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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1915
Page
13
New York report notes uniform integrity across European police forces with no general corruption. It credits centralized responsibility, rigorous selection, and trained officials, contrasting British civil policing with continental units aligned to ruling classes. Average European cop wages cited as modest.
Jefferson City Mo February 20 Governor Major tonight honored the requisition of the governor of Massachusetts for the extradition of Mrs Lulu West identified by Springfield Mass officials and Bertillon experts as the queen of pickpockets and shoplifters.
A vintage remedy claims Sage and Sulphur restore faded or gray hair to its natural color. The recipe, sold as Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound for 60 cents, is applied with a sponge to a strand at a time and is said to darken hair, reduce dandruff, and leave hair glossy and abundant.
A Mikado locomotive weighing 162 tons derailed with eleven freight cars near Agnes Scott college in Decatur. The automatic switch failure halted traffic, but through trains were resumed by afternoon as crews cleared wreckage and prepared to raise the engine. Engineer CG D McDermond and fireman escaped minor injuries.
A Georgia unit listing officers and district coordinators for the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations. Names include Mrs. Howard A. Payne Elberton as President and Mrs. J R Lit te Atlanta as Honorary President, with regional vice presidents and secretaries across Savannah Columbus Rome Brunswick and other cities.
A Georgia effort led by the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher associations mobilizes federal and state leaders to improve birth and death registration, child health, and education. Notable figures include Julia Lathrop of the federal children’s bureau and Dr A P Fort and Colonel RC Alston guiding the district sanitary commission. Local PTAs in Elberton Augusta Brunswick Savannah and Macon advance Founders' Day programs and organize delegates for the annual Macon meeting.
New York trustees of the Kahn Foundation for the Foreign Travel of American Teachers announce that no fellows will be appointed for 1915 16 due to global war disruptions. The 1914 15 fellows are Lindsey Blayney of the William Rice Institute Houston and Benjamin Sledd of Wake Forest College. Blayney was in Germany at war start and planned Egypt India and Japan while Sledd was in England and has visited Geneva and Rome. Both have suffered great delays.
Georgia Supreme Court cases from multiple counties affirm and reverse in error on various dockets. Attorneys for plaintiffs in error include Hendrix Silverman Smith Crenshaw and Turner while respondents and counters feature Conyers Bell Meadows and Rawhage with judges Danie Watkins Patterson Meador and Walker. Several verdicts originate in Fulton Bibb and Cobb with parties such as Warren Hays Grogan and Wallace named in the records.
A historic ad promotes a 68 page illustrated treatise The Nature Cause and Permanent Felter of Heart Diseases Without Drugs. It promises reader benefits and relief from heart symptoms without drugs and offers free delivery upon request. It includes dubious claims and a begging address for the institute.
Los Angeles February 20. The indictment of Harry Chandler, son in law of Otis and owner of The Los Angeles Times, for encouraging a revolutionary movement in lower California, sparks claims by Carranza allies that other prominent Americans will be arrested. The grand jury also indicted Walter Bowker and five others, beginning a wider U.S. investigation into a plot to establish a new government in lower California and possibly overthrow Carranza throughout Mexico.
Charles Becker now awaiting execution at Sing Sing faces a planned new trial. On February 25 his counsel will move in the supreme court based on an affidavit by James Marshall, repudiating testimony from Becker's second trial. The Philadelphia affidavit forms the basis of the motion.
Washington February 20 The first counterfeit of a federal reserve note has appeared It is a five dollar note from the Dallas reserve bank printed from poorly executed etched plates on two pieces of paper with silk threads between The note is a quarter inch shorter than the genuine and Chief Flynn says 18 such a poor piece of work It should be detected readily.
Fairmont West Virginia February 20 deputies led by Sheriff C D Conaway of Marion County clashed with striking miners over arrests. One man probably fatally hurt four seriously wounded and many cut or bruised. Constable W R Riges in critical condition. Strikers demanded wage scale changes blamed on powder charges. Jamigo Coal miners walked out yesterday amid dispute with the company. Miners seek United Mine Workers organizers as the district remains unorganized. Watches called Nuremberg eggs during the unrest.
Said Jack to Bob yesterday about measurements over the past two weeks, most men being 44 chest and weighing 225 pounds. He notes a corner on the big man tailoring market but wants slim customers to improve breakeven on their one-price service at $35. A new window shows latest shirts and bow ties.
Multiple obituaries and funeral notices from Atlanta inquested for Mary E Newman aged 64 at 582 West Peachtree Street. Private service, interment in Selma Alabama. Other notices include Margaret Daniels Williams Morrison Cullinane and Erwin family funerals with chapel services at Barclay Brandon Greenberg Bond and Patterson, pallbearers named and West View Cemetery mentioned.
Dxcelior Springs Missouri February 20 funeral services for Frank James last survivor of the James outlaw band who died last Thursday were held today on his farm near here. John F. Phillips former federal judge who defended James when he was tried for murder and admitted in Gallatin delivered the funeral address. The body will be cremated per James last wish and the ashes placed in a safe deposit vault here to avoid making his grave a sightseer mecca.
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