Athens Seeks 500 Decorated Autos For Flag Day Parade
Final Flag Day committee meeting set for 11 o'clock at the chamber of commerce on Clayton street to plan a patriotic parade. Directors and committees to report progress as owners urged to decorate autos from small runabouts to touring cars with national colors. Prizes of 35 and 15 dollars offered for top decorations. out of town cars invited. no advertising allowed. Joel to film event with schoolchildren, Masons, and bands to be showcased for a world audience.
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E. H. Dorsey
Athens
Chamber of Commerce
Fice
Clayton Street
Georgia and State College
State Normal School
Masons
Pythians and
Woodmen
J. B
Joel
Gadets
Sat
Ruskin's Three Pictures Show Nature Tickets On Sale Today
Dr. Vivkin W. Ruskin, eminent naturalist, presents Animal Motion Picture Production. Tickets go on sale this morning at Palmer's, with scenes of animals birds and insects in natural colors. King Hodgson Co. advertises goods with April account charges and phone numbers.
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Vivkin W. Ruskin
Marces
Palmer
Nature Radioarte
King
Hodgson’ Co
Jay H. Epting Company Moves to Broad and Wall
After facing rival rumors, the Jay H. Epting Company reopens at Broad and Wall streets offering strong savings. Saturday specials include ladies suits up to 18 dollars for 9 85, 22 50 for 10 85, 30 00 for 12 85, plus waists at 50 cents to 9 dollars and boys wash salts. Bleaching available: twenty yards at 1 00 or 5 cents a yard.
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Broad and
Wall Streets
Jay H. Epting
Immigration bill intact passes amid party lines
Fragmentary report notes the immigration bill remaining intact after debate with votes tallied largely along party lines. Names and precise vote counts are unclear in the readable text, but the piece references a sustenance of the bill and potential veto considerations.
Two Prominent Physicians Locate Here in Athens
Walter Rothrock and Carson Rothrock and Drs Rothrock specialists in electrical therapeutics and diseases of women and eye surgery have recently moved to Athens and will be permanently located. They come from Roswell Pennsylvania and Baltimore and will offer services in the Holman building, joining the city’s medical profession.
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Walter
Roswell
Atothrock
Athens
Washington puzzled by submarine note
A terse Washington report notes puzzlement over a submarine message as officials await Berlin’s reply. The brief indicates uncertainty and emphasizes awaiting authoritative word from Berlin.
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Washington
Germany silent on Sussex torpedoing request
Washington reports no German reply to the United States demand for admission or denial of responsibility in the Sussex torpedoing. Three days have passed since Ambassador Gerard sought Berlin’s answer while officials express puzzlement over the lack of response.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Germany
United States
Sussex
Ambassador Geard
Berlin
Machester
Gerard
Sta Department
Ruskin Lectures Arctic Explorer at State Normal
An enthusiastic audience welcomed Dr John Ruskin Arctic explorer and Harry Whitney expedition leader to State Normal yesterday He spoke on six years in the Arctic detailing Eskimo life and amusing incidents He defended Dr Cook amid the Cook Peary controversy urging suspending judgment and praising his friend.
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John Ruskin
State Normal
J. M. Pound
John W. Ruskin
Harry Whitney
Greenland
Bwly
Arctic
Ruskin
Tages
Villa Almost Met He Tortured a One Family
Washington March 30 An American in Mexico reports Villa and his men attacked a family at Corralitos Ranch. The Polancos, employed there, were said to be targets as officers beat the assailants senseless. Details are fragmentary and unclear.
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Villa
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Mexico
Sega
Sila
Vailé
Polanco
Maxie
Polancos
Corralitos
Prominent I charged in spy plot arrest in New York
Associated Press reports Capt Taucher, a German navy officer linked to the Taucher Arms Camp, was arrested in New York on a federal warrant. He faces charges with Alfred Den in a conspiracy to invade Canada and betray the Welland Canal. Taucher is married to opera singer J Gadski.
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Associated Press
Lew
York
Hi “Taucher
Taucher
New York
Tive
Welland Canal
Wage Demands From Southern Railway Employees
A joint committee representing engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, and yard switchmen submitted wage demands to E H Coapeman, Vice President and General Manager of the Southern Railway, in Washington D C. The memorandum dated March 29 1916 outlines that the employees’ groups act through their authorized committees to present Proposition No 35 revising current schedules governing service classes.
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Washington, D. C
E. H. Coapeman
Southern Railway
Order of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
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Sernes
Ok Che Filmers of Sale Today
Caulistone
Weil
Broad & Wall Sts
Isadelated
Ashitigeon
Merah
Europe
London
St. Eloi
Bossinghe
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