Post Office Policy Aims to Restore Normal Service
A New York paper discusses the Pel to support the restoration of normal mail deliveries in Atlanta and argues the Post Office should serve the public good over profits. It cites Postmaster General New and a Georgia Manufacturers Record debate on funding, efficiency, and branch expansion as essential to meet national postal demand.
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NEW
Atlanta
Large
Johnson
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Harry S.iNew
Indiana
Fromy
Baltpe
Postoffice
Navy Department
War Department
Post Office Department
Burleson
Post- General New
Baltimore
Ecord
Eans
Post Office
Georgia
Nera
Postoffica de Tartment
Tiver
Congress Hills
Opera Opening Sets Atlanta Season With Romeo Et Juliette
Atlanta marks thirteenth Met season opening with near sellout for Romeo et Juliette featuring Gigli and Barl. The event draws a vibrant South culture crowd, signaling a strong, enduring opera week in the city and region. A glimpse of old times appears in playful asides about fashion and pastimes as opera week shapes Atlanta society.
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Atlanta
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Gigli
Barl
South
America
Paramount
Old Age Is A State Of Mind Says, Not The Years
An excerpt argues against viewing age as a health risk and slams the notion that being older equals decline. It criticizes “old age” as a mental state, cites 1920 U.S. vital statistics and centenarian counts to debunk age as a cause of death, and urges rejecting ageist notions in favor of scientific thinking.
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United States
Boone
Uvhanne
Honnena
Howe
Questions and Answers on Grapefruit and Cold Prevention
Readers seek medical guidance on grapefruit effect on stomach relief for colds and flu and whether quinine warrants bed rest. The column notes vaccines from nasal culture may help some repeated infections but insists autogenous vaccines require a physician. The piece also discusses rhubarb as a bowel aid and aromatic syrup as a treatment option while emphasizing outdoor activity when possible.
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Anes
Mina H. J
C. M
Nevern Dave
Enator Oi
G. T
Ten books most enjoyed by Lord Charnwood in 1925
The list compiled by Edward W Bolta shows Lord Charnwood, born Godfrey Rathbone Benson, famed for his Lincoln biography, ranking ten works as most enjoyable. Items include works attributed to Kingsley, Shakespeare, and classical authors, with several titles and authors cited in a circa 1925 constitutional notice.
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Lord Charnwood
Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood ‘Tras
Britain
America
Abraham Lincoln
Xeaterday
Hdward W. Bol
Wogtward Ho
Kingaley
Kingsley
Macaulay
Shakespeace
Pennynon
Tim Madle
Pholopians
Giospel
St. Matthew
The Express Horse and Ancestral Veneration
The piece reflects on ancestral lineage tracing to Norse origin and founding figures, praising strength, courage, and duty. It portrays the horse as a carrier of treasure and a symbol of industrious life across factory, farm, mart, and fireside, linking heritage to everyday labor.
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Normandy
William the Founeror
Engand
Christendom
Sheba
Solomon
PITHY PARAGRAPHS' Morning paper anxiety and punchlines
A compact relic of a 1920s newspaper page shows readers’ quips on concentration and creativity, with joke captions from Mrs Jessie Stockbridge and Arthur Godington, light verse, dialogue bits, and captions about spring signs, theater week, and playful vignettes. The piece blends humor, comments on shopping and marriage, and subtle social satire with named contributors and local tone.
Card system for Atlanta traffic control proposal
A reader proposes a practical traffic solution: a national style driver identification card issued to each motorist. The card would record license number, car details, and violations, with a departmental punch system to warn, deter, or arrest based on offense level. The columnist urges police adoption.
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Atlanta
Department OF Police
Shanley’s Broadway Café Closes in Jazzy Times Era
New York April 23. The curtain falls on Shanley’s famous Broadway cafe as times and tastes shift. Gil Long, a former reporter, owns a string of trendy spots and redecorates quarterly, drawing crowds while older eateries fade. The piece notes declines in long-cherished venues, barber schools, and bars as prosperity moves uptown, with reflections on Grand Concourse and Harlem origins shaping a migrating middle class.
