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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1910
Page
2
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At the request of prominent Italian community members Mayor Howse issued an order banning Italian organ grinders and monkeys from Nashville. The move aims to reduce prejudice against locals. Twenty three organ grinders have been notified to leave the city.
Delegates from forty four cities across the United States arrive in Pittsburg for a national conference on Protestant Episcopal church extension work. The sessions, under the Laymen's Missionary League of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pittsburg, begin tomorrow.
White Plains N Y February 24 a jury in the supreme court here has decided that the fingers of a workmans left hand are worth 1000 apiece they awarded a verdict of 4000 to Peter Mandy of Ossining for the loss of four fingers which were cut off in a factory accident Millionaire Walsh Very Ill Washington February 24 private advices from San Antonio Texas say Thomas FP Walsh the millionaire mine owner of Colorado and Washington is seriously ill in the Texas city hope of recovery is expressed
Washington February 24 A Mississippi senator Golonst Gordon aged, occupied the vice president's chair during Senator Browns income tax speech. He handed the gavel to Vice President Sherman with a poem he had been composing on paper. The verses mock the senator, recount his time in the chair, and make light of his hair and education while referencing the constitution and a vow not to sit there again.
Chicago report recalls two overnight burglaries where victims halted crime. Mrs. Fred Brown caught a burglar by the legs and hugged him, forcing him to shed his coat before escaping. At Herman Barnikow’s Belmont Avenue grocery, a robber armed with a pistol was pelted with a string of sausage, but the duo fled as Barnikow chased them two blocks.
More than a thousand hens from the United States and Europe will meet in an egg laying contest at Mexico Missouri next fall. Plans by T E Quissenberry secretary of the Missouri State Poultry Board call for the event at a new poultry experiment station run under the U S department of Agriculture. The contest mirrors a recent six month Australia project to show potential gains from scientifically managed poultry business.
In Athens Georgia on February 4 a 10 foot alligator wandered across the new University of Georgia athletic field near Lumpkin street. J R Montgomery captured the animal and paraded it for onlookers, fueling theories about how the saurians reached campus. Earlier months saw two alligators found near the State Normal School and placed in the fire station park as curiosity grows about further sightings.
Paris February 24 Senators Millies Lacroix and Lintilhac dueled in Parc des Princes. Millies Lacroix parried a lunge and ran Lintilhac through the forearm. a second encounter was stopped. They were reconciled before leaving. Millies Lacroix, 60, former minister of the colonies, presided over the Senate committee on secrecy of the ballot.
Washington reports that interstate shipments of watered or bloated oysters will be investigated by the Pure Food and Drugs Inspection Board of the Department of Agriculture. It is held such shipments violate the Pure Food Law, and the department plans to stop them if possible.
A tonic claims to strengthen weak women by aiding food and nerves with a plant based medicine. It cites Mrs Kate Cook of Cave Springs Georgia reporting eight bottles improved health and strength, promising gentle action without after effects and urging readers to ask their druggist.
New York February 24 witnesses, dubbed the black horse cavalry, testified in the Conger Allds bribery case. They were all former assembly members connected to highway bills and bridge company interests, accused of meeting bridge firms' wishes in 1901 for payments of 6000 dollars to Allds and two others.
George G Ward vice president of the Commercial Cable Company announces an immediate lay of an additional trans Atlantic cable. This sixth cable will connect Europe and America and expand facilities and speed for cross ocean transmissions. The plain language notice underscores growing demand and company growth in trans Atlantic communications.
Washington report details Alaska’s vast gold reserves buried beneath permafrost. Delegate James Wickersham testifies to the House committee on territories, urging mining law revisions amid crude laws and occasional vigilante punishment. Alaska has paid its way, sending $20.9 million in virgin gold last year and trading with the U.S. at $60 million.
Richmond Va February 24 The house finance committees today sent the senate Insurance bill introduced by Senator Heedall to the house with a recommendation that it be adopted with an amendment. The measure would tax life insurers with 1.4 percent of gross receipts, reduced from the original 7 percent amid a bitter fight by insurer representatives. It is considered likely to be approved.
Boston February 24 Castro was deposed and exiled from Venezuela and Zelaya from Nicaragua. Charles E. Magoon told the Commercial Club that this showed the need for officials to be held responsible for their actions. He argued the Monroe Doctrine asserts U S dominancy in the hemisphere and urged the United States to ensure governments uphold duties and obligations.
Washington February 24 Major Carson, chief of the bureau of manufactures of the department of labor, urges extending the bureau's work. He cites already achieved results and growing manufacturer interest as justification for continued support and expansion.
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