Georgia House Debates State Road Extension to Coast
The Georgia House discusses extending the state road from Atlanta to the coast. Speaker Alexander defends the bill in long speeches, with opposition from Joe Hill Hall and others. A vote may not occur until next week as revenue and county creation limits are debated.
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Tlanta
Mar Bers
Joe Hill Hall
Bibb
Messrs Boyd
Ater
Chanlee
Heard
Ryals
Esars Hill
Shaw
Seab
Wright
House
Anderson
Buloch
Little Joe
Causey Family Reunion Set for July 18 at Home
The annual reunion of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Causey will convene July 18 at their home. All relatives are urged to attend. Friends and neighbors may join the family in a basket dinner.
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J. M. Causey
Tsell Coffins and Burial Tobes in Pinehurst Ga
Local ad lists coffins caskets and burial robes for sale in Pinehurst Georgia. F M Barfield offers to furnish a hearse if needed.
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Tsell
Tobes
Alred
F. M. Barfield
Pinehurst
Dividend Money Reinvigorates Georgia and Alabama Commerce
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index reports July dividends by banks, railroads, and industries fueling trade in Macon, Augusta, and other cities. It notes a half million dollar fertilizer plant in Montgomery, a guano factory planned for Selma, rail projects from Sandersville to Huntsville, a Madrid-Spain line via Mobile, a million dollar Birmingham hotel launch, Cordele hotel bids, Southern Steel Co. reorganization, and a surge in education and tobacco interest across the two states.
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Columbus
Ihs
Georgia
Alabama
Macon
Augusta
States
Montgomery
Ala
Selma
Sandersville
Tennille, Ga
Huntsville Ala
Mobile
Spain
Birmingham
Cordele
North Alabama
Southern Steel Co
New York
Boston
Florida
Woman, Husband and Two Daughters Burned to Death
Sparta Ohio July 8 A prominent local woman Mrs Frank G Thomas died from burns after dropping lighted paper and stepping on it igniting her clothing Her husband and two daughters tried to smother the flames and were badly burned Their mother died within hours leaving a husband and nine children including W W Thomas editor of The Ishmaelite as her eldest son Her brothers H R and Sidney Lewis attended the tragedy Funeral planned for tomorrow morning.
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Sparta
Frank G. Thomas
Tomas
W. W. Thomas
the Ishmaelete
H.R
Sidney Lewis
Joel Chandler Harris Dies Without Will in Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris died intestate in Atlanta on July 7. His estate will be administered under state law. He left $15,000 in life insurance, a West End home and land, and royalties from his writings and Uncle Remus stories.
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Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris
Harris
West End
Remus
Southern Express safe robbed at Valdosta details emerge
Valdosta Ga July 8. The Southern Express Company safe was robbed Sunday night. About 500 dollars were inside the safe. Entry was made with a skeleton key and the news was suppressed until today.
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Southern Express
Valdosta
Southern Express Company
Tobacco grows in shaded beds boost for Bainbridge expansion
Experiments in shaded tropical tobacco show promise for farmers to scale up next season. Bainbridge, Georgia, adds a large new warehouse as the tobacco center gains prominence. Construction records for the week highlight a surge in homes and businesses and a rush to capitalize on favorable building material prices.
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Bainbridge
Burglars Strike Judge Revill Home and Other Crimes
A gang of burglars hit Judge H H Revill in Greenville Georgia Sunday night. One bandit captured ten miles away after a shootout. another escaped. Loot found in an express office addressed to Robert Johnson of Hartsboro Alabama. In Thomasville two negroes and a white man robbed Geo A Adams, tossed him on railroad tracks, injuring him. two suspects arrested, one escaped. Mrs Frank G Thomas of Cuthbert died from burns while pressing clothes. she leaves nine children. Max Littlejohn, 22, son of Judge Z A Littlejohn of Americus, died in Greensboro North Carolina. Robert Reid of Reid’s Pharmacy and EK Wheat of Wheat Drug Co were arrested for selling on Sunday. Americus was chosen as the Third district congressional convention site for July 15 to notify Dudley M. Hughes.
