Farmers Union to Build Settlement City Near Atlanta
Georgia division of the Farmers National Co operative Union plans a settlement city at the Atlanta West Point and Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic junction less than ten miles from Atlanta. The union will move its large implement factory from Fairburn to the site, owning a factory capitalized at 50000 dollars with stock held entirely by members. The project includes 300 acres of land, homes for workers, and a cotton school to teach cotton classification.
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Atlanta Journal
Georgia
Farmers’ National Co-operative Union
Atlanta
West Point
Birmingham
Atlantic
Fairburn
Railroad Junction
Farmers’ Union
Dudes Triumph 5 to 2 Over Henpecks in City Series
Last Friday afternoon the best game of the series ended 5 to 2 in favor of the dudes. A disputed umpire decision sparked interest as both teams have strengthened since the last match. City crowds are urged to attend and cheer their team to victory.
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Dudes
Henpecks
Vienna
Columbus’s 104-year-old Dick Smith Once Guarded $968000
Columbus, July 28. Dick Smith, who says he is 104, claims to have remembered Thomas Jefferson. Born in Virginia, he came to Columbus in 1884 and labored near Horse Shoe Bend. During the Civil War he was a bodyguard for a planter in Albany and carried a bag of money valued at $968,000 from Atlanta to Albany amid threats and captures.
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Columbus
Dick Smith
Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Horse Shoe Bend
Old Hickory Jackson
Alabama
Albany
Atlanta
Sherman
Roll of the Dooly Infantry Enlistees 1861 Pulaski Times list
From the Pulaski Times July 18 1861 a roll of Dooly county soldiers enlisting in the war is printed. Names include Capt Joseph Armstrong 1st Lt Redding T Coley 2nd Jas W Carter Ensign PKE Gilbert 1st Sgt Thos I Collier and many others with ranks from noncommissioned to private. The list ends with sect officers and continues beyond the excerpt.
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Dooly County
Pulaski
Joseph Armstrong
Pleasant Evening Reveries in The Home Circle
The Home Circle column urges mothers to resist profanity and cherish virtue. It extols wealth used rightly, warns about crime behind prison bars, and urges cheerful piety, kindness to animals, and enduring faith amid sorrow. It reflects on grief from a child’s death, the fatigue of life, and the calling to pursue truth and right with hope for reward.
In Memory of Milton King and His Union Minister Band
Milton King died July 12, 1007, leaving a mother sister and three brothers with many friends. The memorial honors his steadfast faith and recalls the poem Beyond the Twilight Lingers and the hope of eternal rest. His spirit is free and his feet crossed the silvery sand to the heavenly home.
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Milton King
Union Mininister
Earth
Atlanta Women Prisoner Damsel in a Modern Damon and Pythias Tale
In Atlanta on July 28 a young woman Cornelia Rake and an elderly prisoner Mrs Reynolds face vagrancy charges. Rake refuses pardon unless Reynolds is pardoned too, pledging to stay in prison to care for Reynolds as she dies. Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs members assist, seeking clemency for both.
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Atlanta, Ga
Damon and
Pythias
Cornelia Rake
Atlanta
Mrs. Reynolds
Old Hickory Wagons Johnston to Succeed Pettus in Senate
United States Senator elects Joseph F Johnston of Birmingham to fill the Pettus vacancy and serve the unexpired Pettus term plus the additional term to 1915. The selection follows the Alabama state primaries and current political processes in Birmingham. A separate notice seeks to buy six or eight thrifty shoats for fattening, Unadilla.
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Birmingham
Ala
E. W. Pettus
Hot Springs
N. C
Joseph F. Johnstont
J. H. Bankhead
Morgan
Johnston
Pettus
Unadilla
D. L. F. Peacock
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Babcock Buggies
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Herring
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Geo Henderson
Ballard
Barton Green Hatcher
P Bell
Bell
Hooks
Blanchard
Bullington
W Butler
Carroll
IL Coppage
George Cribb
J Crosier
Jas Crumpler
Crumpler
Cour
M Collins
PD Christmas
JD Cark Dixon
L Collier
Clemens
Davin
Davis Thos Fail
Thos
Dupree
John J Penn
Floyd
Gigoin
B Hall
Harvard
Ham
John R Harvad
Lucy James Lewis
Jon Locke
Lockman
Lupo
Mattox
McCullers
P Monroe
W Mercer
JG May
Ji Norris
Nasock
Pollock Eli Peavy
Milton Robirts
Rodgers _T
Lodgers
Ridly
Royalda
P Spradley
JT Spradley
M Shepperd
J Tippett
TA Tatum
Jim Woodard
GB Wheeler
JM Warren
DB Williams
Henry Wright
G Wheeler
Young
Descartes
Temple of Fame
Hackney Buggles
Hackney Buggies
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