Why Waterways Have Declined Commission Sees Inland System Flawed
Washington July 11 report by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, highlights lack of practical and commercial unity in the U S inland water system. He notes 6800 miles of 6 foot depth rivers and 2000 miles of canals are fragmented by depths and equipment, limiting through freight and competition with rail. He urges a broad, centralized plan and improved water terminals to realize waterways potential.
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Washington
United States
Herbert Knox Smith
Department of Commerce and Labor
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Wrightsville Beach Excursion Ad and Larceny Report
An advertisement for a Wrightsville Beach excursion lists a five dollar round trip departing from 88 Peachtree Street with tickets valid five days. The second item reports Luther Taylor and Judged Taylor arrested in Macon, Georgia on July 11 for allegedly stealing a watch and cash from C. F. White, with both men held at the city prison after pursuit.
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Macon
Ed Smith
John Smallwood
Luther Taylor
C. F. White
Montroné
Taylor
White
New Boat Line to Be Formed on Alabama River
Montgomery July 11 special. An organization for a new boat line on the Alabama river will be perfected at a freight bureau meeting Tuesday. Stock takers are plentiful and interest runs high among city merchants and regional business interests.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Replica of Fulton’s Clermont launches for Hudson voyage
A replica of Robert Fulton’s first steamboat, the Clermont, was launched at Mariner’s Island to mark the Hudson Fulton celebration. Ceremonies included speeches and a cannon salute as the hull slid into the water, greeted by nearby tugs with whistles and flags. The craft, to be a perfect duplicate, will steam up the Hudson next autumn.
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New York
Robert Fulton
Hudson
Mariner's Island
Grain decision pleases Macon grain dealers
Macon GA July 11 local grain dealers welcome a state commerce commission ruling that makes Nashville on par with southern cities for grain trade. The decision ends Nashville’s freight advantage and will boost Macon’s grain business, with shipments redirectable to Forsyth GA and cheaper than south Macon or Atlanta. Chamber of commerce to present the result to business men.
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Brown House
Macon
State Commerce Commission
Nashville
Tennessee
Georgia
Atlanta
Augusta
Savannah
Columbus
Forsyth
Advan
Georgie
Pointe
Chamber of Commerce
Safe life preserver invented by Atlantan
L. D. MacDonald of Atlanta has patented a leather belt life preserver with four hermetically sealed zinc spheres that slide around the belt. The spheres, six inches in diameter, support 500 pounds and the belt weighs four pounds, twelve pounds on ships. A Boston test impressed twelve Life-Saving Board members and government orders are expected for thousands of units. Production will be in New York with P. H. Harralson assisting.
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National Board of
Atlanta
L. D. MacDonald
Peachtree Street
Atlanta and
West Point
Macc
Donald Preserver
Hoston
Boston
MacDonald
New York
P. H. Harralson
Havana
Cube
MacDonell
Bayonet Wins Autoutil Course Steeplechase Duel
Paris July 11 At the Autoutil course Thomas Hitchcock's Bayonet won the Prix de la Porte Maillot a selling steeplechase over 2 1 2 miles J B Widener's Mr McCann captured the Prix de France an international steeplechase handicap over 2 miles and 4 furlongs the latter prize valued at 4000 dollars
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Paris
Thomas Hitchcock
J. B. Widener
Mr. McCann
Cordele Merchant Found Dead in Seville Country Home
W C Hamilton a prominent Cordele merchant was found shot in the temple at his Seville countryside home. A pistol lay near his body and a letter from his wife in Griffin was found. coroner Turk leads a rigid investigation amid hints of domestic trouble and uncertainty over suicide or murder.
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Cordele
W. C. Hamilton
Seville
Griffin
Turk
Hamilton
Montgomery
Ala
Bethmann-Hollweg to Succeed Von Buelow
Berlin July 11 Emperor seeks chancellor candidate and is urged by von Buelow to name Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg minister of the Interior and vice chancellor. Officials note broad support for Bethmann-Hollweg as von Buelow prepares retirement and successor appointment. The emperor plans to arrive in Berlin Tuesday for a two day stay.
