Bourne zone scheme adopted by the Senate
The Senate approved the Bourne zone plan for a universal parcels post, setting eight distance zones and rates from 5 to 12 cents per pound with an 11 pound weight limit. Amendments to cut rates were defeated, and the measure heads to conference with House negotiations on labor and postal provisions.
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John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Senate
United States
Hoks Smith
Post Office Committee
Senator Smith
Mall Sara
Department
House
Congress
Bourne-Bristow
Georgia Legislature Nears Final Acts in 1912 Session
The Georgia General Assembly is expected to adjourn this afternoon after a 1912 session marked by cautious politics and rapid lawmaking. Leaders highlight ten general bills and many local measures approved, with key actions on justice court abolition for counties over 20,000, insurance and banking departments, and a Johnson farm tax relief bill.
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General Assembly of Georgia
House
Senate
John N. Holder
Brown
Otter
Georgia
Savannah
Georgia Ban Association
Atlanta
San Francisco
Insurance
Gower
Crisp
Ways and Means
Johnson
Captain W F Manley Dies Former Atlanta Police Chief
Captain W F Manley ex chief of police of Atlanta and longtime officer dies at Grady hospital after long illness and nervous breakdown. He served 35 years on the force, led the department as chief from 1897 to 1901, later worked as wagoner and pensioned officer. Survived by wife and one son. Body forwarded to Greenberg Bond chapel for funeral plans.
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W. F. Manley
Atlanta
Grady Hospital
Manley
Atlanta Police Dpartment
Greenberg Bond
Home of Joe Brown Becomes Girls High School Site
The old home of wartime Georgia governor Joe Brown on Washington Street at Woodward Avenue is being dismantled to make way for the Girls' Commercial high school to be built this fall at an estimated cost of 100000 dollars. The two story stucco house, once a showplace, was built by Sidney Root and later owned by Brown after Atlanta’s state capital moved from Milledgeville. The property includes extensive hardwood finishes and a notable stair railing. Flournoy and Denton bought the building from the city for 200.50.
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Joe Brown
Washington Street
Woodward Avenue
Georgia
Commercial High School
Old Brown
Eity
Sidney Root
Atlanta
Mr. Rot
Europe
Davis
Major Root
Beckworth
Milledgeville
Brown
Mr. Root
Washington
Pulliam
Rawson Street
Julius Brown
Governor Brown
Flournoy & Denton
Frato
B. Price
Joseph M. Brown
Daily Account of Fees Flourish in Statehouse Reform
The house adopted senate bill No. 88 requiring statehouse officers on the fee system to keep a daily cash book and file sworn fee statements with the comptroller. Debates over the bill included a push for an investigation of the secretary of state and comptroller general, while other action blocked a burnishment regulation bill and advanced amendments to form a Georgia insurance commission with a ten percent commission cap and anti discrimination provisions. The session featured sharp exchanges over the health board inquiry initiated by Dr. Westmoreland and Representatives Brown and Vinson, with claims of a lobby opposing the probe.
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House
Senate
Statehouse
Secretary of State
Georgia
Justice of the Peace
Westmoreland
State Board of Health
Harris
Health Board
George Brown
Carl Vinson
Baldwin
Joé Hil Hall
Bibb
Dr. Brown
Blackshear
Richmond
Whisky Rum and Cigarettes Popular in United States
United States production of whisky and rum and cigarette use surged in fiscal 1913 per Royal E Cabell commissioner of internal revenue. Whisky and rum stored nationwide reached a record 263,786,070 gallons, with Kentucky holding 158,900,000 gallons. Cigarettes totaled 11,221,624,084, surpassing 1911 by about 2 billion. Beer consumption declined to 62,108,733 barrels in 1912.
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Washington
United States
Royal E. Cabell
Internal Revenue
MacVeggeh
Treasury
Kentucky
Two Bills Dead One Threatened In Senate Action
The rules committee dominates house action while the senate reverses rulings. Three times the senate displaced key measures Tuesday killing the fireman qualification bill and the Cabaniss fertilizer filler bill, threatening Alexander’s labor bill. Beauchamp’s push to place vacancies on the state board of education on the calendar failed 17 to 26. The session, completed by 4:30, left open the chance for a late push to restore the displaced bills.
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House
Representatives
Senate
Alexander
Enna
Beauchamp
State Board of Education
Dickerson
Wool tariff revision bill passes over Taft veto
Washington August 13 The house approved the wool tariff revision bill over President Taft's veto by a 174 to 80 vote, aided by 21 Republicans. The scene in the chamber was chaotic as Speaker Clark refused a demand to count members who answered present. Conferees on sugar tariff disagreed, signaling the end of sugar tariff consideration this session.
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Washington
House
Taft
Clark
Senate
Congress
Banks Aid Whitman in Bid to Unmask Police Graft
New York banks under the clearing house committee are aiding District Attorney Whitman by supplying deposit records, tying police officials to graft and blackmail linked to the gambling fraternity. Becket’s lieutenant Charles Becker faces murder and graft charges after deposits totaling $58,845 from nov 1911 to aug 1912 surfaced, with entries from Corn Exchange Bank and its branch.
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New York
New York Clearing House Committee
Whitman
Montha
Charles Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Jack Rose
Corn Exchange Bank
Lynching of 16 year old in Columbus after murder trial
In Columbus Georgia a mob of about forty men seized T E Cotton alias T Z McElhenny a 16 year old negro from the courthouse and lynched him near the city limits after a verdict of guilty of unlawful malice in the commission of an unlawful act He had confessed to killing Cedron Land a white boy The mob surrounded deputies and forced the prisoner onto a street car before his body was riddled with bullets The coroner held an inquest and an investigation will occur Wednesday
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T. Z. Cotsleto
Cedron
Mob
Columbus
T. E. Cotton
T. Z McElhenny
Cedron Land
New Town
S. P. Glilbert
Wynnton
Cechran Land
W. Is Land
Muscogee County
T. McElhenny
Nineteen Die in Abernant Mine Explosion in Alabama
Abernant Alabama August 13 Nineteen black miners were killed instantly in an explosion at the Abernant Coal company mine. Seventeen bodies were recovered by tonight while forty white and eighteen black miners escaped. Rescue teams faced danger from afterdamp as state officials investigated a suspected windy shot amid gas and dust.
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Abernant
Ala
Abernant Coal Company
Nesbitt
Johns Yoland
J. B. McClary
Yoland
Bride Goes to Europe Groom Heads to Congress
Boston August 13. Married two days ago Congressman William F. Murray and Mrs. Murray began a unique honeymoon. Mrs. Murray sailed for Europe on the Cymric while the congressman left for Washington to attend duties. The bride, formerly Miss Mary A. Lappe, had planned the trip with a relative.
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Boston
William F. Murray
Murray
Europe
Washington
Weather Prophecy Foresees Fair Georgia Outlook
Generally fair weather expected in Georgia with possible showers in extreme south portions on Wednesday and Thursday. Local conditions show lower and higher temperatures with mean near normal, and rainfall data are partially obscured in the report.
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Georgia
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