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Category: Newspaper Articles

Georgia Twins are Born by Caesarean Operation

July 5, 2019
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| 1900s, Newspaper Articles, People, Virtual Tour

Mrs. C. H. Wray and Children of Cedartown, GA What was probably the first Caesarean operation, bringing twins into the world, in the history of surgery, was performed in Atlanta on January 6, 1909, by Dr. W. B. Lingo, at the Hospital Medical college. This fact was brought out yesterday as the result of a […]

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My Humble But Beautiful Home

March 9, 2019
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| Newspaper Articles, Poetry

Found in the Cedartown Advertiser: December 11, 1879 Oh give me when day is declining, And sunshine is flooding the west, My ivy-clad mound, where reclining, I can watch the birds seeking their rest, And list to their twitter of sorrow Whilst through the dew-breezes they roam To nestle and dream of to-morrow, In my […]

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An Example of Polk’s Cemetery Preservation Resources

January 25, 2019
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| Cemeteries, Newspaper Articles, People

While browsing the archived Cedartown Standard newspapers on Georgia Historic Newspapers, I came across an article entitled Fatal Accident: Ollie Duke Killed in Rome. Mr. Ollie Duke, a Cedartown young man who has been employed for some time as a taxi driver in Rome, met with a tragic death last week. Mr. Duke was driving […]

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Rockmart – A New Bank to be Established

January 4, 2019
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| 1880s, Newspaper Articles, Rockmart

ROCKMART NEWS A New Bank to be Established There–Other Notes Clay Bros. are making some very fine brick on Col. Dever’s property, in Rockmart. They make both rough and pressed brick, and are working away on Beasley & Hoge’s handsome brick store. Mr. W. L. Ferguson has purchased the “Alliance Store” and will do a […]

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New Name for City Cemetery

January 4, 2019
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| 1900s, Newspaper Articles

GREENWOOD CEMETERY New Name Given to Our City Cemetery By the Ladies’ Cemetery Association, Help Them Beautify It The final resting place of the dead should be a beautiful as well as a sacred spot, and we are glad indeed that the ladies of Cedartown have taken in hand the task of beautifying it. For […]

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Location of Charlie Town

December 13, 2018
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| 1830s, Newspaper Articles

Below is a newspaper article about Charlie/Char’le/Charlee/Charley Town. For a detailed history, visit http://trailofthetrail.blogspot.com/2009/11/newly-revised-site-report-for-cedartown.html. Some observations of an old residenter, Editor Advertiser: Please allow me space in your columns to give a little history of the past forty-six years and a short record of my observations for that time. In 1837 my father moved from […]

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