Telephones bring benefit to farmers and families
A Charlottesville Chronicle excerpt extols telephones for farmers and households, noting saved time and money, faster market access, weather updates, instant repairs, doctor calls, and better home life. It contrasts with a New England farmer's dying wife who pleads for truth and tenderness before death.
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Charlottesville Chronicle
New England
Hannah
Chen
Mercy
Baptist Exchange
Village Life and Rural Virtues in The Brooklyn Eagle
The piece contrasts villagers with town dwellers, praising the healthier, content rural life. It notes villagers are hardworking, moral, family minded, and thrifty on ten dollars versus twenty in the city, yet urges them to protect nature, improve roads, and accept criticism calmly.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Deeds His Farm to God in Peculiar Conveyance
Rev W H Kerr transfers a Cartersville farm to God the Father Christ the Son and the Holy Ghost for an orphan home to be named Kerr Orphans Home while Kerr and family act as trustees and the land remains liable for Kerr debts. Cochran couple sues seeking to set aside the trade claiming Kerr defrauded them of the land for goods worth far less and asserts the deed shields him from fraud.
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Cartersville
W. H. Kerr
God the Father
Christ the Son
Holy Ghost
Kerr
Cochran
Cochrans
Cure for the Talking Habit Advice Recounts Taming Conversation
A humorous column argues reducing chatter with balance of horse sense and self discipline. It notes both women and men suffer loquacious tendencies, humorously cites tests between nibbles and the joy of silence as a remedy.
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Philadelphia
Equirer
Largest Pear Tree in Michigan Records Its Longevity
The famed pear tree near Lake Erie in Michigan is claimed to be the largest and oldest in America. Planted possibly by French settlers, it stands 65 feet tall with a 13 foot circumference at five feet high and yields abundant crops.
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America
Michigan
Lake Erie
A Model Village and Other Items From The Times
A dispatch from Asheville reports George W. Vanderbilt plans a railroad station and model village between Hendersonville and Brevard, 80 miles from Asheville, at a cost of 1 million dollars. Vanderbilt owns timber lands, with Mount Pisgah nearby and 80,000 acres of hunting preserves to the east. Buncombe taxes amount to about 1.2 million dollars, and the Biltmore estate contracts for timber deliveries. The note also mentions humor and wedding anecdotes involving Marshal P. Wildder and a doctor’s Irish tale about a boy who swallowed a mouse and a cat remedy.
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Asheville
Geo. W. Vanderbilt
Hendersonville
Brevard
N. C
Vanderbilt
Mount Pisgah
Biltmore
Carolina
Buncombe County
Marshal P. Wildder
New York
Kansas City Journal
Irshman
Pat
City Directory and Court Officials Listing
A local directory page lists Superior Court officials and county offices including J ad Wimsey as judge and Cleveland, Ga. W.A. Charters as Solicitor General, John Hutt Ordinary, John H. Moore Clerk, James M. Davis Sheriff, K. J. Walden Tax Collector, James L. Healan Tax Receiver, W. R. Hix County Surveyor, D. . Stow Coroner, and local mayor and aldermen. It also includes religious services for Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, lodge meeting times for Blue Mountain Lodge No. 38 F and A M and Gold City Lodge No. 117, with officers named where readable.
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John Hutt
John H. Moore
Clerck
James M. Davis Sherif
K. J. Walden
James L. Healan
W. R. Hix
Joseph B. Brown
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Tj. Smith & Bro
Dnalerson
Gialty
Anderson
Oew Jone S
Gainesville
Atlanta
Dahloneg
A&a
Ivery
Moore
Thomas Building
General Merchandise
Village Life
San Ann
la Senorita
Art
Indianapolis Sun
City Directory Superior Court
J. Ad
Wimsey
Cleveland
W.A. Charters
Dahlonega
KR. H. Baker
Strickland
Baptist Church
J. BR. Gunn
E. O. Marks
D.J Blackwell
Masonic
Blue Mountain Lodge No
R.H. Baxer
W. M
K. W. Baker
Attorney At Law
Wm. J. Worlay
Perns
Bo Dahlonega, Ga
H.C. Whelchel
Henry Underwood
Duckett’s
Main Street
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