Three Lusty Visitors Make Barber Home Happy
A fat policeman tells of Moses Barber and a crowd at his Front street home. Inside Barber reveals he has three newborn sons weighing eighteen pounds total, while bystanders joke about the extraordinary birth. The lean bailiff ponders the scene as the crowd, mostly factory workers, files in and out.
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Barber's
Mose Barber
Moses Barber
Front Street
Exposition Cotton Mills
Barber
Tye
Chinese Colony Prepares for New Year Celebrations
Atlanta’s Chinese community readies a week long New Year celebration as Huang Hsu’s twenty eighth year is welcomed with ceremonies at 1 am Friday. Laundry owners display red welcome signs and party foods, with New Year rituals including debt payment and meticulous grooming.
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Huang Hsu
Atlanta
China
New York
San Francisco
Chicago
United States
Early Telephone Tales From Henry County to Atlanta
W A Fuller recounts early telephone experiences from 1880s Atlanta and Henry County. He describes crank phones, central operators, and humorous calls like ordering a rolling mill or a Miss in a Whitehall Street millinery shop. He details a homemade gin house to screw line using gourds as speaking devices and notes the persistence of innovation.
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Henry Grady
Central
Rolling Mill
Kimball House
John Ryan
Georgitian
Central Railroad
Whitehall Street
Sis
Old Henry County
Atlanta
Wiege
Cicero
W. A. Fuller
Raymond's Ruling Passion on Stage Duel
Washington Times recounts a Raleigh audience moment with John T. Raymond where he paused during a performance to offer a coin toss challenge to William St. John. The anecdote highlights Raymond's playful interaction and improvisation during the play.
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Raymond
Washington Times
John T. Raymond
William St. John
Raleigh
Wren
Rhodes Phonetic French Lesson Showed Rhodes’s Wit
Brooklyn Eagle recounts Cecil Rhodes conquering a language barrier by teaching British sailors to say plain words to mimic French. On a voyage from the Cape to England, as Empress Eugenie’s yacht passed Cherbourg, French sailors saluted. Rhodes joked they should say beef, lemons, and cheese, provoking a deafening cheer and delight from the ex-empress.
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Rhodes
Brooklyn Eagle
Cecil Rhodes
England
Cape
Cherbourg
Eugenie
Wea
City Council to review January apportionment sheet
Alderman Woodward pushes restoration of salaries for policemen teachers and firemen as Atlanta city council meets to act on the January apportionment. Debate centers on funds for various committees including a $1500 request for Becks committee and possible transfer of Charitable Association funds to Manufactures.
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Woodward
Atlanta Charitable Association
Atlanta Charitable Association Will Be Given To the Committee On
Counciman
J. Frank Beck
Beck
Iman Ontz
Atlanta
Manufactures
Alderman Woodward
John Malone
Glass
Funeral for Captain John A Colvin at Immaculate Conception
Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception for Captain John A. Colvin who died Saturday at St Joseph infirmary. The ceremony is at 1 o clock with Rev Father Schadewell officiating. Interment follows at Oakland cemetery. Pallbearers named: Charles Northen Frank Potts Joe Davidson A B Bostick Henry Durand J A Corbally. Gratton Colvin of New York, a son, arrived yesterday.
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John A. Colvin
St. Joseph Infirmary
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Father Schadewell
Captain Colvin
Oakland Cemetery
Charles Northen
Frank Potts
Joe Davidson
A. B Bostick
Henry Durand
J. A. Corbally
Miller & Bowden
Peachtree Street
Colvin
C. FB. Donnelly
Crew Street
Gratton Colvin
New York
Aged Countryman Robbed in Columbus Georgia
In Columbus Georgia on February 2 a 60-year-old man was robbed by three suspects, Joe Brumalo Dick Childs and George Smith. Police recovered 40 dollars on the negro’s person. Childs denies involvement while Smith accuses him. The old man threatened suicide while being escorted across a river bridge during the incident.
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Columbus
Columbs
Joe Brumalo
Dick Childs
George Smith
Smith
Childs
Pistol Fired From Higgins Room Amid Cash Bond
Traveling man H A Higgins jailed after pistol shots from his Kim bal room Sunday morning. Police say witnesses saw the flash. Higgins denies firing. He posted a $50.75 cash bond after sober up. Trial set this afternoon in the recorder's court.
