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Southland land hopes and peach riches stir Georgia
The legislature elects Logan E. Bleckley and James M. Smith as judges. A Chicago Journal of Commerce piece extols the South as a new empire for Northern investors, praises Elberta peaches grown by Samuel H. Rumph of Marshallville, and urges cheap railroad fares to attract settlers. It urges Sumter county to exhibit agricultural products at Macon and Atlanta fairs, describing the climate and soil as ideal for grains and fruits and promoting local boom prospects.
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