Vets Choose Richmond for Confederate Reunion Next Year
The sixteenth Confederate Veterans reunion in New Orleans ends with Richmond Virginia chosen by acclamation for next year. Birmingham withdrew in favor of Richmond after the Jeffer son Davis monument factor influenced many veterans. Proposals include pensions for slaves who followed masters and annual memorial services for Confederate dead.
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New Orleans
Richmond
Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson Davis
W. L. Cabell
Veterans of Arkansas
Battle Abbey
Cabell
Grand Camp of
Department of Virginia
Petersburg
New Store Promises Low Prices and Wide Selection
Atlanta shoppers urged to visit the new store offering lower prices than competitors. The basement-level department features silk shirt waists, silk skirts, and ready to wear with a dining room and maid for customers. Broad assortment of millinery, linens, silks, and ready-made garments with special spring values and extensive shoe and menswear lines.
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Atlanta
Reasunovie
Miss Ditch
Baltimore
Welso
Artors
Madras
Newland
Panama
Lear
Mapping Route for New Road to Monticello Florida
Georgia survey crews map the route of a new Georgia Northern railroad south of Boston with Monticello Florida named as the objective point. Boston residents anticipate benefits from the forthcoming extension and related railway developments.
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Georgia Northern Railroad
Boston
Monticello
Fla
One Thousand Immigrants Deported at New York
About a thousand contract laborers were deported from New York this Saturday in one of the largest removals under contract labor laws. The group, mostly from Greece Montenegro Bulgaria and Servia, had been drawn by wages averaging 2.50 dollars a day amid a spring immigration rush through Ellis Island over the past two weeks.
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New York
Ellis Immigration Station
Greece
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Servia
Postmaster General Seeks Congress Aid for Postal Notes
Postmaster General Cortelyou asked Congress for an appropriation to establish a postal note system. The goal is a simple efficient method to transmit small sums through the mails and reduce reliance on postage stamps and small coins.
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Cortelyou
Congress
Mine Operators Stand Firm In Wage Dispute
The anthracite mine operators in New York refused to modify their position. They urged miners to renew for three years the strike commission award or accept arbitration by the commission on any wage changes. The miners have previously declined this offer.
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New York
Mexicans Seize Schooner Sallie Sterns Off Progresso
The fishing schooner Sallie Sterns of Pensacola owned by Warren Fish Co. has been seized at Progresso by the Mexican government. American owners wired the American consul and informed the state Department via Senator Mallory. It is believed the vessel violated fishing laws by operating within one league of shore.
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Progresso
Sallie Sterns
Pensacola
Fla
Warren Fish Company
State Department
Mallory
Mobile Angers Havana Quarantine Mystery
Havana health officials protest Mobile’s strict quarantine for ships from Havana. They report no yellow fever cases in Havana and claim Cuba overall enjoys good health conditions.
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Havan
Mobile
Havana
Cuba
Not Guilty Plea Entered by Edwin S. Holmes Jr in Cotton Leak Case
Edwin S. Holmes Jr former statistician in the department of agriculture faced criminal court in Washington on a conspiracy indictment linked to cotton leak cases He pleaded not guilty and was allowed to withdraw the plea within fifteen days and negate the indictment.
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Agricultural Department
Edwin S. Holmes, Jr
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Barnes to Get Office Postmaster of Washington
The senate committee on post offices and post roads on Thursday approved reporting favorably the nomination of Benjamin Barnes, assistant secretary to the President, for the postmaster of Washington.
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Senate Committee On Post Offices
Benjamin Barnes
Roosevelt
Washington
Shaw Machine Company Placed in Receiver's Hands
The Shaw Machine company, textile machinery manufacturers with a Lowell Massachusetts plant, was placed in receivership Thursday. Liabilities are about 240000 dollars.
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Shaw Machine Company
Lowell, Mass
Woman shoots husband who attacked daughter in home
George Fogle of Brooklyn Heights Maryland returned home drunk and entered a room where his wife and 12 year old daughter lay in bed He threatened to shoot if anyone interfered Then he assaulted his daughter Mrs Fogle grabbed the revolver and fired five shots killing him instantly
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George Fogle
Brooklyn Heights
Fogle
Not Guilty in Atlanta Sister Slaying Trial
In Atlanta Friday Mrs. Willie Standifer was found not guilty by reason of insanity after a nine to ten minute jury deliberation in the killing of her sister Miss Chapell Whisenant on March 9. Judge Roan ordered no demonstrations, and the court heard that Standifer claimed she acted to protect herself and her child from social ruin amid alleged husband’s faithlessness.
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Willie Standifer
Superior Court
Atlanta
Chapell Whisenant
Roan
Standifer
G. W. Bailey
American Can Co
James Dilbro
Hackman
Collins Street
Husband shoots wife by accident at club house
Mrs. J. W. Skinner, wife of a Memphis manufacturing manager, was killed on a veranda when her husband fired at an alleged home wrecker. Skinner claimed the shooting was accidental and aimed at Robert Simpson, who sat nearby amid domestic trouble reports.
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J. W. Skinner
Memphis
Skinner
Robert Simpson
Perjury Charged Former President of Washington Life
William J. Brewer Jr. president of the Washington Life Insurance Co. was indicted for perjury by the New York grand jury on a report he gave to the state superintendent of insurance in 1903 about the company’s condition.
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Washington Life Insurance Co
William J. Brewer, Jr
The
New York
State Superintendent of Insurance
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