Georgia News Roundup: New Lodge in Camilla and Local Queries
A Masonic lodge forms at Camilla while Macon county roads are in poor shape and a high school movement begins in Statesboro. Wheatish items note a new Baptist church at Woolseyville, a 3 percent dividend for Oglethorpe Savings in Thomasville, and caterpillar damage to potato crops in Lowndes. Other notes cover a Hartwell church bell, a gander guarding chicks in Dublin, local oddities, social events in Thomasville, and a Mecon court case clarifying a McCloskey matter.
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Woolseyville
Onion Zeta
A. T. Wi
Dubois
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company of
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Lowndes County
Ogletorpe County
Hartwell
Dublin
Hart County
St. Thomas Lodge F. A. M
Cairo Literary Club
Esmaralda
Walter Scammell
New York City
Empire
E. N. Haigwood
Walker County
Missouri Black Republican Begins Early Hayti Mission Push
Obediah Wood Jr. of St Louis plans to win the Hayti mission with support from prominent negro citizens and Republican Congressmen. The piece notes prior black ministers to Hayti and Liberia, political calculations, and the hope that a Missourian may receive a similar foreign appointment under Harrison.
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Obediah Wood, Jr
St. Louis
Little Republic
Pleasant Station
United States
Hayti
Thompson
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mose Hopkins
North Carolina
Taylor
Kansas City
Liberia
Hopkins
Langston
Virginia
Congress
Harrison
Mahone
Conness
Petersburg
Missouri
West
Ex Captain of Police Dies by Self Destruction in Disgrace
Ex Captain of Police Charles Ditsch is found dead in Union Cemetery by his daughter's grave with a .44 revolver. He had handled Police Relief funds and reportedly faced insolvency after a $1,600 loan check bounced. Ditsch, a ten year veteran, once led hunts for the James gang and aided in major arrests, including the Ford and James factions, and the siege of Mrs. Bolton’s home.
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Kansas City
Charles Ditsch
Union Cemetery
Police Relief Association
Ditsch
Jesse James
Timberlake
Clay County
Ben Nugent
Clay, Ray
Jackson Counties
James Gang
Mrs. Bolton
Ford Boys
Dick Little
Charley Ford
Bob
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Bob Ford
Ford
F. James
Capt
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Sullivan Kilrain Sparring Recalled From Boston Matches
Boston reports recount past meetings between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain. Sullivan recalls sparring at Revere Halls six years ago and at Sammy Blake’s Monument Hall benefit two years later, while Kilrain contends he won the clashes. Witnesses say Sullivan did not knock Kilrain out, and a longer fight might have ended sooner.
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John L. Sullivan
Jake Kilrain
South Boston
Charlestown
Sullivan
Kilrain
Revere Halls
Jake
Sammy Blake
Monument Hall
Charleston
Godfrey
Capt. Cooke
Bagley
Escape by Roof From Opelika Jail Recaptured
Between midnight and day three prisoners escaped Opelika jail by roof and blanket rope. Deputy J M Johnson heard a noise, found two negro inmates at their mother’s nearby home, and recaptured them. A white man remains at large. Trade in the city stays strong with a busy period and local crime noted.
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Anniston
Montgomery Dispatch
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Auburn
Tuscaloosa
Alexandria City
Demps Eason
D. Rives
Warrior
Eason
State Bar Association
Huntsville
Montgomery
Union Springs Female College
Wm. McKelvey
Dormer
Hillsboro
Jake Black
Keip
Selma
al Welborne
Black
Ed. Freeman
Windsor
Will
Keenan
Exchange Hotel
Gen. Forney
Alabama
Baltimore
Opelka
J. M. Johnson
Alliance
Beulah
Coleman
Glass Furnance Company
Limb
Methodist
Yester
Methodist Conference
Methodist Conference Has Sent Rev. Mr. Motley
Opelika
Bancroft
Union Springs
Newspaper diversity shows 35 thousand global titles
A report tallies 13 494 US papers 644 in Canada 9 in Newfoundland with diverse names. News leads in 550 titles. many papers carry party slants. Also notes regional concentrations and foreign language presses. In other items, fourteen prisoners escaped Hamilton county jail in Chattanooga by bending iron rods and using a blanket rope.
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Dominion of Canada
Newfoundland
New York
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
the Times
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Globe Democrat
Aasencs Argus
Enterprise
Leader
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Waterman
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Delaware
Oregon
Florida
Rhode Island
Chattanooga
Hamilton County
Home ownership offer by Toombs Crawford Real Estate
Toombs Crawford, Real Estate Agent at No 9 Twelfth Street, offers to sell you a lot and build your house with easy payments and long terms. Stop paying rent and invest in your own property.
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Toombs Crawford
Twelfth Street
Divorce By Publication in Georgia Court 1858
Yibel Lemons sues Amos Lemons in Chattahoochee Superior Court. Defendant not residing in county or state. court orders service by four monthly publications in Enquirer Sun Columbus Georgia. J Wynn granted. Libellant’s attorney J M Smith. Clerk James Castleberry. Nov 26 dated.
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Chattahoochee Superior Court
Genie Lemons
Amos Lemons
State of
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Enquirer-Sun
Columbus
Muscogee County
Chatencooles
J. Wynn
Libellant
J. M. Smith
James Castleberry
C. C. Ga
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