Near beer controversy leads city to form committee
The general council created a special near beer committee to study the sale of near beer amid worries it masks real beer. Aldermen pressed on licensing, regulation, and penalties while a wave of questions about hours territory and enforcement emerged, with a preliminary list of thirteen members and twenty seven license applications.
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Styran Aplly
Aldermen
Pomeroy
Snajyor and Gesteral Council
Johnston
Atlania
Ceumnelmans + Johnson
Counciman Spraying
Jefuses
Momeil
Si Roberta
Pearce
Mangum
Sir Johnston
Fittmaton
Key
Whey
Bron
Uiltan
Huddles Baskin
Longines
Harmar
Grant
Senate Approves 250000 Relief for Tornado Sufferers
Washington May 4 The Senate passed without amendment a house resolution to appropriate 250000 for relief of tornado victims in Georgia Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. War department money may be spent on open market supplies medicines etc for destitute victims pending presidential signature. Also reports of the death of Thomas J Sullivan director of the bureau of engraving and printing in Washington.
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Viethms Pavan
Washington
Senate
House
Georgia
Alabama
Mikstseiprl
Louisiana
Secretary of War
Thomas J. Sullivan
Bureau of ‘Engraving and Printing
Currency Bill Fights Head to House Vote in Washington
Washington reports May 4 that Republicans fear delaying urgent measures and plan to push a Vreeland currency bill through the House while debates over Aldrich and other proposals continue. The plan would create national clearing houses with safeguards and caps on emergency currency backed by bank reserves and securities. In Bolivia, Pernanda Suschella was elected president succeeding Montes.
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Fohe Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Gread
Vreeland
Senate
Mensure
Bseng
National Bank
First National Bank of
New York City
Itm
Bolivia
Paz
Holivia
Pernanda Suschella
Ener I. Montes
Comptroller May Insist on Year's Figures Reduction in Railroad Returns
The comptroller general received the tax returns of Central of Georgia Railway Seaboard Air Line Railway Ocean Steamship Company Savannah and Louisville and Nashville showing falls versus 1907. Centrals slump 2 137 018 Seaboards 2 350 522 and Oceans 150 000 plus. Seaboards franchise falls to 1 525 008 with total returns for the year 10 200 928. The Ocean Steamship Company reports 2 147 734 versus 2 243 135 in 1907. Comptroller Wright is yet to review the data and may require action aligned to arbitration figures from 1907.
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Central‘of Georgia Railway Company
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
Central
Seaboard
Ocean Steamship Company of
Savannah
Georgia
Certeo
Ferégerge
Charleston and Westernarolina
Alabama
Ocean Stvumship Company
Reute
Ném Steamship
Seabowra
Geuboard Air Line
Rauiea
Central of Georgia
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Comptrdller Penera
Wright
Ures
Yeates 70 Die On Gallows Supreme Court Affirms
The United States Supreme Court affirmed Georgia courts verdict in the James S Yeates murder case. Yeates, tried twice, first received ten years, then murder in the first degree with death penalty, a verdict the high court sustained.
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United States Supreme Court
Georgia
Washington
Mar
Supreme Court
James S Yeates
Yeates
Fie
Douglasville Superior Court Opens Spring Term Under Judge Edwards
The May 4 spring term of Douglas superior court convened with Judge Price Edwards presiding and Solicitor General W. Fielder prosecuting. Many important cases loom, including a high profile murder case involving a young African American woman alleged to have killed her father.
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Superior Court
Douglasville
Gal
Douglas Superior
Rouse
Price Edwards
Tallapoosa
Georgia Club Visits Battleship Georgia in Los Angeles
Georgia Association of Los Angeles members, about three hundred Georgians, visited the battleship Georgia docked in Los Angeles on April 24. Captain McCrea welcomed them warmly as the group presented a flag, a floral banquet, and a tall tale on deck. The club adopted resolutions thanking Captain McCrea and the ship’s officers, vowing to remember the courtesy and patriotism displayed during the visit.
