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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1886
Page
1
A Confederate camp case recounts a wandering fiddler who sang and sold wares, suspected as a spy. The narrator follows clues from a Northward journey, confirms the trick with a hidden coat button hoards, and the man dies on the eve of execution without explanation.
At Hudson Jay's barber shop in Leader Lane a door dispute escalated when L A McDonald forced the door. William Trobbs opened it, McDonald advanced with scissors and struck, Hobbs fell and later died en route to hospital from a stab wound near the heart. McDonald was arrested. Also reports: railroad activity last year was down, longest line from Valentine to Buffalo Gap, Cochran post office stamps, money orders, and notes on the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf Canal Company with local Georgia Florida involvement and leaders urging construction.
A Texas exchange laments towns with perpetual critics who deter growth. It warns that residents who focus on imagined evils and raise taxes inefficiently hinder progress, drive away outsiders, and act as dead weight to material advancement, undermining efforts to attract commerce and immigration.
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