Teachers Association Meeting Highlights 1887 Belton
The Audemon County Teachers Association met at Belton on May 7 1887 with Dr B Lunder presiding. Delegates Breazeale Barris and Kemper joined, discussions covered grammar spelling writing punctuation reading and public school improvements. Gen Del Kemper gave a keynote on English as a composite yet superior language, and a resolution thanked Beltons citizens for hospitality as the group planned a future institute in Williston.
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Ella Smith
del Kemperwittd
Lander
J. M. Lander
W. T. Lander
J. G. Olinktealed
del Kemper
Sterting
Mi MW
Mitchell
J.B. Watkins
W. E. Breazeale
Wa Teoder
Belton
Willismeton
Tater County
Fugitive Legislator Joseph Compton Flees Justice
A. L. A. May 5 report details Joseph Compton a North Carolina moonshiner turned Alabama lawmaker who fled after a 1910 shooting of a revenue officer. Identified by a bridge gang foreman, he vanished before federal requisition reached Eden near Talladega. The oddly placed note about a Hillsbury to Chapel Hill railroad and a string of officers closes with a sidebar quip about old maid authored marriage manuals.
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Ala
Odero
St. Clair County
Joseph Compton
Kiwane
Compton
Independent Party
North
Carolina
Boe
Goxpac Road
Josepha Cantob
North Carolina Penitentiary
North Carolina
Streat
Jeferson County
Eden
Birmingham
Talladega and
Coosa Valley
Jess
Campton Turant
Hillsbury
Chapel Hill
How to Fight Weeds in Cotton Early and Well
A long practical guide on controlling grass and weeds in early cotton growth. Emphasizes starting plowing and harrowing at the right time, shallow culture, flat beds, and frequent light soil stirring to prevent crusting and promote steady growth. Discusses sorghum as a versatile crop for food, fodder, and syrup, plus hog feeding benefits and farm planning.
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Graes
Boeing
Hoaing
Horghia
Bermuda
St. Domingo
Romance in Finance: Hand and Williams Restore $660000
A New York World dispatch from New Haven details the extraordinary civil arrangement by which Daniel Hand of Guilford and George W. Williams of Charleston settled a disputed wartime transfer. Williams paid about $660,000 to Hand, restoring the value of Hand’s property with honor. The tale centers on a Southern wartime trust and subsequent settlement arranged by Ex-Judge Luzon B. Morrie, highlighting Hand’s generosity and Williams’s role as a trusted partner. Hand, then aged 83, plans to devote $1,000,000 in his will to educate colored Southrons’ children, reflecting the era’s postwar philanthropy and political concerns.
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New York World
New Haven
Conn
Luzon B. Morrie
Daniel Hand
Guilford
George W. Williame
Charleston
8. C
Willams & Birnie
New York City
Hand
Mr. Williame
Augusta
Hood
Williams
South
Hani
Will Hilms
Meros
Hand Academy
Madison
Alec Ased
Yale Divinty School
Thin City
Mr. Williams
Judge Morris
Mrr. Williams
Williama
Lamar
Gilhoun
Pat Calbone
New York Cotton Exchange
Williams, Birnte Fe Co
William
Carolinaa
Georgia
Teenssee
Florida
Alabama
North
Axwas
New Orleans
Auguste, Gay
Snd
Richmond
Vaz
George W. Williams & Co
New York
Hand Wat Ale Tost
Noyth Bie
Jawa
Solomon's Judgment in Chinese Told in a River Test
A Chinese mandarin settles a custody dispute between two women claiming the same infant. The wise wife orders a live fish to be brought and the child dressed for a river test. One mother sacrifices herself by jumping in to save her own child, proving true motherhood while the other flees, exposing her deceit.
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China
Aabrick
Be Honest Be Honest
A fragment from a reflection on heredity honesty and moral guidance. It cites Livingstone and Horace Greeley on integrity, urging young readers to live honestly, value good name over wealth, and treat neighbors with fairness. The passage emphasizes personal duty and self-improvement.
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Dr. Livingstone
Iris
Blatery
Horace Greely
A Discharged Nurse Clerics Message to Rev Sam Jones
A discharged nurse addresses Rev Sam Jones urging reliance on God not man. She recalls a morning when a poor girl asked to stay and serve, tears and fear in her eyes. The speaker vows to work for God’s glory and the good of others, fearing judgment if dismissed.
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Sam Jones
Ian
Mra
Jones
Mrs. Jones
Norvie
Bill Arp Draws Large Audience in New York
The Tribune reports Bill Arp drew a large crowd in Chickering Hall last week for a lecture titled Dixie Now and Dixie Then. Charles H. Smith and John Underwood joined Arp in a discussion on Georgia’s old aristocracy versus rising common classes, with anecdotes, poetry, and playful jabs at past figures.
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Bill Arp
York
Dixie
the Tribune
Charles H. Smith
Georgia
Chicketing Hall
Buith
Whalley
John Underwood
Bherinay
Enroga John
Solin
John
Ziss
Curing Pearine Hoy Guide For Peavines Method
A Southern correspondent shares a practical method to cure peavines. The plan emphasizes lifting vines and forming cock-like stacks to dry and cure the crop, describing frame construction and stacking heights to prevent rot and wind damage. By two thirds ripening, cutting, laying on ground briefly, then building elevated frames, the vines cure well and can be stored safely after three hard rains.
War’s Reality and the Horrors of Army Life
Patrick Ford argues war’s real horror lies not in battles but in months of exposure to cold hunger vermin damp and fear. He describes cramped quarters brutal rations and the sight of the wounded and dead, the callous indifference of others, and the moral burden soldiers bear.
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Wasrest Antivtam
Patrick Ford
How Long He Would Wait for Me in a Railroading Tale
A fragment from a historic pulp style scene shows How long would you wait for me spoken by a woman to George as she hints at a Western silver mine and a potential separation, while a governor and prohibition topic surface in the backdrop.
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Trish
Old England
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Newsboy
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Moody
Sant Jones
Ouida
Hugh Conway
Haggare
Napoleon
Marie Lovige
Baron Manchausen
Hans Chrialian Anderson
Hhreal
Isop
Nora
Bat
Gotling
Heathstone
Dr. Talomge
Frank Richardson
Richmond
Colonel Towers
Moruhel
George
Father Bea
Mother Stone
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