Concrete: Ordinance Fight Goes Into Superior Court
The Georgia Railway and Power Company won a court order prohibiting the city from interfering with Grant Street streetcar traffic between Milledge and Georgia avenues. The case challenges a concrete track foundation ordinance, with a hearing set to decide its permanence. The city briefly halted service, fences disappeared, and cars resumed as the legal dispute escalates.
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Street Railway
Grant Street
Atlanta
Milledge
Georgia Avenues
Walter T Colquitt
Georgia Railway and Power Company
W D Ellis
Superior Court
Street Railway Company
Ose
Karl Brittain
Nym Hart
General Council
Jesse W Armistead
Albert Thomson
Armistead
Gordon Street
Wasd
Bia
Grant’ Street
Ponce de Leon Avenue
Railway Company
Seventh Ward
George Freeman
Exposition plan for Atlanta to attract statewide visitors
Members of the Presidents club met at the chamber of commerce to outline a week long Georgia exposition in Atlanta in November. The plan combines stock and agricultural shows, a fashion week, auto and traders displays, parades, and nightly dances with a broad civic showcase. President Wilson may be invited to attend.
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Presidents Club
Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce
Wilson
Wu-t Aon
Lucian York
Presidents’ Club
York
J W Boehm
Ad Mena Club
Ivan B Allen
Atlanta Convention Bureau
Mel R. Wilkinson
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
C H Kelly
Atlanta Freight Bureau
W . Roger
Hotel Mews Association
Willis E Ragan
The
Merchants and Manufacturers Association
Charles W Leinhardt
Atlanta Bulldera Exchange
R. R. Otis
Real
Frederick J Paxon
Retail Merchants Association
W © Foote
Atlanta Typothetas
J Haden
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
O T Camp
Retail Butchers and Grocers Association
Lee M Jordan
Rotary Lab
Férome Jones
American Federation of Labor
C F Wilkinson
Building Owners and Managers Association
H L, Adams
Jack , Lewis
Ad Meng Club
France Acts to Keep Coin in the Country
Paris reports a decree by Finance Minister Alexandre Ribot requiring travelers leaving France to declare cash in coin. Any amount over ten dollars must be exchanged for proper money amid a coin shortage and export hoarding. The move follows a frontier coin scarcity and contemplates a postwar new coin series.
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Paris
France
Alexandre Ribot
Frontier
Cool wave wanes as warm weather returns nationwide
Washington August 27 A cool wave bringing frosts and record lows across much of the country east of the Mississippi was nearly spent tonight Weather bureau experts expect warmer temperatures tomorrow and predicted the disturbance would pass into the Atlantic by Sunday The system traced from northwest Canada southward across the middle western states with frosts noted in the upper lake region but no crop damage reported
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Washington
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Middle Western
Upper Lake
Young Girls and Boys Arrested as Burglars
Chicago police report two separate youth gangs of burglars, six boys and two girls all under 18, arrested after confessing to numerous robberies. A 19 year old tutor and two men charged with receiving stolen property were also taken into custody.
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Chicago
Sik
Fulton County lowers tax rate to 76 cents per $100
Fulton County commissioners cut the 1915 16 tax rate to 76 cents on the $100 a reduction from 85 cents last year. Receipts are projected at about 1 361 000 with 104 000 allocated for city paving materials and convict labor aiding street work. The board outlined major expenditures including courts jail charity and public buildings for the coming year.
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Fulton County
Board of County Commissioners
Turman
Winn
Allantan
Aeid
Turmen
Superior Court
Criminal Court of
Atlanta
Childrens Court
Eee
Ube
Iaashao BU Aiaties
Georgia Ups Tax Rate to 4.8 Mills for Year
Governor Harria and state officials fixed the tax rate at 4.8 mills, up from last year, with 0.3 mill for the sinking fund and 4.46 for state maintenance and schools. The rise reflects a roughly $5 million drop in property valuations and about $226,000 in extra appropriations.
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Harria
Hart
Wright
Stata
Eight Hour Day Granted by Nine Factories
Bridgeport Conn August 27 The strike troubled industrial scene eased with nine plants employing about 4000 workers agreeing to the eight hour day and to recognize the union in shop committees The Crane company the largest with about 2400 workers also among those signing The Bins Narrow Tabric company Le Reaiste Corset company Smith Egge Metal Goods Nilson Henkel Crown George Batcheller and Porcupine Roiler Works were listed as major shops. Other strike areas remained largely unchanged.
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Bridgeport
Conn
le Reaiste
Smith & Egge Manufacturing Co
Nilson Machine Company
Henkel Lace Company
Crown & George C
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Porcupine Roiler
British and Russians Attacked by Germans in Persia
A Petrograd dispatch via Tehran says Russian and British consuls with their military escort were attacked at Henghever by an armed band led by M Schunemann German consul at Tabriz. The British forces defended with rifles but sustained losses. A cabinet met and ordered a Persian brigade detachment from Corankes encamped four days from Hengheyer to move against the attackers.
