Industrial meet clears slate as labor and employers clash
The National Industrial Conference ends with defeats for employer proposals to limit worker rights and arbitration. Lane urges a new start after adjourning for six days while six member coordinating committees craft action. Labor delegates push for broader unity to ease industrial unrest. Periodicals resume after labor friction and Charlotte recalls mayor and commission fail in a streetcar strike vote.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Industrial Conference
Cenfer
Waht
Lane
Ich
Labor Delegates
Witzort
New York
Charlotte
N. C
Commission
Ore
France Seeks One Million Tons Cotton From U S
Atlantic City Oct 21 The French cotton needs for next year will reach one million tons with seven to eight hundred thousand tons to come from the United States Arthur Waddington of the French delegation told American textile men at the international trade conference today.
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Associated Press
Alantic City
United States
Arthur Waddington
Thornton's Luncheonette Dinner Menu Highlights
Thornton's Luncheonette offers a 60c dinner with choices of baked trout or roast beet and sides like creamed potatoes fried summer squash spaghetti with cheese corn sticks and soft ginger bread with sauce. Also advertised are chicken salad scalloped oysters bananas cakes pies and produce from Arnold & Abney including apples grapes peaches and evaporated fruits.
Fertilizer Salesmen Train Southeastern Dealers in Athens
The Georgia State College of Agriculture opens a special course in Athens for 350 fertilizer salesmen and sales managers from the southeast. Speakers Dr Andrew Soule J O N Harper and others discuss soil surveys plant nutrition and the service role in selling fertilizers.
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State College of Agriculture
Atlanta
Morton. Hodgson
Department of Agriculture
Soule
Andrew M. Soule
Georgia State College of Agriculture
Georgia
J. J. Brown
R. J. H. DeLoach
Chicago
Armour Company
DeLoach
Experiment Station
Medical attention offered to service men in Athens city
The United States Public Health Service and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance set up offices in Athens with Dr H I Reynolds named as local government examiner. Discharged service members may receive free medical examinations and papers for compensation or insurance, with federal support for medical relief or institutional care if needed. The 5th district headquarters for several states are in Atlanta.
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United States Public Health Service
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Athens
H. I. Reynolds
Southern Mutual Building
Bureau of War Risk Act
Reynolds
Ubve
5Th Distriet
Wich
North
South Carolina
Geera‘a
Florida
Tennessee
Atlanta
Pr. Geo
Pitcher
Chamber of Commerce Bldg
Atlanta, Ga
Brooklyn Corporal Flogged by Russian Cossacks in Siberia
Brooklyn corporal Henjarhin Sperling of the U S Infantry was flogged by Russian Cossacks in Siberia after capture. He was taken to Khabarovsk headquarters of General Kalmikoff and later released. The incident sparks talk of international protest and a possible apology from Japan and the Kolchak government.
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Henjarhin Sperling
Brooklyn
N. Y
Siberia
Sperling
Bist U. S. Infantry
L. J. Johns
27Th
U. S. Infantry
Khabarovsk
Kalmikoff
Washington
Japan
Kolchack
Fighting 13th will bivouac in Athens this week
The 13th Machine Gun Battalion of the 6th Division U S Army marches from Camp Mead Maryland to Camp Gordon home station and will stop in Athens October 26. The party includes Captain A L Ford and lieutenants with vehicles and trucks. The War Department seeks citizen inspection. Athens Canteen plans reception at the Y M C A for officers and men with mayor council and university soldiers invited.
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U. S. Army
Camp Mead
Maryland
Camp Gordon
Athens
Georgia
France
A. L. Ford
G. D. Watts
H. Smith
G. V. Baker
Trail Mobile
Bailey
United States Army
Chamber of Commerce
War Department
Legion of Honor
University of Georgia
Grocers Advertise Prices From Local Market
Silverleaf Lard 10 lbs net 3.47 and 5 lb net 1.74 at Piggly Wiggly. Carnation milk large 15c small 7c, Purity Creamery butter 69c, plus Cloverbloom Brookfield offerings. Cheese fresh New York State cream cheese and chips 12 1 2c per pack. King Hodgson Co reports fresh Hecker’s buckwheat and flapjacks, Norfolk select oysters by express.
