Black Mammy Memorial Institute aims to train colored workers in Athens
The article reports requests from high society women in Pittsburgh and Passaic for trained Black Mammy Memorial Institute staff. It explains the Athens institution will train both men and women for housework, sewing, laundering, agriculture, and trades. Sam Harris promotes industrial education for practical work over elite teaching roles, contrasting with Hampton and Tuskegee.
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McFar * Lane
Pitts
Burg
Passaic
N. J
Athens
Mammy Institute
Georgia
Samuel F. Harris
Athera
Hampton and
Tuskegee
Letter from Yong Man as friend of Sanges hotel owner in Atlanta
A year after befriending Chinese men in Atlanta, W H Sanges of the Sanges hotel received a long verbose letter from Yong Man. He recalls a five hour forty course supper in his honor and explains legal obstacles to returning home. He asks Sanges to visit his store in Hong Kong and to convey greetings to cousins back there. The missive, dated June 27 1910, is presented verbatim.
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Atlanta
A. Sanges
Sanges
Yong Man
Georgia
Mr. Sanges
Athens
Hong Kong
W. H. Sanges
Justice trials push gray mule case to Court of Appeals
Gainesville Georgia September 30 Special. A gray horse mule aged 12 or 13 with a cut left hip valued at 75 dollars has twice faced Justice court before Esquire Elrod and been referred to the superior court. Papers now prepare to send the case to the Georgia Court of Appeals for mer its. The mule’s actions tied to a pasture incident involved damages and multiple certiorari rulings. The story also discusses segregated schools and southern black training institutions and hints at cross regional interest and economic aims connected to the case.
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Gainesville
Esquire Elrod
Bark Camp District
Superior Court
Hall County
Claud Neese
Court of Appeals of Georgia
J. R. Smith
Frank M. Whelchel
Justice Court
Mr. Smith
Mr. Whelchel
Court of Appeals
Tots Spend Day at Bludwine Plant in Athens
About four hundred school children visited the Bludwine Co. on Oconee Street in Athens yesterday. Ice cold Bludwine and a souvenir bludice “racket maker” were handed out as Mr. H. C. Anderson, company president, spoke for ten minutes. He announced motto cards for each child, inspired by Edison’s story of credit and opportunity, and invited kids to pick up a card by visiting the Bludwine office or mailing a 2 cent stamp to request one.
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Bludwine Co
Athens
Bludwine
Oconee Street
H. C. Anderson
Bludwine Company
Mr. Anderson
Edison
The
Private Household Furniture Sale by Mrs Barrow
A private sale advertises the entire lot of household and kitchen furniture on October 4 1911 with a large Majesty range and boiler for boarding house use. Viewing by appointment at 663 North Jackson Street on Tuesday October 3, 1911.
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North Jackson
Henrietta Barrow
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Kildust
Post
Kildust Company
Rome, Ga
Rome
Black Mammy Institute
Good Housekeeping
New York
Riley M. Fletcher Berry
Florida
Sanges Befriended
South
Thos. A. Edison
New Jersey
Mr. Edison
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