State Sanatorium Conditions Scrutinized by Lawmakers
Joint penitentiary committees of the house and senate ratified two sections of their report on state farm and reformatory conditions after heated debate. They plan to resume Monday to ratify the remainder, with the full report to be adopted and sent for passage. The document faults bedding cleanliness and sanitary conditions while noting funding constraints and a typhoid fever outbreak among inmates.
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Senate
State Farm and Reformatory
State Board of Health
Ihs
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Bacon
Edwards
Haraleon
Barber
Grady
Joint Committee
Wick
Shane Tag Tha Elie Eee
Howe
State Farm
Liberty Hall Proposed as Branch of State University
Senator Holden introduced a bill to accept Liberty Hall and its twelve acres at Crawfordville as a gift to establish a state university branch. The measure, urged by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, requires no immediate appropriation and promises future endowments to aid poor boys, with Liberty Hall housing Mr Stephens room preserved.
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State University
John ¥. Holden
Senate
Liberty Hall
Crawfordville
The
Stephens Monumental Association
Alexander H. Stephens
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Alex Stephens
Daughters of the Confederacy
General Assembly
Donaton
Alexander Stephens
Representative Beazley
Taliaferro
Holden
Bonaley
Stephens
Liberty Hill
the Daughters of the Confederacy
South
Mes
Harris
Georgia Normal and Industrial “School
Milledgeville
Technological School
Tho Nes
Beca’es
Stephen
Liberty Hal
Normal School
Linton Stephens
Governor Stephens
Yaberty Hall
Georgia Senate
United States
House of Representatives
Confederate States
Atlanta
West End
Millicent
Laberty
Senate OKs Western and Atlantic bill on parallel tracks
Georgia Senate committee advances a measure to prevent railways from laying tracks parallel to the Western and Atlantic line. Debate touches on travel costs for a Chattanooga investigation and a tax equalization issue raised by Senator Persons.
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Georgis Senate
Solons
Senate
Western and Atlantic Railroad Committee
Perwonn
Dobbs
Thirty Fifth
Chattanooga
Pickett
Eakes
Temperance
Citizens of Lyons form board of trade
Lyons Ga July 16 special at a meeting held here last night a board of trade was organised and it is proposed to charter the organization and make it one of the five bodies of the kind in the state Alton B Cowart chosen as publicity agent and he will begin an active campaign to bring desirable immigrants to Toombs county and town
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Lyons
Board of Trade
Alton B. Cowart
Toombs
Negro Kills Wife and Escapes in Macon
Richard Clawson killed his wife on Second Street in Macon after she refused to reunite, stabbing her through the heart. He fled toward the river and was not captured by press time. The crime followed a ten day separation prior to the incident.
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Macon
Richard Clawson
Second Stree
Glannon
Foley
Cigarettes Legislation Faces Hurdles In House
Georgia house debates anti cigarette measures and committee placements as several bills are tabled or referred. A proposal to repeal the 1913 tax equalization law is dropped to a related committee, while a cigarette sale ban is sent to Judiciary. A tense vote reopens action on increasing incest punishment and a lunacy case handling bill passes after debate. Speaker Pro Tem LeSueur leads as adjournment nears.
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Taylor
Monroe
Waya and Means
Committee On
Anc
Beck
Carroll
Judiciary Committee
Yeomans
Terretl
Han
Wheatley
Sumter County
Lee Meadows
Ieen
Representative Meadows
Wayne
Blackburn
Fulton
Meadown
Harris
Washington
LeSueur
Tift County Court Busy Session In Tifton
In a three day Tift superior court session convicts were sentenced to terms ranging from one to three years for crimes including murder and manslaughter. A life sentence was handed to several defendants while others await sentencing. A separate city court run by Judge Riley planned a quarterly term beginning July 26 with jurors excused for the first week.
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Perry
Riley
Sarxica
Georgia House approves bill to curb false advertising
Unanimous approval with amendment pass recommended by judiciary panel for a bill to prohibit untrue and misleading advertisements in Georgia. Led by Representative Walter P. Andrews and backed by the Ad Men's club of Atlanta, the measure faces no opposition. The act would punish false claims in publications signs and posters, with penalties defined by state law.
