Jacksonville port set for 0.25M upgrade by rail lines
Great improvements in terminal facilities at Jacksonville are planned by the Southern Railway and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway through the St Johns River Terminal Company. The project includes enlarging freight yards, paving tracks, and building shops to service rolling stock, with new warehouses and Clyde Steamship Company piers along the riverfront. The work aims to boost traffic capacity to meet growing Gulf and South Atlantic trade and Central American commerce after the Panama Canal.
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Jacksonville
Fla
The
Southern Railway
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
St. Johns River
Gulf
South Atlantic
Atlantic Seaboard
Central and
South America
Bay Street
Catherine and
Marsh Streets
Baytreet
Catherine
Main Streets
Clyde Steamship Company
Terminal Company
Market
Washington Streets
Georgia Southern & Florida Railway
St. Johns River Terminal Company
Columbia
Macon
Finley
Progressive Union of
New Orleans
J. B. Munson
St. Johns
Hyomei Inhaler and Hyomel Ad Claim Home Cures
An advertisement touts Hyomei inhalers and Hyomel tonics as quick remedies for catarrh sore throat and colds. It promotes buying at druggists or H R Palmer Sons for 50 cents per bottle and offers an extra bottle and inhaler for one dollar, claiming relief within minutes and a lifetime inhaler.
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America
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Special Session in Dekalb Court Promised for Trolley Robbery
Atlanta detectives push for conviction of two held men in a trolley car hold up and murder. Ed Weaver and Charlie Walker confessed and may implicate Emmet Walker. They re enact the crime for investigators at the car line terminus as solicitor general William Schley Howard observes. A special session will grant a speedy trial with a 20 day grace period if convicted.
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Atlanta
Ed Weaver
Charlie Walker
Emmet Walker
Charlie
David Hills
S. T. Brown
Walter Bryson
William Schley Howard
Stone Mountain Circuit
WIFE MURDERER IS 10 BE TRIED
Louis W Potterton and his foster mother Emma A Allen face a preliminary hearing on charges of poisoning Mrs Frances Potterton. Autopsy showed arsenic. heirs seek estate and life insurance proceeds. Prosecutors cite motive of stealing real estate. defense relies on Faulconer Cunningham and L Brown. Insurance company withholds payment pending case.
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Arkansas City
Kan
Louis W. Potterton
Emma A. Allen
Frances Potterton
Peterton
G. H. McIntyre
Santa Fe
Frances Kimmell
Union Central Life Insurance Company
Wichita
Kas
Potterton
Patterson
Addison
Cure a Cold in One Day Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts LAXATIVE BROMO Quintiac Tablets as a one day cure for colds. It promises refunds from druggists if the remedy fails and features a garbled endorsement from B. W. Grove.
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B. W. Grove
Backbone of Sustained Success Stresses Merit
A compact note emphasizes merit as the foundation of lasting success. It contrasts light furnishings with rugged Ree or mountain themes and hints at varied needs for home decor and outdoor settings.
Torpedo Boat Sterrett Launched at Fore River Yard
The torpedo boat destroyer Sterrett was successfully launched from Fore River shipyards in Quincy Massachusetts on May 12. It is a sister ship of the Perkins and honors Commodore Andrew Sterrett born 1760 in Baltimore. He notablely commanded ships against French and Tripolitan targets and died in Lima Peru. Also advertised is Detchon's Rheumatic Cure claim with price and local druggist.
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Quincy
Mass
Sterrett
United States Navy
Fore River
Andrew Sterrett
Baltimore
Navy
Constellation
Congress
Lima
Peru
Lodge Celebrates Sixty Years in the Senate
Washington May 12 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts marked his sixty fifth birthday today amid playful jests from colleagues who pressed him about retirement following peers Aldrich of Rhode Island and Hale of Maine. Lodge first entered the Senate in 1898 after six years in the lower house.
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Lodge
Washington, D. C
Massachusetts
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Hale
Maine
Senate
Rockefeller Would Go Broke Trying Better Medicine
A claim appears that John D Rockefeller would exhaust his income trying to beat Chamberlain's Colic Cholera Infantum medicine, a statement attributed to users and dealers noting it is sold widely.
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John D. Rockefeller
Chamberlain
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Centra
George Dease
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Texas
Southwestern Electrical and Gas Association
Saint John's Terminal Company
Florida
Dekalb Court
Brown
Ederheimer, Stein & Co. Makers
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Athens Electric Railway Co
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J. T. Anderson
Ee. C. Kinnebrew
Gnaskelford-Hodgeon
Eerne Collem. Ave
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Big Saw Mill
J.R. Crane & Co
Georgia Railroad
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