Bond issue for civic improvements approved by councilmen
City council approved a 3 258 500 bond plan for municipal improvements including 1 000 000 for schools 375 000 for Grady hospital 133 500 for fire department and 750 000 for waterworks The plan calls for a bond election and ordinance drawn by City Attorney J L Mayson The council amended the report striking a 100 000 line item for the Grant Park cyclorama building and reduced the fire department portion to 133 500 The Grady hospital total faced opposition from one alderman while others defended the pay ward and the broader need for funds for schools hospital sewers and waterworks The water department improvements include new pumps bases and mains and larger projects will be detailed in the bond election ordinance
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General Coapel
General Council
Grady Hospital
Fire Department
Special Bond Committee of Council
Grant Park
George Freeman
Fire
J. C. White
Grady
Atlanta
N. Ragsdale
White
Askea
Albert Thomson
University
Thomson
Orville H. Hall
Water Board
Water Department
Chattahoochee
Bearas
Wardlaw elected assistant superintendent of Atlanta schools
Professor J G Wardlaw, president of the Georgia Educational Association and longtime educator, was unanimously elected assistant superintendent of Atlanta public schools, to begin August 1. The board abolished the medical inspection department, reorganizing it by August 1 to cut costs by about 1600 and double medical attention for students. Wardlaw will be paid 3000 dollars annually and brings decades of teaching and administrative experience from Dublin, Thomasville, Albany, and the Georgia Normal and Industrial College.
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J. G. Wardlaw
The
Georgia Educational Association
State Normal School At
Athens
Atlanta
Board of Education
Professor Wardlaw
Aldine Chambers
Wardlaw
Georgia
Emory Colleges
University of Chicago
Dublin
Thomasville
Albany
Georgia Normal and Industrial Collexe
Milledgeville
State Normal
University of Georgia
Goersducational Association For
U S Cotton Pool Proposed by Britain to Handle Exports
Washington reports informal discussion of forming a large American cotton pool to distribute cotton exports to Europe under a British agreement. It would require direct British approval and would avoid state department involvement. Officials stress upholding freedom of the seas while Britain seeks a noninterference pact with neutral trade.
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Europe
Washington
State Department
Great Britain
High Seas
Catton
Senator Persons Delays Tax Equalization Amendment Kill Vote
The Senate finance committee killed Senator Persons amendment to the tax equalization law by 8 to 4. Debate showed support concerns from bankers and farmers about taxation, with Persons defending the measure as sound policy and not revenue raising. The bill faces further action amid warnings it could alter negotiability of notes and impact lending practices in Georgia.
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Persons
Senate
Mangham
Fersons
Finance Committee
Akin
John D. Walker
Goolsby
House
Georgia
Senator Persons
Luthor
CID
State money bill to be considered by house today
General appropriations total about 6.2 million, with 250 thousand more than 1915, plus 64 thousand in special appropriations. Chairman Fullbright says if European war continues this year the tax rate must rise to 6 mills to meet expenses. Revenue for 1916 estimated at 5.91 million, with potential 4.0 million under new conditions. Details cover departments, pensions, and state institutions with several increases and decreases.
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Appropriations Committee
Fullbright
Burke
House
Failberght
Military Department
Smith-Lever
Soldiers' Home
Department of Agriculture
Department of
Geological Department
I Prison Commission
Fulton County
Railroad Commission
Publc
Pensions Fund
State Board of Health
General Printing Fund
American Aeronautic Engineers Formed By Edison
The American Society of Aeronautic Engineers is organized in New York at Thomas A. Edison's request. Officers include President Henry A Wise Wood and Vice Presidents Orville Wright Glenn Curtiss and Elmer Sperry. directors feature Thomas Baldwin and Bion Arnold. Nearly 200 engineers and aeronautic specialists will be invited to join. The society aims to cooperate with the Navy Bureau on future projects as chosen by the Army and Navy.
