Congress to probes executive waste and cut costs
Speaker Champ Clark calls a Saturday conference of nine departmental committee chairmen to map a plan for a summer economy campaign. The group will review government expenditures to present full factual savings to the Democratic House in December as tariff revisions loom. The nine chairmen from Hamlin Cox Helm Hardy Ashbrook Graham Beall Moss and Rothermel will guide the inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ystem
Peaker
Champ Clark
Democratic House
Rand
Hamlin
Missouri
State Department
Cox
Indians
Treasury
Helm
Kentucky
War
Hardy
Texas
Navy
Ashbrook
Ohio
Post Office
Graham
Illinois
Interior
Beall
Texaos
Justice
Moss
Indiana
Agriculture
Rothermel
Pennsylvania
Commerce
Labor
Seaboard Shortens New York Schedule
Seaboard reduces its New York timetable effective April leaving Atlanta at 116 p.m. arriving Richmond 7 26 a.m. Washington 10 17 a.m. New York 54 p.m. The train features sleeping and reserved cars, electric lighting, and serves the new Pennsylvania HK station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty second Street. The New York City ticket office is at 88 Peachtree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaboard
New York
Atlanta
Richmond
Washington
Stee
New Pennsylvania
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-second Street
New York City
Peachtree
Lorimer Booed by New Hampshire Senate on Seat
Concord April 18 The New Hampshire senate adopted a resolution signaling the sentiment of the state that Senator Lorimer should not be allowed to retain his seat in the United States senate. Senator Gailinger stated the opinion as the body approved the measure amid the Lorimer controversy.
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Concord
N. H
New Hampshire Senate Today
Gailinger
People of
News Hampshire
Lorimer
United States Senate
To Jefferson and Hamilton Monument Bill Passed
The Senate passed a bill proposed by Senator Bacon to erect monuments in the District of Columbia honoring Thomas Jefferson at a cost of 100000 dollars and a equal monument for Alexander Hamilton. Senator Lodge urged the Hamilton memorial while Democrats agreed to fund it as a joint tribute.
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John Corrigum, Jr
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Senate
District of Columbia
Hamilton
Bacon
Jefferson
Lodge
Massachusetts
Alexander Hamilton
Senator Beacon
Baa
Hoar
Louisiana Purchase
Jim Crawley Convicted in Georgia Trial Verdict
In Zebulon Georgia special report the jury verdict finds Reginald Crawley and Stiles Mitchell not guilty and Jim Crawley guilty with a recommended imprisonment. The trial drew a large crowd as lawyers debated each facet of the case over several days.
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Reginald Crawley
Stiles Mitchell
Zebulon
Crawley
Defendssta
Jim Crawley
Ife
Tribble Pushes Popular Vote for U S Senators in Georgia Example
Representative Tribble of Georgia urges direct popular election of United States senators. He cites state legislatures and the Georgia example to argue that voters, not interests or corporations, should decide the nation’s senators. Tribble recalls 1880s Georgia remarks about corporate influence and notes public trust in governance.
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John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Tribble
Georgia
House
United States
Congress
Rucker
State of
General Assembly
California
Supreme Court of Georgia Judgments and Reversals List
A compilation of listed cases from various Georgia counties including Fitzgerald, Jasper, Morgan, Muscogee, Webster, Fulton, Cobb, Wilcox, Johnson, Habersham and others. Attorneys for plaintiffs in error, opposing counsels, and judges named Gale, Culpepper, Lewis, Gilbert, Whipple, Bert Hines, Orrin Morley and Moss, with multiple firm representations such as Daley & Chambers, Carson & McCutchen, Haygood & Cutts, and Johnson & Reeves appear. Some judgments are reversed while others are dismissed. specific outcomes include reversals of Cannon y Gorham and Southern Railway Company v Klog Brothers & Co, with various appearances before Judges Culpepper, Lewis, Gilbert, and others.
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Fitzgerald Siete
Fayolia _superior court
Rosa
Gibert
Carson & McCutchen
Tom Milfer
Columbus
Raiirosd Company
Y Asbell
Muscogee
Gilbert Freak
Garrard Geel
Neill Hatcher & Hatcher
William A Little AW Cozart
Johnson Y. Reeves
Webster
Mejobn
Gurr
JF Senter
J” B Hudson
Young + Ewing
Irein
Whipple McDonald
Quinesr Haygood & Cutts
Young L Kennedy
Otis H Elkins
Lovelass
Bridges
Fulton
Bert Hines Jordan
Naples, Wright & Cox
J M Wood
Carpenter
Cannon Y Gorham
Wilcox
Whipple
Cannon
J. G Cracford
BE. K. Wilcox
Edgar Watking
Hal Lawson
OH Willams
Contra
Southern Railway Company
Klog Brothers & Co Fram Fulton
Bell & Edgar A
Branen Case Continued In Perry Georgia
Houston superior court finished a four day session last week and three days this week. Criminal cases dominated the docket with arson trials, two for one defendant John Henry Cerswell, resulting in twelve year penitentiary sentences and other terms from one to six years. The Brannen murder case was continued to October due to missing key witnesses. Minor misdemeanor matters were sent to the city court for disposition.
