Mayor Woodward Receives Gold Watch From friends
In a secretive morning gathering at city hall Mayor James G Woodward was presented with a gold watch by Captain James W English and several council members. The inscription on the front reads It is safe with Woodward guardian with Treasury of Atlanta below. The mayor expressed gratitude stating the gift and sentiment are worth more than worldly goods and will be a heritage he leaves behind.
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Treasury of Atlanta
Atlanta
Oiliposters Trust Negotiating With Government to Dissolve
Report from Chicago dated December 2 notes the oiliposters trust negotiating with the government to dissolve, aiming to follow the American Telephone and Telegraph example. A suit against the alleged combination has begun, but the association is said to be willing to conform to government wishes, with no further court steps required at this time.
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Oiliposters' Trust
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Street Sweeping Role For 60 Business Men
Sixty prominent professionals and merchants in Leeds volunteered as street sweepers amid a city strike over municipal service pay. Volunteers drove to assembly in private cars, worked six hours to clear streets and empty cans, while another group safeguarded gas, electric, and waterworks. The action aims to support public works and deter broader worker walkouts in other cities.
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England
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Post Roads Funding Sought by Burleson to Improve Rural Mail Service
Postmaster General Burleson asked Congress for 1.9 million dollars to improve roads used in the rural mail service in a December 23 letter forwarded through Secretary McAdoo, aiming to bolster postal transportation infrastructure.
Mother who killed children jailed for life in Meridian
Mrs Bien Ethridge, who confessed to killing four of her stepchildren, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Meridian Texas. The verdict covered Oscar, 5, with separate trials planned for the other deaths. Ethridge, wife of a stockman, admitted lye poisoning two other children and giving a drug to two more, saying they would be better off dead. Pearl survived.
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Texas
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Hthridge
Stockman
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Harrigan
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Pearl
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Son runs car over his elderly father in Birmingham
In Birmingham on December 23 a 78 year old man visiting his son was struck and fatally injured by an electric car of the Birmingham Railway. The son, a motorman, recognized his father as he alighted too soon and walked along the track in rain, but could not avoid the collision.
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Pardons Granted by Governor Craig for Christmas Season
Governor Craig today pardoned nine convicts in North Carolina state prison. Reasons were stated for each clemency, but the pardons were granted in the Christmas season.
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Raleigh
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The New Currency Forerunner of Prosperity
The passage of the Currency Bill is hailed as removing obstacles to prosperity. It promises elastic monetary policy, fairer distribution of wealth, and broader opportunities. with time, wages rise, production expands, and confidence grows as the new system stabilizes the national economy. The United Cigar Stores Company endorses the bill as a universal Christmas gift benefiting nearly a million customers across 182 cities.
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