The Appeal highlights a menacing meningitis spike and state news
The Appeal reports deaths from meningitis in St Louis and notes a Georgia schedule of events. It lists a Grange meeting in Atlanta on the sixth, the Atlanta News suspension, a Macon fair date, and Governor Smith’s actions including a railroad bid and a New York loan. It also covers a fatal church hall fire in Holyoke and buffalo gnats pestering Alabama livestock, with preventive kerosene suggestions.
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St. Louis
Grange
Atlanta
Atlanta News
Dalton
Grasshopper Plague Devastates Kansas to Minnesota
Col Hodges reports vast grasshopper swarms across Kansas Missouri and Minnesota destroying crops. He details ground covered inches thick with insects and warns of famine without rapid relief. The note contrasts with Old War era setbacks and includes Masons resolutions from Washington Lodge No. 19.
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Kansas
Missouri
Minnesota
Georgia swamp ownership debated after expedition
A Valdosta Times editor and Atlanta Herald reports explore who owns the Okeefenokee swamp in Georgia. The Orphan Home is cited as a possible holder of the land, though its existence and managers are unclear. Some say the state should reclaim the wilderness, while others fear cost and risk. The item notes a $10,000 treasury balance and a proposed drainage company once led by Col. J. R. Sneed. Also mentioned is a licensure dispute over circus sawdust performances near Cuthbert and Gov. Smith naming a university board of visitors with exams set for July 9.
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B. H. Hill
Congress
Bibb County
Macon
Montgomery
Covington Enterprise
Crawford
Oglethorpe County
Greenville Vindicator
Marietta Journal
Great
Georgia
C. R. Pendleton
Valdosta Times
Atlanta Herald
Orphan Home
Herald
Gov. Smith
University of the State
Athens
W. J. Northern
Sparta
Mark W. Johnson
Atlanta
W.L. Kilpatrick
Richmond Factory
J. Y. Wood
LaFayette
G. M. Dews
Columbus
A. H. Flewellen
Cuthbert
J. M. Richardson
Carrollton
J. W. Glenn
Jefferson
W. H. Baker
Savannah
Diploma Conferring and Recital at Macon High School
On June 2 the modern inc salutatory and valedictory addresses will be delivered. Col. Joan C Ruthenrorp will speak as the conferring of diplomas takes place in Macon Georgia. An evening concert will be given by Mrs. E B Russell and the class.
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Montgomery Advertiser
M. Sonnebaum & Co
Eufania
Stewart
Circuit Court
Barbour County
United States Court
Mornixe
Evexinc
Societier
Col
R. G. Mitcuwect
Thomasville, Ga
Moerninc
Joan C
Ruthenrorp
Macon
Evenisc
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Randolph
Beall's Mill
Aycock
M. Gormley
Jal
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the Pioneer
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Sunny
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T.S. Powell
Allison & Simpson
James M. Smith
Said State
Jefferson Edwards
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