Cotton firm suspends while columbu s prices rise
The Appeal surveys varied notes from 1870s America. It reports E P Clayton & Co of Augusta suspending operations, Columbus sees chestnuts and chinquepins at 150 dollars per bushel, Brigham Young vows a thousand marriages if needed, peavine roots kill cattle near Columbus, and speculative chatter on gold, currency and politics across cities including New York, Georgia and Iowa.
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Augusta
Columbus
Brigham Young
Georgia Tax Relief Law Draws Fire Over Negro Exemption
The comptroller General reports Georgia aggregate tax returns show an eleven million three hundred thirty seven thousand four hundred eight dollar decline in taxable property this year with four million seven hundred ninety seven thousand one hundred twenty six credited to the $75 exemption law. The Constitution criticizes the exemption as largely saving almost all blacks from taxation and warns it shifts burden to white middle and poorer classes while noting seven million in property is exempted under the measure.
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The
Atlanta Constitution
Georgia
The Mississippi Treaty and National Finance Debate
A Mississippi peace accord between Governor Ames and the Democratic State Executive Committee disbands the militia with arms stored locally under U S guard. The piece also reports quotes from the Atlanta Constitution and Georgia ex governor Brown criticizing current policy and urging caution on specie resumption without ruinous contraction.
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Memphis
Ames
Democratic State Executive Committee
Jackson
Miss
United States
Georgia Faces War’s Aftermath and Crop Shortages
The Georgia agricultural and economic outlook shows energy despite war drawbacks. Cotton and corn yields fall short of expectations, urging planters to diversify with barley rye oats and other crops to avoid ruinous costs. The Commissioner advocates shifting toward self supplied food and increased livestock.
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South
Commissioner of Agriculture
W. Y. Bulletin
A Remedy Worse Than the Evil
A summary of varied regional notes censure arson and lawlessness amid seed cotton thefts, warn against violent remedies, report railroad competition rumors on the Chattahoochee, judge a governor’s stance on delaying execution, and share quirky social observations from Atlanta papers. The piece mentions Port Hudson, Eufaula, Columbus, Bainbridge, and references to Atlanta institutions and figures.
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Columbus Times
Atlanta
City
Montgomery
No Excuse for Being Sick with German Syrup
Advertises BoscHEE's German Syrup claiming quick throat and lung relief. States 250,000 sample bottles distributed yearly by Druggists nationwide over three years and urges purchase from T. B. Powell. Sample bottles offered at 10 and 75 cents with two doses promised to relieve.
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United States
T. 8
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