Atlanta mayor backs some Sands reform ideas
Mayor-elect James Woodward says some recommendations by Herbert Ro Sands of the Bureau of Municipal Research are good while others impracticable. He plans to urge council to adopt compatible reforms and refer others for consideration, including heads of departments, sub-police stations, and reorganizing the water department under council control.
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Herbert Ro Sands
Bureau of Municipal Research
New York
Atlanta
James
Wonedward
Council
Wootward
Woodward
Taese
Toarda
Con
Carlos H. Mason
Polices Commission
Police Department
Courtland Winn
People of
Split Views as Atlanta Considers License Inspector Abolition
Mayor Woodward rejects expert Sands's plan to abolish the license inspector and grant inspect and license powers. Critics claim department mergers could cut costs, while revenue from the license office stands at about $5,000 yearly. Police Chief Beavers warns abolition risks politicizing the force and fears military-style routines.
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Beavers
Uesday
Municpal
Sands
Te Board of Police Commissioners
Kier Beavers
Mrs Minna Adamson Laid To Rest In Carrollton
Funeral services were held at the Methodist Protestant church for Mrs Minna Adargeon wife of Congressman W C Adamson of the fourth Georgia district. Interment followed in the city cemetery. She died yesterday after a illness confined her to bed for several months.
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Carrollton
Methodist Protestant Church
Minna These Adargeon
W. C. Adamson
Georgia
County Officials Face Shakeup as Board Strikes New Path
County commissioners meet to organize for the year with anticipated personnel changes including a new almshouse head replacing H. B. Palmer with W. Tom Winn. The board plans to reorganize, possibly replacing the Almshouse superintendent and installing his wife as matron. Competition for the chairmanship centers on Shelby Smith and Tull C. Waters, with Waters currently vice chairman. Other officer shifts are expected as the full board reorganizes for an eight year.
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Almshouse
Board of County Commissioners
W. Tom ‘Winn
H. BE. W. Palmer
Clifford L. Anderson
Tull C. Waters
S. B. Turman
Shebby Smith
Oo. Fanning
General Anderson
Shelby Smith
Tull ¢. Waters
Waters
State gains injunction against Western Union rail line case
The state of Georgia secured a temporary injunction from Judge Pendleton restraining Western Union from condemning land along the Western and Atlantic railroad for telegraph wires. Final hearing is set for January 18. Attorney General T. S. Felder argues condemnation beyond the already pole covered areas would violate state sovereignty without assembly consent.
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Georgia
Telegraph Company
Brown
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Judore Pendleton
T. S. Felder
General Assembly
Wega
Western Union
Graves May Be Appointed Public Service Commissioner
The New York Sun predicts Jean Temple Graves will soon receive a major political post. Governor elect Culver of New York is not yet announced, but Colonel Graves is expected to be named Public Service Commissioner of New York state, succeeding William H. Cox when his term ends in 1913. Graves, editor for Hearst papers, formerly Atlanta newspaper editor, is well known in Georgia with many supporters.
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Jean Temple Graves
New York Sun
Culter
New York
Colonel Graves
New York State
the Sun
W York
Williamn HL Cox
Hearst News
Ife
Atlanta
The
News
Georgia
Bad Weather Predicted for Atlanta Today
Atlanta expected to endure a cold damp day with an east wind and intermittent rain. The forecast contrasts with Tuesday's unexpected clear conditions, suggesting the year could start with unusually unpleasant weather.
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Atlanta
Weather Department
Sumter County Produces Splendid Cotton Crop
Americas Georgia December 31. Sumter county produced a splendid cotton crop this year, up to the average. Americas warehouses have received 32,450 bales of wagon cotton to date, a near normal crop and well above two years ago. An additional 1,500 bales will likely be marketed, totaling about 34,000 bales, not including compress receipts. Little cotton remains unsold in warehouses.
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Americas
Spe
Cetal
Sumter
James McWhorter Dies at Greensboro Home
James H. McWhorter, Greensboro prominent citizen and former county legislator and long-serving ordinary, died this afternoon after a short grip attack. Survived by wife and daughter Miss Louise McWhorter. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
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Greensboro
James H. McWhorter
Louise McWhorter
Water wagon hits New York with vast whisky shipment
New York on December 31 saw 1,446,000 drinks of Scotch whisky unloaded at the Cameronia dock from Glasgow. The retail value is $288,000, marking one of the largest consignments received in a single ship.
