Medical Inspection Begins This Morning at Local Schools
Medical inspection of school children starts today under Chief Inspector Dr. W. N. Adkins at several schoolhouses. Examinations run daily with hours posted at each building until September 1, with Asst. Dr. Adkins and nurses conducting at Witham Street Oakland City Highland Avenue and Georgia Avenue schools. Parents may opt for home examination by family physicians, who will receive a report card, while the inspection board will be at the listed schools on announced dates for those choosing on-site exams.
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Varius
W. N. Adkins
Medical Board
Ivy Street
George Jp. W. Adair
Greenwood
Avenue
Irn
Negroe Labor Mandate Shocks Albany Citizens
In Dougherty County Georgia employers face scarce cotton pickers as Chief Bills launches a campaign to compel unemployed African American men to work in cotton fields or relocate. The plan targets several hundred men with no visible means of support after farmers offered higher wages.
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Albany
Dougherty
Thei
Elis
Floyd's Tax Returns Show Good Increase in Georgia
Floyd county, Rome, August 22. Floyd county reports an increased total taxable property value for the year. White property valued at 16,307,061. negroes 352,937. other value 15,794. total 16,875,842. 1914 assessments total 15,244,568, up 1,631,274,4A, with possible litigation over life insurance company liabilities. even if removed, increases remain substantial.
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Rome
Agust
Floyd County
Georgia
Gaurea
Searcy to Preside Monroe Court in Forsyth
Forsyth special note that W H Searcy of Griffin has been appointed Flint circuit judge succeeding RT Dana and will lead the August term in Monroe County with Emmet Owen of Zebulon handling criminal business and a heavy docket for trial.
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Forsyth
Monroe Gu. Pering Court
W . H. Searcy
Griffin
Flint
RT Dana
Emmet Owen
Zebulon
Family grateful to Black burglar for stealing home ring
A Columbus physician’s family expresses gratitude toward Gus Cooper a one legged Black burglar who entered Dr Cosby’s home while the family was away and took valuables including a lost gold ring found in a remote corner. Cooper was captured by police and the ring recovered.
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Columbus
F. J. Cosby
Gus Cooper
Cooper
Typhoid claims Macon father leaving wife and eight children ill
W R Wood dies of typhoid at Macon hospital. His wife lies gravely ill nearby as four of the Wood children at 3203 Houston Avenue are also stricken and in critical condition. The baby died two months earlier. Wood to be buried in Zebulon near his parents. Sister M Z Bower lives in Atlanta.
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Macon
W.R., Wood
Houston Avenue
Fine organ recital draws large Sunday crowd
A Sunday afternoon organ recital by city organist Dr. Hawin Archur Kraft attracted a large audience at the Auditorium yesterday. The program featured works by Bernard Johnson, Gottfried A Federlein, Felix Mendelssohn, Gaston M. Dethier, Guilmant, Ralph Kinder, William Faubien, and closed with a march. Next Sunday Charles A. Sheldon Jr., renowned organist of Trinity Methodist church, will present the program.
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Alm
Hawin Archur Kraft
Atlanta Music Festival Association
Killing of Glover Declared Accidental
In Camilla Georgia, during a commitment trial, 15 year old Durell Cox had murder charges reduced to involuntary manslaughter for the accidental shooting of 1 year old Grover Glover. Cox had been driving a bogey with Grover when a rifle discharged in fun, killing the child hours later. Cox bonded at $500 and was released.
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Thomanville
Camilla
Young Durell Cox
Mitchell County
Bill Glover
Cox
Grover
Young Glover
Funeral of Verney Randall Held in Girard
The funeral for Verney Randall was conducted at the residence of his brother Louis Handall in Girard Col umbus Ga after he shot his wife Friday and then shot himself, wounds proving fatal. Randall is survived by his parents five brothers and a sister. His father H W Randall an engineer on the Central of Georgia railway. Mrs Lillian Eichola Randall remains in satisfactory condition from her wounds.
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Columbus
Verney Randall
Louis Handall
Girard
Randall Ia
H. W. Randall
Central of Georgia Railway
Lillian Eichola
Randall
Engineer to Recover From Wreck Injuries Swainsboro
Swainsboro Ga August 23 Special it said by physicians that Bagloser A W Johnson who was thrown from his cab window in the pereche on the Georgia and Florida yesterday morning two miles north of Swainsboro may survive his injuries though they are mostly internal Immediately that news was received here of the wreck Mrs Johnson at Still more was notified and she came at once to her husband who was carried to the office of the railroad surgeon Dr C D Smith After an examination hopes were given out for his recovery
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Swainsboro
Bagloser
A. W. Johnson
Georgia
Florida
D Smith
Forsyth Cotton Mill to Resume Operations After Charter
Forsyth Georgia August 22 Special Two P Brooks R T Persons G Ogden Persons and J W Newton all of Forsyth have applied for a charter for the Forsyth Cotton mill They have purchased the Starr mills at Forsyth and plan to restart once the charter is granted and new machinery is installed They will manufacture cotton yarns The Starr mills had been inactive for several months.
