Local Arabi notes praise and community updates
In Arabi readers express thanks to the editor for aiding a house fire rescue affecting a dollhouse and furniture. The Baptist Special fed 800 preachers, Rev Grayham visits, and local youths excel in Cordele and Albany events. Community ties, education news, and humorous local anecdotes fill the column.
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Baptist
Arabi
B W Grayham
Christian Index
Grayham
Cordele
Gussie Hatcher
Dooly County
Albany
Houston High School
Symms
Hawkinsville
R A Bedgood
J D Pate
Vienna
Board of Education
Jesse Clements
Atlanta
Medical College
J R Clements
Shiloh notes community improvements and school progress
The article recalls farmers planting corn between showers and plans to clear and fence the local cemetery. Movements like these build the community, with recent visits from Vienna students Cora Powell Jewell Powell Nellie Owens boosting Sunday school. Teacher H Calhoun visited Montgomery county. his sister Dosia will join the local school. School progress and attendance are improving.
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Rey Snow
Vienna
Cora and
Jewell Powell
Nellie Owens
H Calhoun
Montgomery County
Misa Dosia
Dooly Boy at Oxford and Wade Lasseter portrait
The Emory Phoenix profiles Wade H Lasseter of Dooly known as Bill for leadership in riots and raids. It notes his South Georgia origins and a humorous claim about feeding a bulldog the merriest chase. Paragraphs hint at satire and local color about his notoriety.
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Midway
Bill
John Budd
Budd
Wozencraft
Lasseter
Supreme Court
Emory Phoenix
Wade H Lasseter
Dooly
South Georgia
Mass meetings urged to curb cotton acreage in Georgia
A 1901 letter from Harvie Jordan of the Georgia Cotton Growers Protective Association calls Monticello publishers to announce county mass meetings on April 6. Farmers are urged to limit cotton acreage to avoid price collapse, condemn eastern speculators and buyers, and set policies to protect profits for the next season.
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H D Smith
Seo’y
Vienna
Harvie Jordan
Meeting Called for Dooly Farmers to Hear Speakers
A meeting has been called for Dooly County to gather farmers and share information. The aim is to inform attendees about matters they do not know and to ensure the event does as much good as possible with speakers present.
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Dooly
A Beautiful Extract From Bobh Taylor Lecture
A poetic extract describes sunrise personified as a radiant figure. The piece portrays dawn waking the world with light and music, summoning a chorus of nature and youth as if greeting the new day with joy.
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Bobh Taylor
Fragmentary line about morning heaven and dancing train
A brief, unclear fragment evokes hand tripping and dancing in a shining train with a wish for the heaven of morning to endure.
Chicago and Florida Special Train Reaches Northbound
The Chicago and Florida Special runs daily except Sunday from St Augustine to Chicago with a fast schedule via Florida East Coast, Jesup, Chattanooga, and Cincinnati arriving in Chicago at 8 30 pm. Through drawing room sleeping cars, observation cars, and dining cars connect to Detroit Cleveland and Pittsburgh on select days.
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St Augustine
Florida
Northwest
Chicago
Jacksonsville
Macon
Atlanta
Cincinnati
Chicago and
Auarte
Shiner
Tony
Florida East Coast Railway
Jacksonville
Plant Bystem
Jesup
Southern Railway
Chattanooga
Queen & Crescent
Big Four
Monon
Pennsylvania
Lea
Augustine
Pittsburg
Detroit
Cleveland
Misunderstandings Over a Smile and Teeth Incident
A prominent society woman greets a cousin visiting from the country and recalls a past visit when she hid a dental mishap. The city camera erupts in laughter as she explains breaking a porcelain crown and delaying a denture repair to avoid a ghastly smile.
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Maria
Sea Creatures Show Blooming Form, Strange Feeding
Describes sea cucumber and sea lily anatomy and feeding. Sea cucumber swallows mud to digest food via a tubular stomach. sea lily has a two foot stalk and disk body with tentacles around the mouth. These ancient animals are cited as the oldest life forms with distinct features.
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Earth
London Bred Physician Praises Peden’s Anglish Practice
A London bred physician comments on the Peden lineage and its influence on Anglish medical practice. He notes Peden’s emphasis on practical remedies and clear language, contrasting it with opaque colonial approaches and urging wider adoption of straightforward medical discourse.
Paints and painting supplies advertised for sale
An advertisement touts ready mixed paints and pigments including oils and varnishes from CHHAP Rupert, Plastar Paris items, cement tins, and iron corrugated bits. It claims machine mixed paints offer better color uniformity than hand stirred and notes Jewett’s White Lead and Hammar brands as reliable options used widely in the country.
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Paris
Iron &O
Rupert
Jewett
Hammar
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Dld
Mary Dee Roberts
Mabel Evans
Ethel Evans
James F. Evans, JR
Shiloh
Dooly Boy
Oxford
The
Georgia Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
Monticello, Ga
Rea
Tur International Tailoring Co
New York
Renea
the International Tailoring CO
Warantes
E G Walton & CO
G Walton & Co
E @ Wal
DR O T Stovall
Fleger
G. Siggers
C.K. Snow & CO
Patent Office
Washington, D, C
Mra
O. K
Janey
J. A. Wilson, Cordele
C.T. Stovall
B. F. Forbes
Beauty Forbes
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