Leap Year Party Delights Dawson Guests At Mr Carver’s
Dawson notes a lively Leap Year party at Mr A J Carver’s on Lee Street with about thirty couples. The event featured elaborate costumes, bountiful supper, and lively dancing as ladies led social lessons and guests enjoyed music, conversation, and flowers. Also reported are Wm Wooten’s death, a fire at a Dawson lumber house, and community notes on schools, editors, and local visits.
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Lee Street
B. B. Perry
Fannie Statham
F. A. Ruggles
Lolie
M. C. Acee
Columbus
Mary Baldwin
Wade H. Davia
Helen Parks
J. G. Dean
Genie Brannon
Georgetown
George Howard
Willie Hodnett
E. J. Raney
Annie Crouch
F. W. Clark
Jesse Jones
J. D. Laing
Lula Belle Towns
Senola
W. A. McLain
Maude Branch
T. H. Thurmond
Alice Dozier
J. W. Fox
Richmond
Clara Abbott
Duluth
J. H. Candler
Kentucky
Beulah Farrar
D. D. Davis
Mamie Daniels
I. D. Hatcher
Cora Anthony
Mr. Geo
Melani
Lena Harper
R. Alexander
Lillian Watts
Americus
Prof
Pearman
Miss Wickliffe
8. C
Jas. Lowrey
Mattie Laing
Tom Jossey
Willie Carver
Floyd McDonald
Cuthbert
J. G. Parks
Orimson
G. B. Andrews
R. F. Simmons
W. R. Baldwin
J. M. Griggs
A.J. Carter
Mr. Carver
Local Notes From Uchee County Sowing, Schools, and Alliances
Uchee county reports show farmers sowing oats and preparing for spring, with Glenn Holly School led by Prof. J M Collum expecting large attendance. Pneumonia causes deaths, including Mr C Owens of Tazewell. County Farmers Alliance elects P W Bridges as agent and Glenn Holly No 2 offers premiums for best acre of cotton and corn, with W C Kelly elected agent.
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Ucner Mrurs
J. M. Collum
Glenn Holly
C. Owens
Tazewell
County Farmers’ Alliance
P. W. Bridges
Glenn Holly Alliance No. 2
W. C. Kelly
Guano trade sparks Richland week of activity
Richland and surrounding residents report a bustling week as pap works on guano trade plans and a guano mill dream. Prof Fitzgerald's school opens with strong attendance, weddings and social visits noted, livery stable owners Chambliss and Parker prosper, and Sam Bryant marries Ella Peek in a busy local update from Jan 16.
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Richland
Fitzgerald
L. A. Thomas
Tobe Dixon
Katie Snelling
N.C. Alston Jr
W. W. Mabry
Katie
Dixon
Buchanan
Americus
B. M. Iveroy
Pleasant Valley
Hat
Ella Peek
Mollie Smith
Union
Soonnie
Lumpkin News Roundup From January Notes
Lumpkin correspondent reports slow growth and local real estate transfers. Dr J A Thornton sells residence to Mrs G D Trammell. Thornton also sells another local property to W Gillis. A H Simpson builds a four room cottage near J W Mays. Texas pony popularity rises for cultivation though draft use fails. Death of Miss Sallie Beall acknowledged. town decorates in crimson. Dave S Ferguson of Savannah seed warehouse with tobacco. Drummers plentiful. overall town activity remains steady.
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Lumpkin
J. A. Thornton
Thomasville
G. D. Trammell
Cutry
Sallie Beall
Crimson
Dave
Ferguson
Savann
Honey Shortage Hits Major States Amid Feeding Crisis
The article notes a honey shortfall in Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan with bees fed on sugar to avert starvation. California once exported honey but now lacks enough for home use. Georgia official Mr Clements denies opposing civil service reform and suggests practical improvements to procedures.
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Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
California
Clements
Georgia
Civil Service Committee
House
Vault Found After Depot Theft In Ellaville
A stolen depot vault containing the papers of Suber and Green and three cents was found by a boys rabbit hunting in an old pond on Capt. Robt. Burton’s field. The thief hid it there, fearing discovery. Ellaville elected a mayor and four aldermen in a quiet vote. Mayor W. D. Murray and aldermen H. T. Arrington J. N. Cheney C. L. Battle Robt. Burton H. Scarborough. Leila Hornady returned from North Georgia. The Ellaville Reading Club gave a notable event at the courthouse. Judge B. A. Strange, recovering from pneumonia, is improving. School opened with about 45 pupils, with Prof. Merritt’s sister Miss Kate Lenox assisting.
