New Phase Added to Will Contested in Alexander Estate
A birth of a posthumous baby boy to Mrs. Minnia B. Alexander spurs a petition to revoke the late W. H. Alexander will valued at 340000. Attorney Arnold & Arnold and R. Z. Jordan filed for Mrs. Alexander, seeking temporary administration and probate actions while the case awaits superior court and docket action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnia B. Alexander
W. H.alexander
Alexander
Attorneya Arnold & Arnold
R. Z. Jordan
W. A. Dodge, Jr
Superior Court
W. H Alexander, Jr
John Alexander
Sandnes
Summer Echos From Justice Court Halls Conflicts Over Homestead Law
The piece reports bailiffs upset by rumors of indictments over homestead levies. Judge Wilkinson notes frequent homestead grants for small amounts under $100, affecting poor families. Bailiffs caution against indiscriminate grants and discuss cases where values exceed limits. A separate tale recounts Columbus Chaplin and John Smith in a jealous dispute ending in assault charges. Additional items include Annie Williams selling a stove and a discuss of juror duties in the justice courts.
Burglar Loots Caniel Avenue Home of Railway Officer
A noon burglary at 521 Caniel Avenue, the residence of Wat son Fuller, assistant superintendent of the railway mall service, left six to seven rooms rifled and bedding torn. Police suspect a white youth, 16 to 18, in a Heht suit and large black hat, seen loitering by Mrs Porter next door. Jewelry and money believed targeted. some trunks remained undisturbed. entry by a rear window. Detectives Kilpatrick and Simpson assigned.
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Caniel Avenue
Watson Fuller
Railway Mall
Cail
BR. D
Dorsey
Kilpatrick and Simpson
Byxglar
Taerander
Fuller
Aldermen Target Petition Over Welch Franchise Amendment
Fourth Ward citizens circulate a petition among council members to urge the aldermanic board to reject the Welch amendment restricting the Forrest Avenue line franchise to a 3 1 3 cent fare. The Atlanta Rapid Transit Company says it would not accept a plan forcing three fares for ten cents. The petition, signed by at least eleven council members, aims to apply the fare clause to both companies if kept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldermanic
Fourth Ward League
Atlanta Rapid Transit Company
Aldermanic Board
Fourth Ward
Malvern Hill
Minchinnett
W. C. Rawson
W.B. Lewis
T. D. Longino
H. W. Grady
W. M. Terry
H. B. Garrett
TW. A. Fincher
Charles T. Hopkins
Officer Bitten by Dog While Apprehending Suspect Ed Thomas
Officers Tibbs and Dorsey answered a call about a suspect, found Ed Thomas at his mother's home, and pursued him. Tibbs was bitten and dragged from under a house by a ferocious dog owned by Thomas, but Dorsey intervened to spare the animal.
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T. Tibbs
Tibbs
Horton Street
Ed Thomas
Dorsey
Thomas
Woman Fined Twice After Butler Street Fight
Jessie McCoy and Nora Nichols, two Black women, fought on Butler street. They appeared before Judge Broyles in recorder’s court and each received a 316% fine amid bleeding. Nichols vowed to whip McCoy again when released, while the recorder adjusted fines to 25 dollars plus costs. Nichols could not pay the 575 dollars and was sent to the prisoner's room.
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Jessie McCoy
Nora Nichols
Butler Street
Recorder’s Court
Broyles
Nichols
Tooney
Stores Closed as Sheriff Takes Over Cap Avenu Grocery
A sheriff tak es charge of the W 8 Williams grocery at 114 Capitol Avenue after a mortgage foreclosure in favor of Atlanta Grocery Company and A McD Wilson. The stock is valued around 310 to 350 dollars. Nine jurors are drawn for a panel with each side allowed two strikes, but jurors are paid only 1.25 per case and may go unpaid for days.
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Williard
Capitol Avenue
Williams
Atlanta Grocery Company
Wilson
Sherif A. J. Shropshire
Justice Court
Orr
Bloodworth
Suit Filed For 7500 Dollars In Williams Injury Case
Etta Williams and husband Lewis Williams through Arnold and Arnold filed a suit against the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company for 7500 damages claiming injuries on February 1 while Williams was a passenger on a suburban train. The petition says the train started suddenly as she attempted to alight at East Point, throwing her to the ground and injuring her seriously. Case scheduled for the September term of the city court.
