Verdict of guilty against Mrs Stoe in federal white slave case
Mrs Annie Stoe was found guilty by a federal jury on one count of violating the Mann white slave act after two days of testimony. She faces sentencing before Judge Newman, with her husband Sam Stoe convicted earlier in January on the same charge. The verdict follows the defense's denial of the Bond girl’s allegations and related travel history.
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Annie Stoz
Newman
Steward
Marshal Brock
Steee
Fulton County
Sam Stoe
Stoe
Lehone
Annie Bund
Birmingham
Annie Bond
Bonds
Alexander
Biter
Clark
Manny White
Wilburn Denied New Trial in Georgia Murder Case
The Georgia Supreme Court denied a new trial for Nick Wilburn in the murder of James A. King, a Jones County planter, with Wilburn likely to face execution. Co-counsel indicated plans to appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
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Macon
Maron
Supreme Court
Nicky Wilquirn
James A. King
Janes County
Wiburn
Tadiz
Juhny Sc
United States Supreme Court
Cooper
Insibucn de Gvar
Jones County
Wille Asew SF
Lnited States Supreme Court
Fourt
Wiss
Carctid
Woburns
Ron
Gainesville Lodge Hosts Odd Fellows Meeting
Gamestilla Ga March 11 the twentieth division of the Odd Fellows state lodge met in annual session with attendees including Grand Master TM Hoxynes. Officers were elected and speeches given during the afternoon segment, with prayer and benediction noted.
War on Hookworm Begins in Decatur County
Special report by AY Wood notes inbridge Gal that D in charge leads a countywide hookworm eradication effort in Decatur County. Wool will join later with assistants to establish stations across districts, dedicating one day weekly at each, aiming for progressive eradication though not imminent without better sanitation and sewerage nationwide.
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Decatur
Erie
Rorgia
Last Narrow Gauge Railroad in State Ceases to Exist
Monroe Georgia March 11 Special With the gauge broadening of the Gainesville Midland to Monroe the last narrow gauge line in Georgia disappears The line has been gauge between Gainesville and Belmont the Athens branch junction broad gauge Belmont to Winder finished weeks ago Trains are expected to run broad gauge from Monroe to Gainesville next week The improvement brings better freight and passenger service new equipment and revived prospects for Monroe and the Greene County railroad to Monroe from Spalachee by spring A push to build a modern union depot involves the three railroads entering Monroe
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Monroe
Gainesville
Gaines- Ville
Guineaville Midland
Greene County Railroad
Greene County Road
Spalachee
Nointine
Mrs W A Moore Lying At The Point Of Death
Mrs W A Moore age 82 lies at her Atlanta home at 830 Peachtree street surrounded by family and doctors. She is mother to Wilmer L Moore former chamber of commerce president and has two daughters and a daughter in law. A native of North Carolina she moved with her husband through Tennessee to Atlanta after 1864 and supported First Presbyterian church and Nacoochee Valley School for Mountain Boys.
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W. A Moore
Atlanta
Peachtree Street
Moore
Wilmer L. Moore
Chamber of Commerce
If L. McKee
Aora Vertehi
Rome
John M Moore
Kattanooga
Tenn
Moyle
First Presbyterian Church
Carolina Rail Rates Under Investigation in South Carolina
State toll commission orders conference as weight and freight groups allege unfair discrimination favoring North Carolina. Bo Mehead of Charleston filed the complaint seeking freight rate adjustments.
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Columbia SC
Latiryad Freight
Iles
South Carolina
Comphurt
North Telia
Bo Mehead
Charleston
M. L. Brittain Comments on Election of County Supervisors
M L Brittain state superintendent of schools clarifies that county superintendents are not required to offer for election this year. He cites uniform terms expiring January 3 1917 and notes Attorney General confirmation received today supports this view.
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M. L. Brittain
Elder
Former 'King of Climax' Lectures in Americus
In Americus on March one an erstwhile figure known as the King of Climax speaks on his platform detailing his experiences at Climias and four years spent at the Georgia penitentiary. He discusses alleged financial outlays and plans to tour Georgia towns and later establish a bank in Americus to amass wealth.
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Americus
Americas
Recenlis
Guyer
Climias
Georgia Penitentiary
Mississippi
Georgia
New Stuttering Cure Found by Paris Doctor
Paris March 11 a new method of curing stuttering by means of the cine atograph was described to the Academy of Science today. Marage devised it and says stutterers can be rapidly cured of their looping of words shown to them on the film. He takes a moving picture of the stutterer and a normal person side by side and pronounces the same sentence, the film serving as a model for practice that leads to a cure.
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Paris
Academy of Science Today
Marage
Boy Kills Self With Smuggled Revolver at School
Rusley Ga March 11 A 13 year old boy Pomeroy Tomberlin who was examining a revolver smuggled into the school by a playmate accidentally shot and killed himself while bent over his desk in the classroom near Surrenery county He was the son of a local farmer near Surrenary.
