Rome Cotton Exchange Backs Restrictions On Light Weight Bagging
The Rome Cotton Exchange adopted resolutions urging farmers and merchants to reject light weight bagging and ties. It cites losses to planters and shippers from inferior materials, requests best materials be used, and urges no bagging under 12 pounds per bale or ties under 40 pounds per bundle. It calls for standard packing boxes and broad newspaper printing to spread the notice. It also references a humorous aside about a sheriff and a court scene, and ends with a Georgia arrest report for unlawful intimacy involving R C Youngblood and Emma Barnes in Andersonville.
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Rome Cotton Exchange
Liverpool
Beard Orguy
Ockmonts
M. B. Gilmore
R. C. Youngblood
Sallie Barnes
Alis Emms Barnes
Andersonville
Youngblood
Miss Emma
Eatonton
Union Springs
Als
Gilmore
Emma
A. H. Greer
Superior Court
Ten year old girl travels alone to San Francisco
A ten year old girl arrives safely in San Francisco after a solo journey from Harwich England via Philadelphia Chicago and Omaha. She is warmly assisted by officials along the long trip and expresses gratitude for the kindness she received.
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San Francisco
Harwich
Eng
Philadelphia
Chicago
Omaha
Pat
Exio
Chickens and Locusts in a Western Debate
A Chicago Herald excerpt features a comic clash over locusts and chickens. Eastern and Western voices debate whether chickens fatten on locusts, with vivid anecdotes about locust swarms and improbable roosters.
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Chicago Herald
Evolution of the American pocket knife in a changing market
The Baltimore Herald notes a shift from horn handled pens to showy quarter dollar blades, driven by country stores and a new demand for durable, four blade knives. Domestic factories in Connecticut and New York dominate after ousting foreign makers from Sheffield. Advances include rivetless handles and gutta percha grips, with steel quality high though less flexible than razor steel.
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Baltimore Herald
Ecutlery
England
Germany
Sheffield
Connecticut
New York
Lion with Hugo: Child Befriends Exiled Victor Hugo
An English lady in Guernsey loses her 5 year old son who strays and naps outside. Victor Hugo finds him, carries him home on a ramble, and the boy recalls Hugo playing lions, hiding under a table, and knocking over glasses during an imaginative visit. The next day the boy is returned with apologies and gifts.
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Lion
Hugo
New York Post
Victor Hugo
Guernsey
St. Savior
Island
M. Hugo
Noted Military Painter De Neuville Deceased Amid Studio Chaos
Paris letter recalls French military painter De Neuville who died after smashing studio windows tearing doors and raking walls with bullets. Neighbors mistook the noise for trouble police observed him arranging scenes with gunpowder smoke, leaving with a generous tip.
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Paris
de Neuville
le Nenville
Contests of Singing Bird Dealers Reported in Philadelphia
In Formandy bird dealers arrange singing contests between favorite chat finches, often forcing birds to sing alternately up to 800 times. Locust outbreaks on the Pacific Coast threaten California and Oregon, with the great Rocky Mountain locust once nearly starving western states.
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Philadelphia Pres
Formandy
Pacific Coast
California
Oregon
Rocky Mountain
Ten Days Race at Bargain Store Shoppers Urged to Buy
A city sale announces a ten day competition among Bargain Store salesmen to clear as many goods as possible. With twenty eight cases of general merchandise already at the depot and more arriving, customers are urged to snap up items price no object as the store moves stock.
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Chandise
Sumter County Sheriff Sales August 1885 Americus notices
Sheriff sale notices list multiple properties in Sumter County Georgia to be sold at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in August. Descriptions include 220 acres of A J Williams land in the 26th district, a wooden store with goods near Muckales Creek, a Red Wheel Side Spring Buggy and bay horse, 31 acres near the 27th district, and a house and lot near Ellaville Road. Cases involve A J Buchanan & Co., Ed Stallings, W H Morgan, J W Ford, People National Bank, and others.
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Americus
Sumter County
Twenty Sixth
A. J. Williams
Twenty-Sixth
A. J. Willime
Superior Court
A.J. Buchanan & Bro
H. J. Williams
Muckales Creek
Ed. Stallings
F. A. Buchanan & Sou Va
Stallings
J. W. Jussey
W. H Morgan
Oliver & Oliver
W. H. Morgan
Proparty
Starkaville Road
W. J. Barlow
C.M. Wheatley
Fair Grounds
A. C. Bell
C. M. Wheatley
Said Barlow
P. F. Seig
Americus, Gu
Ellaville Road
Town Creek
W. T. Davenport
C. W. Lamar
J. E. Devaugn
D.W. Lamar
Hinton & Hinton
G. W. McNeal
J. Waxelbaum & On Va
Roesine Viiilizer Co
Ed. Abrams
J. H. Winter
G. W
Joe, Dodson
Farabes
Posses
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Baltimore American
Manchester
Bargain Store
S.M. Cohen
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Andry W. Shedfield & Co, Anihons Ge
Wesleyan’ Female Institute
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Staunton
Virginia
Sumler County
Sern Bunter
Mia
Joanna Easterlin
James B. Easterlin
G. W. Easterlin
A. D. Speer
Ieel
Tonwen
Sumter Superior Court
Ned Turner
Ward
Allen Fort
S.s. Grovers
I. J
Bank of Americas
A. A. Adams
Peblia
Sumter
Wm. Eostol
Gatensad
Zheinee Simpson
Adama Place
Saideen
Equity
Ny Creditora
Staal
A.C. Speer
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