Prison systems denounced at national charity conference
Memphis May 13 Prison systems in the United States and Canada were described and their reform needs urged at the National Conference of Charities and Correction. Speakers backed outdoor work sunshine and humane treatment as best for reforming offenders. W H Whitaker of Occoquan Va called modern penology aimed at turning inmates into assets. He called average jail a civilization disgrace and urged courts to favor supervision and environment changes for minor offenders over incarceration.
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Memphis
Tenn
United States
Canada
National Conference of Charities and Correction
W. H. Whitaker
District of Columbia
Occoquan
Whittaker
George S Bruce Dead Prominent engineer of Florida East Coast railway
George S Bruce a leading civil engineer and builder of the Florida East Coast railway died in a Baltimore hospital at age 62 after an extended stay for foot injury treatment. He sustained the injury in Tennessee while on engineering work.
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George S. Bruce
Baltimore
Florida East Coast Railway
Bruce
Tennessee
Five Hundred Negro Students Gather for Atlanta Convention
About 500 negro students from across the south arrive in Atlanta for the negro Christian students convention at Clark University. Dr John R Mott presides. speakers include Booker Washington and bishops from Africa and South Africa. Sessions run Friday to Monday with a big mass meeting Sunday at the Auditorium.
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Atlanta
Clark University
John FR. Mott
Lence
W. D. Weatherford
A. M. Trawick
Nashville
Booker
Egbert Smith
Presbyterian Mission Board
Moti
C. B. Wilmer
Richard O. Flinn
John E. White
John Hope
Morehange College
P. James Bryant
P. Connell
Notice on sleeping car ticket purchases and diagrams
From May 13 to 17 inclusive, sleeping car tickets must be bought when reservations are requested. Sleeping car diagrams will be available at city ticket offices daily, May 18 to 17 inclusive, with offices listed for Georgia Railroad Nashville Chattanooga St Louis Railway Western and Atlantic Louisville and Nashville Sea board Air Line Railway and Union Passenger station.
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P. Ma
Georgia Railroad
Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis Railway
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Viaduct Place
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Peachtree Street
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Lograma
Union Passenger Station
A. P. Billups
G. PA
Pusey
ASL
No Chances in Future Over Treaties
Washington May 13 The senate foreign relations committee decided that future treaties involving the United States should avoid misunderstandings. A subcommittee was named to draft resolutions expressing the Senate’s interpretation of the safety at sea convention. Senators Shively O Gorman and Burton will form the articles. A report with regulations will be attached though Senate ratification is uncertain.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Senate
Shively
O'Gorman
Burton
Hay-Paunce Fort
Nashville chosen for National Equal Suffrage convention
Nashville Tennessee may host the National Equal Suffrage convention this year after a Memphis meeting of the Tennessee Equal Suffrage federation's executive committee. Mrs Crosier French of Knoxville was elected president and Miss Sarah Barnwell Filiott of Sewanee resigned as vice president amid a Nashville Chattanooga contest for the venue.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Memphis
Crosier French
Knoxville
Sarah Barnwell Filiott
Sewanee
Chattanooga
Stop Sweets to Save Kidney Health Ad Ends Here
A clipped medical ad urges avoiding sweets to protect kidneys and bladder. It promotes Stuart's Buchu and Juniper compound as a kidney regulator, claiming it cleanses impurities, neutralizes acids, and eases symptoms from cloudy urine to swelling, with anecdotes of curing diabetes.
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Stuart
Resinol Ointment and Soap End Skin Itch Nonsense
Do not suffer with itching use Resinol Ointment and Soap. The ad claims relief from eczema rash ringworm pimples and other eruptions with a doctor trusted prescription used for 19 years. Sold by all druggists with a free trial offer and a caution to beware imitators.
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Resinol
Baltimore
Sale of the A. B. and A. to Be Held in June
Master commissioner Victor Lamar Smith and deputy clerk John Dean Steward issued an order delaying the sale of properties tied to Old Colony Trust Company versus Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railway and related defendants. Sales now set for Friday June 5 for Atlanta properties and Saturday June 6 for Birmingham holdings, after a near month postponement at the request of the parties.
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Victor Lamar Smith
Old Colony Trust Company of
Boston
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railay Company
Georgia Terminal Company
Alabama Terminal Railroad Company
John Dean Steward
Atlanta
Birmingham
Masters
Smith
Bankruptcy Petition Filed by Capitol Avenue Pharmacy
James Q. McRae, doing business as Capitol Avenue Pharmacy, filed yesterday in federal court a voluntary bankruptcy petition. The petition shows debts of 5 078.45 against assets of 4 450, with 2 501 in stock in trade.
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