Address of Hon William H Fleming Before Georgia Alumni Society
The speech by Hon William H Fleming before the University of Georgia Alumni Society in the college chapel drew praise for its scholarly treatment of slavery and race. He warned against disenfranchising Black citizens through fraudulent administrative means and argued for preserving white political dominance amid national debates on Reconstruction era suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Flemns
Alumni Society
University of Georgia
College
Fleming
Jones
E. WH. Callaway
Allress
Ile
United States
New Furniture Store Opens in Athens
Greensboro businessman E. M. Andrews opens a furniture and house furnishing store on College avenue in the McDowell building with L. B. Friday as manager. The firm pledges full Andrews standard service to Athens patrons.
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E. M. Andrews
Greensboro
N.C
Thin City
L. B. Friday
Tragic electrocution of milledge avenue worker
Yesterday morning Al Foster a wee man working for Athens Electric Railway on Milledge avenue climbed a pole fifteen feet high without a leather strap. He slipped reached for a wire and was instantly shocked died within minutes despite helpers’ efforts.
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al Foster
Athens Electric Railway Company
Milledge Avenue
Peabody Gifts 350 Acre Land Expansion to U Georgia
Hon George Foster Peabody donates 350 acres adjoining the Carlton farm to the University of Georgia. The addition, boosting campus size to 900 acres, enhances the College of Agriculture and its forestry program. The gift comes with river frontage and timber, conveyed at no cost per Peabody’s letter to the trustees.
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George Foster Peabody
University of Georgia
Brittain
Carlton
Ae University of Georgia
United States
Barrow
Thomas J. Shackelford
Peabody
University
Lon. H. D. McDaniel
Board of Trustees
College of Agriculture
Alumni Society Hears Yale Leader Hadley As Next Orator
The University of Georgia Alumni Society, led by Judge BE Callaway, met to select its next alumni orator. Arthur T. Hadley of Yale was named as the president’s choice with two alternates, while funds for campus projects and the Y M C A building were discussed and a memorial page for Chancellor Hill adopted.
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Alumni Society
The
University of Georgia
BE. A. Callaway
Augusta
Barrow
Howell Cobb
George Foster Peabody
Thomay N. Denamrk
A. Pratt Adame
Savannah
Walter A. Harris
Macon
Buford M. Davis
Alumni Endowment Fund
University
Agricultural College
W. Woods White
Chancellor Hill
I. E. Munger
George FP
Gober
Harry Hodgson
Peabody
Calaway
Mr. Peabody
Elory Speer
Clark Howell
W. M. Slaton
Uo M. C. A
Georgia Marble Rates Debate Between Journal and Commission
Commissioner Joseph M Brown argues the Atlanta Journal faked marble rates from a fictitious quarry to push port-rate demands. He compares true Georgia rates from Tate and Vermont marble to Savannah Brunswick and other points, challenging editorial claims and urging Georgians to consider the wider impact on marble shippers.
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Office
Railroad Commission of
Georgia
Atlanta Journal
Blue Ridge
Savannah
Brunswick
Atlantic Coast Line
Georgia Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
Tate
Railroad Commission of Georgia
Atlanta Journals
N RR. C
Bainbridge
Quitman
Tifton
Thomasville
Valdosta
Waycross
Burlington
Lake Champlain
Rutland Railway
The
Vermont Lake
Hoke Smith
Atlanta
Stoke Smith
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Journal
Brunswick-Thomanville
Vermont
Americug
Columbus
Athens
Rome
Georgia Marble
Orc
Bezonlan
United States Supreme Court
Qeorgia
J.B. Roberts
Joseph M. Brown
Sam Gray Killed by His Young Son
Sam Gray a white man forty seven was shot and killed yesterday near White Hat by his seventeen year old son John Gray. The elder Gray had been drinking and abusing his wife and threatened to kill her with a pistol and knife. The son, trying to dissuade him, fled behind a room cover as the father advanced with weapon. He fired a double barrel shotgun wounding the father fatally. The shooting caused community alarm but the son faced no arrest as the incident is described as self defense.
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Liv
Sam Gray
Whitehat
John Gray
Gray
Chamber of Commerce Welcomes New Georgia Chancellor Barrow
Athens Chamber of Commerce congratulates Professor David C. Barrow of the University of Georgia on his election as chancellor. President M. G. Michael extends best wishes and invites Barrow to engage with the local business and educational community in Athens.
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Athens
David C. Barrow
University of Georgia
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Barrow
Dens. Go
Board of Trustees
M. G. Michael
Dr Sorrell Sells Franklin Springs Practice Moves
Dr R P Sorrell of this city has sold his interest in Franklin Springs and will devote all time to practice locally. He will specialize in diseases of women and children. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is recommended by many users and sold by H Palzer Sons and W J Smith and Bro.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
R. P. Sorrell
Franklin Springs
Sorrell
H. . Palzer & Sons
W. J. Smith and Bro
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William H. Fleming
Ourage
South
Tn Vy
Lis
Ieargit
Supreme Court
College Avenue
Mr. L. B. Friday
A. T. Hadley
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
John W. Daniel
Virginia
Walter B. Hi
Brown
Albany
Americus
Milledgeville
Hawkinsville
Michael
Hil
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