Prof Starnes Lectures to Ladies Garden Club on Grapes
Prof H N Starnes delivered a practical grape pruning lecture to the Ladies Garden Club using a blackboard and colored crayons. He shared varieties, noted Venango as promising, and gave fertilizer rules for each vine age, urging readers to obtain Bulletin 28, September 1895, from the Georgia Experimental Station.
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H. N. Starnes
Ladies
Garden Club
Starnes
Georgia Experimental Station
T. V. Munson
Denison
Texas
Bell
Niagara
Concord
Olita
Munson
J. F. Rice
Griswoldville
Carmen
Mills
Lewis Rousch
Fredonia
New York
University Farm
Ladies’ Garten Club
Prof
Georgian Killed His Mother At Funeral In Pleasant Hill
A Georgia newspaper reports two men died in a Merriwether county card game duel and George Williams killed his mother as the husband and father were buried. Williams is jailed in Greenville awaiting a jury verdict. The bereaved husband and wife were buried together after the graveside shooting.
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Pleasant Hill
Newa
Merriwether County
Greenville
British Loss at Railway Hill in Boer War Action
London report from Pieters on Railway Hill describes Inniskilling Fusiliers and Dublin and Connaught units under heavy fire. Key officers killed include Colonel Thackeray Major Sanders Colonel Sitwell Captain Maitland Colonel Thorold. About 252 killed or wounded as Major Littleton’s brigade relieved them at dawn.
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London
Cronje
Natal
England
Railway Hill
Innakilling Fusiliers
London Mail
Date
Pieters
Inniskilling Fusiliers
Dublin Fusiliers
Connaught Rangers
Thackeray
Sanders
Inniskillings
Sitwell
Maitland
British in Natal report boosts public concern over Lady Smith relief
London observers parse General Buller’s dispatch as a hard won victory yet urge relief of 8,000 besieged troops in Natal. Critics expect Roberts to shift forces to the Free State, aiming toward Bloemfontein while noting 600 Boers captured at Kimberley.
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London
General Buller
Ladyamith
Lord Roberta
Natal
Buller
Natal Bay
Ladysomith
Baller
White
Lord Roberts
Free State
Bloemfontein
Kimberley
Roberts Faces Hard Fighting Toward Pretoria
Amsterdam dispatches quote an array of evening papers arguing Cronje’s capitulation won’t end the war. They warn of protracted conflict as Lord Roberts advances, with Boers likely to intensify guerrilla tactics and Cape Dutch resistance posing ongoing danger to South Africa.
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Roberts
Amsterdam
Cronje
Algemine Handlesblad
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
Cape
South Africa
Europe
Guckenheimer Dead Wealthy Georgia Merchant
Savannah mourns Simon Guckenheimer a leading wholesale grocer aged 80 his estate valued over 1 million dollars. He arrived in the United States from Germany with twenty dollars and rose from trader to head of a major Georgia wholesale house.
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Savannah
Simon Guckenheimer
Germany
Georgia
Backache Relief Through Pinkham Medicine Praise
Mrs C Ktenx of Wells Minnesota and Mrs E Furton of Meade Michigan report long battles with backache, nervous prostration, and headaches. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash they claim complete recovery, improved sleep, energy, and daily work capacity. Multitudes of women share similar relief and credit Pinkham's remedies and advice.
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C. Ktenx
Wells, Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia. Pinkham
Cronje's Army Slips Back in Boer War Standoff
War commentary notes Cronje's force of about 4000 survivors and captured artillery as 12000 troops retreat. The Morning Leader cites heavy guns moving toward Bloemfontein amid British pursuit. The piece also mentions a timely anecdote about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons after a croup case in Albany.
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Albany
Otto Sebolts
Chamberlain
H. R. Palmer & Sons
How They Missed It Price and Co Telegraphs Spark Cotton Jump
A fragment from The Banner describes telegrams from Price McCormick and Co of New York never requested by the firm. A telegram warning of rising and risky prices accompanied a sharp cotton surge, with cotton futures climbing 85 points to its season high within a day. The piece also includes a testimonial praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy from D S Mearkle of Mattie Bedford County, Pa, sold locally by H R Palmer & Sons.
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Price
McCormick & Co
New York
Price, McCormick & Co
Mearkle
General Merchant
Farner
Mattie
Bedford County
A Widower Seeks Terrell For Matrimonial Aid
A South Carolina widower writes Col. Terrell asking him to find a wife worth at least four thousand dollars, with a $25 fee per thousand above that threshold. The Georgia Attorney General would accept no payment and insists he is not running a matrimonial bureau.
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Atlanta
South Carolina
Terrell
Col
Col. Terrell
Raid Hits Two Stills Near Statham in Jackson County
Revenue officers Deputy Collector Moore Deputy Marshall Trammell and B H Sikinnetrew raided two stills within two miles of Statham Jackson County on Monday. Workers fled, warrants issued for five men, over two thousand gallons of beer and whiskey destroyed. Officers plan to raid more stills as spring approaches.