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Rusley
Pomeroy’ Tomberlin
Surreney
Esterday
Samine
Surrenacy
Progressive Americans Entertain at Luncheon
A luncheon and dance were hosted by the Progressive Americans at Alliance Hall on Tuesday night in honor of the newly elected leaders. William Clein presided, with T. S. Broaly as vice president and Leury Broadsten among attendees.
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Clih
Alliance Hall
William Clein
T.S. Broaly
Leury Broadsten
Ziegfeld Follies Come South With All-Star Cast
See the world famous Ziegfeld Follies on tour in the South featuring the 100 in company and a New York beauty chorus. An all-star cast performs with plenty seats available for patrons.
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100 I Company
New York Beauty Chorus
Merchants to Seek Fort McPherson Trade Fair Fight
Atlanta merchants allege bias in Fort McPherson commissary bids and will present evidence to the Chamber of Commerce wholesale trade committee. President Mell R. Wilkinson will convene a meeting next Tuesday at 4:30 pm to hear complaints and prepare for talks with Fort commander Major George W. Martin, under guidance from Secretary of War Garrison and Rep William Schley Howard. The committee includes Lynn Fort chair and other named members.
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Atlanta
Fort McPherson
Mell R. Wilkinson
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Committee On
Wilkinson
Chamber of Commerce
George W. Martin
Fort
Gongreman
William Schley Howard
Washington
War Department
Garrison
Chamber of Commerce Committee On Wholesale Trade
Lynn Fort
W. H.C. Rose
R. K. Rambo
J. I. Duncan
Liebman
W. J. Lowenstein
T. A. Burke
H. J. Singer
W. H. Kiser
H. B& Wey
W. J. Dabney
S.C. Dinkins
W. B. Carlton
W. & Mansfield
Meyer, Regenstein
Oakley Defense Begins As Trial Proceeds In Alabama
Oakley testifies he lent his chief clerk funds from his own money to cover personal expenses and to be repaid later while prosecutors pursue a conspiracy theory linking James G. Oakley and Theo Lacy in the embezzlement of 42207 state funds. The judge postponed ruling on admitting the testimony as evidence.
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Montrome
Ala
James G. Oakies
State Convict Department
Theo Lacy
Gakley
Galley
Lacy
Oakley
Oakley Oakley
Lavy
Brown
Poole Leaves Macon for Winecoff Hotel
Aiacon Ga March 21 Special At lantans will be interested in the announcement that on March 20 W G Poole for six years chief clerk of the Brown House in Macon will take a similar position with the new Winecoff hotel in Atlanta Mr Poole in one of the most popular hotel men in the south and will be a valuable asset to Atlantas newest hostelry He was the first president of the Southeastern Greeters association organized in Atlanta five years ago and on the board of directors of the National Greeters association representing the southeastern states Also a purer and a member of the Shrine paper.
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Aiacon
W. G. Poole
Brown House
Macon
Winecoff
Atlanta
Poole
South
Pole
Southeastern Greeters’ Association
National Greeters’ Association
Shrine
Burglars Shoot Two and Make Escape
Montreal police pursue four burglars who robbed a St Laurent shop. One officer, Con stable Bourdon, was killed and another officer was fatally wounded as the robbers fled.
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Montreal
St Laurent
Bourdon
Kaiser and King to Meet in Venice March 24
Venice March 11 Kaiser Victor Timanuel Kanperey William Will meet here March 24 as the emperor passes through Venice on the way to his Vila on Corl island. If Empress Augusta Victoria does not accompany him Queen Helena will greet her in Venice.
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Kaiser
King
Venice
Thuy
Victor Timanuel
Kanperey
William
Fis Vila
Corl
Augusta Victoria
Helena
Man Defames Virtuous Girl Sentenced in Georgia
Athens Ga March 11 Special Father Terry of Fulton county was sentenced in Gwinnett Superior Court before Judge Brand for uttering defamation against a virtuous female. The twelve month term is the maximum under the 1909 act. The young woman is a niece of Sheriff Garner and highly esteemed.
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Athens
Terry
Fulton County
Gavinnett Superior Court
Brand
Heriff Garner
Brunswick Opens New Passenger Rail Service With G C P
Brunswick Ga March 11 Special The first through passenger trains began on the Georgia Coast and Piedmont railroad. The inaugural runs left Brunswick at 0 01 for ColIing and returned to Brunswick by 6 p m. The line will operate a double daily schedule between Brunswick and Zoimis with a direct connection to Savannah, and Ludowici will link to Savannah.
