Georgia Legislature Proceedings July 13 1907 Pension Bill Defeated
Proceedings show the pension bill for Confederate veterans with property under 1500 dollars and widows married before 1870 failed in the House 113 to 24. The following days cover a push for a prison commission investigation, a five member joint committee, and various votes on convict leasing, carnie library funding, and local charters.
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House of Representa
House
Shaw
Clay County
Gate Prison Commission
Senate
Iigher
Committee of Five
House of Representatives
Born
Thirty
Smith
Joseph M. Brown
Holder
Jackson
Coyington
Colquitt
Sesson
University of Georgia
Old College At
Athens
Carnegie Library
Georgia School of Technology
Wilkes
Andrew Carnegie
Felder
Lashley
Brass Town
Towns County
Kingwood
Mercer
Terrell
Terrell County
Defiance of Fate and the Price of Happiness
Margaret learns she has a year to live and plots to win Robert Kaye from his fiancée Muriel Hayden. As death seems delayed, she uses charm to draw him closer, leaving Muriel to confront the truth and Margaret’s dangerous claim on a future they cannot share. The tale unfolds with love, jealousy, and a quiet, perilous gamble with fate.
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Margaret
Kaye
Robert Kaye
Muriel Hayden
Muriel
Marsgaret
Robert
London
Fighting Chance for Georgia Agricultural Schools Bill
The fertilizer tax bill aims to save eleven district agricultural schools in Georgia by linking funding to fertilizer tag sales. The measure faces a Senate committee report in executive session, with advocates urging passage despite past unfavorably reported status. Schools would boost dairying soil testing and by-products use though funding remains precarious.
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Senate
Atlanta
Georgia
State
House
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Barrow
Soule
J. Pope Brown
J. M. Smith
W. L. Peek
Dr. Soule
Agricultural Schools of Georgia
A Song O Love by Elia Myrover Robinson
A lyrical poem from Woman's Home Companion exhorts a sweetheart to marry in a summer scene. Rich imagery of blossoms bees and birds accompanies declarations of love and commitment. The speaker vows devotion as nature thrives and proclaims the beloved as “mine.”
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Elia Myrover Robinson
What It Costs to Run New York
The Rochester Post-Express cites Senator Armstrong as stating that New York’s latest legislative session used about $30,000,000 in appropriations excluding trust funds. Hospitals received $5,661,118 and common schools $4,665,625, with charitable institutions outside hospitals at $2,688,759 and the judiciary at $1,368,656. Other departments shared the rest up to $500,000 per item, including a notably high $450,000 for printing, with total appropriations about $3,000,000 above last year.
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New York
Rochester Post-Express
Armstrong
Senate Committee On Finance
Judiciary
Leslie
Sweetness and Light in Culture and Love
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Matthew Arnold’s celebrated phrase Sweetness and Light, tracing its origin to Swift who used it for bees and honey. Arnold adapts the idea to culture, asserting love and truth should prevail through cultivated society.
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Matthew Arnold
Swift
Arnold
Pall Mall Gazette
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Proceedings OF the
Georgia Legislature
Covington
Jones
Alexander
Fullbright
Burke
Boyd
Spalding
Wright
Lloyd
Steed
President Flynt
Hardman
Appropriations Committee
Candler
Knight
DeKalb
Tift
Dougherty
Massengale
Warren
Warrenton
Donaldson
Decatur
Georgia Southwestern and Gulf
Sumner
Turner
Ashburn
Flynt
Hay
Overstreet
Henderson
Williford
National Guard
United States
Odum
Laker
Board of County Commission
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Flanders
Johnson
Naywood
McDuffie
Stickland
Pike
Williamson
Simmons
Gilmer
Muilay
Peterson
Montgom
Orland
Ellijay
Trent
Heard
Franklin
Rest
Messrs. Candler and
Burwell
Han“ok
Cul- Verton
Berry
Union
Blairsville
Messrs. Brown and Watkins
Carroll
Calbeck
Gordon
Alhorn
Blackourn and Bell
Fulton
Hast Point
Ballard
Newton
Mansfield
Montgomery
Glenwood
Swilling
Lavonia
Messrs. Nix and Wilson
Gwinnett
Irwin
Worth
West Florida
Tifton
Brookfield
Ty Ty
de Bristol
Fla
Agate
Floyd County
H. L. Montgomery
W. Y’. Montgomery
Indianola
Lowneys County
Cowper I. Shelton
C. L. Shelton, Jr
Martinez
Richmond County
Jesse Wy
Clark
J. B. Morton
Mullis
Laurens County
Arthur W. Mullis
Hiram Mullis
Tivola
Heston County
Joseph Palmer
John F. Logan
Ingleside
DeKalb County
Henry Lee
A. K. Jones
Central of Georgia Railway
Macon
Brunswick
Georgia Weekly Press Association
Frederica
St. Simons
Fannin
Union Counties
Ducktown
Supreme Court of the United States
Hart
State Board of Health
Cherokee Saw Mill Company
Thomasville
W. J. Little
Milledgeville
Sparta
Georgia Road
Buckhead
Carey
Bannockburn
Wesley J. Boyd
James H. Warren
Milltown
John S. Sirmans
Fred Bridges
O. B. Rutland
L. P. Cox
Cox
Rutland
Macon Masons
St. Paul
Song
George H, Maxwell
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