New Machinery Doubles Capacity At The Cord Mill
Clarke county’s Mallison Braided Cord Company plans to nearly double output with forty extra machines bought by manager L F Edwards. The plant, employing about fifty, makes sash cord sold nationwide and into Canada, with a Seattle order in progress. Local industry boosts the community.
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Mallison Braided Cord Company
Clarke County
Princeton
L. F. Edwards
United States
Canada
Seattle
Washington
Davyvison and Lowe's Dress Goods Sale Highlights
Athens department store advertises an extensive dress goods sale with black and colored weaves, crapons, challies, and silks. Features include 10 piece wool checks, 25 piece dress goods lots, 50 dress lengths, and wholesale discounts on fabrics, voiles, lawns, piques, and white goods. Also promotes hats, hosiery, embroideries, trimmings, and household items with bold price reductions.
Chattanooga Pipe Works Gains $850000 in Consolidation
Chattanooga Tennessee March 27 Information confirms pending consolidation of country cast iron pipe works including the American Pipe Company plants such as Chattanooga foundry and pipe works The Chattanooga concern will receive 850000 from the deal Four leading stockholders are based here The local plant grew from a modest start to become one of the largest in the new company which will take possession April 1.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
American Pipe Company
Chattanooga Foundry and Pipe Works
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Texas
Arkansas
Kentucky
North Carolina
Municipal Electric Light
Florida
Virginia
Hughes Case Ends in Mistrial in Greenville
In Greenville on March 27 the Hughes case jury failed to reach a verdict. Foreman announced mistrial after two ballots showed a split among jurors with options for guilty with mercy, guilty of manslaughter, and acquittal. Court had summoned Judge Townsend but defendant was absent.
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Greenville
S. C
Hughes
Townsend
Dr Charles Corey Kills Wife in Nightmare Spell
Tacoma physician Dr Charles Corey shot and killed his wife in their sleep claiming a nightmare in which a stranger pursued her. He said he awoke to find a smoking revolver in his hand and believes his tale of an imagined killer. Mrs Corey was a social leader.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Corey
Corey
Washington
Gene
W. B. Carroll
Homiletic Review
Decatur
Sartin
Alabama
Memorial Day in Classic City and Athens Observances
Memorial Day in Athens will dispense with the traditional oration and rely on a largely musical program conducted by students and local groups. The plan includes city schoolchildren joining a procession to Oconee cemetery to decorate Confederate graves, with performances by University of Georgia band members and local schools’ choirs.
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Athens
Ladies Memorial Association
Lucy Cobb Institute
College Avenue
Oconee Cemetery
Receivers' Land Sale in Clarke County Georgia
Under a Clarke county superior court order in Bank of the University v Ath ens Park & Improvement Co. et al a sale of all real estate of the Athens Park and Improvement Co. will occur April 6 1899. The Lots lie in Athens between Prince Avenue and the Boulevard and the G C N RY with a map on file. The sale starts at ten o clock on the premises opposite the Normal School. Terms cash or one third cash and the rest in two annual payments bearing eight percent interest. W S Holman and Shackelford & Shackelford act as agents.
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Superior Court of
Clarke County
Bank of the University
Athens Park & Improvement Co
Athens Park and Improvement Co
City of
Athens
Prince Avenue
Boulevard
Holman
The Popping Stone at Gilsland and Nearby Sights
The Popping Stone marks the spot where Sir Walter Scott proposed to Miss Carpenter in the Irthing valley at Gilsland near Carlisle. It attracts thousands each summer as a romantic landmark with nearby echoes of Mumps Ha from Guy Mannering and views of the Roman wall and Lanercost area.
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Sir Walter Scott
Miss Carpenter
Irthing
Gilsland
Carlisle
Scott
Guy Mannering
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