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New York
American Society of Aeronautic Engineers
Thomas A. Edison
Navy
Navy Board
Henry A. Wise Wood
Orvile Wright
Glenn BH. Curbas
W. Sterling Burgess
Elmer A. Sperry
Peer Cooper Hewitt
John Hays Hammond
Weather Bureau
Bureau of Stannards
Massachusetts Institute of “Technology and Reoniversity of Michigan
Science of Aeronautics
Apeiety
Daniels
Navy Advisory Board
No Troops Ordered to Bayonne Strike
New York July 22 Adjutant General Wilbur F P Sadler said no troops would be needed to maintain order at Bayonne where two more men were killed in clashes between striking Standard Oil employees and armed guards, raising deaths to three since the strike began. Sheriff Eugene Kinkead appealed to Governor Piehler for troops and to Washington for federal mediators who were sent by the labor department. Strikers accepted a commissioners offer to act as arbitrators and will present wage demands of 16 percent to the commissioners tomorrow before Standard Oil of New Jersey.
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New York
Wilbur F P. Sadler
New Jersey
Bayonne
Eugene Kinkead
Pichler
Kinkead
Swashington
Department of Labor
Standacad
John Surgen
Germans Producing War Supplies Here Guilty of Treason
A Berlin dispatch warns that Germans working in neutral or enemy territories, especially the United States, manufacturing war materials for Germany face treason charges under the penal code. Officials state such acts can be prosecuted even abroad, with a maximum ten year imprisonment.
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Berlin
Sayville
United States
Wanamaker outlines Belgium purchase plan in address
Philadelphia July 22 John Wanamaker proposed purchase of Belgium from Germany by the United States and a system of high tariffs on imports and exports. He urged American business to aid European recovery and suggested borrowing 199,990,000,900 to buy Belgium and later hand its government to Belgians. Wanamaker supported forming a Philadelphia branch of the National Security League and was elected its president.
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Philadelphia
Belgium
Germany
United States
John Wanamaker
National Security League
Wanamaker
Europe
Austro German Lines Close On Warsaw In World War I
London reports Austro German forces press Russia defending Warsaw with some advances but no breach of inner lines. Russians pulled back to a bridgehead west of Warsaw and fortress at Ivangorod while German efforts along Narew and Vistula vie to exploit a possible Warsaw evacuation.
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London
Warsaw
Ivangorod
Vistula
Narew
von Vindenburg
von Mackensen
Bug
Berlin
Shay
Dabissa
Muravinelovno
Riga
Poland
Chehm-Lubin-ivangered
Russians Seek Guns and Officers in War Struggle
The report notes shortage of artillery ammunition and officers among Russian forces. After weeks of minor engagements, the Austro Italian campaign shows tentative scale and endurance. The Isonzo front action around Hussye movement broadens into a major battle with no indicated losses.
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Thien of Hussye
Isonzo
Note to England If Kaiser Agrees Too
Washington notes the US will await Berlin's reaction to a new warning to Germany on neutral rights. If Germany acts to protect American lives at sea, President Wilson may pursue a resolution with Great Britain, with the Lusitania incident looming as a potential trigger for Congress.
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England
Kaiser
Washington
United States
Berlin
Germany
Berin
Gerard
State Department
Lusitania
Congress
Wilson
Lves
Great Britain
Aliea
Solution Proposed to Cotton Problem by London Times
The Times suggests a plan to divert cotton away from Germany and Austria to Britain, at an outlay of 170 million dollars, with American cotton also shipped to Holland and Denmark. Sweden and Switzerland would contribute about 25 million, while declaring cotton contraband. The Times’ special article says the proposal would be acceptable to the United States and ease a serious friction.
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Gay Mia
Tron
Germany
Austra-iuneaty
Holland
Denmark
Nore Wav
Sweden
Switzerland
the Times
United States
Fricion
Weather Prophecy Partly Cloudy Forecasts
Washington Georda forecast predicts partly cloudy conditions on Friday and Saturday with possible showers near the fountain.
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Washington
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Georgia Normal and Industrial Institute
Milledgevine
North George
Aeronautic Society
Edison
Standard Oil
Tidewater CH Company
Stanley Murhetko
Ngedan
Nicolay Twasziin
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Fielier
Tidewater Works
Teutons
Britain
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Connen
London Times
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Elesk
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