Pleads for Better Social Conditions in Atlanta
Rev F M Crouch, field secretary of the joint commission on social service, urged Atlantans to unite across denominations to improve social conditions. He argued for a preventive approach and a collective effort to bring reform to the city, comparing the mission to aiding a modern Jericho. He called for collaboration between Baptist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Methodist communities to remove social ills.
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Atlanta
F. M. Crouch
Joint
Commission On Sac
Epicufal Church
New York
Jericho
Wwe
Beaver Buys Stock in Riverside Academy
Professor Sandy Beaver of Stone Mountain gains control at Riverside Naval Academy on June 1, succeeding Dr. Pearce. A Georgia native and 1903 UGA graduate, Beaver is noted as a top preparatory principal and former University of Georgia athlete. Riverside Naval Academy on the Chattahoochee river and Lake Warner is praised as The Culver of the South with aquatic programs led by a naval instructor.
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Sandy Beaver
Stone Mountain
Stark
Silverside Military and Naval Academy
Riverside
Beaver
Il 4. Pearce
Tily
Archool Airetes
Augusta
University of Georgia
Southern
Riverside Naval Academy
Chattahoochee River
Lake Warner
Naval School
Naval
Eaimmer
Lterary
FP. L. McCoy
Commercial Fertilizer Big Georgia Sale Report
Reports from Georgia fertilizer plants and oil mills indicate a record weekly haul of commercial fertilizer. Farmers, delayed by wet spring weather, plan heavy applications to base up crops and avoid frost. Higher fertilizer demand is expected as planters adopt second and third applications to boost yields, with potential gains per acre noted.
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Georgia
Atlaptu
Ueen
Department of Bericulture
Solitaire Diamond Engagement Rings Offer For Cash Or Credit
A promotional ad touts solitaire diamond engagement rings as an ideal gift with steadily increasing value. The dealer highlights correctly graded diamonds, weights and grades guaranteed, and options to buy for cash or on easy payments. Selections can be sent on approval with no obligation, and a booklet and catalogue are offered.
Pleasant Potomac cruise ends as Wilson returns home
President Wilson completes a two day and night cruise aboard the Sylph on the Potomac River, resting at the White House after leaving St. Marys River. The journey, unaccompanied by papers or wireless use, proceeds quietly with his daughter Eleanor and a Secret Service guard aboard. no official salutes or demonstrations were noted.
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Washington
Aulet
Potomac River
Wilson
White House
New Jersey
Potomac
St. Mary's River
St. Mary's Tandine
Cary Grayson
Ravne
Kat Aldo
Eleanor
Secret Service
Bave
Neretin
Memorial burial of Clan O Hara planned in Atlanta
Clan O Hara, about 460 strong, travel to Atlanta for their annual memorial service honoring members who died in the past year. Father Kennedy will officiate a Catholic service at the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 9:30 AM, with individual interments at West View Cemetery. Names listed include Bridget Uostello, Bridget Sherlock, Mrs Mamie Nelson, Mazie Carroll, Anne Sherlock, Milas Bridley Mack, and Mrs Bridget O Hara.
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Clan O'flara
Atlanta
Tase
Ad O'Hara
United States
Greanberg & and Company
Snan
Father Kennedy
West View Cemetery
Bridget Uostello
Blackshear
Bridget Sherlock
Sparks
Mamie Nelson
Selma
Ala
Mazie Carroll
Alamo
Galara
Anne Sherlock
Baxley
Milas Bridley Mack
Thomasville
Bridget O'Hara
Cebb
Makers of corduroys seek tariff protection
Cotton corduroy and plush makers petitioned officials asking to maintain present tariff levels. They argue corduroy is a young, capital‑intensive industry with about 60 processing steps and labor costs representing half of total costs. They note high import shares, citing over 1 million dollars in 1907 and 2.27 million in 1912, and signatures from industry officers in Aragon, Brookford, and Oneida.
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Washington
Oferign
FW. ML Coughin
Aragon Mills
Aragon
T. F. Holbrook
Groghford Mills
Brookford W. C
New York Mills
Oneida
N.Y
Rain Welcome Boon to Thomas Farmers
April reports from Thomasville note welcome rain easing drought for farmers and gardeners. Crops across the county were generally in good condition though winds and bright sun dried soil on tender plants. Chopping cotton conditions favored by recent weather, with cool nights delaying growth in late plantings and a notably advanced corn crop and strong watermelon and other crops prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Benersky
Planters and Citizens Bank Form New Camilla Trust
In Camilla Georgia on April 27 stockholders of Citizens Bank and Tenants Bank vote to consolidate into the Planters and Citizens Bank. G C Cochran of Citizens named president and fellow officer G C Cochran of Planters vice president W E Hughes active vice president W Faulkner Planters cashier H Anderson Citizens assistant cashier. Underwood Typewriter ad notes stenographers.
