Railroads Face Georgia Commission on Fare Hike Plan
The Georgia railroad commission rejected a proposed double fare scheme by Central of Georgia and Atlantic Coast Line for drawing room passengers. The plan would charge two first class tickets for drawing rooms or equivalents, even if a single occupant uses the space. Officials noted sleeping car pitches are set by sleeping car companies, and the increase would apply to interstate tariffs effective March 1, 1914. A sample from Atlanta to major cities shows substantial rises in combined railroad and Pullman charges for drawing room occupants.
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Railroad Commission
Central of Georgia
Atlantic Coast Line
Pullman Company
Gentral of Georgia Railway Company
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Railroad Commission of Georgia
Georgia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia Commission
Sleeping
Southeast
Atlanta
Washington
Louisville
Cincinnati
Pullman
Savannah
Dobbins Bankrupt Petition Filed in Federal Court
W S Dobbing a restaurant owner in Atlants filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in U S court with Deputy Clerk Fred Beers. He lists assets of 3270 and debts of 8146 03. Creditors including The White Pro vision company seek appointment of a receiver to be presented to Judge Newman this morning.
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Dobbins
Fred Beers
United States Court
W. S. Dobbing
Atlants
S¢ Marietta Street
Decaturtreet
White Provision Company
Newman
Freight Cars Plunge Into Suwanee River After Wreck
Warcross Ga February 11. A northbound Atlantic Coast Line extra freight derailment destroyed a 100 and 80 feet of Suwannee river trestle causing thirteen freight cars to plunge into the river. Traffic between Waycross and Lake Landia detoured over Georgia Southern and Seaboard Air-Line tracks, with repairs estimated to take forty hours.
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Warcross
Suwanee
Atlantic Coast Line
Waycross
Lakelandia
Georgia Southern
Seaboard Air-Line
Potomac Tug Guides Ice Blocked Crew Safe at Lobster Head
Bonne Bay Newfoundland February 11. The Ameri can naval tug Potomac now stranded in ice near Lobster Head light station. All thirty crew members are reported well. Vessel short of coal and provisions. Potomac was sent from Norfolk to release three caught fishing schooners in the Bay of Islands and became icebound, drifting north toward the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
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Bonne Bay
Newfoundland
Potomac
Lobster Head
Lobster “Head
Norfolk
Bay of Islands
Sca
Gulf of St Lawrance
Bible in English for the Hebrews marks new translations
New York February 11 The first translation of the Bible from Hebrew completed last night signals future English renderings. Jewish leaders claim the work frees itself of sectarian bias and adopts synagogue usages while using King James diction. The order of Old Testament books differs, with Daniel placed in the apocalyptic section.
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New York
Solomon Schechter
Jewish Theological Seminary
Jacob H. Sebitt
de. Kaufman Fepler
Daniel
War on billboards begins in New York
New York February 11 Henry Ho Curran introduced in the board of aldermen an ordinance to bring all future billboards under building department supervision. The bill proposes taxing billboards as property to raise revenue and seeks a constitutional amendment for general billboard regulation to protect sightlines and prevent offensive signs.
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New York
Albany
Henry Ho Curran
Bens
al Jermen
New York City
Sumter Candidates Make Announcements in Americus
Americus, Ga February 11 Candidates for Sumter county offices announced for all available posts. Sheri T Fuller Court Clerk Debert Allen Tax Collector Brown Smari Tax Receiver John T Howell Treasurer Patrick I Williams seek re election. Other candidates join the field as the Democratic primary set for March 13. Legislature nominees will be chosen in June. Sumter names next senator for the thirteenth district.
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Americus
Sheri T. We Fuller
Debert Allen
Brown Smari
John T. Howell
Patrick I. Williams
Sumter County
Additions Planned for Tifton Union Station
Four thousand six hundred dollars will be spent to add to and improve the union passenger station at Tifton Georgia. Work will begin immediately after plans are drawn and submitted to officials of the Georgia Southern and Florida and the Atlantic Coast Line, and approved. The current Coredele station crew will move to Tifton once that structure is finished.
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Tifton
Union
Georgia Southern
Florida
Atlantic Coast Cineraliwsys
Coredele
Titton
Cordele to Host New Salting Plant for Cucumbers
Jones Bros Pickling Company of Atlanta plans a salting and reuse facility in Cordele to handle the 1915 Crisp county cucumber crop. The plant will process the yield from about 2900 acres, with at least fifty farmers expected to participate and several local planters already signaling intent to join.
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Cordele
Crisp County
Jones Bros’ Pickling Company
Atlanta
Cordele's White Way Plan Moves Forward
An enthusiastic Cordele business district meeting and chamber of commerce committees backed the white-way project. A committee of O. T. Gowar J. J. Williams and J. W. Gannon was named to appeal to the city council for cooperation at the next session.
