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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
10
Property platted parcels on State Plum Huner Kopf streets near the Steel Hoop Works Atlanta Car Wheel Works and City Water Works offered at 100 to 300 dollars per lot but to be sold for competitive bids. Plats available at the auction office.
Democrats announce candidates for forty of forty four districts with only the Second and Sixteenth lacking post office addresses. Rotations place Gilmer in the Thirty-second district and Gilmer takes a leading role to guarantee election. list includes Stephens, Whaley, Knight, Wilkes, Bush, Sykes, Crittenden, Hayes, Peacock, Henderson, Brantley, Overstreet, Walden, Felts and others across multiple counties.
Private Leased Wire reports Valparaiso Chile Aug 20 worsening suffering among the poor. Businesses have cut force sharply and hundreds of poor people especially women are restricted to streets after 7 or 8 pm without passes from authorities.
Booker T Washington, president of the league, delivers an annual address at Big Bethel church. He urges constructive progress through agriculture, industry, and business, endorses Southern growth, warns against crime and lynching, and calls for lawful protection and self-improvement among African Americans.
A speaker argues education as safeguard against crime, cites Black professionals and colleges, condemns loafers and crime, urges uplifting the floating class, supports racial pride and self-help. He highlights Black economic progress in the South with banks, drug stores, grocery stores, and paid taxes, urging unity with whites for progress.
Statesboro pushes to win the agricultural college under the recent general assembly bill. The city meets district requirements, with the town center in the district and the surrounding farming region promising. A prized tract near Statesboro is under option for the campus placement.
Charles Purdy, a negro, stabbed white driver Michael Phillips several times during a fight over horses in the Bronx. Chased by an angry mob, some with ropes, Purdy fled and hid in St Marys Park after Phillips was left dying from wounds including a stab through the left lung.
Bea Island Cotton Association in Valdosta with Harvie Jordan and J R Williams leading a two day meeting to fix minimum prices and broaden markets for Sea Island cotton. Speakers warn prospects are the poorest in years with yields possibly not reaching 40 percent of normal.
Special to The Georgian Statesboro Ga Aug 30 intense interest attends the First congressional district nominating convention. Colonel J A Brown of Statesboro and Colonel W W Sheppard of Savannah hold equal delegate counts while Brannen carries two thirds of the popular vote and his supporters expect nomination. If deadlock persists, potential substitutes include Colonel T S Morgan Savannah Colonel J W Overat Bylvania and Colonel W H Davis of Wayneboro.
The nomination of H. H. R. Green, son of Hetty Green, by a Republican faction for Texas governor has been nullified by an attorney general opinion. Green's nomination followed a factional split at a Republican convention.
W W Sheppard and Gordon Lavesy, long and short term candidates in the Chatham county congressional race, depart for Statesboro where the district convention is set to be held today. Delegates and alternates accompany them.
A fragmentary roster lists names including O Bryne G W Heriot A Gordon Crii and W F Train with alternates H E Wilson Jacob Cazan Charles W Saussy W T Hopkins T B Gracen John Carr. No dates or positions are provided in the readable text.
Albany Ga Aug 30 At a major meeting of representative citizens in Albany and Dougherty county the initial area was taken toward locating the State Agricultural College for the Second congressional district in Albany A suitable site was offered and other inducement will be made to influence the governor to designate this place for the college.
Via CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY Account of Democratic State Convention September 4th. The Central of Georgia Railway will on September 2d and 3d and for trains scheduled to arrive Macon before noon September 4th sell tickets from all points at rate of one fare plus 25 cents for round trip final limit returning September 8th. W. H. FOGG D. P. A. Atlanta, Ga.
John Madden of Kentucky filed a pleas court petition asking to set aside alimony. The decree set a $250 monthly payment to his wife, secured by Madden's stock, with Madden arguing the need for support ended after a July separation. The case centers on restraint of spousal support and alleged changes in circumstances.
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