Georgia fruit groves lure investors and wine makers
A Georgia travel and agriculture feature visits Smithville Butler Geneva Hawkinsville and surrounding estates to assess Le Conte pear orchards Keifer pears peach and grape production. It highlights W W Thompson's nursery and a rising Georgia wine industry, with notes on grafting, cuttings, and honey bees as key income sources.
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Butler
Geneva
Hawkinsville
Florida
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Georgia
Peninsular
W. W. Thompson
Thompson
New England
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J. R. Respess
How He Made Us Money a Chinese Love Story Clip
Hong Wo questions Chang Shing about how he earned wealth in a new country. Chan Shing recalls walking 144 hours to win $5,000 in a walking match while other companions describe laundry work and shoemaking. Hang Wo grows incredulous and accuses them of deception as tension rises.
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Philadelphia
Weekly Call
Hong Wo
Chang Shing
Chan Shing
Ki Kuen Kee
Hang Wo
Hang
Patra Deira
Obscure Sun Propo Ends With Questionable Idea
Fragments discuss a sun proposition and tariff questions, with a reference to an ostrich behavior when pressed. The text mentions a hunter pursuit and a bulky boy, but the passage is unclear and partially garbled.
Bazaar of the East and a Funeral Reform Tale
The piece narrates a Kurdish horse sale dialog with bargaining over price in sequins, then shifts to an English Leek Cemetery funeral where the clergyman objects to the eastward foot orientation of a coffin, followed by brief notes on a Lincoln joke book, a Baltimore Manufacturers Record item about Southern industrial investments, and a Chicago Times prediction of a tight Illinois in the presidential race.
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Leek
England
W. Bernaford
St. Luke's Leek
Capitalists eye 5000 acre Macon county tract for farming chair factory
In Macon a party led by B J Fuller editor of the Gardner Record and W J Tandy toured Col Fort 5000 acre Houston county land chosen for farming and a cooperative chair factory. Twenty five families to settle this fall with plan to sell plots and create a large chair mill using wood from local forests as C J Wheeler drafted the plot for review. Fuller plans a descriptive Georgia magazine featuring Macon in his rollout to farmers.
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B. J. Fuller
Gardner Record
Puller
W. J. Tandy
Hoosac Tunnel
Gardner
Houston County
John P. Fort
Kapitaliste
J.C. Wheeler
E. M. Sargent & Co
Mr. Fuller
Mr. Tandy
Col. Fort
Fuller
Georgia
Board of Trade
Words of a True Man and Other Local Notes
The Augusta News claimed wives dine out while husbands stay home but the writer disagrees. A married man since 1847 says he would rather eat bread at home with his wife than a grand meal alone. The Postmaster General renamed a Tennessee post office Damphool to Blizzard, seen as dangerous by locals. Chief Justice Waite remains tied to Lyme Connecticut, planning to leave Washington for Lyme in about two weeks for the summer.
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Connecticut
Lyme
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