Premium chrysanthemum show features prizes and displays
A local exhibition organized by the Ladies Garden Club showcases chrysanthemum blooms, potted plants, fern arrangements, and other decorative plant displays. Prizes include best specimens, richest collections, and notable bouquets from named contributors and businesses in Atlanta, Gainesville, Augusta, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
R. L Bloomind
Janar Cobb
Mra Lamar Cole
Messia, Goode & Reese
Sprigfeld
Ohio
Messrs Stowes & Harrison
Tunesville
Dr. dx Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Atlanta, Ga
Firbet
Ladies’ Garden Club
Bett
Atlanta
Hwby Mesars
Goode and Reese
Ssnoguiel
Asia
Dalia Carlton
Pg Plante
Lamar Cobb
Mra
P. Ormond
Ladies Garden Club
T Design
Lidis Garden Club
Local Garden Club Premiums For Best Home Garden Produce
A historic notice outlines numerous prizes and premiums from the Ladies Garden Club and other sponsors for superior home garden displays. Awards include beans beets cabbage cucumbers and more with cash sums, plant gifts, and best essay and beauty contest honors, aiming to stimulate prize entries and public participation.
Harris Lithia Water Ad Claims Health Benefit
An advertisement touts Harris Lithia Water as cleansing the system and preventing disease, with Parmer and Kinny Brew selling the product and urging readers to drink the impurity cleansing water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris Lithia Water
Parmer & Kinni Brew
Local bankers discussed a new plan for local currency
Bankers proposed certificates of deposit due in sixty or ninety days secured and receivable for debts, not on deposit. The idea would create a Athens based currency usable among residents but not elsewhere unless banks could issue New York Exchange. Merchants and bankers continued talks, with a possible agreement anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Exchange
Athens
Gate City gains a citizen of whom
Professor Andrew J. Cobb moves from Athens to Atlanta to serve as counsel for the Seaboard Air Line System. Athens loses a valued citizen as Cobb relocates to advance his duties and establish stronger ties with the Gate City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew J. Cobb
Atlants
Athens
Prof. Cobb
Gate City
Seaboard Air Line System
News in Brief Highlights Georgia Figures and Disasters
Mr. Andrew J. Cobb named dean of Atlanta Law School. Trinity College Durham opens journalism school. Brunswick reports eight days fever-free. Georgia unit reunion at Marietta. Jacksonville vagrants chained in streets. Gen Clement Evans gains Confederate veteran support for governor. Nat Harris likely congress candidate. John Price arrested for ravishing in Fayette county. Mayor Lamb seeks federal relief. Dawsonville camp meeting closes strongly. Storm death toll on South Carolina coast estimated 500 to 1,000. Washington denies president cancer rumors. Cleveland healthy. Cherokee strip to open for settlement September 16. Carrollton men charged with passing Confederate money. Cleveland and family leave New York for Washington. health praised. Aniston farmer killed in wagon accident. Roger Pounds dies after train jump. Albany street fight injures Davies and Fitzpatrick. Japanese envoys to World’s Fair convert to Christianity. Nesbitt to speak to Franklin county farmers on agriculture. Storm news grows grimmer. Port Royal and Beaufort wrecks, hundreds dead, millions lost. Gov Tillman calls aid for Beaufort. death toll up to at least six hundred. Springfield railroad crash yields fifteen dead. two more suspected. Atlanta youths tried for stealing stamps from Auburn post office. Old man Joe Aidle camps in tree since 18th earthquake. hurricane damages tree home. Mills of Columbus issue currency-like certificates aiding banks in hard times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clement A. Evans
Nat. Harris
Bibb
Congress
John Price
Fayette County
Cullman
Ala
Lamb
Brunswick
Georgia
Dawsonville
South Carolina
Washington
Cleveland
Cherokee Strip
John Henson
Jim Gray
Carrollton
New York
Jas. Glenn
Anniston
Als
Roger Pounds
Sandersville
Thorsday
Albany
Joseph
Davies
First National Bank
Profano T. Fitzpatrick
Japan
Chicago
I. Yoshikawa
Tokyo
Minano
Osaka
E. T. Nesbitt
Carnesville
Rept
Franklin County
Department of Agriculture
The Nation Faces Anti-Option Bill Debates in Congress
Washington, Sept. 1. President Cleveland begins work at the White House after arriving, with a cabinet meeting set for 1 p.m. The Senate discussed repealing part of the Sherman Act while the House amended rules to send revenue measures to Ways and Means, signaling debate over an anti-option bill. A ministerial appointment to Hawaii is unsettled amid rumors, and several banks in Nashville Grundy and Harrisonville reopen after suspensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Vance
Finance Committee
Voorhees
Ways and Means Committee
Committee of Agriculture
Committee On Ways and Means
Yeas
Groavener
Bpringer
Goo
Cleveland
White House
