Dawson festival brightens town with charity feast
Dawson Georgia March 16 report on the Dawson Guard armory fundraiser for the fire company. Attendees browsed lively decorations and enjoyed music by the Cornet Band while a vote based carriage raffle raised 271.05 dollars to fund uniforms. Guest sermons praised Rev F A Branch as community ties grow.
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J. A. Favrox
Dawson
Marsh
Daweon Guard
van Wgrand Snceeas
H Tel
Dawson Cornet Band
J. H Guerry
Fao
Legis
Reault
Susie Dillion
Capt. W. ©. Dillion
Capt. Dillion
Cornet Band
Fira Company
Mite Society
Church
Eta
Susie
Howe
Murder and Local Happenings In Macon County March News
In LaCrosse Mina Sallie Les Hutson and her brother visit Macon County while Miss Memte Heven of Fort Valley visits town. Uncle Hamp Nixon is murdered by Peter Reynolds. the suspect confesses and body recovered, wife identifies watch and chain. Mrs. UC Walters dies after measles relapse, leaving husband and two children. community sorrow and sympathy.
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Oatthorpe
Mina Sallie Les Hutaon
Thim
LaCrosse
Mias Memte Heven
Fort Valley
Fancie Thorpe
Camilla
Acmere
Mia G.T Walters
Tas Boas Cpanteil
Yune
Akase
Hamp Nixon
Peter Reynolds
Hamp
Pete
Fred
Montezuma
Peta
Mra. UC. T. Walters
Putnam News Briefs From Putnam Georgia
Newa is scarce due to farmers planting corn. Measles scare in Putnam county though no cases. A negro house near Uchee Mills burned Saturday, nearly injuring a child. older negroes had left children indoors and lit straw. B D Collum recovering from pneumonia. A J Wall canvassing for Rev Sam Jones sermons reports fair business. gardeners have been planting and working.
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Putnam
James Person
Uchee Mills
B. D. Collum
A. J. Wall
Sam Jones
Richmond and Danville lines to control Central railroad scene
Local notes report Hawkins seven acres of oats and rising real estate activity in gate city. Court, measles, and school reopenings are described along with a crossing safety appeal east of the depot. Several residents buy or begin building homes. a new baby named Robert Jr. brings happiness to Engineer Poole and family.
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Stevens
Richmond and
Danville
Central Railroad
AP & L
Central
Riencano
Marc
Lansford
Cols. Iooper & Hickey
Lamphia
Cols
Hudson & Wilton
Preston
Weaver
Neot
Gond
Depo
Gate City
Judge Lanaford
Joe Brooks
P Lunafort
East Broad
GE. Belbag
Eist Broad
John + B Brooks
John J. Patterson
Layfield
Fannie
Kate Snelling
Robert Poole
Robert Jr
Remarkable Texas Recovery After Consumption Fight
Excitement in Pain Texas follows the apparent cure of J. E. Corley once bedridden and deemed dying from consumption. A trial bottle of Dr King s New Discovery brought relief, leading to full recovery after two boxes of pills and two bottles of the remedy. Free trial bottles offered at E. J. Eldridge s.
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Texas
Pain
Tex
J. E. Corley
Dr. King
Dr King
E. J. Eldridge’s
Simmons Liver Regulator advertised as a half century remedy
An advertisement promotes Simmons Liver Regulator as a long trusted, purely vegetable cure for disorders of the liver such as dyspepsia biliousness constipation and headaches. It claims mild effective action and family use reducing doctors’ bills. It warns buyers to obtain only genuine products with the curved Z trademark and J H Zilin & Co signature to avoid fakes.
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Simmons Liver Regulator
Zilin & Co
J. H. Zsilin & Co
Washington’s Inauguration Suit Sold As Historical Relic
The Washington Post reports Thorndyke Roe bought the silk suit Washington wore at his first inauguration. The outfit, with coat, waistcoat, knee breeches and buckles, was woven in France for the president. The garb, tied to Washington’s family, is tied to a 1789 Bible kiss moment in New York.
