Flood of Asiatic Laborers To American Shores Sparks Action
Washington reports Secretary Straus expands immigrant inspectors along the Canadian border and Pacific coast to curb a rising influx of Japanese and other Asiatic workers. Official tallies are withheld, but 1907 arrivals reportedly exceed last year, aided by cross-border travel via Hawaii and Mexico. Japanese laborers travel to Canada or Hawaii then onward, often disembarking anywhere in the United States as rail bonds are not enforced.
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Washington
America
United States
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Canadian
Pacific
Japan
Hawaiian Islands
Canada
Bloody Battle County roads job spree sparks shootings near Southport
Deputy Whitley boasts he can hire 500 men for county road work while a clash at a Wenezera phosphate camp ends with Deputy Swan and officer Green wounded. Four Black defendants face assault with intent to murder charges after a gunfight as two white youths watched and fled.
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Whitley
Columbia
George Kelley
Claud McKin
Parte
Trotwood
Kelley
W. P. Woldridge
Wal
McKin
Rev. Furiss
Wall Street
Southport
Grill Green
Robert Brown
Bufird
Weneezera Phosphate Camp
Nick Swan
Young Green
Swan
Green
Dr. Pillow’s
Alfred Butler
Tive Buford
Walter Carter
Esq. Voorhles
Jall
Japan Goles Not Wanted In Tokyo Reports
Reports from Washington indicate Secretary Taft urged the Japanese government to excludeJapanese action. He emphasized that only exclusion could prevent friction and assure lasting peace, urging War Minister Terauchi to pursue this policy.
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Washington
Cet
Taft
Tokio
United States
Teruachi
Maury County Farmers Institute to be Held in Columbia
John Thompson Commissioner of Agriculture will conduct a Maury County farmers institute at Columbia on Thursday Oct 7. Several prominent state crop experts will attend and address the farmers.
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Columbia
John Thompson
Maury County
Second Robbery In Two Weeks At Colvert House
A.M. Moon, an employee of Young and Daimwood's gallery, awoke at John Calvert's home to find twenty dollars missing from his trousers. Moon slept with three others. the intruder entered after an earlier burglary at Walter Colvert's house, which yielded seven dollars. Officers are investigating.
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A. M. Moon
Young & Daimwood
John Calvert
Mr. Moon
Colvert House
Burglars Take Trunk From Farrar Home
A night burglary at Henry Farrar’s east of town left his trunk stolen from the sleeping household. The thief opened the trunk 100 yards away and took a pocket-book and money totaling $25. George Loftin, colored, was arrested on vagrancy charges after being seen near the scene.
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Henry Farrar
Farrar
Whitley
Butts
George Loftin
Congressman Padgett
Chattanooga
Tick Infection Improves In Sandy Hook Area Quarantine Likely Lifted
Capt. P B Keith deputy livestock inspector reports a decided improvement in fever infection in the Sandy Hook section and other farm premises. Four new infected sites found at Rockdale and quarantined. County board urged to quarantine all infected areas, with county officials ready to cooperate. Keith believes the Federal government unlikely to place the county below the quarantine line if measures continue. He also calls for strict inspection of infected premises before Mt Pleasant section review.
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Sandy Hook
P. B. Keith
Winchester
Ivestock
Keith
Rockdale
Department
County Board of Health
Gordon
Capt
Mt. Pleasant
Enterprise
Cotton World Conference Opens In Atlanta Today
About 500 delegates gather in Atlanta for the International Conference of Cotton Growers and Manufacturers to unite world industry. Leaders from Europe and the United States seek to curb speculative elements, improve economies, and plan an annual congress with information departments. C. W. Macara of Manchester criticizes speculation as a curse and urges elimination. He notes American growers face rising competition and that the 700 million dollar U.S. crop last year split 100 million in charges to speculators and bucket shops.
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Atlanta
International Cotton Spinners’ Association of Europe
Association of Cotton Manufacturers of the
United States
American Manufacturers
Farmin’ Educational and Co-Operative Union
Southern Cotton Association
International Conference
Congress
C. W. Macara
Manchester
Eng
Land
Great Bangerman Mills
Macara
Memphis Welcomes Theodore Roosevelt with Parade Welcome
President Roosevelt arrives by Mississippi steamer in Memphis to a grand welcome by governors, Confederate veterans as guards, and cheering crowds. School children sing as rain pours, and officials escort him to the Deep Waterways Convention venue.
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Memphis
Tenn
Roosevelt
Missssaippi Valley
United States
Mississippi
Alton
Patterson
Tennessee
Malone
Main Street
Second Street
Auditorium Rink
Malcolm R. Patterson
Ting Fang. Eens Eed Oer Ha Of Fou Boy Take
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Winners Get Awards in Gold at Maury County Fair
Supt. Jones presented gold prizes for two horse, four horse and six horse teams in the Maury County Fair male division. J. D. Barrow won two prizes including ten and fifteen dollars in gold. Page and Jones second. Robert Craig first in the six horse class. Ripley Steel second. All exhibitors received a Breeders Gazette copy. Jones praised the world’s largest show and urged even larger participation next year.
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Tennessee Fair Association
Circuit Court Room
John L. Jones
Maury County Fair
J. D. Barrow
Page and Jones
Robert Craig
Ripley Steel
Breeders’ Gazette
John A. Jones
Mr. Jones
United Sta
Valen
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Jones
First Services in New Church at Crown Bridges
The Crown Bridges Methodist congregation held its first service in the new church building. Pastor Rev. C. R. Wade delivered a strong sermon to a large crowd. The structure, costing about $4,600, is noted as one of the prettiest country churches in the Tennessee Conference, built by Vaughn Manufacturing Company under the building committee’s supervision.
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Crown Bridges
C. R. Wade
Tennessee
Vaughn Manufactring Company
Bua
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