Americans Hanged by Mexicans Reported Near Rio Bravo
San Antonio reports say Gustavo Hernandez and Francisco Yturria, naturalized Americans from Donna, Hidalgo, were executed by Carranza officials at Rio Bravo for arming factions opposing Carranza. Families received notices. Mexican officials deny the deaths. A second item notes four Americans arrested at Nuevo Laredo. one acquitted and freed while three remain jailed awaiting possible release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Gustavo, Hernandez
Francisco Yturria
Donna
Hidalgo County
Carranza
Rio Bravo
Hernandez
Yturria
Mexico
Matamoros
Laredo
Terrell Bobo
Neuvo Laredo
Headly
Willan M. White
William Burris
Garrett
Big Y M C A Chorus for Revival Meetings
A 100 member male chorus is being formed at the Young Men's Christian Association to participate in the Chapman Alexander revival meetings in February. Training sessions will occur on Tuesday nights under Professor William Aczerfff, with J Austin Brooks as president, Robert L Milan as vice president and pianist, R Mell as secretary treasurer, and C W Wall as membership chair. Twelve members may be non-MCA affiliates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men's Christian Association
Chapman-Alexander
William Aczerfff
J. Austin Brooks
Robert L. Milan
R.@. Mell
C. W. Wall
Cure Your Rupture Like I Cured Mine
A former seaman named Captain Collings recounts years of disability from a rupture and unsafe operation, claiming self cure through a simple method. He offers a free book and medicines prepaid by mail to readers who send the coupon promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collings
Truss
W. A. Collings (Inc
Watertown
N.Y
Byrne swears Bryan knew of Dominican conspiracy
New York January 16 testimony claimed Secretary Bryan was informed that James M Sullivan minister to the Dominican Republic was tied to an alleged scheme to win public contracts. Construction engineer Byrne testified Sullivan's cousin Timothy J Sullivan reported the minister arranged a loan and favored Banco Nacional to back the scheme. Byrne said Bryan asked him to write a statement, then urged him not to. The affidavit alleges officials were warned and that the minister damaged American business interests in Santo Domingo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bryan
James M. Sullivan
Dominican Republic
James I. Bryne
Timothy J. Sullivan
Bancho Nacional
Santo Domingo
Timothy I
Banco Nacional
Sic
State Department
United States
Democratic Party
Sullivan
Bryne
East Point Bank Receiver Sought by State Treasurer
State Treasurer W J Spee on Saturday filed a petition in the executive offices seeking a receiver for the Citizens bank of East Point alleging conditions justifying action after a bank examination. B Suse cashier said there would be no objection to the appointment and that the bank can protect depositors and shareholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Spee
Citizens’ Bank
East Point
Bank
Constitution
German Prize Vessel Must Quit San Juan
The collier KD-3, formerly the British Frar, seized by a German prize crew, must leave San Juan Puerto Rico at once or its crew will be interned and the ship released. The British embassy protested but may drop it with H M S Bristol watching. The ship, with 3000 tons coal, was taken by Karlsruhe in October and could be interned until end of war if designated a tender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frar
San Juan
Porto Rico
H. M. S. Bristol
Karlsruhe
Canary Islands
United States
Cotillion lights up Atlanta theatre with Hitchcock show
The Social Whirl notes a metropolitan cotillion at the Atlanta theater for Raymond Hitchcock with first ten rows filled by club members and debutantes. Guests in elegant evening dress attend box parties, while Miss Isolene Campbell and others debut in stylish gowns. Supper at Capital City club features pink and white florals and corsages as Miss Campbell leads a festive season of dances and theatrical parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Raymond Hitchcock
Isabel Robinson
Louise Broyles
Ranson Wright
Jennie ‘Mobley
Mary Robinson
Thomas Connally
Kelly Evans
Robert Adger Smythe
James W English
James F. Alexander
Capital City Club
Lucian McClesky
James W.W. English
John D. Little
Thomas B. Paine
Grace van Studdiford
John Drew
Ethel Barrymore
Donald Brian
Capital City
Isolene Campbell
Flowers Valley
Parma
Rosalie Davis
Miss Ridley
Miss Ottley
Miss Calhoun
Miss Bowman
Miss Gentry
Druid Hills Golf Club
Edwin Lewis
New York
W. W. Blackman
Rose Bishop
Talbotton
Talley
Walter Hills
Hugenia Caldwell
Emma Jordan
Cator Woolford
Unique Banquet Enjoyed By the Bell Employees
More than 300 Bell system workers gathered at the Piedmont hotel for a lively Telephone and Telegraph Society banquet. Toasts honored members, tricks and pranks entertained, and a ceremonial Morse moment opened a new transcontinental line from New York to San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piedmont Hotel
The
Telephone and Telegraph Society
Bell System
Edward Lyle
New York
San Francisco
Warship Sought as Cape Haitien Rises in Haiti
