Fight over new Georgia counties grips Senate agenda
The Atlanta Constitution describes a Senate session battle over new counties with Senators Hand and Steed clashing on timing and impact. Amendments by Candler and Miller passed, while opposition to eight counties grows amid questions of how the tax act will proceed.
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Atlanta Constitution
Senate
Senator Hand
Hand
Finance Committee
House
Steed
Candler
Miller
Wheatley
Busiliea
Trains Crash at Macon Injures Several People
A head on collision at the Central of Georgia railroad Third avenue crossing in Macon injures multiple workers. Injured include Clyde Roberts baggagemaster Theodore Reddy freight engineer John Nash passenger engineer Ballard fireman and a Montgomery mail clerk all badly hurt or fatally. A negro fireman on the freight is missing.
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Macon
Third Avenue
Central of Georgia Railroad
Clyde Roberts
Theodore Reddy
John Nash
Balard
Montgomery
Nash
Ballard
Roberts
Atlanta
Woodsman fires on assailants killing two near Oakfield
Reports from Cordele Georgia say Malfis a woods rider for Oakfield Naval Stores Company shot at seven negroes who confronted him as he rode near Oakfield today. Two were killed instantly three mortally wounded and two fled. Coroner's jury underway. likely no arrest for Malfis.
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Cordele
Albany
Oakfield
Malfis
Malfia
Oakfield Naval Stores Company
Attack on White Girl Stuns City as Man Held for Trial
Alford Howard, a Black man, arrested for attempted criminal assault on Mamie Childers near her home. Preliminary trial today set bond at 500 dollars. entry through window woke the widow Mrs. Childers and family. Identification based on tracks only. case deemed circumstantial.
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Roberta
Gia
Alford Howard
Mamie Childers
Clark's Monumental Works Local Agent Notice
Notice to the public that Joux H. Jonpax is now the Vienna agent for Clark's Monumental Works in Americus Georgia Findlay Ga correspondence requested for orders and inquiries in care of Seay.
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Clark
Americus, GA
Vienna
Findlay
Joux H. Jonpax
Booker T. Washington Dining With Wanamaker Party in Saratoga
Booker T. Washington dined yesterday in the United States hotel dining room in Saratoga where he was the guest of John Wanamaker. He was escorted by Wanamaker’s daughter Mrs Barclay Warburton while Wanamaker walked with J. R. F. Roberts. Washington preached three times the Presbyterian and Baptist churches and at the African Methodist church.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Booker T. Washington
United States
Washington
John Wannamaker
Postmastar
Barclay Warbuton
Wanenamaker
Wannamaker
J. R. F. Roberts
Presbyterian
Waycross Street Car Franchise Bid Planned
Mexicru A T Myers and C M Sweat with J M Bell John T Myers and others seek a 20 year franchise to operate the Waycross Street and Suburban Railway Company. Two years to build. City Council will vote next meeting. Plans include an up to date line along most principal streets and branch lines to Deenwood and the fair grounds.
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Waycross
Mexicru
A. T. Myers
C. M. Sweat
J. M. Bell
John T. Myers
Waycross Street
Deenwood
Fair Grounds
Negro Lineman Electrocuted Working On Nesbit Street
Ben Bryant, a Black lineman for the Macon Electric Railway and Light Co, was accidentally electrocuted yesterday morning on Nesbit street while repairing a steel arm supporting a live wire. A jury determined he died from contact with a live wire due to his own carelessness.
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Ben Bryant
Macon Electric Railway and Light Company
Nesbit Street
Bryant
Caroner Young
Macon
Whisky Caused Killing in Madrixon County Dispute
Edgar Mitchell shot and killed Nella Allen in Madrixon upper county after a dispute over whisky yesterday evening. Mitchell, related to Perry Mitchell who served a fifteen year sentence for similar killings, fled the scene and is in custody.
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Edgar Mitchell
Nella Allen
Madrixon
Mitchell
Allen
Perry Mitchell
Touching Cumberland baby saved by Dr. King's New Discovery
Geo A Eyler of Cumberland Maryland tells how his 11 month old daughter faced throat illness. Two doctors gave up hope but four bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds restored her to perfect health. Vienna Store offers 50c and 1.00 bottles with a guaranteed free trial.