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Brunswick
Georgia Coast
Piedmnn Railrad
Brunswick Board of Trade
O Gelock
Colling
Zolims
Savannah
Ludowicr Beth
Soule Made Director by Alfalfa Growers
Athens Georgia March 11 Special President Andrew M Soule president of the State College of Agriculture has been chosen director of the National Alfalfa Growers association with headquarters in Chicago This honor came without prior knowledge of the organisation electing the Georgia educator His election reflects twenty years of alfalfa culture experience in southern states and marks him as a national authority likely to lead southern operations.
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Athens
Andrew M. Soule
State College of Agriculture
National
Soule
Leauer
South
Government to Study Diseases of the Pecan in Georgia
Wulf S C McMorran of the United States Department of Agriculture will visit Thomasville in mid March to establish a temporary station studying diseases of pecan trees in south Georgia. He will base his headquarters in Thomasville and tour pecan orchards to examine factors affecting tree growth and health.
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Fomasville
Spe- Wulf
S. C. McMorran
United States Department of Agriculture
Thomasville
McMur
South Georgia
Father of Free Lunch Passes in Chicago
Chicago March 11 Joseph Anesterfield Mackin a longtime Illinois Democratic power broker once credited with introducing the free lunch in saloons died today at Chicago State Hospital for the insane He was 73 years old and had been ill for four months Mackin served a penitentiary term for election frauds after the 1864 Cleveland flame campaign
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Chicago
Joseph
Anesterfieldy Mackin
Illinois
Chicago Biste Hospital
Mackin
State Penitentiary
Wesley Memorial fund drive aims for ten thousand dollars
A fragmented notice cites a fund drive for Greater Wesley Memorial with $19 000 needed to complete the capital goal. It notes a reported total of $2 152 45 announced on Wednesday and mentions fundraising by Ata GG and Candler involvement.
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Greater Wesley Memorial Capital
Sonn
Ata GG. Candler
Band Organized in Cordele Cream of Local Music
Cordele forms new musical group named The Hubity Pioneer Band with twenty members. A. J. Tubbs named director, Lon Burton president, F. Al. Lawrence vice president, Ferrer Frasier secretary and treasurer.
Mayor Woodward Seeks Police Board Chair in Deadlocked Race
Mayor James G Woodward now chairs and serves as secretary of the police board while a chairman to replace resigning Carlos H Mason is sought. The board remains deadlocked among W P Fain Robert T Pace and Verney with seven votes needed to decide.
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James G. Woodward
Police Board
Carlos H. Mason
Woodward
W. P. Fain
Robert T. Pace
Fain
Friends of
W. 4. Verhoy
Garner
Johnson
Clarke
Delcord
Pace
Verney
Glarke and
Verniy
Thousands Robbed by the Exchanges Reported
Washington on March 11 news notes that Senator Owen of Oklahoma told the Common Council club about a bill to regulate stock markets. He argued 28 exchanges should be regulated as meeting houses where buyers and sellers meet by mutual consent to transact business.
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New York Stock Exchange
Common Council Club
Owen
Oklahoma
Interstate ruling classifies ice cream as article of food
Washington March 11 The interstate commerce commission directed express companies to classify ice cream as an article of food. The effect will be to reduce the rates nearly 5 percent for can t. The companies have indicated their willingness to obey the order.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Ammission
Whitfield Man Killed at Downville Mill
Sharley Lane 20, an employee of Bakers sawmill near Downville, was killed yesterday afternoon when he fell onto a cut-off saw. He was the son of Frank Lane a prominent Nortons settlement farmer. The funeral was held at Dawnville today.
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Dalton
Sharley Lane
Baker'a
Downville
Frank Lane
Dawnville
Charged with breaking Georgia fish laws on Altamaha
Three shad fishermen were arrested for using a set net from Saturday sunrise to Monday sunset on the Altamaha river. Warrants issued in Glynn county for Lonnie Knight while William Odum and A J Coleman face prosecutions in McIntosh county after being caught violating the law. Prosecutions will follow promptly.
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Brunswick
Georgia
Altamaha
Glynn
Lonnie Knight
William Odum
A. J. Coleman
McIntosh County
Altamaha River
Reverend J C Davis Dies In Eighty Ninth Year
Athens Ga March 11 Snedalo The Rev J C Davis D D aged 58 years died at the home of his son W A Davis after a long illness since his wife's death two years ago He was rector of Emmanuel church here for sixteen years interrector of Concord NC and three years ago retired living here wall Eastman Ga March 11 Special Phe Bastian ice plant turned out its first block of ice sample was good firm and clear The plant modern machinery by Frick of Pittsburg best and arranged in a building by the company
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Athens
Eastman, Ga
Frick Company
Pittsburg
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W. A. Moore
Carolina Rail
M.L. Brittain
Kills Self
Chamber Committee On Wholesale Trade
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Eastman
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Thos. C. Erwin
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