Elberton Death Tied to Unknown Foul Play
A prosperous farmer named Smith was found dying on a roadside four miles from Elberton after leaving the town Saturday. His nose was broken and his head crushed. initial heart failure thoughts were ruled out by investigation showing foul play. An inquest concluded death at unknown hands. Smith departed Elberton about 6 pm for home eight miles distant. his horse and buggy returned without him two hours later. His body lay between his home and Elberton.
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Elberton
Smith
Piedmont Athens Club Faces Next Friday Basketball Test
The Piedmont Athens Athletic Club, noted for fast play, prepares for a Friday game against ESBaket Ball teams of the Christian Association after recent defeats to Birmingham and Atlanta clubs. A Jan 27 loss in Atlanta followed a prior win by Piedmonts amid a crowded, standing‑room crowd.
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Athens 4
B'S Christian Association
Ont Athletic Club
Birmingham Athletic
Birmingham
Atlanta Athletic
Fast game draws visitors from Atlanta to packed hall
A lively basketball event at the Association hall features Lucy Cobb students and Normal School supporters from Atlanta. With admission at thirty-five cents, the crowd anticipates a fast game and a large turnout, promising an entertaining matchup.
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Atlanta
Lucy Cobb
Association Hall
Michael Bros. Company Grand Exhibition of Spring Goods
Store news touts immense five story assortment of spring fabrics and ready to wear items. Highlights include silk textiles white goods embroideries laces and a vast line of hosiery and accessories plus house furnishings. A featured sale offers seventy five shirt waist suits for ladies priced at 5 dollars per suit.
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Michael Bros. Company
Mystery Bazaar Menu Fragments Include Tea Cakes and Wafers
A fragmentary menu item list shows Lady Fingers Social teas, graham wafers, Uneeda Biscuits, water thins and zu zu. The readable text hints at a social or pantry catalog from a past era. No additional names or dates are available.
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Lady Fingers Social
Graham
Uneeda
Water Thins
Tax Executions Issued For Unpaid Dues On March Sth
By instruction of the finance committee the treasury issues executions for all unpaid taxes. On March Sth the amount will be turned over to the city marshal for collection. Celery and tomatoes advertised at Wier's. Phone 465.
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W. Turner
Treasury
Wier’s
Counterfeit Dr King’s remedies warned by trusted firms
A warning against counterfeit copies of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds being sold to defraud the public. The notice urges checking for the genuine wrapper with the Bucklen name as proof of authenticity, listing H. H. Bucklen & Co and partners in Chicago Windsor and Windsor Canada.
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Dr. King
Bucklen
H. H. Bucklen & Co
Chicago
Windsor
Canada
W. J. Smith & Bro
H R. Palmer & Sons
Gainesville man Ben Burton held on burglary charges in connection with “Jack the Shooter”
Gainesville Ga Feb 27 Ben Burton twenty three white man was jailed by Sheriff Crow on burglary charges and as a suspect in the Jack the Shooter terrorizing Gainesville. He was arrested at Toccoa on request of Gainesville authorities. Stolen goods found in his possession and identified clothes link him to local thefts. An accomplice believed located, expected to be in custody by tomorrow night.
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Gainesville
Ben Burton
Crow
Jack
Toccoa
Burton
Fire Devastates New Orleans Riverfront Docks
A massive blaze in New Orleans on February 27 destroyed vast Illinois Central Stuyvesant docks facilities. The fire wiped out nearly twelve blocks of modern wharves and sheds, two grain elevators, hundreds of loaded freight cars, and thousands of bales of cotton. The incident dealt a heavy, though temporary, blow to the city exports.
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New Orleans
Illinois , Central
Stuyvesant
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Favorite With Mothers
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised for soothing cures and pleasant taste. It helps with colds croup and whooping cough and contains no opium or harmful drugs. Sold by H.R. Palmer and Sons and W. J. Smith and Bro.
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H.R. Palmer& Sons
W. J. Smith & Bro
East Athens Shooting Revealed as Accidental, Officer Say
Police concluded the East Athens shooting of Cook Thomas, a Black man shot in the leg, was accidental after interviewing witnesses who reported no credible contrary accounts. Johnson Pope fired the shot but authorities dropped charges. Thomas’s condition remains serious though not fatal.
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Cook Thomas
Athens
Johnson Pope
Johnson
Policmen
How the Prisoners Broke Through Jail
A former inmate recounted at length how five prisoners escaped from Danielsville jail weeks ago. They used a steel piece from loggin shoes and a water pipe to sever a door from its hinges, then hammered through a floor weakness to create a passage into the room below.
Doings Yesterday in Mayor's Court
Yesterday Mayor Rhodes disposed of several cases. C. C. Dean faced a disorderly conduct charge postponed to today. Jack Spralding paid one dollar for trotting a horse over a river bridge. Joe Johnson fined five dollars for disorderly conduct. Will Jewell involved in a fight with Johnson was dismissed. Geo. Bostwick fined seven dollars and ninety cents for drawing a knife on Fred Smith.
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Jack Spralding
Joe Johnson
Will Jewell
Darky
Geo. Bostwick
Fred Smith
Runaway Carriage Sparks City Excitement on Clayton Street
A carriage started by frightened horses ran down Clayton street toward College avenue after a paper blew under their feet. The driver left the horses at the post office and returned to find the runaway looming before him. The carriage was badly damaged but no serious injuries were reported. Later a farmer’s mule team also bolted but was halted before gaining speed.
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Clayton Street
College Avenue
Trussell Ad Offers Card or Phone Contact
Fragment lists contact for job class work reading Egditamolaor requesting a card or phone 449 J. G. Trussell at 225 Clayton St.
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Egditamolaor
J. G. Trussell
Clayton St
New Spring Shirts In Various Styles For Economical Buyers
Window display features soft washable silks, sheer lawns, and Irish linen shirts. Some trimmed with hand work, lace, or embroidery. Prices from 6 dollars down to 69 cents. Also includes a medical note advertising Hall's Catarrh Cure and family pills with claims of a cure and a 100 dollar prize.
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Bloomfield
Swayne
Edmont
Ae Piedmont
Athletic
Esbaket
C. A
Piedmonts
Ments
Jou
Michael Brod
Jack the Shooter
Chamberlain
Danielsville Jail
Ty Aeshna
Danielsville
Rhodes
C. C. Dean
George H. Hulme
Turner & Hodgson
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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