Anxious Alabama Letter Lays Vision for Geneva Growth
A Geneva Alabama correspondent extols the town on the Chactawhatchie River near the Florida line. He highlights river and rail links to Caryville Savannah Mobile and New Orleans, notes growing cotton trade and potential for capital and immigration, praises Elba and Newton water power and pine forests, and urges southern development and a prosperous New South.
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Gunnva
Geneva
Alabama
Florida Line
Georgia
Americas
Chactawhatchie River
Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad
Caryville
Ala
Savannah
Mobile
New Orleans
Dale
Coffee
Henry
Troy
Eufaula
Sam Dorthyf
Newton
Elba
America
Union
Fall River
Columbus
Florida
Texas
Messrs. McLaughlin & Martin
Choctawhatchie
South
County School Finances And Local Notes From Tifton District
Abstract of the Berrien County School Commissioner report shows 48 schools with 5 colored and 38 white, 4030 students. average attendance 805 and monthly cost per pupil 1.80. Teachers total 86 with most teaching one school. Local items note church, lodge activity, courtship with Gypsies, and crop and river conditions around Tifton, Waycross, and Riverside.
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Berrien
W. G. Avorn
Lizzie Crosby
Death of Jonnrazevitte resident. early 1783 notice
Sully John Preeville in Jonnrazevitte reports Mr Hester ill then died last Wednesday morning at Lovelock. He left a wife and six children and was a Knights of Honor member with a two thousand dollar policy. Rev Cryme is ill but improving. T F Watts and Tropey Holder head to Americus after cow thief Perry. Mayor signs off with Christmas and New Year thoughts.
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Father Prendergast
Rushing
Tifton Lodge
Flat Creek Mills
Withlacoochee River
Tate
Alapaha
Little River Lakes
Ty Ty
George Fletcher
Tifton
Waycross
Riverside
Steve Roberts
Worth County
Lewis Jones
Jonnrazevitte
Hester
Lovelock
Knights of Honor
William Cryme
T. F. Watts
Tropey Holder
Lumpkin
Americus
Perry
Reconpes
Back in Now Well in Masses: Odd Local Quip
A garbled memoir-like fragment from a Massachusetts note mentions aging, hair turning gray, and a mock assurance of resilience. It hints at a person named Davis and a reference to business comfort and recovery as time passes.
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Davis
Parker's Hair Balsam Ad Sale Note
A vintage advertisement urges readers to try Parker's Hair Balsam to stop hair loss and restore color and shine. It promises a cooling, perfumed scalp treatment and a complete dressing for thinning hair.
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Parker
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Charles F. Crisp
Americus, GA
Deecle CG
R. McCrory
Ellaville
A. Termas
D. P. Holloway
Dave
W. P. Burt
Schneier
London
Belton
Avio Fernie
I. Smith
Drew Dudley
Pickett
Talbotton
Vpail
Eason
South Georgia Male and Female College
Nday
Hasile Boy
Yeur Secon
Rel
Orean
M.A. Mendel
Edward J. Miller
C. Horace Boc
Lee
B. W. Patterson
Corroxn Avgenve
Septims
Mit
LO Schumpert
Roney & King
Cotton Avenue
Souti OP Wheatley's Bank
Schumpert & Roney
Bette
Courmal
Tipinus Eror Tieton
Tieton
Gooulwan
Nashville
R. C. Martin
Moreland
Oxford
Gulliver
Jack
Gill Willis
Kidd
A. L. Rees
D. B. Hill
Bronwood
Speight
Cuthbert
Rogers
Ray
Atlanta
Bool
Agnes
Barlow House
Agnes Aycock
R. R. Stewart
RB. C. Black
Wie
Secauan Ly
Becausaho
Stewart
Fiat
Tite Old RE. C
Black Sta
Public Square
Lamar Street
Americus, Georgia
Sully John Preeville
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