Postage Rates and London Bureau Terms
United States Canada and Mexico rates listed with page counts and foreign rate notes. London Office in Trafalgar Buildings offers reading rooms and visitor facilities for southerners. Notice to subscribers lists traveling representatives and city collectors for Alabama and Georgia areas. Subscription terms for daily weekly and Sunday editions provided with prices and mailing details.
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Kentucky's Disgrace as Assassination Shocks Politics
Atlanta dispatch reports Kentucky's grim political crisis amid assassinations and armed mobs. With governors and candidates under threat, the state degenerates into a capital under martial law as factions arm for conflict. Strong appeals urge Democrats and Republicans to restore law and order.
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Kentucky
Commonwealth
Clay
Breckinridge
American Commonwealth
Texas
Reckoning Call for Kentucky in Dark Political Crisis
The text urges honest conservatives in Kentucky to step forward during a violent political crisis at the century’s end. It condemns partisan use of revolvers and assassins, calls for citizens to restore peace and order, and warns that martial law looms if factions fail to act.
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Jonesbero
Gage
Treasury Department
Philippines
Phiippine Porta
The Cotton Situation
A Atlanta business leader Mr. R F Shedden shares views on holding cotton for higher prices amid changing crop estimates. The piece notes European buyers, market manipulation by speculators, and ongoing price increases despite mixed receipts. It also criticizes a bully-bear firm for excessive telegrams and public antics.
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Atlanta
Neill
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Munn & Co
Europe
South Africa
Emigrant Wagons Stop in Americus From Fitzgerald Route
A string of prairie schooners arrived in Americus from Fitzgerald carrying dissatisfied settlers who once staked claims in Wiregrass Georgia and now seek a new land of promise in northern Arkansas. The piece argues Georgia’s Wiregrass offers unmatched crops, beef, hogs, climate, and soil, and suggests discontent lies with individuals, not the land.
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Americus
Fitzgerald
Georgia
Noatherm
Arkansas
Canaan
Irwin County
Plenty
Worth Remembrance as Cotton Prices Forecast for 1900
A Tribune column recalls Mr George W Truitt stressing 1900 cotton prospects. He warns that cotton at 7 to 8 cents won't cover production costs, as prices for farming inputs rise. Truitt advocates reducing his own cotton acreage from 500 to 200 as a sign of good faith and to mitigate forthcoming farmer losses.
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Hill
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J. W. Hamilton
Atlanta, Ga
Practical farming plan to profit from abandoned acres
The article cites Mr. Truitt showing how to turn 300 abandoned acres into profit even after a ruined cotton crop. It urges farmers to seek multiple markets, avoid dependency on midmen, and prepare for future price swings. Unity among farmers is vital to shape the southern planter’s future as landlord or tenant, with September looming as a critical deadline.
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New York
South Carolina's Progress in Cotton Manufacturing
A correspondent argues South Carolina rose as a manufacturing state due to proactive citizenry and government support for local resources. Growth contrasts with Georgia, highlighting state advertising, agriculture and commerce efforts, local capital, and policy trusts as key factors driving industrial expansion and capital attraction in the Palmetto State.
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Union
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Blizzard Tales and Lively Old Citizens from Georgia
A colorful dialect piece recounts a brutal blizzard in Georgia with frozen doors, a sheriff perishing at dawn, and townsfolk braving the cold. It weaves in comic vignettes of preachers, blacksmiths, and a wry note on April thaw followed by cheerful musings about resilient local characters and humorous anecdotes from the Whitsett Courier.
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Colonel Spriggs
Sally Fancer
Mart Scott
Ibliss
Letters From The People A Tribute To The Constitution
Readers praise The Constitution for exposing bears and protecting southern cotton interests. Correspondents from Atlanta and Folkston relay support for editorials on economics, advertising, and industrial growth, naming Georgia figures, Dawson, and South Carolina's development while noting imports exports and war costs through 1900.
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Did Not Hate a Vacui Collier's Weekly
A young writer stands in the night, gazing skyward in a frenzy as a friend asks about astronomy. He replies editors provide space, a place where nothing is crowded out, revealing his devotion to ample intellectual room.
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An Early Rescue in a Catholic Standard and Times
A fragment from Catholic Standard and Times recounts a rescuer describing pulling a drowning man from a well after hearing the woman yell. The exchange highlights a desperate youth and a grateful mother figure, with rough dialect and missing details.
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Walker
Abe
Kentucky gentlemanly spirit sparks partisan fire
A Paducah observer notes Kentuckians prize personal honor over court action, blending quiet rural tradition with readiness for conflict when provoked. The piece recounts Texas letters, Atlanta photo mailings, and railroad union praise, weaving a portrait of a volatile yet civil state climate.
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