Auto Industry Predicted to Surpass Railroads
F A Seiberling president of Good year Tire warns at Indianapolis convention that the automobile business will soon exceed the entire railroad industry in the United States. He cites rapid growth, planned via good roads and widespread auto use, with 1918 estimates near a thousand million dollars. Atlanta Journal reports.
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United States
F. A. Seiberling
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Automobile Manufactures and Dealers
Indianapolis
Europe
Pennsylvania
Atlanta Journal
Publicity Booms Trade and Farm Values Across States
The piece argues advertising drives business and farm value, citing St Louis $200000 yearly, Michigan lake resorts, and Butler Bros. with 225000 customers and $100000000 in sales, plus notes on farm land value tied to earning capacity and improving growing capacity. Hall Superior court sits this week and next.
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St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
South Carolina
Michigan
Breath From the Mountains Profiles Dahlonega Editor Townsend
A Dahlonega Nugget feature showcases W. B. Townsend, longtime editor in Dahlonega, who sticks to his hometown and its merchants. The piece highlights his near 25 year tenure, 2500 subscribers in a town of 1000, and Dahlonega's mining history with mint, university ties, and a global reader base.
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Athens Daily Banner
Lumpkin County
Banner
W. B.townsend
Dahlonega
Nuaani
The
Gainesville
Atlanta
N. G. A. College
University of Georgia
Georgia
Golden Shore
England
Canada
Townsend
Nua- Ger
Learn to Wait and Persevere in Life
The excerpt urges patience as a virtue in hardship. It distinguishes waiting with active effort from passive hoping, praising steadfast self control and maintaining effort during crises. It suggests true greatness lies in inner poise and faith, waiting on the Lord. It contrasts this with a note on early parcel post profits in Macon.
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Waiton
Doings at Robertstown and Helen
Community news from Robertstown and Helen reports new homes and livelihoods. Howell Sims bought land and built a three room house while Martin Abernathy completed a two room cottage on fifty acres. John Johnson advances a five room two story storehouse and BE Mead welcomes a new child Miss Kiva Lee. Eva Lee is noted as Eleven town’s first baby. Mitchell Park Drive progress aims at a premier southern scenic route. Road survey for the new dirt link between Robertstown and Union County began January 13 with public opening hoped by February 1. Gainesville and Northwestern R R depot site at Robertstown staked and bridge crews on the last span. trains anticipated soon.
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Howell Sims
Robertstown
Jackson County
Byrd Sins
Martin Abernathy
B. I. Abernathy
John Johnson
BE. W. Mead
Mead
Kiva Lee
Eva Lee
Bor
Mitchell Park
Helen
Union County
Low Gap
C M Commands Preparedness for Afternoon Drive
In London the Cabinet Minister asks if his bulletproof underwear and asbestos suit are ready. He inquires about reinforced detective and secret service protection and instructs to notify his wife’s maid that he will be ready for their afternoon drive.
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C. M
Secret Service
Remarkable Swiss-Lourdes marriage after 42 years apart
In Einsiedeln Schwytz a notable marriage occurred in the principal church. A Swiss couple engaged in 1870 separated when the man joined France in the war, and over the next 42 years each married three times, with the husband losing three wives and the wife three husbands.
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Einsiedeln
Schwytz
France
Germany
Switzerland
Women win prizes at University of Oregon oratorical contest
Miss Birdie Wise won the $150 Failing prize in the annual contest and will deliver her oration across the state this summer. She is a University of Oregon graduate and president of the college of equal suffrage chapter, choosing woman suffrage as her topic. The Beckman prize of $100 also went to a woman.
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Birdie Wise
University of Oregon
College of Equal Suffrage
Beckman
Findley Ridge Mining and Power Company Charter Request
J R Copeland and Charles Sumner of Birmingham Alabama along with WN Br Crisson of Lumpkin County Georgia petition to form Findley Ridge Mining and Power Company for twenty years with capital of 1 000 000 dollars. They seek authority to acquire leases deeds and options, conduct mining and power operations, and build roads railways telephones and electricity networks in Lumpkin and Dahlonega Georgia with branch offices elsewhere.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
Tomac
J. R. Copeland
Charles Sumner
Birmingham
Alabama
BR. Crisson
Lumpkin
State of Georgia
Findley Ridge Mining and Power Company
New Findley
Georgia Gold Mining & Power Company
Board of Managing Directors
Dth
Dahlonega
O. J. Linny
CG. C. Heap
Said County
I. U. O. Head
Charter Application for Findlily Ridge Mining and Power Company
Certification of true copy of the charter application on file in this office dated January 7, 1913. Witnessed by I. O. Hran, Clerk Superior Court Lumpkin County Georgia, with official signature.
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Findlily Ridge Mining and Power Company
Superion Court Lumpkin Co
Free Flower Seed Offer From Hastings & Co Newsprint
An Atlanta seed house invites readers to request a free illustrated catalogue from H. G. Hastings & Co. It promotes scientific plant growing and a cash prize for Corn Club boys, highlighting varieties grown on their 8,000 acre farm and urging household readers to respond by mail.
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Great Southern Seed House
H. G. Hastings & Co
Atlanta
South
Corn Club Boys
Advyt
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Hatilonega Graded School
Agricultural College
J. G. Sims
Mountain Club
Nore
North
Craig
R, Arnold
Dahlonega Feed & Livery Stable
College Street
G. H. Moore
Daily Hack
M.G. Head & Co
Drices
Rist
Beet Market Iin Connection
Chicago
Butler Bro
Hall Inperior Court
Macon
Robertstown and
Gainesville & Northwestern R. R
Gainesville & North Western
London
Mark
Swanson Rheumatic Cure CO
Lake Street
G. H. McGuires
Jewelers Store
Yahoola
Liberty
Freebell
Yahoola Law Ground
Froebell
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