LOGHREN IN COMMAND AS MB BAUM S SUCCESSOR
Washington May 12 Judge Will iam Loehren of Minnesota arrived to assume the new pension commissioner post. He said he would carry out existing laws with no outlined policy. A list of postmasters appointed includes Henry Heidleberg Cullman Alabama Willis Wigging Evergreen Alabama Thomas Jaceway Fort Payie Alabama Jones Moore Warrenton Virginia. Edward O Leech resigns as director of maintenance to become cashier of National Union Bank opening June 1. Treasury receipts exceed last year though expenditures stay high.
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Judge Lochren
Henry Heidleberg
Cullman
Alabama
Willis T. Wigging
Evergreen
Simmons
Thomas R. Jaceway
Fort Payie
Ala
E. W. Godfrey
Jones
Moore
Eratery
A. J. Prince Jess ‘Ohis ' OU
Yates
Warrenton
Wm. H. Strother
Min
Edward O. Leech
Leech
National Union Bank
Treasury
Utah Delegate Faces Resistance Before Resignation
An afternoon paper recounts Delegate John R. Rawkins of Utah meeting with President Cleveland over disagreements, his anger evident as he wired resignation to the governor. Holmes Cummins, acting as W A Collier’s second, addresses Carmack and the ensuing political fray. Southern League results note Atlanta, Charleston. Chattanooga, Augusta. Memphis, Mobile. Birmingham, New Orleans. Nashville, Montgomery. Macon vs Savannah. Elbert County bailiff transports Tom Heard to Clarke County jail amid Elbertia’s prison project.
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Grover
Washington
Rawkins
Cleveland
John R. Rawkins
Utah
West
Rankin’s
Chasen
Artasta
Avanta
Charleston
Chattanooga
Eeeeneoes
Augusta
Memphis
Mobi
Birmingham
New Orleans
Nashville
Montgomery
Macon
Savannah
Loparpim Jar
Bail
Carter
Elbert County
Tom Heard
Clarke County
Elbertia
Inigo
Calicoes and Batistes Sale At Bargain Prices
Calicoes offer 52 pieces best quality Shirting Prints at 4 cents a yard. 54 pieces Dress Calicoes at 4 cents a yard. Batistes include 900 yards best quality at 15 cents, and Batistes in new shades at 6 cents a yard.
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Batistes
Embroidered Suits Offered In Lawn Collection
Forty two white Lawn Embroidered Suits priced from 250 to 300 per suit with a special selection at 100 each. Local shop promotes quality embroidery and varied designs for buyers seeking formal attire.
Nainsooks Offered in Various Quantities and Prices
Advertises Check Nainsooks at 5 cents per yard for 1200 yards and Remnants at 15 cents per yard, described as very fine quality, with a promotion listing 10 cents a yard as another price point.
Embroideries Offered in Various Fine Fabrics
Catalog listing offers 1400 yards of Mull Nainsooks White Lawn with colored edges in widths from 2 to 4 inches. Qualities range 20 to 35 cents per yard, with a choice selection at 10 cents per yard.
Hosiery Sale Offer From Local Retailer
Fifty dozen Ladies Black Hose priced at five cents per pair plus ninety dozen Children and Misses black heavy ribbed Hose at five cents. Eighty four dozen seamless fast dye Hose at twelve cents each. Fifteen dozen ribbed Ladies Vests with fans cy fronts and light tinted crochet edges, worth thirty cents, offered at ten cents each.
White Goods Bargains Spotlight Front Table Offers
The three front tables of White Goods draw shoppers with the best cuts and must see bargains. Customers urged to inspect these displays to fully appreciate the savings and selection available.
Shoes on sale for ladies and men in various Oxford styles
A local ad lists Ladies Common Sense Oxfords at 65 cents and 100 pairs of Oxford styles at 50 cents for men and children. It also promotes Sampes Ladies Fine Oxfords or Bluchers in red russet bronze or black with patent tips at 76 cents, men’s low quarter patent leather shoes at 100 cents, and ladies broken size button shoes valued 150 to 250 with selection at 100.
