Seaboard Air Line plans 486 mile mileage expansion
Baltimore August 9 Special The Seaboard Air Line directors approve a comprehensive financial plan led by Chairman S Davies Warfield to consolidate with the Carolina Atlantic and Western railway creating a larger system. A new mortgage will issue up to 400 million dollars in bonds, funds used to extend 35 miles Charleston to Savannah and add two main lines, improving traffic flow and enabling growth across South Carolina and Georgia with new terminals at Charleston and Savannah.
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Sempoara Air Line Railway
S. Davies Warfield
Itta
Ital Securities
Seaboard
Treasury
Iteatora
Davies Warfield
Warfleld
Fiane
Seaboard Air Line
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Railway
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
Carolina
Atlantic and Western Railway
North
South Carolina
Charleston Northern
South Carolina Western
Carolina, Attle and Western Railway
Georgetown
Lanes
Andrews
Peebee River
Charleston Northern Railway
North and South Carolina
Charleston
Savannah
Hamlet
N. C
Columbia
Hamlet-Columbia
5. C
McBee
3. C
Florence
Foston
Sumter
Timmonsville
Senate Committee Aids State Colleges In Appropriations
Senate committee backs increased funding for Georgia schools and state institutions in the appropriations bill, boosting funds for the State Public Schools to 2.6 million and approving 100000 for Georgia Tech and 60000 for the University of Georgia. Other increases include 40000 for the Soldiers Home and 40000 for the military department, with adjustments to tuberculosis sanitarium and normal school budgets as reported from committee action.
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Senate
House
Georgia School of Technology
State University
Athens
Soldiers Home
Alto
State Normal School
George Fitch Dies After Appendicitis Operation
George Fitch author of Peoria Illinois died in a Berkeley sanatorium after an appendicitis operation. He was visiting his sister Louise Fitch at the University of California and had come west with Mrs Fitch. Funeral services will be held here Friday before his body is sent to Peoria for burial. Fitch was born in Galva Illinois in 1877 and later worked in newspapers and politics.
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Berkeley
Cal
George Fitch
Peoria
Til
Witch
Mies
Louise Fitch
University of California
Fitch
California
Peorta
August George Heloggen Fitch
Galva
Knox College
Illinois
One Year For Killing Would-Be Stepfather Verdict
Griffin Ga August 9 Judge H A Mathews presiding sentenced For rest McKneeley to twelve months at Milledgeville state prison farm for the killing of W H Swann on courthouse steps May 25. Verdict of voluntary manslaughter directed. Swann shot after obtaining a marriage license to wed McKneeley’s widowed mother. Proceedings included witnesses Mrs McKneeley and a younger brother. Burglary trial of hardware store suspects followed.
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Griffin
H. A. Mathews
Macon
Spalding Superior Court
W. E. H. Searcy
Forrest McKneeley
Milledgeville
W. H. Swann
Swann
McKneeley
Passeraby
Curtin Smoot
W. T. Jones
W. H. Connor
Mathews
Searcy
Going Over the House
We near the season to review the home with a critical eye. Furniture repair may be needed and new curtains or perhaps a bus purchase considered. Judicious buying helps satisfaction and purse, aided by The Constitution advertising columns for guidance.
Teutonic pincers close on Russian armies on fronts
British and French forces press on Hooge and along a 1 209 yard front as German drives in the east mount with Warsaw and Praga in focus. Berlin says few prisoners taken at Warsaw while Archduke Joseph Ferdinand reports eight thousand captured. Pole attitude to German rule draws interest amid rising occupation.
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John French
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Praga
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Petrograd
Moscow
Narew
Vistula
Rusalang
Wreat
Kovno
Lomza
Joseph Ferdinand
Vienna
Russia
Germany
Austria
Hooge
Big John French
Americas Agree On Plan To Pacify Mexico
Washington reports Pan American talks near ratification in New York with a definite plan to restore constitutional government in Mexico. Secretary Lansing optimistic, noting united stances by United States and South American states on suppressing unrest and inviting a provisional government formation. Concerns arise over Carranza’s expulsion of diplomats and potential armed intervention, while McAdoo denies financing plans for a new Mexican government.
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New York
Lansing
United States
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Bolivia
Guatemala
Uruguay
Mexico
Huerta
Preal- Gexit Whlaon
al Elemente
Becaue F
Wilson
Carreira
Vera Cruz
New Orleans
Ortexe. Co. A. Douglas
Carranza
Cardosa
Carants
Mexico City
Lansingsala
B. Parker
M’adoo
William G. iMcAdoo
The
Treasury
Financial
Robert Lansing
McAdoo
Republic
State Department
McAdool
W. P. G Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Tom Swift Weds Nancy Reed After Honeymoon Plan
Tom Swift, son of Mrs Lena Huntley, wed Nancy Reed of Avery Drive on a Saturday night and left for a New York honeymoon. The ceremony was performed by Rev S W Reid at Whitehall Street with a witness pair. Swift’s previous marriage to Jacques Bradley in 1905 remains noted in local memories. The couple plan to return to Atlanta after their trip.
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Tom Swift
Lena 5
Iuntley
Villa Musical Comedy Company
Nancy Reed
Mra M. Reed
Avery Drive
New York
Reedl
Reed
Swift
Miss Reed
8. W. Reid
Whitehall Street
New York City
Minter
Hall
Milton Reed
St. Louis
Huntley
Constitution
S. W. Reid
Associate “Reformed ' Presbyterian Church
Whitehall
Reel
Atlanta
Tom Birks
Columbus
Jacques Bradley
Washington, D. C
Jacobes Bradley
Cagino
Ponce de Leon
Evenight
Wills
Esinc
Miss Bradley
Washington
Georgia
Wills Musical Comedy Company
Fom Swift
Weather Prophecy Thunder Showers and Family Legal Strife
A fragmentary historical note describes a weather prophecy of thunder showers alongside a complex tale of love, divorce, custody, and a contested baby. It mentions Ola Love Dien, Jacques Bradley Swift, and Mrs Huntley involved in custody moves, a Washington home, and a cash offer. The text also records a local weather report with temperatures and rainfall and political maneuvering over anti parallel ruling and an anticipated extra legislative session.
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Ola
Jacques Bradley Swift
Washington
Irandmother
Encuiree Road
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