How I Built Up My Lands A Georgia Farmer’s Insight
Hon J P Brown of Hawkinsville recounts a thirty year farming life seeking improved land, soil, and methods. He describes buying and developing pine and oak lands, using fertilizers, crops, and hulls, argues for local agricultural support, and details white tenant farming as a rising trend while criticizing ongoing economic drains from city imports.
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J. Pope Brown
Hawkinsville
Farmers’ Conference
State of Georgia
Poverty Plain
David Dixon
My County
Georgia
Calvin
Hudson
Soule
Comparson
Martin V. Calvin
Georga
New England
West
South
Gro
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Unclear fragment on plantation labor and discipline
Fragment discusses white men, eager to take enslaved people from neighbors, causing hardship for those trying to run their farms and do business. It notes beings who were a stumbling block and the impact on discipline and commerce.
March of Progress Through Two States
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index notes robust bank earnings in 1908, with eight per cent and many ten per cent dividends, rising surpluses, and new banks in Cordele, Edwardsville and Wylan. Firms expand into telephones, mills, and construction. bonds issued for roads and municipal improvements. several new corporations and capital increases signal broad regional growth.
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Columbus
Georgia
Alabama
Cordele
Edwardsville
Ala
Wylan
Anniston
Samson
Augusta
Uniontown
Colquitt County
Atlanta
Bullock County
Elbert
Lincoln
Wilkes
Oglethorpe
Forsyth
Coonada
Geneva
Greensboro
Valdosta
Savannah River
Birmingham
Brunswick
Earths Greatest Healer Promises Fast Burns Relief
Slave Fire Laddies ten receive severe burns tending fires then rely on Bucklen Arnica Salve. It quickly drives out pain and heals burns, scalds, wounds, bruises, skin eruptions, old sores, boils, ulcers, felons and piles. 25 cents at W J Smith Bro H Palmer & Sons.
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Earth
W. J. Smith & Bro
Palmer & Sons
Connecticut Dairymen Convene in Hartford for 28th Annual Session
Hartford hosts the Connecticut Dairymen association as members convene for the twenty-eighth annual meeting. Mayor Hooker gave the welcome, Wilson H. Lee of New Haven spoke for visitors. Speakers include dairy division officials from the U S Department of Agriculture and faculty from the Connecticut Agricultural College over two days.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut Dairymen’s Association
Hooker
Wilson H. Lee
New Haven
United States Department of Agriculture
Connecticut Agricultural College
Cotton Trade Record Sets City Pace In Cotton Market
One of the city's largest cotton transactions closed yesterday as Hardeman and Phinizy sold two thousand bales to J M Rogers for Inman Akers and Inman. Prices hovered near 93 4 cents, drawing much attention on cotton row. Rogers, a leading South firm figure, oversees sampling and shipping preparations, signaling renewed activity in southern cotton dealings.
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Hardeman & Phinizy
J.m.rogers
Inman, Akers & Inman
Rogore
Rogers
South
Big Gain in Cotton Prices Shifts Athens Market
Cotton prices rose from 12 cents to about 9 ¼ cents in a month, with over twenty thousand saleable bales in Athens. The value increase surpasses $100,000, and if prices reach ten cents, the gain could reach roughly $125,000, benefiting farmers and local merchants alike.
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Athens
Bhig City
Normal School Notes Debating and Activities Highlight 1909
The Stats Normal school debating societies accepted a challenge from Commerce boys for a debate around April 1, 1909. President-elect Taft spoke at the campus last Saturday, praising the faculty and students. The Boys Athletic Association anticipates a strong baseball season, and Saturday night rounds at the Y.M.C.A. featured a tale by W. G. Allen and a song recital by L. O. Tyler. The Y.M.C.A. elected new officers W Key, V. Tyler, B. L. Jordon, and J. treas, as the school presses ahead with athletic aims and student activities.
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Normal School
Commerce
State Normal School
State of Georgia
Taft
Amilea
Boys Athletic Association
W. G. Allen
L. O. Tyler
J. P. Campbell
Washington, D. C
Gladys McGii
Colbert
Messrs
B. T. Beasley, Jr
J. P
Campbell
EB. B. Davis
Y. M. CA
W.key
Press
V. Tyler
B. L. Jordon
Fuley’s Honey and Tar Claim Cough Remedy
An advertisement asserts no case of cough or cold worsens into pneumonia after using Fuley’s Honey and Tar. It claims to cure obstinate coughs and colds and urges readers to ask their druggist for Bold by all druggists.
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Fuley
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Joseph M. Brown
Black Belt
North Georgia
South Georgia
Bio Deal
J. M. Rogers
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