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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1885
Page
1
Office notices advertise Georgia Ammoniated Fertilizer from John Merryman & Co. with prices for cash 950 per ton and currency note due Oct 1 35.00 or 375 lbs middling cotton due Oct 1. The seller urges Thomaston buyers to compare with other markets and promises satisfactory terms.
The timetable lists multiple trains serving Barnesville and nearby towns including Atlanta Macon and Thomaston. Notable services include passenger runs from Barnesville to Atlanta mornings and evenings, freight and night freight movements, day and fruit express routes, and Upson Co connections via The Rock and Thomaston with various departure and arrival times.
Promised detailed information on a sensational mining frontier in Wyoming. Claims of vast wealth, rich quartz leads, and a new mineral belt are offered with instructions to send $1 for full discovery data and mining laws, from Reid & Jones in Rawlins, Wyoming.
Atlanta visitors report Draper Moore and Co a wholesale boots shoes and leather house expanding with mass stock from Massachusetts lines. Key personnel Henry M. Scott Osgood Sanders S F Taylor C F Parish George Much Hal G Cotter and others. promise prompt service and strong cash stock with diverse footwear components.
Genl BE C Walthall selected to fill the Mississippi seat after Lamar enters the Cabinet. He resides in Grenada with a profitable law practice. Born in Virginia in 1831, moved to Mississippi at age seven. A prominent figure in the late war and ally of Lamar and Bayard.
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