Dog days explained by a Georgia writer
Bill Arps letter explains dog days with legends from Pliny to Sirius. The author traces dates July 3 to August 15 and notes variations. discusses star names Cynosure and Canis Major, weather signals, and historic beliefs. He contrasts southern turmoil, lynchings, and politics with calmer observations and local updates from Sandy Springs and Welcome.
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Atlanta Constitution
Pliny
Herodotus
Sirius
Thsa Minor
Moses
Job
Orion
Asios
Philippines
South
Kentucky
Northen
Mary
Early County
Picnics and Protracted Meetings Highlight Pisgah Mems News
Misses E Ma and Bessie Webl visit Flat Rock family of J M Webb. Oldest citizen Jnie Smith dies after two weeks illness. Rosa Davis visits grandmother. Ennnie and Minnie Webb visit Maggie Alzoud. Tire weather affects the farm as men plan a mountain trip to Asheville. A revival begins at the second Sunday in April. Nellie Walters of Greenville visits W C Scott’s family. Maggie Davis visits relatives in Belton this week.
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Little Sallie
R. W. Hammond
Elrod
R.A. Uchawan
Leila
Sylvester Elrod
Alber Farmer
Georgia
Woccon
Talhdal Falls
Garrison Lave
Greenville County
Miss
Mr. Simpson
Greenville
Sam Sorris
Belton
Denver
Bee
Ernest Browne
Paxton
Georgina
Welcome
Sandy Springs
Daniel
Isenintva
E.ma
Bessie Webl
Flat Rock
J. M. Webb
Nie Smith
Beulah Methodistehurel
Three Mormon Elders Escape Mob Near Jackson Ga
A Jackson Ga telegraph says three Mormon elders abducted from William Cunard's Newton Factory home in Jasper County escaped a mob by swimming a creek. They endured burns and injuries from the clash, fleeing toward Jackson. Mrs Cunard was shot in the jaw and wounded in the fight as the mob aimed to escort the elders from the county.
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Atlanta
Journal
Jackson
William , Cunnard
Newton Factory
Jasper County
The World’s Financial Centre Shifts to America
The United States is described as the largest Christian nation by population aside from Russia, with wealth and growth surpassing England. New York’s money market is now more abundant than London’s, drawing great monetary transactions westward as America rises as the center of global wealth and influence.
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United States
Russia
Wis
Eludins
England
New York
Tondo
London
Atlantic
Belin St. Benialobe Peonaecal
Yellow fever hits Soldiers' Home with three deaths
Newport News reports thirty cases of yellow fever at the National Soldiers' Home in Hampton Roads. Quarantine lines are enforced by Old Point authorities. Newport News, Hampton and nearby communities react with alarm as three more deaths occur and officials confirm no outside spread yet. Four thousand veterans reside at the home amid strict access controls and emergency measures.
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Tamsole
Old Hickory
Tennessee
Babcock, Tyson & Jones
Columbia
Columbus
Tam
Nationa Soldiers
Hampton
Newport New
Ol Point
Hobson
Snd
Newport News
Old Point
A Traitors Awful Death at Hand of Filipinos
Corporal Leonard F. Hayes of the First Colorado volunteers, deemed a traitor for allying with Filipinos, met death in the Philippines after being placed in charge of a Filipino battery. Sergeant George A. Lamarsh of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers recounts the scene where Hayes, abandoned by his comrades, was bayoneted by a Second Oregon soldier and then buried in a trench alongside dead Filipinos after a charge against the Filipino forces.
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Kassas
Leonard F. Hayes
Amelicn
Philippines
George A. Lamarsh
Co. II
Twentieth
Kansas Volunteers
Hayes
Lamarsh
Second
Oregon
Ca. I
Colorado Volunteers
Enterprising Partridge Causes Feud Over Nest
A report from Money South Carolina details a peculiar bird life event near Walker's seven miles from Ralph Wise's farm. A hen hen laid a nest, partridges moved in and laid eggs, fought for ownership, and the original hen eventually hatched two chicks. The partridge now guards the trio, keeping near the house and woods, evading approach as a family unit.
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Ralph Wise
Walker's
Money
S.C
Acuren
Mand Courier
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertising a cure and reward
An old newspaper ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy claiming to cure catarrh in all stages. It offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and lists other printer services by The Press and Banner of Abbeville South Carolina. It notes a remark about Indians gathering bodies of dead sheep in Oregon and a claim about artificial ivory from borax in skimmed milk.
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Ihall
Hall
Banner
Abbeville
5. C
Tims
Oregon
Wade Hampton
Wrightsville Sound
Wilmington
N. C
Dagger's Springs
Virginia
W. T. Walters
South Union
Hasley
I. Bradley
W. M. Hagood
R. F. Smith
J. M. Geer
W. H. Pickens
Orangeburg
Charleston
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
North Carolina
Maggie Brown
Greenville
Babe Walker
Ned Murphy
Due West
R. A. Archer
Miss Murphy
Ned
Two segro murderers to be executed in Charleston next Friday
State news reports two executed murderers slated for capital punishment in Charleston next Friday. Other items note dispensary profits totaling 14000, burglaries in railway towns, and a surge of local industrial and civic projects across several counties.
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Charleston
Newberry
EU. M. W. Gary
Freenville
Gilreath
Columbia
Columbia Canal
Congaree River
D. C
Lowndesville Oil Company
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Spot Cash Clothiers
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Arp
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Cleveland
Ingersoll
Griffin
Ida Wells
Avtun Tems
Dean
Mr. Wilton
A. A. Barnes
Lowndenville
J.W. Mattison
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Nellie Walters
W. Cy Scott
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