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Berlin
Frince von Buelow
von Bethmann-Hallweg
Count Zu Eulenberg
von‘ Valentin
Elvil
Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg
von Buelow
Largest tobacco shipment arrives for Liverpool from Tennessee and Kentucky
Pensacola July 11 large shipment claimed as the biggest single export load arriving by Louisville and Nashville line. Four solid trainloads totaling about 1,800 hogsheads weighing approximately 1,000 pounds each per hogshead, destined for Liverpool aboard a Louisville and Nashville steamer. Also reported sixty two lepers in the Louisiana leper home, the highest since the colony began, with board of control inspecting and planning improvements.
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Pensacola
Fla
Louisville
Nashville
Tentessee
Kentucky
Hach Cer
Liverpool
Louisville and Nashville
Louisiana
New Orleans
Board of Control
Outlook Bricht en Stock Market
New York July 11. Last week showed improving financial industrial and agricultural conditions with rising stock prices for Union Pacific Southern Pacific United States Steel and Richizon. Harvest prospects, crop reports and tariff debates shaped market moves as railroads earnings and money markets steadied and banks funded crop demands.
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New York
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Richizon
United States Steel
Pearts
Financial World
Argentine
France
Department of Justice
Bicycle Thief to Be Tried in Macon Court
Will Green, a Black man brought from Jacksonville by Detective W A Smith, awaits a morning recorder hearing on three larceny counts two of larceny after trust and one of simple larceny. He is among several African Americans charged with stealing bicycles.
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Macon
Will Green
Jacksonville
W. A. Smith
Green
Committees Named for Seed Crushers at Atlantic Beach
The Cotton Seed Crushers Association of Georgia announces its new year committees. Fielding Wallace of Augusta is president, A. O. Blalock of Fayetteville vice president, W. M. Hutchinson secretary, and R. G. Riley treasurer. Governing, Executive, Publicity, Legislative, Rules, Arbitration, and Appeals panels named with member lists.
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W. M. Hutchinson
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of Georgia
Fielding Wallace
Augusta
Atlantic Beach
Fla
A. O. Blalock
Fayetteville
Atlants
R. G
H. C. Brown
B.L. Bond
F. M. Garner
T. Cérier
Ed. Howell
O. L. Betta
Doctors in the Making in Montgomery
About 250 Beculaplus students will seek licenses to practice medicine before the state board of medical examiners next week. They register Monday and begin work Tuesday. The board includes Dr. T. L. Robinson and other members from Birmingham, Talladega, Mobile, Eutaw, Selma, Tuskegee, and Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Uwy
Beculaplus
Atate Board of Medical Examinera
T. L. Robertson
Shell
D. E. Tallay
Birmingham
W. Welch
G Gay
Selma
L. W. Johnston
Tuskegee
Glenn and Andrews
LL. Watkins
Waa
Sanders
Chicago philanthropist to distribute last million before birthday
Dr. D. K. Pearsons of Chicago announces he will give his final million to Chicago educational and philanthropic institutions before his April 14 1910 birthday. He will keep enough fortune to live on and has already given 34 million to smaller colleges nationwide. Some gifts were made with pledges that their giving not be public until after his death.
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D. K. Pearsons
Chicago
Pearsons
MILITARY HONORS FOR PROF NEWCOMB AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY
Washington dispatch reports Professor Simon Newcomb famed astronomer and mathematician died at 74 in Washington. He will lie in state, buried in Arlington with military honors next Wednesday. Survivors include wife and three daughters. Athens report details a separate farmers’ excursion to the State College of Agriculture with lectures and demonstrations.
