Suspect Held in Brutal Assault on Rosier in Hewleyway Decatur
A suspect, Tom Bowder, a young car driver, is held after Jason A. Rosier was found beaten and near death in Hewleyway on Decatur Street. Police say a robbery of a diamond pin and gold watch may have occurred. Bowder denies knowing Rosier and was reportedly linked by a family member’s tip.
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Jason A. Rosier
Pee
Hewleyway
Decatur Street
Tom Bowder
Rosier
Posier
Radeon
Cottares
Rogier
Farne
Buzzard With Bell Sighted in Tift County Georgia
A bell clad buzzard, a familiar yearly visitor in southern Georgia, was seen yesterday by Be L. Paulk near Waterloo in the northeast, accompanied by about a hundred others. The bird appears unafraid of the bell and locals note its plain behavior, with the bell drawing attention rather than alarming the flock.
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Ln de
Georgia
Gaest
Tift County
South Georgia
di Busaard
Be L. Paulk
Waterloo Aee
Ita
Aya
Sten
Conductor Alonzo Smith Found Dead on Central Road
In Macon Georgia on December 25 special report states Conductor Alonzo Smith, employed by Central of Georgia, failed to report at noon. While on his regular run he did not arrive. Conductor Little checked and found Smith dead in bed, likely from heart trouble after fainting fits. Smith left two small sons.
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Any
Alonzo Smith
Central of A
Maeda
Ed O'Cleck
Little
Smith
Macon
Convention Opens at Columbus Bi State Meeting
Prominent members of the S. A. entity arrive in Columbus from Georgia and Alabama for a two day bi state convention. J. Lurtney of Rome, president of the se, arrives as proceedings begin.
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Mbus
S. A
Columbus
Georgia
Alelades
J. Lurtney
Rome
Hazlehurst Joins Father’s Engineering Firm
Hazlehurst, son of James Nisbet Hazlehurst of Wilmington, joins his father’s municipal engineering practice. He takes a sanitary engineer role with Bulantle Coast Line and will operate from the firm’s Wilmington office.
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Hazlehurst
Ye Hall
Diamonds Pay Better Than Real Estate Stocks and Bonds
Diamonds offer higher returns than real estate stocks or bonds with prices doubling since 1900 and average annual gains around the high single digits. Diamonds reportedly rise nearly 300 percent faster than savings bank interest, with financing plans available through monthly payments and a booklet titled Facts About Diamonds.
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Adon
Dowd to Fix Crematory Test Date in Atlanta
W D Dowd Jr sales manager of New York Destructor arrives in Atlanta Tuesday for talks with city officials on scheduling an official test of the new crematory. The city health board says the plant is not yet in condition for a test though engineer Canham reports defects overcome. Councilman Ashley reports the plant worse than ever and predicts much machinery renewal may be needed.
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W. D. Dowd, Jr
New York
Canham
Claude L. Ashley
Th Board of Health
Ashley
Phantom bandits terrorize French countryside again
In Canney France December 28 panic grips outlying districts over a suspected return of the phantom bandits who once terrorized the region with murders and outrages. A farmer was shot through a window at supper. another was targeted but not hit. Despite police and Paris detectives hunting the crew, no culprits are found as gendarmes and special investigators from Margelites assist.
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Canney
France
Lastight
Ig Seach
Paris
Drug Fatalities Linked to Mother's Medicine In Altoona
In Altoona on December 28 a drug labeled medicine caused the deaths of Harry Pifer aged 26 and Laura Pifer aged 38 and two younger children, with the mother also dying two weeks earlier. The coroner's jury found no criminal intent and noted Mrs. Pifer, alleged to traffick the drug, gave it as medicine for various ailments. Father Flames Pifer and Lawrence Pifer remain gravely ill and unrecovered as police investigate.
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Altoona
Harry
Laura Pifer
Flames Pifer
Lawrence Pifer
Donalson urged for appeals bench in Decatur county
Bainbridge Ga December 28 special The bar and people petition Governor Slaton to appoint Hon Erle M Donalson to the court of appeals Judge Pottle resigns Donalson praised as a man of character and fitness for the post Meanwhile in Australia the Dutch steamer Tasman lies ashore at Bramble Cay Gulf of Papua wireless reports say rescue ships dispatched and the vessel carries passengers including Mme Nordica
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Decatur County
Slaton Toe
Erle M. Donalson
Court of Appeals
Pottle
Donalson
Brisbane
Australia
Brable Cay
Gulf of Papua
Steamera
Mme. Nordica
Clansmen Barricaded as Lyric Theater Opens Mine Siege
Pineville Ky December 28 The Hendrickson clan sealed in a mine near Pineville and Hils after a clash with sheriff’s posse. Militia and deputy sheriffs guard 15 mine entrances as negotiations for surrender continue. Adjutant General Ellis to report back tonight. A Double Deceiver begins stock season at the Lyric with Norman Hackett leading the company. Grassimates follows next week.
