Taylor County Fair 1916 Agricultural Department Prizes
Premium list announces grand prizes for top farm product displays at the Taylor County Fair 1916. Awards include grain drill, corn dropper, cotton planter, oats, wheat, rye, velvet beans, soy beans, ears and stalks of corn, cotton, cane, millet, hay, sweet potato, syrup, field peas, ground peas, Taylor county flour and meal, and various livestock prizes. Also offers prizes for best raised colt, bull, heifer, milch cow, hogs, brood sow, and pig litters.
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Taylor County
Poultry Department Offers Prizes for Taylor County Raised Birds
A prize is announced for the prettiest pen of Taylor county raised poultry any variety, and another for the heaviest pen consisting of one cock and five hens. Both prizes are valued at $1.00.
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Taylor County
Prize list for ladies department exhibits
A prize page offers awards for the largest exhibit and greatest variety of canned goods with a $6 rocking chair, best pickle display with a $2 rug, best preserves display a center table, best canned peaches a $2 rocking chair, prettiest jelly display a linen table cloth, largest needlework exhibit a set of silver knives and forks, and best needlework a water set.
Boy's Corn Club Prizes Listed for 1st 2nd 3rd
The 1st prize is one Berkshire pig for greatest corn yield. The 2nd prize is a spring-tooth cultivator for second best yield. The 3rd prize offers $2.00. Also awarded for the best ten ears of corn from Corn Club Boys is one Duroc Jersey pig.
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Boy’s Corn Club Department
Berkshire
Corn Club
Boy's Pig Club Department Prize Awards
A local boys pig club announces prizes for top pigs. First prize three dollars, second prize two dollars, third prize one dollar. Committee coordinates entry judging and awards.
Notice to Telephone Patrons Restricts Messages to Five Minutes
Butler and Reynolds telephone services announce that messages between Butler and Reynolds must not exceed five minutes after May 1, 1916. Longer messages will incur a rate. The change aims to manage increased business and protect patrons who wait to complete important calls.
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Butler and Reynolds
Butler Telephone CO
Reynolds Telephone CO
Guide to Catarrh Cure and Poet Misconduct
The excerpt mocks a poet Ficine for mirror cursing himself and parodies self improvement. It then promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with claims of a hundred dollar reward for failed cases and mentions Toledo Ohio based Cheney & Co and hall's family pills for constipation.
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Ficine
Kansas City Star
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Worth White Quotation On Habitual Smile Influence
A Worth White quotation extols the power of a habitual smile to win friends and influence life. The piece notes cheerfulness can transform the heart even amid inner conflict and warlike feelings.
Bragging Man Claims Self Mastery in Public
A man proclaims his ability to self defend and manage, asserting his own competence. The remark invites scrutiny of boast versus proven capability and reflects on public perception of personal prowess.
Incorrigible Peggy Draws Quiet Neighbor
Vera Maidstone cares for Peggy Jones in a city house while her sister and husband attend an exposition. Peggy teases of a neighbor, Mr. Hush, a lonely man with a piano, who may visit at six. Vera weighs the child’s tale and her own recall of past romance as she contemplates the neighbor’s interest.
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Vera Maidstone
Peggy
Jimmy
Vera
James Brown
Old City House
Mr. Hush
Muvver
Aunt Vera
Hush
Peggy Jones
Nurse
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Versatile Canadian Statesman Sir Sam Hughes
General Sir Sam Hughes, Canada’s efficient militia minister, has worn many hats from schoolteacher and country editor to politician and soldier. Once an English professor at Toronto’s Collegiate Institute, his militia interest has shaped years of public service, including a Boer War commission.
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Sam Hughes
Canada
Collegiate Institute of Toronto
Ocular Breathing in Submarine Periscope Era
A fragmentary note evokes a fond English mother addressing her son aboard a submarine. The playful line hints at life undersea and the era's military technology as imagined in Punch magazine.
Administrator's Sale in Taylor County Georgia 1916
By order of the Court of Ordinary Taylor County I S H Rowe administrator of the Sallie Rowe estate will sell on the id Tuesday in June 1916 at Butler public outcry before the courthouse door. The property is 101 1 4 acres of lot 146 and 1011 4 acres of lot 147 in the 12th district. Proceeds pay debts and distribute to heirs. Terms cash. May 11 1916. S H ROWE administrator. 200w 416.00
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court of Ordinary
I. S. H. Rowe
Sallie Rowe
Court House
Butler
S. H. Rowe
Saltie Rowe
Rhodes executor seeks resignation of trust for Mrs F G Rhodes
Citation issued by J W Rhodes executor of the last will of Mrs F G Rhodes to L R Adams and heirs to show cause why the resignation of the trust should not be approved. Court of Ordinary of the county fixed for the first Monday in June 1916, date April 22, 1916.
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Georgia
Taylor County
J. W. Rhodes
F. G. Rhodes
L. R. Adams
A.C. Rhodes
Eunice Smith
Ludie Cha 2
Myrtle Jones
Eva Royal
May Fountain
Ruby Rhodes
A. H. Riley
Big Men Support The Youth's Companion Subscriptions
The Youth's Companion features contributions from presidents ex presidents Supreme Court justices senators congressmen army navy officers and other government leaders. Notable readers in youth now donate items to inspire the rising generation. The Companion costs $2.00 a year and new subscriptions are accepted at the office.
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Companion
United States Supreme Court
Army
Navy
Science
Sale of Cotton FEMA Montgomery in Taylor County GA
Legal notice states a sale by public outcry at the court house door in Taylor County Georgia on the first Tuesday in June. One bale of cotton, weight 464 pounds, stored in Wall warehouse at Mauk, Ga, described as property of S A Montgomery to satisfy an execution in favor of Mrs Kate Jinks. Sheriff J R Beeland signs the notice dated May 2, 1916.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
Mauk
SA Montgomery
Kate Jinks
S. A. Montgomery
J. R. Beeland
Sheriff Sale Notice for June 1916 in Taylor County
Public outcry at the courthouse door in Taylor County Georgia on a June date in 1916 for eighty acres off land lot 289 south half of the lot conveyed previously by Cosby and others to Lillie Smith heirs. Property levied to satisfy an Atlanta City Court execution in favor of M L Shephard against L A Wood. Sheriff J R Beeland signs.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Taylor Cou
Jean Purray
W. R. Tolbert
S. E Cosby
Lillie Smith
Annie E. Jones
N Cosby
L. A. Wood
City Court of
Atlanta
M. L. Shepherd
J. R. Beeland
Auction Notice of Duke Property in Taylor County Georgia
June 1916 public sale at the court house door in Taylor County Georgia to satisfy an execution. Six bales of cotton ginned and packed, one hundred bushels of corn, five hundred bundles of fodder, and 100 bushels of cotton seed, all in house and levied on as H. T. Duke property. Sheriff J. R. Beeland notes the property is in Duke possession.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
H. T. Duke
Ereter Court
Southern Cotton Oil Co
J. R. Beeland
Tax sale notice for Beachwood Farm Co. parcel in Taylor County
Court house door in the county to sell by auction acres in the northwest corner of lot 270 first district land with roads and bounds described. Property levied to satisfy 1915 state and county taxes against Beachwood Farm Co. sold by J R Beeland sheriff on May 3 1916.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
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Taagte
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Brady McCreary
Reese McCreary
Said
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the Youth’s Companion
Boston, Mass
Hotel Empire
Union Depot
Pryor St
John L. Edmonson
Topeka Daily Capital
Hamlet
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