Local Notes and Meetings Across Barnesville Districts
The Barnesville area reports fine crops and ongoing revival meetings at Mt Gilead Friendship and New Hope. News includes marriages, church memberships, a death, and civic remarks on local politics. Recent agriculture notes promise large yields as elections trigger party tensions.
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Srecorp
Mt Gilead
Friendship
New Hope
John Davis
Ogletree
Harris
The
Baptist Church
W. P. Hemp
Dancers blamed for death of John the Baptist cited in letter
A letter warns against dancing citing Herod and Herodias and Salome as a cautionary tale from Mark 6 18 28. It links a king's vow to a dancer to the beheading of John the Baptist and cautions parents about dancing's dangers while reporting local obituaries and civic notes from Thomaston Stearnsville and nearby areas.
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Herod
Herodias
John the Baptist
John
Salome
Herodiaus
John Baptists
Mark
Senix
For Sale House and Lot at Liberty Hill
For sale a house with four rooms two plastered rooms and a lot with garden pear crib and stable ideal for a physician. Asking price 25000 dollars.
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Liberty Hill
Eclectric Fruit Jars advertised for sale and recruiting
D C Hightower offers Eclectric Fruit Jars as the best on the market. The notice also seeks salesmen agents canvassers and invites ladies and gentlemen to send their names to J M Humphries at 27 Cotton Ave Macon Geo No postals answered.
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D. C. Hightower
J. M. Humphries
Cotton Ave
Macon
Rain and crops noted in Kyoxvne and Alabama report
Aug 10 letter describes light rain in town, heavier country rainfall, promising cotton yields near Blasingame and Culloden. Observes Rev J T Lowe led meeting in Knoxville and welcoming locals, Col W P Blasingame recovering, a new school promising, community planning a large schoolhouse by November, Alabama crops reported in fine condition by the State Bureau of Agriculture.
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Kyoxvne
Wrvj. VW
Blasingames
Culloden
Alabama
The
State Bureau of Agriculture
Notice of firm dissolution and continuation in 1885
Notice states the death of Mr. A. J. Blalock dissolves Stafford Blalock & Co while the business continues for the present year by mutual agreement. Starrord Blarock & Co. Pr., J. W. Starrop. July 16, 1885. Also advertises fine N O syrup at Taylor's for 75 cents per gallon and oatmeal at J. F. Taylor's.
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A. J. Blalock
Stafford Blalock & Co
Starrord Blarock & Co. Pr
J. W. Starrop
N.O
Taylor’s
J. F. Taylor’s
Popular Health Doctrines Questioned by Professor Rote
An article reviews Professor George H. Rote's lecture on common health errors. It covers food tolerances, digestion myths, the dangers of fasting, alcohol effects, baths, vaccination, and claims about cures like hydropathy. It also discusses the Isthmus Canal project and labor abuses in Jamaica.
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Scientific America
George H. Rote
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Baltimore
Hohe
Scintillometric Forecasts and West Point Cadet Life
Scintillometric forecasts claim that blue in star twinkles signals wet weather while green or violet suggests dryness. West Point Military Academy emphasizes democratic representation with equal treatment for cadets regardless of background. Prompt obedience is drilled as a first rule, with rapid, sharp command delivery.
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Arkansaw
Mons. Ch. Montigny
Brussels
Belgium
Ieee
West Point Cor
Hartford
West Point Military Academy
Legacy rights spark tribal tensions and heirship disputes
In Sitka the chief dies and his widows are to pass to the next heir unless they buy freedom with blankets. Widows resist and some Siwashes scorn these legacies triggering tensions and potential conflicts as warlike resentments rise among the relicts and their grandson or nephew succession is enforced.
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Sitka
Horace Greeley and the Tribune Legacy in Print
A reminiscence on Horace Greeley editor of The Tribune, noting his prolific role and the attribution of writings to him. An anecdote recalls a war era subscription mystery, a Lawrence Kansas sender, and the notion that modern readers seldom honor his memory or deeds.
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Weekly Tribune
Horace Greeley
Horace
the Tribune
Eee
Greeley
Horne
Tribune
H. G
Lawrence
Kan
Ohio
Bill Reynolds
Mr. Greeley
Bill
Orange County
William Reynolds
Welsh curate sermon on astronomy stumbles in London
The London Truth reports an Irish or Welsh curates quirky sermon to an English congregation. The notes reduce celestial bodies to humorous misspellings such as a star a small dot in the sky and many stars forming a planet and a Milky Way.
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London
Marketing in the South and Australian Flour Mills
A Chicago Tribune piece notes northerners find refrigerators rare in Memphis and that southern shopping favors small daily purchases. It also reports Buffalo manufacturers equipping inland Australia flouring mills with full machinery.
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Chicago Tribune
Memphis
Tenn
Australia
Buffalo
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Frenan Cra
Prvnag
Barnesville
Hiawrower
Trinity Church
J. F. Sikes
State Senate
KE. T. Trice
Dora Dumas
James T. G. Galdwell
Zebulon
Methodist Church
Liberty Hin
Bush Arbor
W. F. Cook
Geo. W. Yarbrough
Kittie Reeves
Trent Farley
Maddox
E. J. Murphey
Miss Perdue
Rehoboth Church
R. A. H. Farmer
Fla
B. BE
Livseyville
Barrett
Mellie Moreland
Lizzie Riley
Dripping Rock
West Upson
J.E. Redding
G. W. Speigle
Finchers Church
W. H. McDaniel
Furman
Pike
Reno
State Agricultural Society
Thomaston
T. F. Grubb
Upson County
John Nealy
John Dozier
Bibb County
Thompson & King
General Assembly
W. H. Richardson
R. I. Matthews
J.S. King
Prohibition
B. J. Jones
Thomaston Dramatic Club
Golden Farmer
King
W.P. Perryman
Wallace Goode
Ben Anderson
Stearnsville
Aug
Beck’s
P.O
W. J. Coggin
Red Oak Church
Dr. Cook of
Griffin
L.P. Neese
Mt. Zion Camp Ground
Grant
Robinson Crusoe
Carriker
Pauline L. Reeves
Nion
Meansville GA
Ebenezer Church
Reyer. Blosser
J. C. Slade
E. D Slade
J. J. Horne D. HL. Riley
G. J. mcCoy
Liffey’s Springs
Mountain Gap
Jorey Jesuss
Price Baking Powder CO
Ial
Dr. Price
Henry Brad
Shicaco
ST. Louie
Chicago
ST. Louis
Daniel Pratt
Brooks Cotton Press
M. Howard
Barnesville Ga
Istmus Canal
New York World
Jamaica
Colombinans
Brooklyn Eagle
Paris
America
Chicago Herald
Varley
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