Pay for teachers urgently debated in Georgia
Atlanta reports a rapid shift to paying current year teacher wages. A proposed resolution would borrow a half million dollars to settle this year’s pay, avoiding reliance on loan sharks. Other bills include pensions for women teachers, compulsory arbitration, liquor ad bans, a state institution for inebriates, and stronger hog cholera prevention measures.
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Atlanta
House
Senate
Slaton
Brown
Georgia
Agricultural Department
Medical practice bill sparks fight over advertising physicians
The House introduction of a medical practice bill to identify quacks and advertising physicians as a single class draws heavy opposition from legislators who fear it criminalizes honest advertisers. In other cities inspectors report filthy slaughter pens and diseased hogs, warning of broad state sanitation reform.
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Atlanta
Lepathic
New York Visitor Promotes Produce Bulletin in Thom asville
Mr. Harry Jackson of New York visits Thom asville during the watermelon season. He represents the New Produce Bulletin, a popular paper for farmers shippers and merchants, and keeps up with daily quotations and market news.
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Harry Jackson
New York
Thomasvile
Jackson
New Produce Bulletin
Losses in U S Cotton Crops 1909 12 Reach Bilions
Agricultural Department figures show nearly two billion dollars lost to cotton crop damage from 1909 through 1912. Lint loss totals exceed sixteen billion pounds across the four years, with climatic conditions cited as the main cause.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Produce prices from all regions listed by national paper
The article notes prices for produce from every section of the country and mentions the paper being published in Chicago and Philadelphia. The text emphasizes nationwide market coverage and printing reach.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Greece Begins War at Once Against Bulgaria
Berlin reports Greece will start war with Bulgaria today without formal declaration, after cross-border provocation. Sofia to receive Greek notice. fighting described as not severe, with limited Bulgarian and Serbian resistance and small Greek losses amid a shifting blame for the conflict.
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Berlin
Athens
Frankfort Gazette
Greece
Bulgaria
Sofia
London
Islip
Eleuther
Salonika
Gettysburg Joint Reunion Yields Romance and Echoes of War
July 2 Gettysburg Pa veteran crowd witnesses a double romance as Joan Goodwin of New York and Margaret Murphy of Chicago wed on Military Day. Two John Carsons from Burlington New Jersey and Burlington Indiana meet by chance amid heat and tales of the battle. Private Barry Bulkeley reads Lincoln’s Gettysburg address as North and South veterans share memories.
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Gettysburg
Joan Goodwin
New York
Margaret Murphy
Chicago
Alexander Hunter
Virginia
John Carson
Burlington
N.J
Gamy
Argent-Hanpy
Andrew Cowan
Jouisville
Iky
J. R. Brook
Pennsylvania
Seargeant B. C. Scarborough
North Carolina
South
Barry Bulkeley
Washington
Lincoln
Thomas County Union Warehouse Company to Meet July 9 1913
Notice lists stockholders of Thomas County Union Warehouse Company Thomasville Georgia and calls an annual meeting at the county courthouse July 9 1913 at 10 A M with J Willis Moore president and C F Rehberg secretary Also mentions death of seven month old Earnest Melvin Davis in Fairview due to congestion and a home death report.
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Thomas County’ Union Warehouse Company
Thomasville
Thomas County Union Warehouse Company
County Court House
J. Willis’ Moore
F.rehberg
Earnest Melvin Davis
Fairview
New York Hotel Fire Claims Five Foreign Guests
Five foreign travelers burned to death as a downtown New York hotel, housing seventy five lodgers, burned late last night. Three men a woman and a child died quickly. six or more were severely injured while others fled with little or no clothing or money. Police probe the blaze origin amid reports of a similar hotel fire nearby days earlier.
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New York
Europe
Fight Over Seating Of County Delegates Dominates Georgia House
Atlanta July 2 The session opens with a battle to unseat Wheeler delegate McArthur and Bleckley delegate Browning amid uncertain outcome and acrimonious floor clashes. Other lively measures include civil control of the National Guard and a vital statistics bill creating a health department record of births and deaths. Governor Slaton names P B Latimer to keep public buildings and grounds with FE Holcomb as assistant.
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Atlanta
McArthur
Wheeler
Browning
Bleckley
National Guard
State Board of Health
Georgia
Cnmiittees
Bob. Bland
Steerét
Slaton
P. B. Latimer
Woodstock
President Wilson sails for three day cruise on Mayflower
President Wilson departed Washington for a short cruise on the presidential yacht Mayflower with Dr. Caryl Grayson as his sole companion. The voyage was informal with no salute or formal welcome, and the president will return Thursday then attend the Gettysburg reunion Friday and proceed to Cornish New Hampshire for three days. The report also notes a bereaved home where a child has died prompting deep sorrow and a funeral set for nine o'clock tomorrow morning conducted by Rev J B Johnston.
