Freight bureau cuts Atlanta rate costs at annual meeting
At the twelfth annual Atlanta Freight Bureau dinner the report by Chairman W A Parker highlighted major freight and express rate reductions to Atlanta from eastern and western points and the end of grain rebilling discrimination against Atlanta. Hockaday noted express rates fell to 305 per hundred pounds, a 26 percent drop, with further reductions for smaller shipments.
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Ohio
Interstate Commerce
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Interior Western
Knoxville
Chattanoona
Rates and revenues spark Atlantic to Nashville shipments debate
The document details rail and sea freight rate tensions from Cincinnati to Birmingham Atlanta and New York to Nashville, noting overcharges and a push to readjust rates. It cites November and December 1913 figures on net operating revenue across Eastern Southern Western districts, highlighting shifts in wealth, production, and manufacturing.
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Birmingham
Atlanta
New ‘York
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Induction Method Used to Tap Broker Wire, Convicted
Jos Angeles Cal reports that H V Warnock, a telegraph operator, was found guilty in superior court of tapping a broker’s leased wire by induction. Prosecutors claimed he accessed stock quotes by transferring signals from a high tension telegraph line into a nearby telephone circuit, obtaining information without direct wire tapping. The case involved a bucket shop scenario in connection with a New York broker.
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Cal
Warnock
Aisgton
Tcom
New York
Thomasville Attorney Sticking to His Guns
Thornsville January 13 City Attorney TN Hopkins rejected a resignation note as courteous and unchanged in tone. Hopkins defends his stance that the administration failed to fully support the tiger investigation and says fees billed were for legitimate work. His term as city attorney ends next month with no further action on resignation.
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Militia Pay Measure Approved by Guard
Washington reports the adjutant generals of thirty states approved a militia pay bill. The measure allows the national guard, now about 120,000, to be available for war service without muster or extra steps, with federal control to ensure efficiency. It provides allowances for training time and provisions for arms uniforms equipment and regular army officer detail. The bill is expected to go to Congress as an administration measure.
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Adjutant Generals
the National Board of
Donight
Garrison
National Guard
United States
Na- Homa Guard
Bil
Congress
Attorney Carter Flees Burglary With Pistol Claim
E V Carter a prominent attorney and community figure held a pistol on a burglar at his residence on Lee Street last night while his wife called police. The suspect Henry Davis colored 25, of Haynes Street, was detained by Officers Boyce and Black Stone and to be arraigned Friday before Recorder Brokes.
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Etyre
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Boyce
Black Stone
Henry Davis
Haynes Street
Mr Carter
Rural credits backed by the commission men meet in Jacksonville
The National League of Commission Merchants of the United States endorsed rural credits at its twenty second annual meeting in Jacksonville Florida and sent a memorial to the Interstate Commerce Commission urging restoration of the old freight service from Chicago to northern western markets The convention noted delays in fruit distribution from growing regions and cited the influence of U S Senator Duncan U Fletcher of Florida who spoke at the session highlighting support for farmers products and rural credit plans.
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Jacksonville
Mia
United States
National League of Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
National League
Duncan U Fletcher
Florida
Fletcher
Suffrage Party Now To Be Incorporated In Georgia
The Woman's Suffrage Party organization, long contemplated by Georgia suffragists, is now a reality. A charter petition was filed in Superior Court Thursday by Mrs Mary L McKendon, Mrs Amelia Woodall, and Miss Katherine Koch. The party will be open to all with no dues, supported by subscriptions, with headquarters in Atlanta and branches in other counties as designated by directors.
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Georgia
Atlanta
State of
Superior Court
Mary L.mekendon
Amelia Woodall
Katherine Koch
Cardinal Pompili Bans Tango in Rome
January 15 rome reports Cardinal Basilio Pompili, vicar general for the pope, issues a pastoral letter denouncing the tango and related media and fashions as perverting souls urging clergy to defend Christian morals. He calls for a total prohibition in the seat of the Roman church and warns parents to shield children from corruption.
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Cardinail Basilio Pompili
Rome
Goa
Diplomatic Service Entrance Results
Washington January 15 Ten of thirty candidates passed the recent entrance examination for the U S diplomatic service. Names slated for the eligibles list include Robert B Davis Virginia Campbell Turner of Missouri and others across Georgia Delaware and New York with vacancies to follow.
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Washington
Diplomatic Service
United States
Robert B Davis
Virginia
Cibridge @ Greene
Masachusetts Catesby
Jones
Georgia
George 4. Messersmith
Delaware
Oscar L Milmore
District
Columbia
Oliver C Moles
Colorado
Glen Stewart
Pennsylvania
Louis A. Sussdorf
New York
Campbell Turner
Missouri
John C White
Maryland
Salvation Army saves over 100 lives in Chicago report
Chicago reported that more than 100 would be suicides were prevented by the Salvation Army anti-death by own action bureau led by Colonel Addie. The new bureau, the first in the nation, organized three months ago, released the findings today.
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The
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Addie
Hearings Set February 4 On Stock Exchange Regulation
Senator Owen announced hearings will begin February 4 on bills to regulate stock exchanges after a conference with President Wilson. He said the aim is to curb abuses by prohibiting the use of the telegraph and related means for promoting fraudulent transactions, and emphasized a friendly approach to the subject.
