City News Items From Atlanta Court Actions And Meetings
A bail trover suit by Harry G. Poole seeks $1,000 face value bonds with $200 cash value from Pat H. Orr. A pupil charges inquiry finds school fees for writing materials unfounded with costs under 50 cents. Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons trustees meet to review finances and graduation lists. The jury in Purvis v. Atlanta Northern Railway returned a verdict for the defendant after a brief deliberation. Barfield sues Georgia Railway and Electric for $45,000 over a personal injury from hanging wires near McDaniel street. Charter revision committee discusses changes but adjourns without action. W Schley Howard to speak at McAdam’s Hall in Fifth Ward, introduced by Madison Bell. Two Carnegie Library board vacancies to be filled due to term expirations. Former governors Hoke Smith and Robert Glenn to address a mass meeting on home missions and education at First Presbyterian Church.
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Sues Street Car Company
John Barfeld
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Southern
McDaniel Street
Oregs
Ing
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Robert Glenn
North Carollina
Tisir
First Presbyterian Church
Marietta Street
North Georgia
Gossip at the Cafitel Judge Hillyer Speech at Confederate monument unveiling
Judge Hillyer of the railroad commission returned from Tifton where he spoke as orator of the day at the Confederate monument unveiling. His remarks were praised by a large audience as unusually elegant. Captain Irwin of Atlanta is seriously ill after a knife wound to the thumb, possibly leading to amputation. Memorial Day saw veterans greeted hospitably in Macon. Political notes include Col. Flynt and other candidates for congress. Waterworks leadership elected in New Orleans. Mrs Armstrong found guilty of manslaughter in Indiana.
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Hillyer
Orater
George H. Hilyer
Railroad Commission
Tifton
Irwin
Robert C. Irwin
Comptroller
Wright
Atlanta
Tip
Macon
W. HL
Harrison
Dr Burrell Dead Former AMA President and Surgeon General
Dr Hurbert Leslie Burrell former president of the American Medical Association and surgeon general in charge of the hospital ship Bay State during the Spanish American War died at his home of heart failure in Boston on April 27.
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Burrell
Boston
Hurbert Leslie Burrell
The
American Medical Association
Cherge
Bay State
Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons graduates
Graduation exercises will be held at the Grand Opera House in Atlanta on April 30 at 8 oclock. The class of 64 students will receive degrees amid an program of orations and music. Officers include Frank R Mann Jr president Thomas Edward Rogers vice president Claude Waymon Harvey secretary treasurer and Joseph Henderson Coffee.
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Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons
As Forlowe
Frank R. Mann
Thomas Edward Rogers
Claude Waymon Harvey
Joseph Henderson Coffee
Hammerstein abandons grand opera in wage battle
Oscar Hammerstein capitulates to artistic temperament demands, abandoning grand opera plans as deficits loom. Stotesbury and Paul D. Crevath take Philadelphia Opera. Hammerstein retains Manhattan house, assets transfer to Metropolitan for cash, totaling about $2,000,000 to secure season commitments.
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New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Saravel Untermyar
bin Pon
Arthur
Ownd
Metropolitan, Opere
Metropolitam
Teutaidis
Stotesbury
New York Aldermen Endorse Sane Fourth of July Plan
New York April 27 The board of aldermen endorsed a sober Fourth of July in the city replacing cannon and firecrackers with a civic holiday. A resolution calls for a historical pageant patriotic exercises and a parade featuring police firemen national guard and other military bodies along with civic societies reviving the day’s traditional observance.
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New York
Board of Alderman
New York City
Your Summer Outing to Algonquin Park Ontario
An illustrated descriptive publication promotes Algonquin National Park of Ontario as a summer outing for fishing canoeing and camping. It highlights a two million acre fish and game preserve with 1200 lakes and altitude of 2000 feet, promising pure air and nature’s allure. Free copy available from F P Dwyer at 290 Broadway New York.
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Algonquin National Park
Ontario
F. P. Dwyer
Broadway
New York
Opera Patrons Urged to Pick Up Tickets Ahead of Mondays Show
The notice announces sale times for grand opera tickets at music stores with box office pickup at the Auditorium from 9 am Monday. Reservations due by Friday night and doors open 6:30 pm for evening performances. Ticket holders marked right to enter Glimer Street. others via Courtland Street. Met Opera Company arrives Sunday and Monday for opening performances. Large pre sales for Lohengrin Tosca Aida and Madam Butterfly noted with thousands already sold.
