Georgia News Forecast and City Redemptions Report
Forecast notes variable winds and temperatures with yesterday’s high and low. Atlanta city check for 402.26 paid for pond redemption to Robinaug Humphrey Co. City finances show 45,949.63 in expenditures and 13,823,201 in personal property. Republican committee meets at the capital to set next convention time and place. Frank J. Stowe elected president of the Southern Association of Elocutionists. Southern Educational Association opens at First Baptist Church with notable addresses. The Mutherin family health update, a county woman charged with firing in Macon, and a Temple incident involving black youth and fireworks. Sumter County tax returns under grand jury review, a $1 million adjustment noted. George T. Cann sworn in as judge of the western circuit. Beckham-Willcox crowd in Savannah. Theft at Milltown store. Savannah Jewish appeals. Ed Warren arrested in Decatur. Dekalb commissioners appeal to supreme court in insolution costs. Southern notes: Mississippi prison funds discussed. incidiaries blamed for a fire. Ethel Rovette missing in Mississippi, heir to $8,000,000 mentioned. Pineapple, Ala., arrests over lynching. Garth banker rumors denied. possible sea voyage. Beaboard Line president Williams resigns. Barr becomes president. Panama Canal Company Paris meeting rejects Colombian proposals. Far East tension cited. Horse racing results Ingleside, Rockaway, and Nicholas. Markets: wheat, corn, oats steady to mixed. dry goods weak. cotton bales estimated 1.5 million.
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Republican State Can Committee
Frank J. Stowe
Lebanon, Tenn
Southern Association of Elocutionists
Southern Educational Association
First Baptist Church
Feorgia
Patrick M. Mutherin
Sumter County
George T. Cann
Western Circuit
Pope Barrow
New Hymnal Plans At Methodist Joint Commission
Washington notes the joint hymnal commission of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church south held its third session. Bishop D A Goodsell presided as the body aimed to complete a common hymnal this session. The days most important action instructed the joint committees on music to prepare chants for the new hymnal, with 641 hymns tentatively agreed upon.
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Washington
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
D. A. Goodsell
Chattanooga
Thrilling Escape of Virginia Girl in Chicago
Miss Millie Overlock of Virginia, visiting friends in Chicago, escaped from an apparent kidnap attempt with her companion Remington Thomas. After being carried to the door and set on her feet, the pair became separated and Thomas is missing.
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Virginia
Chicago
Millie Overlock
Chicago stage blaze after wires spark panic during show
Reported blaze erupts mid performance of Mr. Bluebeard as electric lines shorted, forcing evacuation while attendees queued in panic. authorities tally casualties as residents recall the deadly fire that destroyed part of the city.
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Mr. Bluebeard
Mangled corpses found in burning theater by rescuers
Rescuers discovered mangled corpses in a burning theater piling nearly to the ceiling, describing scenes of death that reaped its greatest harvest and sickened even the stoutest hearts.
Fire Tragedy at Troquet Theater Baffles Chicago
In Chicago on December 30 a theater fire at the Troquois during Bluebeard killed about 536 to 560 people with more missing. Dozens burned or suffocated in the rush for exits as flames spread from a broken electric wire and asbestos curtain failure. Eddie Foy helped direct an attempted curtain drop as doors flung open and crowds fled through the snow in street attire.
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Chicago
Troquois
Eddie Foy
Trapped Women Fight in Chicago Theatre Fire
December 30 Chicago roof fire tragedy as theater fire escape failed and women on rear balconies fought for safety. George H. Elliott improvised a makeshift bridge with tanks to reach the trapped crowd. comedian Eddie Foy and cast members escaped amid flames and chaos. Two women died, several injured as flames spread rapidly, stalling rescue efforts.
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Chicago
Awful Scenes In Theale Spoiled By Curtain Fire Escape
Comedian Eddie Jay De recalls a theatre disaster where a draft kept gas from sealing the curtain, allowing many to escape. The explosion followed as the curtain failed to close fully, trapping others and causing a front-house catastrophe while saving some backstage lives.
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Eddie Jay
Theale
Tragic fire at Chicago theater ruins lives
A disastrous theater fire in Chicago killed and maimed many as two young women were found in the orchestra pit and a baby was discovered on the balcony rail. Fire erupted near gas reservoirs after a curtain blaze, prompting a frantic crowd and heroic rescues led by Alderman Thompson and firefighters. Thousands of onlookers and police aided evacuations as hospitals and shops rushed aid, while blankets and medical supplies poured in from local merchants.
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George H. Elliott
Gas Company
Acroga
Aey
Elliott
Aclddder
Daviga
al Fo
Lake
Adef
Afr
Chicago
Lndies
State
Dearborn
Randolph Street
Ines
Deartown
Thompson
Marshall Field & Co
Mandel Bros
Schieeinger & Meyer
Carson, Pile, Scott & Co
Strong men cried names of the dead at burning scene
Chicago December 30 Sheriff Barrett and deputies helped move injured amid a mob outside a burning building. Relatives pressed the corridors seeking missing loved ones as mangled bodies filled the space. Sheriff's words: such scenes cannot be forgotten.
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Chicago
Sherriff Barrett
Fire tragedy at Chicago Opera Comique theater
Dramatic destruction follows a fire in Chicago at the Opera Comique theater. Rescue workers confront a grim mass of dead and dying, many women and children, trapped in doorway bottlenecks as flames and gas claim victims. Police and firemen struggle to extract bodies amid horror. Details continue on the next page.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Robinaug- ~Humphrey Company
Beckham-Willcox
Savannah
T Milltown
Clements, Lee Co
Jebraws
Czarina
Russia
Ed Warren
Décater
DeKalb County
Supreme Court
Costa
Routhern
Missiasinpi
Petkina
Jennings
Fin
Ethel Rovette
Medann
Pineapple
Ala
Garth
New York
Galvertt
Denver
Beaboard Air Line
J. Skelton Williams
Barr
Williams
Panama Canal Company
Paris
Colombia
Rusela
Japan
Ingleside
Rockaway
Ban Nicholas
Biz Ben
New Orleans
Lator
Str Christopher
Ascot
Akkl
Haay- Ing
Trovisians
Sutton
NEW Hymnal Methodists
Iroquois Theater
TQ Theater
Noor
Tedle Foy
Mwe Company
Sherman House
Foy
Ita
Ilia
Will T. Davis
Aibout
Chit Musham
Thompson's
Corpes
Neteséa
Opera Comique
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