Small Wares and Hosiery Price List
A compact sale listing offers 5c papers Needles and pins, 5c per dozen Pearl buttons, 10c Hair Cur'ers with handles, 15c grade Ladies Linen Collars at 5c, 4c Turkey red floss per ball, 3c Best machine thread per spool, 5 packs hair pins for 5c, 25c for 6 pairs Ladies fast black hose and 25c for 6 pairs Children's or Misses black rib hose.
Bargain Textile Prices From Local Shop Ad
Retail and wholesale discounts offered on towels embroidery lace parchment and cloth items. Highlights include 8 huck towels at 10 cents each 20c yard Ritchings embroidery 5 yards for 10 cents Torchon Lace 12 yards for 12 cents shoe polish 1 cent sewing thread six balls for 5 cents oilcloth 15c per yard linen tablecloth 20c per yard black silk mitts 50 cents.
Millinery Sale Offers Hats at Low Prices
A millinery sale features ladies straw hats in colors black or white with prices from 35 to 65 cents. Entire lot choice at 10 cents each. Cloth brim and fancy straw crowes 49c quality, 15 cents per choice. Infant lace caps full embroidered sample line no two alike with 50c to 100 pricing and 20 cent choice. Ribbons large sets 10 15 and 20c grades, at 5 cents a yard.
Clothing lot sale offers pants and suits
One lot features good working pants sold at 75 cents a pair. The five and six dollar suits are offered at 2.50.
Vintage Clothing and Kidswear Prices from a Retail Ad
An old advertisement lists suits in multiple price tiers: 700 and 800 series at 400. 1000 series at 450. Children knee pants at 15c per pair. cashmere style suits for kids at 70c. dark suite for boys at 75c. Men’s outing shirts 15c, unlaundhed shirts 40c. Special note on relaunched shirts formerly 100 to 150 now 50 each.
Groceries appeal: buy sugar and tea bargains today
Advertised grocery sale offers include sugar at 14 pounds per 100, 18 pounds granulated sugar per 100, coffee and tea specials, soap in various pack sizes, pepper per pound, flavoring extracts, and a bulk deal of 100 cans of fruits, vegetables, and berries for 100.
Banks Still Breaking From East And West Tidings Of Failures
Major bank failures sweep across cities including Indianapolis Chicago and Curacao with P B Robison & Co Louisville Capital National bank and Columbian National bank all failing or suspending. Liabilities and asset gaps appear large while related papers and securities pass to receivers. Democratic troubles in Illinois loom as a death reduces quorum and delays legislation. Sheriff orders seizure noted in Robison case.
Battle at Durance Prompts Firefight During Maximillian Holiday
Five Mexicans were killed and a policeman died after drunken revelers clashed with police in Durance Mexico on May 12. Officers attempted to quell the mob and were fired upon, wounding two others before police killed five leaders and captured the rest.
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Durance
Mexico
Campania makes fastest eastward passage to Queenstown
The Cunard steamship Campania completed the New York to Queenstown voyage in 17 hours and minutes from Sandy Hook, the quickest eastward crossing yet. Passengers cheered on arrival as the crew celebrated the record. Also, a New River telegram reports three white men and two women found dead in river drifts after floods abated.
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Campania
Queenstown
Cunard Line
New York
Liverpool
Passa
Sandy Hook
Ricamonpd
New River Station
N. and W
Bluestone
New Rivers
Knights Templar Election Concludes Annual Meeting in Augusta
The Georgia Knights Templar annual session in Augusta elected officers including Baldwin of Macon as right canon or commander and Orr of Co commander, Fleming of Augusta grand captain general, Wood of Augusta grand prelate, Walton of Savannah grand warden, and others. The next meeting will be in Atlanta Rochester in May.
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Augusta
Avgusta
Knights Templar
Iy Baldwin
Macon
J. K. Orr
W. H. Fleming
St Atgata
Daniel
Ont
P. Pain
Record Run by New York Central Engine 999
Gresker Buffalo May 11 The New York Central engine 999 between Rochester and Buffalo made a mile in 33 seconds equal to 117 miles an hour in a test run noting the high speed achievement for the press.
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Gresker
Buffalo
New York Central
Rochester
Two Florida Men Want to Fight Referred to Seconds
Ocala, Florida May 12. Blood on editorial moon as Colonel Brumby of the Marion Free Press and Colonel Thomas W. Harris of The New Capitol are said to be ready to duel over disputed language. Seconds may intervene, but the tension centers on a fight between rival papers.
