Cape Cod Canal Opens Connecting Buzzards Bay and Massachusetts Bay
The Cape Cod canal linking Buzzards Bay with Massachusetts Bay opens today under August Belmont. It shortens coastal shipping by about 70 miles and will handle largest coastwise vessels with a 25 foot low tide draft. Toll plans set from five to three cents per ton for various vessel classes.
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Associated Press
Buzzards Bay
Mass
Boston, Cape Cod and New York Canal
Massachusetts Bay
Cape Cod
August Belmont
New York
Cape Cod Canal
Sandwich
Suez Canal
Cape Cod Bay
Atlantic
North America
Nova Scotia
Rockland
Rockport
Cape
Slaton defends candidacy against Hardwick attacks
Atlanta July 29 The latest statement by Governor Slaton rebuts Hardwick’s charges over parcels post currency and sugar issues. Slaton cites Hardwick’s opposition to reforms and highlights alleged inconsistencies and absent participation in duties while defending his own record.
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Atlanta
Slaton
Hardwick
Parcels Post
Giant tunnel through Cascades costs no life
The Snoqualmie Pass tunnel on the St Paul Road is completed after a long build, with crews noting no lives lost. The piece places the achievement among historic Alpine tunnels and outlines reduced costs and snow-blockade relief for the western rail system. It also reviews related bills and senate actions from the period.
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Cascades
Snoqualmie Pass
ST. Paul Road
Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
St. Gothard
Goschenen
Airolo
Switzerland
Snoqualmie
Rockdale
Washington
Keechelus
Homes Wanted The Georgia Children Seek Athens Homes
The Georgia Children’s Home Society urges Athens to host child foster placements. Robert B. McCord writes that Georgia children from ages birth to fourteen arrive daily and many seek a loving home. Families may foster without legal adoption, with children returned on request when foster parents choose. The effort involves Athens figures and local support.
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Georgia
Home
Robert B. McCord
Foote & Davies
Atlanta
Athens
Chas. al. Phinizy
Georgia House Adopts 18 Bills As Special Order
Atlanta notes say the Georgia House approved a rules committee report to set eighteen bills as a special and continuing order, nearly all important and likely to keep the body busy for the session. A constitutional amendment on abolishing solicitors and certain salaries failed by eleven votes. The session opened with a clash over delaying Senate bills, and a watermelon and peach gathering was announced for Decatur. Rome invited homecoming week in October with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to attend. The speaker defended the rules committee against critics who claimed fear of antagonizing it.
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Wilson
Hardwick
Federal Refining
Sugar
Georgia
Senate
Fleming
Senator Bacon
House
Washington
State Department of Bacteriology
Department of Insurance
McCrory
Irwin
At- Tanta Plaza
Western and Atlantic Committee
Atlanta
House of Representatives
Rules Committee
Miller
Bible
Moye
Johnson
Decatur
Rome
Woodrow Wilson
Rules
Moss
Cobb
Burwell
Notice to creditors of Samuel C Benedict estate
Creditors are asked to itemize and swear to their accounts against the estate of Samuel C Benedict and present them to administrator E R Benedict for payment. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised for cuts burns sores with claims of healing and usefulness. A reader from Marilla New York extols its effectiveness. A local item reflects on a period of renaissance with revolutions and king.
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Samuel C. Benedict
R. Bendict
Admr
S. C. Benedict
E. S. Lopez
Marilla
N. Y
Public highway department proposed by senator and state fraternal bills
Senator Payton proposes creating a department of public highways with a commissioner, duties, authority, and maintenance funding. Other measures include allowing bond in possessory warrant cases and regulating fraternal benefit societies including licenses, admission, and exclusions. Bristol town in Pierce County to be reincorporated. It advertises wine.
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Wheeler County
Payton
Thirtyfirst
Department of Public Highways
Elkins
Fifteenth
Miller
Twentyfourth
Taylor
Bristol
Pierce County
Clarke County and Georgia political candidacies announced
A string of 1914 political notices announce candidacies for Georgia offices. Dem primary subjects include Clarke County representatives, state treasurer, judge of the superior court, and legislature seats, with several names such as C H Arnold Jr, J F Rhodes, L C Brown, H H Gordon, H J Rowe, W J Speer, and Charles H Brand.
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Clarke County
General Assembly
State of Georgia
C. H. Arnold, JR
Democratic Party
J. F. Rhodes
H. H. Gordon
H. J. Rowe
People of Georgia
Ias
People of
Georgia
W. J. Speer
Judge Superior Court
Western Judicial Circuit
Superior Courts
Charles H. Brand
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Ford
Detroit
Griffeth Implement Co
Athens, Ga
Clarke, Oconee
Madison
Jackson Counties
Buzzard’s Bay
Grocers Ev
Messrs. Hardwick
Felder
Georgia Children’s Home Society
Mr. Farmer
Livingston Lance
Bremen
W. M. Golden
The
Equitable Life Assurance Society
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Adv
R. Palmer
Samuel J. Tribblh
J. Stovall
Elberton, Ga
L. C. Brown
A. R. Palmer & Sons
Chamberlain
Galloway
Stewart
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