Atlanta women press for bills on sanitation and child labor
At Carnegie Library Mrs Charles J Haden urged federation members to lobby for rural sanitation kinder garden and child labor bills now before the legislature. Nellie Peters Black was named to push the kindergarten bill while resolutionists urged restricting young girls courtroom attendance and supporting animal cruelty laws. The federation endorsed the Atlanta exposition home industries and planned a fall Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs meeting with exhibits and limited social events.
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State Capitol
Charles J. Haden
City Federation
Carnegie Mbrary
Nellie Peters Black
Haden
Federated Clubs
Joseph Morgan
Women's Plogeer Society
Asaid
A. P. Coles
Atlata Women’s Club
Atlanta Exposition of Home Industries
Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs
Rosa Woodberry
H. C. White
Georgia Federation
Federation
Atlanta
Uncle Remus Memorial Association
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Atlanta Woman's Club
First Baptist Church
Bridge Party Honors Miss Webb At Athens Guest’s Event
Miss Lydia McBride hosted a refined bridge party in honor of Miss James Webb of Athens, with summer flowers and ferns, top prize a late book and consolation embroidered handkerchiefs. Numerous friends attended, including Rosalie Davis and Kate Cooper, while Mrs. Clayton and Mrs. Cox hosted additional gatherings and a Brenau club meeting followed by a spend the day party for Miss Inez Rudasill.
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Miss Webb
Lydia McBride
James Webb
Athens
Regie Wilkins
Misa McBride
Rosalie Davis
Adzate Ellis
Lucy Roberts
Jessa Thompson
Alice
Thomas €. Westbrook
Kirkwood
Inez Rudasill
Birmingham
Nannie Lewis
Grace Sanford
Verna Poss
May Harris
Bula Barrett
Read Hodges
Ethel Woods Read
Julian
van Hodges
Justus Vinton Read
North Jackson Street
Carrie
Helen Jones
Alice Stewart
Weston Bruner, Jr
Louise Read
T. B. Armstronge
Hodges
Justine Vinton Read
Junius W. Millard
Killarney
Heide
Pauline Brook
Ethel Kounsbury
Angie Harding
Hazel Hinman
Maude Sims
Claude Sims
Frances Stewart
Mrs. Hodges
Ernest H.houseman
Gainesville
Charles Banks
James Hartsongt
Lyncheon
Ridgely
Ashington
D. C
Walter Dillon
Omar F. Eider
Wwalinee
Forsyth
Emma Rice Hargrove
Bronwood
3. G. Work
Misa
Phyllis Thomas
Brittsburg
Margrete Field
Cartersville
Allie Ramsaur
Highland Avenue
Eunice Jackson
Nashville
Robert F. Maddox
Eula Jackson
Gussle Bell Rawls
Maggie May Rawls
Dublin
Houston Street
Social items highlight summer travel and visits
A long list of social notices details Mr and Mrs Jack Lewis returning from Wrightsville Beach then heading to Hendersonville N C. Guests include Mrs H P Downing with Louise, Mrs Joseph B Harrison in Montreal for August, and many locals visiting relatives in Nash ville Pace's Ferry road and other Georgia towns. Families travel to Richmond Va Asbury and Charlotte. several plan visits to Wrightsville Beach St Simons Monteagle and Kanaga Lake with hostesses at homes on West Sixth Street and Houston Street.
