Spectacles and Eye Glasses Offered in Augusta and Beyond
Optical shop advertising glasses and consultations free, with multiple 1903 1908 event tickets and deadlines listed for national gatherings and summer schools in cities such as Augusta San Francisco Los Angeles Boston Atlanta Monteagle St Louis Knoxville Tuskegee Asheville Athens Nashville and other locations, noting ticket sale dates and final limits with extensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Cal
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In
Atlanta
Monteagle
Tenn
Monteagle Bible School
Woman’s Congress
W.C. T.U
Montenagle Sunday School Institute
ST. Louis
Saengerfest
Saengerbund
Knoxville
Tuskegee
Ala
Asheville
Southern Educational Ass’n
Athens
Nashville, Tenn
Peabody College Summer School
Notice of Tax Receiver Second Round Dates
Tax receiver schedule lists multiple districts with parcel dates from April 3 to May 29 and monthly handover rules. It notes locations Giles Crossing Buncombe Walker Cato Tennille and others with specific May dates and pickup times. Also mentions Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic广告 and payment terms No cure No pay.
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Barksdale
Giles Crossing
Buncombe
Wee
Walker
Grove
Timely Disclosure Bases Mafia Plot
A reported Italian Mafia plot to secretly kill objectionable foremen in large U.S. plants led to sweeping dismissals of Italian workers in Dunkirk New York and warnings from Easton Pennsylvania plant officials. Authorities say the scheme spanned major factories and could trigger unrest among Italian employees nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Itle
Dunkirk
N. Y
Easton
Women Sweep Banks Street In Louisville Cleanup Effort
Louisville, May 26. Frustrated by inadequate city cleaning funds, neighborhood women on Bank Street between Twenty first and Twenty third streets organized at Mrs George Jansen’s home and spent hours sweeping and shoveling dirt from the curb with teamsters hauling away the debris. The effort stayed local to that stretch with no participation by men or spread to other neighborhoods.
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Lousivile
Bank Street
Twenty-first
Twenty-third Streets
George Jansen
Jett Indicted for Assassinating Lawyer Marcum in Jackson
Jackson Kentucky May 26 after a full day special grand jury Curtis Jett and Tom White were indicted for the assassination of James B Marcum. Witness escorted by militia and jurors examined eight witnesses Captain J B Ewen guarded under protection as justice moves in Hargis Cockrell feud case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcum
Jackson
Curtis Jett
Tom White
James B. Marcum
Hargis
Poisoning Case Dominates Georgia Inquest Near Gainesville
In Hall county, Georgia, 19 year old Wiley F. Tanner died after drinking buttermilk. His wife Miss Oale Duncan is held for investigation amid claims of poisoning. Coroner Dorsey plans to conclude the inquest today as witnesses describe a possible strychnine cause. The Tanner family is prominent and the death has sparked local shock.
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Gainesville
Wiley F. Tanner
John W. Tanner
Lie Home
Clinchem District
Coconer Dorsey
Dorsey
K. A. Smith
Tanner
BE. P. Ham
T. C. Gower
Allen
Hoschton
Kennedy
Belmont
Oale Duncan
I. Frank Duncan
Wfe
Hall County
Baptist Cemetery
Chestnut Mountain
D. 8. McCurry
Boy Arrested in Plainfield Shooting Incident
William James, 10, is under arrest in Plainfield New Jersey on a charge of shooting Theresa Watson, 10, during a runaway party. The two youths fled briefly. the Watson girl cried to go home and was hit by a Flobert rifle fired by James.
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Plainfield
N. J
William James
Theresa Watson
Watson
Jared
Telegraphic Brevities From The Telegraph Page
Commencement begins at Brenau college Gainesville Ga Madison Bell of Atlanta delivers the literary address Captain Robert Hazlehurst of the Macon volunteers to judge the prize drill at Georgia Military College Milledgeville The coal mine strike in Tennessee continues with no unions returning to work Mississippig promises another Indianola affair A negro named postmaster at Gaza Copiah county sparking boycotts Paris Madrid automobile race tally six killed two fatally and ten seriously injured One hundred fifty Macedonian rebels slain in battle with Turks dynamite used Pedro Diaz in San Juan Puerto Rico sentenced to death for murder appeal filed likely to be hanged July 31 Natives strive to save Diaz life Kishineff trial gear signals military tribunal actions by New York World correspondent ruled by district military court headed for Kishineff
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Robert Hazlehurst
Macon Volunteers
Georgia Military College
Milledgeville
Coal Creek
Tennessee
San Juan
P. R
Pedro Diaz
Humacao
Supreme Court
Diaz
District Military Court
Kishineff
Odessa
New York
Louisville's Primary Controversy Delays City Election
In Louisville a Democratic primary for city and county officers opened amid legal doubt and factional clashes. Police closed saloons by mayoral order despite court rulings, while state central committee chairman Allie W. Young faced injunctions and removals. The legality of the primary remains unsettled, with arrests anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Vetera
Grainger
State Central Committee
Democratic Party
Democratic Committee
Caruth
Allie W. Young
Democratic State Central Committee
Judge McNeal
Young
John W. Vreeland
Southern and Mobile and Ohio railways to merge July first
Atlanta May 26 high authority says the Southern railway and the Mobile and Ohio will consolidate July 1 if no hitch. The merger, long planned, follows Southern ownership of the Mobile and Ohio stock and was delayed by Mississippi legislative excitement. After consolidation the Mobile and Ohio name will be dropped, with operations under the Southern Railway name.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway
Mobile and Ohio Railway
Southern
Mobile and Ohio
Mississippi
Mobile and
Ohio
Southern Railway Company
Craze by religion ends in ax attack near Saints' Delight
May 26. Charles Atkins a farmer near Winston-Salem, enraged by religious fervor, attacked neighbors, wrecked doors at Saints' Delight church, injured a horse by an ax strike, and was subdued and jailed. He cites spiritual restraint as reason for not eating. Spain Kelley surrendered in Columbia after killing W. H. Creech near Bishopville on May 6. A Hastings Nebraska tornado caused extensive property damage with no deaths reported.
