Atlanta Embraces Midweek Bargain Day Spectacle
Atlanta shoppers flocked to the busy districts on Thursday February 4 as merchants launched a midweek bargain day. Stores offered special sales all day, drawing large crowds and lively activity, with clerks busy and streets filled with fashion and commerce. The novelty proved popular with both merchants and customers, signaling Atlanta can sustain two major sale days each week.
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Atlante
Avlanta
Hanta
Mari
Atlanta
Switch Engine Kills T C Gurr in Atlanta Yard Accident
T C Gurr formerly of Gainesville Ga and recently working in Atlanta in Georgia railroad yards fell from a switch engine about 4 30 yesterday morning. His body was crushed under the wheels and he died before arrival at Grady Hospital. The 19 year old had lived in Sugar Valley Ga and Gainesville before moving to the city to work as an extra car counter in the railway yards. His father W B Gurr took the body to Sugar Valley for funeral services and interment scheduled today.
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T C Gurr
Gaineaville
Atlanta
Georgia
Grady Hospital
Jissoy
Sugar Valley
Gainesville
Decatur Street
Amick
Belestreet Parge
W B Gurr
Bughr Valley
Sites of railroad improvements reviewed by city committees
Alderman Terry and Councilman Bruca chaired a private rail improvement inspection along Central Avenue eastward to Delta Place in Inton Park. The group discussed the Washington Street viaduct to cross several streets, with a proposed length of 1080 feet and cost about 126000 dollars, aiming to report to the next council session.
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Terry
Bruca
Loulaville
Nashville
Central Avenue
Delta Place
Inton Park
Hunter Street
Mesers Hammond and Smith
Smith, Hamond & Smith
T K Scott
the Georgia
McDaniel
Hutchins
Moxieof Council
Washington Street
R M. Clayton
Colling Street
Decatur Street
Courtland Street
Gilmer Street
Atlanta
Ech Place
Uncle Sam Wages War on Jug Traffic in Southwest
Federal grand jury indictments loom against Kansas City express agents and liquor wholesalers across Kansas Texas and Missouri for shipping liquor into prohibition states. John W Yerkes of the Internal Revenue Service says arrests may stem from local officials uncovering shipments to express agents who sell whisky without required tax stamps.
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Kansas City
Federal
Grand Jury
Kansas
Texas
John W Yerkes
Internal Revenue
Washington
Ness
Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
Hia
Prohibition State Sale Question Clouds Local Game Law
A fragment notes that selling without social tax stamps could lead to prosecution and that a sale occurred in a prohibition state. It argues the game law applies uniformly across localities, regardless of state rules. The readable text is incomplete but centers on legality of sales under tax stamp and game law in prohibition contexts.
Prominent Maconites Sail To Hawkinsville By Steamboat Excursion
A half hundred Macon men and women from the chamber of commerce left Macon on a steamboat this morning heading for Hawkinsville. Sighted delays at the Ocmulgee postponed arrival until this afternoon, then trains brought them to Hawkinsville by 9 pm. Elaborate entertainments and speeches were planned with committees listed.
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Hawkinsville
Maconlany
Chamber of Commerce
Macon
Ocmulgee
Bullards
Brown House
F H Boyer
Warren Grice
Pope Brown
Lovejoy
T F Loyless
A Murphy
J Henry
Conk
Jordan
F M Eindridge
Rogan
H Boyer
Buchholz
J F Coney
Rhodes
J J Harvard
Willian Brown
Stolen gold caused arrest in Roanoke Va
Roanoke Virginia February 4 two men named William Raymond and Jamie Donohue were arrested by Railway Special Agents' Association president W G Baldwin for cracking the safe at the national bank of Rocky Mount two weeks earlier. A total of $4 000 in silver was stolen and eleven bags containing $1 100 in silver were found on the pair. About $2 000 remains unaccounted. The men had hidden the money near Rocky Mount and had travelled from Roanoke the night before to retrieve it.
