Macon Ordinance Threatens All Locker Clubs
Macon Georgia December 21 Specials The city council faces a plan from a special committee to ban locker clubs next year by placing them on ground floor storerooms within a limited area and restricting ingress to front doors The ordinance would limit licenses and likely push clubs underground or out of business amid revenue concerns and opposition from local authorities and club managers.
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Master Aim in Education and Rationalism in the Light of Education
John T Withame, president of the Georgia Agricultural Society, traveling to Atlanta for the state entomology meeting, promises to share how to live at home next year by buying only coffee and sugar in Macon and carrying them home to save postage and war stamps. Georgia farmers are urged to follow the society’s program while Withame plans limited cotton acreage for next year.
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Pretty book agent figures in petition in Superior Court
A man named Michael Dempsey sues in Superior Court over a marriage to a woman described as Juliette Lawton also known as Juliette Lawton Buarnalak. He alleges bigamy and improper transfer of property at 39 Dargan Street valued at $3,000. He seeks an injunction to restrain Juliette and her son-in-law from selling the property and to have title decreed to him. The case before Judge Pendleton awaits a hearing date.
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Colin Lawton
England
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Pendleton
Mrs Mary E Spencer Dies At 84 In Ansley Park
Mrs Mary E Spencer widow of Col S B Spencer one of Atlantas first mayors died Monday morning at 84 at the residence of Harry Alexander Ansley Park Surviving three sons WA Spencer M B Spencer F S Spencer all of Atlanta one sister Mrs James H Alexander of Atlanta two brothers Rev S Baker of Florida DP K Baker of Alabama funeral 3 p m today from residence with Dr Dunbar H Ogden officiating funeral to Oakland cemetery
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S. B Spencer
Dunbar H. Ogden
J S Lyons
Oakland
Williams and Little Capture Honors at Boys High School
Edwin T Williams won the declaimer's medal at the annual Christmas exercises of the Boys High School held Monday morning in the Auditorium. Ww A Little, member of the affirmative aide, won the medal for best debater on the program for the debate on Intercollegiate Athletics Should Be Abolished. Hebert L Foreman Jr's humorous address Sergeant Buzzfuts in Pickwick v Bardell was well received, as was Walter P Binns' speech on Southern Chivalry. The president announced the decision in favor of the affirmative. Williams and Little composed the affirmative team. Judges were Dan W Green, W H Terrell, Harvey Hatcher. Medals were presented by Dan Green.
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Hebert L Foreman, Jr
Buzzfuts
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Bardell
Richard Coutts
W. C. Johnson
W A. Littie
Charles H. Giradeau, Jr
Joseph L. Goldberg
Arthur Stokes, Jr
Williams
Messrs Maier & Berkele
A. Holzman
Dan W Green
W H Terrell
Harvey Hatcher
Dan Green
Boys’ High School
Made in America Campaign Boosts Local Purchases
A luncheon at the Hotel Winecoff in Atlanta launched a national campaign to boost American made goods. Led by J Garnet Ostrom, the movement forms a New York affiliated corporation aiming to fund nationwide advertising to urge consumers to seek U S products, including in Atlanta. The plan emphasizes national unity of manufacturers and merchants without backing a single product.
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Confederate veterans to receive $48,000 in state pension funds
Georgia pensioned Confederate veterans will get 48,000 dollars as their Christmas payment, representing the deficiency for the year. The governor authorized the warrant and sent it to the treasury, which could not draw it earlier due to lack of funds.
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Prisoner’s escape attempt crashes through downtown crowd
Harry Hart, a 2 young white man from East Point, broke from Policeman McKinney at Whitehall and Alabama streets Monday morning. A wild chase through several blocks ended with Hart recaptured after being arrested on Howell Mill Street. He had been seized earlier after being accused by Mrs. Ruth Skinner of failing to marry her daughter.
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East Point
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Whitehall
Alabama
Hart
Howell Mill Street
Ofhcer
J. F. Skinner
Cameron Street
Ruth Skinner
Street car chase ends with suspect captured after sprint
A suspect fled after pushing a woman named Frances into a streetcar crowd, colliding with Officer McKinney near downtown. He ran along Whitehall Street and Viaduct Place, then Broad Street before looping to Alabama Street where a pedestrian tripped him up, allowing McKinney to detain him.
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Mike Skinner
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Whitehall Street
Viaduct Place
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Alabama Street
Officer McKinney
Dividend Declared by Southern Ice Company
The Board of Directors of the Southern Ice Company has declared a regular semi annual dividend of three percent on the preferred stock, payable on or after January 1, 1915 to shareholders of record at the close of business December 23, 1914. Checks will be called.
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