Atlanta Finance Committee Unveils Nation’s 1915 Money Sheet
City finance panel finalizes a $4,965,596.04 budget for maintenance payrolls and new projects, including $175,000 in unearned revenue and $75,000 for Lakewood Park development. Mayor Woodward warns against overspending while Alderman Armistead protests lack of a West End schoolhouse allocation.
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Atlanta
Finance Committee
Ag Lorlows Ry
Jesse W. Armistead
West End
James G. Woodward
Woodward
Chamber of Commerce
Lakewood Park
Ee.h. Inman
Whitehall
Spring Street
West Peachtree
Inman
Eighth
Lakewood
Triangle
Edgewood Avenue
North Pryor
South Pryor Street
South Street
Fi Mitchell
Grant Park
Highland ‘Avenue
Tenth Ward
Tech
Grady Hospital
Whitehnall
Moseley Park Purchase
Peachtree
Comptreller
Sanitary Department
Itbury
Parks
Iquicken
Police Department
Eiseman Brothers to Quit Business After Century of Clothier Service
Eiseman Brothers 11-19 Whitehall Street announce dissolution of the clothing firm due to the death of senior member Gerson Eiseman and advancing ages of the remaining partners. The Atlanta wholesale and retail business traces to 1865 and has grown into a multi‑million dollar estate. Joseph Hiseman plans to stay in Atlanta and enter banking. no sale or lease of the premises has occurred.
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Eiseman Brothers
Whitehall Street
B. Joseph Eiseman
Gerson Eiseman
Moses B
Jacob
Louis E. and
B. Joseph
Moses Eiseman
Atlanta
Eiseman & Bro
Whitehall
Hunter
Joseph Hiseman
Frm
Louis, Eiseman
Eiseman
Washington, D
Louis Eiseman
Washington
Altimore
Hisemana
Capital City -Land’ Improvement" Company
Whitehall-Peachtree
Hiseman
Baltimore
Joseph ‘Histman
Eiseman Bros
Douglas Lands
Eisemans
Hamilton Douglas
Douglas & Douglas
Bank Robbery at American Trust and Savings Bank
In Jacksonville on January 15 two masked armed men forced two clerks into the vault of the American Trust and Savings bank, escaping with 2000 dollars. The bank lies behind a skyscraper in the financial district. Clerks did not discover the robbery until twenty minutes later. The robbers had a twenty minute head start.
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Jacksonville
Fla
American Trust and Savings Bank
Financial District
Sunday Constitution Want Ads Reach Ambitious Local Workers
The Sunday Constitution targets the cream of the population, describing ambitious, wide awake and dependable workers across all community sectors. Use Sunday Constitution want ads to contact these readers and secure attention.
Rumanians May Join War With 500000 Force
Observers foresee Romania deploying about 500000 troops to join with Russia against Germany Austria and Turkey. Allied with Serbia and Montenegro the force could threaten Austria Hungary along the southeastern frontier from Russia to the Adriatic. Reports from Bucharest indicate Buchovina is largely Russian controlled and refugees cross into Romanian frontier en route to Vienna. King Ferdinand ascended the throne after Ising Carol’s death last October and wed Princess Marie of Saxe Coburg and Gotha in 1898.
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Rumania
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Hungary
Bukowina
Servia
Montenézro
Hwoula
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Adriatic
Cour
Bulkowina
Bukharest l
Vienna
Ferdinand
Ising Carol
Tie
Marie of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Consent Decree in State Mutual case in Georgia
In Valdosta Georgia Special hearing the State Mutual Life Insurance company case resulted in Judge Tonge W Hew Thomas ordering the affairs to be administered by the state insurance commissioner Judge Wright at 7 PM The decree preserves every policyholder and creditor while giving the commissioner control of about 3.5 million dollars in assets and shifting authority out of the courts The commissioner may rewrite continue liquidate or return control to stockholders as he sees fit with prominent attorneys present including the attorney general and several judges and receivers
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Valdosta
State Mutual Life Insurance Company
Tonge W. HE. Thomas
Wright
State Insurance Commissioner
Insurance Commissioner
Georgia
Thomas
Insurance
Best
Grice
G. Powell
Spencer Atkinson
Fouche
Rome
Marion Smith
Atlanta
John W. Maddox
Paul B. Doyal
J.r.pottle
Nutting burns flesh test in court injury suit
New Orleans January 15 lawyers for John Nutting claim to prove his client was injured in a street car accident. Nutting says he is paralyzed from the waist down and seeks 105000 damages from the New Orleans Railway and Light company. A fire test was conducted in federal court to support or refute paralysis testimony.
