Georgia Farmers consider sorghum boom and cotton costs
State notes rising sorghum plantings in Bartow and other counties as farmers forecast cheaper homegrown syrup. J N Warren of Tharp reports a 60 bale cotton crop with revenue of 1680 and expenses of 1906.35, a net loss of 226.35, prompting debate on cotton profitability and a list of delegates to the Cotton Growers convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Central railroad tax ruling analyzed by Judge Emory Speer confirms ad valorem taxation and potential county income gains, with historic context from Glenn bill and Georgia Supreme Court decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartow
Georgia
J. N. Warren
Tharp
Hotston County
W. ©. Glenn
Atlanta
House of Representatives
Whittfield
House
Senate
Finance
Glenn
A. O. Bacon
United States
N. E. Harris
P. L. Mynatt
Florida
Brooks County Officials Denounce County Turmoil
Brooks County board at Quitman courthouse adopted resolutions condemning lawlessness and calling for justice. They deny race riots and blame about twenty five white men, inviting a fair press investigation, with Rountree as chairman and Groover, McLean, Brice, Hitch as members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks County
Board of County Commissioners
Quitman
Atlanta Constitution
Rountree
Messrs
8. S. Rountree
Robert L. Groover
J. N. McLean
Mitchell Brice
J. W. Hitch
Suffering in Nebraska Drives Aid for Drought Victims
A Niobrara dispatch reports severe drought in central Nebraska leaving three fourths of five counties in distress. Many families lack food for a week and funds for essentials, with no work and merchants unable to extend credit. Immediate relief and clothing are urged as temperatures threaten starvation and freezing. Also noted is a pension paper update and a call for county elders to return forms quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niobrara
Neb
Nebraska
Richard Johnson
Executive Department
Francis I dies in Austrian Tyrol. other brief items
Telegraphic briefs report Francis I of Naples dies at Arco in Tyrol. Rumor says Pollard’s attorney may attach Breckinridge lecture receipts for breach verdict. Sicily suffers severe earthquakes with damage. Holmes in Texas and Sherman assign for about 75000 dollars. Foreclosure suit seeks sale of Louisville Evansville and St Louis railway. North Carolina exhibit push at Atlanta seeks 20000 dollars. Calcutta report favors no cotton yarn duty change and inland water vessel admission. Anderson station burns. Big Four loss heavy. Rock Springs coal lands sold for 150000. Mexican Indians massacre Julio Gardinas family. troops pursue Yaquis with clashes. Fire devastates Buffalo stores. losses around 300000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis I
Naples
Arco
Tyrol
Cincinnati
Madeline Pollard
Breckinridge
Sicily
Messina
Milazzo
G. Holmes
Denison
Texas
Sherman
Federal
Springfeld
Ill
Louisville, Evansville
Legislative Councils Comittee
Calcutta
India
Anderson
Ind
Big Four Railroad
Big Four
Rock Springs
Wyo
Chicago
E. F. Lawrence
First National Bank
Rock Springs Coal Company
Seeley Sentenced to Eight Years in Kings County Penitentiary
Samuel Seeley, a defaulting bookkeeper for the National Shoe and Geather Bank of New York, arrested in Chicago on December 11, pleaded guilty to defrauding the bank by false entries and misusing funds. He has been sentenced to eight years in the Kings County penitentiary under a statute allowing five to ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
Seeley
National Shoe and Geather Bank
New York
Chicago
King’s County
New Steel Plant Planned at Lorraine Ohio
A contract between Johnson Steel Company and the Carnegie Company calls for the Carnegie Company to erect a steel plant in Lorraine Ohio. The facility will stand on the east side of the Black River on Johnson owned land and employ about 3000 workers. Superintendent Suppe of Johnson Company confirms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Steel Company
Carnegie Company
Lorraine
Ohio
Black River
Johnson Company
Suppe
Cheyenne UP Shops Closed Rumor Threatens 100 Jobs
Rumor says Union Pacific railroad shops in Cheyenne Wyoming will close on New Year’s Day. About 100 men would lose work, as veteran employees who have not worked since the strike would not be rehired under the proposed concession. Officials rejected the laid out compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Wyo
Jerusalem
Matthew
Innia
Zoroaster
Persia
India
Bombay
Brindisi
Christ
Ormuzd
Ahriman
Sil
Earth
Chinvat
Parsea
Devil
God
Fight in Jacksonville Dims After Boxing Ban
The New York Sun reports the Corbett versus Fitzsimmons bout in Jacksonville Florida is unlikely. A recently passed ordinance banning boxing in the city undermines the planners of the contest and jeopardizes its realization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
New York Sun
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
Fla
Atlanta Markets Groceries And Provisions Report
Atlanta markets report shows wide range of grocery items with prices for coffee sugar tea rice salt and dairy products, plus flour meal and grains. Provisions include bacon hams lard and beans while cotton market closes steady at middling fivee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Dobbs
Georgia
Leval
Navy attache to London named as Barber takes post
