Local bills dominate House session amid rapid passage
The House convened for an hour with Speaker Pro Tem McMichael and passed a large slate of local measures, including charter amendments and roads and revenues boards. Senate bills followed, introducing acts to create or amend town and city charters, and new offices.
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Road building outfit bought by Chattooga County
Lyerly Ga July 26 Spectal A new road building cabit consisting of 4 20 horsepow Baseline traction en gine three eradera and a scarifter has been purchased by this county and arrived a few days ago and is being tested this week Mr O Neill of Atlanta representing the sellers and R A McWhortrr representing the board of roads and revenues are trying out the machinery of the roads and the outfit is doing excellent work and with this outfit Chattoosa county should have good roads Several miles of the road can be made In a day
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Mr. O'Neill
Atlanta
R. A. McWhortrr
Board of Roads and Revenues
Chattesea County
Children Families Clash Over Neighborhood Feud
Mrs J B Smith of Battle Hill was arraigned with her husband and J A Butler on disorderly conduct stemming from a long feud. The dispute began when Irwin Smith teased Butler children with a pedal tricycle. mothers joined, policemen intervened, and Recorder Broyles urged families to overlook grievances to avoid tragedy.
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Battle Hill
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Tax Digest Shrinks in Wilkes County Amid Tax-ology Debate
Washington Ga July 26 Special tax receiver J T Harris reports 1913 Wilkes County tax digest shows about a 60 000 drop from 1912 due to factors like drought and fires but main cause appears to be a local malady dubbed tax-ology The article compares white and Negro land valuations and suggests land could be valued at 20 per acre including improvements if sold by force with 360 000 acres overall in the county
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J. T. Harris
Wilkes County
Harris
Butt
Old County
Wilkes
Father Kills Child as Mule Slays Other Kids
In Tuscaloosa county near Sears, Alabama, farmer George Hogs killed his infant child with a woodcutting accident. A neighbor then learned two of the farmer's young sons had been killed by an angry mule at Meld. The father buried the child and fled to his nearby home.
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George Hogs
Sears
Tuscaloosa County
Mrs. A. E. Ingram Dies Near Perry
Mrs. Anna F. Ingram died at her residence about three miles north of Perry Georgia on Thursday night and was buried Friday afternoon in Evergreen cemetery. She was survived by her husband J. T. Ingram and two daughters.
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Ever-green
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Sumter County bids for Georgia Experiment Station move
Americus board of trade in special session endorses legislature bills to move the Georgia Experiment Station to a southern locality. Sumter County plans to press its bid, claiming favorable climatic conditions unique to the region to beat Griffin and other areas in the final selection.
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Americus Board of Trade
Georgia Experiment Station
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Sumter County
Griffin
Cross Keys merchant stabbed by debtor in Georgia
F Ham, Cross Keys merchant in Macon county, was stabbed six times by a negro who resented being buned for a debt of 20 certs. He was hospitalized with non fatal injuries. Deputies fought to subdue the assailant before arresting him at the scene.
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F. Ham
Cross Keys
Ham
Gets It the Easy Corn Cure Gates the Corn Quick
An advertisement touts GETS-IT as a fast simple cure for corns warts calluses and bunions. It claims two second application no bandages no salves no knives and razors no irritation to healthy flesh. Sold by druggists for 25 cents or mailed from TB Lawrence & Co and listed drug firms in Atlanta and elsewhere.
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Death After Insect Bite Near Athens Georgia
Miss Drew Nunn of the Athens area died seven hours after being bitten in a garden by an unknown insect. Authorities found no snake involvement. She had foreseen death days earlier and gave detailed funeral wishes, including coffin style gongs pallbearers.
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Athens
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Commerce
Vinson Club Formed in Hardwick Town
Milledgeville Ga July 26 Special At this early date in the fight in the tenth congressional district the first organized effort is a Vinson club of as many as one hundred names of voters from Hardwick Ga a new post office opened last year and named in honor of the present congressman Thomas Hardwick This is the first political club organized to foster Colonel Carl Vinson in his congressional race and is unique in that those composing its membership are from the post office that Congressman Hardwick recently worked to create.
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Vinson
Hardwick
Thomas Hardwick
Carl Vinson
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