Colored Colonists Seek New Lives Aboard Emigration Plan
Savannah News reports Georgia Anderson a colored woman who spent six years in Africa with colonists from the South organizing a new emigrant party. She anticipates many preparing for a 1895 departure, with land grants of twenty five acres for married men and ten acres for singles. The scheme faces distrust from past emigration schemes but promises fertile land and abundant game in Monrovia era. An Irish mule incident closes the item with a joke about mounting a mule.
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Savannah
Georgia Anderson
Africa
Monrovia
Anderson, S. C
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Oley’s Honey and Tar Promises Lung Cure
T Eugene Funderburk, a local druggist, touts Oley’s Honey and Tar as a cure to prevent pneumonia and consumption from a hard cold settled on the lungs. The ad highlights quick relief and curative qualities for respiratory illness.
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T. Eugene Funderburk
All The Difference In Small Town Life
A school officer questions a pupil's absence with the mother who notes the boy is past 15 yet has brains and schooling to spare. A stout woman asks a policeman to see her across a street and he replies with a humorous exaggeration. A Minnesota man teases a doctor about the thermometer, offering to pay for it as the wife remains silent.
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Minnesota
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