Legal Advertisement for Charter in Clarke County Georgia
Petitioners Mitchell Strickland Mahan Lampkin and Rowe seek incorporation of The Mutual Life Insurance Company with offices in Athens and Clarke County Georgia. They aim to issue policies under five hundred dollars and collect premiums weekly or monthly. Public notice requests charter issuance under Georgia law with publication in Weekly Banner for five weeks.
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State of Georgia
Clarke
Philip Cook
Petpitos
Ao W. Mitchell
J J Strickland
J.C McMahan
Cobb Lampkin
H J Rowe
Athens
Clarke County
Georgia
Ee Pal Steeck
Pert Ganization
A Ll Michell
JD Strickland
Jon CM Mahan
Cobb Lamprin
He Rowe
Aly of
Phillp Cook
Tate of Fourgin
Petinon
Arthur Flatag
Lea's
Aoc
Hollidey
Max Mlutan
J. Flaten
1Rke
Georeta
Arthuhe Fletzu
AON Lrater
McWhorter & Strckland & Green
Het Ettorneys
Superior Court
J. W. Nichols
John M. Kelley
Lige Sears
H. Harvey
Beives
Nichols Contracting and Construction Company
Nichi
United States
Deupree Hunnicutt
Iborgla
B. J. Crawford
Said County
Augusta Telephone Exchange Sold At Auction
Augusta Ga March 3 The Augusta Telephone Exchange once rivaling Southern Bell and using the Strowger system was sold at the courthouse steps for 15000 dollars L C Hayne bidding the amount The plant cost over 100000 dollars and bonds will receive less than half a dollar per dollar with stockholders getting nothing It is rumored the property was bid in for Southern Bell Telegraph Co The remainder of the item reports on Confederate flags and remarks about the czar and Russia without direct local relevance.
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Augusta
Augusta Telephone Exchange
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Court House
L. C. Hayne
Southern Bell ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company
Chicago Record-Herald
Congress
Buffalo Bill Refuses Reconciliation in Divorce Deposition
William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill testified in Omaha that he would not reconcile with Mrs. Cody. He said he would have nothing to do with her after she accused him of murdering their daughter Arta and threatened to denounce him after death. The cross examination focused on reconciliation and motives, with Mrs. Cody’s sincerity questioned. Cody described a 1877 separation following an affair at a hotel in Omaha and explained business duties and farewells to his female staff. He left Omaha for New York and planned to sail to Paris Saturday.
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Omaha, Nel
Mareh
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Colonel Cody
Cody
Ridgley
Dr. Powell
Powell
Wilcox
Omaha
Hudson Seeks Railroad Commissioner Post in Georgia
Avlanta March 8 Hon T G Hudson of Americus former state senator visited the capitol as a claimant for the railroad commissioner vacancy to succeed J Pope Brown with term expiring next October. Governor Terrell will consider the appointment next summer ahead of Senate confirmation before adjournment. Hudson, a well known figure, stands to receive strong endorsements for the position.
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Avlanta
T. G. Hudson
Americus
State Senate
Hudson
Memphis Street Railway Sold to New York Capitalists
The News Scimitar reports Isadore Mann & Sons bankers of New York and New Orleans behind the deal that formalized the transfer of the Memphis Street Railway Company late yesterday evening to Ford Bacon and Davis engineers and capitalists of New York. Subscriptions urged for laundry stock, inviting neighbors to subscribe as well.
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Isadore Mann & Sons
New York
New Orleans
Memphis Street Railway Company
Ford, Bacon Aod Davis
New York Strikes Strain Rapid Transit Service
On March 8 New York faced the first day of the general Interborough strike with 29 injuries and no fatalities. Elevated lines were severely crippled while subway service struggled. a Twenty third Street rear-end collision caused panic, sending 15 injured to hospitals as trains ran irregularly and later regained a five to seven minute headway.
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New York
Sminor
Interborough Company
Sone Lnd
Srevice
Ninth Avenue
West Side
Interborough
Farley
Twentythird Street
Twenty-third Street
Couples Married by Telephone in Carrollton Ga
In Carrollton Georgia the marriage of Taylor Craven and Miss Bettie Sellers was conducted last week via long distance telephone. It marks the seventeenth such ceremony since Gainsboro Telephone Co. started lines in the county. Most couples reside in Alabama and cross into Georgia to evade Alabama maintenance bonds. The magistrate at Bowden and local pastors or other magistrates officiate, with license funds deposited through a local agent. The report notes the practice is novel and sometimes called the matrimonial line.