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New Orleans
John Nutting
New York
Nutting
New Orleans Railway and Light Company
Earthquake Toll Rises In Italy With Thousands Dead
Rome reports 25 000 to 50 000 deaths as central and southern Italy reels from a devastating quake. Nearly a hundred towns are ruined, fires rage, and people shelter in open camps while troops guard the debris. President Wilson offers help and may urge a national relief proclamation.
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Rome
Italy
Avezzano
Magliana-di-Marsi
Sora
Pescini
Giosimarsi
San Benedetto
Five Die as Yacht Explodes in Pamlico Sound
Five people perish when a private yacht under construction bursts into flames from a gasoline tank explosion near Engelhard North Carolina. One woman survivor reached shore exhausted. bodies of Murray Porch Dodson and two crewmen not yet recovered. Murray, Piedmont Trust president, sought hotel investment. Porch managed Beaufort inn. The vessel, 42 feet, carried 35, palatially furnished, departed Norfolk Wednesday.
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N. c
Julia
Pamlico Sound
Engelhard
J. W.murray
Piedmont Trust Company
Burlington
Murray
Dodson
Norfolk
Heron
Porch
Woman and Baby Dead in Statesboro Home Murder Suspected
Special from Statesboro Ga January 15 Mrs Horace Hollingsworth found fatally wounded in her home with a newborn baby dead beside her Indications point to a brutal murder police working on warrants expected to be issued A doctor attended but she died after brief breaths.
Grand Duke to Dispatch Army to Attack German Rear
New York January 15. James M. Sullivan American minister to the Dominican republic faced an inquiry into his fitness after testimony that he may have aided a scheme to secure profitable road contracts in Santo Domingo. Beers a lawyer tied to Jarvis interests claimed Sullivan could enable contracts that would net 30 percent, with cash fees of 5000 dollars requested and more after contracts. Beers and associates allegedly planned a construction company with 10 percent profits. Sullivan reportedly placed a man on payroll as a physician with links to Beers. witnesses described influence in Washington and Sullivan's role in the Dominican revolution of 1914. The article also notes vast Russian troop movements and Western Front activity with French gains near Arras and La Bassée, and ongoing Turkish-Russian clashes in Trans-Caucasia.
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New York
James M. Sullivan
Dominican Republic
E. Bright
Wilson
D. Smith
Memphis, Tenn
Sullivan
Santo Domingo
William C. Beers
Samuel M. Jarvis
Banco Nacional
Beers
Smith
Wanthin
Santo’ Domingo
Belpe
United States
Jarvis
Washington
Bata
Customs
Fred Knauth
Wiso
A. J. Conroy
Knauth
Conroy
P Vick
Union League
Vick
Bordas
Legalistas
London
Poland
Viatulas
Skrwa
Thorn
West Prussia
Grand Duke Nicholas
Petrograd
East Prussia
Miawa
Germany
Warsaw
Berlin
Rawka River
Aisne
Soissons
Joffre
la Bissée
Arras
Trans-Caucasia
Azerbaijan
Persia
Tabriz
San
Luis ,Sons
Perthos
Argonne
Alsace
Russian Forces Gain on Vistula in War Update
Petrograd reports the German offensive in Poland spent its strength while Russian troops advance along the Vistula. Hindenburg’s forces hold entrenched positions with no sign of a Russian breakthrough. Turkish troops pushing inland after penetrating Persia, as the Porte’s offer to...
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Petrograd
Poland
War Office
Vistula
von Hindenburg
Persia
Porte
Belgians Flag Sale In Atlanta To Aid Relief
On Flag Day in Atlanta and across the state women will sell small Belgian flags to raise funds for Belgian relief. The flag bears will take possession in downtown Atlanta this morning and all proceeds stay in Atlanta to buy food and clothing for shipment to Charleston where a relief ship awaits to carry supplies abroad.
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Atlanta
Charleston
South African Forces Occupy Swakopmund Port
London cable reports that Union of South Africa troops have occupied Swakopmund in German Southwest Africa. The port lies on the coast south of the Ewakon river and serves as a trading and mission station connected by rail to Windhoek.
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Swakopmund
Union of South Africa
London
German Southwest Africa
Pretoria
Reuter
Telegram. Com
Akopmund
Ewakon
River 1
Misslon
Windhoek
Weather Prophecy Pair
A brief weather note forecasts Georgia becoming fair on Saturday with Sunday rain, and cooler temperatures in the north. The report uses concise phrasing to summarize expected conditions and temperature changes for the coming weekend.
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Georgia
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