Albany Elects Rawson Mayor in Unopposed Vote
In Albany Georgia on December 4 a city election resulted in W Rawson being elected mayor for a two year term. The aldermanic board saw R L Jones W Rawlins and Joseph Whirich chosen, all unopposed, with the same group previously serving in 1903-04. A F Coles resigns as joint cashier and will become chief cashier at Central Bank and Trust Corporation in Atlanta beginning January 1. Charity bazar opens on Pine Street in the Elke building to support the hospital, with Albany ladies running events and a ground floor restaurant.
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Albany
W. Rawson
R. L. Jones
W. Rawlins
Joseph Whirich
Domary
Rawson
Coles
A. F. Coles
Albany National
Central Bank and ‘Trust Corporation
Atlanta
Georgia
TRO
South
Elke Buloing
Pine Street
Bazar
Consul General Killed by Car in Mexico City
December 5 report states American Consul General Parsons was killed by an electric car shortly after 9 pm in Mexico City. No verdict reached in related case. Also notes December 6 dispatch from Columbia about a South Carolina suit against McIlvaine Co and Frank P. Milburn. jury deliberations ongoing with no verdict. Macon health report for week ending December 2 shows four deaths, three among Negro residents, cooler weather raising Black mortality concerns.
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Mexico City
Parsons
Columbia
Macon
Messenbure
Board of Health
Roosevelt Removes Valentine Land Office Register
President Roosevelt has removed James Pettisoli from the land office at Valentine Nebraska for alleged land fraud participation and has demanded the resignation of Receiver Albert T Towle. The action follows investigations into state land frauds and signals a decisive federal move in the Nebraska office.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James Pettisoli
Valentine
Neb
Lang
Albert T Towle
Peabody Likely Next President of Mutual Reserve Life
New York December 5. Slate suggests Luodes a Peabody will be elected president of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company at today's trustees meeting. Frederick Cromwell, acting president, hopes Peabody accepts. Peabody known banker and railroad man linked to William Waldorf Astor estate.
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New York
Luodes A. Peabody
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Frederick Cromwell
Peabody
Mr. Cromwell
William Waldorf Astor
Henry McClintock
Mosera Cromwell
McClintock
Robert A. Grannig
Walter R. Gillette
Mutual
Kennedy John S. Kennedy
Herald
New York Life Insurance Company
Boar
Kennedy
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Pitsburg
Fort Wayne
Chicago
Automobile training at Y M C A school turns farmers to chauffeurs
Clarence Bowne Brokaw, head of the Wearside Y M C A automobile school, says farm boys converted to driving praise the program. The course spans over three months per session, four sessions planned, with a modern garage housing ten to twelve cars for hands on instruction. Certificates go to those who pass the test, and many graduates obtain chauffeur work with high grade firms and individuals.
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New York Times
Clarence Bowne Brokaw
Wearside Young Men's Christian Association
Besteckaul Wears
Christian Association
Francia Wilson
Studentsc
Wall Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Ing Toga
Jon
Bel
Emperor Dined with Troops At St Petersburg Meeting
At a Capitol gathering in St Petersburg, Emperor Nicholas II drank to the health of the Simnosky regiment and appeared well. Father Gapon attended. a mass meeting of workers in Salt City promised amnesty appeals, while telegraph workers strike and police dispersed protesters with cudgels as troops occupied the streets.
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St Petersburg
Dealifver
Byatkuhnen
East Prussia
Simnosky
St .Tyatskoe-Belo
Vladimir
Nicholas Nicholaievitch
Salt City
Father Gapon
Bather Gapon
County Witte
Post and Telegraph
Themperial Economic Society
Automobile Training for Young Men in Shop
The article describes a garage course where youths learn gas engine basics, carburettor, wiring, and safety. Instruction covers handling wheels, gears, brakes, and clutch, plus shop practice and weekly lectures on automobile principles, maintenance, and electric systems.
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Jim
Cieam
Elkins Idea Spurs Limiting Railroad Rate Power
Senator Wi king, chair of the interstate commerce committee, argues the president does not want the commission to have arbitrary rate fixing power. He favors a law allowing rate changes only to remove unreasonableness or illegality, with court review and possible reductions to a reasonable maximum. The proposal would require hearings, a usable standard, and a review path in federal courts.
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Washington
Senator Wiking
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Toflay
Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Yates
Circuit Court of the
United States
Father Gapon Attacked by Russian Socialists
An undated St Petersburg report states the socialist revolutionary party adopted a resolution denouncing Father Gapon measures as harmful to workers. A split within the somaiists is reported and a national assembly is to be convened by January 28.
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Father Gapon
St Patersburg
Bydehunen
Socialists’ Revolutionary Party
Russ
Money Paid to Sewers Contractors in Ga Annexed District
At tonight's council meeting another installment was ordered paid to the sewer contractors in the annexed district. An estimate shows 118 miles completed and $7,243.56 due, with about a half mile more finished since the last estimate.
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Wilcox
Seach
Wee
Toth Birthday for Mark Twain
A fragmented reminiscence on Mark Twain’s forty line rules for aging and habit, touching on sleep, coffee, smoking, medicine, and morals, interwoven with a distant economic market note. The piece blends anecdotes of personal conduct with a stock market closing sentiment.
Crowding Him Out The Man Must Go In Women Rising
A New York Sun excerpt condemns male extinction fears as census data from 1880 to 1900 show rising women workers in Massachusetts Pennsylvania and Ohio while men decline yet the piece mocks the idea and warns of a future where men are deemed weaker and may disappear. It frames gender change as a perilous social shift and notes the sociologist’s austere warning of man’s fate.
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New York Sun
Kansas
Masachusetts
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
Ohio
United States
Sunflower Reservation
Adifathanay & Co
Inman
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Clueit
Peasody & CO
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Mark Twain
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