President Wilson Declines Interviews for Office Seekers
Washington dispatch reports President Wilson will not see job seekers personally, replacing interviews with cabinet-led appointment decisions. The shift aims to curb patronage and speed up staffing across departments, with Georgia appointments like Atlanta postmaster and collector of internal revenue pending cabinet input and senatorial recommendations.
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John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Wilson
Bryan
Taft
Georgia
Mult
Imade
Internal Revenue
Atlanta
Hoke Smith
Bud” Blalock
Henry 3. Jackson
Bacon
G. M. Hitch
Bolling Jones
Hugh J. McKee
Cartersville
M. L. Johnson
Cess Station
Senator Smith
Representative Hughes
WW. le Stanley
Dublin
Darby
Vigralia
Hughes
Stanley
H. M. Stanley
New Jersey
Wilgon
Kern
Indiana
Martin
Virginia
Ledge
Marshall Seeks Private Office Amid Inaugural Crowds
Washington March 1 Hundreds of Inaugural visitors flooded Vice President Marshall in his first day of duties crowding his office. He plans moving to a new room in the senate office building to gain privacy and smoke a cigar. A special larger chair is ordered for Senator O Hie M James of Kentucky, famed as the biggest senator, as desks and chairs prove cramped by the crowds and giant personalities.
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Washington
Marshall
Senate
Ohie M. James
Kentucky
James
Penrose
Alze
Texas moves to force breakup of Standard Oil firms
Texas files suit in Greenville seeking to oust Standard Oil companies of New York and New Jersey Magnolia Petroleum Corsicana Petroleum from the state. Attorney General B Looney seeks penalties totaling 36175000 against four companies and 25 individuals for alleged anti trust violations. Named defendants include John D Rockefeller and other magnates along with Texas representatives. Case follows federal Sherman act actions previously dismissed.
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Greenville
Texas
Standard Oil Companies
New York
New Jersey
Magnolis Petroleum Company
Corsicana Petroleum Company
B. Looney
Jasks
John ©. Archbold
John D. Rockefeller
H. C. Folger, Jr
J. Folger
Charles W. Harkness
Charles M. Pratt
Howard Payne
L. C. Ledyard
C. M. Payne
Titusville
C. C. Edwards
Norfolk
Mass
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Dallas
Wickersham
Standard Oi
Standard Oil Company
Coraiana Fetroleum Company
Magnelig Petroleum Company
Bryan speaks on tenure as State secretary elects
Washington March 6 William Jennings Bryan told assistant secretaries and bureau heads he is not prepared to discuss tenure in office and that his own tenure is brief but not begun. He urged acquainting each other and hoped to greet a successor with the retiring secretary. The remark caused surprise with no explanation offered.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
State Department
Mr. Bryan
Vandal With Hammer Defaces Gettysburg Monuments
Gettysburg pa March 5 High monuments on the battlefield were damaged last night by a vandal using a heavy hammer. Damage hit the fifth corps headquarters Forty-ninth and Ninety-sixth Pennsylvania Fortieth New York Grant's Vermont brigade Sixth Maine Fifth Wisconsin and Thirty-seventh Massachusetts. Granite chunks were chipped from prominent blocks and faces of soldiers were knocked off while guns were mashed and body parts broken. Authorities suspect the act stemmed from disappointment in seeking in the national park.
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Gettysburg
Fifth Corps
Forty-ninth
Pennsylvania
Fortieth New York
Grant
Vermont
Maine
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
National Park
Chamber workers seek new members in Atlanta drive
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce canvassers and eleven committees push to enroll new members. By Wednesday about 260 new members were signed, with 100 added in a Wednesday afternoon push. Luncheons, bulletin boards, and two silver cups fuel competition among committees as efforts continue through Friday and culminate Saturday with final results.
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Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Ad Men's Club
Chamber of Commerce
Wilmer L. Moore
Piedmont
Chamber
Atlanta
Bowen
Rich
Whitehall Street
Parks- Chambers-Hardwick Company
Peachtree
Georgia to Send Delegates to Peace Congress
Chancellor David C. Burrow of the University of Georgia has named delegates for Georgia to the fourth American Peace Congress to be held in St Louis May 1 to 3. The appointees include K G Matheson of Atlanta J H T McPherson of Athens M M Parks of Milledgeville M Snelling of Athens and H L White of Athens. Governor Brown helped appoint state delegates as Georgia actively supports peace congress efforts.
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St Louis
David C. Burrow
University of Georgia
St. Louis
K. G. Matheson
Atlanta
J. H. T. McPherson
Athens
M. M. Parks
Milledgeville
M. Snelling
HL. ©. White
Corpse of Watchman Found on Platform in Anniston
W. D. Cochran, watchman for the Southern railway, was found dead on the Atlantic compress platform in Anniston Alabama. A revolver, four dollars, a letter to his mother Mrs B J Cochran Summerville Georgia and other items were in his pockets. No marks of violence were found. An unopened whisky case from a looted car suggests he confronted thieves and died of heart disease from the excitement.