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Lyric Theater
Kentucky
Pineville
Hendrickson
Here
Elys
Knox County
George Sendarickson
Happy Jack” Hendrickson
Messer
Sandyerse
George Hendrickson
Striff's Posse
Happy Jack
Hndrickson
Bip
Ineville
Barbouresville
Ehyrisis
Ellis
Frankfort
Tomortoow
McGreary
Hils
J. T. Elis
Lexington
McCreary
Adj Dutant
Hendricksons
Ghaft
Tiia
O. Henry
Norman Hackett
Syria
Haa
Atlanta
Hacket
Witc
Tragic House Fire Fatal for Four Year Old Girl
In Savannah on December 28 a four year old girl named Marci Roberts died from burns after overturning a lamp and igniting her clothing while left home to care for younger siblings. Neighbors rushed to help as the child burned, the house sustaining extensive damage.
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Savannah
Marci Roberts
Held for Intimidating Witness in Still Case in Savannah
Savannah Ga December 28 t e tal J Charged with one federal government witness HTL Robert and David Lamb and John Edenfield of Emanuel county were today held in 600 bail each following a preliminary hearing before U S Commissioner J C Monmbpock. Evidence showed the Lambs and Edenfield threatened bodily injury to a witness in a silent distillery case in which MH nb father of three of the men was involved.
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Tetal.j
Htl
Robert
David Lamb
John /aden— field
Emanuel County
United States
J.C. Monmbpock
Iheau
Lambs
Edenfield
Filent,aistillery
MH. Nb
Kimas film lab offers quick photo printing services
The notice advertises NG develop and print services at 43 North Broad Street listing Jag. L. and Suna. as prompt providers for best results and quick photo processing.
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Filma; NG
Jag. L. Org
Suna
North Broad Street
Trial of the Senator Drawings Nearing End in Mississippi
In Vicksburg on December 28, Swep Taylor and state Senator G A Hobbs face a bribery trial. Testimony is due to finish soon with arguments to follow before Judge Mounger. Remaining days may yield a mistrial if verdicts are not reached by January 1. Bilbo’s indictment remains pending joint with Hobbs.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Swep Taylor
G. A. Hobbs
Hobbs
Henry C. Mounger
Taylor
Mounger
Bilbo
Thief Tracked by Peculiar Mule Hoof Print in Georgia
In Columbus on December 28 a Chattohoochee farmer G A Adams chased a burglar after discovering his cotton seed house robbed and seed stolen. The mule’s distinctive hoof print guided him to Puller Mack, a local man, found selling seed and arrested on burglary charges.
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Columbus
G. A Adams
Chattahoochee
Puller Mack
Pastor predicts end of saloons and clubs in Georgia
Dr A R Holderby, at Moore Memorial Presbyterian, forecast that next year will close every beer saloon and illegal rocker club in Georgia. He warned locker club propositions are a tougher hurdle for prohibition forces than saloons. He noted Christmas was quiet and thanked Mayor Woodward and Chief Beavers for the day’s calm amid tighter travel rates from railroads.
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Georgia
A. R. Holderby
Moore Memorial Presbyterian Church
Holderby
Eto
Woodwards
Chief Beavers
Vacancies Fillable On Park Board With One Candidate
Five vacancies exist on the park board starting January 1 with only one apparent candidate, Ben Lee Crew, chosen by eighth ward delegates to replace Frank Reynolds who becomes City Attorney James L. Maynon. President J. O. Cochran plans to resign at the January first meeting. Sam S. Shenard leaves his park board post. Prospective successors for board presidency include William Van Houten and Charles I. Brannan, with Brannan possibly returning for another term if desired.
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Park Board
Eld
Ben Lee Crew
Eighth Ward
Frank Reynolds
cHy
J. O. Cochran
Council
Frst
James L. Maynon
William van Houten
Charles I. Brannan
van Houten
Brannan
Alsn
T. K. Bond
C. A .Pitts
Corneliman Sam 5
Shenard
Park Committee of Council
Green
J. CG Green
Cochran
Thomasville Officials Charged With Laxity By Resigning Attorney
Thomasville Ga December 28 Special Colonel TN Hopkins city Attorney resigns and fires sensational charges against the municipal administration alleging laxity in crime investigations and prohibition enforcement. Resignation effective third Monday in January. to be heard at next city council meeting.
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Thomasville
TN. Hopkins
Hopkins
South American Tour for School Teachers
New York on December 28. To develop intellectual and social relations with Latin American peoples, the American branch of the Association for International Peace Conciliation will take a party of school teachers next summer on a tour of South America. The trip has Carnegie Peace Foundation support and ties to Robert Bacon’s recent visits to South American capitals. A national information bureau will aid Latin American students seeking general or professional education. Sailings from New York are slated for late June to early September. Selection method for participants was not announced.