In Washington new items list Sayings and Doings of the Official Heads of the Government, the secretary of the navy orders Commander F. M. Barber to assume the naval attaché post at the London embassy starting January 17. He relieves Lieutenant Commander W. B. Cowlee, who returns home and prepares for duty as executive officer of the cruiser Olympus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Navy
F. M. Barber
London
W. 8. Cowlee
Olympia
Tragedy in Augusta as Desperado Targets Officers
A South Carolina negro shot three police and an elderly man in Augusta Georgia. Detective Murray and Policeman Stringer were wounded. Davis died of a chest wound. Wiggins was cornered after a chaotic chase, Wrenn injured in the leg, crowd attempted lynching before officers halted the mob.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
South Carolina
Davis
Murray
Stringer
Wrenn
James Wiggins
Anderson Williams
Wiggins
Stringer and
Damath
Desmond
Reynolds Street
Polin Wrenn
Lieutenant Desmond
Notes on Treasury Funds and Subtreasury Redemption
The text notes 6 percent funds on hand to pay them and mentions ten subtreasuries in the United States. It states there is no difficulty presenting the notes if holders doubt immediate redemption, which would cause the notes to bear interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Syndicate
Treasury
United States
Spain
Gresham
Taylor
Madrid
Mallory
Florida
House’ Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Revenue Service
Copenhagen
State Department
Denmark
Carlisle
Come
Flagler Not Worried Over Texas Requisition Move
Henry M. Flagler tells reporters he plans to stay in New York and Florida this month and expects to be captured by Texas authorities around January 20 if necessary. He questions Governor Mitchell of Florida and compares Florida to New York and Missouri in handling such cases, denying being a Texas fugitive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Henry M. Flagler
Mitchell
Florida
Flagler
New York
Flagier
Missouri
Hogg
Justice of
Debbs Enjoined to Stay Sentence Over Christmas
Debs and other American Railway Union directors spend Christmas with families as Judge Woods suspends the contempt sentences until January 8 and makes them cumulative in a move to simplify legal steps to free the defendants. Miners at Anderson mines Massillon reject sixty cent per ton arbitration rate and plan coal ceage work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woods
Debbs
American Railway Union
Sainta Fe
Anderson
Massillon
Arbitration Committee
Ar Abon Dale
Ceage
The Fire Worshipers in a Parsee Bombay Sermon
Rev Dr Talmage chronicles a visit to Parsees in Bombay India focusing on Zoroastrian faith practices. He contrasts towers of silence funeral rites with a Parsee wedding and Hindu plight of women, urging Christian superiority and universal uplift through Christian marriage and scripture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
India
Malabar Hill
Zoroaster
Jamshidji Jijibbai
Ever
Anon
England
Jesus Christ
Pen
Chinvat
Heaven
Brooklyn
Marathon
Salamis
Persia
Greece
Billarp's Letter: Home for the Holidays and Mistletoe Legend
The piece weaves Christmas reflections with a warm tale of a cherished dog named Laddie and a haunted home. It threads in Norse myth about Balder and mistletoe, noting Scandinavian influence on Christmas customs, and ends with seasonal wishes and family scenes around Christmas preparations.
In Shadows of Faith and Praise for Christ in Death
Fragmentary text contrasts Parsee and Zoroastrian views with Christian belief, praising Christ as radiant and superior. The line hints at religious rivalry and reverent, devotional language with emphasis on honor, glory, and victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoroaster
Persia
Christ
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cotton Growers
Atkinson
Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
Jackson
Miss
R. T. Nesbitt
Marietta
J. M. Smith
Smithconia
Felix Corput
Cave Spring
W. A. Broughton
Madison
W. T. McArthur
Lumber City
John O. Waddell
Cedartown
Drayton
W. M. Sears
Richland
Troy Holder
Lumpkin
W. F. Gay
Gay
George W. Truitt
LaGrange
Hon
B. H. Williams
Hamilton
M. BR. Hollis
Talbotton
J. M. B. Goode
Conyers
Rush Irwin
Fairburn
W. G. Whitby
Stone Mountain
S. M
Nadison
J. S. Reid
Batonton
D. W. Meadow
M. Newman
Sandersville
Thomas Hardeman
Louisville
Baldy Ryals
Hastman
W. J. Harrison
Big Sandy
H. T. Fletcher
Ocala
J. C. Clements
Spring Hill
Otto Robkramer
Italy
Rotkramer
St. Augustine
Ward McAllister
Matanzas
Bath
Halifax
Hillsborough
Indian
Lake Worth
Biscayne Bay
Ormond
New Smyrna
Daytona
Rockledge
Palm Beach
Tampa
Gulf of Mexico
Havana
St. Johns
Ocklawaha
Don Juan Ponce de Leon
Times- Union
Guaymas
Mexico
Juilo Gardinas
Buffalo
N. Y
Eckhardt & Co
Oswald Tinkler
Charles Weisman
Broadway
John H. Eckhardt
Furniture
Atlantic and Tasific Tea Company
Frost's
Cobler
Kakur
Stover
Washington
National Capitol
Democratic Steering Committee
Springer
Talmage
THE
Brooklyn Divines
Tower of Silence
Malahar Hill
Haya
Temaip
Billarp
the Philosopher
Laddie
Aunt Ann’s
Humphrey
Santa Claus
St Nicholas
Kris Kringle
Iwisdeg
Woden
Thor
Fria
Scandinavia
Norway
Sweden
Lapland
Finland
Balder
Loki
Hela
Hell
Friga
Wednesday
Santa Cans
Tieats
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!