Augusta Chamber Seeks Dam Approval on Savannah Plan
The Augusta chamber of commerce endorsed a Bend on the Savannah River development by Twin Cities Power Co seeking War Department approval for a 24000 horsepower dam. The meeting urged uninterrupted progress, arguing Augusta’s industrial stakes and opposing opposition months.President Hayne and Stafford will take the resolution to General Marshel, chief engineer, with chamber and boosters leaders to attend.
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Auguste
Augusta Chamber of Commerce
Savannah River
Twin Chis Power Company
War Department
Augusta
Atake
Marshel
Cours
Chamber of Commerce
Meowie
L. ©. Hayne
H M H. Stafford
Boosters’ Club
Local option stands in Ohio senate committee vote
Columbus, Ohio february 16 the senate committee on temperance edged to postpone the Dean bill by four to three and to vote to take the measure to a hit from committees once more. The bill would have allowed five dry county municipalities to vote wet if they chose while further action remains uncertain and the measure appears dead for now.
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Columbus
Ohio
Senate Committee On Temperance Today
Rose County
License Tax Decreased in Mobile Economic Note
Mobile officials report a license tax adjustment amid rising insurance costs. The Southeast Tariff Association proposal prompted rate hikes far exceeding prior taxation, following chamber of commerce recommendations.
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Mobile
Ala
Southeastern Tariff Association
Chamber of Commerce
Missing Man Postcard Sparks Alabama Search Tale
Rome Wisconsin February 16 Special Hoping and believing that her husband is alive Mrs J C Cockrell traveled to Birmingham to find the insurance man who wandered from home in delirium weeks ago The hopeful postcard addressed to Mrs Cockrell and signed W W Montgomery bore handwriting she attributes to her husband It has been three weeks since Cockrell fled a hospital and was later found on the riverbank Rostand to take lead role in Rostand s new play Mile Bargy in Paris earns a year salary of FH 001 a year
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Rome
Birmingham
W. W. Montgomery
Alabama River Rising Prompting Flood Fears
Montgomery reports the Alabama River at 28 feet and rising toward a 36 foot high water mark, flooding low areas and threatening crops. The Coosa and other streams also rise, increasing south state flood potential as water expands from banks. promoter Williamson Bermour plans speeches in Alabama on March 1 to discuss improved corn growing methods.
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Biontigomery
Ala
Alabame
Montgomery
Cooma
Montgomer
Ain
Melver Williamson
Darlington
N.C
W. Ho Bermour
Alatame
Beymour
MOTHERS CONGRESS MEETS IN NEW ORLEANS THURSDAY
The twelfth annual National Congress of Mothers convenes in New Orleans Thursday through Sunday at the New Orleans Progressive Union hall and First Methodist church. Governor Sanders Mayor Behrman Warren Rason and Mrs DeGarmo and Mrs Mathews head attendance. A Thursday business meeting precedes a Mardi Gras night event to permit members’ attendance.
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New Orleans
Nafian Congress of Mothers
Congress
J .¥. Sanders
Louisiana
Martin Behrman
Warren Rason
Frank DeGarmo
Shreveport
Louisiana Congress of Mothers
J. C. Mathews
Louisiana Federation of Woman's Clina
Church People Plan Open Model Saloon in Mont Clair
Mont Clair New Jersey February 18 a group of prominent churchmen plan to open a modern saloon in the town modeled after a church sanctioned example in time by Bishop Potter of New York. The movement began at a church meeting with steps to file liquor license applications. The saloon would offer spirits but also coffee tea and soft drinks, light luncheons, and qualified bartenders at nominal salaries. Income would come from commissions on nons alcoholics and local staff.
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Mont Clair
N. J
Bishop Potter
New York
Doom of Referees Will Be Sounded in the South
Washington reports push to end the patronage referee system and resume representative government in the south. Florida and St Augustine boards of trade back Taft aligned reform, urging local chambers to back the dawn of a day of promise on inauguration day and evaluate federal appointments by local sentiment rather than party lines.
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Washington
Taft
Mason and Dixon
Florida
St. Augustine
Fla
Udt
South
Mother of seven sons seeks pension under Roosevelts call
Akron Ohio February 18 Kirs Joel Myers of Caples first woman in the country to claim the pension idea from a Missouri farmer tied to President Roosevelts farm life message. On her fifty seventh birthday Mrs Myers declares she supports the plan and would be the first American mother to come under the provision. She has spent thirty four years on the same Bath township farm and living on a farm all her life.
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Akron
Ohio
Kirs
Joel Myers
Caples
Missouri
Roosevelt
Bath Township
Antis Appeal Decision Sets Saloons 200 Feet From Churches Rule
In New Orleans Judge Chretien with Judge Baker concurring held that the 200 foot distance clause of the Gay Shattuck anti liquor law is not retroactive and applies only to prospective saloons. If applied to existing bars, thousands would close, and an appeal to the state supreme court was noted by the district attorney. Doctors Ask Assistance in Macon
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New Orleans
Criminal District Court
Chretien
Loulalana
Baker
Supreme Court
Great International Trust Forms Over Phosphate Riches
A New Jersey based trust named the Independent Fertilizer Company aims to control all world phosphate beds and mills led by Herman Schmidtmann of Germany. The piece warns of impending scarcity as studies show declining phosphate content from long term cropping, urging government action to curb Schmidtmann’s expanding influence.
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le Folge
New Jersey
Fertilzer
Fertilizer Company
Herman Schmidtmann
Germany
Herr Schmidtmann
Charles R. Wat Hire
University of Wisconsin
Lana
Department of the Interior
Bucketshopping defined by Congress in phosphate land policy
The text declares bucketshopping as defined by Congress and argues for government retention of public phosphate lands. It envisions a future where global elites claim title deeds to resources yet urges keeping these lands for the people. It calls for leasing outputs while preserving fertilizing value for America.
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Schmidtmann
Baer
Rockefeller
Weyerhauser
America
Western Union Seeks Injunction Over License Removal
In Montgomery Alabama February 16 an injunction is sought to prevent the annulment of the Western Union Telegraph Company license when it moves three cases from state to federal court. The state law revokes a foreign corporation's license upon removal. The case hearings set for February 23 in Birmingham before Judge Thomas G Jones. The move mirrors a prior Southern Railway action that required a gate reduction to regain its authority.
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Montgomery
Ala
Western Union Telegraph Company
United States
Birmingham
Thomas G Jones
United States Court
Southern Railway
Lodge of Sorrow Held in Swainsboro
In Swainsboro Georgia a lodge of sorrow was held at the Mernodiet church marking the first such meeting in twenty years. The roll of the dead was lengthy with two past masters JY Truett and B Coleman among those who died last year.
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Swafnsboro
Bwatuaboro
Mernodiet
JY. Truett
B Coleman
Tragic life ends in murder and madness in Texas
Houston, February 16 James Gallaher dies by self inflicted knife wound at daughter's Wharton County home after a life of wealth and crime. Gallaher, once planter owner, faced murder charges in the Brown case and was imprisoned for life, later pardoned then confined in an insane asylum. His later years ruined by grief and remorse. In Rome, Ga an alumni chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is forming, with a first gathering planned for March and a banquet to mark the occasion. About thirty Rome residents are among the fraternity’s active members in Georgia and Alabama clubs.
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Macon
James T. Ross
N. J. Carnwell
Macon Hospital
Macon Phyai
Medical Society
Hospital | Si
Houston
Tex
James Gallaher
Wharton County
Gallaher
Marz Brown
Onre
Nie Wite
Ma Vlaughter
Rome
Die Slema Alpha Epsilon
Alleve
Georgia
Alabama
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