January 16 reports say Hai tien revolutionists seized Cape Haitien after an accord with the local garrison. General Vilbrun Guillaume leads the coastal forces while foreign consuls urge the American consul to seek a Washington request for a protecting warship. Washington considers dispatching ships Wheeling Castine and Montana to Haiti or nearby waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Haitien
Vilbrun
Guillaume
Washington
State Department
Haitien
Sraiser
Hampton Roads
Haiti
Wheeling
Port Au Prince
San Dominican
Castine
Montana Les
Guantanamo
Cuba
Tiaiti
Three Die in Yacht Julia Fire After Gasoline Explosion
Norfolk reporters confirm the yacht Julia was lost in Pamlico Sound after a gasoline explosion. Only three people were killed or wounded: J. W. Murray of Burlington NC, W. E. Porch of Heater NC, and A. P. Dodson. The craft left Norfolk with Dodson in charge. his brother BE Griffith Dodson sent word from Beaufort that he fears his brother is dead. An unconfirmed report said two men and a woman were picked up by a fisherman in Pamlico Sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Julia
Pamlico
Dodson
BE. Griffith Dodson
Beaufort
Elizabeth City
Pamlico Sound
Officials Indicted for Embezzlement in Idaho
Boise Idaho January 16 Joseph H Peterson state attorney general Fred W Huston state auditor and three others were indicted on embezzlement charges. They allegedly embezzled sums itemized in a report showing a $70 000 shortage in the accounts of O V Allen former state treasurer. Allen is in the penitentiary. Bonds set at 2000 each. Attorney General Peterson vowed to prove his innocence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Joseph H. Peterson
Fred W. Huston
O. V. Allen
Allen
Peterson
Fire damages Kress store in Charlotte business district
Fire at 1130 tonight destroyed the Kress Fire and Ten Cent store building on North Tyron Street in Charlotte. Origin unknown. Damage estimated at about 60000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kress
Charlotte
N. C
Tyron Street
Colonel Zachary Wood Dead in Asheville
Colonel Zachary Wood of Regina Saskatchewan and assistant commissioner of the Royal Northwestern Mounted Police died in Asheville North Carolina today. The body will be taken to Regina for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zachary Wood
Asheville
N. C
Regina
Saskatchewan
Royal Northwestern Mounted Police
Decide law is most useful profession debated at Civic Forum
A Civic Forum debate concluded that law is the most useful profession. Speakers included Dr Hal Davidson on medicine, Clarence Jordan on engineering, C L Pegeus on theology, W A Sutton on pedagogy, and J Walter LeCraw on law. The final decision rested with the ladies in attendance. Other participants were Carl Hutcheson Leonard Grossman and Richard A Friedson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civic Forum
Hal Davidson
Clarence Jordan
C. L. Pegeus
W. A. Sutton
J. Walter LeCraw
Carl Hutcheson
Leonard Grossman
Richard A. Friedson
Italy Lifts Embargo on Cotton Shipments
Washington reports that the Italian foreign office told the American embassy in Rome that cotton may be shipped freely to order with no embargo on re exportation. The embargo had barred reshipment of items on Italy's embargo list, which included cotton, since last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rome
Bryan Honor Guest of Poor Richard Club
Secretary of State Bryan was the guest of honor at the Poor Richard club dinner in Philadelphia marking Benjamin Franklin’s 209th birth anniversary. He spoke on peace and prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Poor Richard Club
Philadelphia
Poor Richard
Benjamin Franklin
Supreme Court Judgments In Georgia Appeals
Supreme Court of Georgia affirms multiple judgments in error from Fulton Newton and other counties with judges Bell Pendleton Ellis Rawlings Walker Brand and Sheppard among others. Several cases are affirmed reversed or dismissed including Howell v New Hope Benevolent Society Alexander Turner Brothers v Clarke Weatherholt v Howard Cochran v Mitchem Herrin v Amos J Brown Bank v Holt Central of Georgia Railway v Mills and Smyth. Proceedings involve plaintiffs in error and various banks and railway entities with counsel listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howell v. New Hope Benevolent Society
Fulton Superior Court
Bell, Maddox
Beckworth
Bank of Colbert
Franklin
Newton
S. Reid
A. D. Meador
RW. Miter
Rogers & Knox
Georgia
Florida
Railway ‘Company
Stapleton
Emanuel
Rawlings
Safford & Jorden
O'Steene& Wallace
Willams & Bradley
Heard v. National Bank of Wilkes
Wilken
Walker "Colley Calley
J. M. Pitner
Cochran
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Retail Merchants Banquet Planned At Capital City Club
The Atlanta Retail Merchants Association will hold its annual meeting and banquet at the Capital City club next Wednesday at 6 30 P M. Leading city business men will attend including Judge Joseph H Lumpkin of the supreme court and Mell R Wilkinson president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. Officers for the year will be elected and the executive committee named. The gathering aims to close last year’s work and map the new year in an informal booster meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Retail Merchants’ Association