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New York
Cameronia
Glasgow
Hill and Zoepffel Quellenstein feud and new postings
Judge Augustus W. Fite renews attack on the court of appeals claiming the record was altered and challenges Judge Hill to resign. Judge Hill dismisses the charge, noting the record speaks for itself. Dr Zoepffel Quelenstein, former imperial German consul in Atlanta, receives a double appointment as acting minister in Haiti and Santo Domingo, after recent service in Germany. He has long German diplomatic rank and military ties. Eugene, once acting consul in Atlanta and Costa Rica, now serves as acting consul in Brazil.
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Augustus W. Fite
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeal
Hill
Fite
E.oepffer-Quelenstein
Atlanta
Havana
Zoepffel
Royal Guard
Kaizer
Eugene
Costa Rica
Brazil
Law Firm Dissolution and Two New Offices Formed
Formal notice states the dissolution of Anderson Falder Rountree and Wilson, a premier Atlanta firm, with two successor firms formed by former partners. Anderson Rountree remains at 240 244 Equitable Building. Felder Anderson Dillon Whitman opens at 230 239 Equitable Building led by T B Felder James L Anderson W S Dillon and George P White. Wilson relocates to Richmond as chief counsel for Virginia Carolina Chemical Company.
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Atlanta
Anderson
Low rates announced for the inauguration
The Seaboard Railroad announced special inauguration fares from Atlanta for President Wilson's March 11 event. A round trip individual ticket costs 19.35, with a party rate of 12.90 for twenty five or more travelers. Tickets go on sale February 28 to March 3 and valid through March 10, with extensions possible. Several roads plan special trains from Atlanta for military and other organizations.
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Wilson
Washington
Seaboard
Atlanta
Departure of Symmes Regretted by Nashville
J Cleve Symmes leaves Nashville for Atlanta to join the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company. He is a well known former Cumberland Telephone employee and was prominent socially and in business circles in Nashville, earning many expressions of regret from his hometown as he departs.
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J. Cleve Symmes
Nashville
Atlanta
Southern Bell TelePhone and Telegraph Company
Symmes
Tennessee
Cumberland Telephone Company
Georgia Road Resumes Through Service Today
At Georgia railroad offices yesterday it was announced that repairs to the Yellow River bridge would be completed in time to allow No. 2 from Atlanta at 7 30 a m and No. 1 dug at Atlanta 1 50 p m to pass without transfer. All other regular service will be resumed today.
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The
Georgia Railroad
Yellow River
Atlanta
Dissolution and new partnerships of law firm Anderson Felder Rountree Wileson
The firm of Anderson Felder Rountree Wileson dissolves by mutual consent. Wilson becomes counsel for Virginia Carolina Chemical in Richmond. New Atlanta partnerships formed: Anderson & Rountree with Clifford L. Anderson and Daniel W. Rountree. Felder Anderson Dillon Whitman with Felder James To Anon and others. Old firm collections to be handled by elder Anderson Dillon Whitman. January 1 1913.
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Anderson, Felder, Rountree & Wileson
Wilson
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Richmond
Atlanta
Cliffor L. Anderson
Daniel W. Rountree
Anderson & Rountree
Equitable
James L. Anderson
T. E. Felder
Daniels W. Rountree
Charles G. Welson
Jnuary
Royals in Exile: Royal Descent among Savannah Residents
San Francisco reports Dr. David Starr Jordan’s book on eugenics shows royal lineages concentrated in cities. New York tops the list, with Charlemagne and Alfred the Great among the most represented ancestors, and several southern and coastal cities including Savannah cited for royal descendants across prominent families.
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San_Francisco
David Starr
Dr. Jordan
New York
Vincent Astor
Robert Bruce
Scotland
Army General Conference Planned With War Secretary
Brigadier General Robert K. Evans heads the Gulf department and will report to Secretary Stimson in Washington on Wednesday January for a first of its kind conference of all active general rank officers. Plans on the mobile army and implications for Fort McPherson and Atlanta brigades are anticipated topics amid southwest attention. Fifteen generals will attend this notable meeting.
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Robert K. Evans
Department of the Gulf
Secretary of War
Washington
United States
Evang
Southwest
Fort McPherson
At~lanta
McPherson
South Atlantic
Stimson
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