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Perry Ga
Houston Auperior Court
Ctvil
John Henry Cerswell
Laiddle Brannen
Petition Filed for Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Macon
A charter petition for the Lincoln Memorial Hospital, the first hospital for negros in Macon, Georgia, has been filed. Officials expect the facility to be ready to admit patients within the next few months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Negro Hospital
Macon
Lincoln Memorial Hospital
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cures Spring Ailments, Claim
Mrs Marion Bruce of Cumberland Maine reports Hood’s Sarsaparilla restored her health after a winter of weakness and loss of appetite. She says the medicine revived her strength and energy for daily chores and renewed appetite. The ad promotes liquid form or chocolate tablets.
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Marion Bruce
Cumberland
Maine
Hood
Saraataba
Democrats Plan For Cheaper Food In Tariff Revision
Washington April 18 Democrats in the house, buoyed by a functioning legislative machine, plan to extend their tariff revision program. They will target the agricultural schedule to lower duties on essential food items while revising wool and cotton under the Payne Aldrich tariff. The tariff board cannot yet provide needed wool schedule data to the Ways and Means Committee.
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Washington
House
Underwood
Ways and Means
Democratic House of Representatives
Tariff Board
House Committee On Ways and Means
Tom Johnsons Obsequies Held at Greenwood Cemetery
New York April 13 solemn honors marked the funeral of Tom Johnson former mayor. The body was brought from Cleveland aboard the private car Livingston to the Twentieth Century Limited. Attending were Henry George Sr Lincoln Steffens William Bryan and others. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Harris R Cooley.
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New York
Tom Johnson
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Henry Beanat
Cleveland
Johnson
Livingston
Twenteth Century Limited
William Bryson
Henry George, Sr
Lincoln Steffens
Grand Central Station
Margaret Johnson
Leftin E H. Johnson
Hlisabeth Mariani
Margaret Mariani
Ohio
Harris R Cooley
William J, Bryan
C M. Sates
Trenton
Fish in Mill Ponds to Catch Mosquitoes
In Macon Georgia on April 13 the board of health urged mills to stock ponds with fish to curb springtime mosquitoes. Bible Mill No 2 Wil lingham and Manchester Mills within the city will place five hundred fish in each pond. Mills seek the best mosquito-eating species to stock the ponds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Board of Health
Bible Mill No. 2
Willingham
Manchester Mills
Pecan Grove Vandalism Strikes Fitzgerald
In Fitzgerald Georgia on April 13 special report notes vandal girdled twenty five ten year old paper shell pecan trees bearing in Mr Seanor's grove just outside city limits. Loss runs to several hundred dollars as last year value was about six hundred dollars per acre with seventeen trees per acre. Suspicion links the act to Mr Seanor’s actions against a city council member over illegal liquor suppression.
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Fitzgerald
Al_ derman J_B
Seanor
Lmits
Quit the State to Break Quorum in Tennessee
Nashville April 18 Republicans and 14 Democrats absented themselves to prevent action on liquor laws. Forty-two lawmakers remained away, leaving Decatur and Ala. Regulars and independents caucused to filibuster. Runaway reps defend their pledge to uphold prohibition and election laws amid charges of whisky influence. Senate backed the election bill 11 to 2 in a bitter debate.
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Nashville
Tenn
Decatur
Ale
Leach
Swan
Friends of
Senate
Houck
Newell Sanders
Hooper Houck
Davis
Auction on St Charles and adjacent streets Monday at 2 PM
An auction is scheduled Monday at 2 PM on St Charles Ave Greenwood Ave and Ponce de Leon Place. The notice lists the streets as locations for the event and sets the time for the sale.
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St. Charles Ave
Greenwood Ave
Ponce de Leon Place
Taft Opposes Arizona Judge Recall Resolution
President Taft writes Congress opposition to a proposed recall of Arizona judges. He notes that a resolution relieving him of assessing the Arizona constitution would amount to approving the recall. He adds he does not know his position if such a resolution reaches him.
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Taft
Arizona
Washington
Congressman Flood
Flood
Macon Seeks Ban on Interstate Trading in Futures
Representative Macon of Arkansas introduced a bill to outlaw interstate or foreign dealing in futures of agricultural products. The proposal would prohibit receipt, delivery, or transmission of messages via telegraph, telephone, or mail related to futures trading in crops and commodities.
