Local Americus Notes and Town News Tidbits
City Editor reports Clover theater hopefuls and a Barnum’s circus stop at Cotton Avenue bargain store. Merino stock and strawberry hawkers appear. Jackson Street heirs to Mr Harrold near completion. Mrs Gigho opens ice cream shop on Cotton. Cotton season waning. Magnolia Dell seats added for visitors. Farmer's Alliance eyeing valuable city property. Americus boarding house serves chicken dinner. May events: Macon drill, new LaVille newspaper in May, trains Buena Vista to Columbus soon. Slappy builds ventilated rooms on Lee and Lamar. Telegraph line poles cut for B A road. May 6–i season Columbus race. Ice boat ride on Mucka Creek. Florida’s floral beauty noted in Southwest Georgia. Vigilance committee forms to curb route agents. Sewerage project funding in hand. Mayor Felder away in Ohio. Lawyer’s striped suit draws attention in town.
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Te Barnum
Thos. Harrold
Farmer's Alliance
Americus
Macon
Buena Vista
Columbus
Slappy
Lee and
Lamar Streets
Lumpin
Ceutral
Mucka
Florida
Ikia
Felder
Ohi
Ming
Thin City
Electric street railway planned for Georgia
Mayor Felder celebrates a telegram announcing the Inde fatigueable work to bring a fast electric street railway to the state. The project includes arc and incandescent lighting, electric motors, and a town run by electricity, with an engineer soon to arrive to push construction.
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Felder
Boston
Mass
Hon. J
Thompson-Houston Electric Company
G. C. Senorienn
Georgia
Vamers
Mysterious Box Prompts Storied Editorial Dream
A peculiar circular box arrives at the Brunswick Times office triggering an editor’s vivid, surreal reverie of wedding cake, bridal procession, gods table, and a mysterious “FOR THE EDITOR” note. The narrative shifts from wedding imagery to a sharp political jab about the Senate and Coulanger, ending with a cryptic citation and a warning about imagined danger.
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Brunswick Times
Senate of France
Coulanger
Mark Twain
City Council Proceedings in Americus Georgia 1880
City minutes record April meeting actions addressing gas lamp issues and water works, health reports, street cleaning, nuisances, and financial bills. Aldermen review repairs at Oliver’s corner plug, oil city plugs, and lamp complaints while Board of Health urges sewer and privy cleanup. Nuisance abatements target dead oak, A C Bell pen, and stagnant water at Hampton Street sewer. Bills and street work authorized. laws revised on building kerosene storage and movement guidelines.
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Coune
Chamber
Americus
Felder
Ald
Williams
Adderton
Mack
Bagley Jossey
Mathews
Smith
Board of Water Commissioners
Oliver's Corner
J. Smith
Board of Health
C. A. Brooks
J.B. Dunn
M. McGarran
Taylor
H. D. Watts
Public Square
A. C. Bell
Hampton Street
J, A
D. F. Davenport
Cotton Avenue
Forsyth Street
M Central R. R. Cs
George Wood
Brown
Dick Felder
R. T. Byrd
Act
Americus Telephone Exchange
Bolton
Dick Hill
Paol Ford
Crawford Simpson
Ramsey M’f'g. Co
Ear
Jon
Ellaville and Stewart County notes from spring court week
The spring term of Stewart Superior Court convened at Lumpkin on Monday April 15 with Judge Fort presiding. The report praises Stewart County’s wealth and progress, rails about hospitality and local sights, and highlights Ellaville’s beauty, its high school led by Prof. Merritt and Miss Merritt, the Hornady hotel gatherings, and the Scoville House patronage. It ends with verses and a local ad-like miscellany.
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Stewart
Lumpkin
Latimer
Lumpkin Independent
Atlanta
Macon
Americus
T. J. Burney
Atlanta Journal
James Callaway
Macon Telegraph
Corbett
Kenyon
Kenyon House
Eunice Kenyon
Lumpkin Club
Stewart County
Ellaville
Sesson
Georgia
Merritt
Miss Merritt
Helen Rogers
Hornady
Rogers
Scoville House
A.K. J
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Americus Guano
W. W. Brown
Capt. Brown
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the Street Railroad
M.T. Ezain
Virginia
Ladies Memorial Association
Deak
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond
Ladies of Hollywood Memorial Association
Geogia
Gro. T. Fry
Bec'y L.M. Ay No. 9
Angler Ave
C.H. Byrd
Kenesaw Mills Co
McFerran, Shallcross & Co
Magnolia
Chapman’s Mill
Walt. Wheatley
Boren
John French
Annie Thomas
Will Carter
Annie Clare Amos
Tim Allen
Eva Brinson
Fred Davenport
Leila Crisp
C. E. Lowe
Broker and Commission Merchant
Americus, Ga
State of Georgia
Sumter County
Americus Post-Office
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Selia Cleveland
T F Finders
Geo D F Griffin
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Sabrina
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Cal Henry
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Emma Jackson
Mies
Martha Jones
Carl Langley
Joner Lockhart
Mattie Lin Rnas Parks
Deesis
Missouri
Rose Tison
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Sarena Walker
Annie Wilson
J F William
J.C. Rongy
P. Americus, Ga
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Marietta
Josephine McCollough
Jesse Westbrook
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Fficial Council Proceedings
Arthur Rylander
PVE
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SI. Hawkins’ Meat Market
City and Country School Books
Hugh M. Brown
Rost
Stewart Superior Court
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Heaven and
Hell
Swedenkore
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