Georgia House Debates Suffrage and Open Seasons Bill
The house hears Wright of Floyd bill objections and welcomes five women’s groups to speak. Pro suffrage groups Georgia Woman’s Suffrage Association Atlanta Woman’s Suffrage Association Georgia Woman’s Equal Suffrage Party Georgia Woman’s Suffrage League oppose by Georgia Association Opposed to Women’s Suffrage. A Senate bill to make it a felony to lure a chaste woman or girl under fourteen is favored with penalties. A hotel rate posting bill passes committee and a general primary change bill stalls for edits. An electrocution substitute for capital crimes is referred to subcommittee for redraft with state farm execution site.
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Wright
Floyd
Georgia’ Woman's Suffrage Association
Mary L. Molendon
Atlanta Womans Suffrage Association
Amelia Woodall
Georgia Womans Equal Suffrage Party
Mra
Emily McDoougald
Ge Georga Woman's Suffrage League
Frances Smith Whiteside
Georgia
Caroline Patterson
Macon
Deven
Game and Fish
Davis
Mc Strickland
Pierce
Osh
Senate
General Judiciary Committee
House
Beck
Carroll
al McWhorter
Clarke
Baldwin Aminto
Robbery on Central Avenue Leaves Man Unharmed
Edward Chandler, transferer for Foote and Davies, living at Lakewood Beghts, was held up last night near a dark stretch between Mitchell and Trimt and robbed of $409. Three assailants fled before officers Evans and Cochran could arrive. no arrests were made.
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Edward Chandler
Foote & Davies
Lakewood
Chandler
Central Avenue
Mitchell
Trimt
Evans and
Cochran
Suttles Elected Captain of Company E Cadets
Lieutenant J B Suttles of Company E, 26th Regiment, was unanimously elected captain after Captain Wolf Leahy’s promotion to major. At 23, he is the youngest captain in Georgia service and popular in the city. Suttles, a Georgia Military Academy graduate, leads one of the new companies known as the Cadets.
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J B Suttles
Wu Bifth
Wolf Leahy
Suttles
Georgia
Georgia Military Academy
Durig
Firady
Governor May Decide Nash Obear Dispute
The Georgia Senate debated ranks for the state quartermaster general amid the Nash Obear dispute. A resolution by Senator Mulier would abolish the office. Senator Perry proposed authorizing the governor to fix the rank to conform to U S militia laws, currently brigadier general. The measure sets the date of rank to match the present holder and contemplates adjustments per federal regulations.
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Nash Obear
Senate
Mulier
Grant Perry
Georgia
United States
General Assembly
United States Militia
War Department
State of
House of
Stark
Congresa
Searcy
Althourh
Perry
Hursbi
Slayton
Agra
General Judiciary Committee
Committee On
Hue
Clayton
Slaten
Allen
Irwin
Atlanta
Fulton County
Congress
Intor
DeKalb
MC Tarver
Tarver
Doctor Opposed Cannon in Danville Candidacy
A Danville physician today announced his bid for Congress opposing Joseph G Cannon in the eighteenth Illinois district. The announcement frames the contest as a stand against Cannon and pledges reform and public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dramvane
Boojev
Danville
Republian
Congress
Joseph G Cannon
Deputy Sheriff in Jeff Davis Fined for Illicit Liquor Sale
Hazlehurst on July 6 a deputy sheriff named King was arrested on a city warrant charging him with keeping intoxicating liquors for illegal sale. Mayor Hinson fined him 200 dollars or 180 days on the streets after witnesses testified that he bought whisky from a local negro named Nicey as an accommodation for Ellis. The case proceeded under city court.
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Hazlehurst
W Oh King
J A Cramarte, Sr
King
Hinson Aearn
Wded
Will Nicey
Ea Ellis
Nicey
Free leather cigarette cases with Omar cigarettes
Omar cigarette smokers can get a stylish leather case free with a 15 cent Omar pack. Limited to one case per customer while supplies last. The offer aims to persuade men who enjoy Turkish blend to try Omar, touted as the best quality cigarette and a smart accessory.
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Omar
Ty Omar
Dr J J Knott Dies at Home at Knott Station
Dr J J Knott, a well known physician practicing in Atlanta for forty years, is dangerously ill at his home at Knott station on the College Park road. He is 76, served as the youngest surgeon and major in the Civil War, and helped lead the fight against the yellow fever epidemic about twenty years ago.