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Forsyth
P. Brooks
R. T. Persons
G. Ogden Persons
J. W. Newton
Forsyth Cotton Mill
Starr Mills
Stary Mills
Two vats dynamited in Lumpkin county chaos
Dahblenege Ga August 22 Two cattle dipping vats were dynamited in Lumpkin county. The governor offered a reward of 100 dollars and Mr Babnsen 50 dollars. Citizens here have subscribed 79 dollars, likely to reach 100 soon, for the conviction of those responsible.
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Dahblenege
Lumpkin County
Babnsen
Monroe Sunday Schools elect officers for year
The Monroe County Sunday School association closed its first meeting yesterday afternoon and elected officers for the upcoming year. President H L T Fitzpatrick of Culloden, Secretary Treasurer Charles Hardin of Forsyth, and Elementary Superintendent Miss Ethel Pharr of Forsyth were named.
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Forsyth
Monroe County Sunday School Association
Hlt. Fitzpatrick
Culloden
Charles Hardin
Ethel Pharr
Candler to Begin Cotton Warehouse on Murphy Tract
Deeds recorded transferring 40 acres of Anthony Murphy estate on the south city edge between the Central of Georgia and Southern railways. The sale, valued at 120000 dollars, funds a cotton compress and warehouse complex to be the largest in the South except Memphis terminals. Central Bank and Trust will handle negotiable warehouse receipts and cotton storage, with seven cents per pound loaned. work to start as building materials arrive.
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Asa
Candler
Anthony Murphy
Central of Georgia
Southern Railways
Atlanta Realty
Cundier
Central Bank and ‘Trust Corporation
AP. Coles
Control Bank
Orat Thing
Memphis
Tenn
Coles
Atlanta
Central Bank and Trust Corporation
Crazed Black Slayer in Georgia Attack
In Witlacoochee, Georgia, August 22, Jim Thomas, described as crazed, attacked after a dispute with Dan Myers over an account. He fatally wounded one man and injured three others with public safety items, later being fatally struck by a constable’s posse with buckshot.
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Myers
Thomas
Spivey
Better mail service extended to Dahlonega and Brockton
Dahlonega Georgia August 21 Special a double daily auto mail has been granted between Dahlonega and Brockton The new schedule will cut return mail time between Atlanta and Dahlonega by about 18 to 24 hours starting September 1 Residents can mail to Atlanta and receive a reply the same day instead of the current three day turn around The best possible outcome previously was two days
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Dahlonega
Brockton
Atlanta
Derelict sighted in Gulf of Mexico near Lydia M. McDeering site
Wireless reports from the American steamship Cushing bound for New Orleans say at 9 a.m. Saturday a derelict, bottom up, was seen at 25 38 N 93 48 W. It was unclear if a barge or sailing vessel. The hulk appeared near the Lydia M. McDeering wreck from earlier in the week.
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New Orleans
Cushing
Tuxpam
Lydia Mc Deering
New Hotel Opens in Roanoke Alabama
Roanoke Alabama announces the Hotel Lamar a new business enterprise opening September 1 to serve travelers. Located in the heart of the business district it will be equipped with modern comforts and conveniences for a thrifty uptodate town.
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Roanoke
Ala
T He Hotel
Lamar
Tts
The Tigress at Strand features Madame Petrova in a revenge tale
The Strand presents The Tigress starring Medeme Olga Petrova in a dramatic five reel story. A pure woman driven to crime by betrayal seeks revenge on a treacherous Russian count. Real bullets replace the promised sham execution, killing her husband.
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Lke & Vine
Medeme
Olga Petrova
Vind
Ing “Ay
Btella Orlof
Jim Benson
Niles and Kime Speak on Health and Efficiency
Dr. Kime president of the Amata civic Law and Order league and Dr. George M. Niles spoke to a large Epworth Methodist congregation in East Atlanta on Health and Civic Efficiency. They urged citizens to attain civic health and efficiency through the polls.