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Cordes
Cerritery Si iSpecial
Cordele
Chamber of Commerce
Cordela
O. T. Gowar
J. J. Willams
J. W. Gannon
King Will Give Recital At Wesley Memorial Church
Byron W. Imig, noted author and lecturer and president of the anal School of Oratory in Pittsburgh, will present a Shakespearean lecture recital at Wesley Memorial Church on Thursday evening February 19. His subject will be All the World’s a Stage.
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Byron Ww.img
Anal School of Oratory
Pittsburg
Wesley Memorial Church
Death rate comparisons from government table cited by Atlanta officials
City health officer Dr J B Kennedy notes Atlanta’s death rate for 1913 near 16.0 per 3000 based on 126000 population, while census figures show 15.8. He says Atlanta’s rate is lower than many southern cities and even Birmingham per federal data, amid nonresident patients inflating draw from a large region. Government table reports 1918 health indicators with national and city rates, listing Birmingham, Atlanta, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, St Louis, Nashville and Richmond among others.
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J. B. Kennedy
Atlanta
Census Bureau
South
Richmond
New Orleans
Memphis
Washington
Kennedy
Alabama
Mississippi
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Birmingham
Maryland
Minnesota
Portland
Oregon
Chicago
Louisville
Kansas City
St. Louis
Nashville
Scarlet fever fails to stop wedding in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati, Rabbi Julian Morgenstern officiated a wedding between Mo Newman and Miss Theresa Peyser despite Scarlet fever fears. Both from Baltimore, Peyser had been quarantined but the ceremony proceeded with health authorization. The couple and witnesses were wrapped in antiseptic wrappings and the bride later hospitalized. she was reportedly recovering today.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Asaan
Moon Newman
Theresa Peyser
Baltimore
Perger
Johns Hopkins
Newmac
Mias Poyser
Newman
Board of Health
Julian Morgenstern
Common Counsel Club Formally Organized in Washington
The Common Counsel club, formed by prominent national figures to unite progressive citizens for national affairs discussion, was officially organized in Washington. More than 600 charter applications for local councils were received, with rules setting ten members per locality and state councils of fifteen. The first national council will be the current temporary group of about thirty members, with limited two-state representation.
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Washington
Common Counsel Club
T. Bollard
Commission On Industrial Relations
Duis D. Brandeis
Byron HR. Newton
the Treasury
Solicitor Jol
State Department
METHOD FOR NAMING SENATORS PLACED FOR DIRECT ELECTION
Washington February 11 The senate without a roll call passed a bill to provide a temporary method for nominating and electing senators where states have not enacted procedures for the seventeenth amendment The measure failed as an amendment to make it apply only to elections 87 to 16 The law would take effect only when states adopt their own nomination machinery Southern senators opposed federal intrusion Senator Fal of New Mexico was the lone Republican in favor of limiting the bill to elections
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Washington
Senate
Fal
New Mexico
How I Darkened My Gray Hair
A reader shares a simple home recipe to darken gray hair using 7 oz water Barbo Compound bay rum and glycerine. The mix is applied every other day until the hair darkens then every two weeks, claiming to remove dandruff and scalp humors while acting as a hair tonic without grease or scalp staining.
Business and Congress to Work in Harmony
Washington February 11 The American business world met federal leaders as Secretary Wilson and Commissioner Prouty spoke at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States annual convention. About 500 delegates from across the country attended three days of talks on banking currency interstate commerce and regulation.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Labor
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Big Department
Business
Congress
Clearing House For
Business World
Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago
National Chamber of Commerce
United States
National Chamber
Editor Older Accused of Conducting Lottery
Stockton, February 11. Complaint seeks arrest of prominent San Francisco Bulletin editor Fremont Older for conducting a lottery through newspaper columns. R A Crothers publisher of The Bulletin named in the charge, a misdemeanor under the penal code.
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Stockton
Cal
Irremont Fider
San Francisco
Bulletin
Fremont Older
Older
Washington
R.A. Crothers
Lotteries
United States Maila
Post Office Appropriation Bill Advances In House
Washington February 11 Nearly six million dollars was added to the post office appropriation as the measure passed the house and moved to senate committee. The total reached 10,600,000 for rentals with rural carrier salaries rising to 1200 dollars, a 4.35 million increase. An extra million was added for railway mail service to support parcel post. No rise in second class mail rates.
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Washington
Post Office
House
Senate Committee
Varnleres
Officers Elected in Colonal Company No. 18 Knights of Pythias
Colonal company No. 18 Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias held elections Thursday night electing A. Cruicksham as captain Lee F Terrell as first lieutenant J. R Reynolds as second lieutenant R. B. Lawshe as recorder and M. P Harrison as treasurer They will travel to the grand lodge meeting in Macon next May and are recruiting their company.
