City Plans Nearly 700000 In Street and Sewer Improvements
City and Fulton county officials outline a joint program to spend about 700000 on streets and sewers this year. Plans include 328000 for streets and 359000 for new sewers with more than 2000 workers plus convict labor, plus county cooperation to accelerate the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Street Ca
Council
Public Tks
Fulton County
Teak
Atlanta
W.tom Winn
Public Works Committee
W. Tom Winn
Jeff Hightower
Oscar Mills
Street Committee of Council
Butler and
Highland Avenue
Fourth
Fourth Ward
North Avenue
Eighth
Fourth Wards
Forsyth
Carnegie Way
Fatal Shooting Ends Quarrel Over Girl in Glakdon Ga
Ira Bloodworth, eighteen, was shot and killed at a February 2 party in Glakdon. Police seek Tuss Mixon, alleged shooter. Witnesses say Mixon warned Bloodworth to back off before firing a shotgun blast two inches above the heart. Bloodworth belonged to an old local family. Mixon remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glakdon
Ira Bloodworth
Mixon
Bloodworth
New Queen Reigns in the Dairy World Ohio Cow Marne Cowan
Columbus reports a new dairy world record with Marne Cowan, a five year old Guernsey cow from a Barberton area farm. She produced twelve tons of milk in the year, averaging five percent butter fat and yielding about 1,400 pounds of butter from 1,096 pounds of butter fat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Columbus
Ohio State University
Marne Oownan
Guernsey
Marne Cowan
Barberton
Commander Briggs Dead in Washington D.C.
Commander Jo B. Bei, a retired senior officer of the cruiser Baltimore and veteran of Manila Bay, died today in Washington. He will be buried in Everett, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ceommider Jo B. Bei
Baltimore
Ile of Manila Bay
Everett
Mags
Court Room Sobs Of Crippled Child Free Her Father
A man named I A Williams stood trial after admitting drinking. In a compassionate moment the recorder chose mercy, freeing him with his wife and a crippled daughter present. Williams thanked the court and pledged to reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. A. Williams
Corley Street
God
Williams
Carter H Harrison Defeated for Democratic Nomination
Chicago February 23 Carter H Harrison finishing his fifth mayoral term loses the democratic nomination to Robert M Sweitzer, with a late est as 75 000 plus. Republican race tight as Harry Olson and William Hale Thompson near 300 votes apart. Riots prompt police patrols after Agnes Scanlon eight shot in foot amid crowd clash. Women voters show a distinct ballot pattern aiding Sweitzer while Olson leads among women helping Thompson among men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Robert M. Sweitzer
Cook County
Sweitzer
Harry B. Olson
William Hale Thompson
Olson
Agnes Scanlon
Harrison
Judge Olson
Thompson
Virginia woman chooses Washington Monument for suicide
Mrs W F Cockrell of Delray Virginia jumped into the Washington Monument elevator shaft near the top and fell more than 500 feet to her death. A note to her husband cited illness and she died before ground impact. The coroner ruled death by her own action. She was 32 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. F. Cockrell
Delray
Washington Monument
Edna Rockefeller
Takoma Park
Maryland
Mrs. Cockrell
Ockrell
Grady Hospital Clinic Condemned and Plans Plotted
Grady Hospital trustees heard Superintendent W M Summerall condemn the clinic as a "hole" where patients of all races mix indiscriminately. He urged modern clinic facilities a psychopathic ward a social worker and uniforms for staff. He noted Fulton county Tower conditions are unfit for mentally weak detainees and called for remodeling with support from city county and medical college to establish a first floor clinic and second floor psychopathic ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady _hospital
Fulton County
W.M. Summerall
Grady Hospital
Summerall
Burton County
W. B. Summerall
Atlanta Medical College
Grady
Fulton County Tower
Grady ,Hospital
Millergeville
Medical College
Alfred ©. Newell
Hebert J. Lowry
U S Steamer Garth Destroyed by Mine Off German Coast
London reports another American steamer the Carib sunk by a mine off the German coast while a third Norwegian vessel the Regia was torpedoed or mined off Dover. All of the Regin crew were saved and the Carib crew is believed to have escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Regia
Dover
Regin
Berlin
Rye
North
Darleydale
Belgium Relief Commission
Falmouth
Rotterdam
North Sea
Submarine Attacks Passengers in English Channel
German submarine torpedoed the steamer Vittoria between Boulogne and Folkestone wounding no one as the captain avoided danger. A later French naval report claimed the submarine was likely wrecked after a gunfight south of Boulogne. Neutrals aboard Vittoria numbered ninety two including several Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
English
France
England
Boulogne
Folkestone
Second Eighth Squadron
Minister of Marine
Cape Alprech
London
Secretary of the Admiralty
Folkestone-Boulogne Cross-Channel
Boulogne Harbor
Cotton convoy ships freight to Europe from Savannah
Forty thousand bales of cotton valued at about $1,600,000 were en route to Europe from Savannah today. The cargoes formed the loads of six steamers that sailed for European ports in the past forty eight hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Europe
White Dove of Peace Adorns Bryan Coat Lapel
Secretary Bryan wore an enamel white dove of peace with an olive branch at the cabinet meeting, a gift from a friend, as he addressed questions about possible complications for the United States in the foreign situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bryan
United States
Death by electric chair in Pennsylvania for wife murder
In Ocktion Pa during February's end the new law substituting the chair for the gallows carried out the death penalty in the Western penitentiary death house. John Talap paid the ultimate penalty for the murder of his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocktion
Pennsylvania
John Talap
Weather Prophecy Forecast for Georgia Aims Cloudy Showers
Partly cloudy and cooler Wednesday with showers. Thursday looks fair across Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sey Coup
Georgia
Also Mentioned on This Page
First Ward
Mitchel Street
Maggon
Turner Road
Ashby
Hmits
West Hanover
Vine
Griffin Street
Simpson
Magnolia
Chestnut
Hunter
Griffin
Second Ward
Pryor
Georgia Avenue
Vassar
West
Ind
South Boulevard
Arene
Rome
Commander Briggs
Leeds Woolen Mills
Constitution
Peachtree ST
T. Be French
Atlanta Constitution
Leeds
Woolen Mills
Democrats
Virginia
Grady Board
U.S
Garth
Collier
The
Victoria
New York
Clyde Line
Walk+er, Armstrong & Co
Charleston
Bremen
E L. Cole
Port Glasgow
Scotland
S. C
Birmingham
Boston
Buffalo
Denver
Moly
Galveston
Hatteras
Kansag City
Knoxville
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Mobile
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
Pittsburg
Partland
Ore
Rai
Raleigh
Louis
Salt Lake City
Shreveport
Spokane
Tampa
Toledo
Lear
Vicksburg
F. von Her
Dixcoten
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!