Many Contests to Be Decided in Coming Primary
Glynn county residents and state voters head to Wednesday’s primary for a full slate of state officers and twelve congressmen. The governor’s race is quiet with Slaton favored. Parker and Hall contest the congressional seat between Walker and Waycross judge. Three candidates seek Brunswick circuit solicitor general and several other state offices face opposition. The statewide primary promises an unusually lively election.
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Glynn County
Statehouse
John M. Slaton
Senate
Joe Hill Hall
Bibb County
Hooper Alexander
DeKalb
Congress
Col. J. Randall
Walker
Valdosta
T. A. Parker
Waycross
J. H. Thomas
Jesup
R. E. Dart
S. D. Dell
Hazlehurst
T. B. Felder
W. J. Jones
Merriweather County
Brittain
E. H. Beck
Brooks
Lindsey
W. H. Lanier
Chatham
Patterson
A. N. Gravenstein
Ellingham
S. W. Johnson
Jeff Davis
Agriculture
A. O. Blalock
Fayette
J. J. Brown
Elbert
J. D. Price
Ocon
W. Bankston
S. G. McLendon
Paul B. Tramwell
H. W. Hill
United States
A. O. Bacon
H. H. Perry
Gainesville
Special Trip to Lightship by Sea Gate August 20
The steamer Sea Gate will run a special trip to the Lightship Tuesday morning August 20 leaving docks at 9 a.m. and Ocean Pier at 10 a.m. It returns to the city by 2 p.m. Fares are 1.00 for sound trip from Brunswick and 0.75 for round trip from St. Simon.
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Sea Gate
Ocean Pier
Brunswick
St. Simon
Double tracking of the Southern 15 under way
Atlanta reports the Southern railway begins extending double track from Roseland to Constitution, three miles, adding seven miles of double track toward Macon and Jacksonville. C. W. Lane & Co. handles grading as modern sidings and passing tracks are added to boost westbound traffic and winter service.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway
Macon
BrunsWick
Florida
Roseland
Constitution
C. W. Lane & Co
Jesup
Kietie
Southern
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Chicago
Kansas City
Taft weighs Panama Canal bill amid free tolls issue
President Taft has not decided whether to approve the Panama Canal bill as agreed by conferees. He may seek an amendment allowing suits in U S courts to test the free tolls provision, potentially reaching Supreme Court rulings. The measure faces House passage before adjournment amid claims conferees exceeded jurisdiction.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
House
Friers
United States
Supreme Court
Tait
Simmons
House Rules Committee
Olmstead and Moore
Pennsylvania
Two More Games Planned for Adel Brunswick Base Ball Club
Adel Brunswick's baseball team will stay together until Labor Day and play daily this week. Monday and Tuesday match the last Adel club in a 13 inning tie, with two added pitchers Elliott and Carter joining the visitors. An excursion to Fernandina is planned for Wednesday, and a Savannah series is expected Thursday through Saturday. Fans are urged to attend as crowds are anticipated.
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Brunswick
Adel
Elliott
Carter
Fernandina
Savannah
Darrow Cleared by Jury in Bribery Case
Clarence S. Darrow, Chicago lawyer, is found not guilty of bribing a juror in the McNamara case. Jurors voted not guilty after a brief deliberation of 34 minutes, with Judge Hutton instructing on corroboration and uncorroborated accomplice testimony.
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Los Angeles
Clarence S. Larrow
Chicago
McNamara
Hutton
Darrow
George N. Lockwood
J. B McNamara
Lockwood
Foreman Williams
Golding
Dunbar
Arrow
Judge Hutton
T Qpall
Taft vows veto over commerce court abolition in bill
President Taft said he will veto the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill if it includes the plan to abolish the commerce court. He urged no compromise and warned Democratic leaders he will fight congress to retain the court, while noting the civil service tenure section was dropped from the bill.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Commerce Court
House
Democratic House
State Department
Bureau of Trade Relations
Department
Smoot
Sanders
Senate
White House
Glynn County Expects Exhibit at Minnesota State Fair
The Georgia Trading and Development company led by Paul Keine has secured space at the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul next month. It seeks Glynn county products to attract western farmers, with pamphlets distributed locally and nationally, and calls for contributions sent to Gloucester Street office.
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Georgia Trading and Development Company
Paul Keine
Minnesota
O'Shaughnessy
Brunswick
Glynn County
Keine
Protieta
Gloucester Street
Blackbeard Island to be leased by government for five years
Washington announced Blackbeard Island in McIntosh County between Brunswick and Savannah will be leased for five years with buildings and hunting and fishing privileges. Bids open August 24 in Washington. Detroit capitalist H. E. Coffin is expected to lease the site, known as a major South Atlantic game preserve, for hunting use.
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Washington
Blackbeard Island
McIntosh County
Brunswick
Savannah
Blackbeard
Sapedo Sound
United States
South Atlantic
H. E. Coffin
Detroit
Savelo Island
South
Coffin
Georgia Coast and Piedmont extension progress near Darien
The Darien Gazette reports rapid work on the Bruns Wick extension with two large bridges spanning the Darien and Altamaha rivers to be among Georgia’s largest. Streets Uroad and Walton are being cut to track level, laborers are advancing grading, and the library building will relocate to the Atwood building as bridge and trestle work nears.
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Bruns- Wick
Georgia Coast and Piedmont
Darien
Altamaha
Georgia
Uroad
Walton Streets
Atwood
Mrs Armor to Lecture at First Baptist Church
Mrs Mary Harris Armor the noted temperance lecturer will speak at the First Baptist church in this city next Friday night at 8 oclock. The Geor gian described her as the finest temperance speaker in the South with remarkable eloquence and logic drawing large crowds.
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Mary Harris Armor
First Baptist
First Baptist Church
Armor
Atlanta
No clue found on robber of Southern Express Car
Asheville authorities have no lead on the robber who stole $3,000 from a Southern Railway express car on a train Thursday night. The incident remains under investigation with ticket city and county officials reviewing evidence.
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Southern Express
Asheville
N. C
Southern Railway
Earthquake Devastation Kills About 3000 Near Marmora
Relief reports from Constantinople say about 3,000 dead and 6,000 injured in towns around the Marmora sea. Many villages lie in ruins with widespread fissures and foul odors from corpses. relief work is underway by American Red Cross, Red Crescent, and Greek philanthropic groups.
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Constantinople
Sea of Marmora
J. Cornell Tarler
United States
Hoansee
Myrtiophile
American Red Cross
The
Red Crescent
Sidna Edwards Pleads Guilty in Second Degree Murder
Wytheville Va Aug 17 on his mother's advice Sidna Edwards pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Hillsville courthouse and received a fifteen year penitentiary sentence Two of his kinsmen were found guilty of first degree murder in the same case.
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Wytheville
Sidna Edwards
Hillsville
Key West Cleared of Plague Fear as Tests Prove Safe
Key West officials and Dr. John P. F. Anderson reported no bubonic plague after examining a rat infested bacillus. Anderson will send cultures to Washington for further study and share results with local health authorities. In Congress, Foss proposed two battleships but the vote favored the Senate compromise of one. In Paducah, Joseph Spitzer resisting arrest killed his wife then died by suicide. officer KE Anderson was wounded while serving a warrant tied to a maltreatment case.
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Key West
Fla
John PF. Anderson
United States Government Health Service
Anderson
Washington
House
Representative Foss
Illinois
Senate
Paducah
Joseph Spitzer
KE. C. Anderson
Spitzer
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Brunswick Circuit
Darrowghes
Glynn County Products
WSST
Altamaha River
Mrs. Armor
Turkey
Sea of Mar
Desperado
Self
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