Campaign uniforms and Gray courage traced to Lee
A long quotation traces General Robert E Lee as the first to favor inconspicuous campaign attire, predicting gray uniforms would dominate armies and reduce casualties. It credits West Point cadets and early regiments, notes resistance to reform, and links Lee’s ideas to modern campaign dress, with stray bits on a Dalmatian dog and a sale pitch for Dr King’s New Life Pills.
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Robert E. Lee
West Point
Gen. Lee
Military Academy
7Th Regiment
New York City
Baltimore
Maryland
War Department
Washington
Lee
Times
Europe
North
South
New York
Boston
Leo
Closing Out Sale on Ladies and Children Wear
Local store advertises massive clearance offering 6,000 yards of cotton goods and ginghams at half price plus reduced prices on stockings gloves underwear blankets and accessories. Specials include 60 waterproof gossimers 1.95, 100 ladies wool sweaters half price, 600 towels, 200 babies caps, 500 corsets varied 60 cents to 1.50, and 25 boxes white floating soap among many other items with overall deep reductions.
Tragic Lula rail line blamed for danger and delay
Citizens criticize the Southern Railway for the Athens to Lula branch track, citing rotten crossties, derailed cars, and unsafe bed conditions. A Banner reporter observed engines stalling near Commerce and a long, stop filled trip. Local commerce fears lost business due to poor schedules and ongoing neglect. Authorities may demand urgent repairs to prevent serious wrecks and restore reliable service.
Col James M Smith Endorsed Across Georgia Platform
The E People platform of Col James M Smith gains broad backing from farmers laborers and professionals statewide. Letters telegrams and newspaper endorsements from Grady Times Floyd County Georgia Freelance and other outlets praise his platform and assert he will represent the people not any clique or ring.
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James M. Smith
Govvernor of
Georgia
Col. Smith
Cleeting
Oglethorpe County
People of
Floyd County
North Georgia
J. H. Reese
Rome
J. M. Smithy
Statehood Bill in Deep Water
Washington January 20 The leaders plan to report the joint statehood bill Tuesday and begin consideration the next day but conservative administration men in Congress deem this unwise Insurgents may block passage Curtis Kansas stalwart says only four or five votes margin unless changes occur Speaker allies acknowledge insurgents may hold up to forty votes with Democrats forming a bloc to reach thirty two votes The speaker is unlikely to risk reporting the bill without a sure path to passage Critics doubt time for working on insurgents before Tuesday’s vote Malaria cure Eleetric Bitters touted as superior to quinine with a testimonial from Munday of Henrietta Texas saying it saved his brother’s life at local drug stores
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Washington
Jan
House
Congress
Curtis
Kansas
Munday
Flenrietta
Tex
Roadbed Investment from Athens to Lula Criticized
A critique condemns funding as a good paying investment from Athens to Lula and denounces permitting the roadbed to deteriorate to a dangerous condition as absolutely inexcusable.
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Athens
Lula
Judge Thomas to Defend Long in Walton County Murder Trial
Judge George C. Thomas has been retained by J. Tom Long of Walton county to defend him at his murder trial. Long shot and killed a man named Toole and is now jailed in Monroe. Trial slated for Walton Superior Court. Chamberlains Cough Remedy advertised with harmless claim. For sale by local Athens merchants.
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George C. Thomas
J. Tom Long
Walton County
Toole
Monroe
Walton Superior Court
H.R. Palmer & Sons
W. J. Smith & Bro
Athens
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Birmingham
New Orleans Picayune
Asssistant
James
Dr. King
H. BR. Primer & Sons
Smith & Bro
Turner and Hodgson
Silr Walats Soc
Lot Kuit
Tragk
Southern Railway
Southam Road
Commerce
Athena
Chamber of Commerce
Athol
Govern Road
Judge Thomas
Long
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