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Washington
Simon Newcomb
Arlington Cemetery
New
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
Newcomb
Johns Hopkins University
Yale
Harvard
Colmubia George Washington
United States Navy
Asea
Lawrence Scientific School
Engine Leaves Track In Savannah Freight Incident
Savannah Ga July 11 Engineer H Z Dorsey and Fireman Anderson Lovatt, both colored, were injured early today when they jumped from the cab of their engine at the front of an incoming Central of Georgia freight train one mile from the Central depot. Rail on weakened girded under the engine caused it to leave the track and the enginemen leaped. Dorsey suffered a broken right leg and fractured hip. The wrecked engine tore up the track and trains were detoured.
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Savannah
H. Z. Dorsey
Anderson Lovatt
Central of Georgia
Central
Dorsey
Delightful Seaboard Excursion to Wrightsville Beach
A Seaboard excursion to Wrightsville Beach and return costs five dollars for five days. The trip departs Tuesday July 20 with special sleeper and vestibule train cars. Reservations are urged at 88 Peachtree Street, Phones 100.
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Wrightsville Beach
Seaboard
Peachtree Street
Body of Col Pointer to be buried by Confederate Veterans
The body of Colonel Marcellus Pointer, a distinguished Confederate officer who died in poverty at a Bowery hotel, will be buried tomorrow by the Confederate Veterans camp of New York. Pointer, aide-de-camp to General Jon Wheeler, was among the Civil War’s gallant fighters. The funeral is set for 6 PM with interment in a Confederate Veterans plot at Mount Hope cemetery.
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New York
Marcellus Pointer
Bowery
Confederate Veterans Camp of
Pointer
Jon Wheeler
Confederate Veterans
Mount Hone Cemetery
Preliminary hearing set for Thebaut in Foster ship killing
In Savannah Georgia on July 14 a preliminary hearing before Recorder Swarz will hear Sem B Thebaut who is charged with killing quatermaster George W Foster aboard the steamship Frederick Fridey at midnight He claims to have been drunk and unaware of his actions though he recalls playing cards after boarding the ship Thebaut reportedly harmed his wife in Philadelphia.
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Savannah
Sem
B. Thebaut
George W. Foster
Frederick Fridey
Philadelphis
Taft to Swing Around Circle on Western Southern Trip
President Taft plans a lengthy western and southern journey with a two month itinerary and a chartered special train. The route will include many towns along the daylight stretches, while congressmen and officials press for quick stops. Security and staff details accompany the venture.
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Taft
Assault by Highwayman in Vinton La Suspected
A masked man attacked Roy Hall at the Southern Pacific depot in Vinton Louisiana on Thursday night. Hall, son of former postmaster A D Hall, was struck in the head with a short iron bar after the railroad agent fled. The robber escaped when help was alerted.
Military Encampments In Alabama National Guard Schedule
Special Col. R. Bricken and his men of the Second Alabama National Guard begin camp at Pickett Springs next week with a khaki crowd to follow. The First Regiment comes July 8 to the same grounds under Col. Hubbard. Signals and artillery head to Mobile July 20, then the Third to Oxford Lake near Col. McKelroy in Anniston. Cavalry camp at Eufaula on the 20th.
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Montgomery
Ala
R. Bricken
Alabama National Guard
Pickett Springs
South
G. J Hubbard
Signal Corps
Artillery
Mobile
Oxford Lake
W. H. McKelroy
Anniston
Eufaula
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Prof. Newcomb
Athens
State College of Rest
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Agriculture
Jackson County
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State College of Agricuture
Juditorium
A. M. Soule
J. R. Fain
M. P. Jarnagin
R. J.H. DeLoach
Herbert McHatton
Hart
Colonel Cooper
Farmers’ Union
M. Holder
L. C. Hardman
Frank Parke
M. L. Duggan
Trustes
Col. Pointer
Thebaut
Carpenter
White House
Intergala
Archibald W. Butt
Misehler
Arthur Brooks
District of Columbia
Secret Service
James Sloan
Roosevelt
Jack Wheeler
Mr. Taft
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