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Dahlonega Nugget

Location

Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1908

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Mouldings of the Georgia Legislature August 4 to 8

The Georgia House and Senate pass and defeat numerous measures from near beer taxes and Confederate pensions to railroad and city charters. Bills create boards of roads and revenues, fund universities, and regulate liquor, with sessions detailing appropriations, local bills, and plans for public institutions. The period includes debates on convict leases, school contracts, and various municipal improvements across counties and towns.

Treasur Enlarged Railroad Commission University of Georgia At Athens Ofla al- Teila Agricultural College Athens Georgia McMullan Hart Bowersville Messrs. Heard and Adkinson Dooly State Railroad Commission Ward Coffee City Court of Douglas Cowart Ninth District Board of County Commissioners Calhoun County Warnell Tatnall Toombs Middle Judicial Circuit Atlantic Judicial Circuit Maddox St. Marys Huie Clayton Forrest Park Parker Talbot Junction City Davison Greene Board of Roads and Revenues Greene County Chamlee Floyd Rome Adams Wilkinson Lucy Lockhart Trent Heard Peter Currous Johnson Jasper Louisa Hodge John M Mary McDougal Taylor Sumter Frank Johnson Senate General Assembly Wilkes Kingwood Colquitt Henderson Ocilla Overstreet Felder Hall of Bibb Pope Dade Dade County John M. Castleberry Messrs. Cooke, Stubbs and McIntyre Thomas University of Georgia Board of Education Thomasville Messrs. Holder and Flanagan Jackson Board of Commissioners of Roads Jackson County Summer of Turner Ashburn Mr. Flanders Board of Commissioners of County of Messrs. Young and Tuggle Troup Troup County McMahan Clarke City of Messrs. Heard and Adkins Town of Byromville Hawes Union City Smith Campbell Campbell County Williford Buckhead The Thirty-ninth Cumming Forsyth Strickland Pike Barnesville Sumner Board of Turner County Williams Dodge Hastman Gibson Glascock Glascock County Gadley Camden Williamson McWilliams Henry County Court of Reid Macon Oglethorpe Messrs. Jones and Keih Meriwether Primrose Hardeman Jefferson Townsend Clinch Clinch County Wynne Pulaski Pulaski County Buchannan Early Blakely Board of Commissions of Roads McDonough Sim Hardaman Statham John W. Akin House Rogers Randolph Martin Dalton Tracy Webster EB. J. Coker A. M. Johnson Webster County Thirtyninth McMichael Marion Fullbright Burke Waynesboro Messrs Flannigan Holder Stephens Senator Bush Senator Stephens Savannah, Statesboro and Western Railroad Mr. Godkey State of Georgia Senator Camp Chattanooga W. & A. Railroad

In Senate Action on Convict Lease and City Charters

The senate on August 4 considered a convict lease reform amid debate over public roads and specific counties. A resolution to abolish the system faced a 32 to 7 vote against, as sessions discussed city charters for Atlanta Marietta Edgewood and DeKalb County towns.

House of Representatives Ben Hill Hoase Perry Hall Senate Alexander DeKalb House Beer Ducktown Mercer Terrell Dawson Light and Water Commission Eaves Haralson Buchanan Massengale Warren Norwood Payton Worth Sylvester Legislative Investigating Committee Indian Bylrings L. H. Ladsinger Cook Alfair Board of Roads Telfair County Hines Baldwin Baldwin County Johnson Jeff Davis Jeff Davis County Senator Brantley Aot Senator Dobs Marietta Senator Henderson Irwin County Hayes Flint River Macon County Feller Atlanta Dopicipal Edgewood Dobbs Battle Hinpbes DeKalb County

Fall market review notes curtailment in cotton goods

Bradstreet's weekly summary reports generally favorable trade and growing industrial output but flags curtailments in certain cotton goods. It notes early fall buying softness and cautious buyers while railroads, iron and steel, hardware, coal, lumber show activity. US failures total 205 that week, Canada 19.

New York City Bradstreet United States Canada

Merchants Protest Southern Rate Increase Filing

Kalamazoo merchants protest an interstate commerce commission filing opposing a rail rate rise to southern territory set to take effect this month. The association cites a 10 to 25 percent hike and impact on shippers in a thousand towns. In Kentucky a store shooting left John Blanton dead and multiple others wounded amid a long running Saylor Blanton feud.

Kalamazoo Mich Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association Interstate Commerce Commission Shepardson

Dealers object to army contracting methods in Chicago

Manufacturers in the western states harshly criticize how the war department awards army clothing contracts. A special board ordered a sample of twenty yards of cloth for uniforms, a move seen as creating a monopoly since the sample cost is prohibitive for small dealers.

Chicago Ill War Department

Whiskey Blaze Destroys Warehouses in Midway Ky

A fire in Midway Kentucky destroyed five warehouses of the J. Greenbaum Distilling Co. and burned more than 47 000 barrels of whiskey. Losses are estimated around 300 000 dollars as the blaze threatens to wipe out the town.

Midway J. Greenbaum Distilling Company

Captain Guthrie Dies by Own Action At Sea

Captain A H Guthrie of the schooner Frank A Williams jumped overboard eight miles west of Cape Lookout in Savannah bound voyage from New York to Southport after the vessel had been sold. The schooner was left without a navigator but the mate steered to Savannah.

Savannah A. H. Guthrie Frank A. Williams New York Cape Lookout Southport

New York Central Plans 2 Million Dollar Pittsburg Expansion

The New York Central railroad approves immediate expenditure of two million dollars for improvements in the Pittsburg district. Various other 19th century items include a fatal shooting in Mississippi, Wright's airplane flight near Le Mans, factory reopenings in Missouri and public notices in Arkansas and Nebraska.

New York Central Railroad Pittsburg Indaw Ira Cody Wade Riggan Cody Cox Mississippi Wilber Wright Dayton Ohio Lemans France John Woolsby Oxford Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Milling Company Godfriend Probst Brooklyn Bombay India Seth M. Richereck Indianapolis Johannesburg South Africa Missouri Pacific Railroad St. Louis Sedalia Fort Scott Atchison Osawatomie DeSoto Baring Cross Argenta Ark St. Louis and Southwestern Railroad Dunning Nebraska American Tobacco Company George H. Sommers Baltimore and Ohio Railroad United States Congress Ethel Gaylord Richmond Jacksonville Fla

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