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Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Sep 26, 1911

Page

3

Fall meeting opens at Louisville and Churchill Downs

The autumn race meeting at Churchill Downs, Louisville opens for eighteen days with hundreds of thoroughbreds present. The season closes at Latonia after twenty-four days, featuring the Kentucky Endurance Stakes on October 7 with a purse over $8000. Massachusetts begins direct primary voting Tuesday for governor and other state offices, Republicans in a contest while Governor Foss seeks renomination.

Louisville Churchill Downs Latonia Kentucky Massachusetts Foss

Unique figure in Georgia politics Joe Brown runs again

Joseph Mackie Brown known as Little Joe announces another bid for governor. The Marietta native and son of former war governor Joseph E. Brown rose from railroad work to chairing the state railroad commission and shaping policy on rates and fruit industry development.

Joe Brown Marietta Georgia Joseph Mackie Brown Little Joe Joseph E. Brown United States Joseph M. Brown Cherokee County Milledgeville Little Joseph Cordele Macon Washington Atlanta Joseph Oglethorpe University Girls’ High School Harvard Law Western and Atlantic Railroad Young Brown Menthe Tuad Southeastern Passenger Association State Railroad Commission Gunby Jordan Joseph M. Terrell Mr. Jordan Brown Hoke Smith Smith S. Guyt McLendon Nam

Consecration of Rev J R Winchester Bishop of Arkansas

The consecration of Rev J R Winchester as bishop of Arkansas will attract a distinguished gathering of Episcopal clergy and laity to Little Rock on Friday.

J. R. Winchester Arkansas Little Rock

Taft Weeklong Campaign Tour Across Midwestern States

President Taft will tour Missouri Kansas Iowa and Chicago this week with stops in Kansas City Hutchinson Topeka Atchison Leavenworth Council Bluffs Fort Dodge Waterloo Des Moines Attumwa and others He will address the National Conservation Congress focusing on soil fertility and natural resources He is expected to outline the administration's Alaska policy A San Francisco Philadelphia primary cycle also looms and a Lake Erie water health conference will convene in Chicago to plan an international crusade against lake water pollution

Smith Brown Mitchell Thomasville Stripling Washington, D. C Taft Missouri Kansas Kansas City National Conservation Congress Hutchinson Topeka Atchison Leavenworth Iowa Council Bluffs Fort Dodge Waterloo Des Moines Attumwa Omaha United States Lake Erie Chicago

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