Atlanta Streets To Be Improved In 1900s Era Plan
The Atlanta street committee approved paving ordinances for multiple streets and allocated the street ordinary fund across wards. Resurfacing Ivy and West Peachtree is planned with asphalt and bitubble, with car-track blocks. many macadam streets follow. The Georgia Railway and Power Co will fund Ivy resurfacing. a steel bridge at Whitehall may receive city aid. traffic and parking rules are to be updated.
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Atlanta
Council
Decatur
Peachtree
West Peachtree
Baker
North Avenue
Sixth Street
Home Avenue
South Boulevard
Confederate Avenue
Greenwich Avenue
Dargan Place
Park Avenue
Fair
Berne
Austin
Avenue
Moreland
Euclid
Greenwood
Highland
McDaniel
Wiite
Couneil
Igen
Nouth
Edgewood Avenue
Forsyth Street
Alabama
Trinity Avenue
Cedar sword sent to President Wilson by Confederate veteran
Washington February 18 A Confederate veteran from Murfreesboro Tennessee age 69 sent President Wilson a cedar sword from the Stones River battlefield as a sign of interest in the preparedness program.
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Wilson
Washington
Walden
Mur[reesiora, Tenn
Stonea River
Eight Parishes Are Under Water
New Orleans reports eastern Louisiana flooded by overflows and breaks in Mississippi Arkansas Atchafalaya Red and Black rivers. Drownings few. marooned in Tensas Parish exceed 2060 Negroes. Relief from government steamers to Newellton and nearby camps. food and tents distributed. Flood control and watershed reforestation discussed by Wilson cabinet. federal action promised.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Atchafalaya
Red
Black
Tenses Parish
Newelston
Buck Ridge Plantation
Madison Parish
Tensas
Franklin
Catahoula
Moore House
Richland Parishes
Arkansas River
Concordia Parish
St. Landry
Newellton
Nate
Newellian
Natchez
Miss
Lafourche
Tansas
Tunice
Duck Ridge Plantation
Waterproof
St. Joseph
Tevee
Juck Ridge
Cotton Futures Bill Favorably Reported
Washington February 18 The Lever cotton futures bill, a duplicate of a measure ruled unconstitutional by Judge Hough, was ordered favorably reported by the House agricultural committee. Sponsors say it will establish an international standard of grade and contract. The bill mirrors the original act except that section 11 imposes a 2 cent tax on foreign contract orders from exchanges not adopting American standards.
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Washington
Hough
New York
House Agricultural Committee
Sponosra
House
Irdea
Permit hedging in foreign exchange against shipment of cotton
Officials permit hedging in foreign exchanges to cover actual shipment or sale of cotton, regardless of the contract type used for the foreign exchange hedge. The policy focuses on securing physical cotton transactions rather than the specific FX contract form.
Scheme to Smuggle Rubber to Germany
New York, February 18. Indictments were returned against Heinrich Bachmann and Mrs. Elsie Schroeder in a plot to smuggle rubber to Germany. The plan involved packing rubber in the woman's personal baggage to evade ship manifests. Bachmann and Schroeder arrived January 29. Bachmann allegedly bought 656 pounds of crude rubber and 42 dozen rubber gloves.
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New York
United States
Germany
Federal Grand
Heinrich Bachmann
Elsie Schroeder
Berlin
Bachmann
Mrs. Schroeder
Passage Booked to Christmason Sails Delayed by Inspectors
Customs inspectors halted the voyage on the Osea TL last Thursday preventing Mrs. Schroeder and Bachmann from sailing. Federal authorities say neither Bechmann nor Mrs. Schroeder has government ties but pursued the venture for personal profit.
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Chriatiamm
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Fruit & Fall
ST. Gall Reem Nee
Whitehall
Whitehall St
Main
Kingan
Garrett P. Serviss
Chesapeake Bay
Fulton Market
Alabama St
City Market Company
Pryor
Stone’s Oak Sues
Eureka
Karo
Marooned
Missisaippi
Redfield
Walter Parker
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Secretarien Lane
Houston
Congress
Special House
Word & Mauldin
Dealera
J. R. Whelcher
W. Peachtree St
Ivy
Bell M
Tunter St
Stone's Cakes
Bloche’s
Graham Wafers
Energy Builders
Rnut Bread Tour
The
D.L. Echols’ Grocery Co
Bell
Cleburne Ave
Bell Phone Main
California Peaches, LLC
Choice Western Meats
McLendon
Iowdrn
R.l.green
Lee Street
Stone's Gakes
Botterrut Breag
W. C. Green
Marietta St
Stone’s Gakes
Graham Wafers Energy Builders
T. E. Grizzard
Medmont Ave
Reeses
Leef
Dreyfus
South
Pryor Street
C. J. Burton
Akin’s
Bearhirer
Blue Lab
Les Rene
Fey
Turday
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Block
W.b.tribble West
Gordon St. Washing
Block’s Kennesaw
C. D. Wilson
Georgia Ave
Windsor St
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