Whitman Charges White Man In Kennon Killing
Whitman, under threat of the gallows, claims a white man traveled with the gypsies and helped kill Kennon in Athens. He says the man rode with Sam Osborne, aided by two white men and two Black men, then paid to dispose of the body in the river. Sheriff Jackson investigated Osborne’s response, finding it unchanged from prior statements.
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Youns
Vondernza Kennon
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Gyper
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Athens
Excee
Jackson
John B. Gamble
Henry Hancock
Kennan
Seaboard
Sam Oshoras
Kesznon
Kennon
Osborne
Washington
Jborne
Federal Court Adjourns After Distilling Trial Hearings
Yesterday afternoon the federal court adjourned after a session focused largely on the Mich distilling cases. Little other business came to trial and officials hope for faster expansion of court rooms due to current space being utterly inadequate.
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Athletic Club For This City Forms In Athens
Athens forms an Athletic Club organized by G. M. Colby with Cliff Hatcher as assistant director and Dan McDougal handling finances. Limited to fifty Georgia students, the club will offer winter conditioning with equipment including clubs dumbbells mats and a punching bag. Located at 198 Clayton street, it will also teach boxing and wrestling under qualified instructors. Members urged to enlist and pay fees promptly.
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Athens
Messrs
G. M. Colby
Cliff Hatcher
Dan McDougal
Georgia
Clayton Street
Addiiion
Colby
Chicago Athletic Club
Deestrick Skule to Be Presented in Athens
Miss 5S. C. Battaile of Nashville will aid the Y M C A Ladies Auxiliary with a second Deestrick Skule production. The opera house is booked for Friday night November 12. Skollars teachers and helpers who aided last year are asked to meet Miss Battaile tonight at the Y M C A building at 7:30. Also note ads for Mackerel and Malaga Grapes from O Farrel(l) Grocery Co with phone 869.
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Tenn
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Atlanta hosts triumph as auto tour closes in Georgia
The New York Herald and Atlanta Journal tour ends in Atlanta with 46 starters, 28 finishers, and two withdrawals. Ty Cobb’s Chalmers-Detroit greets crowds as Decatur escort leads a grand parade through Peachtreet Street. Awards totaling over 1700 dollars will be presented Thursday. two thirds of entrants achieving perfect scores signify road improvements.
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Atlanta Journal-New York Herald
New York
Atlanta
Decatur
Ty Cobb
Chalmers
Atlanta Journal
The
New York Herald
C. J. Hood
Commerce Chamber of Commerce
Commerce
Peachtreet Street
Gate City
The Bachelor s Love Affair at Crystal Theatre
A lively comedy and a travelogue feature play at the Crystal Theatre. The screening promises value with 2,000 feet of film including Life in an Africa Gold mine and side bursting moments. Admission details advertised for Crystal Theatre at 187 Lumpkin St.
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Crystal Theatre
Lumpkin St
Henry Smith fined by mayor for disorderly conduct and liquor sale
Henry Smith appeared in mayor's court yesterday on charges of disorderly conduct and selling liquor. He was fined twenty five dollars for disorderly conduct and one hundred dollars for the blind tiger offense.
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Henry Smith
Black Church Slashing In Newtown Settlement
At a late night entertainment in a Black church in Newtown settlement a man identified as Grant John son attacked John Boyd with a knife or razor, slashing his face from temple to chin. Boyd, stating no provocation, bled heavily until a physician arrived. Johnson remains at large as police hunt him for court action.
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Newtown
Grant Johnson
Grant
John Boyd
Johnson
Boyd
Strongheart Stuns College Audiences At Colonial Theatre
Strongheart, billed as the decade's greatest college play, drew a large Georgian audience at the Colonial. The tale follows Strongheart, an Indian hero at a famed eastern university, who must renounce his love for his friend's sister due to race prejudice. The cast, including Beban and Stafford, with Georgia gridiron players adding stage presence, earned praise as the crowd cheered recalls after the curtain. The reviewer calls it among the best on the local stage and notes the must-see production for college loyalists.
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Strongheart
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Chum
de Mille
Burton L. King
Miss Beban
Molly Livingston
William Stafford
Thorne
Looi
Latest Nursing a Viper at Elite on Clayton Street
At the Elite on Clayton Street, the popular company presents its newest production. As the film only released yesterday, showtime is 3 o clock p m. before Nursing a Viper can be viewed.
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Elite
Clayton Street
Taft Guest of Savannah in Georgia Toasts
President Taft was greeted with a royal ovation in Savannah, with Governor Brown delivering a keynote toast praising Georgia. Brown extolled the state's land, population, cotton production, seaport, naval stores, railways, marble, fruit and minerals, and lauded Georgians as self-reliant and law abiding, committed to justice and fair play. He praised local democracy and urged unity and civic cooperation under the sovereign people.
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DeSoto
Brown
Georgia
Sta Tn
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Mississippi River
Grand River
Atlantic Ocean
Texas
America
Commonwealth
Cowpens
Camden
King’s Mountain
Washington
Yorktown
Jefferson
Sandling
Change of Schedules for North and South Trains at Athens
Athens city time informs schedule changes for trains Nos 52 32 38 in both directions with arrival and departure times. Some services not running north of Athens. Notices from Wayne and Hoke at Atlanta and Athens offices. Local ad lines advertise butter at 20 cents per pound and Fine Imported Mushrooms at O Farrell Grocery Co.
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O'Farrell Grocery Co
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