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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
10
Hoop Works, Atlanta Car Wheel Works, City Water Works and Southern Iron and related firms appear in a compact notice listing contractors and suppliers. The item outlines bids or affiliations among these entities, highlighting a regional building or public works project with several participating companies.
Democrats nominate 40 of 44 state senate seats with October 3 elections. Articulation lists nominees by district with names such as W. B. Stephens Savannah, J. W. Hughes Liberty, H. W. Whaley Jesup, J. J. Mattox Folkston, George W. Deen Waycross, J. P. Knight Nashville, S. A. Wilkes Moultrie, and more. Charles S. Northen touted to win secretary post. rotation names Gilmer’s turn for Thirty-second Lumpkin, Thirty-eighth Paulding, Fortieth Towns. Some post offices addresses unavailable. Unknowns: Second, Sixteenth districts.
Suffering among the poor rises as business houses cut force by half and hundreds, especially women, leave Valparaiso. No one may be on the street after 7 without a pass from the ml a. A long list of district officials and passes follows, showing the local administrative disruption and patrols.
Booker T. Washington delivers the National Negro Business League annual address at Big Bethel Church in Georgia. He advocates self-help through agriculture industry and business, notes Southern gains and Northern progress, discusses immigration, property ownership, and crime, and calls for disciplined, constructive effort to elevate the race while condemning lynching and injustice.
A speaker argues education and industry reduce crime, contrasting educated Black communities in Atlanta with crime-prone groups. He cites Clark University and Spelman Seminary alumni as largely crime-free, urges leaders to reach the unemployed, and stresses racial pride, economic progress, and cooperative action across races to improve Southern society.
Statesboro advances to host the agricultural college under the recent General Assembly bill. The city, central to the district and near a premier cultural area, has secured options on a large tract near town likely becoming the college site pending final decisions.
In New York on an August day a fight between two drivers ended with Charles Purdy, a black man, stabbing Michael Phillips, a white man, multiple times. After Phillips fell, an angry crowd pursued Purdy who sought refuge in St. Marys Park Bronx, as witnesses reported the knife thrusts including one through Phillips's left lung.
Valdosta Ga August 30 The Sea Island Cotton Association of Georgia and Florida meets with large attendance of cotton, flowers and business men from South Georgia and Florida. President Harvie Jordan and Vice President J R Williams present as the convention aims to fix a minimum price, grow membership, and strengthen the organization. Reports indicate prospects are the poorest in years with average yields possibly under ten percent, and discussions include closer ties between merchants bankers and farmers and a potential Sea Island Cotton Association newspaper organ.
Intense interest surrounds the First congressional district nominating convention in Statesboro Georgia as Col J A Brown and Col W W Sheppard each hold equal delegations. Supporters favor Brown while a deadlock could force selection of Col J W Overstreet with other contenders like Col W H Davis mentioned as possible choices.
Austin August 30 The nomination of H H R Green son of Hetty Green by a Republican wing as a candidate for governor was nullified by the Texas attorney general. Green had been nominated by a faction after a convention split among Republicans.
Especial to The Georgian Savannah Ga August 3 W W Sheppard and Gordon Sausay who carried Chatham county for Sermonsl Pac er Wethie, memorial for regional race at Statesboro where the convention is to be held following delegates and alternates accompanied them Delegates U Me BicLawm Bt A
G W O Bry ne and A Gordon Heriot among names listed for a cas sale alongside W F Train, Jacob & Collins with alternates H E Wilson and Jacob Gasan. Charles W Saussy and W T Hop king, TH Gracen, John Carr also noted in the roster.
A mass meeting of Albany and Dougherty county citizens discussed locating the State Agricultural College in Albany for the second district. A suitable site was offered and efforts will be made to persuade the governor to designate Albany for the college location.
On September 4 and 5 the Central of Georgia Railway will sell round trip tickets for trains arriving Macon before noon at one fare plus 35 cents for the return leg. Reprinted by Repties Ltd. H. Fogg D. P. A. Atlanta Ga.
Cincinnati Aug 30 Madden a known figure in Kentucky fled a petition in pleas court today asking that alimony be set aside granted his wife. The decree by Judge Swing involved Madden’s stock and a transfer to L V Bell New York last July he claims his former wife has failed to meet monthly payment obligations pointing to an altered alimony arrangement and seeking relief from the decree.
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