Sugar crops buoy Georgia planters amid tariff debate
In Georgia sugarcane output climbs and prices rise as frost timing aids yields. The piece notes Louisiana plans rebound, despite tariff fears, with cane lands south of Macon described as among the best and most profitable. It contrasts national sugar demand with domestic supply and cites Macon News on regional prospects.
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Georgia
Commissioner of Agriculture
South
Louisiana
Germany
France
New Orleans
United States
Macon
Macon News
Providence Screw Company alleged bonuses to curb exports
Report notes claims that Providence Screw Manufacturers offered English factories a bonus to avoid sending goods to America. Denials followed, but German firms reportedly testify to similar offers. The New York Star details the Providence Screw Company’s finances with high dividends on watered stock and bizarre capitalization, hinting at inflated figures and tangled industrial practices.
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London
Stanley
Congo
London Times
Manchester
New York
Europe
America
New Orleans
Providence
New York Star
Providence Screw Company
Hss
Indus
Fortunate Disciple of Franklin Wins Lottery Share
A Boston job printer M B Nelson holds one fifth of Ticket 46799 in the Louisiana State Lottery November drawing which produced 75000 dollars. Nelson, about 22, single, lives with his parents, invested one dollar for the chance and plans to extend his business with the prize. He is described as industrious and ready to use wealth well.
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Franklin
Boston
M. B. Nelson
Merrimac Jt
Mass
Senators Pay Secretaries Salaries for Floor Access
Senator Stanford directs his congressional pay to a private secretary who is also a San Francisco newspaper correspondent, enabling access to the Senate floor for news gathering. Senator John P Jones similarly shifted his secretary’s salary, granting his first private secretary the salary of his senatorship.
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Stanford
Sanisco
Senate
John P. Jones
Georgia soil compared to Northern lands in corn and cotton yields
Northern farmers visiting Georgia concluded soil is poor where skimmed and poorly cultivated yet Georgia soil treated as in the North would yield similarly. Premiers from Geo W Scott & Co Atlanta offered five acre premiums. one farmer produced 7 898 pounds of lint cotton about four bales per acre, others over 6 000 pounds per five acres, and corn yields reached 495 bushels with others over 450 bushels.
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Macon Telegraph
Florida
Macon
Atlanta
Georgia
Central Railroad
Fentins
Albany News
Tralee
Messrs. Geo. W. Scott & Co
Getting Out of Sight
A gray headed engineer recalls running an engine in Australia and chasing kangaroos as a vivid example of getting out of sight. A Custer veteran and a bill collector join in, contrasting kangaroos and jack rabbits with a debtor vanishing down the street.
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California
Sanderson's
McAllister’ Street
Australia
Custer
Rosin Confusion in Brewing Practices Debunked
A popular impression that rosin is used to doctor beer is incorrect. The material is applied to lager barrels and packaging to seal against air, not to alter the beer itself.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Advertised for Wide Skin Ailments
Bucklen's Arnica Salve touted as the best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever boils tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions with guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded at 25 cents a box sold by Dr. BL J Eldridge.
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Bucklen
BL J. Eldridge
For Sale Horses Wagons and Jersey Bulls Southwest Georgia
Auction note lists one two horse wagon one one horse wagon one buggy plus good horses mules and nine four Jersey bulls in Southwest Georgia all offered cheap by H Buchanan & Co.
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Georgia
H. Buchanan
Queen of Bohemia and The Three Recruits Noted Letters
Fragmentary notice discusses chapters and letters by John Norbury to his sister. Mentions Liverpool Queen’s departure delayed to Monday after a dock mishap. Reader learns the writer will stay in London to deliver letters to a judge in New York and a high state official via Mr John Needham M P recently a lord of the treasury.
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Chapier
John Norbury
Lonpor
Sisten
Liverpool
London
New York
John Needham
M. P
the Treasury
Unfolding intrigue in a London intrigue and mistaken likeness
An unnamed narrator describes a visit with Dick, Needham, and Northfield in a Reform Club setting. A strange resemblance to John Needham, M P., emerges as two men meet and exchange notes about dinnertime plans and possible introductions. The letter from Norbury triggers a sinister resolve as Needham contemplates murder or deception.
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Taball
Bramley House
Needham
John Needham
Noti
Charles Northfield
North Derbyshire
Ilrac
Joh Northam
M. P
Yosa
Tsai
C.N
Northfield
Needam
Needharr
Portland Place
Liverpool
New York
London
Doreen
Jon
Wyedale
Diabolical Pate Plays Into Diaboli Cal Bands
Fragmentary diary style scene describes characters Pongo, Needham, and Seeran in a tense moment. A morning discussion about dinner plans and social proprieties unfolds as a house sits and servants observer. The prose hints at hidden motives and unclear positions amid a disrupted domestic setting.
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Pongo
Needham
Seeran
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Sumter
Count Peerseeeee Renter Cor
Mncial
Webster County
Beck
Great Britain
Augusta Chronicle
J. Randall
W. D. Chipley
Stark's Clay
Chattahoochee River
Ft. Gaines
Teadd
Evarts
Blaine
Congress
Washington
Atlanta Capitol
South Georgia
L. M. Lamar
Pulaski
Emory Storrs
Chicago
Grant Memorial Fund
Chester A. Arthur
Theratens
Joseph Hatton
Bohemia
Oubl
Rier
le Bo
Ireland
J. N
Derbyshire
Busiootia
Richmond
Lehall
Josura Nonscey
Duncan
Tarquin
Norbury
Nolan
Pally
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