Nashville Still Has the Advantage in Grain Trade
Brown House Macon Ga July 20 Special Nashville already found a way out of the price fight for re billing privileges before the interstate commerce commission A Macon grain dealer says Nashville has a water rate from St Louis that equalizes freight with rivals and keeps a 2 cent advantage on Georgia and southern shipments The only real Georgia gain is a local small lot business in corn and oats with Georgia dealers taking lead locally but most trade remains tied to Nashville and Georgia jobbers mostly operate from Nashville despite any improvements.
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Macon
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Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Louia
Georgia
Georgiana
Urgent deficiency bill passes amid row over pay and expenses
Washington July 20 The house approved an urgent deficiency bill totaling 464 809 dollars up 20 408 from the original sum It includes 25 000 dollars for the president s traveling expenses The day grew stormy as amendments were rejected and lines of contention formed The house denied extra month s pay for Capitol officers and employees struck out extra stenographer pay refused the Steballos Co payout and failed to fund the president s travel expenses adjourned at 5 18 p m Friday
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Capitol
United States Supreme Court
J. M. S Teballos & Co
New York
Funeral rites planned for Margaret Howell Hayes in Colorado Springs
Official notice from New Orleans and Montgomery reports the death of Mrs. Margaret Howell Jefferson Davis Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis. Funeral in Colorado Springs will be private at 11 a.m. with ministers Arthur M. Taft and Henry Rutgers Rumsen presiding. Remains to be taken to Evergreen cemetery and later to Richmond, Virginia.
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Abbeville
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Memphis
Tenn
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Daughters of the Confederacy
Thomas &. Howe
Richard B. Haughton
Chilton Atkins
St. Louis
Sona
Chicago
Thomas H. Cahill
No Harbor
Haart
Fire Threatens Mills at Eagle and Phenix Dye House
Fire in Volumbus Georgia damages the dryer department of the Eagle and Phenix mills dye house. The blaze started in cotton by unknown means but was checked by automatic sprinklers and the coordinated efforts of the city and mills fire departments. The incident spared a much larger disaster.
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Volumbus
Eagle and Phenix Nils
Sir Robert Hart to Quit China
Sir Robert Hart plans retirement from the post of director general of Chinese customs due to health. After a year’s leave in England and a rare vacation in over two decades, he postponed a trip to China as doctors advised against travel amid insomnia and long-standing ailments.
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China
England
Robert
Ching
Tie
Schwartzweisse Named Postmaster Hopeful at Waynesboro
Washington July 20 Special The president sent to the senate the nomination of Seigfried Schwartzweisse as postmaster at Waynesboro Georgia. The name was halted by senate clerks who could not pronounce it. This marks the second transmission for the Waynesboro postmaster post. A whisky debt of 4000 in a prohibition town is alleged against Schwartzweisse. He says the expenses were charity toward friends, not sales. Senator Clay takes no part. decision rests with Republican post office committee members. A group seeks the Waynesboro post for Mrs John Milledge granddaughter of the early Georgia governor with that name.
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Senate
Seigfried Schwartsweisse
Waynesboro
Schwartz+ weisse
Clay
Post Office Committee
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Schwartzwoigse
Wagensboro
John Milledge
Georgia
Decent Women Refuse to Go to the Polls in Colorado
New York reports July 20 that Sev. Dr. Henry A. Buchtol former Colorado governor denounces women's suffrage as a catastrophe and says Colorado women shun politics. He notes women demand the vote with responsibility but argues the vote harms them and men. He cites chivalry as motive for equal franchise and criticizes women legislators for resisting argument and logic.
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New York
Colorado
Sev
Henry A. Buchtol
Buchto
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
Chauf feur Abandons Injured Girl After Crash
Chicago July 20 A Hammond nineteen year old Hulda Sohtwedel was run over by a speeding car. The chauffeur lifted her into the vehicle and promised to take her home but abandoned her on a lonely roadside. Her legs were crushed and doctors fear for her condition as police search for the driver.
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Chicago
Hulda Sohtwedel
Hammond
Ty Chauf Fenr
Rio
Auction Sale of Kirkwood Lots Near Clifton Station
A real estate auction will offer 60 elevated building lots along the East Lake line at Clifton Station just west of Kirkwood. The seller anticipates no reserves and sets terms at 25 down then 5 monthly payments at 7 percent interest. Plats are in the office. sale is Saturday afternoon July 24 at 3 30.
