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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
5
Draughons Practical Business College emphasizes strong job placement courses and facilities. Prospective students are directed to contact John F. Draughon in Nashville Tennessee for mail lessons and to request catalogues from Atlanta Georgia Jacksonville Florida or Nashville Tennessee.
Excursion fares via Gentral of Georgia Railway to Baltimore for Democratic Pearl Convention June 25, to Chicago for Republican National Convention June 18 1912, to Chicago for National Edge Pearl Association July 12 1912, to Columbus Ga for Grand Lodge K of P colored Sept 13 1912, to Monteagle and Sewanee Tenn for Assembly July 1 10 1912. Missionary Week July 14 20 1912, Sunday School Institute and Music Festival July 21 to August 30 1912. For full information see nearest ticket agent.
Notice from E. T. Steed announces the Board of Education sets Monday July 8 1912 as the opening date for the county schools summer term. He seeks early reports of vacant teacher positions and asks applicants to stay ready for good attainments this year.
The Pujo committee heard dramatic testimony on how New York clearing house actions pressured a solvent bank after the 1907 panic. The proceedings aimed to expose the power used to ruin the bank president’s fair reputation, with Samuel Mintermyer questioning witnesses.
Georgia health officials urge sanitation as the chief defense against typhoid and allied diseases. The Georgia State Board of Health warns losses from typhoid and dysentery are preventable through proper hygiene, safe water, and clean surroundings.
Waynesville North Carolina resident Mr. F R Huffman testifies that Thedford's Black-Draught cured his indigestion and heart worry, restoring health after other remedies failed. He urges readers to rely on the liver remedy, noting its 70 year popularity and 25 cent price.
The report lists fifty four capital cases handled by Attorney General T. 8. Felder since taking office last July. Sixteen involved hanging. none were reversed by the court except two overall reversals. A memorial project in Midway cemetery, Liberty county, seeks $10,000 for the Screven and Stewart generals memorial, championed by Col. Negle Colquitt of Savannah and tied to Underwood’s promise to secure funding this session.
Twenty four delegates from Alabama and Arkansas were added to Taft's column by the Republican national committee after Roosevelt contests. All contests before the committee favored Taft, with most decisions unanimous. Arizona delegates at large were deferred. The meeting remained largely peaceful despite prior friction.
The Supreme Court upheld the exclusive jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission over federal rate laws. Chief Justice White announced the decision, with the full court in support. The ruling prevents the commerce court from substituting its judgment for the ICC in enforcing liberalized rate regulations.
American marines totaling about 450 landed at Caimarra and Guantanamo City after Captain Kline dispatched half the Atlantic fleet’s second squadron from Key West. President Gomez warned foreign property demands would require massive troop protection, risking his entire army.
In Newark a clash between about 150 strikers and police left at least six wounded by gunfire. Italian women armed with knives and stones attacked workers at the Lackawanna railroad as officers arrived to aid laborers. A police officer fired into the crowd. reserves reinforced. five strikers lay injured in the street.
Mrs Lena Cusumano of Mull had her death sentence for murdering her husband Frank Cusumano commuted to life in prison by the executive council. She claimed Enrico Mascioli killed her husband without her knowledge and later menaced her, taking her money and claiming control of the home. Mascioli, convicted with her, was electrocuted at Charleston state prison.
In Indianapolis Indiana the ITU administration ticket failed in two races as ballots were counted. James M Lynch of Indianapolis won reelection by a margin of about four thousand votes with George F Tracy of San Francisco losing to James M Duncan of New York City for first vice president. W H McKee of New York trailed among Union Printers Home candidates.
Nineteen hundred prisoners at San Quentin staged a grub strike that escalated into a riot in the mesa hall. One prisoner, H. L. Lynnwood, was killed and two others wounded, as guards restored order and prepared disciplinary actions.
Baltimore prepares for the Democratic national convention as 1080 delegates arrive. Campaign camps set by supporters take shape on the battleground while National Chairman Norman Mack arrives to advance and finalize official arrangements with the arrangements committee.
Twenty five men were killed in a drunken row at Dante Virginia after a card game dispute. The dead are said to be mountain people from Dante, a mining town of about six thousand inhabitants, with violence erupting when Italians accused local mountaineers of cheating.
A Louisiana Missouri woman speaks of twelve years of illness and eleven doctors. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her health improves quickly. She praises the medicine as worth more than gold and urges other women to seek guidance from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.
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