Judge Brand Wise Seeks Long Term Congress Seat
Judge Chas H. Brand of the Western circuit has announced his candidacy for the long term Congress seat to succeed the late Tribble. Judge Horace M. Holden says he will not run, though urged by friends district wide. Holden notes his statewide jurist reputation and the desire to serve broader needs. Judge John J. Strickland may seek appointment as Western circuit judge if Brand wins Congress.
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Western Circuit
Horace M. Holden
Supreme Court
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Congress
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John J. Strickland
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Strickland
Red Cross Names Wilson President Taft Chairman
President Wilson was elected president and former President Taft chairman of the central committee of the American Red Cross at its annual meeting. John Skelton Williams presented the treasurer's report showing the organization spent more than a half million for war relief in the first eleven months of this year.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Taft
Central Committee of the American Red Cross
John Skelton Williams
Immigration Bill Progress Delayed by Senate Action
Washington reports the final act of the immigration bill was delayed as the Senate sent the measure back for committee consideration of amendments. A passage vote is expected tomorrow with Sen Smith indicating no knowledge of a veto from President Wilson. A literacy test is noted amid discussion of the bill. Local item mentions a hostess at Buchanan serving at a liquor party.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Lette
Tomorre
Smith
South Carolina
Wilson
Shepléf
Divorce Insights From Federal Council Report On Marriage
St Louis, Dec 18. A federal council report shows only a small portion of marital infelicity results in divorce with one in ten marriages ending in divorce nationally and higher ratios in some states. It cites long marriage durations, rising female employment, and urges church led instruction to promote marriage ideals and societal order. It condemns common law marriages and calls for nullification legislation to curb such unions nationwide. Remember the boys on the border this Christmas Athens urges support for sending them a bar-filled care package.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Commission On Family Life
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Itn Aivorcé
United States
Athens
Pump Arrives for City Waterworks Extension Delayed But Ready
The city receives its large waterworks pump after a long delay caused by vendor strikes and transport setbacks. Shipped in July, it faced multiple rescheduled dates before reaching Athens via Norfolk. The dam and reservoir are complete, mains laid to the filtration plant, and the extension will boost water supply with cleaner, cheaper treatment.
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New York
Norfolk
Athens
Oconee
Southern Railway
Athens Lawyers Named in Governor Succeeds Hodges
Two Athens lawyers are mentioned for the place vacated by the death of Judge Robert Hodges on the Georgia State Court of Appeals. Upson has wide practice and helped lead Gov Harris's last campaign. Judge George C. Thomas of Athens is also mentioned, a forty year practitioner and former county court judge.
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Athens
Robert Hodges
Georgia State Court of Appeals
Upson
Harris
George C. Thomas
New Registrars Appointed for Clarke County
Judge C. H. Brand of the Western circuit named George H. Palmer and Charles T. Young as Clarke County registrars to replace Toombs R. Powell who cannot attend board sessions and A. C. Edwarda who resigned.
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C. H. Brand
Western Circuit
George H. Palmer
Charles T. Young
Clarke
Toombs R. Powell
Board of Registrars
A. C. Edwarda
Trade Commission Urges Publishers Attend Paper Relief Meeting
The federal trade commission appealed to newspaper publishers to attend or appoint representatives by telegraph for Friday's meeting in Washington to discuss a relief plan for the news print paper shortage. It also urged publishers to be represented at a New York conference on the same topic for paper stock distribution supervised by the commission.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
New York
Stock market records 2.5 million shares traded today
In New York on Tuesday the market was volatile in the final hour with activity so high that more than 2.5 million shares changed hands, a multi year record. Prices in the last hour fell 2 to 5 points from the early afternoon levels.
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New York
Rowe Endorsed for Congress in District News
The Athens Herald endorses Hugh J. Rowe for the short term of the late Tribble in the 1917 race. The editorial praises Rowe’s public service in Athens and across the state while noting past disagreements and stressing loyalty to his party and district. The piece frames the endorsement as a tribute to Rowe’s decades of newspaper work and public service.
