Atlanta Board Delays Exposition School Purchase Plans
Atlanta board of education delays steps to buy lots for the proposed Exposition Bills school pending a special committee report. The board will hear findings, plan site purchase, and begin construction once the report is ready, likely before the next regular meeting. The panel also aims to seek city council repeal of a nonresident teacher ordinance to allow out of town teachers to be hired.
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Exposition Bills
Atlanta
Habersham Chapter To Offer Pictures At Grand Wednesday
The Joseph Habersham chapter will oversee the Grand Mexican picture show Memorial day Spriloid with public patronage urged. In addition to the film there will be entertainment including a ballet toe dance by a three year old Atlanta girl. Madame Rosina Galle of the Metropolitan ballet has been invited to attend and witness the performance.
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Joseph Habersham
D. OR
Atlanta
Rosina Galle
Metropolitan Ballet
Commencement Begins at Gammon Seminary
Gammon Theological Seminary opened its commencement exercises at Crisman Hull Clark University last night at 8. The program includes the Alumni Association business session at 8 20, an address by Rev. Petavia OConnell, a president’s reception, a love feast at 9 30 Sunday, and the paciflaureate sermon by Dr TM Watters. The final exercises occur next Tuesday morning at 9 oclock.
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Gammon Theological Seminary
Crisman
TM. Watters
Short Spring Vacation for Atlanta Children
The spring recess begins Thursday at 2 pm and runs to May 1. All city schools participate except Commercial High, Tuciley Avenue, and Milton Avenue, which started late last fall. Teachers will attend the Georgia educational meeting in Macon through Saturday. Schools will still close at the usual time this year on June 9, with Lacile Avenue and Milton Avenue closing June 16 and Commercial High closing June 26.
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Commercial High
Tuciley Avenue
Milton Avenue
Georgia
Macon
Lacile Avnue
Walton Street Paving Delayed and City Projects Update
The aldermanic board delayed Walton street paving after Alder man Seawright gave notice of reconsideration. Other actions: funding for a bridge height increase on Whitehall street, a lecture on liquefied air at Ivy Street School, daily Bethlehem Steel armor plate letters to Congress, and a new electric road charter for Federal Construction Company. Also approved a Moses Formwalt monument and a street refund to A B Buehl. A transfer for Grand Opera week by the police board was rejected. police interior repainting funded.
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Atlanta Music Trade Honors Crew With Funeral and Gift
Funeral services for Benjamin Baker Crew of Phillips & Crew were held at First Methodist Church with Dr. James E. Dickey and Rev. W. F. Glenn presiding. Interment was at Oakland. The Atlanta music trade passed a resolution praising Crew as a leader in the piano business, aged 71, and sent a floral tribu te of two rhododendrons with Easter lilies and Ophelia roses to his grave. The card from the trade agency noted a faithful life among music people in Atlanta and the South.
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Oakland
Atlanta
Crew
South
United States
Father Time
Mr. B. B. Crew
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B. B. Crew
Atlanta Music Trade
Plans regulate local junk men ordinance outlined by Captain Dobbs
The city considers a junk ordinance creating a junk inspector and restricting purchases from junk dealers. Dealers would issue ten day checks to allow officials to verify scrap material. It would bar buying mutilated items and curb plumbing thefts by improving provenance and records.
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L. 8. Dobbs
Evening Police Watch
Counsen
Dobbs
Newspaper Advertising Discussed At Meeting
The Atlanta Retail Merchants association held a dinner and discussion on newspaper advertising at the Piedmont hotel. About 150 merchants attended, including heads of major department stores, with Haris H. Cone leading the session and Winship Nunnally presenting ad examples for critique.
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Piedmont Hotel
Haris H. Cone
L. D. Hicks
Winship Nunnally
Hubert Anderson
Nunnally
New York
Atlanta
Retail Merchants’ Association
At Theaters Keith Vaudeville Forsyth Show
Keith Vaudeville on the Forsyth bill features Dane Claudius and Lillian Scarlatt with Banjo tunes and a lively musical comedy “On the Veranda.” Nellie V. Nichols performs and Marta Lo's act showcases rare China works. Willard the marvel, a berry sketch, and Clown Seal complete the program says the Strand listing. Tangled Hearts stars Lon Chaney and Marjorie Ellison with Louisa Lovely in a widow role as the film’s lead and plot unfolds about woman’s penalty and man’s share.
