Long Distance Walker Ends Final Trip in Open Air Visit
Levi Jones, 62, a carpenter and long distance walker, stops in Columbia at 1506 Whaley Street to tell a reporter he plans his last journey. He has walked about 2000 miles in six months, traveling toward Oklahoma City from Columbia and back, then returning home to end the expedition in three weeks. He believes The Constitution has wide circulation and notes the doctor advised him to stay in the open air.
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Constitution
Atlanta
Levi Jones Carpenter
Walker
South
Mason
Dixon Line
Columbia SC
Whaley Street
United States
Tam
Columbia
Oklahoma City
Macon Dog Catcher Appointed After Public Reading
In Macon Georgia on April 14 RP Carroll of Griffin visited the city, applied to the mayor, and was named dog catcher. Armed with a net rope and map he began hunting tagless dogs. The position requires euthanizing unclaimed animals, prompting resignations due to the duty and illness of the current keeper.
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Macon
R P Carroll
Griffin
Ani
Zaban Springer Plan New Mitchell Street Building
Architects R MacKachron render a two story Zaban Springer building on West Mitchell street. Ground floor houses three store rooms, second floor a hotel for railroad men with twenty outside rooms, baths, and steam lighting. Building to cost about 12000 dollars and set back to honor the new building line.
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Mitchell Street
I Springer
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A R MacKachron
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Zaban-Springer
West Mitchell Street
Springer
Zaban
Unexpected Flood Deluges Savannah Theater Stage
The historic Savannah theater narrowly escaped a washout as an early morning flood drenched the stage and dressing rooms. Water from a simulated rain during The Fortun Hunter production flood damaged scenery and trunks, then surged toward transfer wagons before a plumber halted the flow.
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Savannah
Fortune Hunter
Fortun Hunter
Preacher Falls Faltering Over Patriotic Society Protest
In Savannah on April 14 Rev George Solomons urged peace in a Sassover sermon that touched on patriotic societies tied to Confederate memory. Local leaders including Mrs Haines and Clement Saussy criticized his stance as misunderstanding Southern sentiment and memory. Saussy warned that erasing such memories would strike at religious faith and ancestral sacrifice.
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Savannah
Specia
George Solomons
Robt E Storrs Dies At Home In Macon
Robt Earle Storrs assistant United States attorney for the southern district of Georgia died at his Macon home 317 Adams street after a illness of over 50 months He was 35 years old Storrs came to Macon ten years ago from Springfield Massachusetts after Mercer University and a brief legal practice He married Miss Darling of Westchester PA Survived by wife mother and sister Funeral Saturday from the residence with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery An honorary concert will be held by the Macon Bar Association whose member he was The federal offices in Macon closed today out of respect for his memory Transfer to Johns Hopkins for tumor on the brain induced paralysis.
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Robert Earle Storrs
United States
Southern District of Georgia
Orlock
Adams Street
Storrs
Springfeld
Mass
Mercer
Metrosella
Darling
Westchester
Rose Hit
Macon Bar Association
Johns Hopkins
New Bids Sought After Delayed Boulevard Paving Letting
The North Boulevard paving contract from Ponce de Leon to the Southern railroad was postponed by the city street committee after a long discussion. A bid amendment aimed at old rubble stone caused a dispute. Meol Contracting Co bid 270 per square yard, Thorn ton & Macon bid 268.2 per square yard, both proposing stone rebates or handling. Some members favored retaining the stone or granting owners a rebate, leading to a call for new bids. paving is to be wood block.
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Ponce de Leon Avenue
Southern Railroad
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Meol Contracting Company
Thornton & Macon
Chattanooga Strike Fails To Materialize
Chattanooga April 1 The street car strike ordered for this afternoon appears of little importance as at 30 per neck the hour for the walk out only six men quit work but others took their places and trains operated without interruption. No disturbances occurred.
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Chattanooga
We Have Moved Our City Office and Stationery
An notice states the City Office and Stationery Department have moved to 6 North Broad Street Foote and Davies Co. Main phone line is 61. The item confirms the new address and contact.
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Foote & Davies
Hartwell man gets twenty years for attack on girl
Abgail Jones was convicted of criminal assault on Cornelia Berle a 10 year old girl Judge Meadow sentenced him to twenty years The case drew crowds as Callie Bagwell faced trial on an attempted arson charge with a somnambulist plea and defense led by Judge Hodges and solicitor Thomas J Brown
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Hartwell
Abgail Jones
Cornelia Berle
Meadow
Hillitard
Bowersville
Swilling
Dorough & Adama
H Lakelton
N Worley
Julian McCurry
Thomas Burgess
Clifford Hembree
John Elrod
Peter Elrod
Stoddard Ashworth
Hon A G MecCurry
Callie Bagwells
J F Moss Hoth
Bagwella
J H Skelton
Thomas J Brown
W L Hodges
Bagwell
Poultry Association Names Its Officers
In Athens on April 14 special meeting the Southern Poultry Association named officers: Ji J Rowe president J E Gardner first vice president J Carthers second vice president Carlisle Cobb third vice president Mrs Louise Lipson secretary Howard Scott assistant secretary J C Jeater treasurer. Nearly one hundred members signed on including historic state families. Colonel J K Lumpkin to prepare constitution and bylaws. premium list to be prepared and a great fair planned.
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Athens
Southern Poultry Association
J Rowe
J E Gardner
Carthers
Carlisle Cobb
Louise Lipson
Howard Scott
Opera Star Farrar on Beauty in Dramatic Role Rendering
Metropolitan soprano Geraldina Moss Farrar explains she sacrifices tonal beauty to dramatic fitness in Koenigs Kinder and urges expressing beauty through acting. She cites Calve's fame from personality, notes operatic limits, and asserts she acts to please the audience, even if it means less singing.
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Moss Geraldina Farrar
Metropolitan
Miss, Farrar
Goose Girl
Humperdinck
New York
Metropolitan Opera Company
Mme
Emma Calve
Seaboard Shortens New York Schedule
Seaboard announces a revised timetable effective April 3. Depart Atlanta at 11:65 p m, arrive Richmond at 7:26 a m, Washington at 10:17 a m, and New York at 5:00 p m. Through steel sleeping and observation cars, electric lighting, into the new Pennsylvania Railroad station at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-second Street. Ticket office at 88 Peachtree.
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New York
Atlanta
Richmond
Washington
Pennylvania RR
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-second Street
New York City
Peachtree
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