Miscellaneous Local Notes and Notices from the County
Local items report travel of Dr and Mrs R K Long to relatives in Anedrews and Darquington, a real estate sale of 63000 to Joan, and a buy/sell ad for a second hand Phreton. Wheat crops benefit from recent rain though some fields remain pastured. Community events include Children’s Day at Godwin Methodist and Pleasant Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church with crowded services. A Y M G A delegate from Zion returns from Asheville, and Mrs Pitts Roberts seeks treatment for appendicitis. A Topeka minister’s Heaven sermon ends with a joke prompting a “Slide feller siffe slide” quip amid a ball game nearby.
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R. K. Long
Burdock
Mixa Etoine Brooks
Hamhire
Dallas
Exe
Methodist Church
Godwin Bunday
Pleasant Mount Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Barley Cates
Zion
Ashville
N.Y
Pitts Roberts
Roberts, Bend Neighorood
Pillows
Columbia
Topeka
Minaster
Wheat Sacks For Farmers and Local Elevator Offer
Colum bia Mill and Elevator Co advertises wheat sacks for farmers at reasonable rates with a phone contact in Columbia. In Knoxville a man named Walter Patrick, brickmason, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition citing liabilities of 852 and costs of 47 to be adjudged bankrupt.
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Columbia Mill & Elevator Co
Knoxville
Tenn
City Today
Walter Patrick
Men Who Wear Corsets and Public Notices in Wheat Trade
An 19th century style notice extols high prices for wheat with delivery sacks provided. It also includes a humorous editorial on men wearing corsets, comparing public figures to corsetry, mentioning Rourke U Cook, Adnan Iselin, and Napoleon, and notes twelve members of the stock exchange wearing corsets and eighteen abdominal supporters.
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New York
Napoleon
Rourke U Cookran
Adnan Iselin
My Pipe Dream of Power Fades in a Quiet Ritual
A reflective verse details a man cherishing an old briar pipe as he lights a weed and imagines power and progress. The moment of expectancy yields strong daydreams of control, then fades as the pipe cools and the speaker sighs, accepting that the power is gone.
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Tia
He Won the Garment pantaloons tale at the tailor
A man returns tight pantaloons to his tailor saying they are tighter than his skin. The tailor challenges proof of tightness and offers a new pair if proven. The man protests he can sit in his skin but not in the pants, highlighting a humorous misfit.
The Revivals Powerful Sermon by Dr. John P. McFerrin
Dr McFerrin delivered a fiery sermon at First Methodist Church on the parable of Lazarus and Dives. He warned that respectability cannot save the soul and urged self denial to avoid spiritual ruin, contrasting worldly pleasure with heavenly aims.
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John P. McFerrin
Firet Methodist Church
Bimanity
Joan
de McFerrin
Wen
Clureel Ves
Paul Nimech
Bet 14
Sinkeepen
Heaid
Ava
Ana Deyn
Heaven
Earth
Joho B McBerrin
Methdist Church
Dirin
Mpan
Hare
Alsering
Dives
Jesus #6
Lazarus
Snys
Hell
Abraham
Iobel
May
Diver
God
Ur. McFerrin
Revival Meetings Draw Large Crowds and Converts
A preacher exhorted to seek salvation through Christ as a large congregation listened intently. Ten converts were reported Monday. seven more at Tuesday’s First Baptist service. Meetings at the church will continue until further notice.
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Thomas
First Baptist
New Wheat Flour Grind In Ashton Eros Note
Incomprehensible OCR note mentions wheat flour and Ashton with misspelled terms. Reads as a partial ad or notice about grinding wheat with sacks and a brand or name Ashton. No clear event or date. Potential product mention scattered in damaged text.
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Ashton
Phosphate Development Seen Boosting Giles County Mines
Pulaski Tennessee June 22 It is likely the phosphate mining business in Giles County will gain momentum. Lord formerly of Louisville Ky, who has mined phosphate rock on Pigeon Roost Creek, has added land near Wales Station at the Pigeon Roost Creek crossing of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The railroad will begin building a wide trace within the next few days.
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Pulaski
Giles County
Lord
Louisville
Pigeon Roost Creek
White
Wales Station
Loniaville & Nashville Railroad
Wednesday Anniversary of Saint John the Baptist Day
June 24 in church calendars honors Saint John the Baptist for his birth and role as preacher and Baptist of Christ. The entry notes connections to Masonry, a Nola procession for Paulinus, and births of Massillon Josephine Beecher Hughes Beecher.
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St. John the Baptist
St. John
Zacharias
Elizabeth
Mary
Elijah
Christ
Nola
Italy
Tva
Paulinus
Jimne 24
Massillon
Josephine
Martinique
West Indias
Napoleon L
John Hughes
New York
United States
Henry Ward Beecher
Free 1904 World’s Fair city guide mailed to you
An offer to send a complete 200 page guide to St Louis Missouri and the World's Fair of 1904 free of charge with 10 cents to cover postage. The neatly bound book fits in a coat pocket and is advertised by P Rutledge & Co publishers. Also notes the Springfield rifle was adopted as the standard arm of American troops with initial supply to regulars then militia.
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St. Louis
Missouri
P. Rutledge & Co
Century Building
Delinquent Taxes Notice From Maury County Trustee
All state and county taxes prior to 1903 are delinquent with penalties increasing monthly. On July 6 property will be sold with extra costs including the trustee's fee. If in doubt contact the trustee immediately. The 1903 assessment law requires sale of all delinquent properties in Circuit Chancery Courts.
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Chancery
Thia Special Vale
J. H. Kannon
Seandt
Trwter Maury Cronty
Summer Underwear and Anticipated RACKET Specials
RACKET lists May sales on Balbriggan underwear for men and boys, nightshirts, drawers, and elastie seam drawers. Also offers ladies items including crepe papers, toilet soaps, lace baby capes, fans, and ladies oxford shoes with special prices. Limited quantities, assortments in whites creams and colors.
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Delia
Bragit
Praia
Siuapeniters
Conan
Palmleaf
Ladies
Oxford
Abe
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Othees
T. N. Figueres
Law
Ashton Bros
Pete J
Sunset Magazine
Ming
Desert
White Mountain
GW. Nichols
Orange
Wild Cherry
Woldridge’s
Telgme
Perpetuit
First Baptist Church
Ford & Williams
Ashton Eros
Wee
Springfield
Merican
Militi
Shirin
Eieces
Grant Brothers
Aid
GRANT
Register
Maury County
H. F. Cook
Court House
Tennessee
City of Columbia
Tenceaser
Glade Street
Said Street
Thomas H Cook
McLemore
Jas H. Gregory
Gregory and McClanahan
J. B. McLemore
Thia
L. CG. Burgard
J. P. Herndon
7Th St
Herndon
Conus
J. K. Farnenn
W. A. Lipscome
Farrell & Lipscomb
Continental Fire Insurance Company
Travelers Life & Accident Insurangs
Fleming Block
Garden Str
Bell Bear
Te Jno
W. Frierson
Jetc
Aly No
Peesie Ae
Pebbles & Haynes Attorneys
Brown Block
Aqui Rainn
Paris
J. E. Sheppard
Garden Street
Bethel Block
Lowe Staira
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