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Forsyth
Yorsyth Keith
Dane Claudius
Lillian Scarlatt
Nellie V. Nichols
Marta Lo and Associates
Willard
Strand Theater
Lon Chaney
Marjorie Ellison
Bluebird
Louisa Lovely
The Dumb Girl of Port los at Piedmont theater
Anna Pavlova stars in The Dumb Girl of Portico at the Piedmont, with Fenella the mute dancer weaving a tragic tale from a Naples bay to a blood torn palace. Atlantans have praised Pavlova's range as dancer and actress in this standout photoplay, showing for two remaining days Friday and Saturday.
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Anna Pavlova
Piedmont
Fenella
Bay of Naples
Piedmont Theater
Paviana
Portrét
John Barrymore in The Red Widow at Georgian Theater
John Barrymore, famed stage star, headlines at the Georgian Theater in The Red Widow a new film comedy based on the Raymond Hitchcock play. The picture, written by Channing Pollock and Hennold Wolfe, features Flora Zabelle John Hendricks Eugene Redding Millard Benson George E. Mack and Lilian Tucker in supporting roles.
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John Barrymore
Georgian Theater
Red Widow
Raymond Hitchcock
Channing Pollock
Hennold Wolfe
Barrymore
Flora Zabelle
John Hendricks
Eugene Redding
Millard Benson
George E. Mack
Lilian Tucker
North Carolinians Hold Meeting Today
The North Carolina society is called to meet at the chamber of commerce this afternoon at 5 o clock. All natives of the state are urged to attend as plans will be made for the annual banquet and officers will be elected.
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Chamber of Commerce
W. J. Speer
Harris
Treasury Department
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General Assembly
Slaton to Address on The Confederacy at Memorial Meet
The Junior Memorial association plans a Saturday gathering at 7 o'clock in the Carnegie library. Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, Jr. called the meeting. W. M. Slaton will deliver an address on the Confederacy and Memorial day observance plans will be set.
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Junior Memorial Association
Carnegie Library
A. McD. Wilson
W. M. Slaton
Charter Granted for Odum Banking Company in Georgia
Secretary of State granted a charter to the Odum Banking Company to be located at Odum in Wayne County Georgia with capital stock of 25000. Incorportors are J C Ritch N H Bacon and W H Aspinwall all from Doeran Ga. This item notes ongoing Georgia state business and local incorporation activity.
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Phil Cook
New State Bank
Odum
Wayne County
Georgia
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N. H. Bacon
W. H. Aspinwall
Doeran
Committee Perfects Rural Credits Bill
Washington reports the house banking committee perfected a rural credits bill funding twelve regional land mortgage banks. The plan allows loans on land via national farm loan associations with stock subscriptions and specified payment rules, including requirements for cash in vaults and U S bonds. Representative Moss reintroduced the amended measure.
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Federal Treasury
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Moss
Joint Committee of Congress
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Truly Yetter Spring Suit at Half-Price Offer
Feel at ease among the mightiest with Truly Yetter new Spring Suit. $25 and $30 clothes priced at half their value. Classy styles and finest materials all one price at Yetter's Great Clothes Shop No 78 North Broad Street next to Cable Hall.
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Warner Martin Heads Group Three Bankers Meeting
Cedartown April 20 special reports the Georgia Bankers Association group three meeting in Cedartown at the Cedartown club with J T Duncan presiding. Highlights include addresses by Fuller E Catlaway George E Allen McLane Tilton Jr and others. Next session set for Carrollton with H Warner Martin elected chairman A K Snead vice chairman and E L Henderson secretary. In Madison Judge Fred C Foster dies in Johns Hopkins hospital Baltimore after health decline. He was about 70, leaves a mother wife and four children. Burial planned in Madison Saturday morning. Athens also noted.
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Cedartown Club
J.T. Duncan
Douglasville
G. F. Longino
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LaGrange
George E. Allen
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Georgia
Judge Fred Foster Dies in Baltimore
Athens mourns the death of Judge Fred Foster of Madison a prominent lawyer and former Georgia university man He died this morning at a Baltimore hospital The body will be brought to Madison Georgia for funeral and burial
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Athens
Fred Foster
Madison
Georgia University
Baltimore
Colonel Willis Ragan Laid To Rest In Oakland
Funeral services for Colonel Willis Ragan were held at his home at 574 Peachtree Street at 11 o clock after which interment took place in Oakland. Reverend R O Flinn of North Avenue Presbyterian church officiated. Ragan was a longtime prominent figure in the citys civic and business life serving as president of the Ranigan Maione Dry Goods Company and head of the Merchants and Manufacturers association.
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Peachtree Street
Oakland
R. O. Flinn
North Avenue Presbyterian Church
Hagan
Ranigan-Maione Dry Goods Company
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
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