Florida Naval Stores Bill Prompts Savannah to Jacksonville Shift
A Jacksonville delegation urged adoption of a federal naval stores inspection bill before a subcommittee of interstate commerce. The measure aims to divert traffic from Savannah to Jacksonville, with Floridians pressing Washington for passage while Savannah faces a strong push from supporters. The bill mirrors one in the Senate and seeks broad inspection but key aim is regional shift. the pine belt naval stores trade nears 30 million dollars annually.
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Alvnferro
Savannah
Jacksonville
Washington
D. C
Interstate Commerce Commissions
House
Senate
Taliaferro
Parkman
Capitol
Georgia
W. M. Toomer
Jacksonile
Waycross
Frank Clark
Jacknville
Pine Belt
Giant Steamers Crash Off Nantucket Collision
The White Star Republic and Italian Florida collided off Nantucket and sank while in tow to New York. Passengers were transferred to the Baltic. reports say one crew and several passengers killed or injured. The Florida reached Newark as rescue efforts continued.
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White Star
Republic
Florida
New York
Gresham
Hich
Newark
Jeff Davis Bodyguard Cauble Dies Aged 78
Robin W Cauble veteran and one of Jefferson Davis bodyguards, was a native of Charlotte North Carolina. He served as a pattern maker machinist in Confederate navy yards and joined Davis on his escape to Washington. He lived many years in the South and was proud to have protected the president.
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Washington
Atlanta
Robin W. Cauble
Jefferson Davis
Mr.uble
Charlotte
N. C
Cauble
Conderate
Navy Yards
Confedera
Jefferson
Taft Sails From Charleston Aboard the North Carolina
President elect Taft departs Charleston aboard the battleship North Carolina for the Panama Mission after a round of entertainments. He is accompanied by Senator Philander C. Knox and Frank H. Hitchcock, arriving to discuss conferences and plans for FM and other matters.
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North Carolina
Charleston
Carleston
Taft
Unis
Panama
Philander U. Lox
Frank H. Hitchcock
Mt. Taft
California Navy Policy Sparks Roosevelt Controversy
Confused excerpts discuss anti Japanese legislation and fears in Congress over naval support. Debates center on presidential power and domestic fire control amid wartime sentiment. Names and places are unclear due to OCR errors, but the piece signals a clash over race and policy involving California lawmakers and Roosevelt.
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Navy
Claira
Washington
California
Roosevelt
Ite
Fouth
Tennessee votes to override governor on statewide liquor ban
Tennessee lawmakers override Governor Patterson with Senate bill 1 to ban sales of intoxicating liquors within four miles of a school and enforce a statewide prohibition effective July 1, 1909. The vetoed measure, backed by Republicans and Democrats, follows a heated fight across Nashville.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
Patter
Senate
Memphis
Chattanooga
Patterson
Commonwealth
House
Tenne
Liberia in Tottering State Seeks U.S. Commission Aid
President Roosevelt backs a State Department plan to appoint a three person American commission to Liberia to help stabilize the government. An appropriation of 20000 dollars is requested for expenses as Liberia struggles with native tribes and governance challenges.
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Tottering
Washington
D. C
Roosevelt
Congress
State Root
Liberia
Root
Japanese Praise Roosevelt in Tokio Amid California Bills
Japanese leaders in Tokyo praise President Roosevelt for his protest against proposed anti Japan measures in California. They believe his second intervention will halt adverse legislation and prevent future attempts.
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Tokio
Japan
Roosevelt
California
Last of Criminal Havens in Washington D C
The senate ratifies an extradition treaty with Honduras to close remaining criminal havens. Upon presidential proclamation extradition of criminals will be possible with all governments. Senate also votes to raise circuit judge pay from 7000 to 9000 dollars and district judge pay from 8000 to 8000 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Honduras
United States
Model License League Backs Regulation Not Prohibition
Louisville report from the National Model License League convention highlights Mayor David A. Rosa of Milwaukee advocating regulation over prohibition. He argues for careful licensing, minor restrictions, barred access for habitual drunkards, and exclusion of loungers, framing regulation as the remedy after weighing economic and social factors.
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Louisville
National Model License League
United States
David A. Rosa
Milwaukee
Gilmore
League
Mr. Rose
Rose
Legislator Indicted Despite SC Immunity Rules
Joshua W. Ashley, a prominent South Carolina lower house member, remains in his seat after a federal grand jury indicted him on a peonage charge. The state constitution grants immunity from arrest during legislative sessions except for felonies or breach of the peace. Prosecutors anticipate no attempt to evade arrest and dismiss concerns of opposition.
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South Carolina
Columbia
8. C
Joshua W. Ashley
Ashley
Pealey
Cochrane
Tillman warns on libel cases endangering press freedom
Senator Tillman of South Carolina warns that the possibility of the president succeeding in the Panama libel cases alarms patriots and endangers the freedom of the American press as grand juries in Washington and New York investigate the matter.
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Tillman
Washington, D. C
Panama
New York
South Carolina
Washingtons Sword Presented to Mt Vernon Association
Baltimore banker J Pierpont Morgan bought Washingtons sword from Virginia Lewis in Baltimore. He will donate the historic relic to the Mount Vernon association. The price is undisclosed though past senate action valued it at about 26000 dollars.