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Roanoke
Wiliam Raymond
Jamie Donohue
W. G Baldwin
Railway Special Agents’ Association of America and Canada
Natiopal Bank
Rocky Mount
Roacke
Mental Science Trial Nears End in Mrs Post Case
In Jacksonville Florida on February 4 the United States Court heard closing witnesses in the trial of Mrs Helen Williams Post. The government alleges the advertising driven by her mental science treatment was a fraud and that patients were manipulated via mail. Witnesses from across the country testified to claimed cures and benefits, including Mrs D Ricker of South Lake Weir and others who spoke of lung treatments and distant cures.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Helen Williams Post
United States
Post
D . Ricker
South Lake Weir
Fis
Mrs Post
Cambridge
Mass
H FE Starkey
Chicago
Fast
Seabreeze
Tla
Ahea F Mitchell
California
G Stephens
Richland
Iowa
W, H Fourt
Proctorvile
Ohio
Helen M Oliver
Marblehead
Maas
John McWilliams
Odell
Wis
Susan Silver
Urbana Ohl
Fost
Mills Hold Cotton Amid Price Rise
Hawkins Ve ta. February 4. Despite rising cotton prices in recent weeks the Hawkinsville cotton mill has held its supply. The mills laid in a year’s supply at prices that will barely pay them to operate and will continue to run full time.
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Hawkins Ve
Sebruary
Hawkins Ilié
Baelly
Will Contest Hulseys Rust and Election Blunder
Fulton county ordinary race heats up as Judge W H L Hulsey faces challenge to his eligibility after running as an independent in the last primary. He admits a political blunder and pledges to abide by the democratic primary while underscoring the committee has no power to bar him from the race.
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W HL Hulsey
Fulton County
Judge Hulsey
John H .Wilkinson
Hulsey
Executive Committee
Judge Hulseys
Judge Hussey
W .L Galhoun
Calhoun
M Ot Leatte
Donahoo
Adamsville
Wilkinson
Courtland
Winn
Mercer and Macon Park dispute settled for season
The Macon professional ball team and Mercer college baseball team reached a settlement in Macon on February 4. Franchise owner Kohler will renovate the park with new grandstand bleachers and fencing. Mercer gains park use during the college season, and Boston will use the grounds for spring work free of rent. Kohler pays a nominal fee and covers improvements.
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Macon
Mercer
Spence
Macon Ga
Wohler
Council
Kohler
Boston
Every Grave to Have Mark Confederate Graves to Be Marked at Linwood
Columbus GA February 4 Special Ladies Memorial Association plans to mark every Confederate grave in Linwood cemetery. 652 soldiers buried there, 186 unmarked. 128 donated by Louis F Garrard as nucleus for a fund to mark graves. Water Works hearing ongoing in Columbus case against the city. Special Master Goethin to report on injunction against building rival works.
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Columbus
Ladies’ Memorial Association
Linwood
Sexton Beard
Louis F Garrard
Graves Water Works
Columbus Ga
Flemm R Goethhin
Columbus Water Works Company
Aty
Newman
Goethus
Altion
Georgia
LF Garrard
W Cecil Nedl
Columbres
Olin J Wimberly
Macon
Complaiants
T T “Miller
J H Wartin
Wiliam A Wimbish
Atlinta
Cit
City of
City of Columbus
Bisling
Gold Medal Contest Honors General Gordon at Boys High
A morning program at 10 o clock at the Boys High School honors General John B. Gordon with a gold medal for the best speech on his life and character. Seven top students Ashby Hill Clifford Steinbauer Cherry Emerson Frank Math Max Wifensky Harrison Jones and George W WeCarty Jr compete under Professor Wo Slaten. Colonel Joe Austin will present the medal as five judges including three men and two women decide. Local civic and Confederate groups are urged to attend and support the event.
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John B. Gordon
Robert E. Lee
Robert E Lee
General Gordon
South
Georgia
Guidon
Wo Wo Slaten
Ashby Hill Clifford Steinbauer Cherry Emerson Frank Math Max Wifensky
Harrison Jones
George W WeCarty Jr
Joe Austin Sho
Robert Bree
Professor Linton
Daughters of the Confederacy
Sons of the Confederacy
Children of the Confederacy
Daughters of the American Revolution
Board of Education
Autman Arrest Ties Columbus Case to Phenix City Scheme
In Columbus, Jesse Autman, a about thirty year old white man, is under arrest in Phenix City. He allegedly passed worthless checks and claimed he was a clerk at Lanette Alabama. James O Grady of Phenix City cashed a five dollar check for him and B Rothschild of Columbus cashed another small check. The checks were drawn on a Wrest Point bank and Autman says he was kept at the bottom of the trouble.
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People of Columbus
Jesse Autman
Columbus
Phenix City
James O Grady
Rothschild
Autman
Lanette
Ala
West Pant G
Wrest Point Bank
Whisay
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Bibb Brick Works
E L Martin
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