Senate keeps Price substitute for Alexander prohibition
In a late session the Senate adopted the Price substitute to the Alexander prohibition section, approving higher taxes on manufacturers and wholesalers and a ban on near beer sales outside incorporated towns. The measure, debated into the night, now returns to the House for concurrence with amendments. Senators voting for the Price plan included Burwell Blackwell Calhoun Conley Day Gordy Griffith Irwin Johnson Kemp Longies Maye Morris Mathews McLean McRowell McCurry Williams McCollum McClure Patterson Price Rutherford Stater Sellers Womble Wood. Those against included Akin Bowen Calloway Cates Harrell Jackson King Murray Perry Pitts Stevens Wardell. Multiple substitutes had been proposed, varying tax levels and restrictions. one aimed to block sales outside cities, others targeted alcohol content and sale locations. The result shifts toward stricter control of near beer and broader prohibition aims.
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Woman Injured by Automobile at Park Collision
Mrs Maude Seals twenty of Windsis street cashier at a park booth was knocked down by a car driven by Madison Pope a negro. Officer Mc Gil intervened to prevent a crowd attack on Pope as Seals waited at Grady hospital after the 3 PM incident at Ponce de Leon Park. Pope faced charges for speeding and violating road ordinances and bonded.
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Virginia Places Washington and Lee in Hall of Fame
Bronze statues of George Washington and Robert E. Lee were installed in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall as Virginia’s contributions to the national Hall of Fame. Lee’s statue sits between Robert Fulton and J. L. M. Curry, with nearby figures of James Shields and Philip Keany.
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Biennial Session Postponed As Senate Bill Moves
The 1909 10 assembly adjourned tonight after a grinding day to the next morning amid votes on biennial sessions and an unsuccessful attempt to create a state veterinarian office. Protests against McLendon suspension and questions on sanitation were discussed as efforts to pass key measures continued.
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Urge Samuel N. Evins to Run for Council
Friends of Samuel N Evans urge him to enter the race for city council from the Eighth ward. Evans, a member of the board of education and a young lawyer in Evins and Spence, is popular in Aildata and the Eighth ward. They foresee no opposition and press him to enter the political arena.
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Report on state sanitarium finds abuses and deaths from tuberculosis
A commission appointed by former Governor Smith sent its findings to the general assembly. The report condemns mistreatment of patients at the sanitarium, notes escapes of female patients, and condemns undertrained attendants. It records that one seventh of patients over five years died of tuberculosis and that most were infected there. Trustees deny findings beyond what funding allows.
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All Water Power Sought by Trust at Irrigation Congress
Spokane August 10 Clifiord Pinchot denounces a water power trust forming to own all power. He cites lobbyists at the Irrigation Congress and attacks centralized power concentrating control. W J McGee touts Rockefeller philanthropy and water value while urging resource conservation and tax relief for tree planting farmers near roads.
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Maryland Steel Co Runs All Departments Full Time
Baltimore Maryland August 0. For the first time in nearly two years all departments of the Maryland Steel Company are running full time six days a week. Orders for rails have been coming for several weeks and tonnage on the company's docks is the largest since 1907 with promising expansion.
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Death in Bad Branch Stream at Tallulah Camp
Manly Hazzard of Atlanta age 15 dies while bathing in Bad Branch near Tallulah. He and four companions camped near the farm above the lodge. Rescue efforts failed until two hours later when his body was recovered and transported home to Atlanta. His father and brother, in Florida, were notified and on their way home.
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Arthur H. Hazzard
Balatimore Place
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Lidford Hazzard
Arch Davis
Clarence Holliday
James Pritchard
Florida
Georgia Farmer Victim of Feud
Baxley, Ga August 3 A telegram reports the ambush killing of W A Belcher a well to do planter near his home. The feud motive ties to neighbors with B S Taylor named as the shooter after Belcher’s daughter rode with him. Taylor allegedly followed five miles before firing. No arrest reported.
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W. A. Belcher
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B.S. Taylor
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Negroes Raided by Posse of Whites in Douglas County
In Douglas Georgia on August 11 a posse of white men led by Deputy Sheriff Furney raided the southern part of the county. Two negroes were badly wounded and one later arrested a police member Clifford A Bartlett on a warrant charging assault with intent to murder. Nine negroes were captured and one wounded may die. The raid is said to involve gambling.
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Clifford A. Bartlett
Bibb Manufacturing Gathers Authority to Buy Mill Machinery
At an executive committee meeting in Columbus today Bibb Manufacturing Company authorized further purchases of machinery for its Columbus mill and for other mills in Macon Porterdale and nearby areas. President Gunby Jordan and Macon officers attended the session noted as important.
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Rampaging Elephants Terrorize Kansas Town
Slay Center Kansas August 10 two hours today residents were terrorized by eleven elephants that escaped from a show and roamed through the streets. The lead beast trumpeted and broke away from its keeper as ten others followed, injuring a showman who was knocked down and seriously hurt.
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Weather Prophecy Partly Cloudy With Showers
Partly cloudy in the south portion with local showers on Wednesday and Thursday. Heat to moderate, variable winds. Lowest temperature not specified. Highest temperature 87 degrees. Mean temperature and normals unclear. Rainfall in 24 hours noted at 2.49 inches, with excess since month start 6.23 inches. Additional figures appear garbled.
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