Daniel Bros Jubilee Singers Featured in Negro Music Festival
Whites and Blacks show strong interest in the Negro music festival at the Auditorium Thursday and Friday. One thousand white seats sold at Phillips & Crew and Cable Piano. Fisk Jubilee Singers, noted critics praise, plus Harry W. Burliegh and Patt Brown headlining with two hundred-voice choruses and the Fifth Regiment Orchestra.
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Audditorium
Phillips & Crew Company
Cable Piano Company
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Jubilee Singers
Jubilea Bull
Sashville
Tenn
Fisk
Harry W. Burleigh
New York
Patt Brown
Chicagne
Fifth Regiment
Minister Seeks 30 Day Cop Cadet Role in Waycross
Daestor of the Trinity Methodist Church in Waycross proposes to serve as a city policeman for thirty days. He claims he would arrest at least thirty five drunkards and twenty five lewd women. If unsuccessful, he would forfeit a $1,000 bond. He expects no current job offer but would not refuse one.
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Daestor
Trinity Methodist Church
Waycross
Seven Blacks Escape From Sumter Jail
Seven Black prisoners confined in Sumter county jail escaped at midnight and eluded capture. A deputy and a posse pursue them as eleven inmates were on the main floor. four feigned sleep. One of the escapees faced murder charges, the others offenses. They pried a stool from a cell and lowered themselves to the basement to flee.
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Americas
Sumter County
Fuller
Judges Charged With Corruption Hartwell GA
Hartwell Georgia August 13 Special reports say damage suits may follow the preliminary trial of King and Henry Nixon for murder of J F Heaton. They were discharged by Presiding Justices Brown and Bailey amid rumors their decision was influenced by money. Both men deny the charges and threaten defamation suits. Brown is an uncle of Solicitor General T J Brown.
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Hartwell
King
Henry Nixon
J. F. Heaton
C. H. N. Brown
McCurry
J. F. Bailey
Shoal Creek
Hartwell Sun
Beauchamp Divorce Suit Alleges Absent Husband Found Guilty
Mrs. G. W. Beauchamp files in Fulton Superior Court alleging her marriage failed to relieve her of support duties. She claims Fred L. Beauchamp repeatedly left home for months without notice, four times in three years, and she refused reconciliation after the last departure.
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G. W. Beauchamp
Fred L. Beauchamp
Fulton Superior Court
Beauchamp
Atlanta
Sewer work halted after October first decision
At a council bond commission and sewer committee meeting a resolution was approved to stop all new sewer work after October first to allow three months at year end to collect sewer assessments before the new year. The city is $27,000 in the hole due to uncollected sewer charges.
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Bond Commission
Sewer Committee of Council
Builder Promotes Personal Supervision of House Plans
R. Padgett Architect and Builder announces he will personally supervise the design and construction of any house template. He invites inquiries and references his office at 1081 Candler Building.
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BRB
R. Padgett. Archt. & Builder
Candler Bldg
Texas Democrats Hold Convention Stronger Colquitt Reform Platform
San Antonio August 13 Democrats loyal to Governor O B Colquitt won control of the state convention with W S Hanger elected temporary chairman over C S Lattimore. Colquitt seeks platform reforms including saloon hours civil service education and labor dispute arbitration while endorsing Woodrow Wilson and proposing a cent tax for Confederate veterans pensions. Colquitt’s Georgia roots noted.
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San Antonio
Texas
O. B. Colquitt
W. S. Hanger
Colquitt
C. S. Lattimore
Fort Worth
Hanger
Cullen F. Thomas
Lattimore
Calquitt
Civil Service
Anti-Saloon League board backs Alexander in 1912 race
J B Richards, secretary of the Anti Saloon League, disputes a Sunday Constitution clipping claiming the league split its votes between Alexander and Senator John M Slaton. He states among 32 board members 29 back Alexander, with 24 interviewed and eight not reached all supporting him, pressuring correction of the quotation.
