Garret to Quit Seaboard. Accept Baltimore Post
W A Garrett president of the Seaboard Air Line and chief executive will leave the railway this fall to become vice president of the T H Symington Company in Baltimore. He cites the need for large railroad investments in terminals and equipment, and seeks broader opportunities in iron and steel manufacturing.
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Garrett
Baltimore
Seaboard
W. A Garrett
Sanboard Air Ling Railway
T Receiv of
Mr. Garrett
T. H. Symington Company
Davis and Brother Indicted for Forgery in High Finance
Washington May 3 John C Davia and his brother Martin T Davia were indicted by the grand jury in Alexandria Ya on alleged embezzlement forgery and false pretenses. The charges accuse them of conspiring to misuse funds from the Potomac Building and Loan Association where John C Davie served as secretary and treasurer.
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Washington
John C. Davia
Martin T. Davia
Alexandria
ITO PUBLISH NAMES OF FREE PASS HOLDERS
Tallahassee May 13 A bill to require the state railroad commission to annually publish a complete list of granted passes on all railroads was introduced in the Senate. The bill, inspired by a committee, follows allegations that prominent Indians were granted passes in violation of law. Cuts His Throat in Mobile. Mobile Ala May 12 L Linton home Panuscols Finhia committed death by his own action at the city hospital by cutting his throat with a razor. Linton was said to be addicted to morphine at the time of the act.
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Tallahassee
Mia
State Railroad Commission
India
Mobile
Ala
L. Linton
City Hospital
Linton
Illinois Woman Recounts Remarkable Health Recovery
Anna Maring of Dennison Illinois describes chronic stomach trouble gas and weak digestion improving after using Cooper's New Discovery. She reports regained strength sleep and ability to work full day and even picked eighty five gallons of blackberries last summer while praising Cooper remedies. She notes the medicine is sold by druggists and offers a free pamphlet from Cooper Medicine Company Dayton Ohio.
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Anna Maring
Dennison
Clark County
Illinois
Cooper
Reed
I. T
Tim Toad
Rampia Bettie
Cooper Medicine Com
Dayton
Ohio
Prosperity Returns to the United States in Gary Speech
Gary Ind May 13 Judge B H Gary chairman of United States Steel Corp voiced belief the country is recovering from the panic and prosperity is in sight. He said clouds are lifting, the mist are clearing, and after the sun of prosperity will shine as a general judgment.
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Gary
Ind
Gary Commercial Club
United States Steel Corporation
Shriners Take Possession of Brunswick Streets
Shriners of Ales Temple conducted a formal procession in Brunswick Ga as will be described in a special report. Ted by the First regiment band the parade drew many candidates and Shriners from south Georgia attended the ceremonial event followed by a banquet to close the proceedings.
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Ales
Brunswick
Ted
Shriners of
Ales Temple
Brunawiak
Senda
South
Georia
Seaboard Launches 44 Hour Sleeper Train to Memphis
The latest service departs Atlante at 4 15 p m for Birmingham via a sleeper to Memphis. Passengers are invited to dine aboard the train as it covers the trip in about forty four hours with through service and comfortable accommodations.
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Seaboard
Birmingham
Memphis
Atlante
Hussars and Dragoons face off in saber contest row
May 13 report from Davannah Georgia notes Hussars press for a May 10 meet with the Dragoons to settle who keeps the cup. Both sides claim the trophy and without an umpire the contested knot must yield one winner.
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Gear- 2
Hussars-Dragoons
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Dragoons
Bines
Dafaatt
Aida Muat
I Davannah
Charged With Burning Lyerly Post Office in Georgia
Rome Georgia May 13 Special G B Shearst T J Wadkins Eugene Hammonds and J Curry all of Lyerly were tried before U S Commissioner J C Printup on conspiracy to burn the Lyerly post office which he destroyed to fire on January 7 After evidence Commissioner Printup bound over Shearer Wadkins and Hammonds to the May term of the federal court near Monday Bond set 500 for Shearer 900 for Wadkins and 900 for Hammonds Curry released Hammonds farmer Wadkins mercantile business at Lyerly Shaster and Wadkins listed with apparent misprints in the report. bonds driven. defendants released.
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Rome
G. 8
Shearst
T. J. Wadkins
Eugene Hammonds
J. €. Curry
Locris. da
United Bt
J. C. Printup
Lyerly
Federal Court
Shearer
Wadkins
Hammons
Curry
J B Shaster
Lyer Hammonds
Curry & Jumting
Pesca
Governor Comer Joins Law and Order League in Mobile
In Mobile on May 8 President H X MacNeill announced Governor B Comer of Alabama joined the Law and Order League and donated to support the drive. The league plans to issue twenty warrants per day until two hundred are sworn in.
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Mobile
Ala
H. x. MacNeill
Molvile County
Thousands Attend Galloway Funeral in Jackson
Thousands of mourners gathered at the First Methodist Church in Jackson for the funeral of Bishop Charles B. Galloway. Clergy from across the state and neighboring states attended as services and processions paused daily commerce and state institutions in tribute to the late Methodist leader.
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W. H. Lasprade
Meridian
HW. M. du Bose
Nashville
E. R. Hadrix
Kanaae City
Warran F. Can
Atlanta
Jack
University of Mississippi
Millsap College
Greenwood Cemetery
Lynching Fears Prompt Urgent Governor Petition
A plea from a committee of Tallahanses residents and others urged Governor Glichrint to speed an execution for Morris, a Black man who led Sheriff Langston and pleaded guilty to a murder in Laon county. They sought a death warrant immediate despite a 30 day respite reportedly considered by the governor.
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Izens
Immedrck Morris
William Langston
Laon County
Titty Tallahanses Estiagns
Glichrint
Congress of Mothers Reports Progress on Child Welfare
The National Congress of Mothers executive committee finished a two day conference in Philadelphia. They planned the transatlantic congress meeting in Atlantic City on November 10 and reported expanded infant hygiene work across Louisiana New York Bay Massachusetts Providence Hartford Baltimore and other areas.
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Philadelphia
National Congress of Mothers
Tua
Man- Raera
Congress
Hela Traslantic City
Ézsautive Committes
The
Con
Louisiana
Niwork Bay
Massachusetts
Providence
Hartford
Baltimore
World trade record set for 1907 with $14.0 billion exports
Washington reports a 1907 international commerce record. Total world exports reach about $14.0 billion and imports around $?14?0 billion. The United States accounts for roughly 14.4 percent of imports and 0.2 percent of exports, with the United Kingdom leading both sides of the trade. Germany and France are high in import and export totals, and ten nations supply two thirds of the global totals.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Etatistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
United Stalin
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Trade shares and a Georgia mill contract news item
International trade shares show United States Mexico and the United Kingdom among top import sources for heat products in the year under review. In Columbus Georgia on May 3 the Hamburger Cotton Mill awarded a contract to T C Thompson & Co of Birmingham to construct an additional brick building described as a storey, part of the Besaw mill expansion.
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Columbus
Hamburger Cotton Mille
T. C. Thompcom & Cros
Birmingham
Cally
Atorica
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