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New York
Broadway
Shanley
Chucchit's
Rector’s
Knickerbocker
Claridge
the _times
Times
Gil Long
Shanney
Diamond Jin Brady
Bhanley's
Hig Dit
Dal Ani
Atraxngn
Atare
Itreets
Longaers
Reel Realism at Loew's Ranch Bids for Tickets
A garbled feature note cites Mrs. N A Garner teasing that reel realism at Loew's ranch will win tickets. The fragment references a Q A joke about what people see and mentions a sale by a dena, with unclear names and details.
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Loew's
Jamin
Dena
Rawson Collier Joins Robinson Company Engineers
Dwight P. Robinson & Company, Inc. announces the addition of Rawson Collier, formerly of Atlanta and a longtime sales executive in Georgia Railway and Power and Central Hudson Gas and Electric, to its New York engineering firm. Collier, a Georgia native and MIT graduate, has held leadership roles in electrical associations and industry groups.
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Dwight P. Robinson & Company, Inc
New York City
Rawson Collier
Atlanta
Mr. Collier
Georgia Railway and Power Company
Central Hudson Gas and Electric Company
Poughkeepsie
N. C
Furvies Electric
Campues
Hudson Vales
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sigma Cut Fraternity
Amherican Institute of Electrical Engineers
National Electric Light Association
Perioos Association
Iuminating Engineering Society
Meat market fined for Blue Law after midnight closing
Police Chief Beavers ordered a tough campaign against Sunday closing law violators. P. G. Johnson of 96 Decatur Street admitted his meat market stayed open until 12 14 a m on a Saturday. Recorder's Court fined him 3 dollars and costs.
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Beavers
P. G. Johnson
Decatur Street
Recorder’s Court
Greer
Johnson
Beall Held to State for City Firearm Incident
H O Beall of 278 State street was fined 16 and bound over to state courts on a charge of discharging firearms in city limits. In police court Monday he faced two crippled fingers from a pistol bullet fired by Officer J I Melton during a disturbance. Beall was intoxicated and resisting arrest when a rifle was fired, disabling both index fingers.
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H. O. Beall
State Street
J. 8
Melton
John D. Wood
Beall
Beinr
Injured Negro Fights After Blow Under Whitehall Viaduct
A violent clash occurred Monday afternoon under the Whitehall street viaduct as Dr. T. B. Patton of Grady hospital and Ambulance Driver J. H. Pennington fought to restrain Alonzo Gray and load him into an ambulance. Gray was said to be crazed by a severe head blow from a fall off a hay wagon.
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T. 8. Patton
Grady Hospital
J. H. Pennington
Alonzo Gray
Whitehall Street
Patton
Pennington
Trial of Dr. Murphey on narcotic charges delayed
Atlanta physician Dr. Charles E. Murphey, indicted on 18 counts alone and with druggists on others for narcotic law violations, faced a Monday start that was continued to Tuesday as not all witnesses had arrived. His attorney argues his plea rests on the right of a licensed doctor to relieve human suffering.
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Charles E. Murphey
Atlanta
Murphey
Alexander Hooper
Tax Collector of Murray County Sets Income Record
ITAX COLLECTORS OF MURRAY COUNTY HANGS UP RECORD 5. C. Gregory, tax collector of Murray county, has established a record for having collected every dollar of general taxes assessed against that county, amounting to $15,109.93, it was revealed by William B. Harngan, chief of the tax division in the atate comptroler general's office, Monday. Only 51 of the 160 countie of the state had complied with the law Which Provides that all county taxes, general and poll, must be filed with the comptroller general by April 20 of each year. Heavy penalties against tax collectors who are dilinquent in making final settlements are provid ed, but owing to devastation by the boll weevil of certain counties, chief produce these penalties have been waived in presed years by the state segslature.
