Sweeping City Finance Reforms Urged by Committee
City officials consider major changes including abolition of the city marshal and city treasurer offices and stopping pensioning except for on duty injuries. Rigid cost cuts target salaries and public hearings, while some requests like extra police matron are rejected. Mayor decries raises as wasteful. budget shows revenue of 4,670,048.44 with improvements to follow.
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Council
Ed H. Inman
Capital City Club
Recorders Court
Lakewoal
Woodward
Clark
Comptroller’s Office
Inman
Ragsdale Urged to Enter Fulton County Sheriff Race
Ex councilman I N Ragsdale is urged by friends to run for sheriff in the next primary. They believe he could win and he is considering it seriously. A meeting of supporters was called for today. Ragsdale has long been a prominent Atlanta figure and recently served as mayor pro tem in Connell.
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I. N. Ragsdale
Fulton County
Ragsdale
Atlanta
Connell
Popular Opera Star Anna Case Undergoes Operation
Miss Anna Case, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, has undergone an appendicitis operation in New York. Expected to return to the stage in about a month. Case is a young, popular, and well known Metropolitan performer acclaimed in Atlanta.
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Anna Case
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
Miss Case
Metropolitan Company
Atlanta
Grady Nurses Win City Backing For Dormitory
Grady hospital nurses stage a mock council meeting at the hospital to press for a $60,000 dormitory on campus. Miss Fox presides as mayor pro tem as aldermen pledge immediate support, with Mayor Woodward stating no veto if the council funds the project. Continued on Page Three.
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General Council
Mis Fox
Churse
Miss Fox
Robert J. Lowry
A F. Martin
Grady
Grady Nurses’ Training School
Wade
Miss Clements
Mankc Board
Sunday Dinner Delights and Market Deals in Atlanta
The Constitution market page highlights how Sunday dinners cap the week with beloved dishes and new delicacies. Bet ty Wilson leads cooking lessons at the school, teaching culinary skills to meet the Queen's taste. It touts Atlanta as offering unrivaled variety, quality, and value on staples and delicacies with the lowest prices, and promises the most complete market memoranda in the city.
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Head
Betty Wilson
Constitution
America
Atlanta
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A garbled OCR fragment notes savings on certain items but the readable text does not provide clear entities or a coherent event. The item list and specific prices are unreadable, leaving only a general promotion reference.
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Mtees
Russians Hit Czernowits With 400 Guns In Fifty-Hour Battle
Report from Petrograd describes a prolonged bombardment of Czernowits by 400 Russian guns over fifty hours as part of a planned infantry assault. German sources acknowledge the Teuton position remains critical despite no fall announced. The action occurs along rail lines to aid winter logistics amid broader Balkan and Baltic theatre activity.
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Petrograd
Czernowits
Baltic
Balkans
Paris
Rusplat
Patrogran
Havas
Kiev
Tarnopol-Trembowla
Red Cross
Progress Claimed for the Russians in War Reports
Petrograd reports German forces were repelled near Ol and Zaall while Russians recaptured Czartorysk and captured officers and soldiers. Turkish attacks near Lake Torhim failed, and Persian skirmishes near Hamadan were repelled. Russian losses were heavy with new year fighting on the Bessarabian frontier and Stripa region.
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Zaall
Duckern
Jacobstad
Grartorysk
Czartorysk
Czernowitz
Caucasian
Akio
Bidasso
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Persia
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Hamadan
Kiamary
Kendeliam Pass
Jenns
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Strina
War Office
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Styr
Chartoryck
Ysadwehr
Galicia
Buczacz
Revival of Atlanta Spirit Promised in Recall Campaign Ad
A recall committee message in this issue of The Constitution pledges renewed cooperation to heal bad feelings from the recent election. It asserts that the recall effort will not be revived and that both sides now back a united city effort. The statement calls for lawfulness, civic duty, and coordinated work to build the community with support for all good citizens.
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Atlanta Spirit
Mts
Campaign Opens For Emory Fund In Atlanta
A Chamber of Commerce meeting with sixty leading Atlanta businessmen launched a drive to raise 500000 to complete the city’s pledge to Emory University. Attendees included Preston Arkwright and Victor H Kriegshaber. speakers urged unity for a bold educational project expected to elevate Atlanta culturally and economically.
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Chamber of Commerce Assembly Hall
Preston Arkwright
Atlanta
Emory University
Arkwright
Mr. Arkwright
Victor H Kriegshaber
Bert Adams
Forrest ‘Adair
Mell R. Wilkinson
Walter G. Cooper
Guch
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New Orleans
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A. Candler
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King
Plaea
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Kenty Johnson
Wilmer Iaoore
Forrest Adair
Asa G. Jagidler
Aum Candler
Churchill to command battalion at the front in London report
Major Winston Spencer Churchill, former first lord of the admiralty, resigned his post and joined his regiment at the front. Reuters reports he was appointed to command a battalion of Royal Scots Fusiliers, signaling a frontline leadership role in the ongoing conflict.
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London
Winston Spencer Churchill
The
Admiralty
Duchy of Lencaster
Royal Scots
Reuter
Ghurchite Tariadints Smibitiog
Final agreement nears on submarine conduct and indemnity
German proposals to pay indemnity for Lusitania victims and assurances that submarines in the Mediterranean would avoid noncombatant ships without warning, with safety for passengers and crews, were delivered to Secretary Lansing by Count von Bernstorff. Officials view this as near final agreement aligning with American views on submarine warfare.
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Lusitania
Mediterranean
Lansing
Count von Bernorff
Wilson
America
Tonsten
Austria
Ancona
United ‘State
Turkey
Hulgeria
Austria-Hangery
United States
Lansing Ip
Count von Bernstorff
Persia
North Sea
Iinera
Aciva
Inez
William P. Frye
Berlin
Austria-Hungary
Penfield
Vienna
Department
State Department
Lassing
Department of State
Cridera
JURY DEADLOCKED ON NEW HAVEN MEN
New York January 7 Jury in the case of eleven former New York New Haven and Hartford directors charged under the Sherman law was sent to wait for decision after hearin g Judge Hunt stress substantial competition and continuous conspiracy from 1890 to the indictment date.
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New York
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Furors
Wiliam Rockefeller
Nes
Boston
Maine
New England
Iso
Charles &. Mellen
Lewis Cass Ledyard
William Rockefeller
Bel
New Haven Company
Edward D. Robbins
Thue
Bank clearings rise by two million in week
Bank clearings for the first five business days show an excess of more than two million over last year. Atlanta Clearing House Association reports week totals at 18,837,669.81 with daily figures: Monday 3,803,747.07. Tuesday 3,546,352.60. Wednesday 4,276,870.20. Thursday 3,247,920.01. Friday 2,546,798.58.
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Atlanta Clearme House
No Liquors Served At University Club Buffet Abolished
The University club ends its buffet effective May 1 under new prohibition laws. The club already abolished the buffet on December 21, 1915, and plans readjustments to boost activity and cooperation among members. President W A Wimbish notes a possible membership shift but aims to strengthen the university city atmosphere with Emory and Oglethorpe coming to Atlanta.
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University Club
John Barleycorn
Aboltaheod
W. A. ‘Wimbish
Plana
By &O
South
Oglathorpe
Emory
Atlanta
Weather Prophecy Foretells Partly Cloudy Weekend
Washington forecast predicts partly cloudy conditions with north region inland showers and cooler south due to front. Sunday should see fair weather with a slightly warmer west portion.
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