Seventeenth Regiment Likely to Go to Panama Soon
Brigadier General R K Evans said plans to deploy two more infantry regiments to Panama to guard the isthmus are moving ahead with a $4 million appropriation. The Seventeenth Infantry, now at Fort McPherson, is the most likely unit to be ordered overseas, as army leaders prepare a brigade strength for the canal zone and expansion of Fort McPherson into a brigade post.
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R. K. Evans
Washington
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Congress
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New York
Fort Steinan
Chicago
Fort Snelling
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St. Trout Sone
Panatha
Atlanta
Honolulu
M'Pherson
Mort Metherson
Tfhe
Ivort McPherson
Woodrow Wilson
Political Campaign Fatal to Woman in Lake City
Mrs Edyth Etterdeck Read, a Utah legislator elected as a Republican, died today in Lake City from nervous prostration after a fiercely contested campaign. The illness and death are linked to the strain of the recent political contest.
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Lake City
Edyth Etterdeck Read
Utah
Woman throws infant from limousine in downtown street
A middle aged woman drove a limousine along East Hunter and South Pryor streets at noon Saturday a box bearing a dead newborn baby was pitched from the car into a crowd of laborers. Police recovered the box and infant and detained the car's occupants but cannot identify the woman. Detectives seek clues to the motive and identity amid defaced markings and ambiguous circumstances.
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Pryor
Pryor Street
Mitchell
Hunter
Hunter and
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E. W. McHugh
Tonneau
McHugh
Pryer
Mic Hugh
City council weighs revoking poolroom license on Peachtree
Atlanta council eyes canceling J. T. Hanjaras poolroom license issued by Mayor James Woodward on Peachtree near Walton. Police committee sparring over licensing powers shows tension with mayor and contention over chief Beavers authority. Multiple lodging house and club permits denied, including the Press Club renamed to Ben Franklin Club amid objections.
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J. T. Hanjaras
Peachtree
Walton Streets
Hanjaras
Hanjaras Place
Woodward
Council
Beavers
Claude J. Agshiey
Pryor’ Street
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Decatur Street
Mary Jacobs
Piedmont Avenue
John BE. Barry
West
Hunter Street
Annie Bradley
John Parks
Collins Street
George Caltis
North Broad Street
Press Club
Atlanta
Charter Reform Battle in Atlanta City Council
Atlanta council battles over charter revision with two rival committees. One panel of ten citizens and five council members is steamrolled by the anti Woodward faction. a rival ten councilors and ten citizens plan co operation. The Nutting and Knight McClelland resolutions pass, setting up parallel committees to draft changes for voters.
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Atlanta
James G. Woodward
Humphrey
James R. Nutting
McClelland
Knight
Woodward
Councilmanse
Ellen Neyande Nutting
Nutting
James E. Warren
John E. McClelland
James W. Maddox
F. J. Spratling
John E. Candler
A. H. Baskin
Alfred Thompson
Clarence Haverty
Claude C. Mason
Judge Candler
Alderman McClelland
Alderman Notting
Knight-McClelland
Churcil Committee
Citizens’ Committee
General Council
Warren
Nuttlig
Charters Council
Fluor. Iy
Honeymooner J Rutter Martin Arrested in Atlanta Grand Larceny Case
J Rutter Martin, once a Philadelphia restaurant cashier, was arrested in Atlanta on a grand larceny warrant after confessing to stealing 3400 dollars. He and his 22 year old wife married secretly after the theft and spent a extended honeymoon in Georgia and Florida before moving to Atlanta. He hopes leniency to resume business, with Burns detectives pursuing him since his departure from Philadelphia.
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J. Rutter Martin
Burns
Atlanta
Childs
Decatur Street
Ivy Street
Edgewood Avenue
Capitol Avenue
Martin
Jeanor Fortune
Misa Fortune
South
Georgia
Florida
Pryor
Cilles
Humphrey Resolution Strengthens Atlanta Charter Change
The Humphrey resolution forced council to admit demand for a charter revision. It empowers Mayor Woodward to appoint a ten citizen committee while giving Atlanta voters a voice via the Candler referendum clause. Defeat would have kept mayoral appointment authority. If council balks, the charter will be revised and submitted to the people with the council’s charter.
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Woodward
Atlanta
Humphrey
Citizens aid fifth regiment to represent Atlanta at Wilson inauguration
Atlanta leaders mobilize a campaign committee to raise funds for the Fifth Regiment’s trip to Washington for President Wilson’s inauguration. Colonel E. B. Pomeroy says many prominent citizens have pledged support. a chamber of commerce meeting Wednesday will outline plans and secure transportation and lodging.
