Moonshiner Zeke Dunnigan Hid In A Cave Still Under A Road
Revenue officers traced Uncle Zeke Dunnigan's moonshine operation to a cave beneath his Gainesville area dwelling and a nearby public road. They uncovered two stills, fermenters, and a large stockpile after a combing search that included lifting floors and probing earth. He was arrested despite claiming no knowledge of the still.
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Hall
Banner
Chapman
Mios
Col. Chapman
Ezekiel Dunnigan
Pall County
Gainesville
Eve
Zeke
Texas
Arkansas
John Ware
Ganesville
Dunnigan’s
Hal County
Zekes
Robinson
Cape
Capé
Doue
Pexas
Ware
Zéke
Mr. Ware
THE TROPICS IN ATHENS GARDENING TOUR
In Athens Mr. J. B. Toomer’s Dougherty street garden displays exotic and tropical plants. A Malaga grape vine from seed, an Arabian coffee bush, a thriving banana, pineapple, almond, English walnut, and a fruitful prune illustrate Georgia’s horticultural ambition and climate.
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J.B. Toomer
Athens
J. B. Toomer
Dougherty Street
Loomer
Tropics
Malaga
Georgia
Empire
South
Drowned Man in South Macon Pond
Special to the Banner Macon July 12 George Lawrence aged nineteen was drowned in a pond in South Macon He had lost his job at the Macon Evening News He went to bathe and warned I am going to be drowned He could not swim A negro named Leroy Glover found the body officials said he was weak minded and may have intended self harm The death of Hon R N Ely A report from Atlanta July 12 says former Georgia attorney general R N Ely died on his Baker county plantation He was a prominent Albany lawyer and served Dougherty county in the 1858 9 legislature
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Macon
George ‘Lawrence
Macon Evening News
Lawrence
Jim Hilliard
Joan
Leroy Glover
R. N. Ely
Atlanta
Georgia
Baker County
Robert N. Ely
Albany
Dougherty County
Earthquakes shake California near Los Oliver region
Special to The Hanner reports San Luis Obispo county area around Los Oliver has tremors for several days with six shocks Sunday and a strongest at 3 o clock yesterday morning. Residents grow alarmed as aftershocks continue.
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California
Hanner
Lan Francisco
Los Oliver
San Luis Obispo County
Innocent Babyland in a Good Housekeeping verse
A poem recalling a mythical Innocent Babyland a child leaves for school and longs to return to the carefree land. The speaker describes a world where all are content and equal, with singing birds and dancing blossoms, contrasted with the troubles of grown life.
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Raed
Babyland
Land of
The
Maud Wyman
A Twin Brother Separated by Ocean and War
The narrator recalls sailing in 1812 with his twin Tom split across ships to avoid bad luck. Years pass with near misses of reunion as each travels globally. A final sighting hints Tom aboard the Poictiers, provoking a risky plan to reconnect amid naval danger.
Drifted boat escape and sea gamble near Atlantic
The narrators recount a nighttime plan to reach a drifting boat after a pursuit by a French privateer. With dwindling wind they decide to swim toward the boat, narrowly spotting a distant square rig and being rescued by the Amelia crew, reuniting with familiar shipmates from Barbadoes. The tale ends with reflection on the peril of a lone drifting craft at sea.
Georgia Railroad Local Schedule 1889 Athens links
Local schedule in effect Sunday April 14 1889 shows fast train parlor cars between Augusta and Atlanta and night express sleeping cars between Charleston Atlanta Augusta Macon. Trains 27 28 stop only at Grovetown Harlem Hearing Thompson Norwood Burnett Crawfordville Union Point Greensboro Madison Rutledge Social Circle Ov anetene Conyers Lithonia Stone Mountain and Athens connecting with Athens trains. Green Eva Dorsey J W White.
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Atlanta
Charleston
Macona
Grovetown
Hiarlem
Hearing
Thomson
Norwood
Burnett
Crawfordville
Union Point
Greensboro
Madison
Rutledge
Social Circle
Ovanetene Conyers
Lithonia
Stone Mountain
Athens
J. “. Green
Eva Dorsey
Joe W. White
Gent
Covington, & Macon Railroad
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Cape of Good Hope
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London World
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Georgia Railroad Company
Tandoy Farm
Jeanie
Ian
Vince
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Lerke
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Danielsville
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J. Y. Gamthers
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