Two Men Crush Injured As Joy Riders Strike Car
On Roswell Road a touring car carrying George Powell and Pierce Berry was struck by a high powered vehicle fleeing the scene. Berry, crushed and unconscious, later died. Powell trapped between wheel and windshield, both men rescued by Motorcycle Officer McCrary and taken to a nearby farmhouse and Atlanta hospital. Police search occupants of the fleeing car.
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Roswell Road
George Powell
Pierce Berrs
Powell
Foliceman McCrary
Berry
Patternon
Ato
Atlanta
Roswell
Wachine
Heln
Policeman McCraft
Berri
Spruel
Georgia Map Puzzle Results and Prize Announcement
The Constitution announces the Georgia Map Puzzle results in its next issue with many participants, and all solvers are urged to watch for the prize announcement.
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Georgia
Bandit Robs Chicago Express of Currency Bag
A bandit raided the Stockyards Special express train on a Pennsylvania line, forcing the messenger to open the safe and fleeing with a bag of currency believed to total several thousand dollars. The conductor fired twice as the thief leapt away. the attacker was struck with a key but escaped unharmed.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Stockyards
Union
Fritzie Scheff Divorces Another with John Fox Jr
Papers granting a degree of divorce to actress Fritzie Scheff from her husband John Fox Jr the author were filed with the county clerk today. They were not made public but it was said that no names were mentioned in the case.
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Fiitsie Scheff
John Fox Jr
Toda
Sterilization Bill Vetoed by Governor
Montpelier Vermont January 71 Governor Fletcher vetoed the sterilization bill for defective criminals after hearings by medical and religious groups. Attorney General Brown called the measure unfair and discriminatory under Vermont's constitution. The Senate passed the veto 18 to 10 while the House may revisit the measure Monday after previously approving it.
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Montpelier Vt
Fletcher
Scientista
Brown
Senate
Senate Defeats All Amendments To One Term Bill
The senate defeated every attempt to amend a six year presidential term measure. Opponents readied for a final vote, with a direct popular vote and longer term amendments rejected by large margins. Progressives and Roosevelt allies argued the idea limits the people’s choice, while supporters warned against despotism. Continued on Page Two.
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Washington
Senate
Owens
Paynters
Taft Wilson
Roosevelt
Colonie
Crawford
Cotonel FoaKevelt
Willians
Mother of Henry W Grady Passes to the Beyond
Mrs Anne Gartrell Grady widow of Major William Grady of Athens Georgia and mother of Henry W Grady died yesterday morning at her granddaughter Mrs Eugene SR Black’s home. Her husband fell at the Battle of Petersburg and her son Henry W Grady died in his service as a prominent southern statesman. Another son, Will Milam Grady, died in North Dakota while she supported him.
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Henry W. Grady
New South
Wii Milam . Grady
North Dakota
King Ben Hardin Carries 4000 Dollar Cane In Atlanta
Benjamin Beasely Hardin known as King Ben, a Cotton Belt magnate from Washington Gay Wilkes County, walks the streets with a $4,000 cane adorned with diamonds and gold. He travels to New York and Atlanta, claiming bold wealth and fearlessness, keeping the cane with him at all times and rarely leaving it with a night clerk. If rain continues he will stay in Atlanta, otherwise he will return to his cotton fields to tend crops.
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Phung
Benjamin Beasely Hardin
Washington
Wilkes County
Atlanta
Fen
Tip
New York
Broadway
King Ren
Ayben
King Ben
Mrs Linda L Foote Dies in New York
Linda Lamar Foote, widow of Colonel Henry Rutger Foote, died at 67 in New York after a two day illness from pneumonia. Her Civil War romance with a Northern captain began in 1861 at Macon Georgia, as she joined him at Bull Run and later served as a battlefield nurse. She outlived wartime separations and raised three daughters and a son.
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Sumter
Mratisda Lamar Foote
Henry Rutger Foote
West Eughty
Second Street
Linda Lamar
Captain Foote
USA
Macon Ga
Lamars
Georma
North End
Zinda
Froit
Bull Run
Howard M von Gelder
Chancellorsville
Foote
Pennsylvania
Suffragettes in Birmingham Damage Golf Greens
Militant suffragists in Birmingham attack a golf course tearing up greens and burning Votes for Women slogans with acids on January 31, prompting strong protest and property damage actions in the city.
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Birmingham
England
Jury Frees The Wife Of Man Convicted Of Robbery
After W H Fleming was found guilty of highway robbery and sentenced to fifteen years hard labor, the jury that convicted him raised nearly 50 to aid his wife and baby. Fleming dragged RL Jones from near Vienna on DeKalb avenue, struck him, and stole 3160 and valuables. A mistrial occurred previously. in the second trial Fleming’s wife sat with their baby, drawing pity, yet jurors kept to a guilty verdict. Continued on Page Two.
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W H Fleming
Roan
Mana
Fleming
RL Jones
Vienna
DeKalb Avenue
Flemin
Princeton Students Escort Wilson to Inauguration
Rew York January 81 Wilson accepted Princeton students offer to escort him from his Princeton home to the white house on inauguration day. Princeton youths plan two special trains and will accompany the president elect to his hotel in Washington. The escort includes a Princeton Alumni smoker and a joint ride to the capitol with President Taft.
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Rew York
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University
Princeton
White House
James Madison
Wilson
Washington
Princeton Alumni Association of Washington
Wil
Druggists Contest Closes This Afternoon With Prizes At Stake
A garbled notice urges druggists to close this afternoon on Tetitution's M and M contest. It warns to submit all extra quantity purchases and credit items to the contest office before the losing hour, or risk forfeiting prizes. The message stresses urgency and notes only two weeks remain to compete for top awards.
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Rece
Grocers Fox
US Inspector Probing Attack Stuns Atlanta Clerks
Washington reports a sensational probe into Colquitt Carter, longtime United States district court clerk in Atlanta, with charges of conspiracy and improper favors tied to salary sharing and notices sent by an inspector. The case involves Mrs Fuller and Mrs Fowle, and hinges on accusations of deceit and treachery amid a widening scandal.
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John Carrigan, Jr
Washington
Colquitt Carter
Georgia
United States District Court
Atlanta
Department of Justice
Kindneas
George W. Wickersham
United States Court
C Fuller
District
Eireurt Wirle
Etreuit -Court
Carter
Cleri
Wartideburt
Fa Hapaty
Ares
Hin Bacause
N O Brown Mit Carter
Department of Justce
O ¢ Fuller
James A. Fowle
Weather Prophecy: Fair and Colder Saturday
The forecast predicts fair and colder conditions for Saturday with northerly winds. Temperatures range from a low around 38 to a high near 45 degrees with little to no rainfall. The normal temperatures and rainfall figures are noted, along with rainfall excesses for the month and year.
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Fritzie Scheff
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Charleston
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Clay
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Oklahoma
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