Distinguished Visitor and City News Highlights
Dr Charles L. Smith, president of the Florida Dental Association, visits Atlanta for the dentin ta convention, as local social ties welcome him. Various city items cover a recovering worker, Camp Longstreet meetings, reunion planning, a weights and measures fine, a wagon incident, a planter’s illness, a contentious divorce case, a thief’s purse theft, a fatal shooting, a ring dispute, a revival at First Methodist, Palestine Lodge meeting with the Georgia Masons, Reeves released on bond in a murder case, and related local notes.
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Charles L. Smith
The
Florida Dental Association
Smith
Atlanta
Moose Banquet Hails Davis as Atlanta Hosts Next Convention
Atlanta Judge No. 523 Loyal Order of Moose members greeted J J. Davis of Pittsburg Pa at Cafe Durand banquet with seventy five in attendance. Davis, retiring as supreme organizer, urged a fund for a school for members' children and support for a sanitarium in Hot Springs Arkansas. He favored a lodge driven effort to aid the poor each winter and praised Atlanta as the next convention site.
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Atlanta
Loyal Order of Moose
J J. Davis
Pittsburg
Cafe Durand
J. McSwain Woods
Albert E. Mayer
Davis
Davie
Order of Moose
Order
Hot Springs
Ark
J. L. Moore
Fay's Real Estate Sought by Uncle Sam
Federal authorities moved in Tacoma to seize Edward Fay alias Richard J Cum TUNES real estate to repay stamps valued at 17523 stolen from Richmond post office. Fay is imprisoned in Atlanta. Local Fay property reportedly valued around 36000 in the county.
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Tacoma
Wash
Superior Court
Federal
Toad
Edward Fay
Richard J. Cum- Tunes
Fay
Richmond
Atlanta
Chamber Sets Corn Show and Conventions Plans
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce board acted on several items including hosting a corn show next fall with a $5,000 premium list and about $7,500 in expenses. They approved postal service cuts and urged steps to end Sunday overtime for 100 plus mail carriers. A Boston chamber trip for European industrial study was authorized with self-funded costs.
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Chamber of Commerce
H. G. Hastings
H. E. Stockbridge
Committee On Agriculture
Atlanta
Committee On Mail Service
Post Office Department
Southern Commercialongress
Brooks Morgan
Wilmer L. Moore
Moore
Chamber
Taft Hall
J. K. Orr
National Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
At Tanta Gas Light Company
National Commercial Gas Association
South
J. F Holleman
Broad Street
Chamber of Commerce of Boston
America
Committee of Three
Boarders at Supper Thieves Busy at Pryor Street Burglary
The Jones house at 142 South Pryor Street was ransacked after 7:30 PM last night while the family dined. Clothes were dragged from trunks in a hurried search for money. Cornelia English found mess but no cash, saved by depositing funds in a bank. Nellie Vincent’s bag was also robbed of about $7. Officers Webb and Bullard investigated but traced no suspects.
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Jones
South Pryor Brrest
Aalds
Cornelia Engish
Nellie Vincent
Webb and Bullard
Richmond Seaboard Service Improves Greatly
Seaboard announces greatly improved Richmond service from Atlanta leaving 1 1 p.m. arriving Richmond 7 25 a.m. with drawing room sleeper and observation car electric dining car effective April 3.
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Richmond
Seaboard
Atlanta
Paris Dusts Green Trees In Snowstorm Of April
Parisians faced a brisk snowstorm that gave a ghastly look to green trees. Cold and snow spread across the country with damage to vegetables fruits and flowers.
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Paris
Stripling pardon hearing set for 10 oclock in Senate Chamber
Attorneys for Stripling and opponents arrive as the prison commission in the Senate chamber prepares to hear arguments on clemency for Thomas Edgar Stripling, imprisoned fourteen years for the W. J. Cornett murder in Barris county. Letters from local figures weigh mercy against legal restraint while citizens travel from Harris county and beyond to attend.
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Senate
Thomas Edgar Stripling
W. J. Cornett
Barris County
Jease
Harris County
T. T. Miller
Frank McLaughlin
Columbus
Stripling
H. C. Cameron
Isaac Oakes
Lawrenceville
Cornett
Contema Stripling
South
Christ
Paul
Stephen
Satan
W. P. Ponder
M.D
J. F. Wenox
J. F. LeNox
Good Roads Lead Tariff Reform
Savannah editor Richard H. Edmonds argues good roads are vital for economic, religious, and educational progress. He cites a southern religious leader on roads aiding church attendance and development, urging practical action over preaching. J. F. LeNox comments on pardons, punishment, and citizen restoration, advocating stricter gunfire laws and legislative changes.
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Savannah
Richard H. Edmonds
Manufacturers’ Record
South
The Call for Good Roads and Rural Prosperity
The article argues bad roads harm farm life by isolating farmers and hindering education and religion. It claims improvements raise land values, reduce shipping costs, and spur national development, urging rapid highway building alongside railways to curb rural decline. It notes a Delaware offer to fund a state highway by increased local profits as proof of positive impact.
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Nis
Atols
Delaware
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DeLoach Manufacturing Company
Mance Ve
Candler
City News
Mr. van Zant
Edward van Zant
FH. M. Patterson & Son
Sans— Im
Tian
Camp Longstreet
Camp Longastreet
Decatur Street
Little Rock
Reuben Truitt
Broyles
Oscar Winn
Buchanan
Negto
James Simmons
Harry Schlesinger
Simmons
Gordon
A. White
V. A. White
Stephans County
Deercourt
St. Joseph's Infirmary
Mrs White
Eadhng Stopphe
W Wimbish
Peachtree Street
Annis Jacobs
Oscar J. Jacobs
Will Lumpkin
Graves Street
Lula Wilmer
Tal
Johnson
McWilliams
William J. Corbet
Troy
Howell and Hollingaworth
Bessemer, Ale
Ti Fa
Corbet
Bessemer
Wilmington
Del
First Methodist
First Methodist Church
Peachtree and
Porter Plage
T. C. Greer
R. F. Maddox
Palestine Lodge
Masonic Temple
Georgia Masons
George M. Napier
David
William A Faller
Sterling
Maier & Berkele, Inc
Whitehall St
Underwood Typewriter Company
J. J. Davis
Ofer
Underwood
N. Broad Street
Uncle Sam
North Broad ST
Forsyth
John Thomas
Guineaville
Constitution
J. Parriah
Shis
Gainesville, Gn
Milton Pledger
Supreme Lodge
Masonic Benefit Association
Ha Wan
Ihaman
Rountree
Wurmar
Great Southern Industrial Authority
God
Wen
American National Bank
Alabama
Broad Streets
Atlanta, GA
William L. Peel
Z. J. Peeples
J.P. Alexander
J. P. Windsor
Eiseman’s Bros
Manhattan
Earl & Wilson
Excello
Eiseman Bros
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