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League
Alexander
John M. Slaton
Senate
Slaton
The
Anti-Saloon League
Mr. Slaton
Richards
Southern Railway Fights Mobile Order in Commerce Court
Proceedings opened in the commerce court as Southern Railway and the Mobile and Ohio challenge an Interstate Commerce Commission order. The ruling would require equal shipside rates and facilities at Mobile docks for all lines and docks and call for through bills of lading via independent water lines while extending such financing to affiliated water lines.
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Washington
Commerce Court
Southern Railway
Mobile and Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mobile
Ala
Model of South Bakery Expands to 35000 Loaves Daily
Seventeen years after starting with under fifty loaves daily the Joseph Rogers company now bakes more than 35000 loaves every twenty four hours at a new plant at 57 Highland Avenue Atlanta. The firm emphasizes sanitary practices, white uniforms, and automated processes from mixing on the second floor to cutting, fermenting, and baking in modern Gorndt ovens.
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Joseph Rogers Company
South
Highland Avenue
Rogera
Atlanta
Georgia
Rogers Company
Rogers
Minnesota
Rogers Bread Plant Emphasizes Speed and Sanitation
The Rogers company operates two shifts to meet rising demand for bread across small towns, using nine large wagons for local deliveries and express shipments for out-of-town orders. They claim minimal waste, daily production since 6 am, and strict sanitary controls ensuring bread is never touched by hands during making.
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Rogers Company
Hirst
Richards Falls From Roof In Athens Injury Deep
Athens Ga August 13 Special Fred Richards brother of the late A H Richards who was shot by his son in law a few weeks ago fell from the Knox Institute roof while painting. He crushed the right arm at the wrist and broke the left arm badly the cheek tore on a nail and one eye was nearly torn out leaving him in a precarious condition.
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Athens
Fred Richards
A. H. Richards
Knox Institute
Policeman's hand amputated after biting incident in Macon
Macon Ga August 13 Special. Policeman R A Thomas whose thumb was bitten off by a Black suspect during a arrest is in a danger of blood poisoning after surgery to remove a leg limb. Doctors fear further complications as the Black suspect fights to save his leg.
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Macon
R. A&, Thomas
The Forsyth This Week Promises Vaudeville Splendor
Keith Vaudeville headlines at the Forsyth feature Pretty Gertrude Vanderbilt and George Moore with a song and dance act. Sidney Drew appears in a one act playlet. The Top of the World dancers and Sidney Webster offer a strong August bill. Also noted is a jewelry trial and a big watermelon feast by Kennesaw Lodge 247 at Grant Park with Atlanta’s locomotive engineers and firemen invited.
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Keith
Forsyth
Gertrude Vanderbilt
George Moore
Atlanta
Sidney Drew
Drew
Jacques Futrelle
Sidney Webster
Kennesaw Lodge
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Grant Park
C. M Patterson
Homer Chandler
H. G. Kitchens
J. J. Woodall
T. M M. Doster
Commission Considers Judge Gober Charges In Atlanta Case
A court stenographer will record evidence in the Atlanta city detective case before Justice Ridley hot Judge RR Jackson, accused of stolen property possession. The police commissioners, meeting last night, decided to document Goher accusations against Chief Lanford and detectives tied to the jewelry trunk robbery and questioned Sanford on investigative methods.
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Atlantas
Ridley
RR. Jackson
George Goher
Lanford
Police Commission
Gober
Sanford
Rate Probe Sought by Senator Kenyon
Washington August 13 Senator Kenyon filed a resolution seeking an investigation of the interstate commerce law operation. The inquiry would review the commission’s rate making progress and assess potential abuses, discrimination, and the need for new legislation to address loopholes and control wharves and terminals.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Law
Kenyon
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
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Alfred H. Colquitt
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Gilsey Brothers
Cincinnati
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Savannah
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Rochester
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20Th Century Limited
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