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BR. Kime
Amata 1 Civic Law and Order League
George M. Niles
Epworth H Methodiat Church
Atlanta
Mrs Clara Harrison Died Sunday Morning
Mrs Clara Rebecca Harrison 79 wife of Captain W H Harrison longtime Atlanta resident died Sunday at 27 Hast Merritts Avenue. Survived by son W S Harrison and daughter Mrs H Collingworth. Born Clara R Rockwell in Lumpkin Ga, married 1869, moved to Atlanta 1884. Lifelong Trinity Methodist member. Funeral 4 PM at Patterson's chapel with Atlanta chapter Daughters of the Confederacy joining.
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Clara Rebecca Harrison
W. H. Harrison
Atlanta
Reedence
Merritts Avenue
W. 8. Harrison
H. Collingworth
Captain Harrison
Lumpkin
Harrison
Trinity Methodist Church
Patterson’s
The
Daughters of the Confederacy
Mia Harrison
Patterson
Blakely Sells Bonds for City Ice Plant
Blakely officials sold a $10,000 5 per cent serial municipal ice plant bond issue to R N Berrien Jr of Atlanta at a premium. Bonds dated Sept 1 and retire a $500 bond each Jan 1 from 1917 to 2036. Proceeds from prior issues funded schools water sewerage and electric lighting and the ice plant aims to provide ice and cold storage at low cost.
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Blakely
Gap
R. N. Berrien, Jr
Atlanta
Delivery Of Beer Should Be Barred Says Negro Pastor
Professor B H R Holmes of the Holmes Institute told a colored audience at Central Avenue Methodist Church that Atlanta has a large beer problem. He said hundreds of walking beer deliverymen, including youths, reach colored neighborhoods and rob children of schooling by funding whisky and beer purchases. He urged city officials to ban in-home beer delivery.
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Atlanta
B. H R. Holmes
Holmes Institute
Central Avenue ‘Methodist
Camilla Renominates Cullen for Mayor in Camilla Primary
Camilla Ga August 22 Cullen renominated for mayor over W H Hogard. Councilmen nominated were Stripling Bennett Butler Perry Joiner Stevenson. Acree Cochran Hughes not renominated. E N Burson defeated J D Whiting for city treasurer. J B Lewis and B C Gardner reelected to school board without opposition.
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B. Cochran
W. EB. Hughes
E. N Burson
J. D. Whiting
J.B. Lewis
B.C Gardner
Board of
Achoola
Pomp Strickland Dies at Home in Cumming
Cumming Ga August 22 Special Hon Pomp Strickland longtime Dawson County citizen and former state senator died at his home last evening at age 63 He is survived by four daughters Mrs Parks of Greenville SC Mrs Durham of Dahlonega Mrs Hays and Miss Kate Strickland both of Cumming and other relatives
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Cumming
Pomp Strickland
Dawson County
Daughers
Parks
Greenville
Durham
Dahlonega
Hays
Kate Strickland
Dr J T Longing urged for Congress in fifth district
Fairburn Ga August 21 Special strong pressure is said to press Dr John Longino of Fairburn to enter the race for congress in the fifth district next year He has served in the state senate and is a popular local physician with deep ties to public affairs
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Fairburn
John Longino
Longino
Young Black boy faces gallows in Georgia case
Jackson, Ga August 22 Specialist Joe Persons alias Joe Person convicted of a criminal incident and sentenced to the gallows on September 24. Claiming to be 12, trial established he is 14. The victim, a white girl aged eight. Incident occurred around June 14. Detained in Atlanta jail for safekeeping. He was tried and convicted.
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Jackson
Joe Persons
Joe Person
Atlante
Butte Court Hangs Guilty Defendant as Term Ends
In Butte superior court this week Judge Searcy sentenced a guilty defendant to be hanged on Friday September 34. A large number of cases were disposed of before the court adjourned Saturday afternoon and an adjourned term will begin Monday September 13. Tom Jah received a life sentence for the alleged murder of Bud Baker.
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Butte Superior Court
Searcy
Tom Jah
Bud Baker
Patterson Auto Hearses Highlight Funeral Vehicle Leader
The Patterson firm introduced Atlanta’s automobile hearse line with their first vehicle used in Senator AO Bacon’s memorial and a later state funeral. The latest state hearse, built by a specialist firm, is praised for mechanical perfection and luxurious appointments and is highly admired.
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Patterson
Atlanta
AO. Bacon
C. Tupper
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
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Kime
Clara Harrison
Cuelens
J. T. Longing
Congress
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Gate City
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