Sandersville Election Looms as City Growth Demands Best Leaders
The Herald urges voters to choose civic-minded, patriotic leaders for Sandersville's upcoming municipal election. It cautions against candidates lacking public-spirited service as the city expands with about one hundred twenty thousand dollars in planned improvements. The paper calls for intelligent, selfless candidates and notes ongoing discussions about mayoral and aldermanic choices. It also highlights a strong campaign climate and hints at current candidacy debates.
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Sandersville
Herato
Dementia affects candidates as alderman hopefuls discussed
The Athens Banner notes a dozen or more citizens with dementia reform are potential alderman candidates amid campaign season. It mentions political pressure, ideas of nominating rivals, and the Georgia Weekly Press Association meeting in Sandersville. Steve Postell is reported seriously ill in Atlanta, admired in state journalism for a long career and prior ties to the Banner and Constitution.
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Georgia
Sandersville
Georgia Weekly Press Association
Steve Postell
Atlanta
Postell
The
Banner
Atlanta Constitution
Journal
Athens Banner
Exposition Trip Promotion by Callon Beach and Neal
A brief notice invites readers to join a trip to the Exposition with emphasis on pickup for grip or trunk gear handled by Callon Beach and Neal.
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Callon Beach & Neal
Notice to creditors of O. W. Elkins estate Georgia
Georgia Washington County notices creditors to render accounts of demands within law and for debtors to pay. W R Cox is permanent administrator of the estate of O W Elkins, deceased, dated April 18 1907.
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Georgia
Washington County
W. Elkins
W.R. Cox
O. W. Elkins
Purity Ice Company Petition for Incorporation
Petition filed in Washington County Georgia seeks incorporation of Purity Ice Company for twenty years with renewal option. Capital stock six thousand dollars paid in, ability to increase with stockholder consent, and powers to manufacture ice and beverages, deal in coal brick cement, own real estate, borrow money, sue and be sued, establish branches, and set by laws. Principal office in Sandersville. petition certified by Clerk I H B Massey on April 19 1907.
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Georgia
Washington County
Superior Court
Said
F. W. Allen
Lake’ S Holt
L. H. Holt
W. E. Armistead
Purity Ice Company
Sandersville
W.E. Armisteap
I. H. B. Massey
Superior Court of
H.B. Massey
S.C. W.C
Battered hobbyhorse travels with aging couple to Texas
In St. Louis Union Station a scarred hobbyhorse drew a crowd as an aged couple explained the keepsake belonged to their dead boy. They refused to leave it behind while moving from Indiana to Texas, insisting the horse remains their lasting memory.
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Union Station
St. Louis
Texas
Indiana
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Buying Clothes
A man with a shopping list plans purchases to balance early and late buys. He will skip two items until season ends for price cuts, while buying others now to gain extra use and avoid higher late-season costs. He notes early buys save money when style matters.
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Columbus Dispatch
The Mule On The Quarter Deck
An old sailor known as a five striper on shore leave captures a mule and mounts it on the quarter deck. An engineer officersuggests moving him amidships but the veteran replies this is the first craft he ever commanded and he must stay on the quarter deck.
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Jack
Lincoln teases Fessenden on religious swearing
President Lincoln jokes with Senator Fessenden about religious affiliation and swearing in his office. He notes Fessenden swears like Seward and claims Stanton swears as a Presbyterian. The exchange reveals the men’s temperaments and beliefs in a humorous moment.
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Seward
Stanton
Amundsen Mistake Over Greenlandic Word Play
Captain Amundsen, short on dogs in the Arctic, offered to buy a dog from the Netchillis. The tribe refused after a misinterpretation when the Greenlandic word for dog was learned to mean child in their language. The curious episode ended with laughter and a lesson in linguistic nuance.
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Amundsen
Arctic
His Last Chance to Look Pleasant in Pictures
Mrs N Peck notes that many bridal photos appear in photographer windows and wonders why couples rush for portraits after the wedding. Mr Peck jokes that the husband seeks one last chance to look pleasant.
A Word For Herself On Mat herin Bezu quet Tomb
A widow inscribes touching lines on her departed husband Mathurin Bezuquet’s tomb. She records his age at death as ninety nine years eleven months and twenty days and describes him as the most charming and faithful of wives.
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Mathurin Bezuquet
Pele Mele
Acquitted Woman Kisses Her Lawyer After Trial
The Philadelphia Ledger reports a young and pretty acquitted woman kissing her lawyer after the case. He insists on returning his fee, stating his stipulation had been no fee for the matter.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Three Sick Men and Their Health Shaping History
A curio of history notes St Paul Julius Caesar and Marat as influential figures whose health did not hinder their impact. The passage ponders Fortune's uneven favors on those who changed the world and mocks the randomness of luck.
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St. Paul
Julius Caesar
Marat
Sale of Piano Under Court Order in Sandersville Georgia
A piano described as Adam Schaap style 4 No 20442 will be sold at the courthouse door in Sandersville, Georgia on the first Tuesday in May 1907 between legal hours to the highest cash bidder. The property belongs to J A Robson and is levied under a mortgage from the City Court of Sandersville. Levy was made April 8 1907 by Sheriff M Moyer.
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Georgia
Washington County
Court House
Sandersville
Adam Schaap
J. A. Robson
J. R. Pritchard
City Court
M. Moyer
B. F. Jackson
T. @. Roughton
Wrightsville
Middleville
Said
Jackson
Roughton
Alfred Brown
Riddleville
Mt. Moriah
Year s support set for widow and five minors
Ordinary O D Tiipen announces that appraisers appointed to allot a year s support from the estate of C W Elkins for Mrs Mattie Elkins and five minor children have filed their return. All concerned must appear before the court on the first Monday in May to show cause why the return should not be approved and entered as judgment.
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Georgia
Washington County
Mattie Elkins
C. W. Elkins
Court of Ordinary
O. D. Tiiapen
Guardian's dismissal urged for Annie Sears ward
Ordinary's office on April 1 1907 reports guardian Joseph Jackson has discharged duties for Annie L Sears Nancy Slowell and Minnie L Browing and petitions letters of dismission. The notice requires all interested to show cause by the first Monday in May why the guardian should not be discharged from the trust.
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Georgia
Washington County
Joseph Jackson
Annie L. Sears
Nancy Slowell
Minnie L. Browing
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le Sage
Holt & Brother
Sheriff's Sales
C.D. Tirepen
Office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
I. W. Newman
Sect’y Coms
DR. C. H. Davis
Cor. N. Harris St
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G.C. Wood
L. B. Holt
Evans & Evans Attorneys
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Lizzie Clark
D. W. Harrison
Florrie Stanley
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