Arabia Incident Prompts New US German Tensions
Washington reports Germany accepts responsibility for sinking of the Arabia and offers a weak explanation. The incident intensifies submarine warfare concerns since the Sussex crisis and US diplomacy remains cautious while considering innocent passenger status and convoy routes.
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Associated Frees
Washington
Germany
Arabia
United States
Sussex
Mediterranean
Madison Court ends last term with murder trials
Special term of Madison superior court adjourned with several murder cases tried. White defendants in a killing of a negro were acquitted. A colored defendant was found guilty of manslaughter and given three years. Another white defendant received two years for assault to murder. The next term opens in January 1917.
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Danielsville
Madison Superior Court
Worley
Tom Brown
L. Smith
Bird Smith
Jessie Black
Berry T. Moseley
Pope Butler
Jessie Arnold
Moseley
D. W. Meadow
Harry Kidd
M Arthur Long
J.T. Murray
Hidden Negotiations Delay State Rail Lease Talks
The Western and Atlantic commission recessed until Saturday morning as L and N and N C and St L officials departed. With a $25,000 certified check on file to lease the road, negotiators weigh a 30 or 47 year lease and potential rental above 35000 monthly, while the public awaits the commission’s decisive bid for state advantage.
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Atlanta
Western and Atlantic Commission
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Toto
Bucharest Taken Without Fighting in World War I
The capital Bucharest fell without a fight as Romanian forces retreated eastward with Russian allies pressing Austro German lines elsewhere. German, Bulgarian, and Meutonic forces advance. artillery duels continue in Belgium and France while Lloyd George forms a new British cabinet with Labour support.
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Bukowina
Berin
Bucharest
Berlin
Struma River
Lutsk
Belgium
France
Dedication of New Y M C A this Evening in Athens
The new Y M C A building in Athens opens at 8 o'clock with a program and seating for 1500. Rev M Ashby Jones of Augusta will deliver the address, with music by Morris Orchestra and readings by Mrs Hugh Gordon and other speakers. The event gathers business men, young men, and the association's leadership, as women hostesses.
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Washington
Arthur H. Dodge
New York
Association
Elihu Root
Cardinal Gibbons
Dkercises Weginning
M. Ashby Jones
Augusta
Athens
D. C. Barrow
Morris
J. W. Lynch
D. D
Hugh Gordon
Hugh Leslie Gordon
Oley Stakes
Four Leaf Clover
Charles Willouhey
Chancellor Barrow
R v. M. Ashby Jones
W. T. Forbes
FE. L. Hill
Electric Week Draws Near in Athens Busy Build
Athens Railway and Electric Company hosts Electric Week events at its decorated building with ongoing demonstrations and a prize giveaway tomorrow night at 9. Visitors registered for chances to win valuable gifts while discounted bargains attract the public to shop for holiday appliances and devices.
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Athens
Athens Railway and Electric Company
Congressman Tribble in Critical Health After Stroke
Washington December 7 Congressman Samuel J Tribble of Georgia was stricken with apoplexy Monday afternoon and has remained unconscious. Doctors and nurses at Providence Hospital report a desperate struggle for life and noted his condition with little change despite fluctuations. His family, including wife and daughter, have stayed at his bedside since the attack.
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John Corrigan
Washington, D. C
Samuel J. Tribble
Eighth
Georgia
Congress
Trib
Congressman Tribble
Providence Hospital
Boer War General Snyman’s Son Killed by Villa Bandits
A message from Paso reports Guillermo Snyman, son of the late General W. D. Snyman, shot and killed at a ranch near San Pablo de Mecqui by Villa bandits. The elder Snyman died recently in Philadelphia. Additional foreigners killed include Howard Weeks aka Howard Gray and an American Foster Weeks, who was shot in Parral and whose body was hanged.
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Associated Press
Paso
Friends Today
Guillermo Snyman
W. D. Snyman
San Pablo de Mecqui
Philadelphia
Mexico
Snyman
Howard Weeks
Howard Gray
Foster Weeks
Villa
Parral
Lear End
Case Filed Against Bob Porter For Illicit Liquor
Police filed another case against R L Porter a longtime violator of prohibition laws. Four gallons of blockade whiskey were found at his home and Porter posted a $50 cash bond as he awaits trial.
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R. L. Porter
Porter
Specials Today at Costa's Delicatessen
Extra Fancy Lettuce Celery Cranberries Parsley and Carrots Extra Fancy Spanish Onions Fresh Shipment of Frank's Meat Treats Phone 1131.
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COSTA
Frank
Some Specials at Josssey's Store dishes
Josssey's advert highlights items like fat fries and hens, fresh butter, yellow yam potatoes, white navy beans, white cabbage, white peas, and country eggs. contact via phone 1176.
Western Market Advertises Fresh Fish And Produce
Spanish mackerel and other seafood arrive fresh at Western Market with trout shad flounder and pollack plus extra fine oysters. Piedmont Market lists oranges tangerines grapefruit apples and cranberries while Buchwalds offers cocoanuts prunes peaches figs and grapes. A late line notes aeneath a battle description a man keeps fighting with hope for his family.
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Piedmont Market
California
Buchwald
Athens to host federal highway meeting in January week
Athens to hold a great federal highway meeting on January 17 with representatives from counties statewide. In the week of January 15–17 other meetings include the Georgia Dairymen and Live Stock Association the Georgia Breeders Association and the State Horticultural Association. The event will feature a Georgia barbecue and Georgia products served at a convenient city location near the State College of Agriculture.
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Athens
Chamber of Commerce
Georgia Dairymen’s and Live Stock Association
Georgia Breeder's Association
State Horticultural Association
Richmond
Fulton
Loyless
Augusta Chronicle
Camp
Walton Tribune
Edtor Clark Howell
Atlanta Constitution
Abney
Good Roads Committee
Georgia
State College of Agriculture
Cne
Constitution
Chronicle
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White House
Vance McCormick
National Democratic Committee
Democratic Campaign
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George Bass
Antonette Funk
Burleson
Moon
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Agricultural Publishers Association
University Florida
War Department
Reserve Officers Training Corps
University of Florida
Senate
Hoke Smith
America
Russia
Sweden
Great Britain
Madison Court
Anderson
Boston
Arnold & Abney
Egerve
New England
Braunsch
Transylvanian Alps
Danube
Sian
Lloyd George
London
David Lloyd George
Treasury
House of Commons
Labor Party
Laborites
Asquith
Lord Curden
Lord Northcliffe
NEW Y. M. C. A
Ble
Sam Dick
Mexigo
Bob Porter
Jossey's
Gardner
King
Hodgson
Buchwald's
Greensboro
A. C. Erwin
Penfield
Maxeys
Thes
Frank's
King Hodgson Co
King-Hodgson CO
Jones
Buchwald’s
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