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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1915
Page
2
In Atlanta churches on Sunday congregations were urged to assist the Bla revival effort led by the Chapman group. The appeal called for active participation from members to bolster the event and sustain community support through the campaign.
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Four week revival campaign led by Alexander to begin February 14 in Atlanta. Ministers urge church workers to volunteer for executive committee. Brotherhood of St Andrew and St Philip join, along with Christian Endeavor Epworth League and Baptist Young People's Union. Aim to enroll 5 000 new Bible class members and mobilize 1 500 singers for a 6 000 seat tabernacle on Peach tree street above Ellis.
George H. Knight died in January in Denver and arrangements rest with Harry G. Poole. Survived by wife, parents, three brothers, and one sister of Atlanta. Stella Johnson died at 24 in a private hospital. husband Joseph Johnson of Garnett Street. W M Moore, 46, died at home. survived by wife and three children. Magene Belle Felton, 27, died at home in Kirkwood. husband J A Felton and four children. J H Wallace, 72, died at home in Ingleside. survived by husband, three sons and three daughters. Charles H Murphy, two, died at Inman Yards. parents Fred E B Murphy. Carroll & Hunter advertise Red Ash block.
A State Department letter outlines neutral rights and protests on submarine cables, censorship, searches, contraband, and trade with belligerents. It defends neutrality policy, cites incidents with Germany and Britain, and asserts U S responses to infringements while noting loans to belligerents and detention practices.
Chicago records show a Sherman act case against the Chicago Board of Trade set to begin. James A. Patten and Adolph J. Lichtstein, brokers on the board’s call committee, will testify as the government alleges the committee fixed grain prices after adjournment. The panel reportedly has been dissolved for two years.
New York January 24 The Commission for Relief in Belgium said food distribution is now fully organized across the Belgium occupation zone. An office at Maastricht coordinates south toward Liege and Namur and west to Limburg Province. Warehouses opened at four Limburg points enable commune deliveries. Northern Limburg is shorter on food, southern Limburg well supplied. canals aid distribution. Hoover reports progress from London.
Washington reports the United States has begun a treaty negotiation with Costa Rica to recognize its rights in the Interoceanic canal route. An amendment to the Nicaraguan pact will formalize these rights with an option valued near 1.5 million dollars. The move aims to placate Central American states including Salvador and Honduras as the U S considers a naval base purchase in the Bay of Fonseca and a potential Central American visit by Secretary Bryan after the Panama Canal opens.
John Devoy told a mass meeting in Washington that the battleship Texas approaching New York was ordered to stop by British cruisers Suffolk and Essex and a shot was fired across her bows when Captain Grant allegedly refused. Secretary Daniels said he had not heard of such an incident.
San Francisco reports Thomas A Watson, Bell and Watson associate, who first heard spoken words over a telephone wire, will address Mayor Mitchel in New York tomorrow celebrating the completion of trans continental service. The original experiments occurred in Boston in 1876. The page notes Ladies Free Atlanta Theater Tonight with a comedy Our Wives and a last page advertisement.
Vice Admiral Onofré Betbender of the Argentine navy and head of the Argentine naval commission in the United States died of heart disease in New York. He was 52. Ambassador Dr. Romula Naon reported his critical condition earlier. The commission had been overseeing the construction of two dreadnoughts for Argentina, the second of which was near completion.
Butler Pa January 24 four H Woods 38 telegraph operator at Harmony Junction shot and killed his wife Alice 32 and their three daughters Fay 15 Rose Mary 16 Marjorie 2 then killed himself. Bodies found by Hilderbrand after family failed to attend church. Wood employed by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Paris January 24 Benjamin Morel United States consular agent at Dunkirk France was injured when the American consulate was damaged by a bomb during a German air raid Friday The Dunkirk correspondent of Figaro notes other consulates Uruguay and Norway were damaged Washington January 24 The State Department has received no confirmation of Morel s injury Officials say he is a French citizen handling American interests alongside his private business The war era policy allowed consuls to move as needed and several U S consulates have been in fire including Odessa Rheims and Warsaw with damage claims filed.
A Daily News dispatch reports an attempted assassination of Field Marshal Baron EKolmar von der Goltz, believed to be en route to command Turks on the Caucasian front. The German consulate in Jaffa conveyed the incident from Damascus where other officers were attacked and a Turkish captain slain with a German colonel wounded.
Colleagues of Congressman Robert G. Bremner of New Jersey paid tribute today in a special House session after his deathbed wish to be experimented on for cancer research.
Miss Lucy Cabaniss aged 63 and a longtime missionary for the Southern Baptist Convention in Mexico from 1888 to 1911 died at Baptist Hospital in Columbia after enduring the six weeks siege of Durango during the revolution. A Virginia native, she was sister to C. H. Cabaniss, military secretary to South Carolina’s governor.
Atlantis Tonight opens with the Baldwin Melville stock company presenting Our Wives a long held New York and Chicano favorite with free admissions for holders of a paid ticket coupons on the last page of The Constitution. Price is 25 to 50 cents for most shows Tuesday Thursday matinees 25 cents. Forsyth features Emma Carus Carl Randall Jarrow and Harry Tales Motoring Maxine Brothers Bobby the dog Cecile Weston Louise Leon John P White and Marie Shelby's Chicken Dinner. The Grand showcases Marguerite Clark in The Goose Girl Monday and Tuesday a film about a princess raised incognito. The Portuguese ministry resigns led by Victor Hugo Coutinho.
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