First Watermelon Shipments From Wilmington Island Spark Georgia Growers
Dr A Oemler of Savannah explains Georgia led the South in early melon shipments to the North starting in 1852. He cites Barstow, Gibson, Pritchard and others on Wilmington, Skidaway and Whitmorsh islands, notes high profits and shipboard protection schemes, and traces later expansion to Charleston Burke and Richmond counties and Valdosta area. He recalls varieties such as rattlesnake and Cuban queen, and highlights the growing railroad and steamer role in the industry. A separate Carroll County land tract near the Alabama line attracts buyers amid unrecorded ownership and a possible gold discovery. The State Secretary plans sale by public outcry, as land values and speculation rise.
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Savannah News
A. Oemler
Savannah
Oemler
New York
Savannah Fruiters
Georgia
South
Isaac Mead
North
E. B. Barstow
Wilmington Island
W. Pritchard
Skidaway Island
Mr. Pritchard
Dr. Oemler
Charleston
Burke
Richmond
South Georgia
George R. McRee
Valdosta
W. R. Tally
Ousley Station
Brooks
Lowndes
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
Florida
Carroll County
Alabama Line
Ben Davis
Local stock farmer reshapes acres near Rome
A. B. McDonald bought Capt. Gordon’s farm near Rome on the Summerville road. He moved his family from Canada, built a residence, and crops impressively grown, with sixty cattle, many sheep and several horses. He plans larger barns as he completes improvements. The Cedartown Lumber Company bought two lots near their planing mill to gain railroad frontage and water tanks. Engineer Pickett’s team surveys Georgia and Carolina Blue Ridge foothills for government testing. A Paris Seine river list reports huge numbers of decedents and animals. A rainbow steam sight near Dalley depot unfolds before a Missouri train crew. A St Simons man, 62, offers a no-wager race for age endurance. Frogs are trapped for restaurant use in Chambersburg. An Illusionist in New York slices a potato from a kneeling assistant. A Savannah crime is resolved by hanging near Pooler.
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Tribune of
Rome
W. L. Gordon
Flatwoods
A. B. McDonald
McDonald
Captain Gordon
Summerville Road
Canada
Cedartown Lumber Company
Messrs
Pace and
Herbert
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
World's Fair location debates across New York Chicago and Washington
Cities vie to host the 1892 World's Fair with arguments favoring Chicago as central to the nation and strongest for expo growth. Reports cite cotton worm fears in Arkansas and a Utah irrigation project worth millions. News notes include a geologic ice bed discovery in Idaho and looming visits by governors to Alabama Chautauqua.
North River tunnel set for 1998 completion in World Fair year
D C Hoskins chief engineer says the long planned North River tunnel will be finished in 1998 in time for the World’s Fair. John R Dos Passos confirms funds are secured and the project will be split into two 5600 foot divisions with paired approaches spanning the river. About 2000 feet of the north division is done and 585 feet of the south division completed. work had not progressed since 1882 until this week.
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D. C. Hoskins
John R. Dos Passos
North Division
Stationery orders urged for fall and winter trade
Merchants are urged to order stationery from the Recorder business manager. It advertises blank books lithographing and commercial work at competitive Georgia prices. Also offered is 490 acres timber and a 25 horsepower engine on the Ocmulgee river for saw milling. A. W. Fuller Libbie Wilcox Co. Ga seeks a young man for local reporting at a daily paper with age experience and salary details via the Recorder editor.
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Recorder PusLisnine House
Frick
Ocmulgee
A. W. Fuller
Libbie
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