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Colonal Company
Knights of Pythios
A. Cruicksham
Lee F Terrell
Leutenant
J. R Reynolds
R. B. Lawshe
M. P Harrison
Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Macon
Sets of twins in single family meet in Marietta
Marietta Ga February 11 The visit of Mrs Garnett of Greensboro NC brings together three sets of twins N A and J F Brewer N A Brewers twin sons Linton and Leonard and Mrs Garnetts twin babies Glenn and Virginia Mrs Garnett is the daughter of M Brewer Father sons and grandsons as twins in one group
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Marietta
A@a Garnett
Greensboro
N. A
J. F. Brewer
N. A. Brewers
Linton
Leonard
Private bankers face state control under New York plan
The Van Tuyl legislative commission proposed a law to regulate private bankers by placing them under the state superintendent of banks. Banks would register bonds and stocks as security against depositor funds and pledge a portion of total deposits. The definition covers individuals, partnerships, or incorporated groups handling deposits, money transmission, discounting, and bullion dealings, potentially including J P Morgan & Co and money order firms.
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New York
Vantuyl Legislative Commission
Wall_street
J. P Morgan & Co
Association Formed To Push Sanitation In Southeast
A Southeastern sanitation association formed in Greenville last May meets in Greenville tomorrow and Friday. Its aim is to promote sanitation interests and unite those in the field to establish uniform methods. Creasy L. Wilbur of the federal vital statistics bureau will lecture on The Importance of Vital Statistics. Officers include James A. Hayne M D president W S Rankin M D vice president and Clarence H Smith D V S secretary and treasurer.
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Columbia
Southeastern Unutary, Association
Greenville
James A. Hayne
South Carolina
W. 8. Rankin
North Carolina
Clarence H Smith
Green‘ville
Students Stand by the King in Sweden Rally
Three thousand students from leading Swedish universities marched through Stockholm with patriotic music to the royal palace to pledge loyalty to King Gustave during a constitutionalist crisis, while the king expressed gratification and thanked the educated youth for their support in national defense.
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Tockholm
Sweden
Vands
Texas Palace
Gustave
Former Atlantans Death in Washington Home
A former Atlant an man died Wednesday at his Washington DC home aged 61. He served five years in the freight department of the Southern Railway and was active in Gate City Guard and Atlanta Rifles. Survived by his wife a daughter Thelma son Willie his mother Mrs Mamms Hill of Jacksonville three brothers Fran Hall Harry D Hill and W C Hill. His body to be brought to Atlanta for interment.
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Washington, DC
Freiget Department
Southern Raiway invAtienty
Gate City Guard
Atlanta Rifles
Atlana
Thelma
Willie
Mramms
G 'Hill
Jacksonville
Fran Hall
Atlanta
Harry D Hil
Memphis
W. C. HI
Fine record made by Carnegie Library
Miss Wooten reports January activity at Carnegie Library with 84 049 books checked out and 105 names added. Twenty non resident members paid the $1 fee and nine temporary residents deposited and drew books. Nearly $200 was turned over to Atlanta. Reading room visits reached 8578 as Miss Carolina Moore became a regular member.
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Miss Wooten
Victaman
Caraiexle Library
Atlanta
Carolina Moore
Lbrary
Braisted Confirmed as Navy Surgeon General
The nomination of Medical Inspector William G. Brasted to be surgeon general and chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery of the Navy was confirmed today by the Senate.
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Wastington
Nowussy
William G. Brasted
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of
The
Navy
Senate
May Try Anti-Saloonist on Contempt Charge
Savannah based anti-saloon leader W. B. Stubbs faces possible contempt charges as the grand jury weighs action after its refusal to return bills against Timor dealers. Stubbs urged the jury to report their stance on law enforcement and suggested indicting several witnesses for perjury to remain consistent.
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Savannah
W. B. Stubbs
Stubbs
New Milledgeville Church Opens Soon in Milledgeville Ga
Milledgeville Georgia February 11 Specials The handsome new Methodist church in Milledgeville, long under construction, will soon be completed and opened, marking a milestone for the community and local religious life.
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Milledgeville
Milledgerie
Cascarets Laxative Ad for Elderly Readers
An advertisement promotes Cascarets as a gentle, natural laxative for older people. It argues aging slows bowels and muscles, urging daily use, claims safety and effectiveness, and notes a 10 cent box is available at any drug store. The copy emphasizes ease of use and “works while you sleep.”
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Maier & Berkele, Inc
Jewelers
Whitehall Street
Carakassis
Coast Line
Sumter
Salting House
Cordele, Invdalafia Wahen Ahem
Business and Congress
National Commerce Chamber
Douglas A. Piske
Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association
Cristy Mead
American Association of Commercial Executives
H. W. McGullough
National Implement and Vehicle Association
Panik T Cherington
Harvard University
Redfield
Department of Commerce
Yantise
University of Wiscanaln
Aha
General Supply Co
Hinet Albena St
Carnegie Library
Wahenaer
Grand Jury
New Milledgeville Church
Regula
King Hardware CO
Valdes
Atlanta, Ga
Aperhn
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