Seaboard Air Line to Begin Athens Passenger Station
Athens to see phased construction start on a new Seaboard Air Line passenger station. Contractor arrives today to begin preliminary work as Chamber of Commerce pressure yields larger, finer plans. Officials note Athens growth and railroad plans align with city progress.
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A. M. Walkup
Richmond
R. 8
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Southern Railway
Mpa
Athens
Chamber of Commerce
Seaboard
Chamber of Comemree
Guardianship Sought After Jury Found Father Sane
Yesterday Judge Wingfeld presided Clarke county case in which W B Kellum was examined for lunacy. The jury ruled he was not a fit subject for state asylum, noting temporary derangement from a physical stroke. Kellum’s daughter sought guardianship but was told no guardian could be appointed since the jury declared him sane.
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Wingfeld
Clarke County
W. BE
Kellum
Thirty One Years in Office and Not a Day Lost From Sickness
Clarke county lauds tax collector H H Linton for thirty-one years of service without a sick day. He never misses work due to illness, taking only brief vacations after year end settlements. The piece highlights his regular habits and notes familial parallels in longevity.
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Clarke County
Clarke
H. H. Linton
Georgia
Linton
Man Who Stole Iron From Cemetery Wants To Come Back To Athens
Zachary Taylor Hall, a former Athens resident with a dark complexion, seeks to return to the Classic City. He was previously convicted of larceny for removing iron from a cemetery, and now expresses a desire to reestablish citizenship and improve behavior to be allowed back in Athens.
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Athens
Zachary Taylor Hall
Hall
Broad Street
Durance
Pullman Sleeping-Car Fares Reduced Across US
Chicago February 1 reductions in Pullman sleeping-car berths take effect after ICC agreement. Upper berths see about a 20 percent cut while lower berths drop roughly 10 percent. The move lowers annual revenues for Pullman by about 1.5 million dollars, affecting routes nationwide except lines under New York New Haven Hartford Great Northern and Chicago Milwaukee St Paul.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pullman
United States
New York, New Haven and
Hartford
Great Northern
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Peach crop warned by warm weather and frost risk
Atlanta reports warn that persistent warm weather threatens this season's peach crop with premature budding in central and southern Georgia. If temperatures stay high, blossoms may fail. experts anticipate a cold snap eventually, but danger remains days away. Separately, Georgia Mothers Conference meets in Atlanta at First Methodist Church with many delegates titled Mrs and an agenda focused on child welfare. railroads offer special rates for attendance.
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Atlanta
Department of Agriculture
First Methodist
Peachtree Street
Georgia
In Memoriam Hallam Remembered at Clevedon Burial
London February 1 a wreath inscribed In Memoriam was laid over Arthur Henry Hallams burial place in Clevedon church. Literary celebrities honored the 1811 birth anniversary of Hallam who died in Vienna at twenty two. Tennyson and Hallam were close friends and Hallams death affected the poet. Sixteen years after Hallams passing Tennyson published In Memoriam as tribute.
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London
Arthur Henry Hallam
Vilage
Clevedon
Tennyson
Hallam
Vienna
Kansas City Opens New Y W C A Building
Kansas City Mo Feb 1 The new home of the Young Women's Christian Association in Kansas City was opened for occupancy today. The building cost 50000 dollars and will house about 100 girls with offices a library gymnasium parlors and sewing rooms also included.
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Kansas City
Young Women's Christian Association
American Breeders' Association Meets in Columbus
Columbus Feb 1 The American Breeders' Association opened its annual convention alongside the National Corn Exposition. The group includes over 1,000 breeders from the United States and Canada with Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson as president presiding through tomorrow and Friday. Athens will invite Georgia opticians to meet here next year.
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Columbus
American Breeders’ Association
United States
Canada
Jas. Wilson
Athens
Georgia Opticians
Potash tax law deemed undue discrimination against American contracts
Washington observers say the German Potash Syndicate brief admits key Americans claims. The reply argues the law doubles potash costs for Americans under contract, undermines contracts, and seeks to depress U S fertilizer demand by pressuring non syndicate mines. It asserts the law protects high prices and harms American buyers and manufacturers.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Schmidtmanns
Potash Trust
Will Be Free From Atlanta Prison Next Week
Greene and Gaynor, famed inmates, will be released from the federal prison in Atlanta within days after a good behavior reduction from four years to three years and one month. Their long legal fight began in 1900 over alleged government fraud with Captain Carter and the Atlantic Construction Company.
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Atlanta
Messrs
Greene
Gaynor
Europe
John F. Gaynor
Benjamin D. Greene
Savannah
Oberlin M. Carter
United States Engineer Corps
Carter
Atlantic Construction Company
Gaynor and Greene
New York
Georgia
Supreme Court
Chateau Frontenac
Quebec
Montreal
Qubec Courte
LaFontaine
Caron
Canada
United States
English Privy Council
Supreme Court of the United States
Federal
Largest steel ski slide opens in Stoughton Wisconsin
Winter sports devotees from Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan gathered in Stoughton for the formal opening of the great steel ski platform. The slide is the highest of its kind in America and among the longest.
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Stoughton
Wis
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
America
South Carolina Stock Breeders Meet Opens in D C
Dr E B M Nighbert from the U S Department of Agriculture Prof Smith of Clemson College and other experts addressed the South Carolina Live Stock Association at its annual meeting in Columbia opening sessions that will run through Saturday Officials noted the event centers on a monopoly with German government financial backing and a chief officer aligned with the Prussian government
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Columbia, D. C
EB. M. Nighbert
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Smith
Clemson College
South Carolina Live Stock Association
Census notes 1910 mortality in US registration area
Census Bureau data show provisional 1910 death rate slightly higher than 1909 but still very favorable. Approximately 780,000 deaths expected in the registration area and 667,000 in the states, with DC reporting 6,513 deaths and a 19.6 per 1,000 rate. London reports the marriage of Hugo Charteris to Lady Violet Manners at St. Margaret’s.
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Washington, D. C
Durand
Cressy L. Wilbur
Bureau of the Census
United States
Census Bureau
Bureau
Ani
California
Connecticut
Indiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
District of Columbia
City of Washington
Wilbur
London
Hugo Charteris
Eddio
Earl of Wemyns
Violet Manners
Duchess of Rutland
St. Margaret's
Westminister
Pe runa Medical Claim for Cold Prevention
A testimonial from a 46 year old patient praising Pe runa as a cure for colds and internal catarrh. The reader notes relief from illness and claims overall health improvement. The fragmentary text mentions Barc fors and deaf nem in relation to the condition.
Detention House Proposed for Lunacy Warrants
A Georgia judge urged creating a detention ward for women with lunacy warrants awaiting trial. He notes ten day notice delays force confinement in county jail with prisoners and noisy surroundings, risking safety and dignity, and calls for a separate facility to hold such detainees in comfort during the interim.
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Wingfeld
Court of Ordinary
Georgia
Ten Jaya
Wisconsin Clay Manufacturers Meet in Milwaukee
Nearly all leading brick tile and pottery makers in Wisconsin attend the Wisconsin Clay Manufacturers Association annual meeting in Milwaukee for a three day session. The notice also mentions Leslie's Weekly and a Dixie feature, with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy recommended for hoarseness or croepy cough in children.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin Clay Manufacturers’ Association
Chamberlain
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Banner
Arthur Hallan Remembe
NEW Y
Washington
South Carolina
Lady Violet
Cs, Sagersor
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South
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