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Ellaville
Robt. Burton
Suber and Green
W. D. Murray
H. T. Arrington
J. N. Cheney
C. L. Battlé
Robi. Burton
H. Scarborough
Recorder
Col
J. R. Williams
Leila Hornady
North Georgia
Ellaville Reading Club
Court House
B. A. Strange
Merritt
Kate
Lenox
Putnam Notes Local Happenings In Buena Vista
Jan. 18 report from Putnam Virginia outlines a pack of hounds chasing a deer in Buena Vista, theft of corn from J. W. McCorkle, sickness of Charley Stevens with pneumonia, Sallie Ingram teaching in the Wall household, tariff talk angering Ohio buyers, criticism of new school law books, death of C. C. Owens in Tazewell, infant death of the Livingston child, and Mr. P. C. Stevens visiting IYs for Wm. Wooten’s death.
Preston News Roundup Brightens Winter Days
Preston on January 16 reports dull weather and a planned sheriff visit to the State Lunatic Asylum with Fannie Whitfield, a prospect of another admission soon. Local youths enjoy weekly entertainments. Miss Annie Crouch and Miss Mattie Daniel visit Misses Mackie and Jennie Thornton. The town hosts a music school, two Sabbath schools, and a literacy school set to open Monday. D P Hogg and Col M M Wilson build two new dwellings, with Miss Catherine Warren planning a home.
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Preston
State Lunatic Asylum
Fannie Whitfield
Annie Crouch
Dawson
Mattie Daniel
Talbotton
Mackie
Jennie Thornton
Muale
D. P. Hogg
Col. M. M. Wilson
Catherine Warren
Man in Elwood Wins Second Capital Prize in Lottery Draw
David D. Meacon, holding one tenth of ticket 60,068, won the Second Capital Prize of $50,000 in The Louisiana State Lottery monthly drawing for November. It was his first venture and comes as a God send as he supports his family by daily labor after a recent fire damaged his Pittsburg home. He is described as a worthy and exemplary man.
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Elwood
Ind
Free Press
David D. Meacon
Mr. Meacon
Pittsburg
Steersshione
State tariff proposal mirrors whisky tax plan
The Atlanta Constitution argues for a state run tax system, urging Georgia to collect not only whisky duties but a broad state tariff on imported goods. The piece envisions revenue to fund infant industries, protect local manufacturers, and create government offices under leaders like Joe Brown, Howell and Grady, calling for a harmonious policy.
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The
Atlanta Constitution
Georgia
Joe Brown
Howell
Grady
Friends of the Constitution
Boy who outwitted bell firm earns quick promotion
Johnnie Martin, an office boy in San Francisco, feigned a bid to a California bell maker after getting their price list. The firm discovered his ruse but chose to keep and promote him, praising his business letter skill and planning a future bell for a church he intends to build.
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Johnnie Martin
San Francisco
Hts
California
John Martin
Johnnie
Senator Brown Erred On Internal Revenue History
The St Louis Globe-Democrat notes Senator Brown misstated when he claimed internal revenue laws always come during wars. It recounts the history from 1791 to 1848 showing periods of levy and repeal, acknowledges tobacco tax as unnecessary, and argues some excises should end though war taxes have existed past conflicts.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Brown
Finest Fur Display At Cotton Avenue Store
We visited Mr. C. A. Bell's Cotton avenue shop yesterday and were shown the largest and finest fur assortment yet. Hundreds of pelts covered the display including otter, ver, coon, fox, wild cat and catamount with particularly fine beaver.
Loved to Have His Teeth Potisy, Pittsburg Leader
Ned enjoyed pleasant sensation from tooth extraction and sought more relief. He visited dentists repeatedly until all teeth were removed and later pressed a clothespin on his gums for intense pleasure. For forty years he has lived on soft foods only.
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Pittsburg
Ned
Ad offers and health ads from Philadelphia paper
Readers are urged to send ten cents to American Pub. Ing Company for Haggard works and other titles. Numerous health and patent remedy pitches follow, promising free books by sending address. The notice also advertises a semi annual agricultural society convention in Waycrone Warecow and urges buyers to join Coxround Oxygen with assurances of safety and benefit. Contracts and addresses in Philadelphia are listed.
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American Pub
Ing Company
Fairmount Anne
Philadelphia
Kor
H. R. Haggard
Sesside
Jan Lost
Georgian Agricultural Society
Waycrone
Warecow
Atarkey & Palen
Arch St
Palanid-wat
The Cure for Sickness Through Home Remedies
An ad-like fragment touts a historical evolution of cures from neglect to sorcery to herbs and drugs, then promotes a so called Compound Oxygen and daily breathing at home to strengthen the lungs and cure ailments, promising a 200 page book by Starrey & Pai.
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Tj Pe Starrey & Pai
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Anna Stephens
Dawson Variety Manufacturing Company
South Georgia Male and Female College
M. L. Parker
May Binion
M. B. L. Binion
Sardis Church
Misa Ellen Martin
McNulty
Newton
J. A. Fouche
Barnesville
Birmingham
Ala
Anna Warnock
Ada Snellgrove
Smithville
T. A. Snellgrove
Arthur C. Laing
Putnam Stephens
Marion County
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