Waterway plan to cut Florida peninsula for ship canal
The Mississippi to the Atlantic Inland Waterways Association adjourned to meet in Jacksonville Florida to discuss a proposed canal slicing Florida’s peninsula in two by an east west route linking the Atlantic and Gulf. Officers were elected including Duncan U Fletcher as president and a slate of vice presidents from Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi and Illinois. The group renamed itself the Mississippi to the Atlantic Waterways Association and promoted a coast to coast inland canal system to ease transport and reduce costs.
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Florida
Columbus
Jacksonville
Fis
Peninsula of Florida
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
D. A. Fletcher
Peninsula of
Atlantic
Gulf
United
Gulf Stream
Duncan U. Fletcher
Fla
Charles J. Swift
Leland J. Henderson
Apalachicola
G. A. Weterman
Pensacola
John Craft
Mobile
Ala
Georgia
John A. Betjeman
Albany
J. H. ‘Rummon
St. Andrews
Alabama
G. G. Grosvenor
Montgomery
Mississippi
Benjamin Humphries
Louisiana
Warren —. Reid
Illinois
Robert Isham Randolph
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
A. Thompson
Richmond
Ind
Gulf Coast Inland Waterways Association
Three Hundred Die In Westphalia Mine Disaster
A massive explosion at the Radbod mine near Hamm Westphalia Germany traps 380 miners. Only six escape uninjured. 37 are dead on surface. 302 feared lost as flames hinder rescue and a flood is ordered. A rescue corps from Courrières France arrives but cannot enter. The cause remains unclear though coal dust explosion is suspected.
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Hamm
Westphalia
Germany
Rescuing Parte A Special Corps
Courieries
France
Cotton Crop Reduction Promoted by Farmers Union
Orleans Louisiana reporters note the Farmers Educational and Cooperative association in convention adopts a 25 percent cotton reduction plan and crop diversification. It backs a house system for interstate commerce, a committee to discuss rural free delivery and parcels post, and warehouse building in New Orleans with a million bales storage plan. Delegates from Georgia to Alabama, led by T. J. Brooks and J. Z. Greene, represent about two million farmers seeking agricultural commissions and closer China America trade relations urged by Sum Ling of Hong Kong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orleans
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Associaton
United States
New Orleans
T. J. Brooks
Tennessee
G. K. Hightower
Mississippi
J. Z. Greene
North Carolina
J. W. Boyett, Jr
Louisiana
L. H. O’mahon
Georgia
L. H. Morris
Alabama
Farmers’ Union
Exxist
Li Sum Ling
Hong Kong
China
America
Mounts Stage Kiss by Ex Senator's Son at Show
In Washington D C Loretta Manny a chorus girl with the Musical Com pany staged a dare on stage. McLaurin the former senator's son accepted and kissed her on view of the audience. The girl invited the kiss during a song and the young man complied with several quick smacks before the act ended.
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McLaurin
Larlanburg
D. C
Loretta Marny
Young McLaurin
United States
Ulek
Everal
Great Victory for Liberals in Havana Election
Official returns from 1,360 of 1,498 polling places show General Jose Miguel Gomez with 183,823 votes and General Mario Menocal 115,329. Liberals swept every province. Havana Province led by 25,000 in Havana city by 43,000, with sizable majorities in Oriente 18,500 Santa Clara 11,000 Canaguey 1,200 Pinar del Rio 7,500 and Matanzas 8,000.
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Havana
Cuba
Jose Miguel Gomez
Mario Menocal
Oriente
Santa Clara
Canaguey
Pinar del Rio
Matanzas
Fatal duel ends ex senator Carmack in Nashville
Former United States Senator Edward W Carmack was shot and killed in a street duel in Nashville Tenn Robin Cooper a young attorney wounded in the shoulder He dies after editorials in The Tennesseean criticizing Colonel Cooper sparked the feud The incident follows Carmack s defeat in the democratic gubernatorial primary and his recent role as editor of The Tennesseean The younger Cooper faced police at a local hospital with his father Colonel Duncan B Cooper present during the affray
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Carmack
Tennessee
Robin Cooper
Nashvile
Tenn
Edward Ward Carmack
United States
Young Cooper
Duncan B. Cooper
Tennesseean
Mr. Carmack
Colonel Cooper
South
Democratic Machine
Coonel Cooper
Memphis
Edward W. Carmack
Nashville
Castalian Springs
Sumner County
Columbia
Patterson
Nashvile Tennesseean
The
Government spending to spur prosperity in November
The government plans a November outlay of about 5 million dollars for contracts nationwide. Treasury projects will fund construction painting and furnishing of public buildings benefiting Marietta Georgia Eugene Oregon Toledo Iola Kansas Crookston Minnesota Rawlins Wyoming Trinidad Colorado Gulf Quarantine Station Ship Island Mississippi Baker City Oregon Hazleton Pennsylvania Milford Pennsylvania Manchester Virginia Newton Kansas Carlisle Pennsylvania Gainesville Georgia.