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Washington
Wilson
Caryl Grayson
Presidentia
President Wilson
Gettysburg
Cornish
N. H
J. B. Johnston
Parcel Post Regs Allow C O D and Insurance Readied
Parcel post stamps may be used on letters and papers and ordinary stamps on parcel post packages. The new order effective after July 1 allows C O D parcels with postage paid by sender and money order fee paid by the recipient. Automatic insurance up to fifty dollars is included, but no packages valued over a hundred dollars will be accepted. Insurance rates will change for values under twenty five dollars at five cents, while twenty five to fifty dollars stay ten cents. The public should learn the simpler regulations for easier handling.
Senate Bound by the Gaugu s Tariff Pact
Washington July 2 The Senate Democrats will be bound by the caucus to support the new tariff bill as reported with few exceptions. Leaders predict all but two Louisiana members will accept the pledge to vote for the bill and to oppose any Republican amendments. A caucus session resumed with another session needed after the Finance Committee meeting. the closing caucus is expected tomorrow.
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Washington
Senate
Ransdell
Thornton
Louisiana
Finance Committee
Senator Hitchcock quits Democratic caucus over tariff amendment attempt
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska withdrew from the Democratic caucus after failing to attach to the tariff bill an amendment related to the FRB. The move followed disappointment within the caucus as the vote tally showed the defeat, and the withdrawal was announced in Washington.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Wet June Brought Thunderstorms and Heat Across Region
Weather Bureau notes a wet month with frequent thunderstorms and high heat. Temperatures ranged from 49 to 98 degrees, mean 77, rainfall 7.90 inches, above recent years but below 1909 1910. Winds mostly southwest, gusty east wind on the 28th, hail on the 19th, 30 days with 10 clear days and 16 rain days, sunshine 278.4 hours.
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Weather Bureau of
Uncle Sam
Heat Wave Breaks as North Winds Weaken High Heat
Chicago reports cooler weather with showers easing a heat wave that lingered recent days. Thermometer readings fell about twenty degrees this morning. A revised death list shows fifty fatalities from yesterday.
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Chicago
Heat Wave Persists Across Plains to Mississippi Valley
Washington July 1 relief from intense heat is promised for parts of the country by the Weather Bureau. Cooler air is reported in some plains states east to the Mississippi but the hot spell lingers in the Mississippi valley. Illinois Indiana Ohio and Kentucky are hottest with readings near 100 and some Kentucky spots at 107. Relief is forecast by Wednesday.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Plains States
Mississippi
Kansas
Missouri
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Miner strike averted in Charleston two year agreement
Charleston West Virginia July 1 The two year agreement ends a strike of fifteen thousand coal miners. It provides a nine hour day allows miners to buy supplies where they choose semi monthly payments reinstates all discharged miners and sets future disputes to a joint board of operators and miners.
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Charleston
W. Va
Sackville Denies Influence on Sir John Murray Fortune
London July 1 Lady Sackville and family dismiss charges they influenced Sir John Murray to leave them bulk of his five million dollar estate or that she alienated his affection from his kin. The dispute centers on control of the fortune and family ties amid high society defenses.
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Sackville
London
Lady Sackville
Sir John Murray
Kirby invites Senate to hear testimony on Manufacturers case
John Kirby Jr former president of the National Association of Manufacturers says he will testify before Senate Lobby investigators but requests several months delay due to travel to the Orient. He claims Mulhall sold correspondence to the New York World and sought his old job through political influence. Kirby says Mulhall acted as a field agent for the association in Washington and was paid little while pressuring for the position.
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San Francisco
John Kirby, Jr
National Association of Manufaecturers
Senate
Orient
Kirby
Mulhall
New York
Association
Manufacturers’ Association
Washington
Brantley Postmaster Refuses to Yield Office
In Brantley Alabama on July 2 J I Johnson the Republican postmaster refused to surrender to the Democratic appointee arguing he has not been checked out nor qualified His Brantley post office becomes a fourth class office at midnight and Johnson claims Civil Service protection
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Alabama
Brantley
Ala
Johnson
Civil Service
Decree dissolves Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger
The final decree dissolving the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific merger was received from St. Paul and will be entered Monday in U S records. The suit was filed here February 1, 1908.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
St. Paul
United States
Carson case tied to British minister relative in Washington
In political and diplomatic circles the subject is a relative of a former British minister at Washington. Sir Edward Carson, the Sackville's counsel, addressed the jury.
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United States
Washington
Edward Carson
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