Sweeping recommendations from Georgia special investigating committee
The July report to the Georgia General Assembly urges major revisions in appropriations for 1919, covering the executive clerk ceiling, state treasury bank examinations, agriculture and extension work, university extensions, and the state sanitarium. It calls for structural reforms, a constitutional amendment, and tighter budgeting across departments to curb overlaps and legal ambiguities.
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Atlanta
Dorsey
George H Carswell
Joe Hill Hall
Attorny
Clifford Walker
M. L. Brittain
Executive Department
State College of Agriculture
Printing Commission
Departments of Education and Agriculture
Alto Sanitarium
Board of Trustees
State Board of Health
Allied World Focus Shifts To Albanian Front Battles
The Allied world turns from the French front as Albania sees French and Italian gains against Austria. French and British fronts report heavy artillery duels and advances, while American pursuit planes push far into German lines near Chateau Thierry. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, son of former president, shoots down a German plane in a solo air battle.
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Roosevelt
Associated Press
France
Albania
Lake Ochrida
Saloniki
Marne
Aisne
Retz Forest
Soissons
Amiens
U. Se
Chateau Thierry
Quentin Roosevelt
Dorms
Reelect Souls and Crawford to Health Board
Dr Soule and Mr J Crawford were reelected members of the city board of health. The May council meeting fixed salaries, made minor department transfers, and deferred the desk sergeant position pending committee qualification. The council also approved audits and land-taking proposals and reported police activity for June with $1,907.25 in fines.
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DR. Soule
Mir. J. Crawford
Board Health
Board of Health
Police and Fire Department
Dobbs
Erwin
Crane
O. H. Peeler
Fire Department
Boseman
A. M. Soule
Third Ward
TR. Crawford
Georgia Railroad
Upson
Chase Street
Athens Avenue
Bondurant
Lynwood Park
Hillcrest Avenue
Incin- Th
Sudden Turn of Russian Fate Shapes Siberia Aid
Reports say Czechoslovak legions restore order in Siberia and overcome POW resistance, delaying Entente and US plans to field an international force. Madame Marie Bolchkarova, Russian colonel, met President Wilson at the White House to discuss questions. John Spargo invites Kerensky to tour major US cities from Paris.
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Associated Press
Washington
Siberia
Austraia
United States
Marie Bolchkarova
Woman's Battalion of Death
Wilson
White House
Kerensky
London
John Spargo
Europe
Social Democratic League of America
Alexander Kerensky
Paris
Train wreck and bandit raid reported in late bulletins
Troop train from Camp Bowie overturned with two cars involved. Six seriously hurt and two pinned beneath the wreckage, with fears of greater casualties. In a separate incident, bandits robbed a fast mail and express train near Bacls, Ken, shooting three passengers before escaping in cars.
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Shreveport
Bowie
Bacls
Ken
Tiartven
Temps Scathing In Comment on German Foreign Secretary
Paris July 10 the Temps comments on the fall of German Foreign Minister Von Kuehlmann saying it would be too much honor to guess his policy. It calls the man named as successor a courtier a virtuoso of secret diplomacy and an expert against the rights of men.
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Paris
von Kuehlmann
Temps
North Dakota labels insurance sellers as nonessential
Huron N D July 10 All able bodied men engaged in selling insurance are placed in the nonessential class by the North Dakota Council of Defense under supplemental work or fight rules. Capt Barnett city engineer reports progress on street work repairs to the stockade water works cleanup and salvage of a pest house after a storm. The city sold 1216 17 worth of stone and has quarry stock for a year grain crop on the stockade farm yielded 84 bushels of fine seed wheat.
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Huron
N. D
North Dakota Council of Defense
Barnett
Tts
al Ee E
U S Plans Export to Mexico of Grains and Metals
The state department announced an export arrangement to Mexico totaling one and a half million bushels of corn and large quantities of iron steel zinc and copper products plus agricultural machinery and foodstuffs. The move reflects President's expressed friendly sentiments to Mexican editors.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Mexico
Negro Women Demand End to Jim Crow Car and Nurses for War
At the National Association of Colored Women annual session in Denver on July 10 a resolution urged Director General McAdoo to abolish the Jim Crow car. A second demand asked the War Department to assign 2,000 Negro nurses for hospital duty in the war zone to care for wounded soldiers.
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Associated Press
Denver
McAdoo
National Association of Colored Women
War Department
Safety theme echoes in senate notes from Atlanta
Fragmentary text from Atlanta in July mentions the state senate and a discussion on protecting future generations. The readable lines hint at a public safety or civic concern but lack concrete details, names, or dates to fully identify the event.
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State Agricultural Department
State Department of Agriculture
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State College
Department of Agriculture
State Department of Entomology
University of Georgia
Jos. H. Hall
General Assembly
State Agricultural College
Georgia Normal and Industrial College
Milledgeville
Agricultural College
State University
Soule
Georgia Normal and Industrial Colleges
Myra Schwab
Gam
State Sanitarium
Board of Charities and Corrections
State Council of Defense
Kaiser
Uncle Sam
Red Cross
Macedonia
Brenta
Asiago
Bond Commission
W. O. Martin
Czechoslovak Legion
Entente
America
North Dakota
U.S
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State Senate
Becsine Batty
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