Automobiles End National Highway Tour in Atlanta Triumph
The Atlanta Journal and New York Herald conclude the good roads tour from New York to Atlanta with 36 official contestants and 28 finishing, 26 scoring perfect. Ty Cobb attended in a Chalmers Detroit, crowds greeted the tour at Decatur and along Peachtreet Street, trophies worth over 1700 dollars await winners Thursday, and the event proves national highway touring potential.
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Atlanta Journal-New York Herald
New York
Atlanta
Decatur
Ty Cobb
Chalmers-Detroit
Journal
the Herald
Atlanta Journal
New York Herald
Gate City
Federal Court Adjourns After Illicit Distilling Trial
Federal Court closed for the day after a session largely devoted to the illicit distilling case. Court officials hope for soon expansion of court rooms due to current space being utterly inadequate.
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Federal Court
Elks Initiation Ceremony At Local Lodge
Wednesday night the Elks ball featured an initiation where three Madison candidates endured the feature goat before admission. After the rite, a social gathering followed at the Athens lodge of B. P. O. E. The lodge reports strong prosperity and steady membership growth with new members joining regularly.
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ELKS
Madison
Athens Lodge
Farmers 10 Plant Big Grain Crop In Bias Heavy Year
Macon Georgia report on the Farmers Union convention. President J L LeSage and county presidents plan missionary work to promote planting small grain across the state. Home mixing of fertilizers featured as key. former president R F Duckworth receives thanks, a gold headed cane and gold watch chain for negotiating loans on cotton.
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Macon
Farmers’ Union
J. L. le Sa
R. F P. Duckworth
Spinners Seek Cotton Substitute in Linters Trade
In Atlanta on November 4 the cotton shortage and rising prices push spinners to seek linters from cottonseed as a substitute. Georgia plans to ship 75,000 bales of 600 pounds abroad for spinning while buyers visit oil mills and linters dealers. Solomon Bros. & Co. of New York and other houses monitor imports for mills and by products. Linters, spun into apparent silk and used for various fabrics, felts, mattresses, and padding, grow in importance in the South’s cotton economy.
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South
Talls
Linters
Georgia
Harry R. Solomon
Solomon Bros. & Co
New York
Iimover
Germany
Hamburg
Lille
France
Iimport
Farmers to Establish Big Southern Bank in Georgia
Nov. 4 Macon Georgia reports rumors of a new Farmers Southern Banking Company to be based in Atlanta. The multi million capital bank would clear farmer loans on cotton and work with the consolidated warehouse plan as part of a state loan system. A $3,600,000 loan already secured will be supplemented by more funds in the future.
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Southern Banking Institution
Georgia
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of
Aemaica
Atlanta
Farmers’ Southern Banking Company
R. P. Duckworth
Consolidated Warehouse
Plana
Tennessee Banking Association
Bank of
G. A
Taft Receives Ovation in Savannah Georgia
President Taft was greeted with a royal ovation in Savannah on November 4 as the presidential party arrived and a formal reception followed at the DeSoto. Governor Brown delivered a speech praising Georgia’s vast resources and its people’s odyssey of law, democracy, and community.
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Taft
DeSoto
Georgia
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Grand River
Atlantic Ocean
Texas
Commonwealth
Cowpens
Camden
King’s Mountain
Washington
Yorktown
Jefferson
Meri
Geor
Maryland Defeats Disfranchisement Bill in State Vote
Maryland results show the proposed constitutional amendment to disfranchise Black voters defeated by 16 155 with many precincts still reporting. Hering, Democrat, won state comptroller by 9 076. Urner, Republican, carried the sixth judicial district. In Baltimore Hugh Duffy defeated Lehmer for judge. Republicans won sheriff and surveyor seats. Legislature likely 90 Democrats to 38 Republicans. Harrisburg voted wet on liquor.
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Hering
Urner
Hugh Duffy
Lehmeyer
Hagerstown
Judge Putney’s Gift Funds Albany Hospital Project
Albany Ga Nov 4 Judge B H Putney donates 25000 dollars to Albany Hospital proposal adopted by Albany Hospital Association. The gift completes plans to convert the house and lot into a modern hospital to be named Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. He previously gave 5000 dollars to the Y M C A building fund in memory of his mother.
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Albany
BH. F. Putney
Albany Hospital Association
Judge Putney
Phoebe Putney
Branch banks barred in Georgia in attorney general opinion
Atlanta November 4 1909 Georgia law bars branch banks says Attorney General Hart in ruling to State Treasurer Brown. He states no law authorizes branch banks or offices in towns other than principal office and that banks must have at least 15000 capital stock. Separate banks cannot operate as branches with different names and directors. The decision warns against wildcat banking and outlines legal risk to officers.
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Georgia
Hart
Brown
J. Pope Brown
Tennessee
State Bank
State Capitol
LT Imow
Ita
Bank of A
Bank of 1
Bank of C
Bank of D
Publc
Tennessee Bank
Black man slashed at Newtown church gathering
Last night at a Black church in Newtown settlement a fight broke out when Grant Johnson slashed John Boyd with a knife after a clash. Boyd received a deep facial wound but is not reported to have suffered life threatening harm. Johnson remains at large as police hunt him.
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Firant Johnson
John Boyd
Newtown
Grant Johnson
Grant
Johnson
Boyd
Massachusetts Tariff Debate Dims Republicans Brightens Democratic Hopes
In the Massachusetts vote the Republican majority fell from sixty thousand to eight thousand, signaling statewide tariff discontent and boosting Democratic hopes for the next Congress. Elsewhere editorial notes criticize speculative bank schemes as unsafe, urging guaranteed deposits and prudent state banking oversight. The text also mentions Harvard and a Thomas W. Lawson connection.
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Washington
Massachusetts
Congress
Peruna praised by Missouri reader for relief from catarrh
A Missouri reader from Kansas City describes long battles with internal catarrh and neuralgia saying Peruna relieved her symptoms after years of struggle. A Tennessee note from Hickory Point reports stomach trouble cured after trying Peruna and praises Man-a-Lin as an ideal laxative.
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Sagerser
Woodland Ave
Kansas City
la Grippe
Mia
Fredh
Tenn
Athens Plans City Athletic Club for Winter Fitness
Athens forms a city athletic club organized by Mesars G M Colby as physical director Cliff Hatcher as salutant director Dan McDougal handles finances. Largely Georgia students, the club will offer boxing wrestling and conditioning with equipment including clubs dumbbells mats and punching bag at 198 Clayton Street.
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Mesars
G.M. Colby
Cliff Hatcher
Dan McDougal
Thelub
Mtty
Georgia
Clayton Street
Addiiion
Colby
Chicago Athletic Club
What Does Your Composition Cost You
An ad from Banner Job Office promotes cheaper typesetting with improved facilities. It claims they can handle 200 000 extra compositions per week and invites readers to compare costs, offering to take on all work if given a weekly volume, located at 151 Lumpkin St Athens Ga.
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Athens, Oa
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