Fire Gutts Block In Atlanta Business Section
Fire rips through Whitehall and Broad streets area in Atlanta causing a mammoth loss. Estimates range from 700000 to 1590000 with Kress, Childs Hotel, and Eiseman stores sustaining heavy damage. Fire officials investigate explosion as the probable cause and assess property losses across several buildings including Macy’s and M. Eiseman store.
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Atlanta
Whitehall Street
Alabama
Gam P
Kress
W. B. Cody
John W. Grant
C.F. Gifford
Second Press
Benniless
Dea Turner
Rebels attack Mexican port reported by advices
Rebels attacked a Mexican port as a federal garrison pushed them back, forcing the attackers to retreat. The report notes initial strikes and aerial or naval activity around the port, with no immediate word on casualties or exact location.
Illicit love tale capsizes Pierce heiress in court
Miss Margaret Pierce of Buffalo testified in Warsaw about a romance with James O. Howard, her adopted father's chauffeur, admitting the affair and being mother of his child. The jury awarded Mrs. Marion Howard of Castile $42,500 for alienation of her husband’s affections.
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Margaret Pierce
Henry M. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Miss Pierce
Mas. Howard
Counties Send Singers Representing Central Georgia
A Sunday gathering at Third District Agricultural College drew singers from Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Marion, Macon, Schley, Lee, Webster, Stewart and Sumter counties for the Sumter County Singing Society annual convention. A monster barbecue fed 1,500, with 400 feet of hollow-square table space and many helpers. Jim Glawson supervised the barbecue pits as 30 carcasses roasted brown, Brunswick stew, cakes, pies, 500 loaves of bread, pickles, and other trappings accompanied the meal. C B Pouncey and Charlie Check led ceremonies, J M Prance welcomed guests, and Chief of Police John T Bragg acted as marshal.
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Crisp
Dooly
Houston
Marion
Macon
Schley
Lee
Webster
Stewart
Sumter
Aggie College
Sumter County Singing Society
Charlie Cheek
Oak Grove
Pretty Girls
Nelle Warnock
Sarah Morris
W. Tom Lane
Americas Line
E. J. McMath
Jim Glawson
Georgia
C .B. Pouncey
Charlie Check
J. M. Prance
Garrison Sees Third Party Proposed by War Former
Denver September 25 Lindley M Garrison former secretary of war says the two major parties struggle to differ on issues and may collapse in favor of a new political lineup. He foresees a potential realignment as the natural outcome of the current stalemate.
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Denver
United States
Lindley M. Garrison
Americus Boys Narrow Escape After Wreck Near Cordele
O P Johnson and J C West brook, Americus youths, survived a collision between their Ford and a Dodge driven by Kimball, overseer of the Jesse Slade farm, six miles from Cordele. Despite facial abrasions and a torn car, they continued to Cordele to keep engagements with two young ladies. They say Kimball drove into them after they pulled their car into a ditch, but he offered to pay for damages.
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O. P. Johnson
J.C. Westbrook
Americus
Cordele
Mr. Kimball
Jesse Slade
Americas
Kimball
Fire crews compel removal of sawdust pile at Shiver mill
The fire department answered three alarms at the Shiver mill and could not fully quench the flames, leaving the center of the dust mass at a hot temperature until officials ordered its removal.
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Shiver Mill
Democrats See Trend to Party
Washington report notes Senator David Walsh of Massachusetts says the fall campaigns open with a trend unmistakably toward the Democratic party as he prepares for a cross continental speaking tour.
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Senator Walsh
Washington
David Walsh
Massachusetts
Daugherty injunction put in force in Chicago
Chicago September 25. Judge Wilkinson enforces the dramatic temporary injunction sought by Attorney General Daugherty against shop craft leaders. The measure takes effect Monday without modifying any of its intended effects.
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Chicago
Daugherty
Jude Wilkinson
Ford hits coal gougers hard in Ohio river region
Detroit September 25 Henry Ford returned from coal regions along the Ohio river with the scalp of coal brokers, claiming he paid $2 a ton less than they did and would have paid less if not for their squeeze. He blamed brokers ICC and Hoover for the coal crisis that shut his plants, insisting there is no shortage and predicting coal under $2 at the mines within a year.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Ohio River
Ford
Interstate Commerce Commission
Attempt on Police Chief O'Duffy Revealed
Dublin authorities report an assassination attempt last night aiming at General Owen O'Duffy chief commander of the Irish civil police. The Free States government confirms the incident and vows full inquiry into the attack in the capital.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Owen O'Duffy
Irish Civil Police
Free States
Americus spot cotton market closes after 25 point drop
The Americus market for strict middling 2012c spiked with closing activity down 25 points from the prior session as traders assessed current supply and demand signals.
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Americus
Market opens steady in Liverpool with uptick seen
Liverpool on September 25 reports a steady market with gains of 25 to 30. Quotations show 13.26 and total sales reach 6000 bales with 278 bales in eee grade, including 220 American. Futures for Oct Jan and March show rises from prior close.
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Liverpool
COSC
Open
Cwneeeeee Winnmaltins
Cedee Seedsebe Ee Tl
Masphi Ss Meiges Sick
Jasen
Renerken Sigraenne
Pao Necegasgacrees
Rer Tita Eree
Eesee
I Aanae
Igens Greetnes
Sumter County Fair to Open With Record Crowds
The Sumter County Fair opens tomorrow promising record attendance and extensive livestock and agricultural exhibits. Five daily shows, premiums totaling hundreds of dollars, and new acts from shore resorts will draw crowds, with livestock brought in Tuesday morning and prizes awarded throughout fair week.
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Sumter County Fair
Sumter
Hamid Bey Rejects Present Peace Conference Terms
Constantinople reports Hamid Bey, envoy of the Ankara government, says Allied invitation to a peace conference cannot be accepted on the current terms. In Athens, Sept. 25, Triantafyllakos cabinet shows cohesion, adds ministers, names a Thrace governor general, and assigns three generals to reorganize the army there amid the national crisis.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Hamid Bey
Angora
Atiens
Triantafillako
Thrace
Bristol pledges aid to Greek refugees at Smyrna
A Sept 25 Reuters report from Athens says Admiral Bristol told the Greek government the United States will assist with destroyers to move the remaining 159,000 refugees at Smyrna if Greece provides transport. Washington notes Bristol’s Smyrna role focuses on relief for Americans and others unable to obtain aid, per State Department instructions.
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Bristol
London
Athens
Uni
Smyrna
Greece
Washington
State Department
Mass protest meeting denounces peace treaties in Vienna
A large protest gathering organized by German associations drew a 7000-voice choir performing German hymns as speakers denounced the World War peace treaties, claiming they caused Central Europe’s current distress.
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Vienna
Europe
Richburgh Eyes Appeal After Daabien Injunction
Donald Richburgh counsel of the railway shop crafts said the next step in the shop men's fight against the Daabien injunction will be a petition to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for a review of Judge Wilkinson's order.
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Chicago
Donald Richburgh
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Wilkinson
Dynamite Travel Slow Trestle Near Fors Road
A large charge of dynamite was detonated beneath a railroad trestle of the Central of Georgia near Fors road by amateur dynamiters at 1 o clock Sunday morning. The explosion failed to damage the structure, as a passenger train passed the trestle just before the blast and several others followed.
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Macon
Spet
Coral of Georgia’ Railroad
Fors Road
Singer’s” Hill
Lenine Soon to Return to Active Newspapers
Moscow September 25 Premier Lening plans a rapid return to active engagement with newspapers. While recuperating he has shown renewed interest in international questions and current affairs.
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Lenine
Moscow
Associated Press
Lening
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