Coffman Acquitted in Brookside Minister Shooting Case
Birmingham justice of the peace R. D. Coffman was acquitted of killing Rev. J. W. Bradford after a trial that heard he confronted the pastor at Bradford’s Brookside home last winter. Coffman testified the gun was Bradford’s and that he acted in self defense.
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Birmingham
Ala
R. D. Cagman
J. W. Bradford
Brookside
Greene
Bradford
Mrr. Coffman
Coffman
Mr. Bradford
ANOTHER VICTIM OF WRECK DIES AT HOME
Chattanooga Tenn June 15 Special T S Thach baggage master of the Jasper accommodation in the wreck on the Mashville Chattanooga and St Louis railroad Friday died yesterday of injuries and the boat was sent to his late home at Jasper Frank Dickinson of Nashville and R L Stover mail clerk of Cartersville Ga both seriously injured were today so far recovered as to go to their homes Chief Clerk Welch of the railway mail service stated tonight that between and and 500 mall packages had been destroyed most of which was local All through pouches were saved The wreck was nearly all cleared away yesterday and little is left of the terrible affair
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Thach
Chattanooga
Tenn
T. S. Thach
Jasper
Chattanooga and St. Louis
Frank Dickinson
Nashville
R. L. Stover
Cartersville
Welch
Railway Mail Service
Value of hardwood timber held by Mississippi landowners
Mississippi timber owners are learning its real value and delaying sales. In recent years hardwood land sold for 1 to 15 dollars per acre, while actual value, based on projected profits, was many times higher. Stave makers and northern furniture firms struggle to buy desirable acres as demand for yellow pine remains strong, leaving large virgin tracts in wealthy hands.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Stae
Lyceum Course Planned for Columbus Next Winter
Columbus Georgia June 45 Special At a meeting in the auditorium the community decided to hold a new lyceum course in Columbus next winter under the Alkahest Lyceum system of Atlanta and the High School Art and Culture Club. Professor Marshall Marton, principal of the high school, will serve as secretary. A fine list of attractions has been selected and the course will open in October.
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Columbus
Alkahest Lyceum System
Atlanta
Art and Culture Club
Marshall Marton
Delegates from Washington Georgia to Baptist union leave Tuesday
Delegates from Washington Ga to the Baptist Young People's Union to convene in Savannah next week will depart in a private car Tuesday. The list includes Misses Newell Sims Annie Neeson Bessie Jackson Cora Beck May Fruker Annie Laurie Smith Mrs. Hainarnold W T Johnson M C Pope Nat Sanders R C Norman Juniors Lelia Bims Lucy May Sims Lucile Norman.
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Washington
Baptist Young People’s Union
Savannah
Misses Newell Sims
Annie Neeson
Bessie Jackson
Cora Beck
May Ftuker
Annie Laurie Smith
Mrs. Haiarnold
W. T. Johnson
M. C. Pope
Nat Sanders
R. C. Norman
Lelia Bims
Lucy May Sims
Lucile Norman
Convention of Baptists Young People in Savannah Georgia
The annual convention of the Young People's Baptist Union of Georgia begins Tuesday in Savannah with President M J Brittain of Atlanta presiding. Sessions in First Baptist Church include welcome, sermons, debates on Christian citizenship, and discussions on the Sunday School and junior work. A Thursday trip to Tybee Island is planned with surf bathing for visitors. The event ends Thursday night with further talks on citizenship and miscellaneous business.
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Savannah
Young People's Baptist Union of Georgia
M. J. Brittain
Atlante
First Baptist Church
John D. Jordan
R. C. Norman
Washington
BR. B. Hadden
Rome
Sillen Anderson
Hawkinaville
J. J. Whitfeld
Hawkinsville
HB. J. Smith
Tennille
J. M. Frost
Nashville
Tenn
W. H. Glimore
Brunswick
Baptist Young People's Union
W. W. Gaines
Atlanta
Whitfeld
J. H. Long
Senola
Capitol Avenue
Duffy Street Baptist Church
H. B. Bloodworth
Forsyth
Eres W. Melton
Augusta
P. L. Motley
Tybee Island
W. H. Geistwalt
Chicago
Bankers Gather in Savannah for Inter State Convention
Savannah to host about 208 bankers from Virginia North Carolina and Georgia for an interstate convention June 17 18. Activities include a De Soto Hotel dinner and theater welcome address by Pleasant A Browall with responses from Virginia and Georgia. Social events cap with Tybee island trip and a skyscraper race among Savannah banks.
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Savannah
Bavannah
Virginia
North Carollina
Georgia
Gavannah
North Carolina
Mills B. Lane
Citizens’ Bank of
Hotel de Soto
Pleasant A. Browall
Charles T. O'Ferrall
John &. Bruton
Wilson
N. C
R. F. Maddox
Atlanta
National Bank
National Bank of
Germania Bank
Citizens’ Bank
Henry Blun
Buileing
Liberty Street
Herman Myers
National Bank of Savannah
Germania
Ogiethorpe
Glorious Fourth in Rome Planned as Big Celebration
Rome Ga June 15 Special Much interest here in a monster Fourth of July celebration with a barbecue at Mobley park followed by patriotic speeches by Judge Maddox Senator Clay and others. Afternoon athletic and water sports and a fireworks display at night. Rail rates to Rome will be set and merchants plan a memorable day with a flower parade and masqueerade hall at Mobley park pavilion possibly added.
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Rome
Mobley Park
Maddox
Clay
Mobley Park Pavilion
Actor killed by street car in Cleveland
Arthur Underwood a prominent Castle Square Opera Company member from Boston was struck and killed by a street car at Budd and Willson avenues during a rainy evening. He stepped from one car and paused before another, was run down and crushed to death.
