Women's YWCA prepares home for working girls in Athens
The Young Women's Christian Association plans a home for working girls from Athens and nearby counties. It will use part of the Bessie Mell Industrial Home building after repairs and furnishings, offering neat rooms and homey comforts at reasonable board rates while the Industrial Home continues its own work in part of the building.
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Athens
Young Women's Christian Association Ig
Bessie Mell
Board of Trustees
State College
Canvass Presses for Star Lyceum Seats at Half Price
The canvass for Star Lyceum A.4 membership reports progress with 210 season tickets needed to secure the course. Managers urge prompt responses to guarantee choice seats at about half the later price, offering four seats for two dollars and fifty cents. See Mr. Forbes to buy tickets and help complete the sale.
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Star Lyceum A.4
Mr. Forbes
Mass and benediction at Catholic church this Sunday
Mass and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be held Sunday at ten o clock in the Catholic church at Pulaski street and Prince avenue. Public invited. Mass now on first Sunday of month instead of third. Father Murphy has moved to Sacred Heart in Atlanta. mission led by another Marist father. Also an advertisement for Kodol digestion remedy.
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Pulaski Street
Prince Avenue
Father Murphy
Athens
Sacred Heart Church
Atlanta
Miemion
Nother
Merritt resigns as State School Commissioner in Georgia
State School Commissioner W B Merritt resigns to enter Florida lumber business. He leaves educational work with regret. Governor Smith accepts the resignation and names Prof Jere M Pound of Milledgeville to succeed Merritt, a move Pound makes by taking a lower paying post.
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Pound
Atlanta, Ga
W.b.atarsite
Smith
Merritt
Florida
Jere M. Pound
Milledgeville
Cotton Seed Market Slumps Amid High Stocks
The cotton seed market shows prices near steady to slightly lower after a recent drop. Dealers report ample supplies and expect price levels to hold through the season despite the decline.
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Bla Ely
Mr William Eberhart Adopts Novel Method At Circus Day
In Oglethorpe county farmer William Eberhart pays cotton pickers seventy five cents per hundred to stay home from Ath ens circus day. The plan keeps workers in fields while crowds attend the parade. Some pickers harvest up to two hundred pounds, earning three to four dollars for the day.
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William Eberhart
Oglethorpe County
Cirena
Athens
Circuit Tay
Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets Adverts Feel Good
They promote a pleasant purgative effect and healthy body and mind, claiming readers will feel joyful. Price 25 cents. Samples free at multiple druggists including HH, Warren J. Smith & Bros, L. P. Canning, E. C. McEvoy, and Orr Drug Co.
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Chamberlain
Warren J. Smith & Bro
L. P. Canning
E. C. McEvoy
Orr Drug Co
Agricultural College Plans Rural Education Train Exhibit
The State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts seeks railroad approval to run a train for a statewide exhibit tour. The plan includes a baggage car with crop displays, two coaches, demonstrations on fertilizers, spraying, stock judging, a dairy unit, and expert lectures to educate farmers across Georgia.
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College
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Ben Elven
Georgia
Iirea
Western Union Telegraph Service Complaint Grows
A Western Union office in the city faces disruption amid a strike causing wires to be cut and switchboard interference. The female manager reports rude treatment from some citizens and plans to resign, with an assistant manager set to arrive to investigate. Cotton traders and brokers rely on prompt service and hope for a quick restoration of normal operations.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Butta
Anderintentiont
Williams's Wife J T Williams Dies After Illness
Yesterday afternoon at six o'clock Mrs J T Williams died at her Chase street home after a lengthy illness. She leaves a husband and four children. The remains will be taken this morning to Tebeca, her former home, for interment.
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J.T. Williams
Chase Street
Williams
Tebcca
Verdict for bank in Clarke court case hits 1300
National Bank of Athens v Vincent et al. concluded after three session days in Clarke city court before Judge Harde man. Jury awarded the bank 1300 dollars of the 20000 dollar claim. Neither side satisfied. the ruling will be appealed to the supreme court.
