City Council Passes Updated License Ordinance For 1920s Brunswick
The Brunswick city council, after three hours of work, enacted a license ordinance with several changes. Key items include a $25 annual tax for sea-going tugs, $10 for inland work, $50–$100 weekly caps for carnival and amusement licenses, a $200 club tax, and tightened rules on dance halls and lewd venues. Several minor tweaks aim to boost city revenue while reducing whiskey tax impact.
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St. Carnival
Dance Falls
Nimbus Abandoned Schooner Reported By Private Cable
News of the abandonment of the Boston schooner Nimbus reached owners via private cablegram. The Nimbus, under Captain Stahl, sailed from Philadelphia December 6 with about 1,400 tons of iron pipe for New Orleans when a cyclone swept the vessel and she was lost.
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Boston
Nimbus
Vesinter & Co
Stahl
Elphia
New Orleans
Jug Trade Heaviest In History Of Brunswick Christmas Jugs
A Brunswick liquor trade surge as jugs pour from Brunswick toward rail stops. Express offices crowded with jugs of all sizes and colors as Christmas gift demand soars. A porter jokes about saving the liquor as jug shipments flood Georgia rail lines.
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Thirly
Brunswick
Georgia
Funswick
The
Express Conpas
Miners Entombed After Darr Mine Disaster at Jacobs Creek
In Jacobs Creek Pennsylvania two hundred or more miners were trapped after a blast at the Pittsburg Coal Company Darr mine. By dawn thirty bodies were recovered in the main entry with some mangled remains. Rescue teams work to reach all sections as escaped foreign men intoxicated in the village after the tragedy. Most victims believed American. officials estimate entombed men around 175.
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Jacobs Creek
Darr
Pittsburg
Honesis
Goodford
Last City Council Holds Final 1907 Meeting
The Old City Council adopted several pending ordinances and handled permits and payments. They approved stricter rules for dance halls, hacking of trunks, and draymen, plus a $60 budget item for the pilot. Repairs, sidewalk payments, and zoning measures for new houses and church proximity were addressed before adjourning until January 1908.
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Ity Council
Robinson
Lcense
Draymen Union
Conseil
Greizot
Eee Er
P. H. Prasier
Goldsmith
Larned Pitcher
Old Town
Committee On Finance
W. A. Ne
Potter
Ito
Glynn High boys present principal with cuff buttons
The Glynn High School students gave Principal Gaertner a handsome pair of gold cuff buttons yesterday as a token of esteem. Fairchild Coney presented the gift on behalf of the boys, and Mr Gaertner expressed appreciation for the memory.
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Glynn High School
Professor Gaertner
Fairchild Coney
Guertner
West Electrocuted For Ohio Murder
Columbus reports Howard West alias Frank Earl executed at Ohio Penitentiary for the April 20 1997 murder of William Legg a Sidney Ohio butcher. Earl protested innocence to the end and faced death calmly.
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Columbus
Ohio
Howard West
Frank Earl
Ohio Penitentiary
William Legg
Sidney
Earl
Thurlow's Market Advertises Fresh Fish Selection
Thurlow's Market offers fresh shad mackerel trout and Bell Point oysters. The Greek American restaurant serves Thurlow's fine oysters to diners.
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Bell Point
Thurlow
Georgia negro emigration circular urges California move
A circulating call spreads among Georgia Black communities urging emigration to California for work and voting rights, promising high wages and passage paid by organizers in Chattanooga Tennessee. It asserts Georgia Whites deny voting rights and that California offers freedom and liquor, though no large response has materialized.
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California
Georgia
Chattanooga
Tenn
Overland Limited
Land of Providence
Memory lapses leave Camila without lawful officers
In Camila Georgia a primary selected a mayor and aldermen three weeks ago but no legal election was held on the appointed day. Officials worry about how to appoint officers this year in what is noted as the first such instance on record.
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Camila
Georgia
Santa Claus
Camilla
Colored Lodge Offers Reward For Murderer
The Knights of Pythias lodge offers a $50 reward for the arrest of Will Johnson who stabbed Arnold Jones and caused his death. Johnson is suspended for life and the lodge claims the money is in hand for the capture.
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Colored Lodge of Knights of Pythias
Will Johnson
Arnold Jones
Johnson
Shad Season Opens as Uncle Wallace Sells Fresh Fish
Uncle Joe Wallace at 230 Bay Street reports a fine supply of shad and fresh water fish with choke salt water fish. He keeps deep water, single and cultivated oysters on hand daily except Sunday.
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Joe Wallace
Bay Street
New Street Lights to Replace Gas Lamps in City
Alderman Dart announced at the council meeting that Mutual Light and Water Company has delivered new forty candlepower incandescent lights. Trial installations were praised as the best seen, with about 150 gas lamps to be replaced at roughly forty cents per month per light. The sanitation committee will report at the next meeting.
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Dart
Council
Sanitation, Light and Water
Mutual Light and Water Company
Egancil
Duel in Lebanon settles with two Hungarians dead
Constable James Dolan entered a foreign settlement to arrest coal bosses. The crowd surged and fired in self defense, killing two Hungarian men. Dolan is in custody, but public sentiment leans toward his release.
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Lebanon
Dee
James Dolan
Dolan
Jewelry Store of K. Mott Offers Superior Goods
Jewelry praised for design and quality at K Mott store. Mr Mott and two assistants work late nightly to fill new express shipments and meet growing orders.
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K. Mott
High Wind Flips Train Near Lamusell Station
A gale at Lamusei station in Sardinia toppled a ten coach passenger train. The locomotive and cars plunged into a ditch. twelve people were injured, two seriously. Traffic halted until relief trains cleared wreckage.
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Rome
Cagliari
Sardinia
Lamusel Station
Lanusei
Noted Waycross Judge Warren Lott Dies in Partridge Hunt
Waycross Ga Dec 20 News reached the city about 9 o clock that Judge Warren Lott a leading and respected citizen shot himself while out shooting near Waresboro. He and Dr M M Johnson planned a day in the country and were joined by George Deen. While climbing over a fence after tallying partridges the gun discharged from below fatally wounding him. Dr Johnson tried to aid him but he died within twenty five minutes. The incident is described as accidental and the weapon found on the fence.
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Waycross
Warren Lott
Waresboro
Judge Lott
M. M. Johnson
George Deen
Henry Mullis
Dr. Johnson
Johnson
Horrible murder shocks Hammond parish woman found shot
Mrs. Mary Nelson, 45, a respected resident, was found horribly mutilated on Happy Woods road near Hammond. The body showed no signs of robbery or assault. a quarrel with a Black man over a dog ownership has drawn suspicion.
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Hammond
Mary Nelson
Happy Woods Road
Here
Rate Compromise Between North Carolina and Southern Railway
Washington reports Governor Glenn of North Carolina and the Southern Railway have reached a compromise in the rate controversy. The railroad will adopt a 2 1/2 cent rate for intrastate and interstate travel in North Carolina and sell books covering 1,000 to 2,000 miles at 2 cents per mile. Books of 500 miles will cost 2 1/4 cents per mile. The Southern is said to seek similar deals with other states.
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Washington
Glenn
North Carolina
Southern Railway
Southern
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Een
Savannah News
Naval
American Naval Stores Company
Jacksonville
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