South Receives $1,250,000 Loan Promise for Cotton Financing
The Federal International Banking Company approves a loan of 1.25 million dollars to Bederni International Bank in New Orleans to finance southern cotton exporters. The funds, part of a broader southern banking effort, may support six month notes with potential six month extensions and collateral at 20 percent above the loan. The move aims to ease farmers’ financial pressures amid the cotton trade crisis.
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Iistance’ Corporation
Bederni International Banking Company
New Orleans
J. K. Ottley
Southern Concern
International Banking Company
United’ States
States
Fta
Inance Corporation
Joar Finance Corporation
South
Citizens Protest Dismantling of Hawkinsville–Florida Southern Line
Representatives from five south Georgia counties met before the state railroad commission to oppose dismantling of the Hawkinsville and Florida Southern line. Receiver J. R. Pagram testified as hearings continue through Thursday. Local citizens and officials, including B. Gilliam of Macon Chamber, J. W. Baker, J. B. Lewis, and A. Acree, voiced support for preserving the route from Camilla to Newton.
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Georgia
Hawkins
B. ‘Gilliam
Macoh
J. B. Lewis
A. Acree
Oaila
Pegram
Sanders McDaniel
Atlanta
J.B. Hill
C. Amoretti
L. Oliver
Macon Lhey
Cotton Financing Shifts Hit Farmers and Banks
The piece notes exchange fluctuations and tightened credit forcing foreign mills to buy cotton in small lots to meet near term needs. Domestic merchants drop large stocks, pressuring producers and their bankers to adjust financing amid volatile conditions and uncertain demand.
Watkins and Wells Will Speak Tonight at Civic League Meeting
Edgar Watkins and James L. Wells, rivals in the Ansley Park ward contest, will discuss police reform at an 8 PM Ansley Park Civic League meeting at the Ansley Park Golf Club. League officers are Frank J. Merriam, president, and Joe Trever, secretary.
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Edgar
Wathing
James L. Wells
Ansley Park
Atlanta Christian Endeavor picnic at Piedmont Park
Six hundred members of the Atlanta Christian Endeavor union and friends will gather for a picnic at 6 16 tonight on the baseball diamond at Piedmont Park. Signs were arranged at a recent executive board meeting. The event will feature music from seventy five mandolins and guitars, plus two first class quartets. Each society will present a five minute stunt.
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Atlanta Christian Endeavor Union
Fledmont Park
Rae
Rerouting of Cars Sought by Gedrela Railway and Power
The Gedrela Railway and Power Company filed with the railroad commission a petition to reroute cars from Peachtree and Whitehall streets to East Hunter Street. The plan would move traffic from a Whitehall viaduct and a Broad Street viaduct congestion to Forsyth Street, reducing crowding with minimal public impact. The company currently runs 102 cars per hour on Whitehall, 128 on Broad, and 44 on Forsyth, hoping the shift eases bottlenecks.
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Gedrela ‘Railway and Power Company
Railroad Commission
Peachtrae
Hunter Street
Forsyth Street
Carnegie - Way
Peachtree
Whitehall Streets
East Hunter
Whitehall Street
Broad Street
Whitehall
Memorial services held for 23 southern heroes dead
Memorial services were held at Terminal Station in honor of twenty three southern heroes who died on the fields of Flanders and France. Local patriotic organizations placed tribute cards on the coffins as the bodies arrived from Tuesday morning. Randolph of Fort McPherson delivered the service.
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Flanders
Fran
Y Randolph
Fort
McPherson
Prison Bars Fail and Escape Efforts Reported
An Atlanta woman jailed for forgery escaped by sawing through a bar and climbing two flights of stairs to a roof, aided by outside help. Detectives believe a ruse explained a noise in a cell as she wrote a letter. two other prisoners implicated. In a separate incident on Mount Perrien road, Emory Wald and Alien Solomon, both Black, attempted to flee the chain gang. Wald was shot in the hip, Solomon successfully escaped amid gunfire, with a $100 reward offered for his capture.
