New Laws Add to Revenue for Alabama
Revenue figures from Alabama reveal higher intake in the first quarter of 1906 than the entire previous year. State insurance receipts totaled 182,487.08 for the quarter, with rates from five companies between one and one and a half percent and others from one to two percent. Remaining details cover licenses, agents, and miscellaneous premiums while the fifteen months ending March 31 total 800,213.96. The report also notes agricultural news, farmer conditions, and education efforts, with crops promising though cotton yet to be planted and greater fertilizer use.
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Montgomery
Ala
Towa
Insurance Department of
Fife
Hmru
Mutual Aid
Wishingon
Tha Farmers Union
State Department
Geneva
Houston
Leary
Wilkinson
Wall
Abbeville
Teddy Hausmann Prepares Cross Continent Journey Delay
Teddy Hausmann faces travel postponements as he plans a cross continental trip from Aviantic to Pacific destinations. Delays push him to adjust schedule and begin in Atlanta with a premature stop before continuing. The exact start date remains undecided, tentatively Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Teddy Hausmann
Ravennab
Apel
Univax
Hausmann
Aviantic
Ue Pacific
Atlanta
Auiada
Unclear April Rat Plot Targets Savannah Areas
An attempted rat manipulation plot in Mavanneh is described as a fiasco. The plan involved late night actions at special midnight events and secrecy kept from newspaper reporters. Several trusted officers were implicated in the secret maneuver.
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Savannah
Mavanneh
Rata
Remembered Douglasville lynching and the bridge mob
An Atlanta journalist recalls the 1889 Douglasville lynching of a Black man accused of assault. The mob gathered by the Georgia Pacific bridge, forced the prisoner to climb, and hanged him as reporters watched and wired in details of the event. The narrative details fear, legal peril, and the mob’s orchestration of the crime.
Wagon Load of Goods Found in Macon Police Raid
Brown House Macon April 5 Special City Detectives Tom Jonea and Bill Smith closed in on three suspects after weeks of work to solve multiple house thefts. Robert Bigham Ralph Taylor and Mattie Taylor arrested with large quantities of house furniture clothing and personal items. Pawn tickets found. Police say it was a long running operation. Shriners Plan Circus In Macon April 6 Local Shriners finalize plans for Bun Brothers circus with prominent community members participating in show roles promising local interest. Two steamers W E B Mall and Chappell to serve Macon and Brunswick Navigation Co. officers plan to expand business. Endowment Drive Mercer University Macon April 5 Special Ident Jameson pushing $800 000 endowment funding with statewide response under way.
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Brown House
Macon
City
Tom Jonea
Bill Smith
Threse Gross
Robert Bigham
Ralph Taylor
Mattie Taylor
Beldom
Ae Fant
Shriners Haking
Shriners
Bun Brothers’ Circus
Prang
W. EB. Mall
Gemulgee
Mall
Chappell
Macon and
Brunswick Navigation Company
Offtcars
Jameson
Mercer
Haa
Williams at Savannah on Georgia and Florida line
Ex president John Skelton Williams and a party of capitalists visit Savannah in private car Rover to inspect the Georgia and Florida railway from Augusta to Nashville. Williams advocates territory ownership of stock to stop conflicts and return profits locally, noting the Central and Trinola Central connection will channel traffic to Savannah via the sea.
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Georgia
Florida
Savannah
John Skelton Willams
Seaboard Air Line
John Gill
Baltimore
Mercantle Trust Company
Clarence Jones
New York Stock Exchnge
Willams
Rover
South le
New Georgia and Florida
Augusta
Nashville
Georgia and Florida Railway
Harriman
Central
Trinola
Birmingham
Lamented lynching tale linked to East Point and Kant Point
The speaker recounts brutal lynchings including a rope hanging at a tree near East Point and a boy of 18 tied to a white girl’s death at Kant Point. He describes mobs, militia, and attempts to arrest suspects, noting his own legal peril and a contempt jail stint in Fulton County while a political fight unfolded.
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Dugivs County
Douglasville
Shotgune
Carrollton
Carrolion
DeKalb County
Virginia
Eant Pains
Kant Point
Atlanta
Fulton County
William Fleming
Richmond County
State
Lextalatute
Alomarine
East Point
Fleming
S DELIGHTED BY RECEPTION
Savannah April 5 Special secretary Oscar Straus accompanied by Mr Btreun and their daughter Mrs Heacstadter left Savannah tonight at 8 over the Central of Georgia for Columbia. This morning Straus was guest of Commander Rodman aboard the Nehthauss tender Wistarie. The ship went up stream and returned in the afternoon Luncheon aboard. Straus expressed delight at the southern reception and spoke of his Georgia home coming. He declined an invitation to visit Charleston.
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Savannah
Oscar
Straus
Btreun
Heacstadter
Central of Georgia
Columbia
Talbottom
Strausch
Rodman
Nehthauss
Wistarie
South
Georgia
Charleston
The Return of James O Neill in New York Theatre
The article notes James O Neill rejoining classic drama with an I talnlex production at the Lyric in New York on September 18 and promises his Virginine Monte Cristo and Happiland as forthcoming Grand Theatre attractions along with other acts at the Orpheum and nearby venues.
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James Onan Bes
Edwin Forrest
Edwin Broth
Barry Kullyvan
Charlotte Cushman
Adelaide Nellan
I. Atnlux
Lyric Theater
New York
O Neill
Theleritiriama
Secretary Oscar Straus and His Notable Career
Secretary Oscar Straus of the Department of Commerce and Labor travels in Georgia to meet Savannah and Columbia commercial bodies. A Washington social leader, he and Mrs. Straus host a high profile circle at their capital home, dating to his diplomatic service and extensive writings on history and international law.
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Washington
Oscar 8. Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Georgia
Savannah
Columbia
Washington House of the Straits
David B Henderson
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Newa
Straua
Strats
Turkey
Talbotton
Columbus
Columbia Grammar School
Columbia Law College
New York
Diplocorps
Pra Roosevelt
Permanent Court of Arbitration
the Hague
Harrison
New York Board of Trade
National Civic Federation
International Law Association of America
American Social Science Association
New York City
Sir Straus
Rad Imbor
Duke of Amuzzi Visits Quirinal in Rome
The Duke of Amuzzi arrived in Rome and went to the Quirinal Palace where he was warmly greeted by the royal family. He held a long conference with the King, though the outcome remains unreported. Newspapers publish a photo of Miss Elkins.
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Quirinal
Rome
Wquirinal
Miss Elkins
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