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Washington
Macon
Arkansas
Norton to Be Tried Wednesday in Georgia Murder Case
Norton former Bibb county deputy sheriff will be tried for the murder of J. A. Smith, a Jones county planter, at Grays near Wednesday. He has engaged eight lawyers to defend him. Norton and a posse pursued a negro last fall and crossed into Jones county where the killing happened. Norton says he mistook Smith in darkness for the negro. The deceased was in his buggy. Norton escaped and only recently surrendered.
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Norton
Macon
Will Norton
Bibb County
J. A. Smith
Jones County
Grays
Smith
Central Surgeons Adjourn. Macon April 13 Convention adjourned
The Central of Georgia Railway Surgeons Association held its annual convention in Macon on April 13. Dr Mangham of Reynolds was reelected president and Dr Burdett of Tennille secretary. The 65 members represent counties along the Central. Paper presentations came from Mangham, Dean Dawson, Williams, Elliott, Britt, and Martin Clark.
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Central Surgeons
Macon
Central of Georgia Railway Surgeons Association
Mangham
Reynolds
J R Burdett
Tennille
Central
J BE Mangham
J G. Dean. Dawson
Howard J. Williams
W.H. Elliott
Savannah
W.H Britt
Hufaula
Ala
Martin Clark
Colum- 112
Trial of Cummins to be heard by June term court
William J. Cum ming former directing manager of the defunct Carnegie Trust Company faces trial for banking law violations. He was placed in involuntary bankruptcy yesterday and will be tried before the end of the June term. Cumming resides in Nash ville Tennessee.
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Cummins
New York
William J. Cumming
Carnegie Trust Company
Mr. Cumming
Nashville
Tenn
Black Dies From Beri-Beri in Charleston
Charles Blake, a Black man, dies after a beri-beri attack in Charleston. He was hospitalized three days, with unclear duration and how contracted the illness. Hammond pleads not guilty in a $1.5 million defamation suit against Jei J. Sully.
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Black
Beri-Beri- Charleston
D. C
Charles, Blake
Hammond
Washington
John Hays Hammond
Fascinating Marie Pavoy Leading Woman at Lyric
The Lyric season opens with Schiller players at home all summer led by Marie Pavoy as leading lady and Richard Thornton as leading man. Director Totten and cast bring Belasco’s The Girl at the Golden West starting the week of April 24 with reservations filling fast.
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Marie Pavoy
LYRIC
Schiller
Marie Pavry
Richard Thornton
Atlanta
Lesle Carter
Tallian Russell
Joseph Byroy Totten
Trotten
Belasco
More Baseball for Boys More Dancing for Girls
New York reports favor expanding city parks to open more ball-playing spaces and certain streets for baseball. It urges water sports development and city music for girls dancing, recommending purchase of two hurdy gurdy instruments with folk dance tones.
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New York
Bureau of T
New York City
Department of Parks
Gus Walker to Hang in Alabama Supreme Court Ruling
Gus Walker, a Nazi, convicted of criminal assault and murder in Mobile, Alabama, is set to be executed by hanging on June 2 following a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court announced today. The victim was Jesse Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gus Walker
Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
Alabama Supreme Court
Walker
Jesse Brown
Fire Sweeps Bagdad Mills Near Pensacola
A Heastraus fire swept a small mill complex four miles from Bagdad and Pensacola today, destroying five dry kilns and several sheds storing hundreds of thousands of feet of rough and finished lumber. The blaze threatened Stearns Culver Lumber Co valued at over a million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bagdad
Fla
Pensacola
Fie
Stearns-Culver Lumber Company
Lone Bandit Targets Santa Fe Train in Syracuse
An unknown man boarded a Santa Fe passenger train in Syracuse this morning armed and threatened conductor FOB Retirey and brakeman Leary. He robbed both men of a small sum, then tried to rob passengers. Reiley resisted and was shot in the shoulder twice. The bandit halted the train and jumped off.
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Syracuse
Santa Fe
Leary
Reiley
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New Hampshire
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Burnham
Macon Baracas
Macon Baraca Union
Tabernacle Baptist Church
R. E. Douglas
Tim Domingos
Macon Bible Conference
Macon. Ga
F W. Troy
W. Farr
Philadelphia
J C Snyder
J. A. Ansley, Jr
Ocilia
Knox
Muse‘s
Imperial
Beacon
Muse
Geo. Muse Clothing Co
Apapre
U. S
North Broad ST
Supreme Court OF GA
Carter + Gabrels
Habersham
Kimneey I. Hawards
He Sutton
Branen
Democrats
Henry George
Vichy
Tennessee
Ola
Beacon Shoes
London
Alec
F. M. Hoyt Shoe Go
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Manchester, N. H
Beacon Shoe Store
Peachtree St
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Lone Bandit
Southern Pacific Company
A. J. Dutcher
Peachtree Street
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