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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1908
Page
4
Advertises a Christmas issue titled Read Rex Beach’s bear hunt with art and fun and wet feet. Promises engaging fiction and says good reading keeps youth out of mischief. Encourages subscription to Everybody’s at 15 cents a copy or 1.50 a year.
Thomas Clarke twenty one year old Sevier railway employee was shot in Stockbridge on his way home. He died at a private sanitarium in Atlanta at 4 20 PM after pneumonia developed following the wound. An autopsy at H M Patterson Son located and attempted to recover the bullet.
Mr Clark son of Mr and Mrs J W Clark of Stockbridge and a member of the Southern road bridge force at Stockbridge 19 miles from Atlanta was shot Friday night as he walked with Bunn Hightower and another young man. A suspected Black man jailed in McDonough is thought to be the slayer. Multiple shots struck Clark and Hightower's hat. Clark fell and the killer fled.
The Democratic National Committee reported receipts of 620,644.77 and expenditures of 619,410.06 for the 1908 campaign, leaving a balance of 1,234.71. The report, filed in Albany, includes over 25,000 names of contributors and a detailed auditor's statement listing disbursements by department.
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