One Farmer's Surprising Vegetable and Dairy Success Near Rome
A Rome correspondent details Louis Treadway of Floyd County who rebuilt a rocky hillside into a productive diversified farm. Through crop rotation he markets vegetables year round and operates a large dairy with thirty three Jersey cows. He foregoes cotton for profit from berries lettuce tomatoes and other crops, aiming to reduce cotton reliance and boost steady income.
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Rome
Louis Treadway
Floyd County
Treadaway
Jersey
Atlanta Constitution
Horace Greeley Lesson on Free Speech and Newspapers
An anecdote recounts Horace Greeley debating a subscriber who claimed to have stopped his paper. Greeley dismisses the idea that one buyer can curb editorial stance, noting the paper presses on with readers and editors pursuing conviction and free expression.
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Horace Greeley
Greeley
Tribune
Sale of Wigwam Hotel property in Butts County announced
Under order of Hon. Marcus W. Beck the Wig wam Hotel Co property including the 140 room hotel, Indian Springs Reserve assets, bath house and furnishings will be sold at public auction on the first Tuesday in November at the Jackson courthouse. Receiver’s offices list inventories and terms require six thousand cash and twenty thousand in first mortgage bonds with balance due in 30 days. Sale subject to judge approval.
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Marcus W. Beck
Superior Court
Flint Circuit
Court House
Jackson
Butts County
Georgia
Wigwam
Indian Springs
Said
Indian Spring Reserve
Wigwam Hotel Co
Beck & Gregg Hardware Co
Atlanta
Wigwam Hotel
Brown House
Macon
Flint
Crumley
Home Place Two Tracts in Butts County to Be Sold
By order of the Court of Ordinary of Butts County on the first Monday in September 1895 the estate of Jackson Rich will sell at Jackson court house between legal hours on the first Tuesday in November 1895. Seventy acres in Butts County known as the Home place bounded by Lizzie Lynch John Rich Henry Fletcher Jr Dock Phillips and Samuel McKibben with the Towaliga River as the dividing line. Thirty acres cultivated and the rest forests and bottom lands. Terms cash. John Rich Executor.
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Georgia
Brutts County
Jackson
G. M
W. G. McMichael
J. A. McMichael
Matt McMichael
Lum Burford
Z.T. Buttril
W. Gs. McMichael
J. M. Finley
Cedar Rock Church
Julia C. McCandless
Butts Superior Court
M. V. McKibben
J.O. Beauchamp
Butts County
BotTs County
Said
Flovilla
State of Georgia
Indian Spring
Lamar Street
Tom J. Preston
Justice Court
Sheriff Butts County
BouttTs County
Henry Barnes
R. M. Harper
Frank Barnes
Pee Barnes
Ocmulgee
Superior Court
KR. M. Harper
Fifa
Jackson Banking Company
Maisley & Avery
Acee & Avery
Fifas
B.C
Court of Ordinary
Jackson Rich
Towit
Lizzie Lynch
John Rich
Henry Fletcher, Jr
Dock Phillips
Samuel McKibben
Towaliga River
Jeorgia
Thomas J. Carson
Thos. J. Carson
Thos. Head
Robt
Torbet
Freeman Lands
T. J. Carson
Court House
G. 8
Lynch
E. Lynch
Land Sale of Will Towles Place in Flovilla District
Land to be sold on the first Tuesday in November within legal hours in 1681-2 acres known as the Will Towles place on the road to Goodman's Ferry two and a half miles east of Flovilla. Sale for distribution among the heirs of Washington Hay deceased with cash terms. Contact C W Hay at Flovilla or A J Hay near the land to view.
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Court House
Jackson
Will Towles Place
Goodman's Ferry
Flovilla
Washington Hay
C. W. Hay
A. J. Hay
New Road Granted in Butts County
A court order notes petitions for a new road from the Barnett mill bridge to Key’s Ford near Lemon place through J. L. Barnett Austin G. Smith B. D. Yancey and the Lemon lands. Commissioners report the road will serve public utility and the road will be granted after November 12 1895 unless a good cause is shown.
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Borgia
Brutts County
Barnett’s Mill
Key’s Fe Road
Lemon Place
J. L. Barnett
Austin G. Smith
B. D. Yancey
Lemon Lands
J. F. Carmicaael
Butts County
Rheumatism Cure Claim Promises Money Back
Mrs S B Winship of 112 Washington St Providence Uk L reports paying $5 for Drummond's Lightning Remedy and after one bottle declares she would not take $100 for the benefit. The Drummond Medicine Co New York offers two bottles for $5 with home delivery and samples for 25 cents while seeking agents.
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S. B. Winship
Washington St
Provedence
UK. L
Drummond
Drummond Medicine Co
New York
Drummond Medicine
Re-advertised Administrators Sale in Butts County Georgia
Multiple proceedings announce sales and contracts in Butts County Georgia. A sale of 127 1 2 acres of G S Lynch estate will occur November first at the county courthouse with cash terms. Contracts to build bridges near Sandy Creek and Yellow Water Creek are offered to lowest bidders with plans at the Ordinary’s office. Also, a petition seeks discharge of administrator Eulalia Morrison’s estate with letters of dismission set for the first Monday in November 1805.
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Georgia
ButtTs Country
Court House
Sandy Creek
Indian Spring
Ocmulgee Mills
Yellow Water Creek
Hodge
Gil
J.F. Carmichael
Ordinary
State of Georgia
Butts County
A.H. Smith
Eulalia P. Morrison
J. F. Carmichael
Dayton congregation forgives clergy man over gambling loss
A Dayton Ohio colored congregation forgave their clergy man after betting ninety dollars of festival money on three card monte. A deacon noted human frailty and temptation while another preacher in Dakota lamented sin before the crowd. The scene ended with the preacher being expelled from a window as a stark moral moment. Pay your subscription.
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Dayton
Ohio
Local Industrial Hardware Ad
Advertisement listing products including rubber and leather belting lap welded iron steam pipe cast iron and malleable fittings for engines reducing couplings globe and check valves gauge cocks plugs in assorted sizes.
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The
Treasury
Washington
South Georgia Conference Methodist Orphans’ Home
Macor
Robert McIntire
Savannah
Chatham County
Trinity Church
Southwestern Railroad
Wesley Memorial Church
Southwestern
Emory College
McIntire
Ireland
Banks County
Athens
Birmingham
Liberty Bell Committee
Philadelphia
Areceiver
W. W. Anderson
Frank Z. Curry
Anderson & Curry
Attorneys AT Law
M. M. Mills
B. P. Bailey
Mills & Bailey
Attorney AT Law
Watkins Building
D. H. Cantrell
J. D. Watkins
Watkins Hall
Jackson, GA
T. J. Dempsey
Dempsey Building
Mulberry Street
Jackson, Georgia
Morrison House
C. W. Bucnanan
Andrew McLendon
Barber
Masonic B
C. W. Boghamay
Rife
Black Hawk
W. Buchanan
Hotue Mul
Ginea
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