First Recall Election Ballots Fall Today in Atlanta
Voters will decide whether Mayor James G Woodward and six police commissioners will be ousted. Ballots open 7 AM to 7 PM at listed wards with polling sites on South Forsyth and nearby streets. Registration shows 12 048 voters eligible with 32 1 signers against the mayor.
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Ball Hunter Street
South Pryor Street
Hunter and Tinger
Rex
South Boulevard
Fair Streets
Eoil White's
Fourth Ward
Auburn Avernue
Boulevard Tifte Ward
Mariettatreet
West Side
Kennedy Street
Sixth Ward
Grand Opera House
Tabernacle Place
H Starnes
Seventh Ward
Lee and Gordon Streets
Leo Street
Bomar Drug Company
Stewart Avenue
Ewain
Atlanta
James G Woodward
Willam & Fain
James W English
Robert T Pace
Robert C Clarke
Andrew KE King
Wife of Legislator Defies Traffic Officer in Jay Walking
Mrs Robert B Blackburn wife of a prominent lawyer and legislator from Fulton was arrested for jaywalking at Broad and Alabama streets. Police officer WL Eberhart charged her with violating the traffic ordinance after she refused his directions and continued across the street.
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Robert B Blackburn
Washington Street
Fulton
Blackburn
WL Bherbart
Alabama
Broad Streets
Inman Park
Broad and
Alaame
Fan Angle
Eberhart
Memphis political turmoil as resignations and indictments hit city
January 4 Memphis details two city commissioners resigning over probes in a turbulent scene. Indictments charge six men with vote fraud tied to the recent Democratic senatorial primary. Utilities chief Thomas Dies and Finance head Ennis Douglas resign amid ouster petitions as bond bids loom. Crump named finance commissioner. Love to continue as street commissioner per court order. Wage increases in Waterville mill lift pay for about 1490 workers starting January 4.
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Mempha Tenn
Municpal Commission
Thomas
Mie Perding
Ennis Douglas
Leo Goodman
Dabney Crump
E HE Crump
George Love
Board of
City Commisioners
Love
Supreme Court
Wave Crump
County Criminal Court
J J Griffin
Justice of the Peace
L Reed
M G@ Schaedler
Advertising Drives Honest Buying In The Constitution
The Constitution declares a commitment to reliable advertising and warns that only meritless ads should be avoided. It emphasizes buyer safety through integrity and reputation, stating reputable merchants and the paper itself will not publish misleading advertisements.
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Constitution
Constitution guarantees aid in Atlanta stores
The article notes that the constitution ensures aid in Atlanta stores amid ongoing advertising disputes. Officials reference aid provisions and local businesses respond with statements on access and compliance.
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Atlanta
Wilson pledges speed action in Persia case
Washington January 4. President Wilson returns to the White House to take personal charge of the submarine crisis while seeking cautious, deliberate steps. Officials say actions will follow full facts on the Persia disaster, with consuls to gather affidavits and cabled summaries, and Congress may be addressed in person once information is complete.
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Wilsons
White House
United States
Teutonic
State Department
Hner
Persia
Wildens
Tumolty
Lansing
Alexandria
Malta
Cilio
Igreesived
Ambassador Penfield
Bulgard
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Bulgaria
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Justice Lamarche House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Father Learns Son's Wedding By Long Distance
Howell Cobb wed Dorothy Hart at the Episcopal church in Athens on Monday afternoon. Judge Andrew J Cobb and friends at the Ansley hotel in Atlanta learned of the secret nuptials as the couple departed for a brief honeymoon. Howell, a graduate of the University of Georgia, holds a post with the Athens Gas Light Company.
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Andrew J Cobb
Athens
Ansley
Wenlo
Judge Cobb
Dorothy
Episcopal Church
Atlanta
Andrey
JS Cobb
Georgia
Howell Cobb
Mins Dorothy Hart
Blance Hart
Mrs Minnie D Petit Found Dead After Carbolic Acid
Gainesville Ga January 4 Mrs Minnie D Petit wife of H T Petit and daughter of C P Umptnam was found dead in her New Holland home. She dressed carefully that morning and was alone with a negro maid in the house when death occurred. Funeral held at First Baptist church with burial in a local cemetery.
