Georgia Briefs: Wage Earners League and Local Contests
A Wage Earners Democratic League forms in Savannah opposing Governor Hoke Smith and backing Joe Brown. Banks and Jackson counties debate placing Maysville in one county for a May 1906 election. Tallulah Falls railroad receiver gains authority to issue $100000 in certificates. Educational convention for Methodist Episcopal church south set for Atlanta May 19 21 with 800 to 1000 delegates. Treasury plans public buildings in Augusta Dalton and Marietta with new funding. Atlanta Fair directors back Farmers' Union collaboration for a fall fair October 8 24 and premium list due April 20. Georgia Sunday School Association announces April Athens convention with President Hains urging statewide participation to reach 300000 unaffiliated children. Militia rents up for armories and brigade and regimental HQ allowances increase with coast artillery reorganization adding a captain chaplain.
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Atlanta Fair Association
Farmers’ Union
Atlanta
C. S. Barrett
National Union
R. F. Duckworth
Frank Weldon
Georgia Sunday School Association
George Hains
Augusta
Athens
Hains
Georgia
Act of Brave Woman Ends Fatal Home Burglary
Mrs Ed Jones a leading Montgomery Alabama woman shot and killed a burglar during a 3 am struggle in her home. The assailant fought her father Barney Rhody as Maud Rhody struck him with an iron rod while the pistol finally fired, killing the intruder.
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Ed Jones
Montgomery
Ala
Barney Rhody
Mr. Rhody
Lockjaw grips New York horseman after Heflin shooting
Thomas McCreary, a New York horseman, was accidentally shot by Congressman J Thomas Heflin of Alabama on a Pennsylvania avenue car in Washington. He developed lockjaw and underwent surgical intervention at George Washington University Hospital on Monday afternoon. The wound to McCreary's leg and a neck wound to Lundy were the result of Heflin's confrontation and gunfire.
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Congressman Heflin
Thomas McCreary
New York
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Washington
George Washington University Hospital
McCreary
Heflin
Lundy
Pennsylvania Avenue
Cuban Army To Be Organized In Cuba
Governor Magoon decrees the creation of a Cuban army along advisory commission lines General Alexandro Rodriguez to command the force under the new organization plan.
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Magoon
Cuba
Advisory Commission
Alexandro Rodriguez
Korean Insurgents Active Rise in Seoul Tensions
Advices from Seoul relayed via Tokyo report increased insurgent activity in Korea with several minor clashes recently. The insurgent movement gains encouragement from the Korean court’s stance.
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Tokio
Seoul
Diamond ring offer promotes beauty cream and jewelry
A sensational offer from T. C. Moseley of New York promotes a rose cut diamond ring with Tiffany setting at low price, paired with a beauty cream. The ad promises free catalyst with each sale and urges immediate purchase by money order or bills, stating limited supply.
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T. C. Moseley
East 28Rd Street
New York City
Price of Cotton discussed by state Farmers Union leaders
In Little Rock the conference of state presidents of the Farmers Union closed with focus on cotton pricing. Leaders weighed keeping cotton at a 15 cent minimum, while planning to hold stock for 60 to 90 days. They backed cotton grading schools and urged legislatures to fund them.
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Farmers’ Union
Little Rock
Standard Rotary and Reel Machine Ad Promises Savings
An Atlanta advertisement touts Long Shuttle Machines as wasting time and promotes THE STANDARD GRAND ROTARY as two machines in one with ball bearing stand and auto lift. It claims 25 years of success and urges readers to request prices and equipment plans for guaranteed sewing machines from The Standard Sewing Machine Co. at 68 S Broad St Atlanta GA.
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Sewisachines
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Georgia Briefs
Democratic League
State of
Savannah
Hoke Smith
Joe Brown
Banks
Jackson
Maysville
Newman
United States District Court At
A. B. Andrews
Tallulah Falls Railroad
Tallulah Falls
Methodist Educational Convention
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Joel Davis
North Georgia Conference
First Methodist Church
Peachtree Street
Plans For
Washington Dispatch
Supervising Architect
Treasury
Harwick
Dalton
Marietta
State Sunday School Association
State Military Fund
Scott
Coast Artillery
Lockjaw
M’creary
Castoria
What Is
Southern Railway Co
Fayetteville High School
J. O. Pettis
Fayetteville, Ga
Europe
Presidents of Farmers’ Union
Little Rock, Ark
Orange
Mass
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