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Brookfield
New York State
King Hodgson Co
Editors of Eighth District to Form Press Association in Athens
Editors from the Georgia Eighth Congressional District will meet in Athens on Saturday October 25 to organize the Eighth District Press Association. The program includes an 11 a m assembly at the Georgian Hotel with welcomes from Athens officials and publishers, a 2 p m luncheon, and a 3 p m tour of the Classic City. Editor Jack L Patterson of the Covington News initiated the movement.
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Eighth Congressional District
Georgia
Atheny
Elehth District Press Association
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Assembly For Business
Georgian Hotel
City of
Athens
Andrew
Erwin
M. G. Nicholson
Jack L. Patterson
Covington News
Department of
University of Georgia
Sanford
Teenie
James ©. Willams
Greensboro Herald-Journal
J. Kelly Simmons
Tefair Enterprise
Georgia Press Association
Jack Patterson
Booth Brings Fine Kentucky Mules To Athens
Mr John L Booth arrives from Kentucky mule markets announcing a carload of top quality fancy matched mules arriving Wednesday. Hewill unload at Booths stables at Broad and Hull streets inviting farmers and buyers to inspect these premium animals for farm work and general use. Pierce Arrow Cars by W H Bishop.
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Athens
John L. Booth
Booth
Broad and
Hull Streets
Verdict awards $23,111 in Smith estate case
In Clarke county superior court yesterday a jury awarded Lacey Thornton et al. $22,111.45 against Frances S. Shehane administrator of the late James M. Smith estate. The case spans forty years with three heirs remaining to be heard at the next term in Oglethorpe superior court.
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SMITH
Clarke County Superior Court
Lacey Thornton
Frances S. Shehane
James M. Smith
Henry Thornton
Thornton
Oglethorpe
Colombian women present original Florida grant claim
New York report notes four Colombian women showed a copy of Ponce de Leon’s Florida grant to immigration officials. The document, claimed as inherited evidence of ownership, did not meet the regulations for admission.
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Florida
Associated Press
New York
Spain
Disaster at Levant Colliery Claims Over Forty Lives
In St Just Cornwall a collapse at the Levant Colliery during lowering of 160 men into the mine caused at least forty deaths and many injuries. The event marks a severe mining disaster in Penzance area with rescuers and officials assessing the scene.
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Associated Press
Penzance
England
St. Just
Cornwall
Both Sides Stand Firm in Labor Talks and Unrest
Washington Oct 21 The joint conference of miners and operators adjourned without agreement as strike threats loom. Maritime clerks strike in New York demanding 30 percent raises eight hour day and smoking rights. Hoboken sees a riot after a meeting of longshoremen ends in disorder. In Pittsburgh a steel mill riot leaves one dead and many injured as state troopers intervene. Episcopal deputies back arbitration urging capital and labor to seek partnership and submit disputes to arbitration.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Senate
New York
Maritime
J. 8
Rowe
Hoboken
Pittsburg
Braddock Steel Mill
Episcopal
Detroit
Protestant Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
Graves
Thomas Nelson Page
Atlant an held for sending red machine through U S mail
Atlanta October 21 Paul B. Carter a local machinist was indicted and arraigned in federal court on the charge of sending an infernal machine through the mails to Captain John Kneb el. He pleaded not guilty and his bond was set at 5000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Paul B. Carter
John Kneubel
Ban Placed On German Theatre After Riot
New York reports the German Opera production in Lexington endured a riot and was halted tonight pending a legal fight. Over 300 soldiers and sailors gathered in front of the theater though no show occurred, as authorities seek resolution.
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Associated Press
New York
Lexington Theater
Jerring
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