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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1900
Page
4
OCR text shows a chaotic series of time stamps and fragmented words with no clear event, place, or identifiable entities. No coherent subject or participant names emerge to anchor a factual summary.
The Georgia Pine Railway Co of Georgia announces an effective date of December 3 with unspecified details. The brief notice records the company name and the date action in a concise regulatory style.
Nancy Burdette, 60, attempted to swallow a deed while inspecting a record of a family estate in DeKat h county Georgia. Clerks intervened, restraining her as she was detained and charged with attempting to desecrate public records. She posted $250 bond after a Justice of the Peace warrant was issued.
Fragmentary ad copy warns that dodging rain and germs is futile. It argues consumption germs are ubiquitous but a strong throat and lungs prevent infection. It advises immediate action if coughing persists and throat or lung irritation remains.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites is advertised as rapidly healing inflamed membranes, boosting digestion, increasing appetite and weight, and fortifying the body to prevent consumption. The tonic claims value in wasting diseases and is priced at $1.00, sold by druggists.
Building Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge Georgia invites bids from contractors on February 15 for a solid brick church in Bainbridge. Plans and specs are at the law offices of Donnison and Fleming. Bids must cover either tin or slate roof, with both options priced. A $6000 bond required for awarded contractor.
The article lists Georgia's population by decade from 1790 to 1890, noting a total increase of 1,754,805 over 100 years across 157 counties. It compares racial county populations, citing 64 counties with larger colored than white populations and seven with two colored per white, including Floyd County’s near parity. It also promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a trusted treatment for infants and croup, sold by R. L. Bruce.
A Kansas farmer told the Blakely Reporter that he gave his daughter a pair of chickens years ago as God promised to feed the household for four years. He says she now has $64 in the bank and 200 chickens to feed, and within four years she would own the farm and charge him rent to live there.
A woman suffering womb trouble and monthly tumors found relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports four tumors formed in two years, doctors offered removal, but after following Pinkham's directions she regained strength and was cured. A second testimonial from A. K. Davis in Rivenhampton NY credits Pinkham's remedies for curing leucorrhoea and praising the treatment.
Decatur County Georgia declares two public notices for March sales. The first lists a Bainbridge city lot owned by R T C Dickenson to satisfy a fi fa against Friendship Grange Co and others, with Evans and Hall streets as boundaries. The second notice offers the south half of lot 75 in the Fifteenth district as mortgage property to satisfy a Superior Court mortgage from 1898. Both are signed by Sheriff L F Parrrsson.
Notice lists multiple 1900 Decatur County foreclosures in Bainbridge. Sigmund Nussbaum’s Thronateeska Light Power Co. assets including boilers engines and dynamos are levied, plus ice plant equipment and farm property. other deeds include land parcels in Bainbridge and county sheriff sales with mortgages or city court judgments.
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