Dewey Welcome Crowd at Savannah Tour Stop
A Florida traveler recounts waiting three hours in Savannah for Admiral Dewey and Mrs Dewey to appear at a hotel window. He describes the vast crowd, the spectacle, and his wife clinging to a telegraph pole as the parade, artillery, and brass bands proceed. The scene ends with the Dewey entourage leaving, and the narrator expressing weariness and relief at homeward plans.
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Florida
Savannal
Waycross
Jesup
Couran
Pid
Gentral
Metl Yy
Tillacie
Brmenise
Monntert
Cassabiane
Dewey
Manila
M Military
Most Lovely Thing on Earth Tale in Sermon
Sam Jove's playful sermon recounts an angel who seeks the most lovely thing on earth. He finds a bed of roses, a baby's smile, and a mother's love, ultimately choosing a mother's love as the most lasting and sacred treasure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Jove
Earth
Jongard
Free Sample of Blood Balm for Eczema Cures
Advertises B B B Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for eczema symptoms all over the skin and blood impurities. Claims to relieve itching burning scales and sores, with price details and free trial offer. Ends with a salacious vignette about a photogenic girl and a banana peel incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worsalo Diy
Hill-Orr Drug Co
Wilhite & Wilhite
H. L. Myers
Mulberry St
Newark
N. J
Atlanta
Labor Saving Machinery and Its Effect on Welfare
The Atlanta Journal discusses labor saving machinery and its impact on happiness and employment. It cites a congressional report comparing hand labor to mechanized output, showing vast productivity gains and widespread job displacement across mills and transport, and notes the uncertainty of future effects on workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ce Commission
Congress
Faber
Thia
United Stated
United States
Seo Gootei
Daly
Atlanta Journal
Dyspepsia remedy praised by Mrs Meador and odd notices
Mrs T J Meador lauds Tyner Dyspepsia Remedy for quick relief and better health, promoting it at 50 cents per bottle through local druggists. Also notes on photographers punishing debtors, Chamberlain’s remedies credited for diarrhea, a New York woman’s misleading school plan for married women, and a quip about memory and men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. J. Meador
Tyner
Will-Orr Drug Co
Wilhite & Wilhite
Chamberlain
Morr Deng Os
New York
Mother's Love Tragedy On Atlantic Line Surfaces In Train Scene
An elderly white woman from Cartersville, with a seven year old boy, recounts a decades long struggle to reunite with her child. She had entrusted him to an elderly Sumter couple years earlier when she was too poor to care for him, then hid the boy with a colored woman near Sumter before boarding toward Columbia. Passengers aided, providing money and a carriage, as the mother begged Charley to recognize her, clinging to life to reclaim her son. The full names are with the State. March 20.
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Atlantic Uoast Line
Sumter
Joe
Columbia
Cartersville
Ty Charley
Liv
Granbymilla
Will Village
Charley
Best in the World Cough Remedy Endorsement
A local reader touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best medicine for colds and coughs after using a bottle. The piece also notes a Wisconsin church without a steeple due to a court injunction and mentions long Sunday School attendance records in Fredericksburg Virginia.
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the Herald
Andersonville
Ind
Hill-Orr Drug Co
Promises, Temptations, and Derailed Lives in a Park Scene
A stout man sits on a park bench reading notes while recounting his battles with alcohol. He recalls promises of becoming a gentleman, yet alcohol made him a beast, reckless, and a coward, leading to violence, sickness, delirium, and ruin. The exchange shifts to a literary aside about Scott and Lady of the Lake, highlighting admiration for poetry and Emulsion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
Scott
Tess
Randly
Curious Civil War surgical tale of three officers
A military medical vignette recalls three officers struck simultaneously. One lost a leg to the knee but rode ten miles to reach aid. Another lost a little finger and became a raving marine. A third was shot through the body yet died from the shock without external bleeding. The piece ends with a quip on identity and perseverance.
Charleston and Western Carolina Railway Notice
Fragmentary OCR shows railway class connection details for Celboun Falls and Epartanbug with references to tickets and an agent CRAIG Gen Tams, likely a management contact in Anderson. Information is garbled and incomplete.
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Celboun Falls
Epartanbug
Bor
Forchadulen
Craig
Gen
Tams
Duyna
Managwent
Anderson
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Wales
Saul
Ieford
Chebger
Waukegan
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H. Honey
Fredricksburg
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Laurous
Greenville
Gloun Springs
Spartanburgin
Honder Javine
Asheville
Jonu Springs
Mtyereesseesiee
Laren
Neal - Ar Fort Hoyel
Savannah
Southern Railway
Belton
Atlants
Tire
Vila
Palliaanpainee Aleoet van Aca
Metius Cars
Ising Cas
Thratoa Trintan
E. M. Rucker, Jr
Webb Building
Blus Ridge Railroad
H. A. Beattie
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Denvers
Pendleton
S.r
Tadame
Crowsley
Senéon
Union
Walballu
Svar
Denver
No IL
Southern
Sinden
Anperson
Supt
Portsmouth
Siti
Chattone
Express
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Yanoogs
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Cic
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Richmond
Kirtamond
Wedon
Henderson
Raleigh
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Charlotte
Cheater
Greenwood
Athens
Tay
Joy
Atlantic Coast Line
Yale
Feo
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Gora Wi
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