Augustans Fined by Judge Speer in Contempt Case
In Augusta Georgia Judge Speer fined Frank Barrett son of Mayor Barrett and Charles Reid 100 and 50 dollars for contempt in a Banks v Barrett and Doughty case. Both men to pay court costs amid a crowded courtroom and with their counsel thanking the court for leniency.
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Augusta
Speer
Frank Barrett
Thomas Barrett
Charles Reid
Barrett
Wallace Pierce
Banks
Leeda Fire Destroys Cement Town Business District
A major blaze in Leeda Alabama eight miles east of Birmingham leveled most of the town's cement manufacturing area. Whitmire & Sons, local general merchants, suffered the heaviest losses as total damages reach 27500 dollars with under 10000 dollars insured.
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Leeda
Ala
Birmingham
Als
Alabama
Whitmire & Sons
Col Scruges Trial Draws City Crowd
Judge A. E. Calhoun presided as Colonel W. L. Scruggs faced assault and battery charges from Fallis J. A. Speers. Scruggs and his lawyers argued defending home rights after a bailiff entered the Satters Peachtree Street residence, with ladies present, amid debate over the arrest warrant. The trial neared a conclusion late last night.
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W. L. Scruggs
Scrugge
Bar of Justice
Fallis J. A. Speers
Negro Butler
Satters Handsome
Peachtree Street
Scruggs
Perag
Charles T. Hopkins
Clonel
Calhoun
Seaboard Service Highlights New Schedule and Luxurious Cars
Eastern Service via Seaboard greatly improves with a shortened schedule. Leave Atlanta at 1 15 p m arrive Washington 10 17 a m. New York through service at 56 p m. Effective April 9 electric lighted steel sleeping and observation cars dining cars to New York vestibule coaches to Washington city ticket office 48 Peachtree.
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Seaboard
Atlanta
Washington
New York
Peachtree
Jealous husband accused in brutal divorce suit
Mrs Nettle Castles files for divorce from W. Castles alleging years of jealousy and violence starting in 1904. She describes being choked, struck against a mantelpiece, threatened with a razor, and stalked after separation, with a negro woman said to have intervened. She seeks injunction, permanent alimony, and total divorce.
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W. Castles
Elso
Belind
Commencement Exercises at Hospital Medical College
Hos pital Medical College held commencement at the Orpheum Theater with 26 graduates receiving diplomas. Speeches were given by Governor Joseph M Brown Col John D Humphries and Dr Finley Ellingwood. Diplomas issued by Joseph W Humphries president of the board. Thomas D Fussell won first prize D DeW Monerias second. Honor certificates awarded to both. Names listed for the Bradusting class include Roy M Armstrong J Willie Bertrem Charles Calhoun Carson James Felton Covington Fay B Cooper and others.
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Orpheum
Joseph M. Brown
John D. Humphries
Finley Ellingwood
Chicago
Joseph W. Humphries
Board of Trustees
Thomas D. Fussell
D. Dew. Monerias
Roy M. Armstrong
J. Willie Bertrem
Charles Calhoun Carson
James Felton Covington
Fay PB. Cooper
Walter Rudisill Chambliss
Walter Cleveland Chastain
W. J. Daptel
Emory S Deaver
Thomas Daniel Fussell
Robert D. Guerry
Andres Jackson Jones
Herbert E. Johnson
Lioyd Lewitt Lamb
Shelley Cleveland Moore
James W. Mal
Taft to Nominate Guild and Rockhill as Ambassadors
Washington April 2 President Taft will send to the senate tomorrow the nomination of former Governor Curtis Guild Jr of Massachusetts as ambassador to Russia and W W Rockhill as ambassador to Turkey. Rockhill is currently ambassador to Russia and will replace Oscar S Strauss who resigned months ago as head of the commerce and labor department.
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Taft
Senate
Curtis Guild, Jr
Massachusetts
Russia
W. W. Rackhill
Turkey
Rockhill
Guid
Mexico
Republic
Oscar 5S. Strauss
Department of Commerce and Labor
Roosevelt
Mr. Strauas
Repairing the Texas War Engine Committee Meeting Tonight
The committee on repairing the engine Texas led by Councilman Chambers will meet at Mrs. Warren White home 74 Dixie avenue tonight at 3 o clock. JL Collier foreman of the W and A yards, present to advise on repair work. Mrs White has spearheaded efforts to bring the historic engine to Atlanta and the group is praised for its work.
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Councilman Chambers
Warren White
Dixie Avenue
Grant Park
JL. Collier
W. & A. Yards
White
Atlanta
Noted Southerners Speak on Child Labor
The third annual meeting of the Southern Conference of Woman and Child Labor Congress convenes in Atlanta on Monday April 25 for a two day session. Notable speakers include ex Governor Malcolm R Patterson and Governor elect Hoke Smith with Mayor Courtland Winn to welcome. A committee report on eight hour law charges is printed for distribution. The Atlanta Federation discussed enforcing the fly screen law and elected NH Kirkpatrick as its delegate to the congress.