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Florida
Ocallas
Fla
Ocala
Louis J. Brumby
Marion
Harris
Brumby
Free Press
Constitution
Monticello
Seconds
A Well Digger’s Discovery Sparks Murder Probe
Ophika Alabama May 12 a well behind Gus Washington’s store on Tallapoosa Street yielded a newborn baby girl floating in water. The infant’s head shows gruesome injuries while the body remains partly decomposed prompting speculation of a murder plot and possible arrest.
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Ophika
Ala
Gus Washington
Tallapoosa Street
Ciy
Editor Moore Thinks on Local Appointments at Macon Evening News
Editor Hal Moore praises Sylvanus Morris of Athens as a qualified successor to Prof Charles Morris for the University chair. He argues for hometown appointments and notes Morris is an alumnus, strengthening his suitability for the Belles Lettres chair. The piece endorses local preference in appointments. Two headless bodies found in Kansas City linked to double murder probe. trunks discovered in a barrel on Blue River, with no identification. Authorities note dull hatchet or ax used.
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Hal Moore
Macon. Evening News
Sylvanus Morris
Athens
Charles Morris
Morris
Kansas City
Blue River
Lana
Austrian protest over expulsion of Polish landowner Roswadowski
Vienna reports the Austrian government formally protests Russian actions in expelling Roswadowski from Polish lands. The case involves Roswadowski under pressure to leave, with authorities citing boundary or ownership tensions. The note follows a broader pattern of Polish-Russian disputes affecting landowners.
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Vienna
Poland
Herr Rowwadowski
Roswadowski
Rev Sam Small to Speak in Athens on Bar Room Lecture
Several local gentlemen have invited Rev Sam Small to deliver his famous lecture From Bar room to Pa pit He has accepted and will address an Athens audience at the Y M C A or the Opera house late this month or early June with a likely crowded turnout expected by all.
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Sam Small
Pa'pit
Opera House
Small
Athens
Sdd Rees Ue
Death of Col B P Hollis in Americus Georgia
Hon Benjamin Hollis of Americus Georgia died today at 1 20 p m after a fall while trying on shoes. Physicians suspect a ruptured blood vessel in the brain. He was a leading Georgia lawyer, UGA trustee, educated in 1888 with Henry Grady in his class, and widely respected. He leaves a large family and long service to the Southwestern circuit and state supreme court.
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Ameriovus
B. P. Hollis
Hollis
Georgia
University of Georgia
Henry Grady
Americas
Southwestern
Supreme Court of
Col. Hollis
Davenport
Americus
Baptists in Convention Open Session in Nashville
Nashville hosts about 200 members from American Baptists Education Society and Southern Baptist Educational Conference. Dr. George Cooper gives opening prayer. Rev. Charles S. Gordon delivers welcome. Rothwell of William Jewell College responds. Southern Baptist Educational Conference officers re-elected. Dr. A J Emerson of Howard College presents on High Education in Texas. Dr H H Harris of Richmond College Virginia presents on Examinations and Regions.
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Nashville
American Baptists Education Society
Southern Baptist Educational Conference
George Cooper
Richmond
Charles S. Gordon
Rothwell
William Jewell College
Southern’ Baptist Educational’ Conference
A. J. Emerson
Howard College
Texas
H. H. Harris
Richmond College
Virginia
Southern Baptist session opens in Nashville promises benefit
The Southern Baptist convention in Nashville opened with expectations of interest and advantage. Next year the grand commandery of Knights Templar will meet in Atlanta. Wellington Nevins and Maggie Moore wed yesterday at Hamburg near Augusta. He is sixty. she fifty six. They once loved twenty years ago and separated after quarrels, reuniting days ago. Nevins had two marriages since, while Moore remained single.
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Southern Baptist Convention
Nashville
Knights Templar
Atlanta
Wellington Nevins
Maggie Moore
Hamburg
Augusta
Nevins
Mica Moore
Pants factory scheme urged for Athens by J B Toomer
A local advocate, Mr J B Toomer of a pants factory proposal, urges building a pants and undergarment plant in Athens. He pledges $1,500 stock and 30 sewing machines to start, arguing the venture would create jobs for idle workers and boost home demand, with profit flowing from increased trade and community prosperity.
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Athens
J. B. Toomer
Toomer
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