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New York
Association For Interna Hopal Conciliation
South America
Carnegie Peace Foundation
Robert Bacon
France
National Bureau of Information
James M Jones Dies in Local Sanitarium Emerson Ex-Mayor
James Melvin Jones a prominent Emerson Ga citizen died at 4 30 Sunday at a local sanitarium where he had been for treatment He was four years old and an ex mayor of Emerson Surviving are his mother five brothers four sisters The body was removed to Pooles chapel and will be taken to Emerson for funeral services at 11 oclock Tuesday morning under the auspices of the Masonic lodge
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James Melvin Jones
Emerson
Mc ©. Jones
W. LC. W
Virgil Jones
Mra
BF. MacBrown
Atlanca
J. B. Chamblee
Atlanta
J. J. Morris
Mimerson
Kappa Alphas Meet in 27th Convention in Memphis
Memphis Tennessee December 28 The twenty seventh biennial convention of the Southern Kappa Alpha fraternity opens tomorrow and runs Wednesday forty six active and alumni chapters will be represented S C Fullilove Shreveport Knight Commander and several delegates arrived late Tonight The North Carolina delegation arrived aboard a special car The fraternity was organized in 1865 at Washington and Lee University by Confederate Army students and alumni with the aim of affiliating the organization to southern colleges All chapters except two in California are in the South
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Memphis
Tenn
Alzty
Southern Kappa Alpha Fraternity
S.C. Fullilove
Shreveport
North Carolina
Kappa Alpha
Fraternity
South Wags
Washington and Lee University
Confedente
California
He Souh
Fulton Fusiliers to Host SmokER at Elks Club Anniversary
Fulton Fusiliers celebrate two years with a smoker at the Elks club on December 30 at 8 pm. Captain Hal J. Morrisgi will entertain. The unit, praised as the best drilled in the Fifth Infantry in 1913, plans re enlistments as enlistments expire this month.
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Fulton Fusiliers
Eika' Club
Hal J. Morrisgi
Fifth Infantry
Paris Snow Covers City After Heavy Rainstorm
Paris awoke to a snow blanket following a weekend rainstorm that disrupted streetcar and railroad service. Telegraph and telephone links with foreign hubs were interrupted amid the weather rescue and transit chaos. The Blue Bird at the Atlanta theater with its original cast is playing tonight and for the week.
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Paris
Hiaden
Blue Bird
Atlanta
Delegates Arrive for History Meeting in Charleston
About two hundred delegates arrive for the American Historical Association's annual convention in Charleston, with nearly a hundred coming by special train from New York. Business sessions begin tomorrow, with leading authorities and Major General Leonard Wood among presenters. Topics include Charleston harbor siege and Confederate subjects. a local committee assists arrivals.
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Charleston
S.C
The
American Historical Association
New York
Leonard Wood
Staf
United States Army
Charleston Harbor
Panama Canal Proves Safe and Economical Achievement
A review notes that critics overestimated Panama Canal costs and dangers while Col Goethals met 1908 estimates. The completed canal is hailed as the world’s greatest engineering project and the safest, with the work’s story chronicled in Frederic J. Haskin’s new book.
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Panama
Pegelmiyile
Frederic 3. Haskin
Goethal
Mail matters show care in preparing correspondence
The annual report by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Blakeslee notes a small rise in undeliverable mail but a high rate of returns. More than 19,000,000 letters and parcels reached the dead letter office with 6,440,000 restored to senders. Rural free delivery programs expand with 42,305 routes and $45,377,442 in annual salaries. A separate Belgrade note reports Servian cabinet crisis as war minister resigns over budget rejection.
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Washington
Blakeslee
Maine
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Texas
Kentucky
Ohio
Minnesota
Iowa
Oregon
United States
Blue Bird Farewell Tour Opens at Atlante Theater
The Blue Bird returns for Maeterlinck’s tale in a costly New Theater production on its third and final American tour. Winthrop Ames controls the rights, yielding Maurice Maeterlinck $175,000, with tours totaling 1,000,000 in attendance and over $100,000 earned in New York first month. The Atlanta engagement marks the sole chance to see the show after the New Theater run.
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Maeterlinck
Atlante
New Theater
New York
Winthrop Ames
Maurice Maeterlinck
Mears
Shubert
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Atlanta
Chang
Charles Hampson
Wonderland Wiill
Tyilyl
Myty
Blue Bird
Shuberto
Beachey Sets World Aviation Record With Inverted Loops
In San Francisco California on December 38 Beachey looped the loop six times at a height of 2,508 feet establishing a new aviation record. Earlier Christmas Day he looped the loop five times, also a record in its own right.
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San Francisco
Cal
Lincoln Bearhey
Brachey
Beachey
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