Athens Banner Sees New Factory Push and Timber Supplies
The Athens Banner reports on sought after industries including a large chair factory and notes the Tallulah Falls Railway extension linking Athens to timber-rich regions. It highlights advantages such as climate, low taxes, good schools and growing manufacturing focus, urging chamber efforts to attract plants.
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Chamber of Commerce
Athens
Georgia
Tallulah Falls
America
Cruel Innovation Aims to Suppress Opera Patron Applause
Vienna inventor Herr Zimmerman creates an electric system with leather air sacks that mimic hand clapping. Hidden in theatre wings and wired to a regisseur, the device can trigger applause from any section. He claims use in Paris and Berlin theatres, though he withholds locations. The plan challenges audience participation but may take years to replace the habit of spontaneous applause.
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Herr Zimmerman
Vienna
Paris
Berlin
Supreme Court limits aid in homicide case
The U S Supreme Court has recently declined to intervene in James B. Howard's murder appeal, citing reluctance to apply the fourteenth amendment to state criminal cases. The Courier Journal notes the ongoing struggle over due process and equal protection as it relates to state law enforcement.
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United States
United States Supreme Court
James B. Howard
William Goebel
Supreme Court
Courier Journal
Debate over Georgia State University chancellor choice
Georgia presses debate the board of trustees a political body likely to favor insiders. Walter B Hill, former chancellor, is praised for national stature and leadership as the institution expands under Athena and branch campuses. The Outlook lauds Hill as a bridge builder for the South and nation.
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Georgia
The
State University
Bsavyannah
Walter B. Hill
William Y. Atkinson
Eyent
Hill
State
National Prohibition Party
Powers-That-Be
Mskstates
Shakespeare
Raphael
Athena
Friends of Education
Walter DB. Hill
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale
Athens
Outlook Magazine
South
University of Georgia
Southern Educational Board
Wealth in America and the rise of the money kings
The article warns that wealth concentration in the United States grows as the rich widen their gap over the poor. It cites Harper’s Weekly and others noting gold stock, banking power, and vast private fortunes led by Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan. It questions future distribution and cites estimates predicting trillions for the wealthiest few.
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Harper's Weekly
Cleveland Moffett
New York Herald
United States
M. G. Mulhall
Mr. Moffet
England
Germany
United Kingdom
James Brice
American Commonwealth
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Marshall Field
W. K. Vanderbilt
John Jacob Astor
J. P. Morgan
Russell Sage
J. J. Hill
W. A. Clark
William Rockefeller
Waldron
Mr. Moffett
Russell Sagots
Peabody urges radical stance on railroads and taxation
George Foster Peabody, long-time Democratic treasurer and financier, pens a broad platform view from Lake George New York dated January 3 1906. He argues for government ownership of railroads municipal street operations and a clear radical reform of tax policy to curb corporate privilege. He warns against private toll roads and calls for ground rent taxation and strict enforcement of fair assessments to curb monopolies and defend public rights.
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George Foster Peabody
Democratic Committee
Peabody
Brooklyn Eagle
Athens
The
New York
Steel Corporation
Great Northern Railway
Democratic Party
Lake George
N. Y
Senator Dryden drafts new bill for federal insurance control
Washington Jan 15 Senator Dryden revises his bill to regulate interstate insurance through a comptroller of insurance and a central bureau in commerce and labor. He proposes publicity safeguards and penalties for wrongdoing, aiming to answer constitutional doubts about federal regulation and citing broad support from the president and lawmakers.
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Washington
Dryden
Senate
New York Legislative Committee
New York
Congress
Senator Dryden
Bureau of Insurance
Department of Commerce and Labor
Interstate Insurance Regulation Provisions Detailed
The act imposes a federal Comptroller of Insurance with a deputy bonded officer and an actuary. It requires annual reports to Congress, monetary flows to the treasury, and strict examination powers over interstate insurers. Corporations must deposit 100000 and publish stock lists, to receive a certificate of power to operate across states.
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Ganic
National Bank Rect
Bureau
Comptroller
Comptroller of Insurance
Treasury
United States
Dr King’s New Life Pills Praised as Blood Cleanser Heads
Greatly in demand and suited for modern needs, Dr King's New Life Pills are marketed as a blood and system cleanser to cure stomach and liver troubles. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Co and W. & Smith & Bros.
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Dr. King
New Life
H. R. Palmer & Goons
W. &Smith & Bro
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Athens Banner
H. J. Rowe
Post Office
Barner
Wealth IN
Auburn
United States Steel Corporation
Liberal Party
Hughland
H. FR. Palmer & Sons
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Senator Dryden Hag
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