City Officials May Vote On Popular Election Ballot
Alderman Curtis pushes a local measure letting voters decide by ballot if city officers should be elected by popular vote. The resolution, adopted by the executive committee, will appear on the upcoming primary ballot with two lines: For Popular vote to elect and Against popular vote to elect. The questions are advisory to Atlanta council and Fulton lawmakers.
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Curtis
Lee Curtis
Recorder
Joyner
Atlanta
Fulton County
Georgia
Plan to Rehabilitate Cuba With Huge Road Program
Plans for vast improvements in Cuba during the occupation aim to restore the republic. The provisional government will initiate road building and other works costing about 18 million dollars, with 4.5 million already appropriated this fiscal year. The plan anticipates transferring control to the re established government upon completion. In Georgia, a warehouse burned near Macon, destroying forty carloads of city ready for shipment. loss about 15,000 dollars, insured.
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Hana
Havana
Macon
Weat Pool
Zach Hagedorn
Atlanta Mining and Clay Company
St .Dry Branch
Hagedim
Warsheuer
Florida prisoners freed after bond with friend’s plea
Mrs Narcissa Reynolds and Cornelia Rake, both serving vagrancy sentences in the county chain gang, were pardoned by the governor and released to Florida clubwomen. Cornelia refused to leave her elder companion, saying I shall not leave her, and both women were brought from the prison farm to the city warden’s office before parole. The case drew wide attention as charity groups pressed for clemency and a future separation of the pair for work and care.
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Irwa Dooly
Narcissa Reynolds
Cornelia Rake
Byan
Selfs
Atlante
Club Women
Florida
Conq Vict
Louewise
Jones
Convier
Birmingham
Vana
Evans
Federation of Clubs
Atlante Two Monts
Logan
Associated Charities
The
Recorder
Convict Farm
Florida Club
Meets With Strange Death in Two Cities
New York August 2 George W Webner of the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company died in Mineola L I after an electric shock from a cloth coated measuring device dropped by an assistant. Steubenville G August 2 Edward L Perwar city ticket agent for twenty years killed himself, severing an artery under the knee due to a carbuncle and hopeless illness.
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New York
George W. Webner
New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company
Mineola
L. I
Edward L. Perwar
Steubenville, G
Cleveland and
Pittsburg
Perwar
Contest 1 in Dougt Mississippi Sees Narrow Lead
The latest results from Dougt Mississippi show a small margin in favor of Vardaman over Williams. Vardaman retains the slim lead as votes continue to be tallied.
Mississippi Senate Vote tally shows close contest
Early returns from 64 Mississippi counties show Senator Williams trailing by about 3 000 votes though he claims victory from all counties. Vardaman leads Williams by roughly 1 000 to 6 000 in unofficial counts with governors race tight among Brewer Noel Scott. Returns to complete late tonight to decide the next U S senator.
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Miss
Williams
Williame
Mr. Williams
Vardeman
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
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Vardaman
Williama
Brewer
Noel
Scott
Wee Bigson
W. ~ Truly
A . Thomas
Migs
Willams
Misa
John Sharp Willams
House of Representatives
United States
Jaz. K. Fardaman
Vardamen
Orce
Ipty
Govlernor Vardaman
Three Die in Chinatown Shootout by New York Hip Sing Tong
Boston reports a Chinatown alley confrontation where Hip Sing Tong members from New York shot at local Chinamen. Three were killed, seven injured, two men arrested for manslaughter, and police detained several other suspects as gunfire echoed in Oxford Place.
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Boston
On Long Tong Society
New York
Hip Sing Tong
Chinatown
Wong Sujung
Chin Let
South End
Chin Mon Quin
Lee Kai
Shang Gu
Jong Gon
Twe Hip Sing
Iman
Nim Sing
South Station
Hong Woon
Oxford Place
Philadelphia
Southern Railway license revoked in Alabama over act violation
Alabama records show Secretary of State Frank N Julian cancelled the Southern Railway license to do business, citing a March 1907 senate act and July 1 operative date. The action, tied to removal of a case to federal court, leaves unresolved questions about state federal conflict and potential renewal steps with capital stock payments required for relicense.
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Montgomery
Ala
Southern Railway
Alabama
Frank N Julian
Secretary of State
United States Court of the Fifth Circuit
Thomas G Jones
Middle Alabama
Talladega County
J.D McNeet
Julian
Comer
Senate
United States
Thomas G. Jones
Southern
Licenae
Quest Started for the Owner of the Central
A newspaper note reports a quest or inquiry concerning the owner connected to a central property or entity. Details are limited within the readable segment. No dates or specific names are provided in the text.
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Quest
the Central
House 10 Be Asked to Act Immediately on Property Probe
A House railroad committee unanimously approved a resolution by Mr Tiardeman to probe ownership of the Central of Georgia railway by the Southern or any other party in possible conflict with the state constitution. The measure urges swift action, with a plan to appoint a three member committee within sixty days to investigate alleged holdings. The move follows a newspaper editorial questioning legislative participation in the matter.
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House Committee On Railroads
Tiardeman
Jefferson
Central of Georgia Railroad
Southern
Mr Deen of
Flood
Coveington
Hardeman
Neel
Bartow
Pebin Andlexander
DeKalb
General Assembly
Central of Georgia Railway
Southern Railway
Southern Railroad
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