Thurberdis
Mitch
American National Bank
Nashville, Tenn
First National Bank
Grundy
Ila
Harrisonville
Track of the Storm Moves Across the Atlantic to the Carolinas
The West India hurricane formed northwest of Nassau and moved toward the U S coast, reaching Savannah and Augusta by Sunday night and prompting warnings as it tracked inland through Georgia and the Carolinas. Keeley institute in Memphis hosts an interstate league meeting with Keeley Dr. Leslie Keeley presenting addresses to delegates and city leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
West India
Atlantic
Nassau
Bahamas
Haiti
Memphis
Keeley
Keeley Institute
Leslie Keeley
Texas
Issippi
Arkansas
Trouble in the Church and Cholera News Across Continents
Mexican Methodist Bishop Riley ordains five native deacons in Mexico City, risking church unity as plans for a new sect emerge. Separate dispatches report cholera cases and deaths in Grimsby Genoa Alessandria Leerdam and Leerdam as well as Bavarian constitutional shifts. Also notes Oneida yacht off Greenwich with President aboard and local political developments in Atlanta and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
City of
Riley
Republic of Mexico
Methodist Episco
United States
Church of San Francisco
Promised Help Fails to Aid Brunswick Relief Effort
The Brunswick bulletin signed by H Buford announces no new cases after eight days and that no further bulletins will be issued unless new cases emerge. Georgia delegates and surgeons pledge aid as distress persists for lifesaving supplies despite a $100 contribution from Dr. J T M of Pittsburg to the relief committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunschck
H. Buford
Board of Health
Dr. J
Hors
Georgia
Delegat and
Mem
Mnenw
Me. T. M
Pittsburg
Relief Committee
After a Brutal Murder in Memphis
Etta Ivy, a respected colored girl, was outraged and murdered on Wednesday by Andrew Wilkerson, a notorious negro desperado and ex convict. After killing her he mutilated the body in a manner similar to the affections practiced by Jack the Ripper. In Monticello Illinois, August 21, Grand Army men question the man claiming to be William Gestptzims, linked to Fairfield Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mewphis
Etta Ivy
Andrew Wilkerson
Wilkerson
Monticello
Ill
William
Fairfield Post
Nola
Jailer’s Skull Cracked. Escapees Flee Sumter County Jail
A fragmentary report from Avenicus Georgia notes three prisoners at Sumter county jail escaped after a violent incident. Bloodhounds pursued them across the area, one escapee possibly fatally wounded, and the trio reportedly returned to the jail within about half an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avenicus
Sumter County
Mie Arenas
Lad Beck
London Fire Briefs and Local Elections Amid Turmoil
A jumble of 19th century clippings notes London fire in a packing box factory, a home rule bill debate, and local political maneuvering in Buckele n and New Orleans. Mentions casualties, civic figures, and a mayoral candidate with past service. The fragments sketch a period of civic concern and shifting leadership.
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London
Londox
George York & Co
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Garden Club
Wibst Neil
Vegeta
Bandhorse Road
Lythe
Cincinnati
W. Betts
Tor Ee
E. K. Lumpkin
Leeks
Cuthbert
E. KE. Lumpkin
Jos Carlton
Ei Johnson
Canary Bird
Ed Johnson
Atlanta Law School
Trinity College
Durham
N. C
Twenty-third Georgia Regiment
Marietta
Jacksonville
Port Royal
Beaufort
Gov. Tillman
Baufort
J. H. Averill
Springfield
Maas
Auburn
Charles
Samuel Jackson
Nickle
Joe Aidle
Upper Edgefield County
S.C
C. E. Battle
Columbus
Cornelias
Pinson
Jou Caawyorp & Co
Wilson
Honolulu
Mr. Cleveland
Indi
Agacusta, Ga
W.S. Morris
The
Georgia Railroad
Mathias Turner
Morris
Gsorgis
James Thompson
Charlton County
Ednesds
Thom
Stike
Lowpor
South Wales
Monmouthshire
Siam
Banaxor
Zara
Germany
Beatan
Sulmbach
Wartemburg
Black Forest
Baden
Salmbach
Finn
Keeley Men
Arma
San Antonio
Tex
Marco Ornellas
Cardeira Party
Aes
Coachalla
Ther
Canal Te
Rnard Revas
A Bc Ae Oeunday
Grimsby
Lincolnshire
Italy
Rome
Genoa
Alessandria
Palermo
Messina
Catania
Bavaria
Bupa-Pesth
Pesth Liord
Bavary
Voltaere Rasemer
Luis
Greenwich
Conn
Captain’s Island
E. ©. Benedict
Eeere
Amsterdam
Leerdam
Dutchees Steamship Company
Eerstary
Hoke Smith
Cape
Greem Hamopore
Egypt
West
Exuima
N. Y
Joseph A. Us
New
George 8
Chester
B.T. Baumer & Co
Hetty Hearn
Eatonton
Newby
Orurans
Bernard Elots
Ae Club
A. Sohail
Cae Sante Tai
Loxpox
Lange
Hondage
Nuacana
Cotvurists
J. M. Collier
Buckelen
John Crawford
Ormons
Asa
Jo. C. Bernard
Ples Soe
de Ee
Fecoms
Bradfield See CO
Aeoata, Ga
Harris
Tam
A.N. Tally, M. D
Mannes &Co
G. R. Lombardi ,Co
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Augusta
A. A
Ar. Chicagos
Fred. D. Bush
DRA, L
N. BR
Wall St
Alea Sante Howard
Yaly
Pamenk
B. H. Noble
Mamie Howard
Clarkeounty
F. Hood
Wihns
Ea Othis
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