Cyclone's Destructive Path Across Georgia County
A devastating cyclone swept through Dougherty Sumter and surrounding counties causing extensive property damage and multiple fatalities. Homes barns and mills were ruined as residences collapsed, several residents killed or injured, and damages estimated around $100 000. The storm tracked northeast from Alabama and affected Americus and nearby plantations with numerous casualties and displaced families.
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California
Tennessee
Rock Mountains
Kansas
Colorado
Nebraska
Georgia
Alabama
Eufaula
Dougherty
Dooly
Dodge
Webster
Elbert
Albany
John Mathews
Wm. Goodwin
W. C. Bacon
Cragen
East Dougherty
Bacon
F. F. Putney
Hardaway Station
Tsabella
Hilsman
Cager & Bacon
Sumter County
Bottsford
Oglethorpe
Justice M. G. Logan
Faust
Dan Faust
Thomas Carrum
W. W. Poole
Americus
Muckallee Creek
S. S. Sloan & Co
Fayette Battle
Fayette
W. T. Woodruff
Young Brown Buckafter
Jack Brown
Woodruff
Miss Nutt
Buena Vista
Wooruff Place
Buckhalter
James Castleberry
John Hook
Congress
State Sunday School Session Set for Augusta May 2 3 4
The Georgia Sunday School Association announces its tenth annual session to be held in Augusta on May 2 3 and 4. Delegates are chosen by county representation and railways offer discounted rates for travel. The call urges delegates from every county and denomination to attend and bring homes ready for visiting delegates. The piece also notes temperance debates in Decatur County and editorials from local papers.
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State Association
Augusta
R. B. Reppard
Georgia Sunday School Association
Georgia
Fhe
Savannah
Florida and Western Railway
East Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia Railroad
Georgia Railroad
Central Railroad
Southwestern
Atlanta and
West Point
Richmond and
Danville
Georgia State Sunday School Association
J. L. Bowles
Ben Russell
Decatur County
Thomasville
Barysinner Democrat
Turbary- Bridge Democrat
Decatur
Alapaha News
How to Make the Garden Pay and Its Benefits
The piece argues long-row cultivation increases garden yields and sanitary benefits by frequent surface soil breaking and weekly cultivation. It notes horse labor could boost efficiency, improves air, accelerates plant food manufacture, and enlarges fruit and vegetable production for better table supplies. It also includes a political aside about W. E. Smith and Dougherty’s delegates and a quoted Emerson line.
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Albany
W. E. Smith
Dougherty
Committee of 18
Gen. Young
Smith
Capt. Smith
Georgia
Dane Rece
Seana Woscre
Crawford
Boynton
Simmons
Deok
Bacon
McDaniel
Ton
Odds and Ends From The Nation And Abroad
Various short items report shipping beans from Florida to the North, a Georgia artesian project to drain ponds, a Vermont man’s fatal swallowed lead shot, shooting accidents in Columbus and Athens, local ghost sightings in Cobb Hall, a child burned by boiling soap, and reflections on life choices. Also notes on Supreme Court justices ages and appoint dates, Northern inquiries about Southern farms, and a bugle of world religious statistics with U.S. and European denominational counts.
Naughty boy sent to corner in schoolhouse dialogue
A schoolmistress scolds Johnny for mischief and orders him to stand facing the wall until allowed to return to his seat. He wittily replies that turning to the wall would mean turning his back on the scholars, prompting further correction.
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Johnny
Marm
Paying His Debt
A father asks his son to choose a life path and contemplates guiding him toward the ministry but the son hesitates and desires a bold or athletic path. The dialogue hints at family influence and generational expectations.
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Ocean Grove
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Major McDaniel
Vg Nance
Gainesville
Sparta Ishmaelite
Suson
Quitman Free Press
Henry W. Grady
Brooks County
Grady
South
Gaines
R. Tennille
Jon Allen
Hur
Fort Gaines
Wabash Times
George Aines
Jacksonville
Saab
Florida
Western Rail
Col. H. 8
Impany
Rlbert Ives
Florida Dis
Southern Express
Haines
Ives
Southtress Company
Jackson
Emerson
John P. Fort
Southwest Georgia Artesian Fame
Vermont
Fred Mason
Jim Salisbury
Columbus
Athens
Cobb Hall
Perry
B W. Brown
Hayneville
Miss Housa
Paris
Ill
Heaven
Supreme Court
Harlan
Field
Bradley
Woods
Gray
Blatchford
Miller
Matthews
Smithfield
N.C
Ballou
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Lexington
Jefferson Davis
Joseph E. Johnson
John W Daniel
London Aquarium
Cobb County
Marrietta
Turkish Kurdistan
Mr. Spofford
America
Europe
United States
Methodist Episcopal
Baptist
Congregational
Presbyterian
Universalist
Uniaterian
Episcopal
Quakers
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