Cotton Brokers Sued by Bank in Georgia Courts
The Bank of Omega sues George Whitlsey, Wo Fisher, and E.R. Clark for $20,000 each in Dougherty County Superior Court and Albany City Court, alleging they traded cotton contracts on margin during Oct Dec. H. Ragsdale, bank cashier, allegedly used bank funds to back purchases, leading to embezzlement and a default, with money improperly received on gaming contracts.
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H. & Ragsdale
Bank of Omega
Auc
Ragsdale
Omega
Substantial Gain in Bank Clearings Last Week
Bank clearings for the past week totaled 917,867,9233, far above the previous year’s corresponding week at 14,294,517.23. The weekly gain over 1915 stood at 97,573,406 10. Saturday clearings reached 982,473 84, versus 2,364,1E4 01 the prior year.
California Syrup of Figs advertises aiding constipated children
An old promotional item extols California Syrup of Figs as harmless and effective for infant and child constipation. It claims a teaspoon moves waste in hours, restores playfulness, and warns to buy only from the California Fig Syrup Company with clear bottle directions and a 60 cent price.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
Local Shriners Prepare for Atlanta Ceremonial Visit
Nobles of Yaarab temple begin preparations for a February 17 ceremonial in Atlanta to honor Imperial potentate J Putnam Stevens while marking the first large Shriner gathering since Andrewa Wallee elevated to potentate. A 3 PM business session precedes the evening event at the Auditorium, with many southern cities represented.
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J. Putnam
Imperial
Wallee DP
Andrewa
Atlanta
Map of Dixie Highway progress discussed in Thomasville
Thomasville, Ga February 5 Special W Gilbreath executive secretary of the Dixie Highway association says no information yet for a condition map to show county work and current road status A memorandum compares read work proposed routes and conditions as Gilbreath travels to Tallahassee to resolve routing through Leon and Jefferson counties The Central States Guide Book project will feature pictures of local sites to be distributed in western states Georgia roads and sunshine were praised during the visit
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Thomasville
W . Gilbreaty
Dine Highway Association
Fhemassilie Commercial Association
Gilbreath
Tallanasses
Leon County
Jefferson
Tre ‘la
Gear- Ria
Speakers at Atlanta Baptist meeting to address Sunday audience
The Atlanta Baptist Sunday School association will hold its regular monthly meeting Sunday evening at Capitol Avenue Baptist Church in Isvelock. Professor L P Wilson of Boys High School will talk on Isolations of the Church to the Sunday School and a special speaker from the National Laymen's Missionary Convention will speak on Missions in the Sunday School. The Laymen's speaker was not yet announced.
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Atlanta Baptist Sunday School Association
Capitol Avenue Baptist Church
I Svelock
L. P. Wilson
Boys’ High School
National
Present cold weather protects fruit crop in Lyerly Ga
The present cold spell in Lyerly Georgia delays peach and plum buds, preventing imminent bloom. Growers say mild recent days had started buds but the cold will slow development for several days, reducing damage risk if warming resumes.
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Lyerly
Candler Leases New Peachtree Building To Electrical Storage Battery
Asa G Candler leases the northwest corner of West Peachtree and Baker streets to the Electrical Storage Battery Co of Philadelphia for ten years. The two story reinforced concrete building, permit $39000, will host a large assembling plant as business grows. The district manager, 4 N Bentley, says Piedmont Avenue plant is expanding to meet demand for auto storage and light batteries. The company, the country’s largest battery maker, operates in about fifteen cities with capital stock around 15 million.
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Peachtree Street
Atlanta
Asa G. Candler
Oiner
West Peachtree and
Baker Streets
Gramling
Electrical Storage Battery Company
Philadelphia
Candler
Arthur Taft
New York City
Baker Street
Ia 4
N. Bentley
Cander
Bentley
Piedmont Avenue
Bantlay
Dog on Track Kills W. P. Cheek in Georgia
W P Cheek a Western Union lineman aged 40 from Bastandlee Ga died instantly three miles south of Athens when a Seaboard Air Line motor car overturned after a dog crossed the track Harris his coworker was riding with escaped with minor injuries and survived the crash authorities reported the incident occurred at about ten miles per hour details of the crash were recorded by local investigators
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Athens
F. Cheek
Bastandlee
Western Union
R. Harris
Seaboard Air Lane
Gwéarin
Varris
Atlanta Suffragists Plan February Rally and Week of Talks
Atlanta suffragists report over 2000 signatures on petitions for municipal suffrage during the first five days of campaigning. AL Jennings will speak Monday at 3 o clock at the Baptist Tabernacle, with Mrs C Horine and Mrs John Kenny also scheduled. A major rally was moved from February 22 to accommodate a police fund event, and 224 leading speakers will participate across Whitehall Street and Peachtree Street venues each February evening.
