BILLARP'S LETTER Time essay on age and the 1900 question
Bartow reader Bart Billarp argues time is elastic and compressible, cites scripture and personal memories, and muses on the 1900 century shift. He laments modern vanity, notes humanity’s limits, and ponders the meaning of Anno Domini and the calendar’s unity since medieval reforms. The piece blends philosophy, religion, and reflections on time.
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Land of God
Timo
Juli Caesar
Augustus Caesar
Moses
Mahomet
Pacific Parliament shifts Sabbath observance to Sunday
Rarotonga, a Zealand dependency with a British model legislature, passes a bill to move Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Early missionary errors that shaped the practice will be corrected after January 1. In Tennessee, a saw mill boiler exploded injuring two white men, Hugh Yancey and John Evans, and a Black man whose name was not published.
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Rarotonga
Zealand
Joe Wilkerson
Chester County
Tenn
Hugh Yancey
John Evans
Antauge Bank Organized at Prattville
Antauge Banking and Teuat company formed at Prattville with capital of 50,000 dollars. W. T. Northington is named president.
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Antauge Bank
Auteuge Banking and Teuat Company
Prattville
W. T. Northington
Italy seeks punishment for Tallola lynching defendants
The Italian government formally asks the United States to punish those responsible for the lynching of five Italians at Tallola Louisiana last spring. It notes that prior cases were settled with indemnity payments but rejects that remedy this time.
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United States
Tallola
Preacher Wes Hall Foum Shot Self in Domestic Tragedy
Reverend Wesley Hall of Hindman Knott County Kentucky reportedly shot and killed Lucinda Isaacs sister of his deceased wife then shot himself in the abdomen. Physicians say he will recover. The tragedy stems from Isaacs' refusal of his marriage proposal.
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Wesley Hall
Hindman
Knott County
Lucinda Isaacs
Disinterring Bodies of Americans at Havana Colon Cemetery
Reported work to exhume American remains at Colon cemetery in Havana is under way with seventy bodies recovered. A labor dispute arose as forty workers demanded double pay after starting at $1.50 daily. replacements were hired. Meanwhile British transports The Ions Corinthia and Kildona, carrying mules to South Africa, returned to New Orleans to load more. Corinthia lost eighty mules, Iowa eleven. Electric line plan from Atlanta to Marietta backed by A and W Railway and Power Co. chartered with $100 000 capital.
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Cotton States Association of Commissioners of Agriculture
New Orleans
Commissioner Hill
Arkansas
South
Liverpool
Commissioners of the Agriculture of the Cotton States of America
Europe
Colon Cemetery
Havana
Ions
Corinthia
Kildona
South Africa
Iowa
Atlanta
Marietta
Atlanta and Western Railway and Power Company
Austell
Douglasville
Fatally Harmed Wits Jacob Shudin Swede Tragedy
At a home six miles from Knoxville Tennessee Jacob Shudin fatally harmed his wife by striking her three times and then killed himself with a gunshot through the heart in a fatal personal crisis.
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Jacob Shudin
Knoxville
Tenn
Shudin
Col Boaker Dead In Atlanta Bank Firm
Colonel J W Hucker of Atlanta and member of the banklog firm Maddox Bucker Co. is reported dead in the city.
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Col
Boaker
J. W. Hucker
Atlanta
Maddox, Bucker & Co
That City
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