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Todaday
Butterstradt
Vit
Atlanta Retail Ier Association
Mamig
Beave
Emory Wald
Solomon
Mount Perrien
Ward
Bartow County
Captain Luck
Bellwood
Nepro
Veterans Affairs Campaign Aims Quick Adjustments
The program, drawn from education and healthcare sectors, seeks to contact veterans and initiate fast, satisfying adjustments of their affairs. A starting squad has been chosen to operate through December 22, covering the state with outreach from Atlanta.
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Avenuali Fies
Fisia
Atlanta
Weevil destroyer trials touted by Cox at Alabama farm
Fragmented notes report Dr W Cox promoting a soluble mixture as a weed and pest control. He claims extended spraying will continue until the final bell matures and has demonstrated on his Alabama farm that both bottom and top cotton crops can be kept undamaged against the pest.
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Alabama
Juege in Quandary x Babies Howl, Gains in Wisdom
A Tuesday afternoon recorder's court session dissolves into a farce as two mothers and their babies disrupt the proceedings with loud cries. Councilman Claude Buchhanan presides, Judge George E. Johnson absent, while two policemen serve as reluctant nurses. The crowd and court staff react with amused frustration as the chaotic hearing unfolds with improvised social commentary.
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Bob Williamson
Recorder's Court
Claude Buchhanan
George E. Johnson
Bar of Justice
weesTel _ Cognessman Buchanan
International New Thought Alliance Leaders Meet in Atlanta
Miss Ada Rainey district president of Maryland will visit Atlanta in two weeks to confer with Robert Bryan Harrison president of the alliance in Georgia. Branches exist in Nashville Monphie Birmingham Atlanta and New Orleans but have failed to cooperate. The conference aims to weld southern branches into a coordinated whole.
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International New Thought Alliance
Ada
Rainey
Miss Rainey
Harrigon
Sheriff Quits Baker County Post Over Family Fees
Sheriff L. C. Jones of Baker County resigns citing insufficient fees to support his family. He telegraphed Governor Hardwick requesting immediate effect and relocation. A special election will name a successor. pending that result, the county coroner fills as sheriff.
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Baker County
L. C. Jones
Thomas W. Hardwick
Hardwick
Bond set in theft case involving building materials dealer
George Green the accused thief, a Negro, bound over on $65,000 bond cited for taking roofing material from a warehouse. John Lumpkin, linked by Green, bound over on $300 bond. Womble, a building materials dealer, and Lumpkin connected to Atlanta real estate and Southern Railroad employment, with arrest by Detective T. C. Sturdivant after two weeks of surveillance near Oakland Cemetery.
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Tom J. L. Womble
George Green
John Lumpkin
Reet
Recorder
Cour Pane
Green
T. C. Sturdivant
Oakland
Lampkin
Southern Tailroad
Atlanta
Reunion of Family In Honor of Birthday Of S. T.
Norcross Georgia hosts a special family reunion at the home of 8 T McElroy tomorrow. The event combines celebrations for the seventy seventh birthday of Mr McElroy and that of his wife, who is several years younger, marking many years of annual gatherings at the McElroy home with Fetellens from across Georgia expected to attend.
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Norcross
Georgia
McElroy
Celebrating Granny McElroy as Norcross elder marked by family ties
The Norcross community honors Granny McElroy on a birthday celebration honoring her long family line. Family members from Atlanta Clarkston Jacksonville and Tampa attend as the elder Mr McElroy ages 77 reflects on life after his wife and mother. The gathering features tables on the lawn with relatives including Mrs Matthews Huddleston Lankford Cobb Tilly and many McElroys in attendance.
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McElroy
Norcross
oHiroy
Twin.Figs Fail To Bring Thrill To Freak Editor
Report on a chaotic freak vegetable contest entry featuring twin figs submitted by J. P. Wheeler and Mrs. B. A. Howell. Judges found the fruit squashed and badly preserved, with obscure writing on paper blurred by fig juice. the contest is declared closed.
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J. P. Wheeler
Madison
B.A. Howell
Fayetteville
Frenix
Price
Death of renowned physician A. Goss announced
August 4 report states Dr. A. Goss, widely known physician, died at a local hospital Wednesday afternoon after a long illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Ngle
A. Goss
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