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Southern Conference of Woman and Child Labor Congress
Atlanta
Atlanta Federation of Trades
Malcolm R. Patterson
Tennessee
Clifford L. Anderson
Child Labor Committee
Seah Wright
Rome
Joseph M. Brown
Hoke Smith
Courtland
Winn
Henry F. Garrett
A. M. Copeland
Atlanta Builders’ Exchange
Congress
Atlanta City Federation of Women's Clubs
Atlanta Federation
W. Woods White
NH H. Kirkpatrick
Woman and Child Labor Congress
Problems Women Face In Home And Out Of It
An Atlanta woman advocates civic betterment by engaging all women readers through reading newspapers. She urges beyond social gossip to understand national and local events, Taft and Roosevelt visits, and school matters, stressing practical literacy for informed participation. The piece discusses women's roles, health, and cooking education, and notes Montgomery Alabama’s council support for civic lectures by Caroline Crane.
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Mrs. Westinghouse
Hue
Childdren
Taft
Hoosevelt
Chamber of Commerce
Montgomery
City Council of
Als
Woman's Club
Caroline Bartlett Crane
Montesomery
Legislature Expands State Election Board in Tennessee
Nashville April 12 The house approved a bill to enlarge the state board of elections, giving it control of election machinery. The 51 to 43 vote included all regular Democrats two independent Democrats and three Brownlow wing Republicans. The measure returns to the senate with strong expectation of passage despite a looming governor’s veto. Fusion forces previously controlled the machinery.
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Nashville
Tenn
House
State Board of Elections
Gorttro
Brownlow
Senate
Train to New York Express Leaves Atlanta for 24 Hours
A Southern Railway all steel electric lighted Pullman train No 988 departs Atlanta at 6:03 a m central time and arrives in New York at 12:01 noon eastern time. The consist includes drawing room sleeping car parlor car and dining car with observation library car.
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New York
Atlanta
Lily White Indorse Taft Administration in South Carolina
In Columbia on April 12 the lily white wing of South Carolina Republicans endorsed President Taft and pledged the state's eighteen delegates to his 1912 renomination. The meeting organized the faction begun last October and urged placing negroes in high office only from the North to avoid local irritation. The national party has not recognized the lily white faction.
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Columbia
Republican Party
South Carolina
Taft
National Republican Organization
Fall From Chair Leaves 17YearOld Mil dred Hayes Critical
In Anderson on April 12 Miss Mildred Hayes 17 daughter of Dr W Hayes master mechanic of the Blue Ridge railway fell across the back of a chair while arranging a window curtain. A post pierced her body. An operation was performed and her condition is critical tonight.
River Steamer Barrooms Under Police Jurisdiction
New Orleans April 12 Judge Frank D. Chretien ruled barrooms aboard river steamers fall under state police powers and owners are not immune from liquor laws. The decision, handed down in criminal district court, affirms admiralty jurisdiction over seas and navigable waters but places liquor traffic clearly within state police authority.
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Barrooma
Frank D. Chretein
William Rabt
Sessee
Chrietein
Admiraltty Court
Ordinary crab shell shows portrait of woman in New Orleans
A crab shell with a clean cut boat picture of a woman is on display in New Orleans at the fish and game commission rooms. The shell was sent by Oscar Angelo, a mite warden from La Fourche parish. The woman’s features are well formed with abundant black hair and resemble Marie Louise, wife of Napoleon.
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New Orleans
Fish and Name Commission
Oscar Angelo
la Trourche Parish
Marie Louise
Napoleon
Sole Survivor Pryor Remembered On Fort Sumter Firing
New York April 12 General Roger Atkinson Pryor marks the 50th anniversary of the Fort Sumter firing as the sole survivor of the actions. The Virginia native refused to fire at Fort Johnson before Beauregard’s ultimatum, later became a Confederate brigadier general and congressman, and long served in New York's legal circles.
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Fort Sumter
Roger Atkinson Pryor
Birike
Virginie
Shrewsbury
Pryor
Jana
Beauregerd
Robert Anderson
Aumter
Anderson
Heaurégard
Fort Johnson
Charleaton Bay
George
James
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Lincoln
Confederate Congress
Supreme Court
Lfe
Sibley About to Die Provokes Relent From Prosecutors
Franklin Pa April 12 David B McCalmont former chairman of the prohibition state committee and John E Q president of the Manufacturers Light and Heat Company petitioned court to discontinue the proceedings to compel an audit of the election expense account of former Congressman Joseph C Sibley due to the illness from which he is said not to recover.
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David B. McCalmont
Prohibition State Committee
John E. Q
Manufacturers’ Light and Heat Company
Joseph C. Sibley
Sibley
Rhodes Victim Of Rare Blastomycosis At 35
Philadelphia April 12 James M Rhodes Jr 35 a Princeton varsity guard and social figure died at his Villa Nova home from blastomycosis a rare malignant growth of the intestines. The illness followed a visit to the south and marks the nineteenth known case in medicine.
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Philadelphia
James M. Rhodes
Princeton University
Roobell
Villa Nevs
Here
Rhodes
NEW PISTOL FOR ARMY Colt 1911 chosen as standard after trials
The War Department adopted the calibre 45 Colt automatic pistol mod 1911 by Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg Co of Hartford Conn as the Army standard after exhaustive trials. Colt and one other made it through the final test of 6000 shots, with Colt superior in durability reliability and speed.
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War Department
Anna Manufacturing Company
Hartford
Conn
Colt
Ordnance Board
Army and Navy Journal
New York
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