Cosmopolitan Life to Quit Business at Annual Meeting
At the annual meeting of Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company directors and stockholders, it was recommended and approved to liquidate and go out of business. The firm will reinsure policies totaling over 1.2 million with Pan-American Life of New Orleans due to weak regional business volume and to protect stockholder surpluses. The Pan-American group has over 2.5 million in assets and 18 million in in-force insurance, supporting a plan that leaves capital intact while returning invested funds to shareholders. The management received praise for handling affairs and the vote favorable, marking an unusual retirement from business with a strong record.
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Cosmo Politan Life Insurance Company
Third National Bank
Pan-American Life Insurance Company
New Orleans
Wynn
Cosmopolitan
Pan-American Life Inurance Company
Yon
Feigs Kranes
Augusta and the Movies in February Barbecue Tribute
The Merchants and Manufacturers association in Augusta Ga tendered official thanks to the thriving local film makers. The group hosted a barbecue to honor the picture artists now producing films in Augusta signaling city support and goodwill.
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Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Trioving
Augusta
Merchants’ Organization
Unc le Tom s Cabin to Show Next Week Under New Name
A Atlanta theater will stage Uncle Tom's Cabin revamped as Old Plantation Days next week. The change follows a meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and city women's clubs who cut lines and renamed the play to avoid offensive depictions of the South. Key figures included Homer George and Walter Baldwin. a letter from Mrs Joseph H Morgan urged suppression of the production.
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Atlanta
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Federated Women's Clubs
Homer George
Walter 5. Baldwin
Baldwin-Mellvile’ Stock Company
Toms Cabin
South
Herriet Beecher Stowe
Williams McCarthy
Pioneer Women's Society
Miss Baxter
Joseph H. Morgan
Samuel Lumpkin
Atlanta City Federation
P. J. McGovern
Women's Club
E. I. Connally
Nels Remus Memorial Association
Pioneer ‘Women's’ Society
Ladies’ Memorial Association
T. I Stevens
A. D
A. D. McD. Wilson
Georgia Southern Confederate Memorial Association
Mary Seiffeth
Children of Confederacy of Georgia
Woman killed by train on Ohio Florida Special
Macon Ga February 18 Special Mrs T E King aged 60 was instantly killed at 140 this afternoon when struck by the fast Ohio Florida special on the Southern railway at Bullands station a few miles below Macon She walked from behind an old tool house directly in front of the train Engineer Av H Robison could not stop in time The body was badly mangled Mrs King was the mother of extra Section Foreman Wm A King.
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Macon
T. E. King
Southern Railway
Bulland’s
King
Av.h. Robison
Runaway Waycross Boy Found in Jacksonville
Leroy Wells, 13, of Waycross Georgia, who sparked a statewide search, was located in Jacksonville Florida by police. His father pursued him this evening. The boy had set out to “make his way in the world” with just $15 to his name.
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Waycross
iLeroy Wells
Jacksonville
Fla
Mayor to Probe Delay in Forsyth Street Paving
Mayor James G Woodward will personally investigate the Forsyth street paving delay after citizens and property owners complained the city bears responsibility. Reports say water mains are lowered and services hooked up, utilities claim work finished, and county ready to aid once city orders. Delay traced to city curbing not placed when crews prepared, forcing additional curb orders.
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James G. Woodward
Forsyth
Water Department
Georgia Hallway and Power Company
Telephone Company
Woodward
Syth Street
Fulton and DeKalb Divided Into Wards By Suffragists
Under the Fulton and DeKalb county branch of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia, Atlanta wards are mapped by population. Ward and precinct committees aim to reach every resident with suffrage propaganda. Mrs. H A Wason and Mrs W Hinglifts call suffragists to meetings at their homes next Monday at 2 30 PM.
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Fulton and DeKalb County
Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia
Atlanta
H.a.wason
W. Hing¢hlift
Appeals Court Revises Ruling in Accident Policy Case
J Ellsworth Hall of Macon sued an accident insurance company to force payment on his father Judge John IT Hart’s life policy. The Georgia Court of Appeals reversed the Bibb county lower court, ruling insurance clauses that specify death by accident should be construed in the insured’s favor. Judge Hart died from a fall while kidney trouble afflicted him.
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Court of Appeal
J. Ellsworth Hall
Macon
John IT. Hart
Bibb County
United States
Court of Appeals
Hall
New Trial Granted Over Drinking Character in Slaying Case
The Alabama high court reversed a lower court ruling admitting bad character evidence about Waldo Dunn based on bibulous habits in the Henry Tankersley voluntary manslaughter case. The decision rejects that drunkenness taints overall character, noting biblical and historical examples of respected figures who drank.
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Russel
Court of Appeals
H. L. Patterson
Hive Ridge
Waldo Duan
Henry Tankersley
Fannin County
High Court
Newt Morris
Dunn
Noah
House of David
cZard
Bloodhounds Must Prove Their Ability Says Appeals Court
The Georgia Court of Appeals held that bloodhounds are not competent witnesses unless proven to have keen scent, discrimination, and proper training. In the case of B A Fite of Kennesaw, convicted on circumstantial evidence from tracking dogs, the lower court was reversed and a new trial granted.
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Appeals Court
Justice Russell
Court of Appeals
B. A. Fite
Kennesaw
T. Whitaker
Fite
Farmers urged to organize to avert calamity by J J Brown
J J Brown president of the Georgia Farmers Union warns that without immediate organization a calamity looms for farmers. He cites dangerous speculative schemes since the European war and urges western and southern farmers to diversify wisely, grow grain, and join the union to secure rural credit, higher yields, and stable markets to prevent bankruptcy.
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Eich
J.J. Brown
Farmers’ Union 2
Georgia
Botnik
Brown
la Borea
South
Lyric to reopen with high class films March first
The Lyric theater will reopen March 1 under Hugh Cardoza with Jake Wells directing both Lyric and Grand. The Grand remains a 5 cent house while the Lyric charges 26 cents for high class features led by Hypocrites with Loiseber. Admission will be by seat checks.
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Lyric Theater
Moving Pictures
Hugh Cardoza
Jake Wells
The
Lyric
the Grand
Moving Picture Houses
Grand
Moving Picture House
Loiseber
Ugly Words Passed by Palmer and Farr
Washington February 18 A bitter verbal clash between Representatives Palmer and Farr of Pennsylvania on the floor of the house tonight held up final action on the annual pension appropriation bill. Debate ranged widely and Palmer said it cost a million dollars to elect a Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Farr attacked in response.
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Washington
Palmer
Farr
Pennsylvania
House
Pension bill to pass tomorrow carrying large sum
A lobbyist and Mr. Palmer labeled Mr. Farr a tad-pole statesman as the pension bill carrying 164 million dollars is expected to be passed tomorrow.
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Palmer
Farr
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