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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
1
Mobile Alabama workers plead guilty to peonage indictments alleging conspiracy to restrain mobility of labor. Nine farmers and officers named. several fined by Judge William Shannon on two or three counts, with penalties ranging from 25 to 200 dollars.
Secretary Wilson cites lack of farm labor as the main cause of high food prices. He notes Western and Northwest farms idle despite high wages, while Mississippi Valley farms can fill labor needs with available workers. He says the country is healthy and prosperous overall.
Daudi Chwa the young ruler of Uganda Protectorate greets Theodore Roosevelt ahead of his expedition. The boy king praises Roosevelt for helping Black people in America and promises a royal reception and successful hunting in Uganda near Mengo on Victoria Nyanza. The Nile’s headwaters lie in Uganda.
St Louis aviators John Berry winner of the Indianapolis distance cup and M A Haimann balloon manufacturer seeking a license ascended in Haimann’s bag near Belbach. They rose to eight thousand then ten thousand feet into thunder clouds. The pair describe a brutal ride with freezing mist and violent basket jerks. Berry landed at Rock Hill three miles from St Louis. Haimann sprained his ankle escaping.
Alabama Supreme Court rules that a man may own and store liquor at his premises within legal limits. Justice Sayre writes that intoxicating liquors are property and may be owned. the Bessemer rule banning liquor storage in soft drink outlets is unconstitutional, making locker storage legal and resisting legislative change.
Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer argues that a little flirting is advisable for college students. He says Radcliffe girls and Harvard boys study too hard and miss social life, urging them to mingle frivolity with academics.
General Georg B. Crosby aged sixty nine a Confederate brigadier general committed suicide in Oakland by inhaling gas after years of paralysis and disappointment. In a separate note from Constantinople the Turkish government contemplates possession of six million Turkish pounds deposited by the deposed sultan Abdul Hamid in the Imperial Bank of Germany with an estimated value of about 21 and a half million dollars.
Governor Brown urges cooperation from the General Assembly, pledging equal protection of laws for capital and citizens, calls for a new tax system, a department of labor, constitutional amendments for education bonds, and rail and railroad regulation. He supports bid for municipal control, juvenile labor enforcement, and improved convicts on roads. He also seeks changes to elections, lobbying limits, and pensions for Confederate veterans.
The New York Tribune notes the Chalanda Marz spring festival in Hagadine communes begun by schoolboys with bells and a dawn procession. Dairyman figures lead the march while mats of offerings fund a communal revel, reflecting Roman origin and spring mating customs. An Italian rail electrification bureau is also mentioned.
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