Billion Dollars Urged for Roads
Chicago February 11 a billion dollar program of highway improvement was urged at the American Road Builders' congress. Safer highways and elimination of grade crossings were urged. Immediate action would employ 3,500,000 idle men. H C Sylvester vice president of National City Co New York spoke on financing by bond issues and taxation without burdening the taxpayer.
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Chicago
Congress
H.C. Sylvester
National City Company of
New York
Veterans Will Pass On Calder Coal Bill
At Theodore Roosevelt camp No. 8 Spanish War Veterans meeting this Sunday at 3 PM a resolution is likely to be adopted endorsing the Calder Coal bill. Adjutant Hartson notes the U S Chamber of Commerce opposes it, citing business restraints while veterans defend American principles and call out coal trust practices and miner wages of 1.6d per ton in a retail 11 dollar coal market.
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Calder
Thomas J. Hartson
United States Chamber of Commerce
McAn
Deutera
Hartson
Mining & Ton
All bids rejected for police summer uniforms
At a Friday meeting of the uniform committee of the board of police commissioners bids from manufacturers for city officers summer uniforms were rejected on motion of Commissioner Andy R. King. King cited five to six year price comparisons showing all bids excessive. The committee includes Stadley King and Freeman with Captain Chandler Sergeant Gordon and Patrolman Th.
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Uniform Committee
The
Board of Police Commissioners
Police
Andy R. King
King
William C. Stadley
W R Freeman
Chandler
Gordon
Workmen Busy as Cases Are Tried in Treutlen Court
Soperton Ga February 11 Special Troutlen county courthouse was turned over to Ordinary N lL Gillis by I P ritchfield of Macon. Cost near 100000 fireproofed in every way. Court sat last week while workers finished tower despite crowds for Dan Davis and Dennis Hooks murder trials. Treutlen county is the first new county created by the 1918 legislature.
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Soperton
Troutlen County
Ordlary
Ll. Gillis
I. P. Ritchfield
Macon
Dan Davis
Dennis Hooks
Treutlen County
Valentine Gifts From Our Store Offer Lasting Charm
Among the lacy paper greetings admired and enjoyed only for a day let YOUR Valentine be a gift from our store. You will find here gifts of surpassing loveliness as well as many odd inexpensive little ornaments and bits of silver more welcome than paper Valentines and much more lasting.
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Valentine
Lady Bootleggers Taken by Officers As They Leave Ship
New York February 11 six women debarked from the Italian liner Giuseppe Verdi at a North River pier to customs. A matron found 21 quarts of forbidden liquor sewn in bags under their dresses. They were fined and the booze confiscated. The women are said to have provided information on bootlegging from foreign shing operations.
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New York
North River
Strict precautions to prevent typhus in the United States
Washington reports federal health authorities deem current precautions sufficient to stop European typhus from spreading. Secretary Tumulty relayed to Dr. Copeland that there is no plan to ban immigrants from typhus districts. Surgeons caution outbreaks possible in slum quarters, but spread requires unsanitary conditions. A conference will review New York cases and Creel’s findings to decide further safeguards.
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Washington
United States
Tumulty
Royal S Copeland
New Ve City
Ori Tumulty
Copeland
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
White House
Cumming
Europe
Dr. Cumming
Ewing Laporte
Ewing Laporte, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
R. H L. Creel
Fragment of Skull Weighing Three Tons Towed to Miami
Scientists in Miami celebrate a deep sea creature find off Soldiers Key near Miami. A fragment of its skull, fifteen feet long and seven feet wide, weighing about three tons, was towed to Miami by Elmer F. Garrettson of Huntington, L. I. New York, after being discovered three weeks earlier. The full identification of the monster remains unknown.
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Miami
Fla
Soldiers Key
Elmer FE. Garretson
Huntington
L. 1
New York
Cleveland merchants tour the south with Atlanta chamber guests
More than thirty Ohio executives and their spouses visit Atlanta as part of the Cleveland chamber of commerce tour. They are hosted at a luncheon and theater party, meet Atlanta business leaders, sample housing mentions, hear remarks on Georgia’s progress, and plan routes through Georgia and Florida before returning to Cleveland February 28.