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Atlanta
AL Jennings
The
Baptist Tabernacle
Pone
Margaret Key
Woman's Journal
Jernngs
C. Horine
New York
John Kenny
Tennessee
Central
Whitehall
Peachtree Street
Funeral for H F Jones Held in Quitman Georgia
Quitman Georgia February 5 Special Frank Jones of this county died in a Baltimore hospital yesterday. His remains arrived this afternoon and the funeral was held. He underwent a brain tumor operation the second of its kind known. The operation was successful until an abscess formed on his lung and he failed to rally. Jones belonged to a prominent south Georgia family and is survived by his mother Elia Capers Jones of Quitman four sisters and two brothers. He was about 36 and unmarried.
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Quitman
Frank Jones
Baltimore
T Il
Jones
South
Georgia
Elia Capers Jones
Annie Foster
Florence Western
Nathaniel Niles
New York
James Leltner
Atlanta
Audley’ M. Jones
T C. Jones
Florida
Thomasville Folks Playing In Movies In Town
Thomasville Georgia February 5. Thomasville will have many well known locals in the Lubin company stage production The Fires of John. Mr Lewis appeals for volunteers to fill scenes and says scenery is ready locally. He hopes to stage another play soon as the current one finishes. The town enjoys the event with crowds from ministers to schoolchildren watching the show.
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Thomasville
Speeim
Lewis
Thomanville Paoble
Gospal
Dairy Report Details Milk Standards in January
January dairy report outlines required butter fat level up to 36 percent and allowable bacteria counts up to 100 000 per cubic centimeter. It warns milk must be kept below 60 degrees, delivered under 55 degrees, and urges consumer thermometer testing to identify dairymen delivering best milk.
Robbery on Capitol Hill Injures Decatur Engineer
H W Johnson of Decatur Georgia, until recently living in Mexico City, was robbed at knife point near the capitol building on a Saturday night. Two African American assailants, one tall in a cap and one stout in a soft hat, relieved him of 8160 and a packet of documents before stabbing him in the neck and fleeing with the money and papers.
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H. W. Johnson
Decatur
Mexico City
Mexico
Capitol
Capitol Building
Johnson
JB. Johnson
Big Brother
Jhecutut
Election Year Tales and City News From Atlanta
A fragmented column recounts 1848 Atlanta licensing, a bear attack that followed a tanyard and slaughter pen, and a schoolday witness. It includes Macon mayor Bridges Smith seeking cheap gasoline facts, Nim Hurt’s chilly lake swims, and a Recorder’s rule on officer testimony as possible indictment practice.
Postal vault cracked for about $1000 in stamps
Moultrie Georgia report of an all day search failing to identify the gang that cracked the Dweryn post office vault last night and stole about $1000 in stamps plus a sum of money. Burglars used three explosions to break in and wrecked the building then stole an automobile which was later abandoned. Police description of the car was circulated statewide with no results.
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Moultrie
Sfalled
Dweryn
Premier of Australia On Way to London
Honolulu February 6 William Hughes premier and treasurer of Australia arrived to join Canadian premier Robert J Borden in Montreal and proceed to London for an Imperial conference. He sailed aboard the Makura January 23 with attempts made to conceal his identity while 7 miles offshore from Sydney awaiting arrival.
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Honolulu
T. H
William Hughes
Australia
Montreal
Robert J. Borden
London
Makura
Sydney
Horse Runs Away Hurting Carpenter on Haynes Street
I M Wheeler, a carpenter of 15 Edwards Street, was thrown from a frightened horse driven down Haynes Street by a street car. He suffered a fractured wrist, elbow, back bruising, and head cuts. The wagon collapsed but the horse survived. Wheeler was taken to Grady Hospital, non fatal injuries expected to recover.
