30 Mar 1899
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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1899
Page
1
The text appears garbled and unreadable, providing no clear events, names, or locations to summarize into a coherent news item. Unable to extract a concrete person, organization, place, or date from the fragment.
A brief note describes a wide place in the sand and an urban English phrasing suggesting a town outlook. The fragment mentions Ree and o town, indicating a local setting or travel reference.
Fragmentary text references elections, governors, and political figures, naming Davis, Lincoln, Henry Clay, and Brhy. The garbled lines touch on public funds, farms, bonds, and social attitudes, with scattered place names like Chattanooga and Nesville. Overall, it appears as a rough, confused political screed from a historical newspaper page.
Georgia farmers used 400000 tons of fertilizer costing over 7000000 dollars, about one fourth of cotton receipts. The Georgia Baptist Convention meets March 31 in Savannah with about 350 ministers and delegates attending. A Fort Scott correspondent talks of Aguinaldo and war in the islands. Reports say much cotton remains unpicked due to rains and scarce pickers, easing prices later. Jacksonville harbor funding and harbor improvements are praised amid large congressional appropriations. The battleship Oregon is celebrated for global voyages and Manila service. An inventor near Tifton seeks patent for a horse driven cotton chopper that cuts stalks and weeds in one pass. The editor humor essay laments newspapers and editors as a vanished creature from biblical times. Catarrh relief with Ely's Cream Balm noted for better hearing and voice.
A editorial urging decisive action to channel capital into the South to spur agricultural and industrial development. It warns against Democratic calls for cheap money, contrasts with Republican views, and predicts the rise of the International Trust Company to finance mills, roads, and plantations, reshaping commerce and regional power. It notes New England’s decline and foresees a continental wave of capital.
G J Pope J K Joice and H M Graham petition Decatur County superior court to form Stuart Lumber Company to manufacture lumber spirits turpentine and naval stores. They seek authority to build operate mills gins planing mills tramroads and related enterprises with capital stock 20000 paid in full and option to raise to 100000, term of up to 20 years with renewal. Filed March 22 1899.
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