Camp Patton prolongs camp in Rome as city funds ten days
Rome July special At mayores urging Colonel Vernon revoked a noon Wednesday camp break and orders a ten day tour ending Thursday afternoon at Beal to extend the stay at Camp Patton. private subscription funds the extra time. Romans praise the regiment, seek to save Rome Light Guards with efforts to enlist more men and reforms. Inspector General Obear calls the camp among Georgiats best as the Sixteenth Infantry conducts drills.
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Rome
Hanks
An- Vernon
Camp Patton
Georgia
Home Light Guarda
Willam G Obear
Adjutant General's Office
Atlanta
Patton
Oberr
Jeff Dunwoody
George Sims
Four Children Starving Case Ties to Paralyzed Father
Joseph Carter of 46 Reinhardt Street faces charges for not supporting his family after police found his four children and a starving infant at a squalid home. Officers at the barracks took the children for care while Carter, a Confederate veteran crippled earlier, explained he struggled to feed them while tending his ailing wife. The family previously survived on meager factory wages and nurse fees, with Carter awaiting arraignment in the recorder's court.
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Joseph Carter
Paradise Alley
Reinhardt Street
Hollis, Martin
Abbott
Carter
North Carolina
Georgia
White County
Atlanta
Jem
Mere Carter
Sre
Aick
Recorder’s Court
Splendid Union Depot Plans Accepted
The article describes the Atlanta Union Depot plans highlighting a 8,300 square foot main waiting room with white marble and pink accents, separate ladies and gentlemen waiting areas, numerous ticket windows, a comprehensive mezzanine, dining room, and extensive services. It notes trackless concourses, a large baggage area, postal and express facilities, a 230 by 700 foot train shed, and the project’s progress through planning, financing, and construction stages with city grade-change discussions pending.
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Union
Atlanta
Bureau of Information
Pullman
Triton
Glals
Mpin
Mitchell Street
Tourfet
Hera
Passonmesa
Whde
James W. English
Atlanta Termina Company
John M. Egan
Henry M. Steele
Central of Georgia
B. Thompson
Marya
Edger Blair
Equitable
Dew Depot
City Hall
Placca
Terry
Howell
H. M. Steele
Madison and
Hunter Streets
Atlanta Terminal Company
Engineer Steel
J. W. English
Reilroad Company
Vlads ‘Mt
Two are killed and seven injured in rail collision at Springfield
In Springfield, Virginia, a rear end crash between the Southern Limited and a work tram at 7 this morning left two dead, seven injured. W W Woodward of Jonesville and MEEKS the fireman died. injured include Benjamin Rewiings and Peter Harrington among others. The work train had been on a siding. brakes failed as the Limited, late and fast, struck it.
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Washington
Southern Railway
Springfield
Alexandria
W. W. Woodward
Jonesville
Meeks
Benjamin Rewiings
Orange
Peter Harrington
John I. Thompson
Washington, D
J. Frank Keller
J.antzer’s Mills
Frederick J. Larick
T. A. Fontanna
Bethelwill
N.C
Southern
Here
Atlanta
New Orleans
Harrington
Walking Delegates Guilty of Extortion Conviction
Sam Parks and Timothy McCarthy were found guilty in central session on charges of extortion. Former Magistrate Brann, counsel for the accused, plans to appeal for a change of venue in the supreme court tomorrow due to officials’ statements and newspaper publication deemed to prejudice the trial. Assistant Attorney Rand intends to oppose the motion.
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New York
Sam Parks
Timothy McCarthy
Brann
Tounuet
Supreme Court
Elients
Frog leg farming venture organized in Alabama town
Birmingham July 25 Special C Burgin proprietor of the Central hotel at Bessemer has formed a frog farming company. Forty acres near Bessemer will host ponds stocked with government frogs. Proponents say frog legs are in strong demand and promise high profits.
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Birmingham
Ala
C. Burgin
Bessemer
No massacre of Hebrews reported near Tangier
A denials story corrects a foreign dispatch claiming a massacre of Jews occurred at Ofran near Tangier Morecto. It says a Jewish quarter was attacked on July 17, a building burned and a girl abducted but observers doubt the report and question the details given by the agency.
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Ofran
Lemion
United States
Tangier
Morecto
Nas
Alabama Mob Leader Seeks Pardon in Lynching Case
Montgomery July 2 Special Congressman C W Thompson and former Representative John T Heflin traveled to the governor to seek a pardon for John Thomas of Elmore. Thomas is believed to have led a mob that lynched a Black man about three years ago. The governor ordered a special term and grand jury after the lynching, indictments followed, and several mob members were convicted and pardoned except Thomas.
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Montgomery
Ala
C. W. Thompson
John T. Heflin
Randolph
John Thomas
Elmore
Jelka
Denson
Thomas
Rich Woman Released After Mexico Murder Conviction
Mrs. Mattie D. Rich of Chicago, jailed in Chihuahua for the murder of her husband John B. Rich in Juarez on April 27, 1890, has been released due to insufficient evidence. Her case drew wide attention as she sought refuge in Texas after extradition.
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Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Mattie D. Rich
Chicago
Chihuahua
John B. Rich
Juares
Rich
Texas
Seaboard Air Line Sale To Wrightsville Beach Weekend Rates
The Seaboard Air Line offers Saturday weekend trips to Wrightsville Beach at 7.80 round trip with double daily Pullman service. Three days at the beach. For details call City Ticket Office Piedmont Hotel.
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Seaboard Air Line
Wrightsville Beach
Pullman
Beach
Piedmont Hotel
Peachtree Eee
Tompkins Marries Fiancée After Fatal Shooting
Franklin Georgia July 3 Special. Nicholas Tompkins a 23 year old son of western Georgia planter Ben Hill Tompkins shot John Echols during a past dispute and fled. Recently the grand jury did not indict him. he then returned home. While at a fiddlers convention he shot himself three times but survived. He married his sweetheart Miss Hearn Sunday morning after being wounded.
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Franklin
Nicholas Tompkins
Georgia
Ben Hill Tompkins
Misa Hearn
Tompkins
John Echols
Echols
Ball family reunion to be held at Keuka Park in 1903
Washington Ga July 3 Special The third annual Ball family reunion of the United States and Canada will be at Hireuka park Yates county New York August 4 and 6 1903 Keuka college to be renamed Ball college as a memorial Rev George H Ball president and founder consents an archive of genealogical material to be preserved in the college library Thomas Ball the Montclair sculptor wrote words and music for a song in honor of the occasion Election Won Again Postponed Charlottesville Va July 2 The University of Virginia presidential election postponed due to missing board members date for next meeting August 15 to 18 to ensure full attendance San A
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Mise Andrews
Washington
Alabama
Washington, Ga
United States
Canada
Hireuka Park
Yates County
New York
Keuka College
Ball College
George H. Ball
D.D
Bally Devoe
Thomas Ball
Montclair
N. J
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
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