Prospects of Georgia Crops and Farming Gains
A banner report notes diverse cotton yields across Georgia with some sections fairing well while others face declines due to drought and storms. Despite uneven prospects, overall farming improves with rising land values, strong hog and stock improvements, and hints that cotton prices may rise above ten cents. Freedom from wartime issues is implied as markets favor price gains and farming stability grows.
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Oglethorpe
Madison
Smithonia
Georgia
Athens
Prosperty Jy
Jla
Comer
Danielsville
Madison County
Oconee County
Watkinsville
Farmington
Morgan Co
Russians in Siberia Abuse and Exile Chronicle
The article recalls seven escaped Russian prisoners found in an open Pacific voyage to San Francisco. Californians provided aid, but all were soon jailed for crimes from housebreaking to violence. It condemns administrative exile, detailing brutal Siberian prisons, forced marches, and executions of youths and women, highlighting cruelty, overcrowding, and police abuses.
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Siberia
Pacific
San Francisco
Russia
Moscow
Tomsk
Werr
Irk
Utsk
Irkutsk
Kara
Yakutsk
Arctic Circle
Leo Deutsch
Remarkable escape as wagon and family miss deadly ravine
Jacob Wardman a Blake Township farmer and his wife with three children escaped death when a runaway team hurtled toward a 30 foot gully after a dog startled the horses. A lightning strike felled the animals just before they would reach the ravine, stopping the wagon within feet of the edge. Neighbors aided the shaken family. the horses were insured and the company offers to pay the loss, which the man declined. The second portion discusses a scheme against postal money orders and recent reforms announced by Postmaster General Cortelyou to deter forgeries.
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Jacob Wardman
Blake Township
Remilec
Lelp
Vardmans
le Seur
Cor
Chicago Chronicle
Cortelyou
Hitchcock
Lost treasury box returned to owner in Massachusetts
The treasure box owned by Herman Cheney with $260,000 in securities and $50,000 in cash, missing since February, has been mysteriously returned to Cheney at his South Bridge home. He was once the largest holder of American Optical Company stock and was worth about $800,000.
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South Bridge
Mass
Herman
Cheney
Chesnut Street
Boston
American Optical Company
Child Labor Bill Killed in Georgia Senate
Atlanta August 15 Georgia senate kills the Child Labor bill after a lengthy debate. In a roll call 23 senators voted against the measure and 7 or 10 for it. The bill sought to prohibit employment of children under 12 in manufacturing establishments.
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Senate
Atlanta
Senate of Georgia
Blalock
Bloodworth
Candler
Carswell
Crum
Fortner
Foster
Furr
Hogan
McHenry
Miller
Reid
Steed
Strange
Walker
Ware
Westbrook
Nays
Adams
Alsebrook
Bennett
Bond
Bunn
Carthers
Copelaw
Fitzgerald
Foy
Graybill
Hamby
Hand
Lumsden
McAllister
Odum
Parker
Peyton
Phillips
Rose
Sirmans
Wheatley
Williams
Madison Bell
Fulton
Assiistant
Hansell
Senator McHenry
Senator Bunn
A. O. Blalock
Promotion for Hodgson as Sixth Lighthouse District Commander
Charleston reports Captain A C Hodgson to be replaced by Lieutenant Commander W S Benson as commander of the sixth lighthouse district with headquarters in Charleston next month. Hodgson has led the district for nearly two years and Benson arrives from the battleship Iowa. Hodgson previously served as executive officer of the cruiser Brooklyn at the battle of Santiago and alerted Admiral Schley to the Texas ram risk.
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Charleston
8. C
Benson
A. C. Hodgson
Georgia
Hodgson
Iowa
Brooklyn
Santiago
Schley
State Normal School selects locations for new buildings
Building committee chairman Mr R and Davison with Architect Bleckley have chosen site plans for a James M Smith science hall on Prince avenue side facing Practical School and a dormitory toward Prince avenue near Venroe road. Hinman to begin work at once, seven months to complete. The science hall will be the largest on campus.
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R. &. Davison
State Normal School
Bleckley
James M. Smith
Prince Avenue
Practie School
Venroe Road
Hinman
Normal School
Science Mail
Howard the news butcher improves after suicide attempt
Adam H. Howard known as the news butcher survived a self inflicted attempt on the vesti bule between Atlanta and Athens Monday. He explains he tried the short route to the undiscovered country because his earnings could not meet living costs. He is recovering in a hospital in Atlanta after health issues from Alabama laudanum faded and notes a prior U S Army service and Cuba government work.
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Adam H. Howard
Atlanta
Athens
Howard
Ife
United States Army
Cuba
Hartwell and Atlanta Lawyers Attend Meredith Bankruptcy Hearing
Prominent Hartwell and Atlanta attorneys, including J. H. Skelton and Judge Walter L. Hodges, joined Judge Frank L. Upson for a Hartwell bankruptcy hearing on L. E. Meredith. The case shows about $25,000 in liabilities and $15,000 in assets, with approval for a public sale of Meredith stock in Hartwell on August 24.
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L. E. Meredith
Hartwell
Atlanta
Frank L. Upson
Talmadge Building
J. H. Skelton
Walter L. Hodges
Julian McCurry
Col
A. A. McCurry
Victor Smith
Tte Targust
Hartwel
Fiendish cure touted for ulcers sores and cancers
Fiery ad claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve heals ulcers sores and cancers with rapid relief. It praises the product from Fiat Rock Michigan resident Wm Bedell and cites drugstores H R Palmer & Jones and W J Smith Bros for guaranteed sale and the claim boosts healing of cuts burns and scalds.
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Wm. Bedell
Fiat Rock
Mich
Bucklen
H. R. Palmer & Jone
W. J. Smith
Bro
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