Americus Gas and Electric stock and bond approval
After two days of review the railroad commission authorized Americus Gas and Electric to issue 100000 in stock and 276000 in bonds to pay for current property plus 15000 for immediate improvements and 10000 for working capital. An additional 50000 in bonds may be issued for future work with court approval.
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Ameriqua Gas and Electric Company
Fqp
Railroad Commission
Americas
G. R. Solomon
Atlanta
Americus
Solomon
Water for Columbus from Chattahoochee
Columbus Georgia reports engineer EK Ludlow backing the Chattahoochee River as Columbus’s water source with a gravity-fed system from a Factory Hill reservoir. Estimated cost is 435000 dollars and filtration is recommended. An election may follow to issue additional water bonds as current authorization is insufficient.
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Columbus
EK Ludlow
Chattahoochee River
Factory Hill
Water Commissioners
Everett Man Shot by Negro Near Wrightsville
Hilimiore Georgia March 20 Special Boze deans attending W. 3. Hveratt who was about by Seymour Young year say reports him doing well and hope of full recovery if pneumonia does not develop. He is in robust health with strong constitution. The would-be assailant is still at large and being hunted by the sheriff. Relative to Griswold his old home, a hundred dollar reward is offered for the negro, who is tall with natural color and a fine voice. He wears blue overalls.
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Hilimiore
Hveratt
Seymour Young
Wrightsville
Griswold
Augusta Plans One Million Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Levee
Augusta Georgia March 20 The chamber of commerce directs the city to issue bonds totaling 1 250 000 for immediate levee construction along the Savannah River to hold back flood waters The group notes 3400 000 already spent on river protection and argues the city now has the right to raise the larger amount Bravery and city unity drive the proposal as flood risk recedes in public sentiment
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Auguste. Ga
Chamber of Commerce
Augusta
Savannah
Boys of Atlanta to Meet Sunday Night at Wesley Memorial
The Boys of Atlanta plan a Sunday evening gathering at Wesley Memorial church at 8 o'clock. V. D. fraternity members will deliver one minute sermonettes on topics from shower baths to advanced degree work, all in the boys' own words. Sam Swilling, dubbed the boy orator, will speak on Value of Social Work, with a boy chair and boy ushers present.
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Atlanta
Wesley Memorial Church
Sam Swilling
Dr Hawthorne's Sermons Book On Sale For Mrs Hawthorne
Dr J B Hawthorne, once a prominent Atlantean, published a volume of sermons in later years. The book is now on sale to benefit Mrs Hawthorne, handled by The Lester Book and Stationery Company of Atlanta at no charge. Price is $2.00.
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J. B. Hawthorne
Atlante
Hawthorne
Lester Book and Stationery Company
Atlanta
Savannah High School Bans Walking To School With Sweethearts
Savannah principal B F Pickett prohibits high school students from walking to school together or leaving with sweethearts after sessions. He says such associations distract minds, especially boys, and vows strict enforcement. The board of education may review the ruling amid much discussion.
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Savannah
B. F. Pickett
Pickett
Board of Education
Mrs Taft Stumbles At Exposition In New York
Mrs Taft wife of President Taft stumbled while alighting from a chair at the Woman's Industrial Exhibition in the Grand Central Palace. She fell to the floor but was not injured and later attended a matinee. Editions reported she was hurt but reports were soothed. Taft learned she had tripped on her dress and was unharmed.
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New York
Taft
President Taft
Grand Central Palace
Washington
Cards Dancing Stage Topics For Methodist Conference
Kansas City March 20 The forty fourth annual meeting of the St. Louis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church opened here today with discussions on card play dancing and theater going as remedies. Bishop Wm A Quayle of Oklahoma presiding.
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Kansas City
St. Louis
Methodist-Episcopal Church
Wm. ‘A. Quayle
Oklahoma
Council Special Session Fast Tracks Alderman Permit
Alderman James W Maddox secured a sidewalk excavation contract and obtained an immediate permit by summoning the city council and aldermanic board to a special session. Mayor Winn approved the action, allowing work to begin today.
