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Newspaper
Waycross Weekly Journal
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1914
Page
2
The Waycross Weekly Journal, established 1896 and published Fridays in Waycross Georgia, editor L Yolney Williams notes communal fundraising and local affairs. The piece references national issues, Uncle Sam, a proposed cotton warehouse for Waycross, and Brunswick fire talks, reflecting the paper’s editorial stance and local concerns.
Public auction in Waycross Ware County Georgia on the first Tuesday in October 1914 to satisfy decrees against C W Deen and Deen Realty and Improvement Company. Includes numerous tracts in North and South Deenwood plus Bailey sawmill lands and city parcels with detailed lot, block, and land lot descriptions and purchase conditions.
Georgia citizens show strong interest in land title reform. Judge J L Went of Waycross led the push for clear titles as essential to rural credit and farm prosperity. The Atlanta Constitution editorial urges rapid, thorough action to remove clouded titles and enable an efficient system for farm financing.
The Atlantic Constitution analyzes the Georgia State Democratic convention’s platform and a candidate for United States Senate. It questions whether the platform and its author reflect the progressive faction or the governor and party leadership, noting ambiguity over paternity of the platform and alleging photo portrait mockery by a local sewing circle.
A legal notice from Ware County Georgia states that on Tuesday October 1914 at the court house door between legal hours of sale the described real estate in Ala county will be sold. The advertisement provides the sale action location and general timing.
Eula Smith aged 18, a neighborhood belle, killed herself this afternoon at 3 o'clock using a shotgun. She hooked a rope to the trigger and pressed it with her foot to discharge the weapon. A note was left saying she preferred death to living and that she had never lived.
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