Georgia bills loom as session teeters toward adjournment
Three days remain in the session as lawmakers push to finish essential measures. A Bureau of Labor bill appears dead for the session while the dog tax persists after a hard fight to repeal it. House action targets a 25000 appropriation for a new building at the Georgia Technical Institute, with passage expected Monday before Senate review. Continued on Page Four.
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Cardinal Gibbons Warns Americans Against Extravagance
Cardinal Gibbons says Americans draw near the age of extravagance and worldly pleasure seen in Rome before its destruction. He cites rising wealth desires and luxury spending, warns of selfishness, and urges self denial and charity to avert societal decline. The interview occurred during his visit with Father James F. Hara in Southampton.
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James F . Hara
Southampton
Rome
Drake
Georgia Tax Digest Shows Large Increases Across Counties
Georgia tax values rise sharply with totals around 37.6 million dollars in the current digest. Projections indicate railroad property adds over 31 million more. increases across 11% of counties amount to 24.5 million thus far, with several counties yet to report. Only Clay and Lumpkin show declines.
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Richmond
Muscogee
Chattahoochee
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Laurens
Serevse
Washington
Sumter
Whitfield
Clay
Lumpkin
Harrison
Tip
Terrell
Vaudeville Offer Probed For Dr Crippen Suspect Miss Lenove
Quebec August. Belle Elmore murder case takes a commercial turn as Miss Lenove reportedly receives a New York manager offer of a weekly sum for vaudeville upon release. Both Crippen and Lenave face prison life. religious services will be held separately.
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Fentist
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Goon
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Cardinal Gibbons Praises Simple Living and Appetite
Cardinal Gibbons contrasts European peasants and wealthy Americans. He cites peasants content with simple foods and good digestion, remarking that some rich men lack these qualities. He tells a peasant and nobleman tale about hunting an appetite and concludes that nothing pays like good health.
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Rockefellar
Watson and Hardwick Clash in McDuffie County Address
Thomas E Watson was labeled mentally and morally unclean by Congressman Thomas W Hardwick as they heatedly debated politics before 90 to 1000 voters in Thomson. The speakers traded sharp personal invective over two hours in the courthouse square, with Hardwick alleging treachery and Watson defending his stance amid a tense crowd.
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Thomson
Thomas E Watson
Thomas W Hardwick
McDuffie
Hegas
Hardwick
Smith Gains Backing After Auditorium Speech
At Hoke Smith headquarters officials hailed Smith’s Friday night address as decisive for the state. A statement by H Y McCord predicts Smith will carry 130 counties. Fuller E Callaway of LaGrange visited, pledging Troup County for Smith. A rumor of a pension plan reversal was denied, and Mathews’s defection to Brown was addressed as a campaign issue.
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Womble Backs Smith for Governor After Tax Reform Claim
Senator W D Womble of the thirty fifth district endorses Hoke Smith for governor. He says he changed to Smith after legislative experience showed Smith defends the people against corporations. Womble cites the income tax amendment as a democracy test and accuses Brown of inaction. He asserts the Upson county region supports Smith and presents himself as representing widespread local opinion.
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Ffth
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Womble
Clark Howell
Brown
Upson County
Razor Attack Shocks Officer in Greenville Chase
At midnight in Greenville a Black suspect slashed Patrolman James Noe’s throat with a razor during a pursuit after arresting a Black woman for whisky. The officer, badly injured, was hospitalized with a chance of recovery as a posse hunts the attacker and the town braces for possible unrest.
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Megro
Prohibition Majority Reported in Dallas Primary
Official figures tabulated today show the prohibition and mission proposition in the general primary election on July 24 with a majority of nearly 10, 90 votes. The legislature will submit two prohibition amendments in January to the voters in 1911.
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Brown Leaders Sure of Victory for Governor Brown
Brown leaders vow Georgia will reelect Joseph M Brown as Fulton County signs 6901 ballot cards claiming an increased home county majority and statewide victory. At Kimball House meeting, Amos Braselton, Ed Leigh Wright, and J B Smith pledged relentless campaign work and defended Brown's record against Amith supporters while noting troops sent to keep order after the Walker County mine incident.
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Fulton County
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Kimball House
Joe Brown
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Cobb
Ed Leigh Wright
Amith
Hon &B T Williams
Wil H Mitchell
Thomasville
Georgia
Walker County
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Wiliams
J.B. Smith
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Dougherty- Ward-Little Company
Little
J Z .Smith
Br Smith
Bilitster Brown
Head
Labor Day Parade Aims at Record Attendance in Atlanta
Labor day officials report $2400 secured with more funds hoped to cover a longer more lavish parade. Jerome Jones has written Colonel Roosevelt inviting a speech, and plans promise national speakers, expanded music, and large union participation including Rome Lithonia and Farmeta unions. The federation floats and Buck range display are in progress with Walter Wood involved.
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Labor Day Finance
Atlanta Federation
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Theselil
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The
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J. B. Howitt
Micre Icommittes
Shertan
Georgia
Powell
Federation
Walter Wood
Bribe charge ties Choctaw chief to McMurray contracts
In Muskogee August reports show Senator Gore denying charges against Vice President Sherman and recounting statements by Hannon about bribes offered to influence Choctaw and Chickasaw leaders. Green McCurtain testified that George W Beckett offered a $26,000 bribe to withdraw opposition to the Lang contract dealings in 1906.
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Sherman
Senate
McMurray
Hannon
Hamon
George W Bectt
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