Three Members of Committee Ready to Quit
A rift between Mayor James Woodward and the finance committee over a 75 000 allocation in the 1913 budget for a 276 800 crematory has the members ready to resign. Aldermen Warren Ragsdale and Sisson threaten to step down, claiming the mayor and others tried to dictate votes. The dispute centers on the crematory funding and committee leadership, with tensions spilling into meetings and elevator confrontations.
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James Woodward
Finance Committee
Th Tre
Mayer Woodward
Wavar
Marrren
Iimar Siman
Ragsdale
Tne
Caith
Oun
Timan Wat
Flamphres
Wat
Fliarce
Warren
Warren Encared
Coamoready
Tverett
Ship of the Hall
Woodward
Hall
Humphrey
I St
Sisson
Iton
Fifth Ward
Woodward Wrath
Sam Evins Attornes
New York Destructor Company
Sam Havins
Tre
January Parks Spark Joy as Children Fill Atlanta Venues
The city’s parks and zoo buzzed with families on a sunlit January Sunday. Grant Park and Piedmont drew thousands, while youngsters fed monkeys, rode swings, and watched animals. A Confederate veteran drew a listening crowd in the Cyclorama as kids imagined Hood and Sherman battles revived in the hall.
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Sarah McClure
Los Angeles
Grant Park
Billy
Platt Wardlaw
William Wardlaw
East Kimball Street
Bemches
Fales
Hood
Sherman
Theft of $40 000 Said to Cashier
Woodville Mississippi January 19 Charged with embezzlement of forty thousand dollars from the Citizens' Bank of Williamson County at Woodville McLeod cashier of the bank is in the county jail after officers examined the books The state bank examiner was notified for investigation and action The bank has capital of twenty thousand dollars and deposits around one hundred thousand dollars The alleged shortage follows the embezzlement of fifteen thousand dollars from the Bank of Woodville by cashier R G Jones and the bank's closing with Jones sentenced to three years in the penitentiary
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Woodville
Citizens’ Bank of
Williamson County
MclLeod Ecashier
McLeod
Bank of Woodville
R. G Jones
Jones
Girl of 14 Leaves Home At Midnight
A 14 year old girl, Elsie Tremphill, disappeared from her Cameron street home around midnight. Foster parents fear she was lured to New York by a white slave trafficker. Detectives search the city, with sightings at Terminal station and a woman described as flashily dressed with jewelry. The missing girl, adopted by the Mullins family, attended night school and worked at Exposition mills. Her brother Forney Hemphill and another, Willie, remain hopeful for her return. The case prompts continued coverage.
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Cameron Street
Elsie Tremphill
New York
Atlanta
Elsies
Terminal Station
Ast Fair Street
Bradwell
Suris
Tale Street
Forney Hemphill
Elsie
Cit
Ed Mullins
Exposition Mills
Forney Hemphil
Willie
Mullins
Severn
Sarah H. Hemphill
Pickett Street
Hundreds Favor Washington Trip To Inauguration
Atlanta faces a funding dilemma as citizens debate raising $10,000 to send the Fifth Regiment to President Wilsons inauguration in Washington next March. Despite strong top support from leaders and many volunteers, no committee has formed to organize a subscription drive. Current funds total about $2,820 with some donors pledging more.
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Atr. Lapten
United States
Washington
Woodrow
Hve
J van Holt Nash
Atlanta
W. Obear
Wilson Refuses Plans as Congress Delays Reorganization Fight
Washington January 19 President elect Wilson declines to reveal definite reorganization plans or detailed legislative outlines. Democratic leaders visit New Jersey to discuss upcoming work, but no concerted reorganization is seen. Routine legislation and tariff hearings prevail as efforts continue on Taft appointments and a tentative revision agenda.
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Washington
Wilson
New Jersey
Senate
House
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Money Trust
House Indian Affairs Committee
Interior Department
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Disposed
Osage Indian Council
Riverside Mail Train Robbery Endangers $25,000 Loot
Held up on Southern Railway Passenger No 12 at Riverside Alabama, a masked bandit rifled the mail car of registered letters. Two Atlanta clerks, Crogman and Bailey, were held at gunpoint while the thief took valuables possibly totaling $25,000 before leaping from the moving train near Lincoln. Police and railroad detectives pursued the suspect, described as a 20-year-old man in a dark suit and black derby, with Birmingham connections.
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Anniston
Ala
Southern Railway
Riverside
Birmingham
Crogman and Bailey
Lincoln Ala
Rocky Coun
R. J Beerden
The
Atlanta
Southern
Tf L Grogman
W H Crogman
Clark University
R L Bailey
Magnolia Street
Rmain
Bailey and Cregmar
Splendid Bonus Vote Offer For M And M Contest
The Constitution offers large bonus votes for grocers and druggists labels in the M and M contest. Weekly combinations include No 22 to 24 with 59 000, 50 000, and 50 000 bonus votes respectively. Early purchasers earn extra votes. combos feature products like Gold Medal Flour Maxwell House coffee and Post Toasties.
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Wil Devire
Hp Ik
Nat Hetard
Maxwell House
Iin
Pride of
Reidar
Taylor Brothers
Chawad Tebaaco
Fouravente
Weather Prophecy Increases Cloudiness Across Regions
Washington reports increasing cloudiness with local rains at night or Tuesday across multiple states. Expect colder Tuesday inland, warmer Monday in Virginia, and mixed rain and fair spells in the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia with shifting winds and cooler conditions overall.
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Washington
Virginiea
North
South Carolina
Florida
Alabama
Miastastopi
Louisiana
West
Texas
Arkansas
Tenessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
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California
Piedmont Park
Mercury
Atlantas
North Georgia
Piedmont
Zooo
Lake Park
Zoo
C. C. McLeod
Mississippi Bank
Sayeith
Lone
Bandit
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