The Constitution News Service Travel Notice 1903
The notice lists subscription details and traveling representatives for The Constitution. It notes delivery options from the Hibbs Building on Fifteenth Street and telegraphic contact, with warnings not to pay unnamed individuals. The piece comments on tariff talk, political figures, and weather, ending with a satirical nod to spring and editorials.
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WW. Blackburn
A Moore W
Bey
C MW Donnelly
Constitution Publishing CO
Mistrials in Murder Cases Highlight Court Diligence
The piece notes two mistrials in Georgia murder cases within a week due to unforeseen causes. One case was halted when a minister’s prayer appeared to prejudge the defendant. another involved a bailiff’s misstep guiding a juror on a Georgia code. It urges greater court diligence to prevent miscarriages of justice.
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Georgia
South Georgia
Enemies of Mr Taft Rise From Puerto Rico Remarks
President Taft’s criticism of Porto Rican leaders in his congressional message has sparked backlash from the island’s political element. He contends self government came too soon and will press for comment and correction where needed. The president remains undeterred, viewing opposition as a test of equity and justice.
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Taft
Congress
White House
New Island
United States
Porto Rico
Georgia Farmers See Oats Boom Amid Feed Self sufficiency push
Georgia farmers push toward home grain production as oats yield rises indicating a record crop. Reports from Tift county and ten southern counties show oats largest and finest in memory with growers investing new harvesting and threshing machinery. Rising feed prices spur shift away from cotton dependence and toward grain, hay and provisions grown locally, boosting farm income and regional agriculture.
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Georgia
Georgina
Tift County
Threstimer
Tift
South
State Department of Agriculture
Presbyterian Hospital Extension Plans in Atlanta
The Atlanta meeting of the Presbyterian hospital board signals a new era of expansion and broader aims. Trustees plan a larger modern hospital, plus a Christian workers training school to serve home and foreign fields, with Atlanta as the chosen site.
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Atlanta
Presbyterian Hospital
Adrieory
Go long chile to Sleepy Town in the New World Song
A fragment list of poems and verse pieces from a historical page. It includes songs about Sleepy Town and the New World, plus verses on dreams, spring, and a playful circus memory. Names and phrases hint at creators and regional dialect.
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Chile
Gossip at the Capitol and Court Actions
The Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad suspended its petition to suspend passenger service on trains 13 and 16 between Newark and Nichols until August 1, rail officials agreeing to continue operation if trains pay. Georgia clemency decisions included Jim Jones’s denial and DC Loeb’s non-clemency. Loeb must pay a $700 fine or serve twelve months. The Georgia Supreme Court upheld McFarland v Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad and Gregory v Georgia Granite Railroad, upholding damages and responsibility for track defects. Blasingame, serving life for a Murray county murder, was denied clemency. commission had considered parole and commutation, Governor Smith noting insufficient punishment.
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Railroad Commission
Naunawick
Nichols
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Ucless
Atlanta
Smith
Prison Commission
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Millen
James Brown
Jones
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Supreme Court
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J McFarland
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Georgia Granite Company
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Murray County
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Geavrnir Smith
Commission
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Hill Seeks Tariff End to Spark Prosperity
Washington May 13 Jamen J Hill railroad magnate urged President Taft to halt tariff agitation. He claimed bipartisan talk distracts from work and hinders progress, urging Congress to end tariff fights so the economy and agriculture can recover. He noted his own farms and predicted a bright future for the South with better soil and broader growth.
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Washington
Jamen J Hi
Taft
Congress
Hill
Hill, Who Himaslf In A Farm One Farm of 20,000 Acres O of 2000, Said That Theas
South
Crocker Bound Over on Whisky Selling Charge
Rome Ga May 13 Homer Crocker arraigned before Justice and DP Treadaway on selling whisky during a raid under the Southern railway bridge near Lionsh city limits Fifteen quarts of whisky found hidden in a pile of rocks Crocker bound over to await action of the grand jury
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Ispectel P
Homer Crocker
Justice & DP
Treadaway
Crocker
Ften
Lionsh
Tenductors Tie Cedar Rapids Headquarters Declares Stay
Bouton May 13 Cedar Rapids laws keep the grand division of the Order Street railway Conductors Althourn WT Day lar, longtime Indiana attorney, as head of the organization. They vow to resist moving the general offices amid strong opposition from Indiana city officials and supporters.
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Bouton
Cedar Rapidn
Laws
Order Stailway
Althourn
City May Be Sued Again Over Bad Streets
A wagon plunged into a hole on Glennwood Avenue between Park and the Boulevard injuring a horse owned by J H Baker of 11 Park Avenue. Baker and his attorney B D Thomas appeared before the city council claims committee, alleging repeated notice of Glennwood Avenue’s near impassable condition and city trucks hauling heavy stone worsened the damage. The committee promised a later decision.