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National Bank of Athens
Vincent, Et
Clarke City
8. H. Hardeman
Supreme Court
Negro Worker Falls in Basement on Clayton Street
Greene Evans, a Black workman employed on the Head and McMahon building on Clayton street, fell several feet to the basement yesterday afternoon after missing a step. He sustained a serious spinal injury but is expected to recover in a few days after treatment by Dr. Conway.
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Greene Evans
Head & McMahon
Clayton Street
Aefternoon
Conway
Arrest of Alex Mapp on illegal liquor sale charge
Yesterday afternoon police arrested Alex Mapp colored on the charge of selling liquor illegally on circus day. Authorities claim sufficient evidence for conviction while Mapp insists on his innocence and alibi. He was released on bond and will appear for trial before Mayor Dorsey this morning.
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Alex Mapp
Mapp
Dorsey
Judge P. W. Davis May Be Candidate
Judge Phil Davis tours Hartwell on return from Hart Superior Court praising Hart County as progressive and well governed. He notes a potential new railroad from Anderson DC to Athens, calling the Hart-Elberton-Toccoa corridor highly desirable and cites Hartwell’s public actions and institutions while avoiding political commentary. He mentions many friends in Hart.
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Phil Davis
Thorugh
Hart Superior Court
Hartwell
Georgia
Hart County
Virgina
Carolinas
Hart
Anderson
D. C
Athens
Dewey
Rose
Vauna
Bowman
Royalton
Canon
Bowersville
Lavonia
Martin
Avalon
Elberton
Toccoa
Gathering of Cotton Men in Washington for National Meeting
Washington October 3 Scores of men in the cotton industry filled the New Willard Hotel meeting room as the semi annual session of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers opened led by president William D Hartshorne of Lawrence Massachusetts The two day meeting will feature over one hundred English and continental cotton makers as guests and discuss inland transportation loading and shipment merchandising the mills fire waste economic position of the New York Cotton Exchange and relations to trade tests in mills warp and loom power equipment and future cotton production and manufacturing in the United States.
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Washington, D.C
America
New Willard Hotel
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
William D. Hartshorne
Lawrence
Mass
Beas
New York Cotton Exchange
United States
Missing son Jesse Roy Yarbrough sought by Georgia mother
A widow from Maysville Ga Mrs J N Yarbrough appeals to Atlante Journal readers for help locating her eldest son Jesse Roy Yarbrough 21 last heard from in Atlanta where reports vary from song and dance performer to railroad contractor and even a police officer She has spent over 200 from her savings and hopes for news to bring him home sharing her struggle and urgency to recover her missing child to the paper for aid.
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Jesse Roy Yarbrough
Journal
J. N. Yarbrough
Maysville
Jesse Roy Yarbr
Atlanta
Roy
Ther Gon
Wild cat prices charged by circus
Citizens complained of high prices at Hagenbeck and Wallace show, with wagon tickets at fifty and sixty cents and reserved seats at a dollar. Hundreds were admitted after capacity, forcing many to stand. Performance praised, but ticketing drew anger. police were praised for excellent order in Athens.
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Athens
McKie
Prolonged life praised by Brooklyn patient Peruna ad
Mrs O D Robinson of 48 St Felix St Brooklyn testifies Peruna treatment halted swelling and breathlessness and made her feel like a new woman. She thanks Dr Hartman and his program and notes she could work again. Remittance option offered for one bottle or six bottles prepaid to The Peruna Drug Mfg. Co Columbus Ohio.
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Mra. O. D. Robinson
St. Felix St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Hartman
Peruna
Eix
Peruna Drug Mfg. Co
Columbus
Ohio
Foreign spinners tour cites Atlanta cotton conference
More than one hundred representatives of the cotton industry from England and the continent arrive in New York to observe and attend the International conference of cotton spinners and growers to be held in Atlanta next week. They will also join a Washington meeting of the Cotton Manufacturers Association before continuing south via Charlotte and Greenville.
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New ‘York
England
Hipope
New York
America
Cotton Spinners and
Atlanta
Washington
Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Charlotte
Greenville
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