Oil Trust to Increase Wages for 500 000 Workers
New York December 15 The Standard Oil Company will raise wages by 10 percent for 500000 employees starting January 1. The raise covers all men earning under $100 a month and will indirectly benefit about 2 million people. Following this, Empire Iron and Steel Company Pequest Iron Company and Bassett Ore and Iron Company at Oxford New Jersey posted notices granting a similar 10 percent raise to their workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
Empire Iron and Steel Company
Pequest Iron Comy
Bassett Ore and Iron Company
Oxford
N. J
Feast of Channukah Celebrated by Hebrews in City
Orthodox Jews will celebrate Hanukah Sunday at Ahavath Achim synagogue corner Piedmont avenue and Gilmer street under the Young Men's Hebrew Association and Ahavath Zion Society. A program of music recitations and speeches features city Jewish talent. Hanukah began December 12 and recalls the Maccabee victories. The eight day festival, called Feast of Lights, starts with one light and ends with eight each night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ahavath Achim
Pied-mont Avenue
Gilmer Street
Young Men's Hebrew Association
Ahavath Zion Society
Antiochus Epiphanes
Girl walks fifty miles to seek work after scolding
Special to The Georgian Bainbridge Georgia December 15 Miss Mia Rova Jones left home ten days earlier after her father threatened punishment for attending a party with a young man She walked almost all night and covered about fifty miles to Chattahoochee Florida Insane Asylum where she now studies to be a trained nurse Relatives feared foul play but she is located and pleased with Chatta hoochee officials
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bainbridge
Mias Rova Jones
Beeen
Florida Insane Asylum
Chattahoochee
condemned Negro prays in jail awaiting execution
Will Johnson the condemned prisoner in the Tower faces January 4 death for the alleged assault on Mrs Hembree. In solitary confinement he devotes long hours to prayer saying he is innocent and has sought spiritual solace from visiting ministers. He longs for a new trial while stating he is ready to hang if the law demands it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Johnson
Mrs. Hembree
Johnson
Git
President to Furnish Data to Senate on Panama
Washington reports the president will send messages to the Senate on Monday December 17 confirming readiness to furnish information. The note states the messages concern the Panama situation and related queries from the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Panama
Jeffersonian Watson's Monthly Debuts With 148 Pages
The first issue of Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine hits stands with 148 pages of text and 44 pages of ads amid launch troubles. It features a full Watson foreword recounting a dispute with Colonel W. D. Mann, a 25 page case history, Bryan and Watson commentary, a world survey by Charles J. Bayne, Harben's Anna Boyd installment, Life and Times of Andrew Jackson, and educational reviews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watson
Jeffersonian
Mr. Watson
W. D. Mann
Will N. Harben
Anna Boyd
Andrew Jackson
Thomas B. Watson
R. Watson
Naval personnel and public lands reports amid Cuban and Browns Ville case
Discussion centers on the Japanese situation with Metcalf, the Cuban situation with Taft, and the Browns Ville case noting a battalion dismissal. Proceedings span Tuesday and Wednesday December 18–19.
Lawyer Advice Leads to Bigamy Trial for Piedmont Sleuth
Claude Rowe, detective with Piedmont agency, faced a bigamy charge in Judge Roan's court after following lawyers' advice to marry a second time. He believed Mary Jenkins was a widow and later wed Callie Thompeete of Atlanta. The jury acquitted him after evidence showed misbelief about the first marriage. Rowe testified he enlisted in the U.S. Army at 13 and received an excellent discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Rowe
Piedmont Detective Agency
Roan
Ant
Rowe
Hill
Mary Jenkins
Birmingham
Mary
Ward
Callie Thompeete
Atlanta
Jay Jenkins
Othe
U. S. Army
New Officers Elected by Atlanta Sociological Society
At the last meeting the Atlanta Sociological Society elected Marvin Underwood as president with Theodore Toppel as vice president, Miss Martin as secretary, and Folsom as treasurer. Dr J B Todd spoke on disease in moderate drinkers. The society endorsed a lecture by Dr H S Curtis on playgrounds and urged funds to keep school grounds open as playgrounds next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Sociological Society
Marvin Underwood
Theodore Toppel
Miss Martin
Folsom
Todd
Kime
Atlanta
Mars
Logan
Associ Charities
H. 8. Curtis
Washington, D. C
Curtis
National Playground Association of America
The
Sociological Society
Associated Charities
Cotton Backlog Ties Up Rail Lines in Georgia Towns
Special to The Georgian reports Athens area and nearby towns crippled by rail bottlenecks as 15 841 bales stall on platforms between Elberton Royston and Toccoa. Royston shows 6 302 bales, Lavonia 3 400, Dewey Rose 1 200. cash tied up and buyers and banks strained as traffic slowly clears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athena
Athens
Elberton
Royston
Toccoa
Lavonia
Dewey Rose
Mysterious Paris Plot Ties Doctor Herbert to Trunk Scheme