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Carrollton
Taylor Craven
J. P. Norman
Alabama
Georgia
Othyore
Here
Bowden
Minister Goeg Up for Pension Fraud
Rev. Benjamin W. Ashley, a Christian church minister from near Newport Tennessee, was sentenced to fifteen months in a federal penitentiary for pension law violations. A pension examiner uncovered a bigamy scheme after a North Carolina woman claimed to be his wife and sought a pension division. Ashley admitted perjury. prosecutors may pursue further action for bigamy once his sentence ends.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Benjamin W. Ashley
The
Christian Church
Newport
Ashley
North Carolina
Tennessee
President nominates Charles W. Anderson for NY tax post
Washington reports the president sent to the senate the nomination of Charles W. Anderson the Colored Demosthenes for collector internal revenue second district New York. Republican leaders oppose the appointment but must accept it as the president treats it as personal.
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Washington
Senate
Charles W. Anderson
Colored Demosthenes
New York
Platt
Depew
Three Young People Die In Lake Monroe Tragedy
Sanford Florida March 8 three youths Miss Margaret Looney of Thomasville Georgia and Reese Boyd of Sanford along with Otto McElroy were killed in a boating accident on Lake Monroe. They left the dock at 1030 p m in a small rowboat and were later found drowned when the overturned craft was recovered near shallow water Monday morning. Miss Looney’s family mourns in Thomasville while McElroy’s kin live in Birmingham Alabama and Boyd’s family here. The town is in gloom.
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Sanford, Fla
Margaret Looney
Thomasville
Lake Monroe
Loat Ier Nfe
Ootto McElroy
Reese Boyd
Sanford
Jayight
Miss Looney
Young McElroy
Birmingham
Ala
Ladies urge churches repainted with Longman & Martinez paints
The article promotes Longman & Martinez paints for church painting. It urges ministers to secure generous quantities, noting that mixing eight gallons of L and M with six gallons of pure Linseed Oil yields paint under $1.20 per gallon. It claims many houses are well painted with these paints bought through dealer & Co.
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Longman & Martinez
Doler & Co
Russians pursued by the Japanese near Mukden
St Petersburg dispatches say General Kuroki’s army forced a Russian retreat from the Shakhe river line. Kuropatkin’s left remains critical as Japanese wedge between Linevitch and Nennenkampf. Mukden still reported as held by Russians, while Japanese turning movement eyes Tie Pass.
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St . Petersburg
Associated Press
Kuroki
Shakhe
Kuropatkin
Oyama
Liao Yang
Mukden
Manchiatun
St. Petersburg
Linevitch
Nennenkampf
Tie Pass
Joses
Sharp swords now for cavalrymen
Washington reports that officers and cavalrymen may receive sharpened swords. The debate over blade sharpness ends as General Crozier outlines a new design combining cutting and thrusting capabilities. The sword aims for lightness, straightness, and practical efficiency, improving on the prior model.
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Washington
Hias
Snclinea
Crozier
General Staff
Army
Fitzgerald Enterprise seeks governor role amid county push
Fitzgerald Enterprise and leaders Brown Smith Estill Howell announce ambitions for governor while a broad coalition calls for governance reforms across 132 counties. The report notes vetting processes underway and political maneuvering within party circles.
Unclear agricultural market notes from Athens and New York
Fragmentary OCR shows wheat corn oats and lard data with month references and percent figures. Contains multiple garbled entries for May July and other months, plus scattered price-like numbers. No coherent narrative or clear event identified.
Shade or tragedy at the Mississippi asylum
In Jackson Mississippi a 19 year old man, sent from Jones County to the asylum four years earlier, died after eating plaster from the walls. Autopsy revealed a bizarre hoard of metal and other objects swallowed over time, all encased in plaster. Physicians kept the stomach for display at the medical society.
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Jones County
Buchanan
Mississippi
Grand Auction Sale of Nursery Stock in Athens Ga
Grand auction sale of strictly first class nursery stock at Athens Georgia on March 23 by Old Reliable Greensboro Nurseries. Sale aims to reduce spring surplus and features top grade red and best varieties. Wilson Auction and Commission House Athens Georgia solicits job printing and guarantees catalog quality.
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Athens
Greensboro
Wilson Auction & Commission House
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Telephone Company
Russia
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Memphis Railway’ Company
Memphis, Tenn
News Scimitar Today
New York Road
Raffic
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Goeg
President Flames Negro
Senator Depew
Senator Platt
Japan
H. B. Palmer
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