Shedding Tears Cirl Tells Story In Court Trial
Ella Gingles, a young Irish lace maker, testified all day in Judge Brentano's court about an alleged attack at the Wellington hotel on February 16. The case names Agnes Barrette and Cecilia Kenyon as suspects, with a “marked man” linked to the events while cross examination focused on her claims of being sold into white slavery and assaulted in a hotel bath room. Scores of women and children were turned away as much of the testimony was deemed unprintable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ella Gingles
Brentano
Agnes Barrette
Wellington
Cecilla Kenyon
Owen
Wellington Hotel
Miss Barrette
States Power Over Foreign Corporations Reaffirmed
The discussion covers citizenship and standing of corporations, state power to regulate or exclude foreign companies, and the impact of Kentucky insurance case rulings. It notes due process and equal protection limits, and critiques taxation and licensing practices affecting foreign firms.
Holding corporations and license transfer limit
The passage discusses restrictions on licenses for corporations, stating that if the corporation is owned or held by another company and more than 60 percent of its capital stock could be acquired by a second corporation after license, the license should be vacated. It warns that holding companies enable rapid trust growth and monopolies, and prohibitions would aid their destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Wickersham
Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Prewitt
Kentucky
Commissioner of Insurance
Hammond Packing Company
Arkansas
Buch
United Tes
Commercial Secretaries In Session In Atlanta Convention
Fifty commercial secretaries from thirteen states meet in Atlanta for the second annual Southern Commercial Secretaries convention. Morning and afternoon sessions discuss municipal betterment and road building with CONULLET labor, with New Orleans favored to host in 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex. W. Smith
Atlanta
Ryerson Ritchie
Chamber of Commerce
Boston
Commission
H. H. Haines
Galveston
H. H Richardson
Board of Trade
Jacksonville
Taft
Auditorium Armory
Empire Building
New Orleans
Clty
Asa G. Candler
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
W. B. Royster
Chattanooga
George S Weaver
Commercial Club
Montgomery
G. Grosvenor Dawe
Southern Commercial Congress
Washington, D. C
GeneralClifford L. Anderson
Sourd of
Fulton County
Chase Hoyt
United States
Maddox
Roswell Road
Automobile Club
P Clock
Congregational Methodist Publishing House increases capital stock
At its annual meeting the Congregational Methodist Publishing House ratified appointing Edward Young Clarke as president and approved raising capital stock from 50 000 to 100 000 to consolidate branch enterprises and absorb branch stock. The plan includes canceling branch charters and liquidating debt, purchasing a Whitehall street lot for a new building, and housing all ventures under one Georgia based board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Methodist Publishing House
General Church Board
Edward Young Clarke
Rolfe Hunt
Whitehall Street
J M Darden
Dewid R Williams
J » Hunt
T FP Bell
Patillo
Robert McGill
Misgour
R H Lee
Bexauyy J & Bam
J S Hunt
Wo A Harper
de Witt
R Williams
Georgia
Tots Give $402 for New Church
Fifty children from St Johns Methodist Sunday school contributed 402 dollars as a Fourth of July offering for the new church building at the corner of Georgia and Central avenues. The pastor Rev S B Leadbetter spoke at services in a tent on Bass and Puttlam streets. a woman donated a gold ring and bracelet after the tale of the gift moved her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Johns Methodist Church
Georgia and
Central Avenues
S. B Leadbetter
Bass and
Puttlam Streets
Farmers Fight in Field Near Floyd County
In what reports call a serious encounter at Fosters Bend, A N Mize of Floyd County is in precarious condition and James Camp remains between life and death at home in State Line district. The shooters were Camp and Mize’s sons who were working in a field over a disputed land claim. Two pistols fired during the scuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. N. Mize
Floyd County
Rome
Fosters Bend
James Camp
State Line
Camp
Mize
Death at Matewan Crossing Involving Train Fatalities
Bluafield West Virginia July 7 Three men were struck by a locomotive at Matewan crossing where a deputy sheriff J M Hopkins was killed earlier. Hatfield and Witt, lawyers, witnessed the spot as they prepared to sue the railroad. Hatfield is gravely ill and Carr had died the previous night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluafield
W Va
Matewan
Norfolk and Western
J M Hopkins
Boyd Hatfeld
W M Witt
W M Carr
Hatfield
Virgin Birth Denied Yet Ordained by Presbyterians
Rev George Ashmore Fish, who denied the virgin birth during a seminary examination, was ordained tonight by the New York presbytery by a 10 to 7 vote. He will sail this week for Shanghai to begin missionary work.