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Joseph 8. Harrison
Columbus
Montrealin
Howell Jackson
J. W. iMoore
Thei
Nashville
Henry Jackson
Pace's Ferry Road
Frances Nunnally
New York
Anne Orme
Sodusday
Martha Lawshe
Maryland
Charles Rice
Annie Sykes Rice
Mary Rice
Asheville
Toxaway
Walker King
Palestine
Texas
Stewart Stringfellow
Anne
Margaret
Wrightsville Beach
Richmond
Mrs. Stringfellow
West Sixth Street
Why Brantley Liked the Looks of the House
Representative William G. Brantley of Georgia sat in the house gallery with his daughters and friends, admiring the chamber and expressing high hopes for the country’s future under the present membership. Representative Adamson of Georgia stood nearby as all Republicans were at the White House for notification ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Corrigan
Washington
William G. Brantley
Georgia
Adamson
Charley
Congress
Mr. Brantley
White House
Church in Montgomery sued for assessment
Montgomery August 1. City Attorney John V. Smith filed suit against the Church of the Holy Comforter to compel payment of paving assessments. The case is a test action that could influence other churches and public institutions in the city. Earlier protests urged exemption from pro rata assessments.
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Montgomery
Ala
John V. Smith
Church of the Holy Comforter
Rain Needed as Drought Bites Lyerly Area
Residents of Lyerly report no measurable rain since July 18, causing dryness and dust. Vegetation suffers with late corn and cotton most affected as August heat presses on farms and gardens. Local pleas for rainfall grow louder amid continuing dry spell.
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Lyerly
Atlanta Made Exposition Showcases Local Manufacturers
The Atlanta Exposition at the Auditorium features Atlanta made furnaces fans clocks beds candies pills aircraft and coffins among many goods. Special days announced include Saturday as Children’s Day and Tuesday as Merchants’ Day. Thousands from the local merchants’ convention expected. admission 10 cents. Major booths display complete overalls production by Nunnally McCrea Marcus Loeb and others with works by Gata City Coffin Co Pratt Lab and Foote Davies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spetzan
Exposition
Frank Weldon
the “Manufacturers? Exposition
Atlaniia
Taft Hall
Rooth
Nunnally & McCrea Co
Marcus & Loeb Co
Gata City Coffin Company
Atlanta Casket Company
Malig
Spratt Chair Company
Pratt Laboratory
General Pipe & Foundry Co
Foote & Daviesle
A. M. Robinson Company
Robinson Shirt Company
United States Rubber Company
Atlanta Agricultural Works
Exposition displays lure crowds at Atlanta fair
The article describes extensive exhibitor booths at a county exposition in Atlanta, led by J. K. Ory Shoe company and many others including Southern Broom Manufacturing Dixie Vinegar works and White Provision, with demonstrations from the Atlanta Stove Works and J. P. Stevens engraving company. In Jackson, Ga a report notes Butts county taxable values rising by about a quarter of a million dollars for 1912 and a likely tax rate of 310 per thousand.
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Southern Broom Manufacturing Company
Dixie Vinegar Works
Frank H. Block Company
Atlanta
J. P. Stevens Engraving Company
White Provision Company
Pater Hill Company
Ailanta, Steel Company
BF. J. Cooledge and Sons
A. C. Miller and Roimpany
Norris Candy'company
Southern Belthis Company
Hightower Box and Tank Company
L. and L. Manufacturing Company
Montag Brothers
Butts
Jackson
Butts County
Thurston
Arkansas sues foreign insurers for 4.25 million back taxes
In Little Rock chancery court Attorney General Norwood with special counsel A W Dobyns filed 130 suits against nearly all old line foreign insurers with back tax claims totaling 4 250 000 dating to 1873. The action, described as the largest back tax suit in the south, aims for September hearings.
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Little Rock
Ark
Chancery Court
Norwoog
A. W. Dobyns
Oldline
Arkansas
South
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Stone Mountain
Augusta Beall
St. Simons
W. ©. Vickers
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Abbeville
Robert E. Thornton
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R. B. Fuller
T. W. Bacon
Misa Lucy J Bacon
Wrightavlle Beach
Ella Ward
Chicago
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Barneaville
Ruth
Stalings
Katherine Gordon
Georgian Terrace
Sarah Jackson
Charleston
Forrest, Adair,Jr
S . Aine
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Helen
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Joah Douglas
Sullivan's’ Island
Aoe
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Whitehail St
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Mgr
Equitable Building
Philsh
John Morgan
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