Wideliey Mural Savings and Trust seeks 60000 stock rise
Atlanta committees solicit $60,000 stock to establish the Wideliey Mutual Savings and Trust Company to shield small borrowers from loan sharks. organizers urge locals and workers to subscribe, offering low interest loans and investor shares, modeled after a Norfolk, Virginia success.
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Atlanta
B&b
Wideliey Mural Savings and Trust Company
Joan
Widelity Mutual Savings and Trust Company
Norfol Va
Dalanes
Heipa
Monument Plan For Prof Bass Eulogized By Alumni
Funeral services for Professor William A Bass dean of Georgia teachers will be at 3 pm at the First Methodist church. Alumni of Boys High School plan a monument fund with daily school closings and widespread tributes from students, veterans, and friends across the South. The plan envisions subscriptions not exceeding six dollars and involvement from Confederate veterans and civic groups.
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William A. Bass
Georgia
oBys' High School
L. M Landrum
Bass
Plunk
Alumni Association
Popwar
Hasy
First Methodist Church
P. Wigging
John B. Roding
Oakland Cemetery
Atlanta
H OM Patterson & Son
North BorovLh Street
William A Bass
Boxa’ High School
Showlng
Willian Candler
Bass’ High School
Wo A Bass
Prinzess Irene Freed From Sand Pit Off Fire Island
North German Lloyd liner Prinzess Irene escaped a sand trap near Fire Island after 83 hours immobile. Under Captain Peterssen she floated at 706 pm and was towed toward Scotland Light then Newport News for dry dock inspection. No water intake. hull plates intact.
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New York
Fire Island
Scotland Light
New York Harbor
Irene
Newport News
George M. Goddard
Lone Hill
Relef and Rescue
Dalton Dazed by Fire Losses
A hotel fire in Dalton driven by strong winds destroyed two city blocks. Losses total about 250000 with varied insurance coverage across businesses including Hotel Dalton McWillams Brothers Robertson clothier Fincher Nichols druggists Opera House Thomas goods Malton Cafe Showalter Printing and several secret orders. Continued on Page Nine.
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Dalton
Halton
McWillams Brothers
W. A. Robertson
Clothier
Fincher & Nichols Druggists
Opera House
Thomas
Drs
Malton Cafe
Showalter Printing Company
Lodge Room
Tokyo fire devastates Yoshina ri quarter leaving 6000 homeless
April 9 Tokio reports a massive blaze destroying Yoshinari, the licensed Hetairae quarter, with 6000 women displaced and hundreds injured. Troops guard the ruins as about four square miles burn, many palatial houses and hospitals lost, wind-driven flames scorching northern skies.
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Tokio
Vanlehet
Colonel Peel Describes Panam canal Wonder
Col William L Peel, returning from the Panama trip with his wife, told relatives and friends at Peach Tree Street about the vast work. He spoke of thirty eight thousand workers from many nations forming a cosmopolitan army building a canal system once deemed unhealthy, now a healthy zone, illustrating the scale and importance of the enterprise.
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Panama Canal
William Lawson Peel
Peachtree Street
Colonel Peel
New York
Peel
Washington
American Kills Self in Paris Hotel Shooting
Hermann Guthmann, a 45 year old American bank employee, shot himself at the Hotel Continental in Paris. Hotel officials say he arrived from New York six weeks ago. no motive is known for the self inflicted death.
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Erican
Self
Paris
Ris
Hermann Guthmann
Guicide
Continental
Guthmann
New York
Death by Own Action Pact Linked Woman and Spaniard
In Los Angeles a 57 year old Spaniard named L S Ranta and his adopted daughter Eva Bovee are gravely wounded after a fatal pact to end their lives. Eva, who survived initial injuries, testifies that Ranta killed his daughter earlier and shot her before turning the gun on himself. Authorities found letters suggesting fear of execution for the earlier killing.
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Los Angeles
Cal
L. Ranta
Eva Bovee
Dania
George Koerner
Bovee
Dan
Misa Bovee
Advertising Talks With Joseph Horne Dry Goods Club
Within five days I met members of the business associations of the Joseph Horne Dry Goods Company in Pittsburg. Continued on page eleven.
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Joseph Horne Dry Goods Company
Pitts
Stormy Congress Signals fragmented party clashes in 1912 era
Washington April 9 Congress faces a stormy session with four main factions. Republicans split between regulars and insurgents, Democrats divided between conservative leaders and Bryan adherents, while House Democrats hope to avoid a Senate spillover. Taft pursues reciprocity and tariff deferment. Speaker Clark and Underwood push progressive reform and tax policy as the nation nears 1912 conventions.
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House
Senate
William Jennings Bryan
Senator Stone
Missouri
Congress
Taft
Tariff Board
Clark
Underwood
New Ways and Imeans Committee
Weather Prophecy Fair Across States With Warmer Temperatures
Forecasts show fair to warm conditions across multiple states. Georgia, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, and New Mexico expect rising temperatures from Monday to Tuesday with varying winds and chance of showers in northern portions.
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Washington
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
West Portion
Kentucky
West Virginia
Indiana
New Mexico
Porvon
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Prof
U.S. Reveroe
Seneca
Prinzess
Vire Island
Lloyd Hne
Nichols and
Timmins
Hotel Dalton
Yoshinari
Asakusa Park
Japan
Hakodate
Noda Soy
W.L. Peel
Panama
Atlantan
Big Ditch
Fez
Man
Cirl
Miss Bovee
William C. Freeman
Herce
Bryan
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