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H. J. Rowe
Congress
Tribble
Athens Wyening Herald
Hugh J. Rowe
Athens Banner
Sidman Samuel J. Tribble
Athens Herald
Herald
Hilowe
Hug Rowe
Jong
Athens
Malle Rowe
Democratic Party
Wise
Germany pledges to honor submarine warfare vow
Berlin official Dr Alfred Zimmermann, secretary of foreign affairs, stated Germany would keep its pledges to the United States on submarine warfare. He claimed no German submarine deliberately attacked a merchant ship without warning and rescue time. He criticized Allied claims and noted British submarines had sunk German ships without warning.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Alfred Zimmermann
Foreign Affairs
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Entente
Zimmermann
America
President approves guard sergeant sentence by army court
Wilson approved the army court martial action sentencing Lewis O Gardner of the New Mexico militia to dishonorable discharge and a year in prison for failing to obey the federal call for border duty. The prison term was remitted as a test case, with War Department officials calling the decision a warning to more than 10,000 enrolled guardsmen absent from federal service. Army officers say nonappearance undermines the national guard system.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Lewis O. Gardner
New Mexico
War Department
Army
National Guard
Grand Juries to Probe High Cost of Food in Cleveland
Federal grand jurors have been convened to consider indictments against Cleveland food and coal dealers for alleged anti trust violations. The investigation follows a conference between U S District Attorney Wertz and George Anderson of Boston, touring cities in the food probe ordered by President Wilson.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Cleveland Food and Coal
Uni
Ted States
Wertz
George Anderson
Boston
United States
Mr. Anderson
Wilson
Substantial Recoveries Registered by Steel and Several Other Stocks
New York December 13 substantial recoveries marked today’s stock market opening after theater day lows though further liquidation lingered. Bethlehem Steel rose notably from prior losses while Maxwell Motors Baldwin Locomotive Central Leather Mercantile Marines General Electric American Smelting Cuban Sugar and Gulf States Steel gained 1 to 4 points. United States Steel opened with a fractional advance on its 12 000 share issue as copper trading remained heavy with Industrial Alcohol.
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STEEL
New York
Bethlehem Steel
Maxwell Motors
Baldwin Locomotive
Central Leather
Mercantile Marines
General Electric
American Smelting
Gulf States Steel
United States Steel
Austrian Cabinet Resigns Amid War News
London dispatch reports Austria's cabinet resigns as German peace talks push, while Romanians retreat along the Wallachian front. In the Carpathians fighting persists and 6,000 Albanians defeat Italians near Pasnesina Epirus. General Joffre becomes technical counsel to the French war office.
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Busen
Carpathians
Balkan
Sofia
Pasnesina
Epirus
France
Sarrail
Macedonia
War Office
Joffre
Salisbury Democrat Saulbury Elected Senate Pro Tempore
Salisbury Dec 15 Samuel Saulbury of Delaware was the unanimous choice of the Democratic caucus tonight for president pro tempore of the senate to succeed the late Senator Clarke of Arkansas. He will likely be elected tomorrow and had led the Democratic senatorial campaign this fall.
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Associated Press
Samuel Saulisbury
Delaware
Senate
Senator Clarke
Arkansas
Twenty Nine Killed In Explosion At Stone City Mine
Pittsburg Kaus Dec 13 Twenty nine miners were killed and seven injured in an explosion today at the Reedy and Ryan coal mines at Stone City near here.
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Associated Press
Pittsburg
Kaus
Reedy and Ryan
Stone City
Germany Explains Sinking of Lanae
Washington notes Germany issued an explanation regarding the sinking of the Lanae on October 31st. The inquiry focused on whether the vessel carried contraband and if it was American registered. The note suggests liability for damages if registry was not transferred and notes the Lanae’s Manila sale prior to the voyage.
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Germany
Café Germany
Manila
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