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C. Gregory
Murray County
William B. Harngan
Atate
College Annual Managers Meet Opens in Atlanta
The second annual College Annual Managers meeting begins in Atlanta on Monday April 30 with several hundred delegates and strong representation from the Southeastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association and the Art Craft guild The Piedmont hotel becomes convention headquarters due to a Southern Bakers association event with ninth floor exhibition space for school publications and business sessions in the first floor assembly room Noted speakers include Dr M N Brittain president of Georgia Tech and others from Georgetown University Missouri Jefferson City and Chicago with a banquet and recitations planned by college leaders and the entertainment committee chaired by Edgar Watkins of Oglethorpe University
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College Annual Mangers
Atlanta
Southeastern Intercollegiate Newspaper Association
Arty Chaft Guild
Southern Bakers’ Association
Ansley Hotel
College Maneuvers
Piedmont
M. N. Brittain
Georgia Tech
R. H. Nagon
University of Missouri
Art Craft Guild
Chicago
Myron McCarery
Georgetown Collage
H. S. Sparka
Cereer Univerosity
Macon
Brenan College
Guinnesville
Rene der Ag
OD Blackwell
Jackson Treet
Ross Arrives in New York to Take Bank Vice Presidency
John M. Ross, previously vice president of the Lowry Bank and Trust Company of Georgia, arrived in New York Monday to assume a vice presidency at the Coal & Iron National Bank. The move aligns with the bank’s expansion under President Julian W. Potter, as the institution, with $20,000,000 in resources, reinforces its strong position in Gotham. Ross, a Georgia native who grew up in Monroe and studied at the University of Georgia, represents the southern era's rise in major New York banking circles.
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John M. Tosa
Lowry Bank and ‘Trust Company of Georgia
New York
Coal & Iron National Bank
Ross
Julian W. Potter
Gotham
Georgia
Monroe
University of Georgia
Powers Requisition Signed By Governor In Galveston Case
Governor Powers authorized a requisition for Abe Powers, a convicted con artist captured in Galveston while fleecing a man of $5,000. The effort to bring Powers to Atlanta follows an earlier 1921 escape from prison and fits a string of similar schemes tied to Floyd Woodward. Solicitor General Boykin and Alderman Arms tead planned the transfer trip, but Arms tead cited business duties preventing his travel.
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Hardwick
Pat M Neff
Texas
Abe Powers
Banco
Galveston
W. A. Riley
At-lanta
Powers
Wade Lamar
State Prison Farm
Liberty
Alice
John A. Boykin
Jesse W. Armstead
Polen
Accrmnany Powery
Atlanta
Armsntead
Water damages Peachtree Street building in fire
Fire on the third floor of 3 Peachtree Street damaged about 88000 dollars. The blaze, likely from a surplus of gan fumes, started in a room used for day tanning films by John L. Moore and son. P C Olxer spotted it. sprinklers flooded the area after the fire department arrived, with Dundee Tailoring Co. also suffering losses.
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Peachtree Street
John Yi
Moore and Son
P. C. Olxer
Flo
Thhe
John L. Moore and Sone
Dundee Tailoringe Company
Man Held to Grand Jury on Liquor Violation in Angier Ave Case
Brace of 124 Angier avenue was bound over by the Recorder Johnson on a liquor violation charge. Bond set at 300 dollars after an officer testified five gallons of whiskey were in Brace's possession. Brace pleaded guilty and asked mercy.
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RC. Brace
Angier Avenue
Deraney Funeral Monday Afternoon
William Dernaner Deraney, 219 Flat Shoals Avenue, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Deraney, died after a fall at home Sunday. He broke his neck while walking down steps with soda in hand. Funeral services were held at Synan Catholic and burial followed at West View cemetery. He died before medical aid could be summoned. Survived by family.
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William Dernaner
Michael Deranev
Flat Shoals Avenue
West View Cemetery
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