Filipino Takes Taft as Father on World Tour
A Filipino named Montico, who served Taft as a boy and later follows him as a servant, will accompany Secretary Taft on his world tour starting August 18. Taft plans visits across the United States to Seattle, Manila, and Europe, traveling about 100000 miles in total.
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Taft
Wyster Bay
Roosevelt
Washington
Seattle
Manchuria
Philippines
Montico
Mr. Taft
Manila
Japan
China
Islands
Far East
trans-Siberian
Europe
United States
Georgia Horticultural Society Elects Officers at Augusta
The Georgia State Horticultural Society closed its annual session this afternoon after electing officers: President P J Berckmans of Augusta, secretary JB Wight of Cairo, treasurer L Berckmans, vice presidents M E K Jones J Stranahan R B K Path T Walker and Dr Nell McInnes. Cornelia named next year’s meeting place for the second week in August. P J Berckmans and Professor Hugh N Starnea were delegates to the National Nut Growers convention at Jamestown, late September.
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Georgia State Horticultural Society
Augusta
Georgia State Horticulture Society
P J Herckmans
JB. Wight
Cairo
Berckmans
M EK Jones
Stranahan
BK Path
T Walker
Nell] McInnes Cornelia
P J Berckmans
Hugh N Starnea
Nut Growers
Jamestown
Union Pacific Announces Dividend Rally in Warrenton Area
On August 22 a large rally and mass meeting is planned in Beall Springs nine miles south of Warrenton. Farmers Union and Confederate veterans will attend with other local citizens to hear Thomas E Watson speak on national legislation impacting farmers and American wealth production. Seaborn Wright is invited to attend. Catholic Abstinence Union reports the Roman Catholic order now has about one million members in over a thousand branches. a lecture bursary and temperance doctrine will spread through the United States.
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Union Pacific
Warrenton
Farmers Union
Confederate Veterans
Warran
Beall Springs
Tion
Thomas E Watson
America
Catholic Abstinence Union
Cleveland
Higher Education Gets $227,000 in State Appropriation
The appropriation bill increases funding for Georgia higher education for 1908-09 to about $227,000. Allocations include University of Georgia, School of Technology, Normal School at Milledgeville, Agricultural College at Dahlonega, Normal and Industrial School at Milledgeville, and Savannah Negro School with varying sums from state and federal funds.
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Villa
Georgia School of Technology
University
Normal School
Agricultural College
Dahlonega
Normal and Industrial School
Milledgeville
Tehat
University of Georgia
Franklin College
School of Technology
State Normal
Athena
Deltonega
Savannah
United States
Morrell
Landscrip
Ivy College
State Normal School
Athens
Technological School
Carnegie
Patterson Pardons 38 Convicts After Prison Visit
Governor Patterson visits the Tennessee state prison and announces 38 convicts will be pardoned without delay. Eighteen are under sixteen, fifteen suffer tuberculosis, and five are aged and infirm. He urges mercy and aims to help them regain honest lives amid a prison history of high death rates from consumption.
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Nashville
Tenn
Patterson
Atlanta Medical School Opens Doors to Women
The Atlanta School of Medicine will become coeducational starting the upcoming session. About a dozen or more women, including trained nurses from Atlanta and elsewhere, will begin studies to become physicians. The move aims to place Atlanta as the region’s only coed medical college and to nurture future women doctors in the southern medical field.
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Atlanta Medical School
Atlanta
Atlanta School of Medicine
Atlanta College
Avery
South
Replenish Your Underwear at CJD Reductions
Underwear sale highlights men's Japanese silk knee drawers at regular 2.00, all linen knee drawers at 1.50, light-weight nainsook shirt coats with knee drawers, long cambric night shirts, soft nainsook night shirts, negligee shirts with attached cuffs. Offers emphasize quality and long wear as August and September purchases lead to May storage.
Woman Kills for Gosling Pardoned By Roosevelt
A woman convicted six years ago in the Indian Territory for manslaughter over a gosling received a presidential pardon from Theodore Roosevelt. Nanty Miller was previously sent to pay a $500 fine and serve two years in a chain gang. She has spent about six years in prison and is the mother of six of her eight children.
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Washington
August
Presdent
Roosevelt
Nanty Miller
Kithre Alter Brake
Gosling
Ghin
Clothier and Larned Win at Boston Longwood
In Boston at the Longwood Cricket Club the eastern doubles feature ended with W. J. Clothier and W. A. Larned defeating BC. Wright and R. J. Wittle in five sets. The result helps determine who will meet Grant and Thornton the southern champions and Alexander and Hackett the western representatives at Bay Ridge.
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Boston
Longwood Cricket Club
W. J. Clothier
W. A. Larned
Wright
R. J. Wittle
Grant
Thornton
Alexander
Hackett
Bay Ridge
Bars May Seek Longer Hours in Atlanta and Macon
Liquor dealers in Atlanta consider asking city council for extended hours to operate from now until early next year to clear stock ahead of state prohibition. Macon already lengthened hours to midnight. Atlanta ordinances cap opening at 5 AM and close at 10 PM. Prohibitionists oppose any change and argue five months suffices to close out.
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Atlanta
Macon
Ty Council
Clty Ordnance
Lquor
Deserters Returned to German Consul over China Pact
Washington August 8 the German consul and Chinese consul dispute over twenty four Chinese deserters from the German tramp steamer Tolosan ends with the department of justice ruling the deserters should be surrendered to the German consul due to a treaty allowing arrest and return of deserters. The department says no inconsistency exists between the treaty and deportation law and directed the district attorney to comply. Also Macon saloons reopen till midnight after city council grant of petition.
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Flowery Kingdom
Washington
Atan Francisco
Tolosan
Department Ofusfice
Department
Germany
Manchuria
China
Asp
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Big Secretary
Little Brown Boy
Wan the Taft
Cornelia
Pen
Glate
Nancy Miller
Alice Brake
Clothier and Larned
Baphives
Maen
Hichtower Box & Tank Co
Humphries
Glenn Streets
Bell Phone
Mmit
Pittsburg
United Mine Workers of America
Pittburg Coal Company
Wood & Foster
Peachtree St
Seneca
S.c.nd
Southern Engraving Co
Atlanta,Ga
Fare & Factory
Atlanta Sa
Hagan
Pyoe
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