Georgia Legislature Proceedings July 22 28 1908
The Georgia House debates convict lease policy with amendments to disfranchisement law and several local charter bills. Senate passes city court and charter changes for Dublin Sandersville Homerville and Lavonia as July sessions run into late July with heated exchanges over the Holder convict bill and related reforms.
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House of Representatives
Smith
Campbell
Burwell
Hancock
Whitley
Douglas
Flanders
Johnson
Hall
Bibb
Senate
City Court of
Dublin
Messrs. Duggan and Walker
Washington
Sandersville
Townsend
Clinch
Homerville
Pope
Dade
J. R. Brock
Tg, F. Smith
George W., Cureton
D. BH. Tatum
John M. Castleberry
House
Agriculture Committee
Georgia
Deen
Felder
Wilkes
Quitman
Brantley
Laurens County
Slippery Ground and Legal Wit in Old Notes
A collection of humorous and legal excerpts notes layman will writing a will, the trouble with to wits and whereases, a dairy maid joke, and a Georgia fee system amendment. The Georgia bill shifts fines collected for misdemeanors to the county treasury after official payouts. The session then debated further amendments.
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Kansas City Journal
Georgia
McFarland
McIntosh
Perry
Hall
Fight to Close Copper Mines Threatens Georgia Fertilizer Supply
A pending House resolution urges the Georgia attorney general to seek a U S Supreme Court decree to shut down the Ducktown Copper Mines near the Georgia Tennessee line. The mines emit fumes harming North Georgia vegetation and supply the sulfuric acid used to produce phosphoric acid for Southern fertilizers. The case affects phosphate rock cotton seed meal and the fertilizer industry nationwide.
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Atlanta
House
United States Supreme Court
Ducktown
Georgia Line
Tennessee
Georgia
South
State Gleanings From Georgia News Chronology
Report of Georgia farm land sale records in Wilkes County and new building plans across Athens Augusta Elberton Springfield and Donalsonville. Notes on a press venture in Athens promising 50 000 bales cotton annually and a new court house. Also covers a fire loss in Adel Mayor Henry Keynon and fatalities on W K Miller farm.
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Georgia
Wilkes County
Athens
Augusta
Elberton
Springfield
Fair Grounds
Seaboard Air Line
T. J. Shingler & Bros
Donalsonville
Joe Mays
Frank Elmore
William B. Stubbs
Anti-Saloon League
Savannah
Southern Methodist Church
Nashville
Douglasville
Sacred Harp Musical Society
Tom McGee
Arabi
Kinder Lea
Valdosta
McRee Brothers
S. Hart
Opelika
Ala
Columbus Hospital
Boy Killed at Baseball Game in Bing hamton
Sixteen year old John Foley died in Bing hamton New York after being struck on the head by a batted ball while playing baseball. The rest of the text contains unrelated lines about Cordelia and Satan.
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John Foley
Binghamton
N. Y
Crook Demonstrates Rough Skill With Straight Tip Claim
A short remark notes that even a criminal can manage a straight tee tip if he chooses to. The line underscores bold but suspect competence in a streetwise context. No further details provided.
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M. Matthews
Laurens
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McMahan
Clarke
Wrightsville
Lee
Glynn
Board of County Commissioners of
Dodge Couny
Messrs, Alexander and Candler
DeKalb
Kirkwood
East Lake
Mr. Cook
Chattahoochee
Cusseta
Messrs. Davis and Fagan
Houston
McMullan
Hart
Hart County
Dorming
Irwin
Fitzgerald
Parrish
Berrien
Adel
Blackburn
Fulton
State Farm
General Judiciary Committee
Wright
Richmond
Cowart
Knight
Prigor Commission
Joseph M. Terrell
Brock
Houston Post
Washinon Herald
Cordelia
Satan
What Is
Castoria
the Ullman CO
Cincinnati
Ohio
NEW Home Sewing Machine Company
Orange
Mass
Standard Sewing Machine Co
Broad St
Atlanta, Ga
Niagara
Frederick A. Poshle
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