Editorial Eighteenth Century Courage and Georgia Banking Notes
Editorial comments praise Governor Candler for crime suppression in Georgia and note plans for a third bank in Vordele with 25 000 paid-up capital. The piece criticizes stray proposals, discusses wheat and cotton prices, velvet beans, dog taxes, and Southern industrial plans including manila paper from pine pulp. It quotes editors and merchants on prosperity, transport costs, and agriculture.
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Vordele
Haxia
Farmers urged to sow late crops for relief across Georgia
Maj. Brooks reports unprecedented crop failure in Decatur and nearby counties. He urges farmers to plant sorghum, millet, rye, barley, oats, and garden crops as late as August and September to bridge food shortages, stressing soil fertility, careful harvesting of corn stalks for hay, and feeding plans.
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Ga. Exp
Debate on Southern History Textbooks at Dalton College Commencement
Editor F H Richardson of the Atlanta Journal criticizes northern biased histories taught in southern schools and urges replacing Swinton and Cooper with truth about the Confederacy. He cites a veteran’s fiery insistence that Yankee histories misrepresent the war and calls for public education reform to honor the Lost Cause.
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F. H. Richardson
Atlanta Journal
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Hitory
Dalton Argus
Calls for racial harmony after brutal assault in Safford
The Columbus Enquirer quotes alarm in Early and Baker counties over a brutal assault on Mr Ogletree and his wife by a group of African Americans. It urges higher‑class blacks to help deter crime, warn the ignorant, and join whites in swift punishment to prevent a race war.
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Early
Baker Counties
Ogletree
Uno
Safford
Columbus Enquirer
The South's Transition From Cotton to New Growth
An editorial excerpt discusses the farmer as central to society and notes cotton prices have collapsed. It cites the Telegraph’s view that the South must cut costs or exit cotton as a principal crop, urging diversification and showing symbolical imagery of birds shedding old feathers for new growth. It ends with an advocacy for Dr Antiseptic.
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Telegraph
South
Hawaii
Macon
Upbuilding and decline in rural towns and farming
A 19th century essay argues that towns grow by local effort and farming districts must be developed together. It notes farmers leaving the land for towns, rising stores and clerks, and calls for making farming more profitable to restore balance between farm and town, warning of general exodus if not addressed.
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Monroe Advertiser
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