Georgia Treasurer Warns Legislature on Fiscal Risk
Atunte Ga, 1908 report from Treasurer R E B Park to Governor Smith highlights need for cautious budgeting to avoid financial embarrassment. Note includes rises in interest income, bank numbers, and concerns over unsatisfactory banking laws, staff shortages, and calls for higher teacher pay and treasury improvements.
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Smith
Georgia
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Taft's Winter Home Move Spurs Augusta Effort
Secretary Johnson of the Augusta chamber of commerce urged Congressman Hardwick to introduce an amendment to an existing Landers bill. The proposal would double a quarter million dollar appropriation to build a Hudson summer home and allocate the same amount for a winter residence in Augusta. The plan, discussed since President Taft's visit, aims to win support if half a million dollars can be set aside for the presidential head.
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Augusta
Johnson
Georgia towns seek condemned war cannons for public squares
Representative Edwards introduces eleven bills asking the War Department to donate two condemned cannons with halls to Georgia cities including Savannah Pembroke Sylvania Reidsville Darien Lyons Millen Statesboro and Hinesville to fortify public spaces and deter potential threats. Each measure targets city placements in public squares to enhance civic defense displays.
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Ington
D. C
Edwards
Savannah
Pembroke
Sylvania
Reidsville
Darien
Lyons
Millen
Ig Shell
Statesboro
Hinesville
Education aid debated by state superintendents in Washington
Washington reports state educators oppose federal takeover of schooling. Commissioner Elmer Brown urges careful study by a national commission before any aid plan, warning against eroding state control. He notes current land grant funding and stresses boosting, not replacing, state systems.
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Washington, D. C
Elmer Ellsworth Brown
Chicago
Superintendents of
Brown
Congress
Colleges of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Georgia
State College
Athens
Savannah
Renounces $40 000 Legacy In Court Fight
Mrs. Robert Anderson renounced in Norristown a $40 000 portion of her father’s will. Margaret J Prizer daughter of a Schwenksville hotel keeper married Anderson two years ago against her parents wishes. Prize died leaving one half of his estate to his daughter on condition she never live with her husband. She appeared in court and said she would stay with him.
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Norristown
Robert Anderson
Anderson
Margaret J. Prizer
Schwenksville
Prize
Southern states child labor conference planned in New Orleans
Louisiana Governor Sanders calls a southern states child labor conference to be held in New Orleans March 29 30 and 31. Governors from Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and North Carolina have forwarded delegates to attend. The meeting aims to discuss child labor matters for betterment and uniform policies across the south.
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Louisiana
Calla
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Sanders
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
North Carolina
South
Gaines Taunted Cannon in House Clash
In Washington, Representative Gaines of Tennessee sparred with Speaker Cannon, each claiming insults. Gaines pressed the matter, and the speaker ordered the sergeant at arms to restore order. The mace was briefly moved toward Gaines but stopped when he vowed to stay in order.
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Tennessee
Washington, D. C
Gaines
Cannon
Florida Leads Naval Stores Output in 1908 Turpentine and Rosin
Florida produced 17,080,800 gallons of turpentine and 1,982,114 barrels of rosin in 1908, leading eight southern states. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, and Texas followed. Overall value fell from 1907 due to lower rosin prices, with turpentine and rosin combined down by 3.7 million dollars.
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Georgia
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Rosin
Carnegie Foundation Adds Seventy-Eight to Retiring Roll
New York City reports the Carnegie Foundation for the advancement of teaching issued its third annual summary for the year ending September 30, 1908. Seventy-eight names were added to the retiring allowance roll and rules were changed raising the maximum pension to four thousand dollars. The widow of a professor married for ten years to the faculty member will receive half the husband’s former allowance. President Pritchett cites efforts to reduce political interference in state colleges and to safeguard academic freedom. Foundation assets total 10,762,953 with income 520,305 and expenditures 287,672 for the year.
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New York City
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement of
Pritchett
Foundation
Thomas Morrison Carnegie
War Talk Settlement Proposal by Yale Professor
Yale professor George T. Ladd proposed sending a battleship with congressmen and editors to the Pacific to provoke a duel with Japan’s ship, then rescuing survivors by a merchant vessel to a desert island where they would live together, claiming this would settle war talk.
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New York City
George T. Ladd
Japan
United States
Western Reserve University
Hobson
Pacific
South Seas
Boll Weevil Predicted to Reach Atlantic Coast in 1914
J. A. Taylor of Memphis, president of the National Gunners' Association, says the boll weevil will reach the Atlantic coast in 1914, two years earlier than his prior forecast, and invade Arkansas cotton fields across the state within two years.
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Ark
J. A. Taylor
Memphis
National Gunners’ Association
Atlantic
Arkansas
Opium Conference Ends in Shanghai
The international opium conference in Shanghai closes after a session from February 1. It condemns the opium habit as an evil and calls for suppression.
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Shanghai
China
Rural Free Delivery Expands in the South
The Post Office plans a year of rapid growth for rural free delivery routes across southern states. Nearly five hundred new routes will be created, nearly half the national total, as good roads progress and petitions for routes rise. Current southern routes total 9,874, covering 237,469 miles at an annual cost of 8.55 million dollars.
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Mason and Dixon
Uncle Sam
Post Office Department
South
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Berlin Ripper Captured After Daylight Stabbing Attempt
A Berlin assailant who attacked women on crowded Friedrichstrasse was seized by a police officer after attempting to stab a passerby. The youth, rider of a series blamed on the same spree, sparked terror as many servants avoid night streets. Police staffed detectives in female disguises to trap him.
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Berlin
Friedrichstrasse
Senators flee from state to block Tennessee election laws
Thirteen state senators have fled the state to defeat election laws vetoed by Governor Patterson. Absent members are outside Tennessee and cannot be required to return. They plan to stay away for the remaining 22 days of the legislative session, risking the defeat of the laws and prompting a possible special session for appropriations.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
State
Senate
Patterson
Oldest Man in America Isaac Brock Claims Peruna's Power
Isaac Brock of McLennan county Texas, aged 120, extols Dr. Hartman’s Peruna as the best remedy for coughs colds catarrh and diarrhea. He credits long life and good health to the remedy and says it suits old people especially well.
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McLennan County
Tex
Peruna
Hartman
The Undesirable Bachelor Tax as a Political Warning
A Harper's Weekly reprint argues bachelors face higher taxation pressures and societal penalties. It cites rising unmarried rates in England and historical precedents from William III and Pitt to suggest a potential bachelor tax to bolster state finances.
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Iningland
Pitt
Harper’s Weekly
New Idea Helps Wis Couple Improve Health and Wellbeing
A Wisconsin couple credits Postum with easing coffee caused issues after they tested the new beverage. They report calmer nerves clearer skin better temper and reduced coffee cravings as they prepared Postum according to packaging directions.
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Battle Creek
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