Capital City Club
Joseph H. Lumpkin
Supreme Court
Mell R. Wilkinson
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Grover McGahee
Miss Lula Riley Dies in Gainesville Pneumonia Brief
Miss Lula Gayle Riley eldest daughter of Dr and Mrs M F Riley of Gainesville died at home shortly after 4 this morning after a brief pneumonia illness. She was a Bremen College student and member of First Baptist Church. Funeral Tuesday at 3 from the church with Rev J E Hampton officiating. Interment at Alta Vista cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Lula Gayle Riley
M. Af Riley
Riley
Bremnall College
First Baptist Church
J. E. Hampton
Alta Vista Cemetery
Obituary notices from Washington Street and nearby towns
J M Thomas aged 60 dies at 126 Washington street survivors include two sons and four daughters and remains to Roswell Georgia for funeral. James W Sewell 36 dies at private hospital living at 54 Dillon street body at Greenberg Bond chapel awaiting arrangements. Anna Laura Pursell 2 dies Saturday at private hospital body to Echo Georgia for funeral. Fred E Reese 27 dies after several weeks illness interment at Union church family burial ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Thomas
Washington Street
Jesse and
Livingston
H. P Long
Earl Wood
Flora Sewell
Norene Thomas
Roswell, Ga
James W. Sewell
Dillon
Greenberg & Bond
Anna Laura Purcell
R. C. Pursell
Harry G. Poole
Echo
Fred E. Reese
Thomson
Fred H. Reese
Union Church
Fairfield and Nash Victims of Saturday Deaths
F J Fairfield aged 70 died Saturday morning at 6 at 873 South Pryor. Body at Pooles chapel and survived by a daughter, a son, and a sister. W T Nash aged 82 died Saturday at 4 at 51 Ocmulgee Avenue. Body at Pooles chapel, to be moved at 7:30 to Stane Mountain for burial. four children survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E Burns
Lakewood Heighty
Dpoole
Master's Church
Atlanta
F. J. Fairfield
South Pryor Street
Poole’s Chapel
T. Nash
W. T Nash
Ocmulgee Avenue
Stane Mountain
John N
M. M. Anderson
Bloomfield
Brave Telephone Girl Foils Four Robbers at Bank Fight
Clara Dressell a 19 year old telephone operator in Alandale Kansas fired two shots to drive off four robbers preparing to storm the bank telephon e office. She then rallied townspeople who joined a two hour battle. three suspects captured later in Wichita after a running skirmish. One wounded. Robbers cut railroad wires, blew vaults with explosives, and escaped in a hidden car amid a blinding snowstorm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alandale
Kan
Clara Dressell
Wichita
Dowling to Face Augusta Jury in Embezzlement Case
Augusta Ga January 14 special Move C Dowling former cashier and vice president of Citizens Trust co which failed here between 150 000 and 200 000 will return from South Carolina and surrender to county authorities and give bond for 5000 before standing trial on thirteen counts charging embezzlement and swindling The bank failure hurt hundreds of small depositors Dowling fled to Fairfax South Carolina and Governor Blease delayed his extradition Dowling ill but arranging to return to Augusta as soon as recovered for trial
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
C. Dowling
Citizens’ Trust Company
South Carolina
Sherwood Dunn Institution
Aiken
Dowline
Fairfax
S.C
Dowling
Blease
Georgia
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BIG Y. M. C. A. Chorus
Lene
Certified Public Accountant
Ant
Uable
Joel Hunter & CO
Certified Public Accountanta Empire Bldg
sHiy
Byrne
San Domingo
Citizens’, Bank OF East Point
Isa Dooly
May Atkinson
William Tilt
Williams
Elkin
Harry English
Jesse Draper
William Kiser
Willis Westmoreland
Carroll Payne
James L. Dickey
Albert Thornton
Charles Remsenore
John Marshall Slaton
Horton
Samuel Slicer
Milton Dargan
H. M. Atkinson
Edward C.peters
Dresden
James H. Nunnally
Driving Club
Hunt Chinley
Henry Jackson
Georgian Terrace
Drama League
Mr. Memminger
Gadsbys
Alliance Franchise
University Club
Madame Shier
Brieux
Houghton
Shaw
William J. Morrison
Druid Hills
T. P. Hinman
C. P. King
J. W. Pearse
C. V. Rainwater
Holmes Frederick
Hal Steed
Co Ce
John S. Cohen
Isoline Campbell
Robert A. Smythe
Ane
John Kiser
Miss Campbell
Josephine Mobley
Messrs
Wimberly Peters
Henry Kennedy
Henry Lyons
J. D. Osborne
Thomas Lyon
Bell
G. T. Bush
Haverty
Auburn Ave
Pryor St
Peachtree
Heart of
Italy
Supreme Court OF GA
Weatherholt
Retail Merchants
Joseph Lumpkin
Lula Riley
Nancy E. Reese
Thomson Thomagn
W Nancy Elizabeth Reese
J. H. Mashburn
E. Burns
Louise Miller
Bellwood Avenue
Walliam Miller
H. S. Hdwards
J. B . Wallinghopp
Mattie Arnold
Henry Whaley
James Burge
Morris Hillman
Stonewall Street
John N. Anderson
China
Japan
Panama City
Kansas
Mary Scales
Cincinnati
Wiggins Elk
Booktat
Furniture Storage
Woodside
IVY
Jack
Bob
Hayes Bros. Inc
Hayes Bros
Forrest
George Adair
ONEY
Oamon Real
the Mortgage Bond Co. of
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