Chamber of Commerce Annual Report Highlights 1919 Work
President M G Nicholson submits the chambers year summary praising members for effort in city county relations and highway and educational campaigns. He declines another term while nominating officers for 1920. The report lists achievements in freight, bonds, education, summer school, teachers pay, census work, press associations, labor, Armistice Day festivities, and a new prospectus for Athens Clarke County.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Nicholson
M. G. Nicholson
Athens
Chamber
C. D. Flantgen
G. A. Mell
H. J. Rowe
Mineral Springs
Texas
Bankhead Highway Commission
Clarke County
Georgia Highway Association
Atlanta
Georgia Highway Commission
Georgia
Tus
State Highway Commission
Georgia Press Association
Georgia Girls
West
J. W. Jarrell
Local Press Association
District Press Association
Eighth District
Ibor
Geeveln
U. S
Clarke Couny
Wue
J. Warren Smith
Mayor Erwin Names 24 Persons To Serve
Washington dispatch reports Mayor Erwin naming 24 individuals to government service. Attorney General Palmer declares the DOJ will wage unflinching aggressive warfare against any movement seeking to undermine the U S government. He notes DOJ teams are collaborating with allied secret agents to study radicals in Russian Bolshevik areas for the coming year.
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Erwin
U. S
Associated Press
Washington
Palmer
Department of Justice
Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia Reported Alive in Paris
In Paris on December 31 Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia was said killed by an explosion in Poplin dispatches, but the report proved unfounded and he is well. The full death story has no basis.
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Alex
Paris
Associated Press
Paria
Alexander
Serbia
Poplin
Senate leaders press treaty compromise on December 31
Washington reports tension over treaty talks as conference suggestions surface. Secretary Tumulty meets Democratic leader Hitchcock seeking latest Senate status. Republicans led by Lodge review proposals with Pomerene while Hitchcock consults in town with all Democratic foreign relations committee members.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Hitchcock
Tumuthy
Marshal Believes He Located Home Of Booze
United States Marshal Power announced he believed he discovered the wood alcohol whisky manufacturing headquarters of John Romanelli and Samuel Saleoby, held on charges of distributing poison liquor in New England. The Brooklyn garage was the suspected site with chemicals found and workers reportedly bottling whisky from ten p m to 2 a m.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Marshal Power
John Romanelli
Brooklyn Undertaker
Samuel Saleoby
Brooklyn
New England
Jean Dupuy Dies in Paris Leader and War Council Former President
Jean Dupuy former president of the council of ministers and a war council member died in Paris after a short illness. The report also lists attendees at yesterday afternoon's meeting including M G Niehelwan C D Flanigen Jo Warren Smith W E Rowe G A Mell JW Jarrell J J Strickland J Griffith J C Jester Sidney Roley and others.
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Jean Dupuy
Paris
Associated Press
Council of Ministers
War Council
M G. Niehelwan
C.D. Flanigen
Jo Warren Smith
We J. Rowe
G. A. Mell
JW. Jarrell
de J. J. Strickland
J. Griffith
J.C. Jester
Sidney Roley
B. R. Bloodworth
A. A. Johnson
H Abit Nix
W. G. Griffith
Rodney C Wilson
W. T. Broxton
G A Booth
Leap Year Proclamation for Athens Emerges in 1920
The article notes the arrival of 1920 in Athens Clarke County with Father Time marking the instant of the new year. It warns that 1920 is a leap year occurring every four years and hints at gendered misunderstandings about the leap year proposition.
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Athens
Clarke County
United States
Woman dies after fall through elevator shaft in apartment
In Washington a woman identified as the wife of a minister to the Kingdom of the Serbs Croats and Slovenes was accidentally killed today when she fell through an elevator shaft in an apartment building.
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Washington
He Percival Dodge
Agiertcar
Lynching figures for 1919 rise in Tuskegee report
Tuskegee Institute releases 1919 lynching data showing 82 killings nationwide, up from 64 in 1918. Of the year’s victims, 75 were Black including a woman and seven white men. crimes cited as rape and murder, among others. Georgia tops states with 21 incidents. Alabama seven, Mississippi twelve, Texas four, and others listed.
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Associated Press
Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Institute
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Washington
West Virginia
Banks End Year With Resources Around Twenty Two Billion
Washington reports an unprecedented rise in national bank resources for the year. Comptroller Williams said resources stood about 22.5 billion dollars on November 17, with deposits and total assets spread across the country in a broad increase.
