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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1923
Page
4
A collage of aphorisms and observations touches on wealth, risk, and culture. It notes banditry and bakery theft, advances in mobility, and shifts in fashion and manners. The piece muses on war, science, superstition, and national pride with wry, era-specific tone.
The Philadelphia Record argues men control wage earning while women spend most family income. It asserts women seek dominant influence in some areas and men in others, urging persuasion over coercion in public and private life to align interests between genders.
The piece describes Basrah autumn horse racing with a new brick grandstand and totalisator activity amid desert paddocks and crowd scenes. It also notes a wool market in Patseo Tibet where Tibetan sheep fleece is traded for goods, with caravans threading high mountain passes and pack animals carrying tight-rope fleeces.
An account recalls how Franklin Adams and Jefferson debated a device for the Great Seal on July 4 1770. Franklin favored Moses dividing the Red Sea, Adams urged Hercules and his club, Jefferson proposed Israelite guidance. The seal with the eagle was approved on June 20 1782.
In Hampshire England superstition lingers of a were wolf feared by locals. Children avoid a field-path at dusk and villagers recall a creature that looks like a big dog yet was said to be a lady. References to lycanthropy note Dark Ages ferocious wolf-wanderers in southern Germany and parts of Italy.
The article describes mail runners in India who are drawn from low castes and animist groups. They risk life facing tigers rivers avalanches and robbers to deliver mail. The mail bag is treated as a sacred object while dishonesty is rare and pay averages around five dollars a month.
The notices detail discharge hearing for William J. Wood Jr. bankruptcy No 8973 in the Northern District of Georgia. Also announced are sheriff sales in Fayette County of land parcels in tax or mortgage actions and a bankruptcy sale of Harp Brothers assets at Inman, Georgia, with terms cash and confirmation by the referee.
The document covers land levies in Fayette County and a formal petition by J J Murphy and others for incorporation as Fayette County Nursery. It requests corporate powers, a $2500 capital stock with option to grow to $25000, authority to own property, sue, and wind up, and seeks charter amendments and renewal under Georgia law. Attorneys Culpepper and Murphy file the petition on May 10 1923.
Certification by Fayette County Superior Court clerk that the charter application for Payette County Nursery is correct as filed. Dated May 10 1923. In re Will of J H Farr Probate petition to Mrs Lois Hartley Mrs Mamie Cox Emmett Farr Ellis Farr.
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