Suffragettes Trigger Bedlam in London Park
London April 27 suffragists defied a police ban in a park with a wagonette addressing a crowd. Youths moved to seize the wagonette while mounted and foot police intervened. Supporters were chased, pelted with turf, and a crowd dispersed into a waiting cab. In Perth a cricket pavilion and valuable archives were destroyed by fire, with suffragette links suspected.
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London
Perthshire
Perth
Welcome given to Dr H S Bradley by Trinity Church
Dr H S Bradley, former Trinity pastor, received a warm public welcome at Trinity Methodist Church as he led services yesterday. After benediction a long handshake line formed, with hundreds from his former congregation and branch churches returning to honor him. He preached on the impact of one life and the differing types of humanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Methoist Church
H. Stiles Bradley
Southern Sociological Society
Dr. Bradley
Spring Suits Prove Out Of Style In Atlanta Sunday
The Atlanta area endured a cool rainy Sunday with sunlit spells and a brisk wind. Spring attire looked out of place as youths headed to church and Sunday school in pew summer clothes, while rivers of street fashion showed wrinkled, frayed, and seedy derbies. The day felt more like autumn with temperatures low and rain falling at night, and the weather official did not report figures due to Sunday observance.
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Atlanta
London
Peachtree
Whitehall
Chub Wall Held on Trial in Clayton Georgia
Chub Wall son of Mrs Snyther Hall a Rabun county taxpayer with a college education lies jailed in Clayton Georgia awaiting trial in state and federal courts for felonies alleged over the past decade since graduation He was previously imprisoned for killing a peddler pardoned and later shot an uncle who had opposed him He later fled to South Dakota before returning to north Georgia to run an illicit distillery and was captured Saturday by J H Suber head of the internal revenue department Four figure rewards are said to be offered for his capture.
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Chub Wall
Snyther Hall
Rabun County
Clayton
Wall
South Dakota
Georgia
North Georgia
J. H. Suber
Internal Revenue Department
Turpentine and Rosin Steady During Week in Savannah
Turpentine held firm closing Friday at 37.5 cents, with weekly totals showing 2,046 contracts sold and weekly receipts 3,517 in Savannah. Rosin likewise steady with active sales, weekly sales 3,486 and receipts 8,442. stocks in turpentine and rosin rising to 19,669 and 64,875 respectively amid ongoing market activity.
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Savannah
Fowler Flies Hydro Aerosplane Across Isthmus of Panama
American aviator Robert G. Fowler piloted a hydro aeroplane from Panama Beach at 9:45 a m with a passenger. He circled Panama City and the canal entrance, faced wind currents over Culebra, and landed gently on shallow water near Colon after a gasoline issue caused the engine to stop. the craft suffered a torn pontoon but remained otherwise intact.
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Colon
Robert G. Fowler
Fowler
Panama Beach
Fanama City
Canal
Culebra
Gatun
Hi O
Cristobal
Stinson Makes Plea for Negro School
An educational rally at Allen Methodist Episcopal church Seventeenth and Bainbridge street supports Atlanta Normal and Industrial College. Rev Dr Charles A Lindley and Editor R R Wright spoke on church roles and race progress. Hey Richard D Stinson urged funds for a new trades building and dormitory. Bishop B Tanner presided.
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Philadelphia
Apel
Atlanta Normal and Industrial College
Allen Methodist Episcopal Church
Seventeenth and Bainbridge
Atlanta
South
W. Spencer Carpenter
Henry M. Turner
Successor to Bryce Reaches New York
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice arrives in New York as the new British ambassador to the United States aboard the Carmania. He meets with British officials at the pier and is hosted at luncheon by Lawrence Godkin before planning to see former Ambassador Bryce in San Francisco. Lady Spring-Hice is expected to follow soon.