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Washington
D. C
Taft
National Treasury
United States
Treasury Department
Marietta
Eugene
Ore
Toledo
Iola
Kans
Crookston
Minn
Rawlins
Wye
Trinidad
Chinese Treaty Planned United States and Japan to Respect China
New York Herald cites Tokio dispatch claiming a Katsura ministry linked accord between Secretary Root and Baron Takahira. Key points include honoring China's independence, preserving the open door, and limiting labor migration between the nations if needed, to prevent harm to bilateral ties.
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United States
Japan
China
New York City
The
Herald
Tokio
Katsura
Root
Baron Takahira
10 KILL HER MOTHER Daughter Employs Detective Plot
Miss Mae L Otis 36 has been arrested in Chicago for allegedly instigating a plot to murder her mother Mrs Sarah Jus 57. A private detective hired to aid the plan alerted Police Captain Ogirien. The mother reportedly carried life insurance totaling 8800 dollars.
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Chicago
Mae L. Otis
Sarah Jus
Mauston
Wis
Miss Otis
O'girien
Lft
Counties seek 88 percent of state convicts for road gangs
Atlanta officials report 54 counties requisitioning 855 felons for public roads after April 1 1909. Of these, 448 are the quota and 407 are overs, with 1 487 overs requested. Chatham and DeKalb are the top bidders, DeKalb seeking 1779 overs to reach a 200 man road gang.
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Atlanta
Goodloe Yancey
The
Prison Commission
Chatham
DeKalb
Bryatt
Weiss Sant
Bulloch
Burkes
Camden
Pearsette Ay i
D. Howard
Baldwin
W. Miarten
Brantley
Laurens
Clinch Sie Nicer Oien
John M. Slapek
Ib” Sie
Hs Rae ‘i
Messrs
Hooper Alexander DeKalb
Joe Hill
Bibb
H. J. Dougherty
Pullbright
Burke
Elbert
Emanuel
Wadly
R. L. Perkins Green
Mr. Perkins
Wadley
Houston
Wadley Jefferson
Jenkins
W. A. DuPre
Muscogee
Cobb County
Oglethorpe
Savanah
Randolph
Richmond
Col- Rockdale
Walton
Warren
Wilkes
Wilkinson
Werth
University of Georgia
Brooks
Clay
Macon
Ap Tedeman
Felo
Bank of Waycross
W. M. Toomer
L.A. Wilson
Savannah
Jacksonville
Waycross
W. R. McCants
Winder
Smith
North Georgia Agrcultural College
Dahlonega
Moe Cants
Jackson County
Eatonton
William A.rawford
Flourney Gatewood
Georgia cotton hybrid fights root fungus and more
The Georgia Department of Entomology reports a four year effort yielding a hybrid cotton resistant to the black root fungus a major pest aside from boll weevil not present in Georgia A limited seed supply will be distributed to representative farmers statewide An associate note mentions California sea island cotton experiments with seven thousand acres planned in Egyptian Texas cotton Howland Harris Holtville notes an organized association and optimism for success Also reported are convicts assignments totaling about 2 500 across counties for public roads with no excess supply and a Western and Atlantic railroad expansion study panel appointed by Governor Smith including Trammel Burwell Gray Wadley and Wadley on the commission
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State Department of Entomology
Georgia
Sea Island
California
Commissioner of Agriculture
T. G. Hudson
Robert H. Harris
Holtville
Cal
Harris
Goodloe Yancey
Prison Commission
Westera and
Atlantic
Smith
Paul Trammel
Dalton
W. H. Burwell
Hancock
J. R. Gray
Atlanta
George Dole Wadley
Monroe County
T . Went
State Faces Big Deficit For Georgia Finale
Georgia faces a looming deficit of 800000 to 1000000 as the next administration takes office in June. Treasurer Park warns the treasury will need funding beyond the 5 million budget to cover losses from convict hire, liquor revenue declines, and higher school appropriations totaling about 9847000 dollars.
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Atlanta
Georgia
R. WH. Park
Treasury
Joseph M. Brown
Five fatal wrecks in a single day shock nation
A Great Northern Express struck a New Orleans and Northeastern local at Little Woods Lake Pontchartrain camp near New Orleans killing eleven and injuring many more as fires raged and survivors aided victims. Rescue delays followed due to lack of telegraph service and rough swamp surroundings.
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New Orleans
Great Northern
Little Woods
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Shore
Great Northern Express
Wen
Red Bluff
Cal
Willard
Hayes
Young
Southern Pacific Railroad
G. K. Willard
Olive Willard
Irene Hayes
Imogen Willard
Boree
Wye
Union Pacific Railroad
North Bay
Ont
Temiskaming
Deep River
Conn
King Emanuel’s Guard Doubled in Lisbon Plot Alert
Lisbon police report a completed assassination plan against King Emanuel. The death by suicide of Dr. Alberto Costa is linked to the case. Authorities in Lisbon and other cities have arrested suspects and doubled the king’s guard since the plot’s exposure.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Emanuel
Alberto Costa
Servians Plant Mines Threatening Invasion
Officials discover Servians planting mines in all streams between their country and Bosnia. Government launches an investigation and warns nothing can prevent a Servian invasion.
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Budapest
Austria
Bosnia
Servia
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Peninsular
Rocky Mountains
Mexico
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama Canal
Wyoming
King Emanuel
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