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Rune Amuck
Cretes
Wineton-Salem
N. C
Charles Atkins
Saints’ Delight
Bunyan Linville
Adolphus Sink
Atkins
Lineville
Link
Spain Kelley
Columbia
D. C
W. HB. Creech
Camden
Bishopville
Sumter
Kelley
Creech
Two Indian Battles From a Red Skin's Point of View
A reader letter argues history favors the white man and cites Wounded Knee and Little Big Horn as examples. It contrasts perceived massacres with Custer's defeat and notes the evolution of neckwear terms from Cravate to cravat and the Steenkirk influence.
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Wounded Knee
Custer
Bronx
Little Big Horn
Charles A. Eastman
Ad Dwelling Sites in Torres Strait Communities
The Tupuselel town is built on piles sunk into a submerged coral reef in Torres Strait south of New Guinea. Opposite on the mainland, a palm tree village sits high among towering palms. Both sites aim to evade surprise by numerous enemies and protect from Dyak head hunters.
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Tupuselel
Torres Strait
New Guinea
The Oldest Known Bookkeeping System in the Andes
In Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador the kipu of Andean Indians represents ancient accounting. It uses knotted strings of varied colors to denote items and ten numerals. Without a written language, the kipu remains a remarkably accurate system for large as well as small transactions, rivaling double entry.
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Andes
Peru
Bolivia
Ecuador
Bizarro
Value of Recreation and Wit in Daily Life
A compilation of light anecdotes and proverbs on recreation, social pastime, and humor. It argues that pleasant evenings spent in games strengthen body and mind for future work, contrasting with overwork. Includes brief quips from Chicago Tribune, Exchange, Baltimore American, and Puck on manners, wit, and everyday life.
Bermuda Maids and the Itching Question of Marriage
A Bermuda context notes that a high proportion of old maidens exist across social classes with wealth tied to inherited estates. An old colonial law lets daughters inherit when fathers die but punishes marriage by forfeiting dowries, explaining why many well bred women remain unmarried to safeguard their fortunes.
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Bermudas
Virginia Company
West Indies
Rustic Work and Early Musical Instruments Featured
Notes on rustic outdoor furniture and its harmony with surroundings, citing Country Life In America. Also a brief history of the medieval organ from the tenth to late fifteenth century, detailing bellows, keyboard, and pedal developments in England.
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America
Wolston
England
Bernhardt
Indictment Over A Pig Killing In Kentucky
An old Kentucky indictment accuses defendants of unlawfully killing and destroying a pig owned by George Pigg without his consent. The pig was the mate to Pigg's other pigs, leaving him with fewer swine and harming the harmony of his pig social group.
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Pigg
Hin
Kentucky
George Pigg
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Getting the Drop in a Stage Contract Dispute
A playwright questions a star about insisting on a rifle in every scene. The star replies the requirement is in the contract. The exchange notes the device aims for sensational, restless audiences and to show the drop on them before they react.
Excessive muscular development warned as dangerous
A physician warns that excessive muscular development is unnecessary and dangerous. Stopping athletic training, inevitable for everyone, causes slow adaptation and can bring digestive disturbances. The great lungs, unused in sedentary life, degenerate and may lead to consumption.
Etiquette Query About Treating Inferiors
A humorous exchange between Mrs Brandnew and Mr Brandnew about first class etiquette and how to treat inferiors, noting a playful jab at recent social changes and language.
His Talent and Marked For Life Snippets
A fragmented Chicago News remark notes Hank aimed for college to be an ag preacher, but heavy bills led someone to pursue him becoming a doctor. A Cornall Widow line features a leopard saying it is always spotted, humorously concluding the fragmentary item.
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Hank
Chicago News
Cornall Widow
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Herald & Georgian
William Park
Georgia
Sisfonths Hubs of
The
Lander
Henry J. Godin
EYE Sight Specialit and Manufacturing
Augusta, GA
Central
Wandersville
T Rawlings
Art
Rawlings & Howard
Attorneys AT Law
Sandersville
Middle Circuit
Haynes St
J. W. Daniel
Evans & Evans, Attorngeys At Law
Handersville
Evans Building
Charles M. Tyson
Holt
Theus Company
Jewelers
Corner Bull and
Broughton St., Georgia
Assis Sos
DRS. Starkey & Palen
Girard St
Philadelphia
Toronto
Canada
Notin Ray Trust
REW Home Sewing Machine CO
Homer
Nowy Orange
Loula
Dallas
Warthen
View
Cato
Sun Hill
Davisboro
Chalker
Harrison
Giles
Tennille
Northen
Wommack
Stonewall
Pringle
Cleveland
Riddleville
Smith’s
Irwins X Roads
Colson
Hodges
Tabernacle
H. Jordan Hopvars
T. R
W. C
Sco
P. M. Whitman
7Th Street
Augusta
Jett
Longino
Miss
Sixth
Conn
Increase
Chicago
Allis-Challmers
Twelfth Street
Dreness
Defenee Kyle
Tex
Walter Blum Wayhe
Robert
Denver
Colo
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
P. T. Cowles
Charlottesville
John Matthews
Columbus
Brenau College
Madison Bell
Hastings
Lincoln
Neb
France
Croatia
Steenkirk
Flanders
Washington Star
Lizzie
Baltimore
Puck
Bermuda
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