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Fish
New York
George Ashmore Fish
Union Theological Seminary
Christ
Adem
Hoe
Lazarua
Ching
Shanghai
New York man sues for finger injury in Orange County
Willie Gillow, a carpenter, sues Harri man for ten thousand dollars over an incident at Turnera in Orange County while he was working at the defendant's home. The suit concerns injury to a finger from a toss of a small digit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Willie Gillow
Aarpenter
BH. Harriman
Turnera
Orange County
Rev Hugh Wallace faces charges amid church aid pledge
The Rev Hugh Wallace of Marietta Street Baptist faces accusations of being a "fake" from Powdery Avenue deacons, yet he refuses to comment. He notes jealousy behind the charges and says his church will continue charitable work led by Miss Sadie Tiller, who will visit the sick, deliver aid, and distribute Gospel materials starting July 15. Wallace, at 462 S Pryor, Atlanta, issues the statement July 7, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Wallace
Marietta Street Baptist Church
Powdery Avenue Baptist Church
Wallace
Sadie Tiller
Constitution
Atlanta
Sadie ‘Miler
Capitol Avenue
Miss Tiller
Georgia
Sterling
Tiller
Overrules Demurrers in Alabama Rate Case
Judge Jones of the U S court today overruled the demurrers by Attorney General Garber and others for the railroad commission. He held the suits are not against the state and sustained the demurrer only to permit the commission to reduce rates if needed. He refused to lift the injunction on circuit clerks sheriffs and solicitors. The ruling upholds federal jurisdiction over suits arising from the rate act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Aln
Jones
United States Court
Garber
Railroad Commission
Alabama
Spouse of Puccini Sentenced to Prison
Rome July 7 Signora Puccini wife of Giacomo Puccini the composer was sentenced today to five months imprisonment and a fine of 120 dollars in addition to costs and damages An autopsy proved the charges against the maid were baseless and the girl had died by suicide in a separate Mississippi note freight rates on cotton may be revised after a July 20 appearance before the railroad commission Fr M Lee urged reductions from all points where rates are high
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Rome
Signora Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Senora Puccini
Jackson
Migs
Fr M. Lee
Railroad Commission
Evory Railroad
Mississippi
Lee
World tennis queen Miss Sutton to wed Mexican banker Hal
San Francisco reports that renowned Miss May Sutton of Pasadena world champion tennis player will marry Harry B Hal a banker and capitalist of Mexico City according to an official announcement today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
May Sutton
Pasadena
Harry B Hal
Mexico City
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Plans Across City
A sequence of brief notices reports deaths of residents at various ages and settings. Entries list survivors, funeral times, and locations including Crumley Street Williston SC West Delta Place West View Powell Street Oakland and West View with interment details at church or municipal cemeteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Norris
J.B Norris
Oan Street
West View
Clif G. Pope
Cliff G Pope
Pulliam Street
Oakland
Shute Meat Market Dealer Fined for Liquor Charge
In a police court hearing at 214 Marietta street detective evidence tied James Shute a meat dealer to selling liquor. Shute admitted sales but denied intent. He was fined 50 cents, given thirty days, and bound over on a $1,000 bond after detectives Starnes and Campbell testified to finding extra whisky in his market rear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shute
Marietta Street
Starnes
Campbell
Federation backs strike in steel and tin workers dispute
Washington July 1 The American Federation of Labor pledged hearty cooperation to the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers whose members are on strike on plants owned by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federation
St:oes
Washington
Themerican Federation of Labor
Avendation of Iron, Steel and Tin
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
United States Steal Corporation
Train Crisis Strikes Chillicothe and Pattenburg Missouri
A massive flood and a bridge washout in Chillicothe and Pattenburg Missouri on the Grand River strand the six men from a passing train, with many residents forced from homes. Rescue trains carry supplies as river currents drown at least one man and threaten broader crop losses along the Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chillicothe Mo
Grand River
Pattenburg
Missouri
Jefferson City
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Cirl
Bath
Argute
Consumers’ Cooler CO
Mr. Wickersham
Jenn
Berrise
A B. Trezevant
Progressive Union
H Grady
J A Arnold
Texas Commercial Secretaries’ Association
Fort Worth
Country Club
Wis
Postum Chreal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek, Mion
BR. H. Barriman
Hugh S Wallace
Pryor Reet
Puccini
May Suerton
Frank E. Block
Jacobs
Isaac A. Blanton
Isgear A Pienton
Crumley Street
J H
HH S. Blanton
Williston SC
J. N. Brisendine
Brisendine
Augusta
E F Davis
West Delta
West New
R. L. Ferrell
Ferret
Jones Avenue
Wo Emeall
G S Ferrell
Poole
Chapel Tod
J. T. Robinson
Jear
Mra
Ib Robinson
Woodward Avenue
Resi Agence
Mamie C. Bailey
Mamie C Bailey
Balles
JC Larkin Street
Clements Poss
W. M. Wallace
Powell Street
Welock
Poocles Ohapel
Casey's Cemetery
MW Wallace
Carl Bailey
William Bailey
Greenberg Fond & Bloomfield's
W. E. Perkins
W E. Perkins
McLendon Street
Edgewood
Hathaway & Co
Atlante
Tyatres Prinek Arvel
Jacehe
Orgere
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