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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1893
Page
2
Readers are urged to excuse the weekly shortcoming as the printer has been sick. Folsom's Georgia Cracker column in the Atlanta Journal is praised as a bright addition. We will publish only communications with responsible names and note rival editors briefly.
A narrator describes a man known for heavy drinking. He drinks to excess last week, swollen face and sore head, and makes pledges to quit. Yet he plans another bout of heavy drinking when he returns to town at the end of the month.
Danronnan Georgia July 1893 Evrror Sunny Sovran Rev Thane W Waldell is elected president of North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. The Waddell family history shows several generations of teachers and leaders at Athens and Ole Miss.
Rev. Isaac W. Waddell, son of long-serving Marietta pastor Wade Waddell, is appointed president of the North Georgian Agricultural College in Clarkesville Tennessee. He brings a scholarly background, evangelistic work, and teaching experience from Summerville Cuthbert and Rockmart, with aims to broaden the college’s reach and enrollments. The fall term starts in September as former students teach summer schools in northern Georgia counties.
Commissioner Nesbitt cites simple cures for bee stings including soda-water solutions and moist earth, and urges quick treatment for boosting. The piece then details leaf spot control on celery with Bordeaux mixture, and provides an extended natural history of cutworms from moth larvae to pupation, their attacks on tomatoes cabbages squashes and other crops, and their ecological predators and parasites.
The article outlines eight methods for controlling worm damage including poison leaves treated with Paris green or Loudon, boards as traps, digging out worms, and fall plowing. It stresses clover as central to soil fertility, describing how clover gathers nitrogen from the air via root bacteria, the need for phosphorus and potash, and the economic benefits of using clover to lessen fertilizer costs.
Hood's Sarsaparilla testimonials recount a Atlanta resident suffering from rheumatism who found relief after seven bottles and regained weight from 122 to 145 pounds in two months. The ad claims Hood's Pills are purely vegetable and priced at 25 cents.
The Estes dress department presents a store of itself with tables loaded, crowded counters, and shelves displaying a range of dress fabrics in soft Tar and Gray tones through popular lines to bold Royal Heliotrope. The stock brims with beauty and sparkle, highlighting a spirited spring assortment.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a purifying laxative promoting health and vigor. It claims broad medical approval, touts gentle relief from constipation, and emphasizes universal use and substitute avoidance.
John D. O Kelley administrator of Elizabeth Vickery seeks discharge after filing that he fully administered the estate. The ordinary cites all interested persons to show cause why administration should not be discharged and final settlement approved on the first Monday in October. July Byrd 1803. W. f. Bell, Ordinary.
Irregular docket text announces a citation related to the will of a deceased person from Westmorekind. It states an administrator seeks leave to rest all the dinde better to pid enteterat gid decesse and directs a court date on the 11th of August 1802. The document names W. Burll as the ordinary official overseeing the matter.
Notice records a chaotic description of a land sale near Cleveland tied to Noah Sosehee and other heirs. The prose references bequests, deeds, and court clerk attestations in a probate sale dated the first Tuesday in October, with parcels in Six County and adjacent lands, including lots, descriptions, and costs, but the legibility is severely compromised.
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