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Moore
Marshall ‘Trammell
B. H. Sikinnetrew
Jackson County
Statham
Public whipping of sixteen year old girl in Greenville
In Greenville county a sixteen year old girl was publicly whipped by her father with a hickory switch instead of facing charges for assault on an elderly woman who had scolded her over family washing. The punishment drew a single neighbor, a magistrate and constable, and a representative of the injured party to oversee it.
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Charleston
Greenville County
Negro Boy Shot On Pulaski Street
Yesterday morning Homer Snow, a small negro boy, was shot in the head on Pulaski street. The wound proved a flesh wound after the parlor rifle discharge by Fletcher Freeman, son of R L Freeman. Dr Conway attended the boy. the incident left the Freeman child frightened and not likely to handle the rifle soon.
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Homer Snow
Pulaski Street
Fletcher Freeman
R. L. Freeman
Talmadge Mill
Conway
University Baseball Team Poised for Strong Spring Play
Capt McBride of the university baseball squad awaits favorable weather for on campus practice. Officials anticipate one of the strongest college teams in history with solid material already evident. Battery work undecided but expected to be training before the season. Schedule nearly complete with top southern colleges and several northern foes, many games set in Athens and most in Atlanta.
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McBride
Athens
Atlanta
Fuel for Force in Scott's Emulsion Ad
An old advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion as the best fuel to build nervous, muscular, and digestive strength. It claims cod liver oil boosts all forces when one is weak and highlights a $1.00 price at all druggists with Scott & Sowne, chemists, New York.
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Scott
Scott & Sowne, Chemists
New York
Fort for Congress in Georgia race hinted by Fort
In Macon Georgia February 23 Judge Allen Fort of Americus said he would likely run for Congress if his business affairs are in order within weeks. He disputed a previous Times Recorder report and noted substantial local urging. E B Lewis the current holder seeks re election. Lewis beat Fort in 1896 and ran unopposed in 1898. In Buffalo New York on the same day Mostaga White said Cronje’s surrender marks the end of offensive operations in the war. The British force’s magnitude forced shift to defense.
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Macon
Allen Fort
Americus
Americus Times-Recorder
Judge Fort
Times-Recorder
Congress
E. B. Lewis
Mr. Lewis
Buffalo
N. V
Ludicrous Affair Grips Kentucky Government in Frankfort
Two rival state governments claim to run Kentucky at Frankfort as banks refuse to recognize either faction. State funds are tied up while courts decide who is officially authorized to pay and receive money. Democratic officers have opened offices in the Capitol hotel and state institutions suffer delays.
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Frankfort
Yeb
Capitol Hotel
Miss Cora Lilly Dies at Home in City
Miss Cora Lilly, a talented young lady, died last night at seven o clock at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs John Lilly on the corner of Washington and Foundry streets. She had suffered from poor health for years and had left a teaching post. She was a member of Oconee Street Methodist church and will be interred in the family burial ground near the city.
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Cora
Lilly
John Lilly
Washington and Foundry
Miss Lilly
Oconee Street
Grain Crop In Short Bad Shape In Georgia
A Spalding County farmer reports badly damaged grain with oats likely to be re-sown and wheat cropped to a moderate yield after frost. In Griffin and Macon reports, farmers lament replanting while a Augusta hotel manager changes at the Brown House. London notes the queen and the Prince of Wales.
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Griffin, Ga
Capt A. ©. Mathews
Meriweather County
Macon
William Neel
Augusta
Neil
T. O. Parker
Buuller's Severe Task Described From Pietermaritzburg
A Daily Mail dispatch from Pietermaritzburg details Gen Buuller's daunting advance and the vast task of attacking lines with breastworks manned by riflemen and quick firing guns. A Colenso dispatch notes Boers attempting to outflank as heavy fighting continues.
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London
Daily Mail
Pietermaritzburg
Colenso
Anniston to Erect Hundred Thousand Dollar Cotton Mill
William Noble John H Noble and James Keith Jr plan a new cotton mill in Anniston Alabama at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars and already arranging for machinery This would be Annistons fifth mill and the second new mill this year in February London war office reports about four thousand prisoners in the Orange Free State Transvaal combined with captured Transvaal and Free State officers and guns in the ongoing conflict
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Anniston
Ala
William Noble
John H. Noble
James Keith, Jr
London
Lord Roberta
War Office
Orange Free State
Transvaal
Free State
Free
Fleming in Washington and New York Recovering in Augusta
Dr. W. H. Doughty Jr reports Congressman W. H. Fleming’s condition improving from nervous exhaustion after back to back hospital stays in Washington and New York. Fleming, who had appendectomy months earlier, now rests at his brother’s New York home and is expected to take weeks to resume duties.
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Augusta
W. H. Doughty, Jr
Washington
New York
W. H. Fleming
Fleming
Mr. Fleming
Dr. Doughty
Doughty
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