FATE OF EXPOSITION HANGS ON TAX DIGEST DELAY
City finance subcommittee sought $200,000 for extra department needs. Comptroller warns tax digest delay into May. Police, water, and schoolhouse funds debated. education money approved but carried to next year. Water main cleaned with $7,200 allocated. police and fire budgets remain unsettled. Citizen finances and upcoming digest dictate final allocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Finance Committee
Trnesty Comptroller
Patterson
Golfismith
Police Department
Water Works Department
Board of Education
Secondard
Barnacles
Whitney
New York
Mass Meeting Called in Grand Opera House on May 8
Atlanta faces a pivotal decision on a 1910 expo plan as the committee of twenty five divides over public support. A mass meeting is set for May 6 at 8 PM in the Grand Opera House to let citizens vote on whether the exposition should proceed. Leaders insist Atlanta has never quit a project and urge participation to determine the citys fate.
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Atlanta
Forrest Adair
Alex Smith
Adair
Maddox
Cooper
Hugh T. Inman
Atlanta mass meeting urged to fund 1910 exposition
Atlanta citizens are urged to raise at least 500 000 in capital stock for the 1910 exposition. A mass meeting is set for May 8 at the Grand Opera House to decide if the city will support the project with rapid subscriptions. About 200 000 has already been subscribed by under 300 firms and individuals. Authorities appeal to all workers and capitalists alike to contribute and attend.
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Atlanta
Richelieu
Maddox
Caesm
Adairs
Grand ‘Opera House
Henolved
Henry DeGive
Cooper
Tata
Adairg
Robert F. Maddox
Grand Opera House
Walter G. Cooper
Chamber of Commerce
Queer folks in court face strange offenses in Atlanta
Court records reveal a mix of petty crimes and odd behavior. Jim Garrett, a Black drayman, fined five dollars for throwing old shoes at his wife. M Ellman fined twenty five dollars for hanging saloon advertisements in Decatur window. George Thomas and Hattie Baugh, both Darktown residents, arraigned after Thomas slammed a door, severing two of Baugh's fingers. Two white youths, Bam Burga and Perry Mitchell, confessed to burglarizing Thompson and Voyles on Kennedy Street, bound over for burglary. Hamp Cheek fined fifteen dollars for trespass and lewd behavior with two girls who claimed they came to Atlanta seeking work. Two girls from Georgia ran away but planned to work in cotton mills. A crowd of youths fined for riding bicycles without bells.
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Jim Garrett
Garratt
Garrett
M. Ellman
Decatur
Recorder
Ellman
George Thomas
Hattie Baugh
Darktown
Thomas
Hattie
Bam Burga
Perry Mitchell
Thompson & Voyles
BC Kennedy Street
Dunton
Gallaher
Burge
Mitchell
Dixie Burge
Reformatory
Butchell
Cheek
Maggie Garrett
Minda
Murrayaville
Hall County
Georgia
Atlanta
Col Renfroe Passes Away In Sandersville Georgia
News reached this city of the death in Sandersville, Georgia, of Col J W Renfroe a former Atlantan and influential Georgia figure. He served as state treasurer under Gov Colquitt, postmaster of Atlanta under Cleveland, and land commissioner in Tacoma under Secretary Smith. He was born in New Albany Mississippi in 1830 and lived much of his life in Washington county. He fought in the Civil War and later held public posts until his death at 6 o clock yesterday morning. He is survived by his wife and two grandchildren. funeral plans call for burial near Sandersville. Mrs Renfroe is in Texas and will likely miss the funeral.
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Banderaville
J. W. Renfroe
Cot Renfroe
Mississippi
New Albany
Washington County
Guv Colquitt
Cleveland
Harrigan
Alaska
Tacoma
Gol
Renfroe
Hie Couchh
James
Mary Elizabeth Renfroe
Howell Cobb Jackson
North Carolina
Renfree Jackson
Texas
Sandersville
Col Renfroe
Those Fames Being Argued In Supreme Court Petition
In Washington on April 23 the suit of the State of Georgia against the Tennessee Copper Co and the Ducktown Sulphur Copper and Iron Co reached the U S Supreme Court but the argument was postponed to tomorrow. Logan Johnson opened for the state and Attorney General Hart will close the presentation. Several attorneys from across the country attend, representing varied interests affected by the sought cease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jos. Ohl
Washington, D. C
State of Georgia
Tennessee Copper Co
Ducktown Sulphur Copper and Iron Co. (Limited
Supreme Court of the United States
Logan Johnson
Hart
Mystery Rock Found Prompts International Tension
Lieutenant Alan Drummond of the British Navy blundered upon a mysterious mid ocean rock stirring international issues. For fuller particwars see this paper May 6. Robert Barr’s serial masterpiece A Rock in the Baltic begins, first of twelve novels in the Authors and Newspapers' Association’s $150,000 series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Drummond
Por Fuller Particwars
Robert Barr
Baltic
Authors and Newspapers’ Association
General Wright Heads to Japan as Ambassador
General Luke E Wright sailed from Memphis with Mrs Wright and daughter Katherine en route to assume the ambassador post to Japan. He will travel across the continent to the Pacific coast and sail from Seattle on April 29, aiming to reach Japan and start duties by June 1.
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Memphis
Luke E Wright
Japan
Roosevelt
Stripes for Attorney Miles in Brooklyn Conspiracy Case
William O Miles a Brooklyn lawyer and former Kings County assistant attorney was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and fined 1000 for conspiracy to defraud the city over bogus claims for losses by a faulty flooring contractor His clerk Charles Morel also received a similar sentence. Miles held claims totaling 3,000,000 at the time of his arrest.
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Brooklyn
City
New York
William O Miles
Kings County
Aewers
Charles Morel
Miles
Texas Wonder Cure Ad for Kidney and Rheumatic Ailments
Advertises the Texas Wonder Quregail Kidney Bladder and Rheumatic troubles with mail order two months treatment. Testimonials claimed. Dr KE W Hall at 2020 Olive Street, St Louis, Missouri.
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KE. W. Hall
Olive St. St. Louis
Church Board in Session in Louisville
Southern Methodists gather in Louisville Kentucky as the board of shared extension of the Methodist Episcopal church south convenes today A committee is named to draft resolutions on the death of board secretary Dr Whisner who died yesterday in Baltimore Maryland
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Louisville
Board of Shared Extension
Methodist Episopal Church
South
Whisner
Baltimore
Senate panel votes against judge pay raise measure
Washington April 23 Senate judiciary committee reports adversely a bill to boost compensation for US Circuit and district judges. The decision comes amid broader cost concerns and legislative priorities in the capital.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Judiciary Today
United States
Vented coats mark this season's Spring Suits trend
The season's vogue features a notable vent as a key characteristic of Spring suit coats. This design element emphasizes tailoring and movement, signaling a lightweight, classic style shift for warmer weather.
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Lapies’ Home Journal
Curtis Publishing Company
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Bor
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Decatur Street
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Price
E. G. Griffin
Gate City
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Atlanta, Ga
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Hiseman Bros
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