Bainbridge Georgia the healthful inland resort and its artesian waters
Year round for steam baths and healing waters, Bainbridge lies 236 miles from Savannah and 60 miles from the Gulf, a county center of 2500 square miles with forests rivers and diverse soils. Artesian wells supply water to every house, claimed to cure dyspepsia kidney and bladder ailments, with a water works contract under way for universal city use.
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Bainbridge
Savavanah
Florida
Alabama
Gulf of Mexico
Figures For Farming In Grand Rapids Speech
Postmaster General Dickinson cited 1887 figures showing Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana paid the West 40 million dollars for wheat, pork, and other farm products. He urged Southern farmers to produce more locally. Georgia’s agriculture is gradually shifting toward more corn, wheat, oats, hogs, and improved pastures, with countyExhibitions indicating growing interest in horses and mules as prosperity may rise.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Dickinson
Dome
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Lousiana
Louisian
Savannah News
A Rich but Backward Southern Country Foretold
Henry W Grady cites a Georgia funeral in Pickens County showing national imports in coffin nails shoes and clothes while only the corpse and grave goods remained local. The piece also touts Ely s Cream Balm and electric bitters as cures, praising national remedies over regional resources.
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Henry W. Grady
Atlanta Constitution
New York
Georgia
Pickens ‘County
Vermont
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Massachusetts
Chicago
Lynn
Northern Capital in Southern Lands Drives 19th Century Growth
Northern investors dominate Southern land and rail holdings including the Hamilton Distten syndicate in Florida and the Louisiana and Nashville rail land grant in West Florida. Heavy buyers like Inman and Swan, the Brownings, and the Kountze Brothers control pine, cypress, and mineral tracts across Virginia to Georgia. Tariff reform, Western farming, and factory moves from New England shape economic shifts. experts warn large farms thrive with smart management and smallholdings can outpace big operations in profit and independence.
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South
Hamilton Dissten Syndicate
Philadelphia
Florida
Louisiana and Nashville Railway
Pensacola and Atlantic
West
Gulf
Pensacola
Illinois Central
Chesapeake and Ohio
Richmond
C. P. Huntington
Jay Gould
Brice
Thomas
Inman and
Swan
Alexander and
Green
Virginia
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Alleghanys
Inman
Brownings
American Loan and Trust Company
New England
Legion
Kountze Brothers
New York
Louisiana
Mississippi
Ogden
Robert Goelet
Gen. R. A. Alger
Detroit
Wirt Dexter
N. K. Fairbank
Chicago
Stockbridge and
Palmer
I. M. Weston
Democratic National Committee
Jay Hubell
Otto Block
Lasseter Arrest Sparks Broad Street Standoff
On Broad street Mr W H Lasseter was arrested on a Decatur county misdemeanor warrant. Sheriff Farnell stopped him near R Thomas drug store after Lasseter fled, drawing his pistol to order surrender. Lasseter was taken to Bainbridge that evening amid a tense moment witnessed by bystanders.
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E. J. Morgan
Harrell
West Street
Shotwell
Broad Street
W. H. Lasseter
Lasseter
Decatur
Hurst
A. C. Farnell
R. Thomas
Farnell
Point Plank Range
Bainbridge
Thomasville Enterprise
Independent Farmer and Cotton Surplus Buy-Back? Evidence From Local Tone
The piece cites congressional acts on electors meeting the second Monday in January and forwarding certificates to the president of the Senate, noting a 1887 law fix. It then praises an independent Michigan farmer who avoided debt by home production and cash purchases, unshaken by trusts, and contrasts with a Michigan family’s cross-country rail journey to Jasper, Alabama.
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Congress
Senate
Union
Marietta Journal
Michigan
Jasper
Ala
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W. E. Hunter
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Bainbridge, Georgia
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Bainbridge Georgia
North West Water Street
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Albany
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Colquitt, GA
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