Legislators Meet as Flood of Bills Starts Busy Session
At Atlanta Oct 24 the general assembly opened with both houses busy. Bills flooding desks, tax commission report read, and several measures introduced including a biennial session proposal, pure food bill, age limits for engineers, and new textbooks. Governor’s message criticized mob violence and called for reforms.
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Candler
AtLasta
General Assembly
Ae Sucha Roth
Tax Commission
Kerry
Senate
Gross
Twenty
Steed
Lieutenant Bromby
Panett
Tatas
Dade
Swift
Elberton
State Bank
Pera Thisn
Doncan
Houston
Jarnagin
Warren
Seme Len
Kell
Asnymiz
Ala
Ies
M. Pugh
Sayling
Ao Ete
Yeater
Nation to Offer Thanks on Thanksgiving Day
President issues Thanksgiving proclamation praising national progress. Denotes a day of religious observance across churches and schools, urging unity, charity, and prayer for divine guidance amid postwar recovery and Cuban relief efforts. Includes notes on national prosperity, peace, and moral growth.
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Macrelaes
Guldanos
Wasutxotom
Cuba
United States
Imzon
Boers Repulsed at Ladysmith in Natal War News
Special dispatches from Cape Town report a battle at Ladysmith with Boer forces repulsed. British casualties listed as four killed and seven wounded. later telegrams cite higher losses and missing soldiers. Reports discuss White and Wolseley accounts, shifting casualty tallies, and potential annexation talks as Natal battles unfold.
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Gloucester
Ladysmith
Eighteenth Hussars
Glenoos
Lord Wellsley
Lord Wolly Ha
Stewart White
Natal
House of Commons
White
Joubert
Natal Triangle
Maseslinees
Gordon Highlanders
Campbell
Pontos Highlanders
Toh
Cape Town
Ap Avutin
General White
War Office
Kimberley
Nejciah
Calonies
Cecil
Armored Train Engagement and Freight Rate Case
A dispatch from Kimberley reports an armored train engagement with Boer activity and a fatality, plus dynamite removal and isolation of forces. Separately, cases on freight rates into Wilmington and Charleston compare with Norfolk, amid disputes over discriminatory pricing among major rail lines.
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Kimberley
Orange Iver
Charleston
Wilmington
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
N. C
S. C
Norfolk
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Southern
Chicago
St Louis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Seaboard
William A. Day
Edward Baxter
Virginia
Baxter
Cuba
Stevens Made President at Southern Agriculture Convention
ATLANTA Oct 25 After a short recess the convention of the Southern Union of Agriculture began deliberations to organize a permanent plan. The Cotton States Association of Commissioners of Agriculture was formed to improve agricultural interests. O B Stevenson of Georgia was elected president with Hill and Patterson as vice presidents, Royal as secretary, and R A Waase as treasurer. John A. Mississippi delivered the keynote address.
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Atlanta
Sug
Convention of State of Agriculture
Tnlon
Tev
Cotton States Association of Commisionees
O. B. Stevenson
Geongia
Aiaquiaction
Hill
Patterson
Carolina
Royal
Georgia
R.A. Waase
John A
Mississippi
Typhoons and Tidal Waves Sweep Orient Regions
Disasters across the Orient devastate Tokio Yokohama and Victoria with typhoons and tidal waves. A Fobosina bound train derailed, several locomotives and cars overturned, over 100 feared dead or injured. Major General Kitchenar orders Anglo Egyptians toward Omdurman as troops move forward.
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Rinm
Cho Tecomsurent
Nomadza
Suealawn
Tagomaura
Rer
Bir
Kitchenar
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Olin Dixon
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Dove
Heas
M'Math Bros
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Old Masongaiels McBrayers
Grant
California
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Uber
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Altmayer & Flataw Liquor Co
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Nedef Ciil Peeing
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Congress
Chattanooga
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Cunard
Corinthis
Wolseley
South Africa
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Rathbone
New York
E. G. Rathbone
Havana
Postal Service of
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United Sqstes
Albany
St. Loot
Doane
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Council
Gotten Amen
Piedmont Park
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