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Geo. A. Eyler
Cumberland
Vienna
Five Cent Demurrage Case Heads to Supreme Court
Judge Curren of Pekin engages in a fight with Santa Fe Railway over demurrage of five cents. The dispute, opened after the railroad demanded payment for a vault door incident, may rise to the Supreme Court if Curren loses. He asserts the case tests a principle and will defend against the rail firm with top counsel.
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Santa Fe Rail
Road Company
W. Br, Garren
Pekin
Supreme Court
Curren
Santa Fe
Wireless stations planned for Atlanta by De Forest firm
Finch of the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company, in Atlanta, says one or two stations will be built in the city. A long distance center may be set near Fort McPherson, with direct links to Halifax and Ireland for rapid worldwide messages.
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Atlanta
Finch
American de Forest Wireless, Telegraph Company
Fort McPherson
Vineh
New York
Halifax
Ireland
Mallfax
Birthday party for Miss Olan Lee Peavy
Miss Olan Lee Peavy celebrated her 10th birthday with a Saturday party attended by Minnie Ola Lee Peavy Fas Thompson Tommie Marietta Wood Sadie Morgan Mable Whittington Minnie Lee Jordan Mildred Strretor Masters Don Bostwick Earl Peavy and Mrs Watts Powell. Games were played and refreshments served in the dining room.
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Olan Lee Peavy
Hontens
Ola Lee
Minie
Ola Lee Peavy
Fas” Thompson
Tommie and
Marietta Wood
Sadie Morgan
Mable Whittington
Minnie Lee Jordan
Mildred Strretor
Masters Don Bostwick
Earl Peavy
Mrs. Watts Powell
Train Collision Kills Two Brakemen Near Clyde
Two brakemen from Norfolk and Toledo, George Wells and George Peck, died in a head on collision of Wabash freights near Clyde. Westbound train reportedly failed to receive a stop order. Engines wrecked and six cars destroyed. crews reportedly jumped to escape.
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Toledo
Fremont
George Wells
Norfolk
George Peck
Clyde In
Historic Milledgeville Eatonton ticket found after decades
Covington Ga August 1 a railroad ticket twenty one years old was presented to Captain J O Cooper of the Central of Georgia railroad for transport from Milledgeville to Eatonton. The ticket issued October 40 184 by A D Nisbit, then agent for the Milledgeville and Eatonton railroad. The purchaser never used the trip in 1844 and only recently had occasion to use the old ticket. Nisbit has served as agent since 1882 for multiple lines and recalls issuing the ticket decades ago.
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Covington
J. O. Cooper
Central of Georgia Railroad
Milledgeville
Eatonton
A. D. Nisbit
Cooper
Nisbit
M. G
Central of Georgia
Advertisement notices and new fall goods in Cordele News
Walton Brox advertises Shirta and table dinen in todays News. J H Churchwill of Cordele has 0 display ad on the third page offering bargains. Orovita joins this week as a new advertiser. Crovits has received fall goods and a line of clothing for men and boys shown on page two. The hammock idea credited to a girl.
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Walton Brox
Thea
J. H. Churchwill
Cordele
Orovita
Crovits
Bloody attack shocks New York clergy family
The Rev Renard Schulte and his wife were fatally attacked in Mechanicsvlle by William Curtis a Saratoga resident. Curtis was later shot and killed in Saratoga while resisting arrest after fleeing from the scene.
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Bin
Deceptive Friends and a Stall on the Mustache
A brief dialogue contrasts trust and betrayal among friends with a humorous remark about a stall on a moustache to keep flies away. The scene shifts to a rainy day metaphor about umbrellas and unreliable companions, concluding with a note about gear and a business name J. P. Hearp & Sons.
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Wix
Central
Woodsman
Booker Washington
Wabamaker
United States Hotel
Saratoga, N. Y
Globe Fruit Jars
J.P. Hearp & Sona
Miss Ola Lee Peavy
C. S. Bazemore
East Vienna Gunnery
A. J. Shell
West View Vienna Cotton Oil CO
Minister
Negro
Brilliantine
J. P. Hearp & Sons
Zora Carnes
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