Cotton sales and railway survey notes in Georgia
Cotton buyers Hitt & Co. purchased seven hundred bales in Albany while the Dublin and Macon railroad project draws hydrographic survey by R T McDonald of Savannah. Pensioners report few Civil War survivors in Sumter County, and Georgia Loan and Trust Co. expands with branches statewide.
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Messrs
Hits & Co
Bouttiwest
Georgia
Albany
Jet
Alleshy
Messie
Hitt and
Beil
Dublin
Atlanta Constitution
R T. McDonald
Savannah
The
Central Railroad
Ogonee River
Mebline Ferry
Dublin and Macon
McDohld
Buena Vista Road
Immigration association in Southwest Georgia discussed
A detailed notice describes the Southwest Georgia Immigration and Land Association with its Americas office. The group, formed by prominent local businessmen, aims to promote immigration of practical farmers and workers from the North, secure favorable railroad rates, circulate descriptive literature, open correspondence with settlers, organize excursions, and attract desirable citizens while classifying and offering land for sale. The plan includes locating factories, fostering home enterprise, and expanding across Southwest Georgia beyond Americus, operating as a business concern rather than a mere paper organization.
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Immigration Association
Southwest Georgia Immigration and Land Association
Americas
Beiong
Georgia
Americus
Brunswick Dr Burroughs Seeks Stolen Safe Goods
From Brunswick Dr Burroughs visited the city Saturday to recover goods stolen from his safe weeks ago. The break in yielded watches old coins bonds and Confederate money. Davenport suspected burglar has Confederate money and several watches not matching Burroughs collection. Davenport owns safes in Winston and is thought to have entered Burroughs’ safe.
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Dr. Burroughs
Brunswick
Davenport
Burroughs
Winston
Equable Southwest Georgia Climate Praised by Recorder
The Recorder in England inspired a distant joke about variable weather. In response, a Georgia audience asserts Southwest Georgia offers a stable, healthy climate: not too hot or cold, wet or dry, with a balance that aids health and longevity.
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Reoonpga
Isle of Wright
Georgia Loan and Trust Company
Georgia
Poor Farm Faces Burden of Lunatic Inmates
The last legislature ordered three helpless negro lunatics returned from Milledgeville to Sumter County. The act aims to send harmless incurables back to their home county, leaving the county to decide care when relatives are absent. It hints Sumter may need both a poor farm and a small lunatic asylum.
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Sumter
Milledgeville
Railroad Wrecking Near Andersonville
Late Saturday night a freight train on the Southwestern railroad approached Andersonville near the cemetery crossing and struck four cross-ties placed on the track. Two ties were displaced by the cowcatcher, the other two wedged in and had to be cut out with an ax. The engine remained on the rails, and the incident appeared likely the work of tramps.
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Fred
Qol
Tita
Sooth
Southwestern Railroad
Andersonville
Cemetery Crossing
Too Much Talk in a Rural Barber Shop Scene
A fragmented tale unfolds in a barber shop where a countryman hurries home, a cotton buyer, merchant, and doctor discuss wartime legacies and a looming influx of outsiders. The group debates action versus talk, lamenting lost progress and urging restraint as the meeting adjourns.
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Barry
Gotton
Dol
Dyspepsia Cure Promises Relief Through Remedy
Dr P B Holt reports a patient with long term indigestion found relief after trying a new remedy. The testimonial claims the medicine cured years of distress when other medicines, climate changes, and diet failed. Several named individuals from Georgia vouch for the treatment's effectiveness.
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P. B. Holt
Dean Sie
Bess
Howard
Advertised Letters From Americas Postoffice 1884
The list shows unclaimed letters remaining in the Americas Post Office as of March 7 1884 to be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office. Names include Wane Amanda Mise Wana and many others with initials and surnames. The notice requests customers to call for advertised letters and mentions delivery by deadline.
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Americus Postoffice
Petition for Incorporation in Early County
Petition by John A Cobb Henry 4 Pieon Samuel H Hawkine Arian id John WF Peabo Henry Co ereham L Ervin J eefoif Ge Gaurgo W Gloverlover Olas M Harrold and others to form Southwest Geo tiaw and Land Association a real estate business with principal office at Soares Uist seeks charter with ten thousand dollars capital and authority to sue and transact business filed March 4 1886 in Early County Clerk J W Atuex office.
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Eer
John A Cobb
Henry
Pieon Samuel H
Hawkine Arianid
John
Peabo
Henry Coereham L
Ervin Jeefoif
Ge Gaurgo W
Gloverlover
Olas M Harrold
Ssi
Wane
Tooma
Antion
Southwest
Geotiaw
Carey
Soares Uist
D. Pray
J. W Atuex
Advantage in Concentrated Purchases Cited
A fragment notes that concentrating purchases offers an advantage and mentions a house in the context of the argument. The readable text implies a broader discussion of buying strategy and home context, but specifics are limited and no names or places are recovered.
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Barnett
Speer
United States’ Army
Sumter County
Daily Mails
Crisp
Daily
Liverpool Cotton Exchange
Messrs. Hitt & Co
Georgia Loan and Trust Co
Rome
Valdosta
New England
Fanerlows
Webster
Library Festival
Recorder
England
Barber No
Q. Wane
Gay
Jordan & Ford
Plymouth Rock
Amna
Americus, Aoe & Laonpvin
Amroby 1856
Time Aries
Ak Biol Garson
Baweibs
the Georgia Loan and Trust Company
Lodna Money Chesper
Ani
Essex Pigs
A. T. Ottran
R. Shaw
Forsyth Street
Americus, Geraia
John R. Shaw
Rekkeekes
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