Sylvania Post Office Lacks Postal Cards. Local Industry Notes
Georgia items report the Sylvania post office without postal cards, Griffin factory producing 7,000 yards of cloth daily, and a prisoner escape using a wooden key from Swainsboro jail. Rome ladies organize charity distributing clothes and provisions, Macon church rebuilding fund reaches 2,500 dollars, and various local anecdotes from Georgia towns including a Bermuda Church relic cane and a crane of Potts heirs across counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pielott
Rome
Sylvania
Griffin
Swainsboro
Macon
J. A Mims
Scriven County
Frank Grady
Brunswick
Bermuda Island
Jonesboro
Thomas Akin
Crawfordville
Henry White
F.M. Potts
Long Cane
Troup County
England
Tom Potts
William Potts
Monroe County
F.M. Pots
Atlanta
W.L . Potts
Long Cone
Lampkin to Preston and beyond in 1885 travel notes
A travel diary from December 14 1885 recounts a private journey with a female companion from Lumpkin to Lampkin Preston Box Ankle Richland Kinohafoonee Lana see creeks and Preston town. It notes new railroad activity, growing commerce, and church attendance amid cold weather. It reports hog cholera outbreaks and local losses, mentions Georgetown Echo revived under J E B McLendon, and ends with an endorsement for Brown's Iron Bitters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haroner Stratton
Webster County
Lampkie
Lampkin
Box Ankle
Richland
Preston
Kinohafoonee
Lanahassee
Lumpkin
L. P. Dozier
J. M. Craft
W. T
T. J
J. B. Metchim
W. C. Gay
Georgetown Echo
J. EB. McLendon
Danner
Qurrman
Partridge Traps and Late Evening Field Work in Georgia
In a rural Georgia scene Uncle Mentor guides a boy on hunting patrols among old broom sedge fields and river bottom clearings. They trap partridges, discuss old methods, and recount superstitions about luck, blood, and the “pateridge.” The night ends with a torchlight foray, a startled gander, and a mishap that leaves Mentor injured yet determined. The piece captures rustic dialogue, fieldcraft, and a sense of place in a late 19th or early 20th century tone.
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Meotor
Meath
der Patridges
Mentor
Wien
Jake
Grandma
Abe
Jnah
Uncle Mentor
Addrem
Texan Tale of B B Blood Purifier Shipments
Dextran Texas March 16 1885. Labeled LIEDTEE BROS tout B B blood purifier claiming cures of sorofala and nasal catarrh in their area. They report a patient bed ridden six months walking again after one to three bottles and request six dozen bottles for shipment, endorsing the remedy as highly effective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dextran
Texas
Sorofala
Setvenka
Liedtee Bros
Americus
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Georgia
NEV
Hatcher Station
Macon, Ga
Wonderful Cares
W. D. Hoyt& Co
Dr. King
Bucklen
Atlante
Bas
Lone Star State
William Lawrence
Gyles
Americus, Ga
the Woods Corn Sheller
James L. Wood
Hamit' Ca Cotton Ave
Cutts
Indy
John R. Shaw
Shaw
Forsyth ST
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