University of Georgia professor offers free road advisory help
Professor C M Strahan of the University of Georgia offers his civil engineering expertise to Georgia counties for county road construction at no cost beyond travel expenses. In letters to Clark Howell, Strahan commits to assist counties lacking road engineers, praising the Good Roads movement and urging wider roads and proper culverts or bridges to improve traffic.
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Good Roads Automobile Association
Albany
C. M. Strahan
University of Georgia
C M Strahan
Athens
Daar
Georgia Good Roads Association
Holman
Clarke County
Asport
Clark Howell
Atlanta
Strahan
Georgia Good Roads Automobile Asociation
Georgia
Clarke
Atlanta Constitution
Trafffic
Mme
Good Roads
Cc M. Strahan
Athens, Ga
Florida counties to issue bonds for road improvement
Leon county will hold a special election to decide on issuing 200000 in bonds for hard surface road construction. County commissioners, urged by the chamber of commerce and editor Milton A. Smith, favor bonding with a higher road tax to fund repayment and complete mileage improvements within forty years. Wakulla County plans collaboration with Leon on the Albany Georgia road, with Dr Charles M. Ansley invited to speak on good roads at Crawfordville.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Leon County
Chamber of Commerce
Austey
George B Perkins
Milton A. Smith
Richard G Johnson
L. S Crimp
W-A
Register
Ansley
Wakulla
Leon
Albany
Mexico
Charles M. Ansley
Edser G. R. Smith
Gulf Coast Breeze
Crawfordville
Demand K K K Flour Offer for Wrightsville Beach
Don’t take substitutes. Only five dollars to Wrightsville Beach and return via Sea Board on Tuesday July 12. Tickets valid five days. Special trains with sleepers and vestibule coaches. Make reservations quickly. Phones 100, 88 Peachtree Street.
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Wrightsville
Seaboard
Peachtree Street
Three Conventions Meet Together in Atlanta July 42
The Associated Billpointers and Distributors of the United States and Canada join the Southeastern Billposters and Distributors Association Advertising Painters League of America and Southern Theater Managers Association in Atlanta for their first Southern meeting. Conventions gather at Cable Hall and Piedmont and Aragon hotels with a full program. Local committee led by Mayor Robert F Maddox plans entertainment and events from arrival to departure. Officers named include President George L Channell Columbus Ohio and Charles Bernard Chicago Secretary.
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Associated
United States
Canada
Southeastern Billposters
Advertising Painters’ League of America
Southern Theater Managers’ Association
Atlanta
Quartette
Cable Hall
Pied- Mont and
Aragon
Basides
South
Robert F. Maddox
E.M. Horlie
Asa G
Candier
F J.paxan
Steve R. Johnston
Huddleston
W T Winn
Henry L.degive
Memphis
FH. Powers
Macon
Charles ‘R. Collina
Jackson
Tenn
The
Advertising Painters' League of America
Walter S Burton
Richmond
Charles T. Donnelly
Boston
William T Workman
Supreme Court Place for Gov Hughes
Washington July 10 There is strong talk Taft may offer Governor Hughes the first vacancy on the United States Supreme Court. The offer would depend on a vacancy arising when the New York governor could accept. Many Hughes friends doubt he would accept if offered. The move follows Taft’s recent Lake Champlain reunion with Hughes.
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Washington
New York
Vermont
Taft
Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Beach
Lake Champlain
Finley Discusses South Prosperity From Agriculture Shift
New York July 10 New York reports President W W Finley of the Southern railway attributes southern prosperity to crop diversification prompted by higher wheat prices. He says farmers are growing more than cotton, cotton mills are expanding, more mills are planned, and raw cotton shipments to New England and Liverpool may decline as southern industry grows.
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New York
South
W W Finley
Southern Railway
Washington
Finley
New England
Liverpool
Meat inspection law wilfully disregarded claims
East St Louis report cites testimony before Secretary Wilson’s investigation team. Bishop accuses the meat inspection system of serious irregularities after three years in packing houses. The Dawson notes cover city taxes, alderman tickets, and bank dividends amid local politics. Banana business in New Orleans faces depressed prices and weak demand, tied to fruit contracts in Central America.
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East St Louis
Julisha Hishof
Belleville
James F. Harris
Nees
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Bishop
New Orleans
John B. Cefatu
Honduras
Cejatu
Herbert's Arbitration Views On Negro Firemen
Hon. Hilary A Herbert, arbiter in Atlanta arbitration on Georgia railroad firemen, publishes a statement defending the decision to employ Negro firemen. He argues white supremacy, cites southern unity, notes the bill to require white firemen, and rejects northern interference while urging stability and justice for Negroes in railway work.
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Hilary A. Herbert
Georgia Railroad
Mr. Herbert
Montgomery Advertiser
Georgia
Berrow
Tarrest
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Washington City
Atlanta
Aggent
Wright
Lee
Alabama
North
Washington
South
Notte
United States Circuit Court
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Atrikora
Toronto
Canada
Chicago
Stfikers
Dickson
Peoria
National Attorney of the Brotherhood
Ir Arnold
Major Cumming
Sanders McDaniel
Thea Witnagses
The
Board For Arbitration
Southern Railroad
Board of Arbitration
Arnold
America
Thomas Jefferson
San Domingo
Abraham Lincoln
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
United States
Dutch West Indies
Central
South American
Lincoln
Congress
Jefferson
Calhoun
Theldearo
Georgia Assembly
Hilary A
Herbert
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