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Greenville
H. H. Revill
Judge Revill
Stinson
Robert Johnson
Hartsboro
Ala
Johnson
Aull
Thomasville
Geo. A. Adams
Coast Line
Cuthbert
Frank G. Thomas
Walker Lewis
Wales W. Thomas
The
Sparta Ishmaelite
Tax Notice for 1908 Ad Valorem Tax Returns Opening
City announces that the book for receiving ad valorem tax returns for the year 1908 will be opened July 1 1908 and remain open for thirty days.
Kidnapped boy found in Ellabelle after ten months
I R Raynor arrives in Atlanta with son Leroy aged twelve after ten months of searching for the boy abducted near Middleton Indiana. They travel on foot from Savannah to Macon then by freight to Atlanta and are given transport to Chattanooga by the city warden.
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Atlanta
Middleton Ind
I. R. Raynor
Ellabelle
Savannah
Leroy
Macon
Mr. Raynor
Chattanooga
BLUE STEEL KILLER BAKER SHOT DEAD IN GEORGIA
In Homerville Georgia a feared killer known as Blue Steel real name Baker dies after being shot by Deputy D S Manning of Clinch county. Baker had served five penitentiary terms including five and ten year sentences from McIntosh and Coffee counties. He claimed before dying he had killed seven men and aimed to die rather than be captured.
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Homerville
Blue Steel
Baker
D.S. Manning
Clinch County
Thelma
McIntosh County
Coffee County
Manning
Fargo
Clinch
Claimants Begin Processing for Cherokee Fund
Atlanta July 7 C H Bradley special commissioner from Washington opened examinations for the Cherokee indemnity fund. About 70 claimants in Atlanta seek shares of the 4 million dollars set aside for descendants of Cherokees removed in 1846, with around 800 more in Georgia asserting eligibility through Cherokee ancestry.
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Atlanta
C. H. Bradley
Washington
Congress
Georgia
Wise Johnnie and the four wheel riddle
Johnnie Jones declares a four wheeled vehicle is a baby carriage during a playful scene on the public square. A local teacher quizzes children on a playful wheel word game using buckcle tryckcle and four wheel vehicle as a baby carriage.
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Johnnie Jones
Miss Worrill Meets Death in Accidental Shooting
In Cuthbert Georgia on July 7 Mrs Louise Worrill daughter of Judge W C Worrill died instantly when a rifle exploded as she drew it from a barrel rag to prevent rusting. The bullet struck her heart as she stood with family members in a room. Her father was in Atlanta at the time serving with the supreme court by appointment of Governor Smith.
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Cuthbert
Louise Worrill
W. C. Worrill
Pataula
Worrill
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Smith
Railroads Protest Before Commission In Georgia
Representatives of nearly every Georgia railroad appear before the railroad commission in Atlanta to oppose a requested reclassification of second hand machinery freight. The Valdosta Foundry and Machine company seeks a lower rate, but railroads argue the change would be unjust and lodge a strong protest at the hearing.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Railroad Commission
Valdosta Foundry and Machine Company
Re‑adjustment of Georgia senatorial districts favored
Atlanta July 8 House committee on amendments to the constitution passed favorably on a bill for state senatorial district re adjustment. It assigns the five largest counties Fulton Richmond Bibb Chatham and Floyd to districts while the next 26 largest join with a smaller county. Remaining counties form districts of three counties each.
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Atlanta
House Committee
Constitution
Fulton
Richmond
Bibb Chatham
Floyd
Committee Refuses Fertilizer Tax Increase in Atlanta
Senate agriculture committee voted unfavorably on a bill to raise fertilizer tax from 15 to 25 cents per ton. Only four or five supported it after a lengthy hearing with Chancellor Barrow, Dr. A. M. Soule, and other agricultural leaders pleading for the measure and Col. W. L. Peek, Col. J. M. Smith, J. Pope Brown and others opposing.
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Atlanta
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Barrow
A. M. Soule
The
Agricultural Colleges
W. L. Peek
J. M.smith
J. Pope Brown
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State Capitol
Joel Chanler Harris
Americus
Max Littlejohn
Greensboro
N. C
Z. A. Littlejohn
Southwestern Judicial Circuit
Robert Reid
Reid's Pharmacy
EK. M. Wheat
Wheat Drug Company
Roberta
Harry Allen
Broad
Dudley M. Hughes
W. T. Lane
Hughes
Indiana
Miss Worrill
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