Georgia Ballot Day Sets Polls Across State
The election day opens at seven this morning with voters across Georgia ready to cast ballots for governor and state officers. Country polls close at three, cities at seven, as results trickle in through the afternoon and race totals unfold late tonight. The governor’s race draws most interest, with Slaton favored by many, while agriculture and railroad posts see heated charges and broad campaigning across numerous counties. Continued on Last Page.
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Idyll
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Thomas E. Watson
Thomson
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Fayette
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Price
Paul B Trammell
Dalton
J. J. Flynt
Gridin
H. Warner Hill
Trammel
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Savannah
John H. James
Atlanta
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Talbotton
Charles J. Shipp
Cordele
Gray
George Hillyer
S. G. McLendon
Thomas EK
A Watsoon
W. Trox Shankston
West Point
Taft Veto Sparks House Push to Pass Bill Again
Washington August 20 President Tafts second veto of the legislative executive judicial appropriation bill will send to congress tomorrow. House leaders expect the measure to be repassed over the veto. The bill would abolish the commerce court, a provision Taft opposes. Senate objections trimmed the bill before passage. The likelihood of overriding in the Senate remains doubtful as adjournment tensions rise in both houses. A lengthy roll call tested House patience over session adjournment.
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Dancing Bull Moose Death Linked to Own Action
New York August 20. Albert Funk of Cincinnati, inventor of a dancing bull moose novelty, was found dead in bed in his lodging house with a gas tube end between his teeth. Friends say failure to raise funds for the toy likely drove the death by his own action. several models and cost figures lay about. Funk had arrived in the city two weeks ago.
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Water Scandal Aired In House
Washington August 20 The house spent nearly two hours in a bitter debate between Rep Rainey Illinois Democrat and Rep Austin Tennessee Republican over alleged ties to water power trust lobbyists and misstated facts The shouting match led to the sergeant at arms taking a strategic seat as Rainey accused Austin of personal stake in dam bills and Knoxville area interests in the trust Austin retorted with untruthful statements The house took no action with Rainey citing connections to several Tennessee dam projects and hydroelectric franchises Continued on Page Two.
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U S Forces In Nicaragua Battle For Managua
Washington says force must rise to guard American lives. United States Marines aided in defending Managua as insurgents massacred Leon garrison. Report says 500 troops fell to 70 survivors after fierce clashes, with Marines and bluejackets from Annapolis and Panama supporting the defense.
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Panama rebuff to Taft from Senate committee
The Senate committee on interoceanic canals rejected Taft’s request for a special law to let U.S. courts rule on free tolls in the Panama Canal under Hay-Pauncefote. Eight to six vote against reporting the resolution, implying no supplementary action to the Panama canal bill. Democrats largely opposed. Taft’s veto risk regarded unlikely.
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Promised a Spanking Ends with Boy Found Safe
Llewellyn Smith a nine year old of 190 Luckie Street vanished after being threatened with a spanking for a Tuesday offense. Police Davis and Coley located him asleep beneath a bed at ten when his worried parents found him and he greeted them with relief.
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Taft to Review Negro Knights Parade on White House Portico
President Taft promised to review next Thursday afternoon from the White House portico a parade of International Conference participants and the Negro Knights. The brief message notes a planned ceremonial display as part of the conference events.
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Stand Collapse Injures Dozens at Governor Nomination Event
In Indianapolis on August 20 a grandstand collapse at the Indiana Democratic club during Governor Thomas R. Marshall’s nomination ceremony for vice president injured five seriously and about forty others with bruises and cuts. The injured were carried to safety as the program continued with Alton B. Parker presenting the nomination and Marshall accepting.
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New York
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
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School Tax Lew Is The Remedy
A citizen urges severing schools from political control and allows the school board to levy a special tax or receive funds to run the schools. He cites unhealthful conditions at Gtria high, heating failures, dilapidated buildings, and bureaucratic interference by council finance committee as harms to education.
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DuBose Joins Constitution to Edit DuBose's Firing Line
At the request of hundreds of Atlanta's top business leaders W T DuBose who left The Atlanta Journal to retire from editorship of the Firing Line has changed plans. He will join The Constitution next Sunday to edit a new section titled DuBose's Firing Line. The move aims to elevate this journalism style as a hallmark of his career across the nation.
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Atlanta Polling Places Update For State Election
Atlanta and Fulton county voters prepare to cast ballots today at multiple wards. Polling sites include First Ward Madison Avenue Second Ward Pryor Street near Bernards Auction House and Edgewood areas with various street addresses and stores serving as precincts.
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Fraser
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Marietta Street
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Lee Street
Gordon
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Peachtree Streets
Fulton county election centers on state and local offices
Local interest centers on candidates for state offices and Fulton county posts including judge of the superior court solicitor general and three legislative seats. Fulton polls open 7am to 7pm in city districts and 8am to 3pm in country precincts. Fifteen contests mean a long ballot and lengthy vote counting likely in large wards.
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Atlanta
Alex W. Stephens
Madigan Bell
Hugh M. Dorsey
Robert B. Blackburn
Ralph C. Cochran
Walter McElreath
John ¥. Smith
William M. Smith
Hapeville
Blackhall
College Park
East Point
Georgia seeks giant canal to drain Okefenokee swamp
Edwin P. Ansley real estate plans will submit to the U S government a proposal to reuse Panama canal machinery to dig a 50 mile canal across the Okefenokee swamp from Folkston toward the Suwanee river. The project aims to drain over 1 000 000 acres for farming, create gulf Atlantic waterway, cut travel time, and boost Georgia real estate values by hundreds of millions with timber rights held by a northern syndicate cooperating.
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South Georgia
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Panama
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Georgia
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Florida
St. Mary's
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Northern
Chief Zach Rowan III May Undergo Operation Today
County police chief Zach Rowan III will enter a private sanitarium today for treatment and possible stomach ulcer surgery. Health issues have troubled him for some time, with recent reports noting an ulcer and uncertainty about the procedure.
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Zach Rowan
Rowan
Salvation Army Founder General Booth Dies at 82
London reports the death of William Booth, founder and commander in chief of the Salvation Army, at 10:13 p.m. after a 48 hour unconscious period following cataract surgery. Bramwell Booth is envisaged as likely successor. burial plans undecided, with speculation about Westminster Abbey.
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Weather Prophecy Local Showhra Georgia Showers Likely
Local showers are forecast for Wednesday and probably Thursday in Georgia. Variable winds will be tight and changing. The report notes the lowest and highest temperatures, mean temperatures, and rainfall figures for the past 24 hours and excess since the month began.
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