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Cleveland
Oho
Arthur Underwood
Castle Square Opera Company
Boston
Budd and Willson Avenues
Underwood
Death by own action in Buffalo hotel room
The body of John George Newland a 36 year old from Minneapolis was found in an Exchange street hotel Buffalo N Y this afternoon with a bullet wound in his head. He had been dead several hours. The door was locked from the inside indicating suicide. Bank books with balances in Kansas City and other western banks were found among his effects.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John George Newland
Minneapolis
Exchange Street
Newland
Kansas City
Salvation Army to Open Day Home in Columbus
The Salvation Army plans a day home in Columbus to educate children of mill workers. Children will be received in the morning while parents work, and cared for during the day with moral instruction and rudimentary schooling.
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Salvation Army
Columbus
Sudden Death of a Lincoln Lawyer in Chicago
Genio M. Lambertson a leading Lincoln Nebr attorney died of heart disease at the Palmer House in Chicago after attending a baseball game and a university banquet. He had served as assistant secretary of the treasury under President Harrison. Lambertson died overnight while with his wife at the hotel.
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Genio Lambertson
Lincoln
Nebr
Chicago
Genio M. Lambertson
Palmer House
Lambertson
Harrison
the Treasury
Anson Judd Upson
Glens Falls
New York
University of the State of New York
Auburn Theological Seminary
Thomas Nixon
Richmond
Ind
Washington
John G. Platina
Vienna
United States
Toulon
France
Pandora annual out at Athens detailing university life
The Pandora, the University of Georgia annual, is released in a red and black 250 page volume. It highlights editorial staff, contributors from Life and The New York World, and features a notable piece by W. O. Payne on the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian Literary Societies including their old treaty and a 1829 clash over territory.
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Athens
Pandora
Ita
Frank H. Barrett
H. Blackshear
C. D. Russel
H. M Fletcher
M.S. Johnson
J. M. Peebs
Donald Cohen
James K. Jordan
Messrs
Eugene Murphy
Lewis Greggs
F. G. Edge
The
New York World
Otho Cushing
Life
Pierre Holst
Phinizy Calhoun
Gabriel Solomon
Garrard Glenn
Cliff Elder
Oscar
W. Potter
Mrs. Hake
Frances Meldrim
Garland Smith
Hardy
May Reynolds
Sadie Cranston
Helene Hall
Laura Blackshear
Lucy Goodrich
Bertha Barrett
Hailie Park
Annie Lewis
Blanche Carson
Lacy Woodall
W. O. Payne
Phi Kappa
Demosthenian
Payne
W. Wason
Phi Kappas
Phi Kappa Society
Curfew Law in Columbus Debated by W C T U
In Columbus Georgia on June 15 the local W C T U discussed enforcing a curfew law. The society noted children on city streets after midnight and pressed for action, though no vote was taken at the meeting.
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Columbus
Indians Charged with Murder Near Okfuskee
A U S marshal posse arrests William Bear and George Jacobs, full blooded Indians, charged with killing Bear’s wife and daughter near Okfuskee. The killings stem from a land deed dispute as the two women were found dead hanging in their cabin. entertainment for the Hospital for Incurables has been postponed.
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Okmulgee
Ind. T
United States
William Bear
George Jacobs
Bear
Okfuskee
Crops in Sumter Are Fine in Georgia Rain
Americus Georgia June 15 Special says steady rain for 24 hours has boosted crop prospects across the region. Corn will be secured, cotton stands knee high with blooms, fields mostly weed free. A good cat crop last week gives way to peas for hay. Peaches and early watermelons are marketed, promising a fine Tremelon yield of watermelons and cantaloupes.
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Americus
Georgia
Cost of living rise outpacing wages in early 1900s
An analysis uses Dun's Review price indices to show living costs climbing more than wages from 1896 to 1902 and later. It details breadstuffs, dairy, clothing, and other goods, noting substantial gains while wage data remain uncertain.
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Dun
Uzes Wee
Everaeey
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the Convention OF Baptists
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Glorious
Lowry National Bank
Thos. Egleston, Sam’l M. Inman
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Thos. D. Meador
WM. G. Rercgul
Ted Pee
Pacing
John Oliver
Jos. T. Orme
W. L. Coe Young
Binghamton
State Department
Grand Army of the Repubile
Young
Georgia Regiment
Tuscaloosa
Southern-Western Lumber Company
Dallas
Tex
San Antonio
Irena Baker
Wrightsville Beach
ASR Line Railway
Order of Eastern Stag
Ladies
Masonic Fraternity
Wrightswillie Beach
Atlantic Coast
the University
Hospital For Incurables
Sumter
Weal
Loar Baskin
H. Thornton
W. F. Mant
C. Caldwell
State of Georgia
W. English
W. DP. Inman
K. Otpley
OAS
I. Eyar
Caphiers
Jadies Gwarn
QB Currier
Oss
Romaile
Worte
Acse
Atlanta National Bank
Éameq Swann
Tomah
Robinson-Humphray Co
Coorgia
Zaze
Hillmansville
Southern Engraving Company
Tumansville
Constitution Building
J. W. Graves
Tom
Southern Engraving CO
Atlanta, Ga
IBM Seale
Norwood Smith
F Hattemer
M. Seale & CO
Pryor
J. Kimball House
Commission Prokers
Montgomery
W. Lee & Co
Ky Ware & Leland
Gilbert & Clay
New Orleans
Old Dominion Line
Dirorees Steamships
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Virgini Beach
Gattroad
J. Pe. Shaeba
B. B. Walker
Traiiscanager
Brown
New York, N.Y
Gotton
C. EE. Caverly
Souther
Exchange
Murphy &Co., Inc
South Pryor Street
Jackson Building
Seath
W. Patterson & Co., Investment Securities
John W. Dickey
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