Increased gas rate ordered by commission and consumers
The Atlanta Gas Light and Power Company faces an $8.85 million municipal bond issue oversight with a sixteen member bond commission to advise on expenditure. The panel, including representatives from all wards and the city at large, can wield legal authority under the city charter and will coordinate with council and mayor on bond fund use.
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Bita
Daughter Follows Mother's Adoption Scheme in Atlanta
A Jacksonville woman Eva May Swain wife of Willis Swain a Constriction Electrician adopted baby scheme mirrors her mother Alice South. Swain secretly took five children from a maternity home and passed them off as her own to her husband who was unaware he was not the father. The affair traces to 1914 and a past marriage that ended in divorce with the couple settling at 614 East Third Street. Continued on Rage 5 Col 3.
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Eva May Swain
Jacksonville
Alice South
Swain
Willis H. Swain
Construction
Envigearing Company
South
Third Street
Night’s work done by robbers at two stores
A Saturday night robbery spree left two stores entered and cash registers looted. At Sissleman’s grocery on Forrest Avenue $200 vanished after five masked white men held him at pistol point. Peters’s Piedmont Avenue store was also robbed of about $25 by two masked men. Peter Louis, 17, was beaten and robbed near his home on Arizona Avenue. a watch and some cash were stolen. Investigating officers were J H Davis, J B McDaniels, W McWilliams, and W F Bullard.
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Sissleman
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Davis
J. EB. McDaniels
Peter Louis
Piedmont Dayenue
Fourteenth Street
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Lougis
JW. McWilliams
Louis Peters
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D.paters
Arizona
Shis
Peters
Carpenter seeks to remove policewomen from force
Alderman J L Carpenter introduces a resolution in Atlanta to withdraw policewomen from duties arguing their presence is not essential to department efficiency. Police commissioners indicate the board would be obliged to comply if approved, as the four positions were created by special council action and are not governed by civil service rules.
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J. L. Carpenter
James Beavers
Police Commission
Carpenter
Board of Police Commissioners
Copnell
Carpenter Jolley
Carpé
Ae Lice’ Commissignete
Oxler
Move to Impeach Dee LL Starts in Senate
Washington February 12 Senator Dial South Carolina announced that he would bring impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Landis of Chicago in the case of Francis J Cores a bank clerk charged with embezzlement from the National City Bank of Ottawa Illinois Carey who pleaded patgata embezzling 296000 released yesterday on his own recognizance Judge Landis said the bankers really were responsible for the theft and Dial said he would bring the matter to the House for impeachment proceedings to originate Senator Thomas Colorado interrupted noting Landis salary from some bank Dial replied no further details.
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Dial
South Carolina
Tuey
Senate
Lantis
Chicago
Itaie
Landis
Francis
J. “Corés
Carey
Patlgata
National
Thomas
Colorado
Fake officer sought by prohibition agents in Georgia
Federal prohibition officials pursue Jack Goldstein alias Jack Gold suspected of posing as a federal officer to extort hundreds from victims. He allegedly stole a narcotics badge and operated in Georgia and the southeast, with Savannah grand jury reports of a $500 payout to a local proprietors. District official D J Gants indicates possible charges for impersonating an officer and related abuses.
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Jack Goldstein
Jack Gold
Narcolties
W.E. Drautzberg
Georgia
Savannah
Federal
Grand Jury
Freddie
Willa
Harr
B. Tevy
Atlanta
Goldstein
D. J. Gants
Prohibition
Southeasts
Imperth United Colquitt Carter
Levy
Bo Levy
Gettle
Peachtree Hills raid nets large liquor bust
Authorities led by Solicitor General John Boykin and Assistant Stephens raided two sites in Atlanta's Peachtree Hills and Exchange Place, arresting ten people and seizing 348 gallons of corn whisky and 2,000 gallons of beer. The operation uncovered a substantial distillery as part of a larger syndicate crackdown. White women and men were among those arrested. no casualties were reported.
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Political Divizion
Ledgue ‘Thins
Atlanta
Ite
Prohle Nagents
Jack
Vhtree Hills
W. Ll. Garvin
Peachtree Hills
J. Gregory Murphy
John Boykin
EK. A. Stephens
Georgia
M. @. Griffith
Dick Moore
Sam Edmondson
W. J. Garvin
Mr. Boykin
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Exchange Placer
Peachtree Hill
W. L. Garvin
Exchange Place
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Moore
Arthur Brandon
Augusta
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Beavers
Hela Winder’ Bond
OF. Ingram
Fonds
Brandon
Edmondson
Bam Hasmondson
Cassell
Riley
Ephens
Stephens
Murphy. Hone
Weather forecast brief for Georgia region
A partial forecast notes a Georgia fall Sunday and Monday with somewhat warmer Monday. The message references a new era and pre hurricane timing hints, though details are incomplete and organization not specified.
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Washington
Georgia
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