Community Notes and Local Visits Across Counties
A roundup of social visits and upcoming events features many names: W. F. Newby and Carl Reynolds in Macon and Cordele respectively, Ola Lee Peavy visiting Atlanta, Col. L. L. Woodward and Col. J. E. DeVaughn in town and Unadilla, and a reunion planned for the 4th. The piece notes sports hopes against Tifton, inviting attendance and noting millinery and shoe discounts, with various residents traveling or visiting relatives and medical updates on E. S. Lasseter and others.
What Is a Democrat by W J Lampton
Open attack on Bryan and the Democratic response questions party loyalty and leadership. The author critiques Denver trip plans and the party's chances, arguing for or against sustaining momentum and core values amid past defeats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
W. J. Lampton
New York
The Merry Widow Hat Headlines Across Newspapers
A collage of quotes mocks the Merry Widow hat with satirical takeups from Atlanta Birmingham Rome Cuthbert Wilmington and Columbus. The items joke about hats in store windows condemnations and even mischief caused by the fashion trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Constitution
Birmingham Age-Herald
Georgia
Rome Tribune-Herald
Cuthbert
Wilmington Dispatch
Texas
Columbus
Wit and Wisdom From The Washington Post
A collage of quips and social jabs about figures from Roosevelt to Bryan, Twain, and Nation. Observations on public figures, politics, theater, and daily life mix with humorous asides about health fads travel and journalism.
Local Business Locals Promote Vehicles and Farm Goods
J P Heard Sons and J M Barfield of Pinehurst advertise a range of goods including cattle peanuts and used farm equipment. Offers include a Brown wagon rental, electric fence wire, and second hand mowers with low prices. Also promoting Hackney buggy and burial trobes with hearse service on request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Heard & Sons
City Ad Valorem Tax Returns Opened July 1 1908
Notice that the 1908 city ad valorem tax returns will be opened on July 1 1908 and remain open through the third day. J A Walden serves as Clerk and Treasurer.
Local sayings mixed with misprints echo a retail discount
A quirky string of quotes shows varied professions reacting to business talk and luck, ending with a 20 percent discount offer from Kantbebeat Clothing. The fragment hints at a promotional line amid a chorus of puns from a beggar to a tailor.
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W._F. Newby
Macon
Carl Reynolds
Cordele
Sam Owens
Byromville
Ga. W. JSON
Unadilla
City
Hugh McGough
Lilly
Col. L. L. Woodward
Luther Murphy
J. G. Forehand
Giovania
Tifton Boys
Hugh Lasseter
Trebor
J. H. Robinson
J. P. Heard
D. R. Thompsore
Leepope
Edad Mra
H. H. J. Lawrence
Mr. and
Ae ‘Heard
E Go. Taylor
Col
J. E. DeVaughn
Montezuma
Our City
Jewell Jacobs
Gladys Heard
Cols, M. P. Hall
Watts Powell
Col. Mid Busbee
Pinehar
Mobley
Oliver, Hargrove
McDonald
J. D. Taylor
Fitzgerald
Tom Adkins
The
Anadilla
Vienna
O. W. Horne
Pinehurst
J. R., Horne
Louie Fenn
Athens
Mrs. McKenzie
D. A. ‘Taylor
Metz Joiner
Drayton Baptist Church
Patric Varnadoe
Dawson
Mary and
Anna Varnadoe
B. E. Kelly
Lettie White
Emmerich
E. C. Taylor
Maggle
Cleo Thompson
Marshallville
C. G. Power
Eufaula
Als
Cleveland Vaughn
Tifton Stars
the _gity park
Lasseter
Cordele Sunday
J. E. Joiner
Taylor Bros
Ridley Furniture Co
Anne
Bryan
Matolleas
Merry Widow
East Vienna
Washington Post
Fort Wayne
the Manning
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Mr. Bryan
Mark Twain
Mark
Stung
Chicago ‘Tribune
Carrie Nation
Washington
Florida Times-Union
Cntemporary
Atlanta Journal
Anna Gould
Hearst
Anna
Chicago Teachers Federation
Navy Department
E.C. Taylor
Byrom & Sons
Byromville, Ga
John W. Powell
Taylor
M. Barfield
J.P. Byrom & Sons
J. M. Barfield
Pean Wengee
J. A. Walden, Clk, & Treas
Henderson & Jordan
Vienna, Ga
Myon Hotel
Tifton
Jacksonville
Fla
Walton Bros
Hardware Store
Harvard
Meinhard, Schaul
J.S. Byrom & Sons
Byromville, Georgia
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