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Mt. Vernon Association
J. B. Morgan
Baltimore
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
Virginia Lewis
George Washington
Continental Army
Morgan
Mount Vernon Association
United States Senate
Report on Conservation of National Resources Sent to Congress
President Roosevelt transmits the Commission on Conservation report as the nation’s first inventory of natural resources. It endorses all recommendations, urges $50,000 for ongoing work, and calls for cooperative state and federal action to curb waste and protect mineral, land, forest, and water assets.
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Committee On Conservation
Congress
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Commission of Conservation of the National Resources
Teapot finds Messina consulate after quake
Stuart K. Lupton, vice consul at Messina, reports in a state department letter that on the morning of the catastrophe he walked through flood and ruins until he found a battered teapot be longing to Mrs. Cheney the American consul s wife. He used it to re locate the consulate site amid wreckage and water.
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Messina
Washington
D. C
Cheney
Stuart K. Lupton
State Department
Lupton
John S Mosby Defended in Gettysburg Campaign Book
Richmond report notes Colonel John S Mosby, recently ill in Washington but recovering, holds a unique place in history. The piece highlights his Northern Virginia raids near Washington and rear of the Union Army, and his defense of J E B Stuart in a new book about Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign.
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Richmond
John 8. Mosby
Washington
Virginia
Stuart
Gettysburg
J. E. B. Stuart
Lee
131000 Bales To Be Ginnned National Ginners Association Estimates
The National Ginners Association reports 12,628,000 bales ginned by January 16, with an estimated 131,000 bales to be ginned the rest of the season. State figures include Alabama 1,314,000 and 4,000 more, Arkansas 922,000 and 22,000, Florida 68,000 and 1,000, Georgia 1,942,000 and 4,000, Louisiana 462,000 and 2,000, Mississippi 1,544,000 and 21,000, Missouri 54,000 and 3,000, North Carolina 659,000 and 5,000, Oklahoma 614,000 and 31,000, South Carolina 1,189,000 and 38,000, Tennessee 319,000 and 5,000, Texas 3,526,000 and 25,000, Virginia Kentucky 15,000. Total 12,628,000 and 131,000.
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National Ginners’ Association
Memphis
Tenn
National
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia-Kentucky
England and Wales face mass pauper issue under old age pensions
A newspaper survey shows about 1 in 20 people in England and Wales are paupers under the pension law, with London at 1 in 14. Over 500,000 are eligible for old age pensions, expected to rise to 600,000 soon, amid total population of about 34.9 million. Government aid reaches about 2.21 million people.
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England
Wales
London
England and
Georgia to Free White Convicts From Lease System
An Atlanta report explains Georgia plans to end the convict lease system on April 1. White convicts skilled in business may face fieldwork on a central farm, with limited opportunities to earn money. Oversupply of convicts prompts proposed division among smaller counties to form workable gangs.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Lestee
Goodloe Yancey
The
Prison Commission
Fruit not hurt
Atlanta reports say peach orchards in Georgia have not suffered from the warm spell. President H C Bagley of the Georgia Fruit Exchange on a Fort Valley trip saw no premature blooms and heard no reports of damage from growers. He notes blooms seen near Atlanta are protected by homes or diseased trees and that extended warmth needed to swell buds is lacking. He warns that premature injury reports hurt fruit interests.
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Atlanta
H. C. Bagley
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Fort Valley
Mr. Bagley
Funds for Georgia rivers and harbor improvements
United States engineers report lump sum river and harbor estimates for Georgia this year. Savannah river above Augusta cited at 26600 dollars, Altamaha Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers 40000, waterway Savannah to Fernandina 25000, Flint river 25000, Chattahoochee 113000, Coosa 40000. Appropriations will cover work already under way.
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Georgia
Washington, D. C
United States
Savannah
Augusta
Altamaha
Oconee
Ocmulgee
Fernandina
Flint
Chattahoochee
Coosa River
Georgia farmers pledge to wear cotton and grow supplies
Seven hundred fifty delegates at the Georgia Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union vow to wear cotton clothing on farms and to produce corn meat and other essentials for the year. They plan central control of all state cotton warehouses and will send four lecturers to promote farming self sufficiency.
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Atlanta
Georgia Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union
New South Georgia
Phil Cook
Abbeville
Fort Valley
Montezuma
Wilcox
Pulaski
Dooley
Houston
Macon
Agricultural College
A. M. Soule
State College of Agriculture
State Agricultural College
Kimsey
Gainesville
Taft
Georgia
Councils of the Republic
Washington
Augusta
Robert J. Lowry
National Treasury
Joseph Lamar
Supreme Court
Cleveland
Ohio
Muscogee County Medical Society
Columbus
Muscogee Superior Court
Shepherd Brinson
Hoke Smith
Citizens
Southern Bank of Savannah
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Theodore Roosevelt
National Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Hugh W. Washington
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Naval Stores
Jeff Davis
Republic OF Liberia
Child Labor Conference
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John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Mayor Rose
Washingtons Sword
John S$. Mosby
Funds For Georgia Rivers
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