Walter Andrews Outlines Reunion Fund Spending
Walter Andrews leads a 15 member committee to manage a Confederate Veterans reunion fund in Atlanta. A strict voucher system will track all expenditures, with public audit after the event. Official sponsors and maids will cover their own costs, two grand balls planned, and hospitality emphasized as essential to the city spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United, Confederate Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans
Atlanta
John B. Gordon
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Tulee
Jacksonville
Chattanooga
Fulton County backs reunion fund with 5500 donation
County commissioners approve a 5000 subscription as part of a major fundraising drive for the veterans reunion. Georgia Railway and Power boosts to 2000, while local officials and fraternal orders mobilize committees across wholesale, bakery, broker, restaurant, contract, grocery, insurance, and auto sectors. Special gifts include 160 from Ku Klux Klan No 1, Realm of Georgia. General Chairman Walter P. Andrews leads the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vial
Bea
Fulton County Commissioners
A. J. Orme
Janen W. English
W. S. Gilbert
Walter P. Andrewe
Elven
Nathan B. Forrest Klan No
Realm of Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
William J. Simmons
Imperial Wizard of the Klan
Meyer Regenstein
Bolling
G. ¥. Willis
Fultonounty
Mr. Andrews
Confederate reunion notice from wartime command
A public acknowledgment from the General Command announcing a Confederate reunion convention. The notice specifies dates October 7 and 9 with events in Kerr County and nearby areas, calling for public dissemination and urging support from local press and veterans groups.
Atlanta to buy food under city appropriation
The city council planned to spend 100 000 on food and commodities to be purchased after Monday. The finance committee and Comptroller West advised delaying to obtain a revised price from Washington, hoping to secure considerable savings by waiting to place the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Ham
J.a.graham
Washington
Quigley Arrested in Met Bank Cashier Killing
Authorities say James Quigley was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Metropolitan State Bank cashier during an attempted hold up last March. Information leading to the arrest came from a jilted lover, Pearl barley, and the investigation ties three men to the crime as Fox and Faé await trial on murder charges.
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Teo
Washington
Major Grahams
Frank
William Bleget
Metropolitan State Bank
New York
Dound
Jay Hoyne
Tha
Ascan
Chicago
Quigley
Sweethaart
Bons
Uigley
Nam P
Col Ansell Chosen by the War Veterans Group
Lieutenant Gokerret Samuel T. Ansell, formerly Acting Judge Advocate in the United States Army, is named vice commander of the United American War Veterans and chair of its council of legion, announced today. The report notes Ansell as the central figure amid organizational leadership changes.
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Graham
Arch Fidnr
New York
Gokerret
Samuel T. Ansell
Nnied
Army
Ed Juntox
Vica
the United
Wer Vaterane
Dbewat
Ae Nnemibs
Two Men Die by Electric Wire at Alabama Power Plant
Camphill Ale August 9 J H Conine a planter and business man and Mr Rogers a power company electrician were electrocuted early this morning at the Alabama Power plant. Rogers was fastened to the live wire while repairing it and Conine is believed to have died trying to help. Both men likely died instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camphill
J. ‘H. Conine
Rogers
Alabama Power ‘Company
Requests more troops in occupation zones postwar
The Supreme Council of the Peace Conference weighs a letter from Marshal Foch urging a larger Allied force in the right bank Rhine occupation zone. The chamber of deputies committee debates treaty provisions with narrow approval on the right bank issue, signaling potential shifts.
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London Times
Philadelphia
Pable Hedger Service
Paria
Supreme Council of the Peace
Marshal Foch
Pre- Inter Clemenceau
Rhine
Chamber of Deputies
Terrifying Famine in Petrograd Expands Amid Dysentery
Stockholm dispatched messages report famine in Petrograd reaching terrifying proportions as dysentery looms in the city. Food prices have surged since ration cuts, with a small lump of sugar costing ten to twelve rubles and a pound of white bread selling at 120 rubles.
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Stockholm
Petrograd
Paris Premier Clamps Down on Hidden Frigo Meat Supply
Clemenceau announced a crackdown on frozen meat mislabeling in Paris. Vilgrain Roy and Prefect Autrand will supervise victualing logistics, with 16 days to reorder. Thirty new municipal sheds to sell foodstuffs and 260 stores planned, frigo sales moved to municipal shops.
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Paris
Aviguat
Associated Presé
Frérater
Clemenceau
Frigo
Anld
M. Vilgrain
Ministry of Provisions
Henri Roy
M. Autrand
Seine
Vilgrain
Roy
Ung
Autrand
M. Vilgram
Probe Into Mexican Relations Gains Senate Subcommittee
The Senate foreign relations subcommittee, chaired by Senator Lodge, was named to study U S Mexico relations and alleged Mexican infringements on U S rights. Members include Senators Fall, Brandegee, and Smith with King authoring the resolution. The first subcommittee meeting is set for next Monday.
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Washington
United States
Mexico
Lata
Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fall
New Mexico
Brandegee
Connecticut
Republicana
Smith
Arizona
Senate
King
Utah
Monays
No French law bars removal of U S dead
Washington reports indicate no French prohibition on removing American soldiers dead from French soil for up to three years from January 1, 1919. The House Foreign Affairs Committee was told such a law existed but Secretary Lansing said the French bill had not yet been acted upon. The committee has a resolution urging immediate return of American war dead.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committes
Lansing
Porter
Chamber of d Deputies
Foreign’ Affairs Committee
Atlantic Fleet Docks in August Naval Review at San Pedro
The Pacific Fleet held a grand bow to the press as dreadnaughts and twenty-three destroyers formed a ceremonial column. The flagship New Mexico led Admiral Rodman and dignitaries from San Diego to San Pedro while governors and officials witnessed the voyage and convoy maneuvers in precise, war-heightened order.
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Pacific
Fleet Eam
W States Navy
San Pedro
Bngham
Prairie c
Baranches
AES Oak
New Mexico
Secretary of ‘the Navy
Navy
Dariels
San Diego
Stephens
California
Larrazold
New.Mexico
Caramittes
Eles
Admiral Rodman- With
Feutenant
Jonas Ingram
Redsman
Prince of Wales to Lay Cornerstone in Ottawa
Ottawa August Special. Arrangements are being made to have the Prince of Wales lay the cornerstone at one of the towers of the new Parliament buildings when he visits Ottawa on September 1. It was to declare the building open, but it will not be ready. The tower’s construction was deferred until the main structure nears completion. The young prince’s grandfather, the late King Edward VII, laid the cornerstone of the old Parliament during a 1869 tour of Canada.
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Ottawa
Prince of Wales
Rand
Dward VII
Canada
Rates on coal held to be unreasonable
In a complaint by the Cotton Manufacturers Association of South Carolina against Carolina Clinch field and Ohio carriers the interstate commerce commission ruled that carload rates on bituminous coal from Appalachia Dante districts to Virginia Spartanburg and other South Carolina points were unreasonable beyond 1916 standards. Reparation will be awarded to complainant members upon proof of charges paid.
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Washington
Cotton Manufacturers' Association of
South Carolina
Carolina
Clinchfield
Ohio
Interstate Commerce Commission
Appalachia
Dante
Virginia
Spartanburg
Tennessee
Tokio Newspapers Stop Publication Amid Strike Demands
Tokio August 9. Virtually all Tokion papers suspend publication as printers demand higher wages. Strikes are also underway in other parts of Japan, affecting multiple outlets and delaying print editions.
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Tokio
Japan
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G. FB. Willis
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George M. Hope
Albert
Walter T. Candler
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A. M.van Zandt
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Cashier
Col. Ansell
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Foch
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