Free Text Books Urged By Labor
The Atlanta Federation of Trades adopted resolutions urging the city council to provide free school books for all public school children. The measure, led by Jerome Jones, is presented to Mayor James G Woodward for council consideration as a humane step to ensure universal education.
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Atlanta Federation of Trades of Atlanta
Tlte Council
James G Woodward
Council
Jerome Jones
The
Journal of Labor
Federation
Atlanta, Ga
City of
Atlanta
Lfe
Ths
S. Browth
Atlanta Federation of Trades
Marks
Georgia Federation of Labor
J. F. Bradfield
William Robinson
A. G. Helmer
Woman's Study Club
Helmer
Russell Sage Foundation
America
Philadelphia
Aerial Attack on Krupp Works Showed Allied Daring
The report details Allied air raids on Krupp works at Essen and other German targets, noting the daring raids by British aviators. It traces Krupp’s origins from a small forge in Essen around 1810 to its rise as a major steel and weapon producer, and mentions leadership succession ending with Bertha Krupp.
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KRUPP
Krunn
Essen
Germany
Euari
Duesseldorf
Zep- Penn
F Briges
Zeppelin
Friedhicnshafen
Lake Ous
Jirupp Workst
Arrows Used by Allies Against Germans Described
London reports detail the two part Allied arrows used from aircraft, a steel head and flanged shaft, about 4.5 inches long and 13 to 21 grams. German doctors recount wounds among troops after arrow drops, with many hits to lower limbs and cases of scalp and temple injuries.
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London
Associated Press
Stutt- Bart Medical Society
Itwig
Two Stores Robbed Sunday Night In City
Sunday's break in hit E A Aboore at 131 Forrest Avenue where a burglar shattered a front window and took $3.22 from a cash drawer. Hagan Dodd, syrup firm at 214 Auburn Avenue, lost three sacks of sugar after entry through the rear door. The thief fled leaving an overcoat, police suspect the owner.
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E A Aboore
Forrest Avenue
Hagan-Dodd Company
Auburn Avenue
Mortuary notices from Nashville and Marietta page
Funeral notices arrive from Nashville Georgia and Marietta Georgia with deaths of Nancy Goodman 85 and B F Greer near Kennesaw plus deaths of Mrs Selle Harrison 29 Thomas McGuffey 23 and Virginia M Ford 48. The items mention burial plans Baptist service Ward burial ground and Poole undertakers with brief survivor details. Also a note on Formosan rice paper and maritime wireless saving lives since 1899.
How German Spy Dared and Met His Death
Geneva dispatch recounts a German spy’s attempt to enter Paris artillery grounds. A French colonel exposed him with a pronunciation test, drew his revolver, and the intruder was shot hours later after sending farewell words to his parents. The officer cited a known linguistic flaw betraying nationality.
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Geneva
Associated Press
Journel Des Henet
von Kluck
Paria
Paris
Weill
Goodby
Aluminum ore production centers in Arkansas with historical notes
The article notes that Arkansas produces the bulk of the United States aluminum ore. It recalls Russia as a former petroleum rival. It compares current output, stating Russia yields about 68 percent of California and roughly similar to Oklahoma. Vancouver, British Columbia, has 25,288 telephones in service.
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The
United States
Arkansas
Russia
Russian Empire
California
Vancouver
British Columbia
Funeral of George C Walters Held at Home Today
The funeral for George C Walters, prominent Atlanta business director and president of The Concrete Age, who died Saturday after several months illness, will take place at 11 AM from his home at 650 Edgewood Avenue with interment in Gaalland. He was brother-in-law to Charles R. Winship and Ernest Woodruff. The piece notes U.S. import of motion picture film reaching 3,000,000 feet in a recent month versus 3,000,000 a year prior.
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Marietta
B. F. Greer
Kennesaw
WV Greer
J. Greer
Atlanta
Janes T Gubeer
Floyd
Baptist
Ward
Greer
Cobb County
George C Walters
Edgewood Avenue
Oalland
Walters
Atlante
Concrete Age
Charles R. Winship
Ernest Woodruff
Old-Time Paper Man Goes Into the Beyond
New York December 20 Henry Clay Craft a newspaperman dating to ante bellum times dies at his Brooklyn home aged 32 He was a friend of Abraham Lincoln Benjamin Harrison John Sherman and other famous men He lived mainly in Washington until two years ago He published The Ragged Orphan for Fremont in the Fremont Buchanan campaign and was a noted editorial writer In recent years he contributed many articles to metropolitan newspapers and magazines
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New York
Henry Clay Craft
Brooklyn
Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Harrison
John Sherman
Craft
Washington
Fremont-Buchanan
Fremont
the Ragged Orphan
Waterman fountain pens offered in festive boxes
Usefulness and beauty described for the Waterman Ideal fountain pen range, including self falling, regular and safety types, available mounted or plain. Promoted in attractive Christmas boxes, priced from 2.59 to 10, at Jnc ll Moore & Sons, Opticians, 42 N Broad Street.
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Waterman
Jnc
Ll. Moore &Sons
The
Opticians
N. Broad Street
Atlanta Police Expand Resident Patrols For Christmas Holidays
Captain W. M. Mayo announces a city wide deployment of thirty four officers tonight from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. with eleven veterans and twenty three supernumeraries. Wards are bolstered, Anstey Park Druid Hills and others receive extra patrols as crime is expected to drop.
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W. IM. Mayo
Atlanta
Mayo
Anstey Park
Druid Hills
Captain Mayo
Turkey
Smoke over Mount Kanaka near Redding Cal
A column of dense smoke rose from Mount Kanaka near Redding California, with a snow cap on the peak making forest fires unlikely. The report notes the proximity to Lassen peak and distant geography.
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Mt. Kanaka
Redding
Cal
Mount Kanaka
Lassen Peak
Mount Kanakka
Philippine Islands
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Peachtree and
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Mathushek
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Everett
Henry F. Miller
Starr
Ludden & Bates
Pryor Street
Georgia
Hssen
Friedrich Krupp
Fiedrich Krupp
Alfred
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France
Alfred Krupp
Friedrich Albert Krupp
Bertha
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Echol
Krupp Works
Nancy Goodman
Nashville
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Wilkerson County
Berrien County
J.P .Hall
Shss Semanda Goodman
J. A. Goodman
Willacoochee
Rev
A. R. Powell
Baptist Church
Belle Harrison
Selle Harrison
Whitehall Street
Harry G Poole
Thomas McGuffey
Stone Mountain
Undertaking
Patuch Metuttey
Virginia M. Ford
T. N. Bunn
WN Bunn
Hast Point
Asthina
Cortlandt St
Egypt
Maier& Berkele,Inc. Gold and Silversmiths
Whitehall St
Constitution
Empire Auto & Garage Company
OLS
W. B. Thompson
Forsyth St. Bell
A. Nash
Em 'Cinent Marine Cigars
Bell Phone
Credit Clothing
United Credit Clothing CO
Mitchell Street
Atlanta Steam Dye & Cleaning Works
Ivy
Pen
W. E. Carter Electric CO
North Broad Street
McGaughey Electric CO
Walton St
Parmaces
Moncrief Atlanta CO
Walton St. H. Ninekirk
Arageg Oakland Retail Co
Auburn Ave
Evy
JfoDaKs
WN Eastman
Glenn Photo Stock Co
Kodak Company
Peachtree
Queen Mantel & Tile Company
West Mitchen Swioet
BELL
Chelena Market Co
N. Pryor ST
Ffice Furniture
Baylis Office Equipment Co
Deskhe
Sporting Goops
Perrin CO
Walton
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Scott & McCrary
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