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Associated Press
Washington
Currency
Williams
Bulgaria under martial law amid riots in Sofia
Dispatches report Bulgaria has been placed under martial law due to widespread riots tied to cost of living. Authorities cite disturbances in Sofia as the trigger and say security measures are now in effect nationwide.
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Bulgaria
H. C. of L
Associated Press
Vienna
Sofia
Stites
Athens Names Fair Price Committee of City Leaders
Mayor Andrew C. Erwin appointed a fair price committee with business leaders and ministers to review prices in Athens and investigate overcharges. The panel includes two labor reps T W Broxton and G M Carkey, several women club leaders, ministers E L Hill J W Lynch A D Murden J T Johnson, and multiple merchants across milk, coal, groceries, dry goods, drugs, clothing and other sectors. The group was formed after a letter from J T Manger of Atlanta.
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Andrew C. Erwin
Athens
J.T. Manger
Atlanta
Fair Pines
Labor
T. W. Broxton
G. M Carkey
M. G. Nicholson
C. D. Flanigen
Louis Fankenstein
E. Ll. Hill
J. W. Lynch
A. D. Murden
J. T. Johnson
Women
A. 8. Parker
E. W. Carroll Mina Mildred Rutherford
C. M Snelling
James White
C. N. Hodgson
M. L Manne
M. M
Hugh L. Hodgson
John E Talmadge, Jr
W. D. Beacham
W. T. Collins
R. T Wright
H. R. Palmer
Aaron Cohen
Me. Erwin
P. Cy . Carroll
Basin Women's Club
Parker
DeForest Hicks Dies in New York Waiting Room
DeForest Hicks wealthy broker died suddenly today in the Pennsylvania Terminal waiting room in New York. His wife, Miss Nancy Benedict of Athens Georgia, has relatives in Athens and the death is reported by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
New York
Hicks
Athens
Mr. Hicks
Mrs. Hicks
J. C. Bloomfield
Bloomfield
Harriett Benedict
J. E. Talmadge, Jr
Marion Bloomfield
Samuel C. Benedict
Georgia
Polk to Resume Law Practice After State Department Reorg
Washington December 31 reports indicate a major State Department reorganization may alter top staff. Frank Polk, under secretary of state, is expected to leave and voluntarily return to private practice as a lawyer.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Frank
Officials Worry Over Smuggling of Booze Into US
El Paso Texas Dec 31 Whisky smuggling from Mexico into the United States alarms customs agents. Since July 1 about 120 lots of liquor have been seized and sent to army hospitals. A federal grand jury returned 162 indictments for smuggling between April and October with about 88 percent conviction rate. sentences often run one to two years at Leavenworth. Protests allegedly planned by Mexican customs over exports of American intoxicants. Prohibition amendment to the constitution would take effect January 16.
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Associated Press
el Paso
Texas
Mexico
United States
Paso
Federal Grand Jury
Leavenworth
Kans
Root Named for Role in League Court Project
Washington dispatch reports Elihu Root former secretary of state will assist in launching the international supreme court under the league of nations. The plan will move quickly after peace is proclaimed, and Root’s name has been favorably considered despite the US not yet approving the peace treaty.
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Associated Press
Washington
Elihu Root
Great International Supreme Court
League of Nations
Root
United States
Malone Denied Legion Membership Over Radical Views
Dudley Field Malone, former collector of the port of New York, was notified that his application for Croton Post American Legion membership was rejected because his radical views and ties to radical agitators did not meet the Legion's standard of Americanism.
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Associated Press
New York
Dudley Field Malone
Port of
Croton Post
American Legion
Legion
Malphurs Joins Banner After Telegraph Career
H. E. Malphurs, longtime manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co in Athena, resigns to join the Athens Banner. A respected local business figure, he will help expand the paper amid growing subscriptions and advertising. The Banner asks patrons to extend courtesies to Mr Malphris in his new role.
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H. E. Malphurs
Weastern Union Telegraph Co
Athens Banner
Athena
Monty
Malphris
Malverus
Doctor Sebats Freed on Eight Thousand Bail in Griffith Case
Dr Christopher G Sebats released on eight thousand dollar bail after preliminary hearing in the murder of Elizabeth Ford Griffith his office assistant. Grand jury meeting pending.
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Schott
Associated Press
The
Christopher G. Sebats
Elizabeth Ford Griffith
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