Atlanta club women push home arts in schools
Atlanta March 18. Club women urge teaching cooking and dressmaking in Girls High School and manual training in higher grammar grades. They argue many young women lack home skills while the city faces tight education funding and low teacher pay. Some propose linking higher salaries for teachers before adding domestic courses.
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Atlanta Yet Pays for High Priced Grand Opera
Special to the Banner from Atlanta reports rising interest in the fifth Grand Opera season with $5,000 in advance sales for seven performances within a week. Season tickets total nearly three fourths of the $60,000 guarantee fund, despite no single-show sales yet. The program includes Manon Lescaut La Traviata Cyrano La Gioconda Tales of Hoffmann Tosca and the April 21 26 bill touted as Atlanta’s most popular yet.
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Danderine Promises Glossy Hair and Dandruff Cure
An advertisement touts Danderine at 25 cents claiming rapid dandruff removal within ten minutes and hair regrowth with continued use. It promises hair becomes light, fluffy, and lustrous, improving appearance after a few weeks, and urges readers to try a bottle from drug stores or toilet counters tonight.
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Knowlton
Giant Tallulah Falls Dam Opens in Georgia
Tallulah Falls Georgia completes a 115 foot high 380 foot long concrete dam with a top roadway. The forming lake will be two miles long up to 100 feet deep and half a mile wide. Water powers a tunnel to the powerhouse, with current expected by July 1.
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Tallulah Falls
Georgia Railway and Power Company
Sunday opening of Atlanta theaters sparks legal battle
In Atlanta, a heated push to allow Sunday moving picture show openings faces opposition from churches and the Men and Religion Forward Movement. About 45,000 whites attended Sunday matinees with free admission, paying only into donation boxes. proceeds bused to widows of two fallen firemen. Alderman Maddox proposes a Sunday prohibition ordinance that could halt shows even without admission, signaling a broader clash with Sabbath blue laws.
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Woodward
Supreme Court of the States
Atlanta Faces Bonding Tax and Civic Fights
Atlanta legislators brace for summer session grappling with a potential 3.68 million bond issue to refund 1915 indebtedness or a special tax. State Treasurer Speer prepares a nonpartisan report while Governor-elect Slaton studies finances. Civic issues include Sunday ordinance disputes and a clean-up push as the city fights rabid dogs and seeks religious reform.
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Athens Daily Banner
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Accused of Killing Four in Illinois Fire Fatalities
Quincy Illinois March 18 The Fay Pfanschmidt case went to trial today charged with murdering his parents his sister and Miss Emma Kaempen whose bodies were found in the Pfanschmidt home ruins southeast of Quincy after a house fire on September 29 last.
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