an interview with Hanotanx noting the Cuban question involves Spain and the United States and could affect France. The article emphasizes efforts to prevent war and keep the peace.
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New York
Herald
Paris
The
Figaro
Hanotanx
Spain
United States
Irreconcilable Struggles Between Nations and Shared Heritage
The speaker contrasts two intertwined loyalties, the queen and sovereign lineage with a sister republic bound by a century of common life. He asserts ten struggles but no conflict between two nations so deeply attached to each other, as France desires peace above all else.
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Berieveus
France
Pilots to the President War Service Offered by Cape Fear Pilots
At a Southport meeting Captain Grissom presiding the Cape Fear Pilots association unanimously adopted a resolution to offer pilot services to the navy in case of war with Spain. The group harked back to their Civil War service, expressing pride and readiness to guide ships along the coast from New Bern to Roanoke Inlet and other routes.
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Wrangeton
N. C
Cape Fear
Tes
Saryit
Spain
Snanad
Navy
la United
Gintos
Koy
Newroe
Roreine
Confederate States
A Big Disappearing Gun At San Francisco Presidio
A 12 inch rifled cannon with a disappearing carriage arrives from the east and will be mounted at the Presidio. It will mark the first working disappearing gun in the United States with plans for three or four more at the Presidio and seven at Point Lobos. Powder and projectiles for this and other weapons are en route, with current gun batteries at the Presidio and Lime Point already established.
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Presidio
San Francisco
United States
Point
Point Lobos
Lime Point
Morgan Warns of Growing Cuban Crisis
Senator Morgan declared the Cuban situation is becoming more critical daily and will culminate in a decision that will recognize the Snlagendinos of the republic, noting that the Cuban question is reaching a crisis. He spoke tonight, detailing feared consequences as events unfold.
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Wasnixatos
Blarch
Morgan
Snlagendinos
Republic
Cuba
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Allen & Sheffield
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Bailey's
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Cotton Avenue
Sane
Davenport Drag Company
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Holland
Washington
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