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Kimbal
H. A. Higgins
Baracks
Higgs
Taylor
Florence
Higgins
Higems
Abbott
Regarderfs Court Room
The Old Homestead Returns to Grand Stage Nightly
Denman Thompson leads the sixteenth annual run of The Old Homestead at the Grand with a Wednesday Thursday bill and a special matinee. Miss Kidder plays Molly Pitcher in a drama filled with battle scenes and humor, supported by a large cast. Sousa tours with a midwinter concert, while George S. Palmer presents Ten Nights in a Barroom at the Columbia tonight with Verna Merle as Mary Morgan and a noted company backing the performance.
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Denman Thompson
Old Homestead
Josh
Gentleman Tramp
Cy Prime
Seth Perkins
Molly Pitcher
Monmouth
Mally Pitcher
the Grand
Miss Kidder
Glen MacDonough
United States Marine Band
John Philip Sousa
Sousa
Edward VII
Maud Reese- Davies
Dorothy Hoyle
Arthur Pryor
Columbia
George S. Palmer
Columbia Theater
Verna Merle
Mary Morgan
Cason in Jail on Bail Trover Case in City
Edward M. Cason, ex city detective, jailed on bail trover for a horse allegedly stolen from R. M. Bell on the Marietta road. Bell says he later learned Cason bought and disposed of the horse in good faith. Cason claims ownership and intends to bond out, with the case set for today.
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Cason
Edward M. Cason
Tower
BR. M. Bell
R. M Bell
Marietta Road
Bell
Cailed
Boa Gesaion
Justice of the Peace
Chastain
Caran
Elty
Burrell Billups Arrested in Counterfeit Case
In Athens on February 2 Burrell Billups colored was arrested on the charge of passing counterfeit money. He supplied a negro with a counterfeit dollar to buy whisky, and the ensnared man was jailed after revealing the plan. The case centers on attempted distribution of false currency via a dispensary run.
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Athens
Burrell Billups
Root Urges Abolish Transport Service In Navy Policy
Secretary Root champions ending the transport service to favor contracts with commercial lines for troop and supply movement to the Philippines. Senate commerce committee cites this to back the Pacific mail subsidy plan. General Ludington opposes abolition, arguing the government saved about 5 million by using its ships last year and that mainland to Manila transport remains crucial.
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House Committee
Root
Lfe
Pacific
Ludington
House Military Committee
San Francisco
Manila
Newark
Sedgwick
Seward
Portland
Ore
Philippines
Hancock
Thomas
GRANT
New York
Kilpatrick
McClellan
Buford
Jos. Ohd
Washington
Secretary of War
Adjutant General
Senate Committee On Commerce
Congress
Inea
Philippine Islands
Seivier
West Indies
Luddington
Atlantic
United States Army
Frieght
Pacific Coast
Fight Among Aldermen Stalemate Over Sewerage Bond
Wilmington, February 2 Specials. A private sewerage company faces aldermanic split over street restoration as a judge orders a bond to guarantee reinstatement. The firm halts earthwork after a restraining order, later modified to suspend work until a heavy restoration bond is posted. Tensions rise as factions clash and streets remain unsettled.
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Wilmington
Aldermante Board
Congo
Boxers Run the Koreans Government Called on To Send Military
A Western Korea report via Th Daily Mail correspondent says 20 percent of Chinese boxers crossed the frontier and plundered towns forcing inhabitants to flee. The government is urged to seek assistance for coast maintenance costs and transport service expenses for Army logistics.
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London
Coréa
St Petersburg
Th Daily Mail
Uiting
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Church of Immaculate Conception
Case
Fistel
Trover
R. Wi. Bell
Bainbridge Searchlight
W. B. Merritt
Valdosta
Glenn
la Anthe
Wa Pai Oats Shoe Co
Bond
Coast of Maintenanes
Kilpatrich
Sim
McLellan
Commercial Innes
Searg Aire Ce Bee
AIR Lite Railways
Opilanta Seriul
Norfolk
Richmond
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Seaboard
Union Depot
W. E. Christian
Weet Baker
Peachtres
Pryor St
Emith St
Whitehall House
Luckie
Pryor Bt
Baca
Highland Ave
Jackson
Worth
Hevend Bridge
Traders of
H. Glkenwedd & Co
Waiton
Prudentia Gidu
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