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I. M Wheeler
Edwards Street
Haynes Street
Mr Wheeler
Haynes and
Simpson
Wheeler
Grady Hospital
Nia
Constitution
Strikers Return to Work at Yonkers Federal Sugar Refining
Seven hundred employees of the Federal Sugar Refining company returned to work after a strike. The firm granted a wage advance of from 3 to 0 percent, and the plant has been filling war orders.
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Yonkers, N
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Walter Johnson Praised By H L M Kee In Georgia Party Row
H L M Kee denies a February 10 Atlanta meeting to discuss the Georgia state chairmanship. He says only Walter H Johnson of Columbus can call such a meeting, with J M Barnes as vice chairman and Lol Johnson as secretary. Johnson is urged to remain in office and is seen as acceptable to southern, progressive, and old line factions.
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Atlanta
State Committee
H L. McKee
Walter H. Johnson
Columbus
State Central Committee
JM. Barnes
Thompson
Colonel Johnson
Georgie
Johnson
Sie
Georgia
Georzia
Negro Odd Fellows object to union with Ruth Household
The district grand lodge of Negro Odd Fellows opposes a proposed merger with the Household of Ruth. Litigation has lingered, and Savannah’s Holling Randolph, counsel for a Savannah delegation, filed to restrain Atlanta’s executive committee from acting on the merger. The Savannah delegation, Brinson, Daniel, Powell, and Parker, plans a statewide meeting to elect new officers and trustees amid Atlanta and Savannah pressure.
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Grand Lodge of Negro Odd Fellows
Bel
Mth
Holling Randolph
Savannah
Cla Fellows
Petitian
Atlanta
CM. Brinson
B W
Daniel
J. D. Powell
J J Parker
Odd Fellows
Pope
Grand United Order
Philadelphia
Household of Ruth
Danderine Promise: Thick Glossy Hair in Ten Minutes
A 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine is advertised to remove dandruff and hair loss within ten minutes of application. It claims scalp relief, strengthened roots, and rapid growth with new hair appearing after a few weeks, urging careful strand-by-strand use for shiny, lustrous, long hair.
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Danderina Tx
Catherine
Knowlton
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Shepherd
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Nas
Soaa Ag
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Pauchtree
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Boyle
J.B. Colter
Grant Ark
W. HW
Gazaway
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Inman Park
W.N Howell
Moreland Ave
Tack Boulevard
Inman Bark
J. Clay E
Atlanta Ga
Haines
Biossoma Hill
Avanta
Taman Park
Beclun
HG. White
White Star Dairy
D “Acatur
Lake Ave
Highland
Pina Angler
M. L. Parks
Citycatur
View Dairy
M Key
Nock Capitot Central Iy Bart
Rings “Dairy
Fonce de Leon
Peaches
Luckie
OW. Key
Faley Park
Myrtle
Peacht
Toney Atlante
An. R
Ala
Torrent Low White
Ray An
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Charles O Smith
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Mast
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OPERA
Metropolitan Opera Company
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HM Terk
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Brown
David “Woodward
Jehan M Slaton
Frank Inman
Akers i
Aynga
R. Brone
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Breete. Honter
George BE
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Charles W. Crankshaw
L. Patterson
Alvert Thornton
Albert Thornton
Cherlea Franklin
Daniel McDougald
AR. Blanchard
Louis Ghotatin
L Husaul
Yaa, Bartholomew
Colton Lynew
Capitol Avenue
Thomas J. Buchanan
Gershom
C. Rogera
Tanyard
Slaughter
Forsyth
Owens
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Macon
Bridges Smith
Walter Taylor
Allenta
Chambers
Bacon
Nym Hart
Nim Hurt
Piledmont
George E. Johnson
Colquitt
Yeggs
Doerun
Pyramid
Pyramid Drug Company
Mich
Tage & Boyd
Healey
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Walter Johnson
H. L. M'Kee
Negro Odd Fellows
Ruth
Cheney
Evans Chemical GO
Cincinnati
Salvarsan
IC. W. Bickley
Avery Drive
Atlanta, Ga
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