A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ond saying that the action of theLegislature had greatly crippledRome. He did not try to raise theboat, and up to 25 years ago hermuddy hull could still be seen atlow tide. In these days of slave labor, lim-ited transportation facilities, heavycrops and lack of industrialism,the thoughts of the upper classesnaturally turned to politics. Thenewspapers printed four pages ofsix columns each once or twice aweek. The advertisements wereusually small a
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . ond saying that the action of theLegislature had greatly crippledRome. He did not try to raise theboat, and up to 25 years ago hermuddy hull could still be seen atlow tide. In these days of slave labor, lim-ited transportation facilities, heavycrops and lack of industrialism,the thoughts of the upper classesnaturally turned to politics. Thenewspapers printed four pages ofsix columns each once or twice aweek. The advertisements wereusually small and the other spacemust be filled up. When peoplemarried, they remained married,and a divorce was a rarity and con-sidered a disgrace. There were agood many fights with knives ingrog shops, and an occasional duel,but news-gathering facilities hadnot been developed, and the paperswere consequently filled withviews. Every editor was a saviorof the country, and spread-eagleliterary efiforts readily found theirway into the newspapers from poli-ticians or statesmen. Presidentialand Gubernatorial messages were. DR. ELIJAH L. CONNALLY. Atlantan, FloydCounty native, who as a baby was nursedby Indian Chiefs Tahchansee and Turkey. printed in full and were consideredchoice morsels for the head of thehouse. Greers Almanac furnishedweather predictions for often consumed a pageor two, and communications ontopics that today are of much lessconsequence often ran into two orthree columns. As for the women,they religiously read Godeys La-dies Book, an eastern publica-tion which met needs like the La-dies Home Journal of today. It is not necessarily a reflectionon Rome that in the first 26 yearsof her existence, from 1834 to 1860,she elected more men to Congressthan has the Rome of the 57 yearsfrom 1865 to 1922. A new countryalways develops rugged leadershipand the fearless expression of opin-ion that goes with a daily fightfor existence. In this early periodRome sent four men t
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