Miscellaneous 1890s notes range from moonshine to politics
A sprawling miscellany reports a moonshine find in New York City, a proposed Georgia and Janito funded prison in Atlanta, a Texas pig of 710 pounds, and a Populist convention in Sioux Falls. It notes gold finds in Texas, a cold Florida snap threatening citrus, and various rail, agricultural, tariff, and political items across Georgia, South Carolina, and beyond. It mentions cotton price effects, tax stamps on rent notes, fires in Thomasville, and debates over pensions and Philippine expansion.
Baptist Churchrow Johnson defends his conduct and calls for harmony
In Athens on February 17 the Banner recounts Johnson’s column defending his expulsion from the church. He denounces bitter rhetoric, lists supporters, and argues against excluding him for selling liquor at the dispensary. The piece recalls a century-old Methodist episode and stresses farm prosperity as vital to the republic and national welfare. Farmers in South Georgia are described as prospering with diversified crops and cash fertilizer purchases.
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Athens
Icle
Johnson
The
Baptist Church
Lawrences
First Methodist Church
Old Time Methodista
South
Georgia
Republic
Remedies for Cholera in Hogs and Butter Salting Advice
Houston county farmers suffer cholera on hogs and advocate a lime and salt remedy by L. D. Moore, claiming twenty years of success and urging ready access. The piece also includes guidance from Hawkinsville Dispatch and American Cultivator on butter salting for even distribution and avoiding brine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston County
L. D. Moore
Hawkinsville
Humorous Epigrams and a Nose for Nostrums
A collection of pithy witticisms on manners and folly, followed by a midline ad for Ely s Liquid Cream Balm. The benchtop quips touch on sleep, politeness, sympathy, love, and courage, then pivot to a 75e nasal spray patent medicine from Evy Bros. and Dr Miles Nerve Plasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely’s
Evy Bros
Warren St
N. Y
Proposal for a local gunnery mill and meat market in Tifton
The Quazette urged a merchant owned mill and gunnery to boost cotton receipts and regional trade in Tifton. A stock company should fund a town market for corn and rice, lowering prices and expanding local commerce. Home raised meat, pork and cured hams from Southern farms could replace Western supply over time, improving cash flow for farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Tiften
Tifton
South
West
Locks for the Florida Keys to a dentist and more
A whimsical ode lists tasks and roles from a tower of fancy asks including a crown for a hill and a hat for the Missouri river. The piece juxtaposes playful desires with a line from Marietta Journal and an 1896 testimonial about Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It also includes details of a Georgia tax sale in Decatur County led by Sheriff L. F. Patterson with numerous parcels described for sale on the first Tuesday in March 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Enwarps
the Review
Wyant, In
R. L. Bruce
Georgia
Decatur
M. W. Bates
Said
Bainbridge and Tallahassee
W. R. Thomas
M. C. Williams
Bainbridge and Tallahassee Road
O. B. Thomas
M. E. Church
Cook
Lasseter
G. P. Wood
I. Lasseter, Sr
George Smith
W. W. Ashben
Towi
Said County
Simon Steininger
M. W. Mates
Robert J. Magee
G. W. Wood
J. A. Butts
William W. Daniel
A. K. Gray
Mra. C
Harris
G. B. Lamar
W. G. Green
Edmund Screen
Fife
H. D. Maxwell
M. W. Hates
Mie
Jacob Cohen
L. F. Patterson
Sheri
Movements and Odd Facts From Global Notes
A collage of novelties and stats from around the world includes a disabled bird in Mesteo, 1400 Chicago letter carriers, Pilipino women sans hats, Korea's movable type, Manila servants earning 18 a month, Brazil coffee at 140 million yearly, Klondike nugget factories, Tennessee coal mines 76 in number, English fruit cost at 50 million annually, a Queensland quicksilver fountain, 105 miles of Swiss electric roads, Dominican nuns shoeing horses in South Africa.
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Mesteo
Chicago
Koren
Manila
Brazil
Klondike
Tennessee
England
Queensland
Switzerland
South Africa
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New York City
Atlanta
Janito
Texas
Sioux Falls
Cinnabar District
Florida
Houston Post
Kentucky
McKinley
North Carolina
Bainbridge
J. R. Smith
Fitzgerald
Charles H. Smith
Bill Arp
Bill
South Georgia
Atlanta Journal
Concord
N. G
Buller
Federal Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Southern Railway
New York
Jacksonville
Charleston News and Courier
Gearmonths
Santiago de Cuba
Island
Thomasville
Stone
Porto Rico
Mr. Swanson
Virginia
Hous
Can
Sims
Savannah Morning News
H.G. Turner
Senator McLaurin
South Carolina
Brooks
Congress
Turner
Republican Party
Hawaii
Cuba
Philippines
New England
Mr. Bryan
Savannah News
Mississippi
Boston
Consus
Miu
Fk Cure Comstipa
Rco
Ayer
Lowel
Mage
Il Pan
New Yorks
Parag
Elkhart
Tnds
Aloon
Prowr
Hi Lilly
Neecia
Storia
Miles
Florida Keys
Darling
Marietta Journal
Tutt
Davis & Lawrence Co., Limited
Perry Davie
Charles C. Bush
Randolph B. Russell
Bush
Joe, H. Gilpin
Ino. C. Chabon
Gilpin & Chason
AT : Law
Decatur County
A.H. Russell
M.B. O'Neal
Russell & O’neal
Nussbaum & Harrell
Attorneys AT Law
Old Bank
Trainbridge
Will H. Krause
Bainbridge, Ga
Hawes & Hawes
Bower
Byron B. Bower, TR
Bainbridge, Georgia
Broad Street
DR. W. Berry
Broughton Street
Troupe and
Clay Streets
E. J. Morgan
T.E. Morgan
Bruce
Broughton and
South Broad Street
S. J. Chesnut
Palmer & lcTyre
Orrick
Chason’s
N. W
Public Square
Hunewell Griffin
H. A. Furner
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