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Orter
Glimer Street
Courtland Street
Metropolitan Opera Company
Auditorium Armory
Phillips & Drew's
Cable’ Plano Company
Toséd
Frst
Chicago
City Mail Delivery Extended to More City Areas
City mail delivery will expand beyond rural routes into many city sections including Brookwood Druid Hills Capitol View Copen RM College Park and East Point. Plans are not final but extensions are highly probable as the post office keeps pace with rapid city expansion.
Wolter Lane Sentenced to Death in Ruth Wheeler Murder
Albert W. Wolter, convicted of killing Ruth Wheeler, is sentenced by Judge Foster in New York general sessions to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing, with reports from Tombs physicians confirming his legal responsibility. A large crowd sought admission as Wolter showed little emotion, smoking calmly on the train to Sing Sing.
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New York
Albert W. Wolter
Ruth Wheeler
Foster
Sing Sing
Frank A. McGuire
Tombs
Ira C. Tracy
Long Island State Asylum
Death House
Wolter
Walter
Mammoth Building Planned for Chicago Expositions
Chicago plans a mammoth exposition building three times the size of the Coliseum and more than twice as large as Madison Square Garden. The India Exposition Association seeks 950000 in subscriptions from 1990 major Chicago firms. A minimum of 2000000 is estimated to finance the project with a seating capacity of 30000 to 40000.
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Wadieen Square Garden
N. Y
Chicago
The
India Exposition Association
Harlow N. Higinbotham
Ansoe
Negro Testimony in McKowen Murder Trial
In Baton Rouge on April 37, the defense in the trial of E C McKowen, charged with murdering EH Judson, called Israel Davis a Black witness who testified Judson exited McKowen’s buggy and headed toward the Jackson asylum, where Judson was an inmate, suggesting possible breaks in the state’s evidence.
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Negro
Baton Rouge
E. C. McKowen
EH. Judson
Israel Davia
Nestro
Judson
McKowen
Jackson Asylum
Judacn
Ned Kowen
Jodson
Kowen
Storm damages Columbus area with uprooted trees
A May afternoon storm in Columbus caused extensive damage including uprooted trees and a collapsed brick wall under repair injuring workers. Temperature from 48 degrees at 10 PM, cotton seed market noted weak demand with about one hundred tons sold. In Montclair New Jersey officials consider July Fourth referendum logistics as council weighs explosive sales restrictions.
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Columbus
Girard & Brick Wall
Wickersham Defends Grand Jury Probe Of Cotton Pool
Washington April 27 Attorney General Wickersham issued a formal statement denying that the grand jury investigation into an alleged cotton pool in New York is an attack on legitimate operations of any cotton or produce exchange in the United States. He said the proceedings before the grand jury are not yet complete and should not be discussed at this time.
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Washington
Department’ of Justice
Grand Jury
New York
Wickersham
United States
Vacation Booklet Promises Resort Details for Northern Michigan
A fragmented notice promotes a free booklet about the Petoskey Mackinac region resorts in Northern Michigan. It claims to provide travel routes via the through train service Pennsylvanian Grand Rapids & Indiana, with distractions and misprints in the copy.
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Petoskey- Mackinac
Michigan
Pennsylvania-Grand Rapids
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Whitehall
Brush ‘Office
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City News
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Pat H. Orr
H. A. Purvis
Atlanta Northern Railway Company
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Vammearee
W. H. Kreigshaber
Charman Kreigaheber
W. L. Moors
M. R. Wilkinson
Walter Cooper
W. Schley Howard
McAdar’s Hall
Fifth Ward
Madlaon Beil
Thia County
Schley Howard
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Carne
General Council
Carnegie Mbrary
James F. Nutting
R. L. Foreman
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Foreman
Guccand Imish
Maier & Berkele, Inc
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Berkele Jewelers
Whitehall St
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
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Witte
Colonal Famée
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Griffin
Senate
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Flynt
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J. P. Rapa
J. Allen
Romeston
John F. Redding
Barnesville
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Forsyth
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Railroad Commniection
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New Orleans
John W. Alford
American Water Works Association
Thin City
Rochester
Ageteat
East
Aupetick
Pane Council
Glity
East Point
Frotain
Ional Agriculture Company
Broughet
Red Men
Order of Red Mor’-wan
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Frank Smith
Great Sachem
Washela
Odd -Paltons
Emmett Street
Hemphill Avenue
Gomaancho
Carroviton
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Rountree
Turner, Mer
Whitehall Street
Underwood Typewriters
N. Broad St
Via
Union Depot
City Ticket Office
Peachtree Street
Wolter Lane
Mammoth
Madison Square Garden
Ernoon
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Mont Clslr
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Hizelon
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Isitiwena
Wickershen
Cotton Pool
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Eisenman Bros
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