Atlanta to lay 8 inch water main through business district
Work on a new 8 inch water main to run from North Avenue to Decatur will begin today under Superintendent Woodward. The line, about 50 000 feet long and costing over 50 000 dollars, will improve fire protection and run via Marietta Walton Peachtree Edgewood Gilmer Butler to Decatur linking with a 20 inch main. Large orders include 11100 feet of various pipes from Dimmick Pipe Co Birmingham and 5 500 feet of 20 inch pipe.
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Colonel Park Woodward
Water Works Department
North Avenue
Butler Street
Atlanta
Marietta
Decatur
Marlette
New House
Water Board
Woodward
Marietta Street
North Revenue
Walton Street
Walton
Peachtree
Edgewood Avenue
Gilmer
Butler
William Rapp
Dimmick Pipe Company
Birmingham
Labor Day Fest drives Atlanta parade and ball plans
Nea is an EleN HIANY, FIRMS ARS DECORATING Bunting and Flags Are Flying in Business District in Honor of Unionists Celebration. Labor day arrangements rapidly near completion with finances robust and floats under construction promising a picturesque parade. Exposition Park ball tickets sold, committees active to ensure success amid extensive decorations and public interest. Prickly Ash Bitters touted as remedy for poor appetite and bad breath, claimed to cleanse the system.
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Atlanta
Federation of Trades Hall
Forsyth Street
Exposition Park
Chased Him Into a Well Novel Police Capture
The hunt for Bill Hucks, a known suspect, led officers Madiox and Chandler to pursue him through fields. He fled into a muddy well after a long chase, vanishing briefly before being hauled out with a rope. They released him, deeming the capture insufficiently firm and the tumble punishment enough.
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Bill Hucks
Madiox
Chandler
Bill
Bil
Hucks
Bill Tair
Square
Bull dog whipped in Johnson street dog fight tale
Sergeant Tom Ivy recalls a dog fight where a large bull dog attacked a small fire dog on Johnson street. A white mother hit the bull dog with a brick, knocking it down, then the owner of the bull dog arrived and police advised both women to cease fighting. The small dog died, the bull dog slunk away, and both owners were not arrested.
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Tom Ivy
Mounted Police Force
Johnson Street
Insurance Notes Highlight Parker Career Moves
Walter Parker, longtime editor and journalist for The New Orleans Times-Democrat, takes the editorial chair at The Vindicator. His career spans Cuba correspondence, Havana reports, and coverage of oil finds in Beaumont. A Tennessee native from Memphis, Parker built a famed insurance journalism profile in New Orleans known for sobriety, reliability, and courtesy. The piece also mentions industry moves, including new insurance agents, a figure in Georgia life underwriters, and tariff association meetings, with brief notes on local agency changes and a reward offer for a murderer in a separate item.
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Walter Parker
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Vindicator
Mr. Parker
Fitzhugh Lee
Moro Castle
Havana
Times- Democrat
Beaumont
Parker
Memphis
New Orleans
T. R. Jones
Southeastern
The
Mutual Life of Kentucky
A. M. Taylor
Valdosta
J. B
James T. Prince
Courthouse Faces Busy Fall Term With Missing Furniture
The superior and city courts will open the fall term next Monday amid a crowded docket and possible temporary quarters due to furniture delays for the new annex. Sheriff Nelms and officials occupy interim spaces as remodeling of the old courthouse continues. Judge Candler will lead criminal sessions in October in the old building.
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Clifford L. Anderson
Board of County Commissioners
Criminal Superior Court
Candler
Court House
Nelms
Pryor Street
J. H. Lumpkin
Broyles
Chief Turner
County Police
John Corrigan
Hunter Street
John Monaghan
Charley Hill
Billia
Study of Elocution Offered by Cox College
The Southern Female College in College Park plans elocution study next session tied to literature and psychology and arts. A Boston Emerson School of Oratory teacher with five years post graduate experience will lead, praised by Colonel John Temple Graves as possibly the region’s best in her specialty.
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Cox College
Southern Female College
College Park
Emerson School of Oratory
Boston
John Temple Graves
Philadelphia
Woman Sues Southern Railway For 25000 In Death Of Husband
Mrs Blanche M Chambers filed a $25000 damage suit in city court against the Southern Railway Company for the death of her husband James C Chambers a brakeman run over in the North Avenue yards The petition accuses trains moving at 2 or 30 miles per hour in violation of city ordinance and says the train did not stop on signal and gave jerks throwing Chambers to the ground City court is the filing locale Attorney E C Tapp represents Mrs Chambers
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Blanche M. Chambers
Southern Railway Company
James c. Chambers
North Avenue
Chambers
Atlanta
Georgia
Non
Boling Whitfield
Brunswick
South Georgia
Cravatt & Whitfield
Death In Destitute Family Leaves Nine Orphans
W J Scott died yesterday morning after six weeks illness from typhoid fever at his home on 3 Decatur street. He leaves a wife and nine children in destitute circumstances. Funeral plans call for Gainesville for burial. Also reported are services for Mrs Reagan and burial in Mariette for Gertrude Reagan.
