Miss Speer Praises Deep Bond With Books At Round Table
Miss Laura Speer spoke last night at the State Normal School Round Table on Authors and Book Friends of Yesterday. She urged readers to value select works and to cultivate a true book loving companionship, quoting Webster and stressing happiness from sharing good literature.
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Laura Speer
Round Table
State Normal School
Miss Speer
Lamb and Johnson
Shakespeare
Coleridge
Dickens
Thackery
Scott
Tennyson
Longfellow
Banner
Hour of the Round Table
Daniel Webster
Smith warns Britain order could halt war munitions exports
Senator Hoke Smith, chair of the congressional committee on cotton exports, said the British order in council surprised experts and that there was strong sentiment in the last Congress to stop munitions exports. He warned that if the order is not modified, the next Congress may halt exports and take further action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hoke Smith
Congressional Committee
Congress
Roosevelt Defeats Barnes in Libel Verdict at Syracuse
A jury ruled Roosevelt did not libel William Barnes by accusing him of ties with crooked business and Tammany Hall. The verdict found Roosevelt statements true, and Barnes was not awarded damages. An appeal was announced by Barnes' counsel.
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Associated Press
Syracuse
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Wm. Barnes
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Roosevelt
Republican State Committee
Barnes
Howard Burns
Burns
New York
William M. Evins
William Barnes
First Cotton Mill in Georgia to Present Manufacturing Standing
Atlanta May 22 Commissioner of Agriculture J D Price spoke to the Georgia Manufacturers Association in Atlanta detailing Georgia’s early cotton mill history near Athens at Whitehall in 1828 with the Georgia Factory later Georgia Manufacturing Company He noted mills expanded across the state before 1860 and produced a range from coarse cloth to uniforms for Southern soldiers Today Georgia mills use about 600000 bales of cotton annually with over 2000000 spindles and 40000 looms and may help build broader trade networks while cotton acreage in Georgia is projected down about 20 to 25 percent this year and fertilizer use dropped 41 47 percent from last year with a push for crop diversification.
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Atlanta
Georgia Manufacturers’ Association
J. D. Price
Georgia
Price
Georgia Manufacturing Company
Athene
Whitehall
Columbus
Roswell
China
Europe
Commissioner Price
Oklahoma
Texas
Department of Agriculture
Debates on farming surplus and a police arrest headline
The article notes cotton as a surplus crop and argues a general plan would keep money in banks. W A Alberliught, aka George Thomas, was arrested on a county warrant for misdemeanor. A scientist offers advice on storm safety and odd claims about killing rats with electricity when dry. Bridges in India rest on floating metal tanks that rise with water.
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W. A. Albriught
Geo. Thomas
India
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Mr. Squeegee
Dorsey
Athens
White Mountain Grand
T. Fuller
Casey
Murphy
Shire
Commercial Bank of Athens
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