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James W. Maddox
Harria and
Feachtrea
Railway Company Formed in Ware Waycross and Western
Waycross Georgia March 20 Special Steps for immediate construction of the Waycross and Western were taken at a stockholders meeting today officers and directors elected Alex Sessoms president F B Sirmans vice president John G Sessoma secretary treasurer C Fort Andrews land and industrial agent The board includes H N Harry M L Bunn W E Sirman H D Bunn B Birieke dand M C Lee R L Patten J H Bestwick The line will run west from Waycross through Sir mand Milltown Rays Mill toward the O r i f i a Southern and Florida capital is 359000 Thirteen miles of the road have been built and surveyors and roadway crews are busy on the balance of the work
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Waycross
Waycross and Western
Alex Sessoms
F. B. Sirmans
Sirmans
John
G. Sessoma
C. Fort Andrews
H. N. Harry
M. L. Bunn
W. E. Sirman
H. D. Bunn
B. Birieke Dand
M. C. Lee
R. L. Patten
J. H Bestwick
Miltown
Sirmand
Milltown
Rays Mill
Ori Fia
Southern
Florida
Anwy City
Smiling burglars take $10,000 from New Rochelle home
In New Rochelle New Jersey a quartet in a car stole about $10 000 in jewelry from the home of Corporation Counsel Mark M Schlesinger yesterday as neighbors misread the family’s Palm Beach winter trip.
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New Rochelle
N. J
Mark M. Schlessinger
Mike
Junder
Schlessinger
Palm Beach
Herrmann Quits City Republican Political Leadership
Cincinnati March 20 August Herrmann longtime associate of George B Cox in local Republican politics announced his retirement as a leader of the party organization. Cox had made a similar move months earlier. Herrmann, a veteran municipal government specialist, also serves as president of the National Baseball Commission and of the Cincinnati National League baseball club.
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Cincinnati
August Herrmann
George B. Cox
Asa asJeader
Cox
Herrmann
Republican Party
National Baseball Commission
Cincinnati National League Baseball Club
City Council Urges Violation of Law in Louisville
Louisville officials pass a resolution urging the mayor to ignore the Sunday closing law and keep saloons open except during church hours. The council cites insufficient police and notes saloon business as legitimate but overburdened by high licenses costs and strict hours, in a move to ease enforcement.
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Louisville
General Council
United States
Pensions for Professors at University of Chicago
Chicago March 20. University of Chicago faculty and widows will receive a pension system funded by a 2,060,000 endowment announced by President Harry Pratt Judson. About 150 to 200 faculty members of 360 will be eligible, with pensions ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 dollars annually.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Harry Pratt Judson
Negro Education Conference in Nashville April 4
The general conference in Nashville on April 4 will host a section on negro education. Dr James H Dailligrd of New Orleans, head of Jeanes and Slater funds, will lead the discussion with white heads of negro schools and hundreds of farm experts from agriculture and Southern colleges.
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Terest
Nashville
Department of Agriculture
Southern Agricultural Golliger
Inclaing Charlies Barrett
Harmerg’ Union
Metro
James H. Dailligrd
New Orleans
Jeanes and Slater Funda
South
Martin Cotton Firm Placed Into Receiver's Hands
New Orleans, March. W B Thompson, former president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, was appointed receiver for the bankrupt firm E. Martin & Co. The company filed voluntary bankruptcy in U S district court. Listed liabilities total 802 887 45 with assets 919 675. Major creditors include Hibernia Bank and Trust Co 125 000 Whitney Central National Bank 26 000 Cumbeal Co 75 000 Lohman Stern Co 68 900 American Bank and Trust Co of Vicksburg 60 000 Firth National Bank of Vicksburg 10 000 Canal Louisiana Bank and Trust Co 25 000.
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New Orleans
W. B. Thompson
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
E. Martin & Co
United States District Court
Hibernia Bank and Trust Company
Whitney Central National Bank
Cumbeal & Co. Ltd
Lohman Stern & Co
American Bank and Trust Company
Vicksburg
Miss
Firth National Bank
Canal-Louisiana Bank and Trust Company
Suffragette Ebien Pittfel Gets Six Months at Old Bailey
Ebien Pitflel the suffragette who tried to set fire to the general post office in London by hurling petroleum saturated paper into the building on March 3 was sentenced at the Old Bailey to six months imprisonment in the second division. The judge noted her illness kept the sentence from being harsher and that she will have certain prisoner privileges.
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London
Ebien Pitflel
General Post
Old Bailey
Foster Brown Returns to Port Rico Law Post
Attorney General Foster W. Brown of Porto Rico visited New York en route to Washington to resign to President Taft tomorrow. He will return to Chattanooga to resume his law practice. Brown praised Porto Rico’s progress and prosperity after two years there.
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Foster Brown
New York
Foster W. Brown
Porto Rico
Washington
Taft
Chattanooga
Tenn
Mr. Brown
Hirsch Fighting Duty On Caffeine
Kamanf Jr. John Corrig: Pispi fe. Coca Cola of Atlanta faced a fight over caffeine as a habit forming drug. Hirsch testified the government increased duty to 70 cents per pound due to bureau beliefs. Coca Cola offered to arbitrate with Wiley and scientists to decide caffeine’s safety, but Wiley refused to yield.
