Local notes and ads sweep through Crawford county racing crowds
Prof C L Floyd visits relatives in town and harnesses offered by R G Matthews. Crawford county votes on fence on August 1. Oversized notices mention Miss Palmer Walker visiting Upsenwood, Col A A Murphey to Atlanta, and various farms and buggies with Gardner style prices. Several local figures travel, join meetings, or receive visitors as Monroe Female College extends Dr. Branham’s services.
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W. W. Lamidin
Matthew
D. Hardaway
Thomaston
Porsyth
Taylor’s
Mr. Harwell
R. M. Collier
Monroe Female College
I. J. Branham
James& Pope
Zebulon
R. G
Matthews
J. FB. Jones
Sand Mountain
Aly
Georgia
Central Railroad
R.G. Matthews
Marietta pamphlet urged for climate praise and health claims
A mangled notice list promotes a Jos M Brown pamphlet on Marietta as a summer resort and ideal climate for pulmonary disease, with other ads and notices including for sale cotton gins, land, election details, a business dissolution, Centenial Association activity, sales positions, and a sudden death report of Miss Mattie Chambers.
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Jos. M. Brown
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Marietta
Mr. Brown
Florida
South Georgia
South
Bargains at K Cook Co Store Feature Deep Discounts
Readable ad lists numerous clothing bargains including 50 pairs fine drawers, 100 children's suits for ages 4 to 11, 50 pants at 3.75, 15 coats and overcoats priced from 2.25 to 6.50, 25 boys coats, 50 summer wool coats, and 50 $10 suits cut to 7.75 or 11.00. Silks and seersucker claimed at less than cost.
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Aceworth Cie
Childrens Shoes
Childrens
Mammoth vegetables showcased by county farmer
Mr J M Mays boasts mammoth produce including a squash weighing five cents at Barnesville store and a white Japan cucumber and an 80 pound pumpkin. The specimens travel to Mr J W Hightower's drug store for display and sale, drawing public attention to truck farming in the county.
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Mammoth
J. M. Mays
Barnesville
Mays
J. E. Redding
Fall fashions and Heiser's shoes at S K Cook Co
Notices a clothing and shoe store offering new fall fashions and Heiser's celebrated shoes. The piece also addresses a dispute over an agricultural club invitation at Hightowers Mill and defends the club's stance against editor criticism. It references Thomaston and New Hope church with local correspondent remarks and a Baptist preacher's response.
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S. K. Cook & Co
Heiser
Hightowers Mill
Thomaston
New Hope Church
New Styles in Gents Wear From Factory Dispatch
Surprising selection of white and color dyed flat scarfs ties and bows now arriving. 500 pieces offered in assorted styles. Cook & Co. promotes latest imports for men's dress from the factory.
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Choicefordec S. Kk
Cook & Co
Griffin man dies after morphine use in Macon visit
Chauncy Burr of Griffin visited Macon on Tuesday to see his brother George Burr. He bought ten grains of morphine at L W Hunt Co on Wednesday afternoon saying he was used to larger doses. He died shortly after, with friends speculating about self harm or accidental overdose. remains sent to Griffin for burial.
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Genteniak
Centenial Association
Milner
Midway
Hebron
Beulah
Mattie Chambers
J. T. Hunt
Jesus
Chauncy
Burr of
Griffin
Macon
George Ww. Burr
L. W. Hunt & Co
Large Lot Leather Goods Offered By S. K. Cook Co
At S K Cook Co a large lot of Ladies fine leather covered saratoga trunks and Gents ladstone traveling bags is advertised. The text also recounts a Forsyth district conference open air religious meeting with Rev J W Blosser noting colored attendees and varied vocal responses during sermons.
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Saratoga
S. K. Cook Co
Cuffie
Forsyth
Court House
Gazette
Cook Co's Bargains and Tripple Fight for Richardson Seat
Local ad lists bargains on fabric handwoven shoes hats and slippers with prices from 25 cents to 5 dollars. A triple contest is expected for the seat of the late Hon W H Richardson as factions split over liquor sales with Orthodox Democrats and Anti Prohibition Democrats naming candidates. The Gazette reports proceedings of the convention in full and notes Democratic Executive committee actions today.
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W.H. Richardson
W. B. Adams
King
Jacob
Democratic primary in county to nominate a house candidate
The county Democrats will nominate a man to represent them in the U S House. In Thomaston last Thursday B F Matthews was tipped as the likely nominee reflecting his strong farmer background and service on the county Board of Education. Other notes mention a potential Republican challenger and shifts in local political alignments amid remarks on future elections.
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House of Representatives
Thomaston
B. F. Matthews
Matthews
Board of Education
Joel Matthews
Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
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Crawford County
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W. T. Candier
Montgomery
Thornneton Street
Ella
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A.S. Cochran
C. A. Adams
Gazette Office
H. H. Swatts
J. F. Taylor
Butts County
Towaliga
J. W. Blosser
Century Nelson Church
8. H. Gray
County Sabbath School Association
Bluff Springs
W. P. Bussey
Goggansville
O. H. B. Bloodworth
Sam Jones
W. P. Rivers
Warm Springs
Merriwether
Representative Smith
Academy For the Blind
Representative Baker
Pike
Pike County Board of Education
C. Mann
T. B. Lyon
O. A. Speigle
D. ©. Hightower
Daniel Pratt
Brooks Cotton Press
S. M. Howard
Southern Soldiers Association
Monroe
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Thesday
J.T. Chowper
Liberty Hill
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A. J. Blalock
Stafford, Blalock& Co
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J. W. Starrop
J. M. Humphries
Cotton Ave
K. Cook & Co
Cook
Wack
Upson
Barvesvie
Borror
John £. Gardner
Pike County
Socrates
Plato
Solomon D&c
Thomas Jefferson
Towaliga Primitive Baptist Association
John Mullins
W. T. Godard
John EF. Gardner
KE. Dumas
John I. Duke
P. O
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Cooper
Estelle Cauthorn
Annie Irvin
Col. S. D. Snain
Eunice Head
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Oldham
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