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Los Angeles
Georgia
Batileship
Cal
Henry McCrea
William F. Parkhurst
Georgia Club
Atlanta
F. B.brady
Brady
P. H. Brady
McCrea
Florence
R. M. Stowe
Dorothy, Stowe
Chijils T Moses
Ahipis
Arcampaniment
Howard H. Stowe
Tos
Macon
James A. Williams
Louis P. Hart
Rome
Mra
Anna A. Parkhurst
The
Elay
Parttermp
Geupslg
Seid
Bat Geship
Lone Brach
California
Tts
Vinil
Piette
Associa
Wil Alwaye
Captein
Merrea
Mosen
Washington
Alwaye
Georgia Association
Thaw Fight for Freedom Moves in Duchess County Case
Marry Thaw seeks habeas corpus release from the Duchess County jail as a supreme court hearing nears. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw may testify for her husband if needed while Thaw, gaining weight in the Matteawan asylum, agrees to any examinations to prove sanity amid district attorney opposition and potential European commissions.
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K. Thaw
Matteawan Hospital
New York County
Jerome
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Sait
A. Russell Peabody
Inday
Mace
Duchess County
Garvan
New York
Baker
Mattiawan Asylum
Graham
Mack¢his
Mack
Mark
Duchess Coounty
Europe
Paris
Monte Cario
Exiled Stewart Shs From Arizona To Fort Grant
Colonel William F. Stewart the lone U S army officer who once commanded an abandoned post arrived in St Augustine from Fort Grant Arizona to establish headquarters at the abandoned St Francis barracks but received orders to return to Fort Grant. He left St Augustine with his effects for the isolated post 26 miles from the nearest railroad where he will remain indefinitely. He reports a pair of mules at Fort Grant.
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St. Augustine
Fla
Willam F. Stewart
United States Army
Fort Grant
Arizona
St. Francis Barracks
Serjeant Brown
Stewart
Washington
Manning Chosen Rector of Trinity Parish
The Rev Dr William Manning, vicar of St Agnes chapel and assistant rector, was unanimously elected rector of Trinity parish to succeed the late Dr Morgan Dix. Manning, born in Northampton England, educated at Sewanee, and a former professor of dogmatic theology, has served in Christ Church Nashville and St John’s Lansdowne before moving to New York. He arrived in New York City after Christchurch Nashville. The Bullis company today purchased the Vicksburg Street Railway and Staiting Company for 50,000 dollars under chancery court order, wiping out the majority stake held by Southern Electric Securities and planning two new firms for light and street railway operations.
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New York
William “T. Manning
St. Agnes* Chapel
Trinity Parish
Morgan Dix
Trini 1
Adac T.’Manning
Trinity
Christ Church
Nashville
Tenn
Northampton
England
United States
University of That South
Sewanee
Hip
California
University of the South
St. John's Church
Lansdowne
Christchurch
New York City
Vicksburg Street
Vicksburg
Miss
Bullis Company
Vicksburg Stree Railway and Staiting Company
Chancery Court
Bullis
Southern Electric Securities Company
New Orleans
Debate on Lily White rule at Republican convention
Washington dispatch reports a question from former Senator William Chandler on whether conventions that exclude Negroes can seat Lily White delegates. Chandler urges quick committee input before June 8, noting the 14th amendment and party history. Savannah marks the 104th anniversary with services.
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John Corrigan
Washington
Republican Party
Lily White
Huch
Republican convention selects two delegates for national meet
The third district Republican convention met today and elected two delegates, J. W. Tolbert of Abbeyive and S C Williams, both described as party supporters. The vote was narrow as factions debated support for Foraker.
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Foraker
Anderson
Third
J. W. Tolbert
C- Willams
Tophi
Cox Announces Candidacy for Delegate from Georgia
Hon Albert H Cox a prominent Georgia attorney and stump speaker announces as a delegate at large to the Denver Democratic national convention He backs Gov Brown and attacks state executive action depriving country counties of representation He says Georgia voters should decide on June 4 for Denver delegates inviting to speak at the Ninth District Country Convention and denouncing the perceived state party control He asserts locals deserve a voice in national affairs and calls for a protest against the executive committee action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert H. “Cox
Nirouhau
Georgia
Denver
National Democracy
Hong Joseph’ M. Brown
Cox
Hig
Stave-Democratic
Brown
Te Saya
Tolone
Democrats of
Lange
Democratic Party
National Democratic Party
Weather report for Georgia shows Tuesday and Wednesday showers
Georgia forecast calls for showers Tuesday and Wednesday with light to fresh south winds. Data lists low and high temperatures, mean and normal values, and rainfall of 2.1 inches in the past 24 hours. Provisional totals since month start and excess since January noted as 46 inches.
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Georgia
Tevet
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