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Kamanf Jr
John Corrig
Hirsch
Coca-Cola Y
Atlanta
Hig Gilenta
Chattanooga
Tukey
Coca-Cola Company
Wiley
Hirach
Coca- Cola Company
Dr. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Coca-Cola
House
Dwight Manufacturing Company Sued Over Import of 97 Greeks
Beaton March 20 United States District Attorney French filed a suit against Dwight Manufacturing Company with mills in Chicopee Massachusetts and Alabama City Alabama for 97000 alleging violation of the contract labor law. The complaint charges the firm imported ninety seven Greeks from Turkey and employed them in its cotton mills.
Blizzard Sweep Hits West With 18 Degrees Below Zero
Chicago reports blizzards and temperatures as low as 18 degrees below zero. A cold wave reaches southern Missouri with snow or rain forecast for Oklahoma and northern Texas tonight. The disturbance is seen moving northeastward and anxious observers track its impact on early south fruit crops.
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Chicago
Missouri
Oklahoma
Texas
Explosion Kills Nine In Dunmore Near Cavella Home
A Dunmore blast near the Cavella residence kills nine people and injures two. Two women and seven children die or are burned as three houses are destroyed and fifty feet from the scene a child’s body is found in a tree limb. Police report a broken main spilled gas through the Cavella cellar and exploded when meeting a flame.
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Feranton
Ifig
Ming Sattlingn
Dunmore
John Cavella
Robert
Dominick
Lucy
Eigsle
William
Mra
Vito Bumma
Cavella
Dunmere
Altman Pays Over One Million for Velasquez Portraits
New York March 20 Benjamin B Altman the New York dry goods millionaire is named as the purchaser of two Velasquez portraits recently brought to the country. The works dated 1624 depict King Philip IV and his minister the Duke of Olocaires and cost over $1,000,000. Also noted EH Kahn paid $500,000 for Franz Hals Picture of Himself and Family J P Morgan paid $560,000 for Raphael Virgin and Child Enthroned With Saints, the highest prices cited for those artists. The earlier record price for a Velasquez was $499,000 for a historical portrait purchased by Mrs C Huntington.
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New York
Benjamin B. Altman
Velasquez
Villa Harmony Palace
Altman
Philip Lootin
Duke of
EH Kahn
Franz Hals
J. P. Morgan
Raphael
Virgin
Velasques
C. P. Huntington
Joined Army Without Saying He Was Convict
Mobile March 20 Charles George Schultz who was sentenced to the state reformatory at St Cloud Minn but later while on parole joined the army left here for Minneapolis to finish an indeterminate sentence for grand larceny Schulitz was court martialed and given six months for not telling that he had been an inmate of a penal institution his sentence just expiring Charles Seelbach Dead
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Mobile
Ala
Charles George Schultz
State Reformatory
St. Cloud
Minn
Minneapolis
Schulitz
Whonesday In Congress Hearing On Tariff And Fortifications
A House session featured a hearing on a chemical tariff reduction bill and consideration of a fortifications appropriation, with adjournment at 6 29 p m until 2 pm Thursday. Foreign relations discussed Honduran and Nicaraguan loan treaties and a Panama tolls dispute. State department probe into Secretary Knox as valet opened, bids on Wednesday calendar reviewed, and a caucus move circulated for a naval appropriation reconsideration.
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State Department
Knox
Department
Interstate Commerce Committee
Panama
Civil Service
Foreign Affairs Committee
Sulzer
Padgett
Woman Suffrage and Senator Direct Vote Defeated in Senate
Boston reports defeat of woman suffrage and direct vote for senators by close margins. Suffrage failed 17 to 14 and direct-vote for senators 19 to 14.
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Boston
United States
Senate
Tragedy as Lover Kills Woman Then Shoots Self
In Bayonne New Jersey on March 20 John W Groundewater age 24 lay in wait for his sweetheart Louisa Graf and shot her in the face after she repulsed his attention. She fell to the sidewalk and he then fatally shot himself. The girl probably will recover.
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Bayonne
N. J
John W. Groundewater
Louisa Graf
Feed the Children and Workers with Ozomulsion Health Claim
An advertisement touts Ozomulsion as a medicinal cod liver emulsion to prevent consumption and boost strength. It promises sample bottles by mail to readers who send their addresses, claiming health benefits for children, relatives, and patients.
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Norway
Thease
Ozomulsion
Druggist Promises Quick Eczema Relief with D D D
Local Jacobs' Pharmacy advertises D D D Prescription for Eczema and skin troubles. It guarantees relief within twenty seconds and offers a full size bottle if not effective. A 26 cent trial bottle is promoted to prove its claims, while warning against substitutes from other druggists.
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D.D.D
Jacobs’ Pharmacies
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