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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1912
Page
5
Fragmented copy reports a trial about Grace with few spectators and unclear dialogue. The text mentions uncertainty about who shot the speaker, references friends, and hints at ongoing developments without clear names or outcomes.
The fragment suggests a high profile trial with Mrs Gru and her attorneys preparing for a pivotal stage. Prosecution outlines complex plans after testimony, while the defense plans to call witnesses if needed. A decisive verdict hinges on a concise jury statement and potential concluding argument.
John Hartwell is found guilty by a jury in a case alleging a theft at the University of Chicago involving a 200 year old Khariah amulet linked to King Menes. Fingerprint evidence and testimony from Egyptologists supported the verdict. defense questioned the reliability of fingerprint science. Mrs Asben McCurry, wife of a local legislator, remains ill and home detention affects Col. Afk Urrs.
The Calhoun County Humane Society of Anniston and its 175 members, paying 2 dollars yearly, outlines its work to combat cruelty. Officers, a board of directors, and a part time employee handle complaints, seeking funds to expand county reach despite financial limits. Major J F Burke criticizes lax enforcement of animal cruelty ordinances. John L Ryan defends humane action amid controversy over a crate of chickens and alleged racial bias.
The Georgia House approved the farmers' tax exemption bill introduced by Chairman Johnson of the general agriculture committee. It allows holding cotton in warehouses for twelve months in 1913 without tax, aligning with cotton holding aims and matching provisions used in Alabama Texas Mississippi and South Carolina. Representatives Turnipseed and Cabiniss supported the bill. House sessions will start at 9 am instead of 10 am.
Leon Horner a Burlington railroad switchman saved a 4 year old girl on the tracks leaping from the pilot of a switching locomotive. He grabbed the child but fell under the moving engine and clung to the brake board until the train stopped. He suffered only severe bruises. In Washington Ga two cotton lots sold this week lowering spot cotton in two warehouses to the lowest in twenty years with only one bale remaining from Wilkes county’s 1905 crop.
Tom Watson receives loud applause at a rally where 1 500 farmers attend despite poor crops. Lawson Strown and Lawson Brown push for the national warehouse system to store cotton. Watson credits past platform wins and backs McLendon for railroad commissioner and J J Brown for agriculture, urging farmer unity and youth involvement.
New York reports noted French entomologist and poet Fabre, famed by Victor Hugo as the insects homer, is dying of hunger in Provence at age 88. Nearly blind, he devoted his life to minute insect study and produced prose of natural majesty, influencing Maeterlinck and Rostand.
Washington July 25 The state department ordered the navy to return 850 marines from Guantanamo Cuba to the United States. About 100 will remain as a permanent garrison. The Prairie will take 200 marines at Colon and stop at Guantanamo as many as possible on its northward cruise. Ajax will follow with the remainder.
A health advisory praises disease preventives and Tyree's Antiseptic Powder as safe and beneficial. It claims physicians strongly recommend it for contagions, cleansing wounds, ulcers, and mucous membranes. The ad notes a 25 cent package yields two gallons of solution and offers samples from J S Tyree in Washington DC.
In Alabama near Dolomite a masked mob overpowered Deputies Parker and Smithson, beat miner Jim Wesson nearly to death, and held the officers at gunpoint. The three year old daughter of Wesson testified she saw her father return home enraged after beating her, prompting the mob to act. Wesson was arrested on assault and weapon charges. Hartwell also reports Luther Cox and Lester Lewis being arrested for taking Judge Adams’s horse and buggy in Flowersville Georgia.
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