Great Magazine Offer Promised with County Tax Notice
Advertisement listing magazine offers from Wuele Remus Magazine and others, plus a 1911 county tax levy order by J. P. Progr Ordinary Lumpkin County. It details one hundred dollars property tax at 72 cents allocated to general, roads, bridges, jail, pauper and jury purposes for 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Frame and Farm
Louisville
National Monthly
Buffalo
N. Y
Southern Ruralist
Housewife
McCall’s Magazine
Inland Farmer
Toledo Blade
Toledo
Ohio
Constitution
News and Farm Journal
Chattanooga
Alabama Times
Montgomery
Georgia
W. B. Township
Lumpkin County
J. F. Pruett
Court of Ordinary
J. M. Ricketts
J.P. Progr
Unclear News Scramble on Social, Legal, and Economic Topics
A mosaic of brief notes covers U S Army numbers, Kansas officeholders, weapon dangers, college funding, sugar and coffee prices, kissing laws, health and politics, court docket activity in Fulton and Gwinnett, a Macon arrest for illicit liquor, a Athens attempted cheating case, a disruptive church incident in Logansport, vagrancy jail sentences, cotton belt labor, a long bed bound patient in Illinois, Pentecostal healers, and reflections on women’s roles and middle-class values.
John Woody Corrected as Not in Chain Gang
A Tennessee employer writes from Isabella on Sept 14, 1911 to deny a Dahlonega report that John Woody was in a Ducktown chain gang. The letter states Woody has worked six months in the acid plant, is steady and well regarded, and that the chain gang tale is a mistake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Woody
Tennessee
John
Isabella
Tenn
Woomeo
Woody
Dahlonega
Ducktown
KK. L
Larsson
D. 5
WANTS COUNTRY REPRESENTED IN STATE OFFICES
LETTER FROM COUNTRYMAN URGES Lumpkin COUNTY residents to elect farmer and laboring men to the state legislature. He argues town lawyers dominate politics, taxes hit farmers, and rural voices have been unheard for a century. He calls for nationwide representation. He cites taxation, squirrel pest, and legal costs as farmer burdens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Eorror
Lumpkin County
Lumpkin
Adaw
Dablonega
Stampede of stamped envelopes sparks local printer protest
The Guthrie paper argues against stamped government envelopes used by banks and merchants, calling it an injustice to local printers who supply envelopes. It urges reciprocal fairness, noting banks profit from money at higher rates while printers suffer, and suggests direct government loans to people at modest interest as an alternative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Home Merchant Exchange of Trade
Guthrie Register
Useless Things Every Town Has and More
A collection of satirical town vignettes and social mores highlighting petty faults and neighborly feuds. It contrasts church rivalries, gossip, and vouchers of virtuous living with cautionary notes on debt and improvidence. Ends with an urging to use the office for job work.
Power of Riches Is Small
The speaker argues wealth fails to grant beauty or strength or lengthen life. Riches cannot adorn the mind, and instead tempt vanity, pride, and indifference to virtue and compassion. Experience of the world shows riches offer little true value.
The Cashier Absconds With All The Cash
The head clerk informs the firm head that the cashier has vanished with the cash. A crowd disperses after a street dog fight as the chief’s carriage arrives. The head asks for details and learns there is a cashier vacancy due to embezzlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerkins
Jorkins
Dark Smoke and the Psychology of Smoking Blind
A man recovering from eye surgery must smoke in a dark room with his eyes bandaged. He finds smoking without sight lacks pleasure, unlike the glow of a lit end. The piece ponders why sight enhances the smoking experience and asks about the underlying psychology.
American sights during coronation spark curiosity
Stories describe Americans touring London during the coronation era. A guide points out Grosvenor House as the duke of Westminster’s town residence, provoking a startled response from a passenger who asks, “Who landed him?” in Tit-Bits style.
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Grosvenor House
Duke of Westminster
Special Advantages At This Institution
Total expenses under rivals at $125 to $175 for the year covering board lodging books fuel lights and uniform. Magnificent climate mountain location freedom from city distractions. Obedience order regularity and self dependence taught. Finest military department and cadet band in Georgia under U.S. Army officers. Thorough instruction in A B and I B courses plus agriculture mining engineering and commercial science. Boys live in dormitories under officers. For further information address G R Glenn LL D President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
U.S. Army
G. R. Glenn
Tannery Ad Offers Tanning on Shares and Leather Goods
H. A. Butler appeals to farmers to trade hides and skins for tanning services and custom leather, claiming 25 years of local presence. He urges drop off at W. H. Jones store or J. Trousley’s shoe shop, with the tannery on Clay Creek, Davis' District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Jones
J. &. Trousley
Clay Creek
Davis
H. A. Butler
Pure Herb Tablets for Indigestion and Blood Tissues
Purported tablet remedy claims to correct digestion kidneys liver and bowels while purifying the blood with no weakness. Sold nationwide at 1 per box with W B Townsend of Dahlonega Ga as agent and Pure Herb Tablet Co. of Ashland Ohio listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pure Herb Tablet Co
Ashland
Ohio
W. B. Townsend
Dahlonega, Ga
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tri-Weekly Constitution
F.A
Dehalers IN
General Merchandise
PLACE
Sargent Building
Public
F. A. Head & Co
Dahlonega Feed & Livery Stable
College Street
G. H. Moore
Gainesville
A. EB. Merritt
Gainesville, Ga
A. A. Muxcerr
General News
U. S
Kansas
Waycross
Wesleyan College
Ben Tillman
South Carolina
Pellegra
Macon
Fulton Superior Court
Judge Russell
Pope Brown
Gwinnett County
H. C. Compton
the Baptist Church At
Athens
Logansfort
Ind
Cotton Belt
Alton
Tll
Roo Bood
Gang
Auraria, GA
North Georgia Agricultural College
A.M
Nugget
J. P
Justice Court
G. H. McGuires
Feweler’s
Here
Homer Head
Danlonega
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