Southern Food Conference Urges Action on Cotton Acreage
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce led Southern delegates from five cotton states in urging governors to call special sessions to enact 1915 cotton acreage reductions. The plan, backed by Judge Calloway, aims to cut cotton plantings, bolster markets for food crops, and seek a Wilson proclamation for a Southern farmers’ meeting to push legislation reducing cotton acreage.
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Southern Food Prodacts Conference
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
State Cay
E M. Calloway
Augusta
Judge Calloway
C J. Haden
Galloway
Haden
Reading
Georgia
Slaton
H.C. Hagley
Macon Chamber of Commerce
Lee County
Wilson
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Water G. Cooper
Chamber of Commerce
J. L D. Price
State Agricultural Department
Hagley
Seid
State Colleges of Agriculture
Calloway
Auch
South
Easton
A Leas
Regolutone
Georgiz
Talavioner
Call
Callaway
J. R. Walker
Clay
Hedy Bagley
Gene Smith
A.O. Blutork
W. G. Cooper
Sam Brown
B.D. Keith
C. Neely
Mine Gas Explosion Kills Sixteen at Mulga Mines
Birmingham October 5 Sixteen men are dead and twelve injured after a pocket gas explosion at the Mulga mines of the Woodward Iron company near Eastley. Bodies are being removed with nine recovered by evening. Officials say the blast was local and caused by gas. ignition cause undetermined. The mine suffered little damage and a prior Mulga explosion on April 20, 1910 killed thirty five.
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Birmingham
Ala
Muiga
Woodward Iron Company
Eastey
Miss Egtof Arrives in Atlanta for Major Dog Show
Miss Egtof of Lansdowne Pennsylvania arrives in Atlanta as secretary to superintendent George Farley. She will provide information on the upcoming dog show scheduled for Monday Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
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Miss Egtof
Atlanta
Eglof
Lansdown
George Farley
Columbian Woodmen Planning Convention Set for Piedmont Hotel
A convention of the Eminent Household of Columbian Woodmen for Georgia Florida North and South Carolina and Virginia will meet in the Piedmont hotel assembly room Tuesday at noon to elect delegates to the supreme body which convenes in Atlanta on Wednesday December 3.
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Columbian Woodmen
Georgia
Florida
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Piedmont Hotel
Atlanta
Wilson and Watterson Peace Meeting Suggested
Washington October 5 President Wilson hinted he expected to meet Henry Watterson editor of The Courier Journal and George Harvey editor of The North American Review at the White House but added no arrangements had been made.
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Washington
Wilson
Henry Watterson
Courier-Journal
George Harvey
The
North American Review
White House
Watterson
Executive Mansion
Ten towns vote dry while 34 vote wet
New Haven Conn October thirty-one Connecticut little towns today voted license and ten voted dry. The standing in the state is now eighty-one for license and eighty-seven for no license.
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New Haven. Conn
Connecticut
A Happy Bald Headed Man Tells How He Did It
A western politician famed for baldness debuted a new hair growth. He claimed a home recipe of water bay rum Barbo Compound glycerine applied to the scalp three times weekly restores hair, clears scalp humors, darkens gray hair, and leaves it glossy. The ingredients are inexpensive and purchasable at drug stores.
Governors Meet in Memphis Over 1915 Cotton Acreage Plan
Governor George W. Hays asks governors of cotton states to meet in Memphis to discuss enforcing reduced cotton acreage in 1915 and to set dates for special legislative sessions to act on the bill. The move aligns with resolutions from a recent conference and with Senator James P. Clarke's plan.
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Little Rock
Ark
Heavy annual tribute paid by pickpockets in Chicago
Chicago officials testified before the city council crime commission that pickpockets pay about $46,000 annually to lawyers and bondmen. John Halpin, captain of detectives, said his men arrest an average of 2 known pickpockets yearly, most of whom are discharged in court. Patrick McWeeny testified each pickpocket pays about $200 for release on bond.
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Chicago
City Council
John Halpin
Patrick McWeeny
Oliver Case To Be Heard Next Thursday
J D Duval warden of the Mississippi penitentiary arrived in Atlanta with a requisition for A D wriver alias L Charles Harding alias Charles Davis Harding now serving in Leesburg Lee county Mississippi seeks Oliver or Harding for obtaining money under false pretenses. He was convicted in Mississippi, escaped, then later married in Bainbridge Georgia and claimed mistaken identity. Governor Slaton set Thursday for the hearing.
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J.D. Duval
Mississippi
Atlanta
A. D. Wriver
L. Charles Harding
Charles Davis Harding
Leesburg
Lee County
Oliver
Harding
Georgia
Bainbridge
Woman who deserted baby freed in Americus
Americus Ga October 5 Special Mr and Mrs Meltan Webb who were in the police barracks since yesterday afternoon on the charge of abandoning a baby here last Friday were given their freedom this afternoon. The baby will be cared for by Mrs Webb and her mother Mrs Joseph Carter of Smithville who came to her daughter's rescue this morning and agreed to take them home. Webb returned to Smithville with his wife. Authorities decided this was best and the case seems closed. Also Charles T Kelley who led 1600 unemployed men to Washington last spring and whose four followers were dispersed in Sacramento was released from jail today after six months for vagrancy.
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Americus
Meltan Webb
Eens
Webb
Joseph Carter
Smithville
Sacrament
Oeneral
Charles ‘T. “Kelley
Washington
Sacramento
Embezzlement Charge Shocks Macon Man Mobley
Macon Ga October 5 Special The sheriff s men cannot locate H A Mobley city salesman for the Macon Grocery company charged with embezzling 1800 from his employers warrant issued Saturday Mobley visited Macon last Friday promised to settle but failed Police seek he has a wife at 622 Carling avenue All steel cars are being tested on several railway lines in India.
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Macon
H. A. Mobley
Macon Grotery” Company
Mobley
A W. Smith
Mobiey
Carling Avenue
Appetite Follows Good Digestion Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin Ad
An old fashioned ad extols appetite after good digestion and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a natural pleasant remedy. It claims to ease indigestion constipation sick headache belching and digestive discomfort and offers a free trial bottle by writing Dr W B Caldwell 461 Washington St Monongahela.
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Dr. Caldwell
W. B. Caldwell
Washington St
Mon
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Selma
H. G. Keith
Whitfield County
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Edward Young Clarke
Quitman
L.A. Niven
M. Nignbert
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Mabigton
W. Gq. Seay
Austell
J. ‘Sh
Jonesboro
D.B. Melson
Jonesford
PB. B. Latimer
Wood‘stock
WH. Turner
Gb. Cotes
Adapta
Wiles Molena
Cord. Atimita
Glenn
Abbeville
A. Menace
McRat
Aiken
Kelly
Southeastern States
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C.W. Hooper
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Amos “B- Morse
Apbeville
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L. P. Bellah
Nashville
Tenn
Lounsbury
G. A. Park
Louisville
EA. Miller
Bea
Wah, Tenn
Russia
United States
Later & Berkele, Inc. Gold and Silversmiths
Whitehall Street
Hachive
Germany
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Berlin
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Oliver Case
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H.A. Mobley
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Southern Pacific Co. Colonist Tickets
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Eiseman Bros., Inc
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