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J J Knott
Knott Station
College Park Road
Mutual Life Files Bill of Exceptions in Georgia Supreme Court
The bill of exceptions in the State Mutual Life Insurance receivership in Georgia is a voluminous record, about 250 pages, taken to the supreme court by Deputy Clerk Toe Jenking. It outlines many appeal grounds against Judge A White's order naming Sproul Fouche as permanent receiver, with a decision expected at the next session in a few weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
State Mutual Life Insurance Company
Supreme Court of Georgia
Supreme Court
Toe Jenking
A. White
Sproul Fouche
Blaze Hauled to Rome Fire Station
An unusual incident in Rome saw two burning cars towed to the seventh ward fire station for firefighting. The cars ignited near the Rome tannery and were moved by a switch engine to the station where the blaze was extinguished with minor damage.
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Rome
Seventh Ward
Field Meetings Planned Across Southeast Georgia Counties
Special plan for sixteen field meetings over three weeks in Southeast Georgia to study crops and soils and learn hog cholera serum use for prevention. Demonstrations by farm agents, canning lessons for wives and daughters, lectures by agriculture officials, and basket dinners. Meetings organized by State College of Agriculture extension with local agents. schedule lists 16 counties and farm locations in July.
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Georgia
Aing Club
State College of Agriculture
United States Farm
Extension Department
C V Cunningham
Chula
Tift County
A B Hollingsworth
Hazlehuest
Jeff Davis County
W Chapman
Cedar Crossing Toombs County
Soperton Ga
Browndale Farm
Pulaski County
Sale of Yaryan Plant Delayed as Bankruptcy Trustee Seeks Control
In Macon on July 6 Judge William B Shepherd heard petitions from the Ohio trustee to halt the Brunswick and Gulfport plant sale and transfer assets to the Ohio receivership. The judge extended the hearing to tomorrow at 3 PM, with prior orders setting July 7 public sale in Brunswick underpriced terms. Proceedings involve competing stockholder factions and multiple law firms representing trustee, receivers, and creditors.
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Macon
William B Shepherd
United States District Court
Yaryan Naval Stores Company
Toledo
Ohio
District of
Georgia
Shepherd
Brunswick Ga
Gulfport
Brunswick
Trustes
Spalding
Atlanta
Wells
Bennett Twitty & Reese
Max Isaac
A H Heyward Jr
H F Dunwody
D W Crouch
Brunwick
Luther Resser
Billy Sunday May Hold Meetings Here
The Allanta Evan eleal Ministers association granted the executive committee power to decide on inviting Billy Sunday for revival meetings, after debate at First Presbyterian church. Dr Richard Orme Flinn supported final action while Dr C O Jones opposed. the motion was amended to require reporting findings to the association, and carried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Sunday
Atlanta
Men and Religion Forward
Allanta Evaneleal Ministers Association
First Presbyterian Church
Richard Orme Flinn
North Avenue Presbyterian Church
C O Jones
Grace Methodist Church
Fourteen Blind Tigers Are Nabbed in Jackson Georgia
Jackson Ga July Special officers conducted the largest local raid on blind tiger operators on Saturday night arresting fourteen offenders all of whom are colored. Others with evidence escaped then but have since been captured. The alleged blind tigers will be arraigned later in the week.
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Jackson
Scrouse Wounded Twice In Home Shooting
Rome Ga July Special Gen Scrouse of Cadar Bluff Alo is at a local hospital in serious condition after a shooting at his home. One bullet struck the abdomen and another the same, but physicians say he will probably recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Gen Scrouse
Cadar Bluff
Alo
W Ji Smith
Atrouse
Self-Taught Painter Wyamausian Dies at 77
A self taught landscape painter died here today at the age of 77 after a four month illness. His works are in many galleries and private collections.
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Wyamausian
Guay
Max Wer
Tax Roll Shows Record $262,558 County Tax Increase in Butts
Jackson Ga July figures from Tax Receiver F M Hodges show taxable values rose by $262,558 from the prior year, the largest rise in Butts County's history. About 6,000 acres previously untaxed were added, with the Jackson district contributing over half the county's increased valuation. Real estate averages about $810 per acre.
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Jackson
F M Hodges
Butts County
Ihe
Gemulgee
Towallga Falls 'Power Company
Two Boys Cremated in Wisconsin Barn Fire
In Princeton Wisconsin on a July day Arnald Brustman and Walter Morrison both seven years old perished in a barn fire. Their mothers watched in horror as the blaze consumed the structure, unaware the youths were inside.
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Princeton
Wis
Arnald Brustman
Walter Morrison
Atlanta women urged to aid destitute mothers home
Miss Willa Wakefield, touring in Atlanta, advocates a home for widowed or destitute mothers with children. She aims to rally local women and women’s groups to establish support here, opposing separation of mothers and children, planning a New York Carnegie Hall concert to raise funds while seeking nationwide backing.
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Atlanta
Willa Holt Wakefield
Gate City
Miss Wakefield
Carnegie Hall
New York
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