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Gainesville
Spesial
Minnie Dun
Jap Petit
HT Petit
C. Pumtam Fr
Petit
New Holland
Petit Wre
Tacolet Mills
First Baptist Church
French Art Auction Opens in Atlanta Exhibition Begins Monday
French art expert Jules Ratsko arrives in Atlanta with a vast collection from French palaces. Five days of private display and an auction at the Healey building run by Ratsko, with sales limited to the auction. He travels to New York and Chicago for similar events as Allied confidence grows in victory.
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Atlanta
France
M. Ratsko
Healey
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Chicago
Ratako
New Orleans
M. Rainko
M Ratisko
Kaiser S throat cancer cited by Paris paper
Paris reports that the German emperor suffers throat cancer and may need full larynx removal. Doctors weighed operation options to restore speech, with an artificial larynx and tracheal tube studied by a Paris surgeon who was asked to travel to Berlin.
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Europe
Aus
Berlin
Warsaw
Constantinople
Brussels
Sugar Babe’s Barber Shop Escape Makes Headlines
A Georgia resident known as Sugar Babe claims he is the only Sugar Babe in Georgia, denies being involved in fraudulent checks, and demands space in The Constitution to correct a previous report. The tale recounts his alleged escape from a Spartanburg deputy sheriff at the Kimball House barber shop, with multiple chair appearances and police lineups noted.
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Precedien Eter
C . Courtney Famiarly
Sugar Babe
Spartanburg
Atlanta
Spaginburg
Kimball House
Sugar Baba
Riley
Sugar Babes
South Carolina
Georgia
Marietta Street
North Avenue
Sugar Babe Lewis
Sherwood Would Cut Strength of U S Army
Representative Sherwood of Ohio opened a House speech attacking armament makers and militarists and proposed reducing the army to fifty thousand men. He said he fought in forty-two Civil War battles, left the general’s rank, and would enlist if danger threatened, though he opposed the prepared news plan. He claimed the people back home were against the entire program.
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Sherwood
Ohio
Dan
Audits to Cover All State Departments in 1914 1938
Governor Harrison announced a wide audit of every state department and institution receiving appropriations for the period from January 1, 1914, to January 1, 1938. Charles Metz named special auditor, starting with the treasurer’s office and moving through Capitol floors. Budget discussions previously aimed at 6000 or 25000 limits but a 3500 appropriation was set. Metz will conduct the audit with full foren sic involvement.
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Booth of Auwnts
Metz
State Department
General Assembly
Mets
Statehpore
Harris
MeMetz
No Negroes on Jury Conviction Is Fought in Georgia
Washington January 4 The supreme court faces a plea about whether Georgia’s failure to include Negroes on grand and petit juries violated the equal protection of the law in the murder trial of Robert Kitchen a Black man sentenced to death for killing Henry Brantley a white man. Lawyers for Kitchen contend the circuit court lacked jurisdiction after conviction due to jury bias while the sheriff’s counsel defend Georgia’s impartial jury standard and argue habeas corpus is not proper remedy citing the Frank decision and objection timing.
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Supreme Court
Pssa
Equal Protection of the Law
Robert Kitchen
Washington County
Georgia
Henry’ Brantley
Federal District Court
Georg
Kitchen
Trial Court
Raunty
Leo M.J. Frank
Count Bonps Father Knocked Down by Auto
Paria January 4 The Marquis de Castellane father of Count Bonén Castellane was struck by an automobile as he emerged from the military hospital where he had been working. His injuries are described as serious but not life threatening by physicians after the accident.
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Russia
Galicia
Petrovrac
Vienna
Czernowits
Bukowina
Russian War Office
Caernowitz
Reuter
Petrograd
Chernovics
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Montanceriytvs
Boslovac
Athens
Tirana
Eybarsya
Albania
England
Scotland
Wales
Earl of Derby
London
Paria
Marquis de Castellane
Count Bonén Castellane
Weather Prophecy Fair Weather Prophecy Fair
Washington forecast shows Wednesday and Thursday fair conditions. Local report notes low and high temperatures with mean and normal values. Rainfall 0.006 inches in past 24 hours, 0.16 inches deficit since late month and unknown deficiency since January 1.
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Georgie
Warnice
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