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London
Reuter
Petrograd
Teheran Fersia
Henghever
M . Schunemann
Tabriz
Kengheyér
Russia to Raise Two Million More for War
London reports General Polvanoff announces Russia will raise another two million men and that the campaign’s decisive end will come next year. Grand Duke Nicholas expresses confidence in victory as allied leaders pledge support and coordination. Smokeless powder shipments to Russia from Philadelphia bound for the war effort.
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London
Polvanoff
Russia
Petrograd
The
Times
Nicholas
Paris
Grand Duke
Poincart
Millerend
Joffre
the Times
Sergii Sazonoff
Greatain
France
Philadelphia
Wilminton del
Banker Dreyfus Denies Trading With Germans
Paris August 27 Louis Dreyfus head of Louis Dreyfus and Co bankers and grain merchants today denied allegations in a parliamentary report that his firm sold part of a grain cargo on the steamer Normandy at Antwerp in August 1914 to German agents and later sold the grain to France. He admits the grain was sold to Germans but says the sale occurred before the war and that German interests were sequestered by the French government at his suggestion.
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Paris
Louis Dreyfus
Louis Dreyfus & Co
Bankery and
Germany
Normandy
Antwerp
France
Dreyfus
National Educators Back Wilson in Peace Efforts
The National Education Association adopted a declaration in Oakland praising President Wilson for his handling of the European and Mexican situations and his services to peace and law. It calls for educational attaches at legations, like military and naval attaches, and urges Congress to increase education funding.
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Oakland
Cal
National Education Association
Wilsons Nolley
Congress
Taft Warns California Political Experiments Mean Very Heavy Bills
William H Taft warned California that it was a clinical laboratory for social and political experiments and it would have to pay other states for the costs. He spoke at the University of California Greek theater saying the West is more receptive to new ideas but California must bear the bills if experiments proceed.
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Berkeley
Cal
William H Taft
California
Cliff B. Grimes Found Dead In Bed
Columbus reports the death of Cliff B. Grimes at age 73 in his Wymaton home. Coroners verdict cites natural causes though a poison vial was found nearby. he had long served Columbus as mayor and in civic roles. Survived by wife and two children Annie Lou and Cecil Grimes. funeral set for tomorrow morning.
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Columbus
Hon Chit & Grimes
Wymaton
Grimes
Mus Bed
Judge Grimes
L. H. Chappell
Annie Lou Grimes
Cecil ‘Grimes
Arms Laden Vessel Sought by Carranza
Proceedings in a U S district court seek possession of the Mexican schooner Tadora now in Pensacola harbor with war supplies aboard The Isidor is to be cleared after treasury department instructions and the case follows a libel filed by Salvador Alvarado governor of Yucatan acting through the Mexican navy alleging Villa supporters seized the vessel and cargo The Tadora arrived about two months ago from a Cuban port with munitions and additional supplies were taken on here.
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Pensacola
Fla
Carranza
United States District Court
Salvador Alvarado
Yucatan
General Villa
Treasury Department
Washington
Isidor
Thomas Gordon Hayes Dead Former Baltimore Mayor Dies
Thomas Gordon Hayes a former Baltimore mayor and noted lawyer died at Oakland Maryland of heart failure at age 71. He served in the Confederate army and held chairs at the University of Virginia and the Kentucky Military Institute.
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Baltimore
Thomas Gordon Hayes
Oakland
Hayes
University of Virginia
Kentucky Miliary Institute
Germany Pledges Full Reparation for Sinking Arabic
Germany offers full satisfaction to the United States for the sinking of the Arabic with two American lives lost and vows to disavow the act if the ship was attacked without warning. Berlin signals would include reparations and assurances against repetition, while discussions on the Lusitania incident may resume to pave a path to amicable closure.
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Washington
Germany
United States
State Department
Count von Bernstorff
Berlin
Lensing
Hhe
Wilson
Lansing
Lusitania
Great Britain
von Bernstorf
German Drive Against Russians in Baltic Region Intensifies
London reports German forces in Baltic provinces press Russians southeast of Mitau and east of Kovno to hit the Vilna to Petrogra railway line. Russians retreat from Brest Litovsk and Olita as Austro German losses mount. The air war grows with raids on France and German factories. Serbia prepares to yield to Bulgaria to win Allied cooperation. Britain braces for coal strikes amid miner disputes.
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London
Brent
Joseph Ferdinand
Karmeniez Litovak
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Warsaw
Brest Litovsk
Paris
Valpes
France
Serbia
Bulgaria
Dardanelles
Balkans
Greece
Romania
Wales
Lloyd George
Weather Prophecy THUNDERSHOWERS
Forecast predicts thundershowers in the area with chances of rain Saturday. Local report notes temperatures and rainfall data including past 34 hours, monthly deficiency figures, and means for March near Washington and Georgia locales.
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