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Washington’s
Washington Post
Thorndyke Roe
Washington
France
Westmoreland County
New York
Texas
Capital
Mr. Rice
Editor Burke Receives Vast Honduran Estate Gift
New Orleans Times-Democrat editor Burke acquires a Honduras province 180 by 100 miles, tax exempt and free from import duties, with perpetual military exemption for residents. He will develop the domain for gold, woods, and fruits, while other notices mention Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Columbus Southern subscriptions. 3000 paid.
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Burke
Washington
K. A. Burke
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Honduras
Greatlace
Maud 8.a Owner on Fast Driving
Robert Bonner defends fast driving as not illegal but dangerous in city talks on high license. He notes a seven mile per hour park limit and says he would not push a horse to high speed even with sleighing, citing risk and the hard impact on horses.
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Robert Bonner
Herald
Funk
Bonner
Mand S
Leva
Colonel Lamar and the Confederate ranks in lore
A New York Sun portrait recalls Secretary Lamar as a colonel only, noting his quiet dignity amid Northern snobbery. Lamar led the Nineteenth Mississippi at Williamsburg, declined a brigadiership to stay with his friend Kit Cook, then served as minister to Russia before ending his military career. A Chicago drummer anecdote about a whisky-filled tobacco tin in Iowa and Iowa’s prohibition stance closes the column.
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Lamar
New York Sun
Davis
Napoleon
Mississippi
Williamsburg
Kit Cook
Joe Johnson
Russia
Chicago
Iowa
Towa
Coon Hunters Net Riches From Missouri Tree Find
Two hunters near Trenton chop down a coon tree and harvest three coons, 400 pounds of honey, and an oyster can holding 280 dollars in gold. Local lore notes the unusual bounty from a single hunt.
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Misssouri
Trenton
What Can Be Done
What Can Be Done. By trying again and keeping up courage many things seemingly impossible may be attained. Hundreds of hopeless cases of Kidney and Liver Complaint have been cured by Electric Bitters, after everything else had been tried in vain. There is no medicine so safe, so pure, and so perfect a Blood Purifier. Electric Bitters will cure Dyspepsia, Fiabetes and all Diseases of the Kidneys. Invaluable for affections of Stomach and Liver, and overcome all Urinary Difficulties. Get bottles only 50c at EB.
Worths Copied Dresses Spark Ball Scene
A Worth gown duplication scandal stuns two leading society women at a capital ball. A Philadelphia heiress and a New York socialite realize their pink and yellow dresses are exact duplicates, provoking shock and witty remarks about whether Worth can duplicate colors as well as fabrics. Both women, though furious, can afford the duplication loss.
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Worth
G Lady
Philadelphia
Congress
New York
Washington
New York Tribune
Mineralogy and mining insights from Globe Democrat
Charles Clark explains in plain terms how water, oxygen, and natural leaching alter mineral deposits over time. He notes that deep underground work may reveal rich ore, that ore can persist in cones, and that weathering explains barren streaks and native silver occurrences.
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Iman
Charles Clark
Globe Democrat
The Squirrel Fur Trade of Husaia
The winter hunts in northern Russia transform peasants into nets and snares suppliers for Moscow and St Petersburg. Siberia furnishes fur squirrels from the Petchora banks where Zyrian hunters trek in camplike groups, delivering hundreds of thousands of skins to market each season.
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Husaia
Russia
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Siberia
Petchora
ViaUka
Siobodisk
Goyer
Srenertions
London Times
Sleeping Trouble In Juniata County Tavern Tale
A deputy United States Marshal, Monica H Lundy, visits Juniata County on duty and spends her first night in a tavern run by a Pennsylvania Dutchman. The guest notes a cold night and the landlord offers makeshift bedding between feather beds while Lundy grumbles about conditions. The piece ends with a literary snippet about 408 princes from a Christian monarchial count.
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United States
Monica H. Lundy
Juniata County
Ilo
Lundy
Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin
Ericsson in Better Health at Sixty Four Says Herald
The Chicago Herald reports John Ericsson, famed inventor, in better health at 64 than in ten years. The note mentions his long work days and references Baltimore Daily Morning News in passing.
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Ericsson
John Ericsson
Chicago Herald
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