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Anniston
Ala
W. D. Cochran
Southern Railway
Atlantic Compress
B. J. Cochran
Summerville
Cochran
Guardsman to serve for killing citizen in Dallas
Sergeant J. D. Mahley of the Texas National Guard lost his appeal from a forty year sentence for second degree murder in the killing of spectator Louis Retschenstein during the Taft parade in Dallas. Retschenstein tried to cross the street as Mahley aided crowd control for the president’s visit. Mahley contended the shooting was unintentional.
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Austin
Texas
J. D. Mahley
Texas National Guard
Dallas
Court of Criminal Appeals
Louis Retschenstein
Manley
Gover
O. I
Wilson Watch at Capitol Would Alter Presidential Access
Senators and representatives debate a published claim that President Wilson plans to spend part of each workday in the president's room at the Capitol to stay close to legislative business. Critics warn such a move would break precedent and potentially provoke a revolt for usurping duties of Congress. The ornate room, near the Senate, has rarely been used except to sign bills at session end.
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Wilson
Capitol
Congress
Pew
Militancy Overload Strains Suffrage Leader at Hampstead Meet
London officials report Mrs Pankhurst collapsed amid chaotic suffrage event at Hampstead where Flora Drummond spoke. Disruption included students hurling objects, chairs toppled, and bruises. Drummond urged electors to back London County Council critics of John Burns, who denounced militant tactics as blackguardism. Burns defended press sensationalism and warned of public life being driven from politics.
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London
Drummond
London County Council
John Burns
Islington
Burns
America
Sea Captain Lucas Dies At Age Of 84
Christian E. Lucas veteran sea captain and Civil War blockade runner, died at 84 after a long illness. Born in Wilmington, he later became general superintendent of the Pullman Southern company and set his offices in Atlanta. Funeral services were held at Patterson's chapel with pallbearers named among friends and former associates.
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Christian E. Lucas
Mood bin
Patterson's
Weat View
J. B. Ficklen
J. F. Saunders
Bdward Saunders
W. EB. McAlMater
McAllister
Franklin Jackson
Captain Lucas
Wilmington
Deb
Baltimore
Richmond
Ines
Pullman Southern Company
Pullman Company
Atlanta
Aan Bhs
Council urged to install two new water pumps in Atlanta
Water board, in a report by General Manager W Zode Smith, urged immediate action to install a 16,000,000 gallon rotary pump and a 20,900,000 gallon pump to avert health risk as three pumps near failure. Smith cited cracked and broken rods on engines 405 and 406 at the Chattahoochee station, noting 20 year-old equipment and mounting costs. Bids for the smaller pump were requested with a March 20 deadline, while the finance committee was asked to attend the Ball meeting.
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Water Board
W. Zode Smith
Atlanta
Beths
Smith
Chattahoocher
Blda
Board of Water Commissioners
Bobyd
Store girls to talk to vice commission in Chicago
Executive heads of seven big mercantile establishments will testify before the state vice commission next Friday. A lieutenant governor heads the commission. Chicago march 5. (Text appears garbled) The report notes women identified as store workers may be involved in examination.
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Chicago
Will
O'Hare
Sotymiseian
Police Women Advocate Motherly Police Force in New York
Mrs C Belmont urged the New York legislative committee to deploy police women on busy night streets to protect girls and young women. She argued mothers guard children and women can better handle delinquent youth than men. General Theodore A Bingham pressed for a strong head of the police to act as a dictator and called for disbanding police associations. Edward B Page for the Merchants Association said Sunday saloons should stay open, noting New York as cosmopolitan with little public support for closing hours.
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York
New York
Py Belmont
Aldermanic
Theodore A. Bingham
Bingham
New ‘York
Edward B. Page
Merchants’ Association
Allens Get Resphe From Electric Chair
Richmond Va March Governor grants reprieve after stay request for Allen awaiting execution in electric chair case.
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Allens
Richmond
Wilson Begins Chief Executive Duties Amid Pomp and Handshakes
President Woodrow Wilson starts his term amid marching crowds, fireworks, and a formal White House welcome. He set the tone by inviting only public-business visitors, met with Cabinet members and Congress leaders, dictated letters, and, after a family luncheon, shook hands with 1,140 people in the East Room during a 40 minute reception. He then took a motor tour of Washington, unaccompanied by aides, followed by a briefing with Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison who quipped he was already learning the government’s machinery.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Jong
John W. Kern
Senate
Congress
Wilson
Ala
Rotary
Wal
Fonte
New ‘Jersey
Thomas L. Rhoads
Taft
Garrison
Equity
Weather Prophecy Report for Georgia Ends With Cold Thursday
Georgia forecast calls for fair skies Thursday followed by a colder day. Local report lists low and high temperatures, mean and normal values, with rainfall in the last 23 hours and deficiencies since month start and year start.
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Tate
Standard Oil
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Rockefeller Combine
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Mrs. Pankhurst
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Council
Mann
JSATR
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City
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Galveston
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Hatteras
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