Wilson Defends Shantung Clause and League Covenant
President Wilson spoke in St. Louis on two occasions defending the Shantung provision as China’s aid to regain Shantung. He argued the League covenant only advises, and that amending the treaty would mean American isolation. He called the League a vehicle for world democracy and was greeted by large audiences in both Chamber of Commerce and Coliseum appearances.
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St. Louis
Associated Press
Wilson
Shantung
Chilua
League of Nacions
League Council
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Gardner
Senate Amends Panama Bill in Drug Prohibition Move
The senate passes the prohibition enforcement bill without a record vote and sends it to conference. An amendment adds the liquor and drug prohibition act for the Panama Canal Zone, defining an intoxicant as any beverage with more than one half of one percent alcohol.
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Washington
Associated Press
Senate
Panama Canal Zone
Illiteracy Commission Appointed in Georgia
Atlanta September 5 Governor Dorsey named nine members to the state Illiteracy Commission created to eliminate adult illiteracy. Ex officio members include the governor and state superintendent M L Brittain. Five appointees will serve two year terms and four will serve year terms.
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Atlanta
General Assembly
Dorsey
M. L. Brittain
Bidder withdrawal clouds future of picric plant
The Associated Manufacturers of Atlanta withdrew their bid after delays securing deeds, leaving Gordon and Freedman of New York as probable purchasers. If sold to them, the plant’s future is uncertain. salvage likely, with cost of removal surpassing material value and limited profit prospects. Brunswick anxiously watches developments as talks of cooperation with local business linger.
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Associated Manufacturers
Gordon & Freedman of
New York
Brunswick
Sloan
Gordon and Freedman
Atlanta
Cotton Advance Now Predicted Ahead of New Orleans Convention
United States Senator Hoke Smith will travel from Atlanta to New Orleans to address the American Cotton Association convention. He is expected to advocate optimism on the cotton market, arguing Germany can purchase U S cotton and pay with German manufacturer products. He predicts an advance in cotton prices.
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Atlanta
United States
Hoke Smith
New Orleans
American Cotton Association
Smith
Georgia
Germany
Organizing Young Women's Business Club in Brunswick
The Brunswick business girls will meet at the Young Womens Christian Association club room 1318 1 2 Newcastle Street on Monday evening September 8 at 8 30 to organize a Young Women's Business and Professional club. All working girls are invited to attend to interest manufacturing concerns in plant operations and related matters. The future of the picric acid plant is uncertain and its fate remains to be seen.
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Business Girls of
Brunswick
Young Womens Christian Association Club
Newcastle Street
Gruesome Coffin Box Found in Cemetery Mystery
A large pine box six feet long was found in the Evergreen cemetery on Newcastle Street by a group of colored visitors. The box had two inch holes and a foul odor, leading coroner Campbell to defer opening it. Sexton Bird was informed and an investigation will seek who placed the box and when.
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Evergreen Cemetery
Newcastle Street
Campbell
Sexton Bird
Tax delinquents rounded up by police
Street tax delinquents are being rounded up daily by Chief Register and officers of the police force. They are summoned to appear before the mayor's court and often asked to liquidate indebtedness to the city with amounts rising from $2 to $5.
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Chief Register
Death of William M. Tupper Jr at 14
A telegram from Brunswick reports the sudden death of William M. Tupper aged 14, son of Ralph E. and grandson of Capt William M. Tupper, at his parents’ Jacksonville home. The family and Brunswick friends express deep sympathy. the cause is not disclosed. William's grandfather, a prominent Brunswick steamship owner, had long resided there before moving to Jacksonville.
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Brunwick
William M. Tupper
Ralph E
Wiliam M. Tupper
Jacksonville
Tupper
Brunswick
Ralph ¢Tupper
Floring Madden
Wiliam
Republican Senators Plan Replies to President on Peace Treaty
Announcement says Senators Johnson California Borah Idaho McCormick Missouri Wadsworth New York Poindexter Washington Reed Missouri will deliver speeches in reply to President Wilson's peace treaty addresses, intending to respond without trailing the president.
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Washington
Associated Press
Johnson
California
Borah
Idaho
McCormick
Mironis Wadsworth
New York
Poindexter
Reed
Missouri
Democrat
Wison
Catts Names Son as State Adjutant General
Florida Governor Catts appoints his son Lieut Sidney J. Catts Jr to be adjutant general succeeding James McCants who resigned. The move makes Catts the fourth adjutant general since the governor took office January 1 1917 amid settlement efforts with phosphate miners and mill owners. Major McCants claimed the governor’s meddling blocked an agreed settlement.
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Tallahassee
Catts
Sidney J. Catts, Jr
James McCants
McCants
Washington
New York
Major McCants
Christian
Catls
Intal
J. C. R. Foster
Lieut
Governor heads delegation to New Orleans mass meeting
Governor Hudy M. Dorsey leads a large Georgia delegation of cotton growers bankers and merchants to a monster mass meeting in New Orleans to discuss the cotton situation and set a minimum price ensuring growers profit. Delegation size and acceptances are still arriving.
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Atlanta
Hudy M. Dorsey
Otten
New Orleans
Orleans
Georgia
The
American Cotton
General Alvarado warns against U S intervention in Mexico
General Alvarado, a Carranza leader, writes an open letter to Carranza, Obregon, and Gonzales denouncing Mexico’s political drift. He charges corrupted justice, urges leaders to unite to fix conditions before the United States intervenes.
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Washington
Associated Press
United States
Alvarado
Carranza
Obregon
Gonzales
Mexico
Donelly Placed In Yorks Class In War Honor
An official record notes Sergeant Bill Donelly of Company B 18th Infantry earned the French medal of honor after leading six men to surround and force surrender of 250 German snipers in the second Battle of the Marne. He is recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor and joined a select group headed by Alvin C. York.
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New York
Associated Press
Kamerad
Bill Donelly
Trish
Company B
Eighteenth Infantry
Marne
Alvin C. York
Pall Mall
Donelly
Fire Destroys Coal Piers at Port Covington
Baltimore dispatch reports the Western Maryland Railway coal pier, 1000 feet long and 90 feet high, burned tonight at Port Covington. The blaze consumed hundreds of cars and large coal stocks as fire crews fought to control the sprawling blaze.
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Port Covington
Baltimore
Associated Press
Western Maryland Railroad
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