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Atlanta
Glennwood Avenue
Park Avenue
Boulevard
J H. Baker
Baker
B.D .Thomas
Committee of Council
Public Work Department
Atlanta cash boy becomes Dallas mayor under new plan
AY Haya previously worked as a cash boy at the Keely Company dry goods store in Atlanta before moving to Dallas. Born in Griffin, Georgia, he entered wholesale paper business and now leads Dallas under a commission form of government. He praised the change and urged residents not to revert to the old system.
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Dallan
Tex
Atlanta
New York
Haye
Keely Company
Dallas
Texas
Haya
Griffin
Keely
Busineas
Maddox
Larceny case and forgery charges highlight Atlanta court day
A white youth faced a $200 bond on larceny after trust in a recorder's court. Nath Smith, a Black man, was bound over on a $5000 bond for forgery and obtaining goods by false pretenses after a Marietta Street check scheme hurt numerous merchants. Other notes include exams for city jobs, a civil suit verdict for $41280 against Georgia Railway, and a plan for a Metropolitan Amusement Company's new foot garden at Peachtree and Harris streets.
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Nathie
Marietta Atrest
Gus Cuatle
North
Pryor Wackwell
Peters Street
Tom Weaver
Venchure A. Vleahner
Marietta
JT Jones
C E Jones
Wittob
Georgia Railway and ‘Plectric Company
Judee Billa Division
Superior Court
Chead Dallar
Mra Dollar
Tatnall
Nelson
Chathia Int Ing
Metropolitan — Amusement Company
Peachtree and
Harria Streets
Niverett
Redding Carl Witt
Te Robinson
Xr Redding
Fa Anid
Mrs Huntington Gifts Ground Plot for Geographical Center
Mrs Collis P Huntington widow of the Gatrornia society of New York has donated a large plot at Broadway and Tenth Street valued at $250000 to the American Geographical Society for a building site. Archer V Huntington president of the society subscribed $60000 to the building fund.
Wonderful fowl to be presented to Grant Park Zoo
A remarkable fowl hatched and raised at Mr McMillan’s city home will be presented to Grant Park Zoo. The turkey guinea cross, named Tea track Peatracki, has a turkey cock father and a demure hen mother. The bird is noted for its cu riosity and resembles a guinea in appearance while feeding like a turkey.
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Grant Park
Bob McMillan
Broad Street
Gulnea
Kellyton Burglaries Hit Central of Georgia Depot
Alexander City Alabama May 19 Special last night burglars broke into the Central of Georgia depot at Kellyton and blew open the safe securing $18 in the second burglary there in recent months. Earlier on November 4 the town was looted, with the depot post office and two or three others ransacked. No clues have been secured, but locals believe the culprits are residents familiar with area movements.
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Alexander City
Ala
Central of Georgia
Staten
Kellyton
Azores
Spectacular Atlanta Elks Parade Set for May 20
A major Elks event in Atlanta features a grand parade on Thursday afternoon May 20 beginning at 4 30. Hugh Cardoza heads amusement planning with 2000 tickets per broker to be issued for entry to visits by the visiting Elks. The parade, led by Grand Marshal Maar Jefferan and aides Lieutenant Armand Morgan and J C Heas, forms at the Peachtree and West Peachtree junction and proceeds down Peachtree Street.
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Atlanta
Elka
Hugh Cardoza
Chorce
Thin Vook
Fence Ar Leon
Peachtree
Went
Peachtree Streets
Promati
Pat 430
Oelack
Railroads Gain Public Sympathy Amid Regulation Fears
Chicago May 13 President Ripley of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad returned after a western tour. He warned regulators and legislators meddling in rail operations threatens service and rates. He said public sentiment has shifted toward railroads but some politicians still persecute them.
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Chicago
Ripley
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
Railroade of
West
Fiaye
Commiantona
High Tariff Sought by Hosiery Makers
Resolution urges Taft and Congress to grant full protection to American hosiery and underwear manufacturers and workers as promised in the last Republican platform. The measure was made public in Philadelphia and the group plans to reconvene there next May, with executives Carr, Durham, Garnett Andrews noted.
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Philadelphia
Taft
Congress
Agin
Thie City
Carr
Durham
Garnett Andrews
Chat- Inneoga
Tenn
Judge Spesrom Lord Erskine lecture at Mercer law school
In Macon on May 13 Judge Emory Apeer lectured at the United States courtroom on the life and character of Lord Erskine. A large Macon bar audience heard the feature, one of several by Judge Speer this year as dean of the law school. He charmed his hearers with the portrait.
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Spesrom Lord Erskine
Macon
Emory Apeer
Mercer Univerity Law School
United States Court Room
Lord Frekine
Speer
School of Law
Yale Receives 50000 Dollar Gift for Gallery Memorial
Yale University in New Haven announces a gift of more than 50 000 dollars to add to galleries and a memorial room honoring the late Richard Ewesowes. The donation supports continued work in the arts and university collections.
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Kew Haven
Conn
Yale Universaty
Sagaritiss
Nenehod
Richard
Ewe Sowes
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