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Wilson
Owen
Flood Devastates Schell Area After WV Pulp Dam Breach
A collapsed dam on Stoney Creek unleashed a wall of water down the Potomac, washing out the Western Maryland railroad at Schell and forcing mass evacuations from Shaw to Cumberland. Rescue crews dynamited bridges and strengthened other structures as ice clogged the river and property losses reached about 200000 dollars with damage spreading along a seventy mile flood path. Local officials and engineers worked through the night to manage the rising flood and ensure evacuees found shelter.
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Potomac
Schell
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Heryl W Va
Savage River
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Harry Muldoon
Renia Pulp and Paper Company
Doubin
Muldorn
Harry Bayles Wise
Mrs Twyman Denies She Ran Away With Carter Girl
Mrs Twyman and Myron Carter deny rumors they ran away. The pair travelled from Seneca, South Carolina, to the Carolinas on business for a publishing house. Twyman says her husband and family knew of the trip and she planned to return home the same day.
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Seneca
Alberta Twyman
East Fair Street
Carter
The
Constitution
Carolinas
Mra .Twymson
Miss Carter
Atlanta
Mrs S Weir Mitchell Follows Her Husband</T
Mrs S Weir Mitchell dies in Philadelphia at 77 after attending her husband’s funeral. Born Mary Cadwallader she belonged to a prominent Philadelphia family.
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Mrs. S. Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
of Weir Mitchell
Penumania
Mitchell
Mary Cadwallader
Colonel L Costley Dies at 74 Confederate Veteran Leader
Colonel L Costley aged 74 adjutant general and chief of staff of the Louisiana division United Confederate Veterans died of heart trouble after being stricken at the bedside of the late General T W Castleman who died here Sunday. Costley was one of the best known Confederate veterans in the state.
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Ariongs
Swannery
Oronel
ML Costley
Lauiaiana
United Confederate Veterans
T W .Castleman
Costley
Hall thankful after commuted death sentence in Georgia
In Tifton Georgia January 15 Turnkey Butler informed I M Hall that Governor Slaten had commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. Hall expressed gratitude to his attorneys and friends. later he collapsed from mental strain near 11:30 am. He showed little grasp of the crime's enormity or public sentiment.
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Tifton
Turnkey Butler
Hall
Slaten
Woman Pleads Guilty to Drowning Children in Union City
Mashville Tennessee January 11 Mrs Frennie Yates pleaded guilty to second degree murder for drowning two of her stepchildren in Oldtion county last summer in Union City. She was sentenced to 19 to 20 years in prison. Her daughter Floy Ferris, also charged, was released as relatives promised to take her to Kentucky. A third stepchild escaped and alerted others.
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Frennie Yates
Oldtion County
Union City
Floy Ferris
Kentuck
Town in Trouble Over Shape Sparks Oregon Suit
Salem Jan 15 The odd shape of West Woodburn Walton county Oregon has drawn a governor ordered suit by the district attorney at the governor Oswald West’s request to void the incorporation The governor says the map’s comet like form serves to permit liquor sales within the town and was designed to divide homes of prohibition supporters Miss Tern Hobbs the governor’s secretary reported the town in places is less than thirty feet wide with houses built to exclude prohibition supporters.
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Salem
West Woodburn
Walton County
Oregon
Oswald West
Miss Tern Hobbs
Central railway officials visit Americus on a Birmingham trip
A special Central railway train carrying Vice Presidents Winburn and Lawton and Ocean Steamship president Pleasantly arrived in Americus on January 15 en route to Birmingham. Local prominent citizens greeted the visitors and offered a one hour automobile drive. The train left Americus at 5 o'clock for Birmingham.
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Americas
Dennis dies after madman’s bullet hits driver
Augusta reports William Dennis a 17 year old chauffeur is dead after being shot by Samuel J Norris the Augusta saloon keeper who killed his wife and shot Dennis Norris who had been threatening others recently did not speak and seems unaware of his actions Norris a former state asylum inmate was hospitalized after the incident.
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Samuel J Norns
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Steamer Chappell Damaged by Fire at Mobleys Wharf
River steamer Chappell, tied at Mobleys wharf on the Ocmulgee river, caught fire Monday night of last week but was saved by captain and crew. It arrived from Hawkinsville to enter Savannah river service and will undergo repairs in Savannah. Loss estimated in the several hundred dollar range.
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Mobleys Wharf
Ocmulzee River
Hawkinaville
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Road bill reported to house for 29 million highway funds
Washington January 1 A general compromise bill provides for a maximum of 29 000 000 for roads to be distributed among states that contribute amounts equal to governmental allotments. It sets 60 dollars a mile for macadam 20 dollars for gravel sand and similar highways and 15 dollars for dirt roads.
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Prosperity in the South Celebrated at Banquet
Memphis Tennessee hosts a banquet by the Business New club to honor prosperity in the South. About 400 guests, including railroad officials and prominent leaders, attend as speakers discuss cotton and grain crops, railroads, and warehouse receipts amid a Washington week context.
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Governor grants reprieve for George Smith case
Acting on a telegraphic request from the solicitor general, Governor Slaton granted a respite in the case of George Smith the convicted murderer who was to be hanged in Valdosta today. The reprieve extends to February 6 for the prison commission to consider a commutation of sentence.
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Valdosta
William Davison Faytmans Announces Ice Plant Contract
Special report notes Faytmans' partner William Davison Faytmans contracted for a twelve ton ice machine to supply the city and surrounding territory. Mr David will operate the ice plant, with work set to begin in the coming weeks.
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William Davison Faytmans
Hag
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David
Im Lounesson
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