Special Taxes to Rise Sharply Across Businesses
City finance committee moved to raise special business taxes from 15 to 25 percent this year with several lines lifted further. Final revisions target circuses, fortune tellers, dancing teachers, cotton compresses, and various dealers, while electric, gas, express firms keep last year figures. Action expected by April first with possible council changes.
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Finance Committee of Council
Council
General Council
Man who bought Rembrandt picture dies from gun wound
Theron Blakeslee art dealer dies after a bullet wound at his New York gallery. He had previously bought a painting for 850 dollars that later proved genuine Rembrandt and rejected an offer of 150000. The death follows a shooting in a side gallery where he was with his lawyer and a representative of Gemler, a creditor.
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Associated Press
New York
Theron Blakeslee
Blakeslee
Paris
Gemler
Gregory Guilty in Lounge Tiger Case and Fined
Gregory was tried before Mayor W F Dorsey after delays in a case about a lounge tiger locker device and whiskey sales. Evidence supported conviction for keeping liquor for illegal sale with a 200 fine plus immediate certiorari to the superior court.
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Lounge Tiger
Gregory
W. F. Dorsey
Three Fingers Lost In Planer Accident At Moss Mill
Mr. Thomas E. Burnside at Moss Manufacturing Company suffered a grinder planer accident yesterday morning three fingers were severed and his hand narrowly avoided total crushing. At Clarke County Medical Society meeting Friday night Dr. J P Proctor presented a paper on The Treatment of the Perineum.
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Thomas E. Burnside
Moss Manufacturing Company
Medical Society of
Clarke County
Board of Health
J. P. Proctor
Southern supply dealers eye coming year of prosperity
Southern supply dealers forecast an unusually prosperous year ahead in business circles as markets show improving demand and cautious optimism among traders.
Glee Club of Georgia Plans Dress Rehearsals
The University of Georgia Glee Club will hold dress rehearsals tomorrow and Tuesday for the season opener at the Colonial on Wednesday evening. The group, claiming to be better and more varied than before with its own orchestra, promises good music and charges 25 50 76 cents or a dollar admission.
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Glee Club
University of Georgia
Colonial
Hearings on Boards of Trade Concluded in Washington
Washington March 7 hearings on the Manahan resolution authorizing the investigation of Chicago Minneapolis and Duluth grain pits were concluded today. Congress likely will take up the report next week.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Minneapolis
Duluth
Congress Probary
Indian Campers Urged To Move On After Alleged Encounters
Police reports say several complainants encountered women from a group of alleged Indians camping near Lumpkin Street. One Jackson County man recovered a $5 bill from a woman who was arrested and returned the money. Another woman allegedly took six dollars from a man and was said to frisk him indecently. Advertise your wants.
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Lumpkin Street
Jackson County
Athens Teacher in the Peabody School on Rural Sociology To Give Lecture Course
The new George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville opens a summer session June 25 to August 4 with a 100-strong faculty. E. C. Branson of the University of North Carolina will teach two courses in Applied Rural Sociology including a county life problems lecture and a lab. The program targets country school leaders and ministers, aiming to foster home county studies and leadership for rural social progress.
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George Peabody College For
Nashville
Tenn
Manual Arts
Peabody College
Ward-Belmont College
Vanderbilt University
United States
Peabody
Carter Alexander
Teachers’ College
South
E. C. Branson
State Normal School
University of North Carolina
Branson
George Peabody
Georgia Club
Federal Education Bureau
Montgomery County
Thompson
Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Warren H. Wilson
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Welfare work in Athens and the Hiawassee settlement
Welfare efforts in Athens highlight the Southern Manufacturing Company's West Athens settlement led by Mrs Morris, providing a model home and activities to uplift residents without pauperizing them. The Athens Industrial Home, founded 25 years ago by Mrs Bessie Rutherford Mell, set the template for organized charity across the manufacturing district and beyond.
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Louie Lane
Southern Manufacturing Co
Hiawassee
Hpawassee
Southern Manufacturing Company
East Athens
Athens
Morris
Hallowe'en
St- Valentines
Washington
Mrs.Morris
Bessie Rutherford Mell
Athens Manufacturing Co
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THE
University OF Georgia Tomorrow
Boards OF Trade
Peabody School
Country School
Country Church
Gillett
Fiske
Foght
Wilson
Church of the Open Coun
Harris
Coulter
Eggleston & Bruere
Dental Parlors
Fors
E. G. Griffin
Southern Mutual
Southern Mutual Insurance Building
Palmer's
Palmer
Palmer's Gas
Lloyd’s Liver Act
Hind’s
Palmer’s
Elite
Rexall
Palmer’s Drug Stores
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