Many Local Items From The Appeal Column
The Appeal notes over forty small pox cases in Rockmart and a $449,895 city budget in Eufaula. Georgia reports fires in Macon Savannah and Columbus, a tall tale of a 34 inch woman arriving in Atlanta, and no liquor licenses in Dawson county. Rail lessees challenge ad valorem tax, Columbus factories lift cotton from 5,773 to 6,731 bales, and World chrome gifts. A whiskey-smuggling mail carrier halts Columbus-Lumpkin navigation. Bible Society aid and destitution data follow, plus a new pest in Mississippi cotton and postmaster policy on misdirected mail. Georgia Royal Arch elected officers at Macon and a dubious libel suit against W. H. Young with $100,000 claim. Moses sues for $50,900 over published allegations.
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Rockmart
Eufaula
Macon
Savannah
Columbus
Atlanta
J. R. Moses
W. H. Young
Young
John King
Moses
Columbus Bank
Fifty Thousand Victims of the Flood
The New Orleans Picayune reports about fifty thousand homeless and foodless in the state due to the flood. Daily ration disbursements exceed forty thousand with 16,000 rations requested yesterday in Ouachita valley. Distributions run nine to three as donors’ funds reach about sixty thousand dollars plus large provisions being sent to agencies.
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New Orleans Picayune
Carondelet Street
Ouachita Valley
Senator Norward Attacks Civil Rights Bill in Dramatic Speech
A Courier-Journal dispatch describes Senator Norward ridiculing the civil rights measure and the policy of the negro. He claimed Republicans act from selfish motives, denied Democrats harbor prejudice, and warned that forced social equality in schools hotels and public spaces would ruin the party if poor whites and blacks must mix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier-Journal
The Arkansas War and Washington Dispatches
A dispatch from Little Rock reports three of Baxter's troops killed at New Gascony and Capt. Van Desandone wounded. The Gazette warns war may spread unless action is taken. Martial law proclaims in Jefferson county. General Fagan leads Brooksites. prisoner exchanges occur. A later Washington dispatch notes a colored man presiding in the House as civil rights debate unfolds. A child dies in Augusta when a window sash falls. Ice manufacturing begins in Columbus.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Baxter
New Gascony
van Desandone
Brooks
Gazette
Vaughn
King White
Jefferson County
Fagan
Washington
House
Blaine
Rainey
South Carolina
Augusta
Hard Times and Harder Roads in a Struggling South
A observer recalls a bleak scene of poverty with a white family, a worn wagon, and a glazed jug amid hard times blamed on merchant and planter systems. The piece condemns idle labor and argues the public fault lies with society’s structure, not fate. It also notes widespread floods across the South and Northwest, crops damaged, and looming hardship for cotton planters. The Alabama Episcopal diocese holds its Annual Convention in Eufaula on May 13.
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New York
Sun and Enquirer
South
Northwest
Missouri
Red
Mononghels
Savannah
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Congress
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of
Alabama
Eufaula
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Jas. P. Sawtell
Cuthbert
Gainesville
Eagle
Dawson County
Western Exchange
Lumpkin
W. A. Parks
American Bible Society
Georgia
the Bible Society
United States
Joan G. Smith
John A. Smith
Royal Arch Grand Chapter
General Grand Chapter
M. E. L. J. Glenn
GH. P
R. EB. W. G. Johnson
D.G. H
R.E, R. M. Smith
R.E. J. W. Ossin
G. S
R. BE. A. J. Leet
G. C
R.E. W. J. Pollard
G.T
R. Emmett Blackshear
G.S
R. E
C. H. Freeman
G. Sentinel
Macon Telegraph
Oglethorpe
Senator Norward
W. B. Tackett
Egrgia
Ranpoten
H. L. Hart
Wm. R. Hart
Kia
William R. Hart
M. Gormley
Jas. H. Guerry
Attorney At Law
Georgetown
T.S. Powell
Mayo If
Yneorgia
Ranpotra
Wm. R. Harty
Henry L. Hart
W. K K. Hart
T.S Powell
Draggzist
S. Powell
Draggist
Bo Bookeellen & Stationer
Powell’s
Beverly Company
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Lind Ali
Powell
Thomas
Burke
Washington, Jefferson, Baldwin, Jones, Monroe
Upson and
Harris
Ea B. L. Long. Org
Lee County
Acant
Jacob Mathews
Ages Verte Station
A.J. Surles
Ogeegh Rynpee
Ted Free
Northern Church Standard
N.Y. Dee
Eia
Zspecial Garcia
Express
Robert Mulligan & CO
Count Street N
Mayfly
Dothar
Depot Street
Cuthbert, Ga
Boris
Uoue
B. McWilliams
Powell, Dragggist
India
T. Ss. Powell, Dragzist
Bookseller & Stationer
Ell
T. S. Powell
Macon Telegraph & Messenger
Cuthbert Appeal
the Isaacs House
J. C. McClellan
E. Isaacs
Nansook
Bishop Lawn
Aist Wi
Victoria Lawn
Phenix
Mays
B. J. Tackson
Restauvrant
B. J Jackson
Wards Station
Baldwin
Cat
aMd
Hoyt
T. 8
Dinggist
Cordell Bvery
Eta
Peta
J Jackson
Adams
J. McK Gunn
Tam
Isaac Easley
Seweller
College Street
B.T
Babbitt
Apriot
St Washington St
N. XY
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