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New York
Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice
GM. G
United States
Courtenay Walter Kennett
Lawrence Godkin
Ceel
Bryce
San Francisco
Pitnary
Washington
Lady Spring-Hice
America
Druggist Arrested in Death of Wife at Solms
Solms Alabama April 27 Dr J K Bum mers a druggist here is held on a warrant after a coroner s jury partial investigation into the death of Mrs Summers on Saturday Physicians reported bruises on the body and witnesses testified the couple, often drinking, quarreled and blew were exchanged The coroner s investigation will resume Monday afternoon
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Solms
Ala
J. K. Bummers
Coronex
Summers
Gadlog
Parole Board to Rule on Hawthorne and Morton Release
Washington April 2 The federal parole board will decide by May 5 at Atlanta penitentiary whether Juan Hawthorne and Dr. William J. Morton, convicted in New York of misusing mining stock, may be released on parole in late July. They began serving March 24 with sentences of one year and a day dated November 25, and unless the department of justice interpretation requires one third served, they would qualify for release. Robert LaDow heads the board and will travel to Leavenworth May 12 and McNeil Island May 37 for additional hearings.
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Washington
Juan Hawthorne
William J. Morton
New York
Federal Parols Board
Atlanta
Department of Justice
Trina
Robert ¥. LaDow
Federal
Hawthorne
Morton
LaClow
Lavon
Leavenworth
McNeil Island
Thornton Sought by Burns Agency in Fraud Scheme
Washington April 27 An alias Henry M Thornton once jailed for bad checks has been tracked for over a year by the Burns detective agency. He aimed to defraud Rep Howard of 200 but was trapped by Howard and Hollita N Randolph. His record includes forged letters and successful schemes across Georgia Alabama Vall ey Nat bank Staunton and other firms, with charges tied to cashier’s checks and a grand jury investigation in progress.
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Washington
Henry M. Thornton
Burns Detective Agency
Odonnell
Howard
Hollita N. Randolph
Elis Mont
Echols
The
Valley National Bank
Staunton
Charleston
Thornton
Georgia
Alabama
Howard Perdue
Birmingham
Sayre
Churches Urged to Aid Social Service Work
Moore Memorial Church heard Dr. A R Holderby urge all churches to engage in sociological issues discussed by the Southern Sociological Congress. He said the church has neglected social questions and must address human betterment as part of its mission to appeal to the masses.
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Athenta
Southern Sociological Congress
Churches of Christ
Moore Memorial Church
A. R. Holderby
Dr. Holderby
Several Score Funerals For Miners In Cincinnati Mine
Pittsburg April 27. Several score funerals of miners who died in an explosion last Wednesday at the Cincinnati mine of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Co were held today at Monongahela near the city. From dawn till dusk processions moved to the cemetery with coffins often carried by wagons.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Monongahela River
Fund of 3000 Asked for Social Workers in Atlanta
The 400 club organized to support the Sociological Congress seeks a 3000 fund from Atlanta businesses and citizens. Early efforts raised over 1000 of the 2000 goal as volunteers plan a day of telephone canvassing and office outreach to urge contributions for civic progress and humane aims.
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400 Club
Atlanta Spirit
Shriners
Charman of
Atlanta
Social Workers of
J. C. Logan
Associated Charities
South
Constitution
Normal Weather Predicted For South Central States
Washington reports a weather bulletin predicting moderately cool conditions across the northwestern states early in the week, near normal temperatures in the south and southwest, with frosts likely in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley on Monday and Tuesday and in the north Atlantic states midweek. A moderate disturbance moving from the northwest toward the central and eastern states will bring warmer spells, local showers, and later colder air, with another disturbance moving into the far west by Thursday and spreading over the middle west by week’s end.
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Washington
Northwestern States
North Central
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
North Atlantic States
Great Central Valleys
Far West
Middle West
Government of Church Formulated by May Assembly
The renominational Black church in Atlanta, known as Emergency-Methodist Episcopal, will convene in Atlanta in May to formalize Georgia church governance. The Atlanta building at Whitehall Ter race and Crumley Street recently completed, with $549.90 raised in the past quarter under Rev. S M Zettler. Rev J A Davis is general superintendent and Rev M H Dougherty is conference secretary. The churches have no presiding elders.
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General Assembly
Atlanta
Georgia
Whitehall Terrace
Crumley Street
S M. Zettler
J. A. Davis
Used Typewriter for Night Work Ad in Classifieds
A reader is offered a used typewriter suitable for late shifts through The Constitution's Classifieds. The listing emphasizes reliability for night work and targets individuals seeking affordable equipment for home or small office use. Potential buyers are urged to contact the classified line for details.
Roller skate claims first victim in Newbern
Ellis Meekins, 17, son of Ivase and Mrs Meekins, prominent local family, died in New Bern N C after injuries from skating on a public sidewalk. A wool strip thrown in the path caused his skate to strike, breaking ribs and hip and causing brain congestion. He did not recover.
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Newhbern
N. C
Ellis Meekins
Ivase Meekins
Meekins
Tom the Tall
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