Atlanta City Finances Close 1913 With 625000 Cash
The city of Atlanta ends 1913 with a $625,000 cash balance carried into 1914 to cover unpaid last year obligations. Funds include $175,000 charter fund and $275,000 emergency reserve, with $196,000 tied to bond-issue purposes and $135,000 remaining on the crematory debt. Mayor Woodward touts debt reduction and aims for a debt-free city by January 1, 1915.
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Atlanta
New York Destructor Company
Destructor Company
Cuy
Glenn Street
Woodward
Gold Secret Keeps Far From Gold Find Near Atlanta
A confidential claim by C A Parks, a Union Plumbing bookkeeper of 33 Auburn Avenue, reports an unworked gold deposit within 10 miles of Atlanta yielding six pennyweights of gold. He says the washing produced flake gold and shows a gold sample worth about 650 dollars, but he refuses to disclose the location or further details. He promises to reveal the site in due time through proper channels.
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C. A. Parks
Auburn Avenue
Union Plumbing Company
Parks
Two Persons Saved by Expert Swimmer
In Captain Benjamin E. Schlomberg’s annual report of the United States Volunteers Life Saving corps, the Miami rescue on February 18 and a Palm Beach surf rescue on February 28 are detailed. Schlomberg jumped overboard with clothes on in Miami to save a man, and the Miami effort followed long service in Atlanta and Piedmont Park, with future plans to swim the English Channel.
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Benjamin E. Schlomberg
United States Volunteers Life Saving Corps
Lakewood
Florida
Schlomberg
H.W. Harris
Miami
Palm Beach
Lizzards Dredged in Wyoming by Early Paleontologists
Dr. Collier Cobb of the University of North Carolina recalls meeting Dr. J. H. Todd of the University of Kansas in a Piedmont hotel lobby. The two scientists once led a Wyoming lizard-digging expedition in 1839, discovering a giant fossil lizard named Brontosaurus, initially thought 90 feet but later measured at 118 feet, with an alive weight estimated in the hundreds of tons. a specimen is now at Carnegie Museum and a copy has been presented to the King of England.
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Wyoming
Georgia
Atlanta
Dr. Todd
Cobb
Carnegie Muuseum
England
Collier Cobb
University of North Carolina
J. B. Todd
University of Kansas
Women Health Reform Debate Sparks Southern Study
Dr Charles Wardell Budlea of Washington DC, speaking at the Convention for the Advancement of Science, argues that Southern homes and rural schools lack sanitation, citing typhoid death rates and privy absence. Dr Stiles supports a push for sanitation laws and better public health, warning of risks to mothers and children.
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Charles Wardell Budlea
Washington, D. C
Convention For the Advancement of Science
Bulds
South
United States
Stiley
Stiles
Potomac River
Dr. Stites
Atlanta Clearings Show Steady Rise in 1913 Bank Clearings
Atlanta clearing house figures reveal 1913 year total of 725,604,192.65 with December at 84,097,293.95 and October peaking at 91,042,241.61. Over five years, clearings rose consistently from 1909 to 1913, indicating strong year over year growth.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Clearme House Association
Clearing House Ig
Wade Indorsed by Athens Bar as Pottle Successor
Peyton St Wade of Dublin is prominently mentioned as the successor to Judge J. R. Pottle on the court of appeals. The Athens Bar association has taken favorable action, and Wade is noted to have many friends in Athens and Dublin who would like to see him advance.
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Peyton St Wade
Dublin
J. R. Pottle
Court of Appeals
Athens Bar Association
Mrr. Wade
Athens
Public health plea frames race and sanitation debate
A speech by Dr Stiles urged a public welfare department and vital statistics to improve sanitation. He warned that economy minded leaders neglect child health, contrasted white and Negro living conditions, and called for laws, enforcement, and public conscience to prevent disease and death.
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Stiles
Stilea
Wilmer Moore
Chamber of Commerce
Theas
Differenc
South
Moore to appoint welfare committee for city bureau
Wilmer I Moore will appoint a ten member welfare committee to plan a city welfare bureau for the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The committee, to meet at Piedmont hotel, aims to organize a paid secretary led bureau ready for action. Moore warned the personnel would be announced soon.
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Moore
Atlanta
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Wyoming State
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Ufe
H. P. Harris
State Health Board
Germany
Switzerland
Scotland
Italy
Typhoiu Veatha
Scotiana
Switzerlant
Liberal Exchange
Maier & Berkele, Inc
Whitehall St
Wade
January Lippinscott
E. G. Willingham
Ado Osa
Atlanta, Ga
the Lowry National Bank OF Atlanta
County of
Fulton
City of
Lowry National Bank of Atlanta
Robert J. Lowry
Thomas D. Beadge
Henry W. Davis
E. A. Bancker, Jr
Warner Martin
Asst
Cashier Asst
Thomas J. Avery
Thomas Egleston
Frederic J
Samuel M. Inman ,Thomas K. Glenn Piveneee
Ae agaraeeroaSy Paxon
John E. Murphy
Edward H. Inman
J. H. Nunnally Ernest Wo Thos. D. Meador Wilkinson
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