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Annie Williams
Messrs. Rhodes & Haverty
Awa
Justice Bloodworth
Vane
Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company
Etta Williams
Eitts
Williams
Lewis Williams
Arnold &Arnold
Etta Willams
Dita Willams
East Point
New boys fashion pants and caps at cut prices
A new lot of boys wash pants priced at 25 cents per pair, plus linen caps and Tams reduced from 25 and 50 cents to 19 and 39 cents. Negligee shirts with detached cuffs sized 12 to 14 necks drop from 50 cents and 7d grade to 39 and 59 cents, while colored and white shirts drop to 79 cents from $1.00.
Furnishings Reduced Offer in Bargain Notice
Bargain window features Balbriggan underwear in pink pin stripes and solid blue at 89c per garment, $1.50 suits for 89c, half bosom white shirts 90c, Lisle half hose 35c a pair or 3 for $1.00. From top French and German looms, goods advertised at discount.
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Summer Man
Frank O Spain leaves business for school room
Frank O Spain, long time representative of the American Book Company, returns to teaching. He steps into duties at the university school for boys at Stone Mountain starting September, with associates W B Griffin and W E Carter. The home school aims to train boys and grows in prominence in the southern states.
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Frank O. Spain
American Book Company
Spain
South Carolina Military Academy
Echocta
South Carolina
Milledgeville
School of Technology
Leonard Wood
University School For Boys
Stone Mountain
W. B Griffin
W. E. Carter
Atlanta
Insurance notes show new life business by state in 1991
The report lists annual new life insurance business by company with figures for the year ending April 30 1991 led by Mutual Life of New York and New York Life. It notes Massachusetts prohibitions on physician loyalty policies pending attorney general opinion, and an anecdote on a man who paid off a twenty year policy. It mentions executives and agents including H C Bagley and Charles H Black and a new line of fire and fidelity coverage for cotton mills.
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Wright
Aetna Life
Connecticut Mutual
Equitable Life
Fidelity Mutual
Franklin Life
Germania
Hartford Life
Home Life
Small Life
Manhattan Life
Maryland Life
Massachusetts Mutual
Michigan Mutual
Mutual Benefit
Mutual Life of
New York
Mutual Life
Mutual Reserve
National Life
New England Mutual
New York Life
Northwestern Mutual
Pacific Mutual
Fenn Mutual
Phoenix Mutual
Provident Savings
Prudential
Royal Union
Security Mutual
Security Trust and Life
State Tim
Massachusetts Insurance Department
Fidelity and Casualty
H C Bagley
Pann Mutual
Tate Spring
Atlanta
The
Steel Trust
South
Charles H. Black
Storage Company
Cincinnati
ICHERT FOR PEEPLES STREET Paving West End Update
Public Works Department rushes Peeples street paving in West End. Commissioner Collier says work will finish around mid next week, covering one long block between Gordon Street and Oglethorpe Avenue. About thirty five workers on site, with a new squad of forty to be added Saturday.
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Public Works Department
West End
Peeples Street
Collier
Gordon Street
Oglethorpe Avenue
Leading Kappa Alpha figure at Richmond convention
The Richmond Dispatch highlights a prominent Hartwell Georgia member of Kappa Alpha at the recent convention in Richmond. The note calls him a leading figure, beloved by peers, and a standout among the fraternity’s members.
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Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Richmond, Va
Dispatch
Georgeen
McCurry
Hartwell
Kappa Alpha
Receipt covers cotton collateral to secure bank loans
A guaranteed receipt states the cotton named will stay in the mill as security for loans. If burned, stolen, or damaged, the export company covers the loss. The firm reinsures its fire risks, and while cotton is a major focus in the South, the company will accept other property under the same terms. Also promoted is Tyner’s Little Watermelon Seeds priced at 10 cents.
Gashed by Falling Glass at Kokomo Plate Factory
Five of ten workers at the Kokomo plate glass works were injured when a 122 by 190 inch, 2200 pound sheet broke while being moved from the annealing oven to a table. The sheet showered down injuring heads, shoulders and arms, with scalp lacerations. All five face possible loss of arms. Injured: Herman Meyer, Anthony Michate, August Cruel, William Abney, Peter Van Runge.
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Kokomo
Ind
Plate
Herman Meyer
Anthony Michate
August Cruele
William Abney
Peter van Runge
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