Paris reports reveal Cesbron and Guerin tied to a wide extortion and murder plot around English doctor P Herbert. Investigations show planning to murder and dump his body in a Seine trunk with Mary Smith, a love interest, and include forged identities and fraud schemes across France and Britain. Dr Herbert recovers as police press Mary Smith as a key link.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raoul DE Saint Rene
W. R. Hearst
Paris
Herbert
Bois-le-Roi
Fontainbleu
Gouffe
Gabrielle Bompard
America
Cesbron
Guerin
Marie Pesnel
Mar Rh Bureau
France
Dr. Herbert
Cesbrons
Assins
Seine
Sele
Ceabhron
Mary Smith
Imays Cesbron
América
St. Paul
Cherbourg
Mary Wilson
M. Dudre
Ministry of Fine Arts
Pari
London
Spiri
Lawrence Northrope
Miss Northrope
Modern Art Gift to Paris from American Painter
While dining at the house of an American painter a guest vowed to enrich Paris with modern art. The traveler found a Monet, deemed exquisite by the curator, which the American bought and donated to the city of Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Claude Monet
Petit Palais
Palais
Holiday Ay Excursions Via Georgia Rail
Christmas holiday travel to points south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi features round trip at one and one third first class fare plus 26 cents. Tickets on sale December 20 to 25 and January 1, with final limit January 1907. For details contact Augusta Georgia agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio and Potomac
Mississippi River
St. Louia
Jag Bon
Mimillin
Augusta
Governor Terrell Heads to Washington to Seek Aid
Governor Joseph M. Terrell will depart Sunday for Washington to consult Secretary Wilson on coronal district agricultural schools in Georgia and to urge a higher federal grant for station experiment work. He will cite the impact of eleven schools and the Athens agricultural college and then go to New York to confer with George Foster Peabody on Georgia educational plans for the coming year. He will be away all of next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph M. Terrell
Washington
Wilson
Georgia
Agricultural College
Athens
New York
George Foster Peabody
Dehon Named Commercial Agent for Atlanta Birmingham Line
Theodore Dehon Jr. of Merchants and Miners Transportation Co is appointed commercial agent of the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic. He will start January 1 and work from offices in the Empire building. Dehon is a known figure in the railroad world with wide South connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Dehon, Jr
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Atlanta
Birmingham
Atlantic
Empire Building
Dehon
South
Steamer Suny Sinks in Mobile Bay
The stern wheel steamer Suny, en route from Memphis to Pensacola, grounded for coal and sank in Mobile Bay two miles below Mobile. Plans indicate the vessel will be raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Suny
Memphis
Pensacola
Mobile Bay
Simons Hurt After Gun Accident Near Clarkesville
A Decatur man, W. J. Simmons, was wounded by an accidental gun discharge Friday near Clarkesville. He is hospitalized at Grady with a severely mutilated foot and may face blood poisoning, doctors fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarkesville
W. J. Simmons
Decatur
Grady Hospital
Surons
Crossties Wanted for Temporary Use
Immediate demand for crossties in lots of 100 to 1000. Off grade ties accepted, lengths 8 to 812 feet. State price and location. Address inquiries to Crossties care Georgian.
Can Five Men in Twelve Hours Spend $600 for Real Enjoyment
New York December 15 five men race to spend $600 in twelve hours without gambling or lighting cigars with ten dollar bills. Frederick Thompson wagers $1000 with Sam Harris that it can be done, the loser paying all expenses. The bet grows from a discussion of a stage play where the hero struggles to spend $1,000,000 annually under limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frederick Thompson
Sam Harris
Major J H Rivers Dies in Meridian Peritonitis
Meridian Mississippi December 16 Major J H Rivers vice president of the Southern bank and brother of Mayor J H Riversy died at his home last night at 8 o clock of peritonitis caused by appendicitis. He was 49 and survived by his widow seven children five sons and two daughters. He served as a director of the board of trade and belonged to several secret benevolent organizations in Meridian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meridian
T. EB. Rivers
Southern Bank
J. H. Riverey
Alabama Great Southern
Alabama
Vicksburg
New Orleans
The
Board of Trade
Bound Over to Court on an Assault Charge
WW Orr returns from Cuba where he noted rapid island development and a surge of American activity. The report highlights Orr’s business trip from Havana to USA, while a separate item notes Dora Leonard, 19, bound to the grand jury on a charge of attempting to assault, following her Alabama marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Orr
George Muse
Cuba
Orr
Havana
Hena
Anaisa
Cube
Mr. Orr
Chattanooga
Tenn
Dora Wi Leonard
H Lury
Alabama
Also Mentioned on This Page
OIL Trust
Watson's Monthly
Readers
Illawatha
Fisher
Riley
Maid of Arcadia
Barbour
Ashe
Kinline
Ford
Hunt Col. Crocket
Arabella
Underwood Cupid
Christy and Fisher Pictures
Ea An
the Columbian Book Co
Whitehall Street
Sociologists
Cure de Chantenay
Abbe Delarue
Belgium
Milo
Marie Fremont
Miles Fremont
Eee Pardeg
Maddox-Rucker Banking CO
Santa Claus
Georgia Rail
Bay
J. H. Rivers
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!