City Cocaine Ordinance Adopted by Council
The city council adopted a cocaine ordinance imposing fines up to 50 dollars and setting packaging and sale restrictions. Three druggists and a physician were tried for violating state and city laws, with sentences up to 50 dollars per case and possible brief jail time.
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A R Munn
Wessel
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Ur King
Nimedatove
Maine
Woman Kills Husband Then Self in Bronx Home
Half crazed with jealousy over her husband’s attentions to another woman Mrs Hitchcock shot and killed Robert L Hitchcock as he slept in their Bronx home. She then wounded herself, firing at her breast and head, and later told police the killings were to stop his supposed infidelity. A opium outfit and Episcopal prayer book were found nearby in the apartment.
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Mra Lottle Hitchcock
Robert L Hitchcock
Bronx
Hitchcock
Vorévelyer
Gqplum
Triteheark
Power Plant and Street Railway Near Americus to Open
Plans for the new power plant of the Americus Railway and Light Company are with engineers. Specifications go to manufacturers by December. Equipment contracts in January, construction to start, with completion targeted by May. The system aims to be second to none in the state. Philadelphia capitalists invest two hundred thousand dollars in the Americus project.
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Americus Ga
Americus Railway and Light Company
Americas
Philadelphia
Jastremski Suffered Stroke in Louisiana Governorship Battle
Baton Rouge reports that Democratic gubernatorial candidate General Jastremski suffered a stroke at six o clock this morning and has been unconscious since. He has long been a leading Louisiana figure and is now in critical condition.
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Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Jastremski
Macon debates sheriff two hour policy shift plan
Macon police and fire departments may face new regulations within weeks as a debate over a return to the two hour service system inflames officers. They oppose the change and resist civil service rule adoption while the new department plan is promised.
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Macon
Arresting officer says Mock near departure when seized in Atlanta
J R Mock, recently resigned freight agent for the Seaboard Air Line Railway, was arrested at the Aragon hotel on embezzlement charges totaling about 6600 dollars. Constable Parker and Detective Wood arrested him as he prepared to leave Atlanta for Jacksonville. He is held on 5000 dollars bond awaiting preliminary hearing in Justice Orr's court.
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J R. Mock
Seaboard Air Line Railway Company
Ilanta
Aragon Hotel
J 4 Parker
A Wood
Mock
Jacksonville
Monlay
Neent G It
Tuller
Mr Mack
Burroughs and
Marshall
American Safety Company
Macks
Instlee Orra Court
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Justice
Orissomurt
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Mocks
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Mack
Too many Democrats too few Republicans in Powers trial
In Georgetown, November 20, Caleb Powers wins a key victory as Special Judge Morris sustains the motion to discharge the second venire amid disputes over political bias in jury selection. The defense battles venue changes across Harrison and Grant counties, seeks republican deputies, and loses a request to bring James Howard to Georgetown Jail.
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Lhe
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Morris
Harrigan County
Harrison County
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Scott County
Estim&y
Beckham
Worns
Scond
Duag
Elisor
Sherif Warring
Grant County
Scott
Fayette
Warring
James Howard
Grand Jury May Look Into Death Of Young Lady
Savannah Ga November 20 Special Following the death of Misan Nie Burton Robinson at her parents home there were rumors that because she and her mother were Christian Scientists no physician aided her. An autopsy was performed showing death from appendicitis. A grand jury investigation is to be held. Mr Robinson is not a Christian Scientist.
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Savannah Ga
Misan Nie Burton Robinson
Wr and
Mia Uj D Robinson
Coronel Hanley
Stanley
Nurso
Robinson
Trial of John R Walsh cons E Ination of Accountant
The Walsh trial in Chicago on November 20 reviewed bond sales to buyers at figures accepted by Chicago National Bank as collateral. Ten cases totaling 522000 were identified by date and amount. Testimony indicated memorandum notes drawn from the bank vaults were paid at maturity and withdrawals by Walsh and Whalen involved large sums in January 1905.