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Ad Men’s. Club of Atlanta
House Judiciary Committee
Georgia
House General Judiciary’committee
Walter P. Andrews
Fulton
Ad Men's Club of
Atlanta
Ad Men's Club
St. Hime Massengale
Joseph H. Atchison
Hubert, W. Anderson
Julian V. Boeh
State of Georgia
Bills Outline Weekend Legislature Actions in Georgia
Friday saw multiple bills introduced in the House for topics from garnishment law to public school expansion, plus numerous local charter amendments for towns like Ranger Cedartown and Carrollton. The Senate considered creation of a University of Georgia branch and updated lunacy trial notice rules, with several bills passing.
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Myre
Lidia A. Reagin
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Fulton
Hodges
Brooka
Lunsford
Lee
Tyson
Haynes
Gordon
Charter
Ranger
Walker
Ben Hill
Ben Hili Superior Court
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Polk
Clty
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Wailker
Hen Hills
Shorish
Fitzgerald
Pickens
Chartton
Folkston
Elvert
Elberton
Rich
Miller
Colquitt
Knight
Berrion
Ray’s Mill
Carrol
Carrolton
Sumter
Americus
Carroll
Billa
Senate
Holden
Burnside
Crawfordville
Taliaferro County
Anw
University of Georgia
Alexander H. Stephens_ institute
Var
Pickett
McLaughlin
Stovall
Turner
Canton
Georgia Senate Moves To Table 1000 Furniture Grant For Governor Mansion
The senate appropriations committee Friday tabled a bill to provide £1000 for new furniture repairs plumbing and sanitation at the governor mansion for occupancy by the governor and family. The panel favored the sum and chairman Walker said they expected Gov. Kony to approve funds as needed.
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Walker
Kony
Senaator Ransom
Ransom
Committee On Education
Georgia
Rangom
Recall Petition Circulates Against Rome Commissioner
In Rome Georgia on July 16 petitions to recall First Commissioner W M Gammon circulated on streets. Backers claim 175 supporters exist and seek one fourth of registered voters, 385, to trigger recall. opponents predict failure and urge withdrawal amid political turmoil. The process requires 100 signatures to start and a later in person pledge from one fourth of voters before a recall election.
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Rome
W. M. Gammon
Roma
Gummon
McCrary
Iome
Ron
Collins Sentenced for Manslaughter in Georgia
Lyons July 16 Special Tal madge Collins of this county was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter for the death of M B Brown during June. He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary after an altercation at County Line school house during which Brown was struck by a stray bullet and killed. Collins had been seriously wounded and removed from the fall for trial Proctor recovered and faced no indictment.
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Brown
Colling
Proctor
Detective adopts deserted baby in flacon Georgia
Flacon Georgia July 16 Special A X Rachsel city detective has adopted the baby girl left in Salvation Army custody by a mysterious man and woman and will raise the child as his own. Captain Austin reports many inquiries with as many as 100 inquires from people wanting to adopt the infant.
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X. Rachsel
Salvation Army
Austin
Desperate Georgia divorce case ends in arrest at drug store
Isaac Groodinsky of Tampa traveled to Atlanta for a long awaited meeting with his wife Mrs. Groodinsky who, with deputy sheriff T Thomason, surprised him at a Whitehall Street drug store. He was jailed on a $500 bond after divorce proceedings filed by his wife alleging desertion and support neglect.
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Tampa
Fla
Groodinsky
T. Thomason
George L. Bell
Groodinskys
College Park
Walton County
Cornelia Walton
Mimself
Dusiness
Georgia
Grady Hospital
Atlanta
Children Must Pay Full Fare to Marietta
The railroad commission ruled no change to the Atlanta Northern’s fare policy on the Atlanta Marietta trolley line. Judge Morris had petitioned for a child fare, but the commission sees no reason to alter its prior approval of the rates.
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Central of Georgia Railroad
Southwestern Railroad
Railroad Commission
Marietta
Dudge
A Morris
Atlanta Northern Mailway Company
Atlanta-Marietta
Morris
Atlanta Northern
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