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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
11
The sixth annual council of the Women Missionary Workers of the Methodist Church South adjourned after a highly active convention that began April 12. The gathering highlighted support for the child labor bill, with key resolutions approved by the group.
Eight days of conference sessions featured strong emphasis on social service and child labor issues. The council urged widespread social legislation study for youth in 1917, promoted community beauty for junior workers, and planned clubs for Mexican and colored women. It endorsed Keating Owen child labor bill and called for uniform vital statistics laws and broad cooperation with reform movements.
A historical outline urges abolition literacy compulsory education laws juvenile courts censorship of movies strict drug and liquor laws cigarette sales control custodial institutions mandatory commitment social disease reporting and race relations reform. It calls for printing the program for conferences and auxiliary meetings.
Judge Newman's decision in federal court awards Destructor Co. about 138000 plus interest and costs for building a crematory plant completed in 1914. Mayor James G Woodward vows the city will not pay a dollar, planning to appeal, arguing ventilation and daily tonnage issues.
Waycross Georgia April 206 Special Tomorrow the fifth annual chautauqua will open in Waycross to last seven days. The program for the week is one of the most elaborate ever arranged for Waycross and the city is getting a list of attractions that are furnished the larger cities of the country. The chautauqua is going to be held under the auspices of the King's Daughters and there is every indication the attendance this year will be larger than ever before. Many banners and pennants have been used in decorating the city for the week.
A cyclone twelve miles west of Mobile in the Moffat road area killed Mrs. Lillie Cochran and slightly injured another person when a home was blown away. The storm impacted a well populated settlement, with several houses damaged. only the Cochran residence was demolished along a path less than 190 feet wide.
State railroad commission learns a Georgia Class B and C committee will establish Atlanta headquarters next Monday to aid rapid information flow to shippers and the commission ahead of the June 26 hearing. The Southeast fourth section group will also base in Atlanta to prepare data for intrastate tariff revisions across the region. The Georgia petition follows the Interstate Commerce Commission fourth section order effective January 1. Meanwhile Harp Singers plan a sacred concert Sunday at the Soldiers Home.
George Henderson, identified as a negro, was found unconscious and was taken to Grady hospital Thursday afternoon after an attempted death by action at jail barracks.
After a failed suicide attempt in a police headquarters cell, Henderson tried hanging with a rope made from blanket strips. The rope broke and he was found on the floor by deputy Turnkey Jeff Whitley. He was recovering at the hospital Thursday night.
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