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Chicago
Walsh
Chicago National Bank
National Bank
Moxey
Whalen
Escaped convict claim shocks Columbus police
In Columbus Georgia on November 20 a policeman seized Bad Body a Black man who proclaimed I am an escaped convict from the state penitentiary The officers sought a local charge and are checking records to verify his statement The incident was reported as a special dispatch from Columbus
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Columbus
State Penitentiary
Six Twins Born in Nine Years at Goodhue Minn
Goodhue Minnesota reported on November 20 that Mrs A Rosner has given birth to her sixth pair of twins since 1896, bringing her family to twenty five children. A trimmed corn and a corn plaster led to blood poisoning and death in St Louis on November 20 of Mrs Benjamin Kimball aged sixty five, daughter of General Ferdinerkio Lopes.
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Minn
A. Rosner
St Louis
Benjamin Kimball
Aind
Ferdinerkio “Lopes
Bell launches Signet airship at Baddeck lab
In Baddeck on November 20 the Signet airship built by Alexander Graham Bell was launched with Mrs Bell breaking a champagne bottle over its bow. The craft weighs 220 pounds and Bell says the milestone is only the threshold, with future experiments to gather data for further development.
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Bell
Man Shot During Abduction on Wedding Road in Camden
John Hall of Camden and Miss Maggie Sawyer were ambushed by Edmund Daily on the way to a wedding between Hall and Sawyer. Hall was shot but not seriously wounded. Daily abducted Sawyer and fled in a rival vehicle. Robert Sawyer organizes a search with a posse, fearing serious trouble if Daily is caught.
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John Hall
Camden
South Milla
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Misa Sawyer
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Panic at Quickers church funeral amid crowd crush
At Quickers church six miles north of York, during the funeral for two murdered persons, panicked attendees trampled coffins and injured many. Eli Cross of Zion View was fatally injured, others suffered broken limbs cuts and bruises as the heating stove toppled causing a crowd rush. The service was halted and the bodies were buried after the injured were cared for.
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Eli Cross
Zion View
Quickers
Rain floods drug store on Ian Street after heavy rain
Ian Street Pharmacy at the corner of Lair and King streets was damaged by water, about $500 in losses. A terraced embankment near the stone building collapsed six feet, letting rainwater flood the store to over six inches deep. Dr C N Jones and Dr H G Hubbard own the shop. officers bailed water and removed goods while plans for a damage suit were announced.
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Manter
N Jones
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Andrews
Dr Jones
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Atlanta
Gate City Bids for Convention
Kansas City November 20 Enthusiasm marked the opening session of the national committee of the Prohibition party. The meeting aimed to select the time and place for the next national convention with Saratoga Springs Ashbury Park Atlantic City Advanta Ga Columbus Indianapolis Kansas City and Los Angeles urged. J. W. Pope and Acting Mayor F A Quillian backed Atlanta arguing the south’s prohibition victory makes it ripe to lead a national push. The time is opportune for the party to invade the south.
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Prohibition Party
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Asbury Park
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N. J
Advanta
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South
Quillian
Georgia
Alabama
Speaker Cannon In Rail Wreck At Bismarck
Danville November 20 Speaker Cannon escaped serious harm after Train No 4 of the Chicago and Eastern Hilinda railroad derailed two cars near Bismarck Tit the speaker’s oar blocked the track but did not overturn all passengers and trainmen were shaken but unharmed Brubaker urged national democratic prohibition party convention in Chicago as party HQ there
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Speaker Cannon
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Tit
Here
Chicago and Eastern Hilinda Railroad
Cannon
Dixie
National Democratic Prohibition Party
South
William A. Brubaker
Chicago
MOTHER OF MAUDE ADAMS STIRRED MRS BRADLEY TRIAL
Washington, November 20. Mrs Bradley testified she did not intend to kill for me or even remember shooting him. The trial focused on letters between Senator Arthur W Brown and Mrs Bradley and the rupture with Mrs Brown dating to 1901. The defense sought to show she aimed to break up the Browns' home. laughter arose over a mint julep reference in a signature.
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Bradley
United States
Arthur W Brown
Utah
Brown
Jim
Judge Powers
Baker
Senator Brown
Bradiey
Ming Brown
Browns Brigham Street House
Mre Bradley
Weather Outlook for Georgia Thursday and Friday
Partly cloudy in Georgia on Thursday with cooler in the west. Friday brings fire risk and fresh south to southwest winds across parts of the state.
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