Refused Eggnog Incident Sparks Enraged New York Visitor
In Waycross on January 31 a young woman using the name Miss Rose Wagner of New York complained a druggist refused to sell her eggnog and insulted her. She accused HK and policemen J L Cocktela and J P Cason, prompting telegrams to District Attorney Whitman and later City Attorney Charles Ja Redding for action. The case drew police interest as she displayed anger and possible insanity, left for New York, and intended to pursue charges while reporting further grievances against the druggist and others.
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Waycross
HK “Druggs
J L Cocktela
J P Cason
Rose Wagner
New York
Whitman
Charles Ja Redding
Moss Wagner
Reed
Sue
Miss Wagner
Way
Georgia and Florida Railroad Reorganized In Augusta
Augusta Ga January 31 Special The Georgia and Florida Railroad is practically reorganized after a directors meeting. Lancaster Williams of Baltimore elected president replacing John Shelton Williams of Richmond. New vice presidents include F Brow New York EL Bemis Richmond and J H Wilkinson Valdosta. B W Duer Baltimore named vice president in charge of operating. T Harnest elected secretary and treasurer, succeeding Rutherford Fleet and C T Williams. The plan anticipates traffic arrangements with the Brinson railroad and possible Augusta to Columbia extension to link with the Georgia and Florida, enhancing eastward access.
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Augusta
Georgia and Fiorida
Lancaster Williams
Baltimore
John Shelton Willams
Richmond
New York EL
Bemis Richmond
J H Wilkinson
Valdosta
Georgia
Florida
Duer
Aine
Columbia
Augusta Aiken
Aiken
WY Street Owners Seek Damages Over Ivy Street Work
The city street committee faced a flood of damage claims from Ivy street property owners. Councilman Claude L Ashley urged halting or altering the Ivy street regrading, noting many claims arise from beneficiaries while others suffer profit boosts in property values. Several petitions urged reimbursements and grade changes, with protests about Peachtree and Sixth to Sixteenth streets and opposition to tearing up Forsyth and James streets for a pneumatic transmitter project.
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Ivy Street
Claude L Ashley
Ashley
Cain
Peachtree
Ivy Streets
Alex Stephens
Mra
Bdl Swift
Ivy
J C Johnson
Harrie Street
Courtland
Matheson
Rech
Kimball Street
Orme
Fowler
Peters Land Company
Council West
Hall
West
John F Murphy
Jthe County
Ithe County
Fourth Street
Hemphill
Western Union
Forsyth James
Peach Tree
Puttag
Seville
Forsyth
Ubtoen
Tames Street
James
Underwood Typewriter Service Advertises Office Stenographers
The Underwood Typewriter office offers high grade stenographers and invites inquiries via phone to Miss Hitt for staffing and typing services.
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Underwood Typewriter
Mrs Frances Shaw Sued For hotel debt in court
Mrs Frances D Shaw, known for a brick making patent, faces a Superior Court suit for 122,352 dollars claimed by the Georgian Terrace hotel for board. A distress warrant moved from a justice court, with levy on bric brac and antiques, sending the case upward. Shaw contests 105,967 dollars, offering to pay the rest, with property levied including three bronze animals eight Japanese chairs an eighteenth century wall hanging and other valuables.
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Frances D Shaw
Georgian Terrace
Levy
On & Mumber
Shay
King Dan Shaw Freed After Stockade Sentence
King Dan Shaw, once white king of Atlanta's blind teers, was released after completing a sixty day sentence. He was jailed again Friday, arraigned for a stockade escape, and sentenced to thirty days or a fifty dollar fine. He paid the fine and was last seen speeding toward Fairman to rejoin his wife and children.
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King Shaws
Dan Shaw
Atlantas
Blind Teers
Broyles
Dan
Andy
Fuirman
West Virginia
Slaughter Joins A B A Bank and Railroad Moves Offices
E T Lamb announces R Kemp Slaughter I as auditor and F K Mayo as treasurer of the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad. Slaughter arrives from Baltimore after leaving Chesapeake Steamship, to take the new posts as the railway shifts its offices from the Aus tell to the Anstell building on Forsyth street. Slaughter will join her husband in Atlanta after a brief stay in Baltimore.
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Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
Austell
E. T Lamb
Road
R. Kemp Slaughter I
F K. Meys
Slaughter
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bteamship
Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic
JL. Hamar
Cohen Accused of Defrauding Creditors in West Point
Allegations claim M Cohen merchant in West Point seeks to concest and remove stock to defraud creditors. King Garment Co of Cincinnati seeks $62359, Progress Pants Co claims $341.99, Solomon Todes of Baltimore $263.25. Involuntary bankruptcy filed with Deputy Clerk Hood seeking receiver appointment.
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M Cohen
West Point
King Garment Company
Cincinnati
Progress Pante Company
Solomon Todes
Baltimore
Hood
Cotton Stocks in Americus Fall to 1500 Bales
Americus January 31 special reports that 1500 bales of cotton remain stored in Americus warehouses after recent sales. A farmer’s stock, once in a gunhouse for three years, improved in quality. About 33,000 bales of wagon cotton from the current crop have been received, mostly from Sumter county last year.
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Americus Ge
Americus
Sumter County
Typewriters for rent at Underwood Office on Broad Street
Underwood Typewriters for rent at 52 North Broad Street. Office equipment available for temporary needs with prompt service and local delivery options.
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Underwood
North Broad Street
Lent Begins Next Wednesday Ash Wednesday Theme
The text notes Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent a forty day period of renunciation of worldly pleasures. Rev Willis Momminger of An Baluts Episcopal church argues against swapping one form of gaiety for another suggesting restraint from rouge for forty days may be wiser.
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Willis Momminger
An Baluts
Memminger
Renunciation and Lent Reflect Personal Choice Says He
The speaker argues renunciation is not a mere gesture but a recognition of why it happens and a preparation for confronting life’s harsher realities. He notes Lent is a matter for individual conscience and not to be prescribed, insisting self denial is for each person to work out in their own pleasures.
Peculiar Seasonal Notes Mention Seville Prices
The article notes the Benten season closing on Higatarr gay March 22 and a distant ecclesiastical record, then reports Seville as a south coast port with flour near 104 per barrel, oranges under a cent, ham about 46 cents per pound, and sugar at 9 cents.
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Seville
Spain
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Best Jellico
Fulton Coal Company
M. Cohen
Dr. Memminger
Piedmont
Frederick Fanning Ayer
London Academy
Cork Examiner
Boston Herald
Troy Record
Oston Transcript
Occult Review
England
Portland Oregonian
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Foston Post
Miasiniee Sons, Publishers
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