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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1900
Page
3
The readable text mentions prices and items in an unclear context. It references copper, lenses, winter timing, and a need to secure funds or credit. Names, dates, or concrete entities are not clearly established in the fragment.
Local notes span scarce poultry and high prices, visits by Miss Eala Bates and Col. R. B. Russell, Mardi Gras plans, new Chason block progress, ads and subscriptions, civic events, and business updates. Includes rail ticket talk, Rev White sermons, garden seeds, and a plea for a Camilla cotton mill to spur industry and prosperity.
The Military Bazaar for the Bainbridge Independents draws four thousand residents each night at Wrights Hall on South Broad. Ladies organize booths, the Independent drill delights crowds, a string band plays, and refreshments are served as the city supports its citizen soldiery. Also notes: local boosters urge new industries, from cotton mills to a knitting and gun factory, and ads for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Georgia Pine Railway expansion. H B Brockert advertises Poland China pigs for sale.
Robert Bowen of Eldorado won the county school post on the second ballot, defeating J S Bradwell and C T Mims after an initial tie. He will assume duties immediately for a four year term. Also reported a white man’s body found near Chattahoochee railroad bridge with possible foul play and an unrelated seed potato advertisement and medical testimonial.
A reader thanks Bainbridge residents and church leaders for aiding a charitable cause for Georgia’s vulnerable, listing cash gifts from Baptist and Methodist churches and urging continued support. Also notices: tax titles offering land in Decatur county with numerous lots across districts, medical and gardening ads, and neuralgia relief claims.
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