Measure Goes to Senate in Georgia Prohibition Bill Passage
The Georgia house passed Willingham's prohibition bill 95 to 65, a close margin of five votes. Supporters celebrated as Speaker Little announced the result, while opponents hoped it would die in the senate. The measure defines prohibitions on manufacturing and selling intoxicating liquors, with penalties and municipal enforcement provisions, and includes phased operative dates and exemptions for medicinal uses.
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Georgia House of Representatives
Little
Mr. Willingham
Menanza
Gotte
Senate
United States Revenue Tax
United States Revenue Collector
Enid
Java
Spencer Denies Ownership in Central Railway Case
President Samuel Spencer of the Southern railroad testified in Macon Georgia that the Southern does not own any stock in the Central Railway of Georgia. He said his holding amounted to one share, just enough to qualify as a director, in the injunction suit brought by Macon merchants.
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Samuel Spencer
Southern Railroad
Macon
Southern
Georgia
Spencer
Central Railway of Georgia
Richmond Chosen as Next Meeting City for Brotherhood
At the Brotherhood of St. Andrew convention in Columbus Ohio the executive committee was instructed to set the next meeting details. The committee chose Richmond Virginia for October 10 to 14 1900 and General Secretary John W. Wood submitted his resignation at the same session.
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Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Columbus
Richmond
John W. Wood
Wheeler and Lee Movement Organizes In Chicago
Women form the Lee and Wheeler Movement to honor Major Generals Joseph Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee. Miss Anna Maria de Bock is president with Miss Louise Abbot as secretary. The group seeks congressional influence for Wheeler and Lee as junior generals and reports broad support and donations from members across states.
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Joseph Wheeler
Fitzhugh Lee
Chicago
Lee and Wheeler Movement
Anna Maria de Bock
Louise Abbot
Congress
Whiteler
Lee
Ainount
Senator Hayward in Decline From Paralysis and Brain Lesion
A Nebraska City special reports Senator Hayward growing worse with paralysis extending to the bladder. The brain lesion is more pronounced and his mind is cloudy. Attending physician is discouraged as condition deteriorates through the night and day.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Hayward
Distillery Boiler Blast Kills Engineer at Travelers Rest
Explosion at a whisky distillery in Traveler's Rest South Carolina killed a colored engineer Nick Williams whose head was blown off and left body mutilated. Proprieter Mathew Keeler was severely scalded and perhaps fatally injured. building wrecked with man injured.
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Traveler's Rest
S. G
Nick Williams
Mathew Keeler
Want Connection With Gulf Deep Waterway Plans Move Ahead
The finance committee of the Illinois River Valley Association met in Chicago to discuss raising $10,000 for advancing a deep waterway connection between Lake Michigan and the gulf of Mexico before Congress this winter.
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Illinois River Valley Association
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Gulf of Mexico
Congress
Missing Grace Rice Schooner Wrecked Near Porto Rico
A Porto Rico letter reports the Nova Scotia schooner Grace Rice, which departed Halifax for Porto Rico last July, was wrecked and drifted ashore bottom up. the vessel has not been heard from since.
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Porto Rico
Nova Scotia
Grace Rice
Halifax
Weasel
Improvised Bird Houses Attract Young Builders In School Lessons
The Cornell College of Agriculture pamphlet The Birda and I by L Bailey offers bird house designs for pupils. Guidance covers floor plans door sizes to deter predators, with examples for bluebirds tree swallows martins and chickadees.
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College of Agriculture
Cornell University
L. Bailey
The South's All's Wall Ten Years After Iron Victory
Ten years after Southern iron entered markets long dominated by Pennsylvania furnaces Alabama iron grew to influence every iron consuming center. Southern cotton mills challenged New England in finished goods. Critics argued the South would stagnate in iron making, but rapid progress rebutted such claims as prophecy.
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Pennsylvania
Alabama
New England
Alabama Iron
England
Japan
Jerusalem
Wages and industrial rise of the South praised
A 1899 reflection argues the South will gain power in industry, enriching the nation. It envisions shifts in cotton manufacturing from New England to the South, while New England adapts with new opportunities and capital. It calls for watching the South’s industrial upbuilding as a national strength.
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Pennsylvania
New England
Wheeler Favors Annexation Letter From Luzon
A special from Huntsville Alabama reports General Joseph Wheeler in a letter from Santa Rita Luzon Philippine Islands outlines current conditions and advocates annexation by the United States. The missive, sent to an Alabama friend, discusses policy and future relations with the islands.
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Huntsville
Ala
Santa Rita
Luzon
Philippine Islands
Joseph Wheeler
Islands
The South’s Great Transition After War and Panic
The passage describes the South emerging from thirty years of war and Reconstruction trials into new employment and wealth opportunities. It notes the 1980s-like timing of the world financial panic after the Barings failure, then details iron and cotton industries cutting costs, modernizing mills, doubling output, and reducing goods costs. Planters shift to self-sufficiency, cutting cotton costs while railways consolidate, extend, and modernize. The overall result is a depressed period navigated to restore global confidence.
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South
Cotton mill growth in the South through the decade
The excerpt traces cotton production and textile mill growth from 1898 to 1899 and cites a rise from 11,274,840 to 80,000,000 bales. It notes that in 1880 the South began cotton mill development with 667,000 spindles and $21,000,000 capital, and by 1890 had 961,000,000 in capital with 1,700,000 spindles, describing ongoing expansion today.
New England Mills Shift Capital to Southern Growth
The industry shows 6,000,000 spindles and about 125 million dollars invested in cotton mills with 25 million more in under construction. New England mill owners are transferring large capital to the South as branch mills rise from 500,000 to 1,000,000 each. One Alabama project of 2.6 million will be the largest cotton mill in a single enterprise. Rising cotton prices bring farmer prosperity and may sustain it through the season.
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Ity
Southern Iron
Soal
Reco
United States
South
Galveston
Ita
New England
Southern Mills
Alabama
Bama
Japan
Warper’s Weekly
Southern progress and Cassava promise postwar boost
The article highlights robust Southern growth with Newport News Ship Yard projects and rails for Russia, Alabama coke exports to Japan, and a surge in steel and locomotive production. It notes cassava as a potential major tropical staple to transform Gulf lands, with origins in Brazil Jamaica and the West Indies, offering flour juice and cattle feed.
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Brazil
Jamaica
Colombia
West Indies
United States Department of Agriculture
Jamaica Agriculture Society
Gulf States
Remains of an Old Timer Unearthed Near Bonham Texas
The skeleton of a prehistoric sea monster resembling a shark was found at the quarry of J. H. Davis ten miles south of Bonham Texas. Its jaws measured about four feet, buried several feet in limestone but well preserved with visible enamel on the teeth.
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J. H. Davis
Bonham
Texas
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