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Woodrow Wilson
Washington
E. B. Pomeroy
Chamber of Commerce
Pomeroy
Bes
Wilson seeks broad New Jersey trust control bills
Governor Woodrow Wilson announces a sweeping package of corporation reform in New Jersey. Seven bills aim to end trusts and monopolies, with penalties including imprisonment. The measures bar holding companies and require restraint on underselling while allowing legitimate mergers. Existing companies face stock issuance limits and stricter oversight, affecting major firms like United States Steel, Standard Oil, American Tobacco, and International Harvester.
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N. J
Woodrow Wilson
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Wilson
Edward I Walker
Bennet van Syckel
Senate
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Standard Oil Company
American Tobacco Company
American Sugar Refining Company
International Harvester Company
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Rock Island Railroad Company
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Stephen Wise
New York
Rabbi Wise
Newlands
Nevada
Chamberlain
Oregon
Secretary of the Interior
Norris
Montana
Hawley
Idaho
Joseph F. Teall
Pal ~ Jman
Hardwick
Bartlett
Pullman Co Must Pay for Lost Valuables
New York January 20 The appellate division of the state supreme court decided that sleeping car companies are responsible for valuables given by passengers to porters for safekeeping. The decision was handed down in a suit against the Pullman company to recover the value of a diamond necklace entrusted to a porter by a woman passenger.
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Appellate Division
State Supreme Court
Pullman Company
He Said He'd Die With His Boots On in Barroom Shootout
Louis Smith, recently acquitted for shooting Montgomery gunman Brooks Fuller, died after a pistol duel with Louis Roney, a young broker. They had left a bar after a friendly drink, walked into the street, and opened fire. Smith was shot five times and died instantly. Roney faces murder charges and has not spoken. The feud tied to Fuller’s downtown killing weeks earlier remains unresolved.
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Ala
Louis Smith
Brooks Fuller
Louis Roney
Smith
Roney
Fuller
Millionaire Josiah V. Thompson Granted Divorce
Pittsburg January 20 Josiah V Thompson a Uniontown Pa coal and coke operator was granted a divorce in a special decree. Thompson agreed to pay his wife Mrs Thompson one million dollars and each party retained right to marry again.
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Pittsburg
Josiah V. Thompson
Uniontown
Thompson
Two Prominent Men Die Without Warning
Arcadia January 20. Two prominent men died suddenly today in Avon Bark. Colonel Harland Davidson, a leader in education and head of the Highland Park NL military school, collapsed at his winter home. Armand E. Hol singsworth, 38, cattleman, died at his wife’s feet while talking to her. Both deaths attributed to heart trouble.
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Fila
Harland Davidson
Highland Park
Avon Bark
Armand £. Holsingsworth
Fortune in Gems Escaped Thieves
London detectives report a failed $400,000 pearl theft at Mark Ruban Jewel Merchant on Eleathorn Viaduct. Scotland Yard suspects an American gang used an elaborate rigging of electric tools and gas cylinders, erected a tent around the safe, but could not reach the pearls. The burglars fled after being disturbed, leaving behind tools.
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London
Mark Ruban
Eleathorn Viaduct
Scotland Yard
Probe Ordered by Government on Bell System Probe
Washington January 20 Attorney General says regulation by the interstate commerce commission of the American Telephone and Telegraph company will solve the telephone trust problem, referring the matter to a full commission investigation. The action ends DOJ probe into a $600 million trust and seeks a government policy for regulation or public ownership of utilities. Lane IC C chairman says investigation will be far reaching and may shape future antitrust policy.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
American Telephones and Telegraph Company
Wickerswam
Commission For
Department of Justice
Lane
Interstate Comm
Meéfep Commission
Otiotk Tok Fateh
Ana ‘ Prasticas
Wicktisham
American Telephone ‘and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone System
Commission
Law Department
Weather Prophecy: Local Rains On Tuesday And Wednesday
Local report forecasts rain across the region with cooler conditions in the north and central portions Tuesday, followed by colder air and rain in the east and south Wednesday. The highest and mean temperatures are noted with normal levels and rainfall deficiency figures summarized for the period since January 1.
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Georgia
Map Puzzle Contest Sees 41 Submissions
The notice discusses a Map Puzzle Contest where 41 solutions were submitted. Officials claim the checks were tedious but aim to publish the successful contestants between January 30 and January 36, with each contestant's address forthcoming.
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