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Francis E. Price
Cleveland
Atlanta
W. H. Kelly
W. M. Hardie
Sam R. Mason
J. R. Bentley
Fred Caley
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Board
Cleveland Chamber of Commerce
South
South Georgia
Florida
Chamber of Commerce
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
P. L. Ballou
Mason-Dixon Line
Lee Ashcraft
Chamber
Chamber of 1Commerce
Alf Newell
Newell
Georgia
William H H. Phelps
Howard
Brunswick
Jacksonville
Tampa
Lakeland
Arcadia
Fort Myers
Punta Gorda
Bartow
Orlando
Oh Kelley
W. M. Hardle
John R. Bentley
W. H Batten
H Caley
W. G Hurlburt
Tom Knight
EB. E Lawrence
T. Loehr
HM. Lucas
Samuel Ro Mason
George H. Miller
Hunter Morrison
Theodora Pop- Jowsky
J. F. Reichert
Ritter
WC. Thornton
John M Truby
Frank Schul Kins
ES. Schulte
C. W. Whitehair
Jury Awards 30000 in Kisses Case for Miss Lavezzorio
In Chicago on February 11 Americo Cuneo was ordered to pay Miss Margaret Lavezzorio $30,000 after she sought $50,000 in damages for a series of kisses. The jury settled for three-fifths of the claimed amount. The verdict pleased the woman despite the dispute.
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Chicago
Americo Cuneo
Margaret Lavezzorio
Hearst seeks injunction to block foreign loans
Washington February 11 William Randolph Hearst as a citizen filed in district supreme court for an injunction against Secretary Houston to stop making further loans to foreign governments and to halt advances on credits to France Italy Greece Czechoslovakia Liberia and others. Ansell and Bailey represent Hearst.
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Washington
Houston
Treasury Department
District Supreme Court
Wiliam Randolph Hearst
Tastica Hitz
Hearst
France
Italy
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Liberia
Ansell and
Bailey
Tenth Ward Voters Rally For Bonds In Atlanta
City officials urge bond approval to fund water works and sewer projects. Mayor Key promises lower future water rates and warns absentee voters could hinder progress. Superintendent Dykes stresses a school bond need to avoid double sessions and a campus crisis. Sam Freeman presides as Adair School Community Center leads campaign.
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Key
Atlanta
Board of Education
Sam N. Freeman
Adair School
Campalen
City bonds committee defended as representative
Chairman Frank Inman defended the general bond campaign committee for Atlanta as broadly representative of all civic groups. He noted every ward will be housed by ward committees to canvass neighborhoods, and city council members were excluded since they were already at work for the bonds. Women speakers and various organizations continue to host bond talks ahead of the March 12 vote.
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Inman
Frank Inman
Atlanta
Womans
Bond
T. T. Stephens
Young Men's Christian Association
Ulric Atkinson
Atlante
Drama League
Key
Womang’ Club
John EK. Ottley
Crew Street
Victor Kriegshaber
Council of Jewish Women
Samuel Lumpkin
Luckie Street
Mra. T. 5
Stevens
Ivy 324
Mra
Jp. Turman
Milton Parent-Teacher Council
Daughters of the Confederacy
T. T Stevens
Farmers in Screven to Cut Cotton Crops
Sylvania Georgia February 10 Special At a large mass meeting of farmers and business men of Screven county at the court house today resolutions were passed to reduce cotton acreage this year committees were set up in each militia district to enforce the plan I M Evans of Halcyondale elected chairman speeches by prominent farmers and business leaders The resolutions pledge farmers to plant not more than one third of their acreage in cotton this year.
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Sylvania
Serevan County
I.M Evans
Halcyondale
Gude's Pepto Mangan Promise Boosts Vitality
A historical advertisement claims Gude's Pepto Mangan builds rich red blood and restores vigor. It promotes energy through nutrition and blood nourishment, offering liquid and tablet forms, both with identical medicinal properties. The ad urges asking for "Gude's" and highlights authenticity on the package.
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Gude
Ody
Early Returns Indicate Defeat of Amendments
Montgomery February 11 Complete returns from thirty six of sixty seven counties indicate both proposed amendments to the state constitution defeated by majorities unlikely to be overcome. The Montgom ery Advertiser canvassed by election boards reports the early results.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Advertiser
Williamson W. Will Withdrawn February Sixteen
Major Charles Thompson, assistant chief of staff to Major General Read, commander of the Fifth Army Corps area with headquarters at Fort Benjamin Harrison, announced tonight that W. Williamson’s will be withdrawn February 16.
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Williamson
W. Ws
Charles Thompson
Read
Fifth Army Corps
Fort Benjamin Heath
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Real Constitution
Calder Coal
Maier & Berkele, Inc
Whitehall St
LBA
Capt
Phelpn
Caticura Laboratories
Dept
Maldon
Mass
Valentines
Southern Decorating CO
Broad Street
Secretary of Treasury
Computen Eadquarters
City E
Screven
Airheart Shoe CO
Edgewood Avenue
Grosene
Tasi
Languid
Pepto- Mangan
Anapolis
Ind
Oral
Pryor Street
Auburn Avenue
the Tripod Paint Co
Ni Pryor Street
Pryor Place
Geo. Muse Clothing Co
Whitehall
MUSE
North
Tweedie
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