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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1913
Page
3
The Association of Insurance Commissioners began a two day session at the Hotel Sherman. Members will hear committee reports and craft a program for the annual meeting set for Burlington Vermont next July.
President Wilson urges Congress to extraordinary session to revise tariff laws. He warns against reckless shifts and aims to lighten the burden on the people while stabilizing business and promoting free trade and industry development. He foreshadows banking and currency reform as next steps.
The extra session under President Wilson draws attention as a largely new generation of lawmakers, with Democrats leading a broad revision agenda. The Ways and Means Committee struggles to finalize a tariff measure, likely tackled schedule by schedule, ahead of currency, income tax, and Panama Canal questions. Debate centers on a national income tax for earnings over 5000 dollars and potential inheritance taxes to cover needed revenue.
The Confederate Memorial Association and United Daughters of the Confederacy plan the Battle Abbey of the South in Richmond to house war records and Confederate artwork. The Indiana limestone building will feature a central pavilion, a grand hall with Georgia marble floor, and a Memorial Hall for Hoffbauer paintings with a Court of Honor lawn flanked by magnolias and statues.
The Cotton Growers convention in Dallas from April 28 to May 1 aims to promote a 15 cent cotton price, demonstrate a stable market system, and showcase the South’s economic unity with rail rates advertised to encourage attendance at Fair Park Coliseum. A Chamberlain's ointment advertisement closes the notice.
Athens B P O E 790 meets Wednesdays at 8 in lodge quarters Broad and Lumpkin. Williams Lodge 15 I O F meets Mondays in Odd Fellows Hall over Davison Nichol son Co. Visiting brethren invited. St Elmo Lodge K of P No 40 meets Mondays at 8 in Castle Hall Clayton and Wall. Woodmen Hall meets Wednesdays at 8 with business on first and third meetings and drill on second and fourth. Visiting officers invited.
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