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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1921
Page
8
The excerpt describes a woman named Maude, her final hours, and narration of her request to be taken away. She repeatedly inhaled chloroform to ease pain, with a statement that she may have taken more than realized while alone briefly. The text ends with the body placed in a Hope Chest and a line about leaving the body.
A speaker recounts deciding to bury a body in the basement after contemplating conventional funeral practices. The narrative shifts to a remark about gold, noting its global distribution from Australia to Spitzbergen and the Arctic. The text mixes a chilling crime motif with a geological aside on gold provenance.
Sir James Craig was elected leader of the Ulster Unionist party by the council in Belfast on February 4. Sir Edward Carson presided, pledging a steadfast course and urging loyalty to the throne while opposing coercion and unity talks with the south. Craig, an Orangeman, pledged no surrender to disintegration and expected the king to open both Ulster and southern parliaments.
In a city meeting the Empl oyers Association of Atlanta endorsed a large bond issue to fund public improvements and school payrolls. Officials stressed the need for permanent, well built schools and planned infrastructure like Spring Street via duct and Forsyth street underpass. The language notes opposition from underground groups and calls for voter turnout and a bond commission to oversee expenditure.
The Sunday Civil Bill before the Senate proposes 42 million dollars for five new veteran buildings across the central Atlantic coast, Great Lakes, central southwest, Rocky Mountain states, and southern California with locations decided by a commission. It also allocates 5 million to expand hospital facilities in Norfolk Virginia Lake City Florida Atlanta and Louisville. Additional provisions include 750 thousand for Coast Guard pay 363 thousand to restore Lincoln Memorial retaining walls and 200 thousand for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. House appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission and Interstate Commerce Commission are cut to 800 thousand and 1,609 thousand respectively.
A Senate hearing features General Mitchell arguing aerial forces can sink battleships and that air power has made surface navies obsolete. Navy data claimed secret were disclosed by Army officers who attended the Indiana bombing. The session ends with continuation planned tomorrow amid push for high speed aircraft carriers and a Borah led six month naval build suspension proposal. Also noted is the Doctors Exchange in Atlanta gaining physician subscribers and expanding like minded exchanges in other cities.
London reports identify Sir Auckland Geddes as handling Britain’s debt talks with the United States. Lord Chalmers’s planned U S visit is postponed to aid negotiations while Geddes remains in Washington. The talks follow postwar financial issues and Liberty Loan provisions.
Reports say Lord Chalmers would travel to the United States to seek conversion of Britain’s debt into 6 per cent bonds maturing in 1988 and 1947. The delegation for Lord Chalmers’ trip to America is noted.
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