Primary Today in Georgia Voters Face Close Races
Statewide primary underway in Georgia with tight gubernatorial and congressional contests. Dorsey favored on first ballot while Harris and Watson ticket factions battle for county and district margins. Polls open seven to six for court house votes and eight to three for country precincts.
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Dorsey
Twomag County
Harris
Toto
Thomasville
Boston
Thomas County
Cox
Park
Court House
Justice Mallard
Craig Wiles
Official Ballot for Thomas County Primary Election
The Thomas County Democratic Executive Committee presents the official ballot for the September 12 1916 white Democratic State Primary. Voters may erase names of candidates they do not wish to vote for and select one or two per office as listed, including governor secretary of state comptroller general attorney general state treasurer superintendent of schools pension commissioner prison commissioner agriculture commerce and labor chief justice and associate justices of the supreme court judges of the court of appeals railroad commissioner representatives and other district officials.
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Nemes
N. BE. Harris
Hugh M. Dorsey
L. G. Hardman
Joseph E. Pottle
Philip % Cook
William A. Wright
EH. P. Dobbs
Clifford Walker
W. J. Bakes
W. J. Speer
H.M. Stanley
Supreme Court
William H. Fish
The
Maircus W. Beck
Judge Court of Appeals
R. B. Russell
Robert Hodges
C. M. Handler
Charles Murphy Candler
James H. Peeples
J. A. Perry
James A. Perry
G- McLendon
Court of Appeals
C. H. B. Bloodworth
A. W. Cozairt
H. J. Fulbright
Walter F. George
Ino
M. Graham
George C. Grogan
John B. Hutcheson
W. Frank Jenkins Henry 3
Jones
Ino. J. Kimbey
Roscoe Luke L. P. Skeen
Alex Stephens
M. J. Yeomans
Georgia
BE. BE. Cox
Frank Park
Solicitor General
Southern Circuit
Fondren Mitchell
Jim C. Smith
J. A. Wilkes
H. W. Hopkins
J. A. Bowers
J. B. Burch
Island Disappears in Pacific Off Yokohama
Tokio reports Niijima an island of the Zogan group created by volcanic action on January 25, 1914, about 600 miles south of Yokohama, with a coastline of about two miles, has recently disappeared.
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Tokio
Niijima
Pacific Ocean
Yokohama
Election Returns Shown On Times-Enterprise Building
Returns from state and county elections will flash on a screen in front of The Times-Enterprise building on Madison Street near Neel's Grocery. Western Union will transmit results without partisan bias, starting about seven o'clock and continuing for several hours with state, congressional, and county totals as they come in.
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Times-Enterprise
Times-Enterprize
Madison Street
C. Neel
Western Union Telegraph Company
Quebec Bridge Collapse Kills Dozens in St. Lawrence Run
A new central span of the Quebec bridge over the St. Lawrence River collapsed during hoisting, trapping about ninety workers below. The five thousand ton span, six hundred forty feet long, broke in two places as twenty to twenty five men are reported dead with other survivors awaiting roll call.
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Quebec
Ontario
Canada
Quebec Ridge
St. Lawrence River
Robbers Take $75 From Meigs Wholesale Grocery Safe
Special to Times Enterprise Meigs Ga Sept 8 thieves entered the T J Willis wholesale grocery by breaking a front window the outer part of the safe was unlocked and the inner door forced open seventy five dollars in cash was taken no other items were touched and no clues had been found by 3 30 this afternoon on the identities of the burglars
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T. J. Willis
Meigs
Russian Victories and Balkan Battles Reported in War Office Dispatch
Petrograd reports a Russian victory over Turkish forces in Persia with Bana region towns occupied by Russians. Entente forces mass along the Seres road toward Bulgaria while Russian units push to bolster incursions into Macedonia and Bulgaria. British Greek troops clash with Bulgarians as German assaults on Somme fronts are repelled with flamethrowers failing to break French lines.
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Petrograd
Persia
War Office
Sakkis
Bana
Bulgaria
Balkans
Seres
Tayinos Lake
Amania
Macedonia
French War Office
Struma
Nevelyen
Karabjabes
Somme
London
Guinchy
Belgian Aviator Drops Proclamation Over Brussels
The Belgian War Office in Havre announced a Belgian aviator flew over Brussels on Wednesday night and dropped copies of a royal proclamation.
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Havre
France
Belgian War Office
Brussels
Norwegian steamer Linberg sunk by German submarine
Amsterdam dispatch reports the Norwegian steamer Linberg bound from London to Rotterdam was sunk today by a German submarine. The crew stripped copper objects from the vessel before she was blown up.
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Amsterdam
Holland
Linberg
London
Rotterdam
Romance Ends Very Sudden in Thomasville Police Beat
A Jacksonville girl Miss Lila Bessimer posing as Billy was found at Union Station in Thomasville after swapping clothes for a man’s outfit. The 16 year old asked to return home to Jacksonville to resume schooling. authorities plan care and possible institutional support.
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Arthur Bessant
Milwaukee
Jacksonville
Miss Begsimer
Thomasville
Metropolis
Billy
Lila Bessimer
Union Station
Miss Bessimer
Lackawanna Avenue
Calla
Georgia
J. C. Lanier
W. W. Anderson
Noted Blind Evangelist Rev. Joe Ramsey Dies
Rev. Joe Ramsey a blind evangelist aged forty eight well known in the Southern Methodist Church died at Viola Tennessee last night He was a prominent figure in church work across the region providing preaching and ministerial aid in various communities.
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Nashville
Tenn
Joe Ramsey
Southern Methodist Church
Viola
Whiskey Seizure Near Grady County Florida Line
Grady County officers stopped an auto load of whiskey between midnight and daybreak near the Florida line. The car owned by J. Mayo of Mitchell County carried thirty five quarts. Four men were present, two white and two Negroes. drivers were involved. White men J E Stripling and M P Dasher of Camilla named. Dr Dasher jailed in Grady County jail.
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Cairo
Grady County
Florida
J0é- MG Mayo
Mitchell County
J. E. Stripling
M. P. Dasher
Camilla
First Census Bureau cotton ginnings report announces 1916 total
The Census Bureau reports 850,032 bales ginned before Sept 1 for 1916, with state totals listed including Texas 522,008 bales and Georgia 212,5154 bales. Comparisons show declines from 1913 and 1914 and higher than 1915. Agricultural output estimates also include wheat 611,000,000 bushels and corn 2,710,000,000, along with other crops and hay.
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Associated Press
Washington
Census Bureau
Alabama
Georgia
Arkansas
California
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Agriculture Department
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Judge Park
Congress
Max
Democratic Executive Committee
J. EB. Craigmiles
Island
Pacific
Mash-Milton Drug Co
Halifax
Western
Canadian Northwest
Special To
Just
Red. Cross Drug Company
Reading Pharmacists
Thomasville, Ga
Grady
Tal~lahassee
Census Department
Wooltex
Ghogs
Louis Steyermans
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