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Kirkwood
Atlanta
East Lake Junction
East Lake
Clifton Station
Bloody riot erupts as strike-breakers march through Newcastle
Newcastle Pa July 20. An attempt to move 125 alleged strike-breakers through the city to tin mills sparked a riot. One man was seriously injured and many beaten. Harry Ringer and James Warren jailed for inciting riot. The marchers, armed with knives and revolvers, faced crowds as police arrested some of the escort while no strikers were detained.
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Newcastle
Hary Ringer
James Warren
Spe Eial
Non-committal reply sent by Gov Brown
New York July 20 A New York newspaper sent telegrams to state governors to gauge support for an income tax amendment. Of twenty three replies fifteen favored the tax, seven were non-committal and one opposed. Governors signaling probable ratification came from Florida, Montana, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota, Minnesota, Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky and Iowa. Non-committal replies were from Georgia, Maine, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Missouri, Oregon and Washington. Utah alone was forecast to fail.
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Congress
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Montana
Nevada
Colorado
Idaho
Mississippi
North Dakota
Minnesota
Virginia
Oklahoma
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Iowa
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Rhode Island
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Missouri
Oregon
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Utah
Tobacco Station for South Carolina discussed with officials
Washington reports a conference with South Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Wilson Representative Lever and Mansing S C board of trade members on locating a tobacco experiment station in Pee Dee South Carolina and the possible dispatch of an animal industry expert. Secretary Wilson agreed to consider the requests and said he would confer with other department officials before replying promptly.
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Wilson
South Carolina
Lever
W. C. Davis
Carlton Durant
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Department of Agriculture
Pee Dee
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department
Taft Asked To Send Seven Men Killed
Washington reports Commissioner R J Watson sent by the South Carolina State Farmers Union and the National Farmers Union to request a special agriculture department representative be sent overseas to determine cotton staple length and qualities desired by European manufacturers. Easton Pennsylvania notes seven railroad workers killed near Blairstown when dynamite failed to explode as a blasting crew cleared rock and dirt, with a 25 foot debris pile and blasting to follow.
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R. J. Watson
South Carolina
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Easton
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
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Spooner Company Heads to New Orleans Tour
Announcement shows Spooner company finishing Atlanta run this week and heading south through the fall schedule. Miss Spooner and co. plan a Gotham light production before reaching New Orleans in late August at the Blaney house, now controlled by Charles Blaney.
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Atlanta
New Orleans
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Aters
Blaney
Charles Blaney
Cecil Spooner
Aleter
Spooners
Gotham
Bonding firms urged to roll back rates to 1908 levels
Washington reports that bonding companies must revert to 1908 rates to win government officer business, with Iowa's Mr. Smith denouncing the industry as colluding to boost premiums by up to 800 percent. Pennsylvania's Mr. Palmer says the move aims to formalize a boycott against leading firms. A separate note mentions a violent acetylene gas explosion with unclear, garbled details.
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Smith
Iowa
Palmer
Pennsylvania
Man Surrenders After Fourteen Months of Conscience Struggle
In Little Rock on July 20, Joe Novak, who had confessed himself a defaulting treasurer of a Modern Woodmen local in Chicago for 170 dollars, walked into the office of Chief Has McMahon and surrendered himself after fourteen months of "conscience fighting" fearing arrest.
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Little Rock
Ark
Joe Novak
Chicago
Bond Ordinance Passed in Macon With $200000 Bond Issue
Macon Georgia voters authorize a new bond ordinance in a regular city council session. The committee on ordinances and resolutions favors the measure with a tentative November 3 date and immediate registration work. The ordinance provides for $100,000 for paying debts and $100,000 for improvements in Vineville.
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Macon
Vineville
Mayor A J Miller Returns to Macon After Vacation
Mayor A J Miller returned to Macon after a three week Atlantic Beach vacation and attended the city council session. The health break and improved conditions were noted as aiding his recovery.
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A. L. Miller
Macon
A. J. Milller
Atlantic Beach
Persian Shah Opens Durbar Amid Tepid Approval
A Teheran dispatch reports the young shah will meet loyal subjects in a durbar on Tuesday. He appears unhappy and longs for his mother's care while Teheran remains lethargic. Court penitents, flatterers, and office-seekers gather, hoping for crumbs from the rulers. Old reactionaries linger, undeterred by the changing guard.
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London
Teheran
Times
Shah
Segregation Petition Circulated Among White Postal Clerks
Lockhart Texas July 20 a petition circulated among white postal clerks asks segregation of white and colored clerks. It urges assigning colored workers to one section or separate lines if possible and to present the request to the postmaster general.
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Lockhart
Texas
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