Barnesville Faces Rebound After Fire and Debt
The Barnesville Gazette notes six months of effort toward a railroad with nearly $10,000 in stock. It recalls local marriages, deaths, and news from Hollonville Thomaston and Liffeyville, plus a reflective editorial urging forward push and credit preservation as Barnesville rebuilds with industrial power, schools, and commerce ready to surge in coming months.
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Goxcorp
W. A. Strickland
Mary C. Irvin
East Georgia
Barnesville's Resilience Defies Fire and Setbacks
A Barnesville observer disputes claims of downturn after last year's fire and the collapse of leading firms. He argues the city remains thriving, resilient, and far from dying, noting recovery in neighboring Middle Georgia towns and the enduring spirit of Barnesville amid past losses.
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Barnesville
Middle Georgia
Prominent Fairburn Merchant Dies by His Own Hand
Mr Joseph Brantley a leading Fairburn Ga merchant died last Friday by taking morphine in a suicide. He had just returned from a lunatic asylum about six weeks earlier where he was under treatment. Also dying last Friday night was Mr E W Holland proprietor of New Holland Springs at his son’s Edgewood home. A negro woman named Mittie Calhoun was killed when she was torn apart by an Airfy Line train Friday.
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Johnsonville
Samuel Gardner
Mississippi
Alma Brantly
Minnie McDonough
Fleming High School
T. A. Ethridge
Celia Reynolds
W.G. McMichael
Ethridge
Reynolds
Thomaston
Uned
Pfudge Amos Worrill
B. E. L. Timmons
M. E
Li ¥Seys
Nancy Hagan
M. R. Hagan
Neese
C. J. Parker
Texas
Irby
Troup County
Finchers
Smith
Concord
Joseph Brantley
Fairburn
E.W. Holland
New Holland Springs
Edgewood
Mittie Calhoun
President Cleve land's tariff and currency message
President Cleveland outlines tariff reductions focused on necessaries, warns against silver coinage expansion, advocates currency reform, and stresses the need to balance domestic interests with international considerations. He calls for consular reform, navy readiness, civil service strengthening, and Indian policy modernization while underscoring national unity and steady governance.
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Washington
Cleveland
Congress
Hendricks
Kelly
Austria
Vienna
China
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Manning
Tmes
Uray
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Navy Department
Whitney
A Painter's Lay Ficura in New York Herald
The article describes J. G. Brown at work on a bootblack painting showing two boys on boxes with a third figure, noting the model's substitution after a mishap and addressing implications of vision and artistry. It compares defective vision among sailors to greater eyeglass use in Germany and the U.S., even for children.
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New York Herald
J. G. Brown
Brown
Lewis
Germany
One Bottle Instead of a Dozen in Hair Care Ads
A run of fever led to hair loss until Parker's Hair Balsam cured with one bottle the man reports. The page promotes Gem Drug Store, J L Kennedy's Boots and Shoes, livery stables, buggies, horses, flour, groceries, and a wide range of products and prices. Local merchants Summers & Murphey, Matthews & Collier, and others push goods from buggy to barber supplies.
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Parker
J. L. Kennedy
Gem Drug Store
Atlanta
John L. Kennedy
Kentucky
Market Street
Gem
J. L
Kennedy
J. L.kennedy’s
J. L. Kennedy's
Matthews & Collier
Dixie
Fresh Beef at the rear stand of Middlebrooks & Graddick
York Masry announces his commitment to providing fresh beef at his stand behind Messrs. Middlebrooks and Graddick with steady availability. He offers nice steak, roasting pieces, and other fresh meats on demand and invites customers to call on him.
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Messrs
Middlebrooks & Graddick
York Masry
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Florida
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Upson
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T. M. Matthews
A. J. Cheney
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Gordon Institute
Morning Star
W. H. Woopatt
Lamar
Capitol
ROTA
Royal Bak -Owder Co
Wall St
N. Y
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Summers & Murphey
Rememer I
Macon
K. S. Crutcher
Bucklen
Arnica
J. W. Hightower
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