Newspaper editorials on Grant memorial unity and Southern views
The Athens Daily Banner condemns sensational postwar rhetoric, urges peace between North and South, and quotes John S Wise praising Ulysses S Grant. It cautions Southerners against praising figures like Sherman and Lee in Northern terms while reaffirming memory of Confederate dead.
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John S. Wise
Virginia
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Blue Ridge
Mr. Wiese
Lee
Sherman
Pete
Court House
Athens
Clarke Shoe
Iro Cowit
Iaud
Wottman
Olivia Woule
Pike
Sean Neil Ounater
Tom Watson praised for support of Jeffersonian democracy and education
The piece extols congressman elect Tom Watson for embracing higher education and Jeffersonian democracy. It contrasts earlier attacks on the University of Georgia with his recent stance, calling him wiser and loyal, and notes Georgia watches his move toward Congress.
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Tom Watson
Watson
Mr. Watson
Congress
University of Georgia
Sam Small Accused Of Embezzling Ogden University Funds
The New Orleans Daily State reports that Rev. Sam Small boasted of a monument plan for Atlanta and collected funds for it while president of the Methodist University of Diab at Ogden. The money reportedly vanished with Small after he left, leaving the imagined Blue and Gray monument as a mere rumor.
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Sam Small
Ogden University
New Orleans Daily
Ogden
Atlanta
Mr. Small
University
Samuel the Smooth
Remarkable Child Quilter Miss Lema Forney Named Prodigy
The Darien Timber Gazette hails Lema Forney of Fort Valley as a prodigy. Since age six she has created or assembled 593 quilts and gathered 15 533 pins and 4 643 beads. Her feat highlights her early skill and keen handiwork.
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Georgia
Darien Timber Gazette
Lema Forney
Fort Valley
Endowment Bonds and Local Scholarship Notes
Mercer University holds 10000 of its endowment in Georgia Southern and Florida railroad bonds. Georgia Railroad stock is valued at 200 per share with 10 percent interest. Southern bonds trade around 71 per bond at six percent annual yield. The piece discusses investments, local politics, and racial violence tied to a New Orleans shooting and lynching on a Mississippi levee plantation over craps.
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Georgia Southern
Florida
Georgia Railroad
New York
University
New Orixans
Grand Bay
Pointe Coupee Parish
Hermitage
Bayou Sara
Flynn & Degaris
Baton Rouge
West Baton Rouge
Pointe Coupee
Bay
Willie Jr
Ene
Lyon
Sam Hummel
Eaton
Alex Campbell
St Tebe
Owas
Texan Dies On Train From Poison Dose
R C Canterbury of Brownwood Texas died on a Fort Worth and Rio Grande train between Fort Worth and Nirgile after being seen taking a dose of a poison substance. The death followed a journey from Paris and authorities investigated the incident as a possible poisoning.
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Gransury
Tex
R. C. Canterbury
Brownwood
Paris
Fort Worth
Rio Grande
Nirgile
Child in Louisville Recovers After Button Ingestion
A two year old child Bessie Jones from Charlestown Indiana nearly died after placing a button in her mouth and it slipped into her windpipe. She arrived at the Norvonnfirmary in critical condition and Dr W O Roberts attempted to remove the object with several methods.
Windows of the Morning in a Dawn Ode
An evocative verse celebrates sunrise and morning through imagery of daylight entering, nature waking, and divine light. The speaker envisions Heavens shining on windows of the morning as birds sing and the world feels renewed with life.
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Sol
Clark W. Bryan
Good Housekeeping
Baboon Memory Among Deaths in the Mines Tale
A survivor narrates deaths in African mining camps and a lion hunter Major Tokay recalls a drowning friend Sam. He befriends a baby baboon that mirrored Sam and shares the voyage home with the creature clinging to him. The tale blends grief, travel, and a profound bond with the ape.
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Jack
Bill
Harry Handsome
Major Tokay
Tokay
New York
Sam
Simpson
Zanzibar
Begomoyo
Tiltie Simpson
Lue
Tillie Simpson
Bogomoyo
Sama
England
Baboon's Death and War Hero Whispers
A Macabre reminiscence recounts a baboon's death in London with poignant fidelity, likening it to a fallen child and recalling a combat nurse's compassion. A Chicago Times report follows about a humane animal farewell and a later note on shifting private schools to Monday holidays for improved scholarship.
Lizzie Harper Kills Annie Tolbert in Kenney District
In Athens yesterday Lizzie Harper and Annie Tolbert, two Black women, quarreled and fought with firearms. Harper shot Tolbert in the body, killing her soon after. The motive remains unclear and the incident occurred in Kenney’s district as merchants were urged to advertise in the Bansee.
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Lizzie Harper
Annie Tolbert
Kenney
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