Teachers and Patrons Unite in Rural School Duties
Opinion piece urging teachers and patrons to cooperate in country schools. Emphasizes teachers valuing work, engaging patrons, explaining methods, and inviting visits. patrons should support, not overestimate youth learning, visit, forgive, and ensure daily attendance while showing sympathy. Calls for joint effort to raise educational standards.
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Tre
Chase
Jamie
Bacon
Page
Taxonar
Zion Hill Correspondence Questions Editor Over Legal Ads
The Zion Hill correspondence to the Cordele Sentinel criticizes an Vienna Progress poll and recently altered legal advertisement placement. It accuses the Progress of biased reporting and suggests prior wording differed from post adoption, implying influence from moving ads to the Vienna News for a season to favor Uncle George Sheppard.
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Zion Hill
Cordele Sentinel
Vienna Progress
George
Sheppard
Vienna News
Inquiry Offers Large Home Loan Plan From Vienna, Georgia
A fragment outlines a dubious loan pitch promising a home or building project funds. It claims access to one thousand dollars or more, repayment in 200 months at 550 dollars monthly, and invites contact in Vienna, Georgia. The message lacks verifiable details.
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Viena
Observer Praises Sheriff G W Sheppard in Dooly County
An anonymous citizen in Dooly County endorses Sheriff G W Sheppard in the upcoming race. The letter lauds his steady leadership and integrity, predicting a strong win and a continued watch over the county for the next two years.
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the News
Dooly County
G. W. "Sheppard
Uncle George
Dooly Countty
Sheppard
George
Birthday Dinner for Mr Heard at Opera House
Mr O M Heard hosted a birthday dinner for a large circle of friends at the opera house on Wednesday afternoon at 2 30. About 75 to 100 attendees enjoyed refreshments of beer ginger ale crackers boiled ham and beef chips passed by polite attendants. Heard, a leading Vienna businessman, is celebrated for his longevity and wish to live to celebrate more birthdays.
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O. M. Heard
Opera House
Heard
Vienna
Pinehurst feud spills from Pinehurst paper to local columns
A May 6 1902 Pinehurst Georgia item rebuts a lengthy communication by C B Perry about taxation on fertilizers and a Terrell guano act. The letter accuses Perry of misrepresentation and labels him a farmer turned political beacon, while denouncing a Pinehurst scribe and a “tramp stove and coffee pot patcher.” The exchange stretches from Cordele to Atlanta, with local notoriety and nomination tension referenced.
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Pinehurst
Eprvos News
C.B. Perry
The
Sentinel
Perry
East
Vienna
Atlanta
Cordele
Pimehurst
Terrell
Buggies and Sales Boost from J P Heard & Sona
Advert says anchor buggies in demand with right prices and quality from J P Heard and Sona and Danforth of Loncants Ga. A customer reports a six month leg sore cured in five days by Bucklen's Arnica Salve, praised for ulcers wounds and piles with claims by Visswa Daves Co.
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J. P. Heard & Sona
P A Danforth
Loncants Ga
Bucklen
Guure
Visswa Daves Co
Unadilla Promenade Notes Medical Meeting and Local Appointments
The Dooly County Medical Association met in Unadilla with a banquet at the Duncan hotel hosted by Dre’s, McArthur, and Wooten. Next gathering set for July in Arabi with a community banquet. Local social updates include Mrs. W. B. Nichols visiting Americus, A. E. Graves in Cordele, Miss Mary Jeter at Elko for Beech Haven picnic, and Mrs. J. Netherton returning home.
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Dooly County Medical Association
Unadilla
Duncan Hotel
Dre's
Americus
C. W. Lamar
A. E. Graves
Cordele
Mary Jeter
Elko
Beech Haven
Neilie Thorp
D. W. Harvard
W. J. Oliver
Methodist Sunday School
State
Dublin
Mea
L. A. Morgan
S. L. Speight
Laura Kate Pate
Vienna
Emmies
Carolyn Roberts
W.L. Hooks
J. ¥. Netherton
Smithy Carroll
S. D. Thompson
Pinehurst
Jas. F. McArthur
Macon
D . Henderson
Henderson
B.C. Kendrick
Minnie
Evelyn Peasycock
Emerich
Don’t Give Up on Fitting Efforts, Jeweler A Youmans Says
A Youmans, jeweler and optician, urges persistence in trying fittings, insisting he fits customers daily and sees through challenges rather than giving up.
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A. Youmans
Notice to pay assessment by May twenty sixth
A brief notice from L Nobles of Vacona Georgia dated May 8 requests payment of an amount assessed by the Executive committee on or before May 26. The terse warning emphasizes urgency and directs settlement within the specified deadline.
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Executive Committee
Nobles
Vacona
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