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Scott
Orning
W. J. Scott
Decatur Street
Gainesville
Reagan
Gertrude Reagan
Bedford Street
Mariette
Turner Family Quarantined Over Scarlet Fever Case
Judge J B Turner chairman of the Prison Commission quarantined at his Eatonton home after his eldest son Joseph Turner Jr aged 15 contracted scarlet fever. Colonel Tom Hinson remains home ill and Commissioner C A Evans ran commission duties solo amidst the outbreak. Local druggists offer Belle Watermelon Besds at 10 cents.
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Prison Commission
Eatonton
J. 8. Turner
Joseph 8. Turner
Tom Hinson
C. A. Evans
School Books War Tep Taken From Schoolrooms
Fragmentary OCR notes show a dispute over schoolbooks and a possible confrontation. The readable items mention school, books, and a debated action, with no clear names, places, dates, or outcomes available in the text.
Boy Falls From Capitol Window
Glenn Byrd 12, son of Col. Phil Byrd, fell from a third floor window in the Capitol north wing striking a second floor ledge. He was removed unconscious to Grady hospital with a severely fractured skull and extremely critical condition. witnesses reported the fall around 10 am during his father’s inspection.
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Cipltol
Glenn Byrd
Phi Byrd
Grady Hospital
Byrd
Capitol
Glenn
Second Day of the Normal at Boys High School
Yesterday's session drew full attendance as Dr. Sanford led the Teaching of Magneh Grammar and Elements of Teaching while Mrs. Holbrook continued physiology and Carlyle lectures. Miss Edginton pursued Rational Methods of Teaching Reading with daily sessions through Tuesday. Regular addresses by Professor Davis Utterbanch and Toepel closed the day amid plans for later resident teacher discourses. Smal classes debated grade-specific subjects and methods. Today repeats the program starting at 8 a.m.
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Sanford
MagNeh
Wife Seeks Alimony In Divorce Case
Mrs. Maud Ellison, through attorney J A Anderson, filed a petition seeking temporary and permanent alimony from her husband Seth Dewey Ellison. Judge J H Lumpkin ordered Ellison to appear September 14 to show cause why temporary alimony should not be granted. The petition notes a divorce suit for cruel treatment, which was condoned, with the couple living together in April and May. Ellison’s conduct allegedly remained cruel, prompting separation in June. The petition seeks alimony for Mrs Ellison and two daughters.
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Maud Ellis
J. A. Anderson
Seth Dewey Ellison
Hillgon
Ellison
eYriony
Georgia Tech dormitories near ready for fall term
Dormitories filling rapidly at the Georgia School of Technology with the Swann dormitory nearly complete and furniture ready for 200 students. New athletic facilities and remodeling of campus underway for fall term. Football team to arrive mid September with training table and dormitory quarters.
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Georgia School of Technology
Swann
W. A. Jackson
President Hall
William N. Randle
Textile School
J. W. Bailey
Atlanta
Beptember
Homer W. Black
Stevens Institute
F. C. Furlow
Worcester
Massachusetts Institute
J. C. Edwards
Cornell
Georgia
America
Liberal culture at Agnes Scott Institute Decatur Ga
Young women are offered a liberal literary and musical education at Agnes Scott Institute in Decatur Georgia. The program includes solo instrument or singing along with Harmony History of Music and Musical Science, aiming to prepare students for specialized work. The school maintains a high standard and is accredited by leading colleges and universities. Catalogue requests go to Rev. H Gains, D D, President.
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Agnes Scott Institute
Decatur
Agnes Scott
Jeading Colleges and Universities
H. Gainés
D. D
Pickett Not Arrested Lunacy Charge Error Corrected
A correction clarifies that J F Pickett was taken into custody on lunacy charges, not J L Pickett. The Conway- Cahton Ga report misidentified a Woodward Lumber Company employee as the arrestee.
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J. F. Pickett
Yesterary
J. L. Pickett
Young
Woodward Lumber Company
J. &. Pickett
Cahton
Mayor vetoes boulevard grant in Atlanta transit row
Mayor Mims vetoed an ordinance granting the Atlanta Rapid Transit Company a forty eight year extension on the Forrest avenue boulevard line. He favors a twenty one year limit and has not yet sent a veto message to council. The measure is expected to pass despite his disapproval.
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Mims
Atlanta Rapid Transit Company
Forrest Avenues
Muyor
Forrest Avenue
Pierce
Boulevard
Moreland Fruit Sellers Block Train Carriages
Passengers on the Atlanta and West Point trains encountered a humorous scene at Moreland station during peach season. Local residents sold fruit from the platform and even through windows, drawing good sales from through passengers despite a blocking order from the railway and friction with the news company whose business suffered.
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Atlanta
West Point
Moreland
News Company
Asittle Avail, Ag
Morétandites
Small winter house wanted near street car line
Reader seeks a small house for winter, furnished or unfurnished, on the north side near a street car line. Also open to caring for a home for some 30 dollars, with moderate rent. Address: K.T.L. Gays Masqueraders, New Star Theater, next Saturday.
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K.T.L
New Star Theater
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Tooper Mantis
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Arceta
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SEM
London Assurance Corporation
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New York City
Insurance Commissioner
State OF New York
County OF New York
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W. E. Caldwell
W. Eb, Caldwell
Paul Goldberg
R. McT
W. F. Manry
Dade
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Walker
Monroe
Kimball
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Phil G. Byrd
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