Conventions celebrate fiftieth year in Atlanta July
Eighteen conventions were held in Atlanta in July 1921 with 7,100 delegates. In seven months Atlanta hosted 216 conventions with about 58,000 attendees. A long list of July conventions follows, including Georgia-Alabama Monument Dealers association set for 1922. Thomas J. Buchanan, 60-year Barnes Lodge member, praised for years of service and noted as Georgia’s first great sachem of the Red Men.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Conventions Bureau
Southern States Life Insurance Agents
Piedmont Hotel
Georgia-Alabama Monument Dealers’ Association
Tew
Western Union Telemic Company
Equitatio Lite Tesurnnes Company
Agents of
Georgia
Fraternal Society of Deaf
Southeastern States Railroad
F Fc
Bae
Southern Convention, Christian and Missionary Alliance
Suprema Lodge Masons’ Annait
Southern’ Forestry Congress
Gesoolation
Southern States
T. Comvention
Geres
G. C. P. Ee Tee
Thomas J. Brated
Barnes Lodge
Odd Fellows
Buchanan
Claude Buchanan
Hale
Sherman
Daniel Brothers’ Clothing Petere
Peachtree’ Street
Healey
Marietta Street
Empire Building
Brown & Allen's
Whitehall
Alabama Streets
Connally
W. H Brotherton
Awest
Alabama
Broad Street
Camp Friendly Scouts Enter Fourth Period at Gainesville
Some 200 plus scouts attended Camp Friendly near Gainesville as the third period wrapped up and the fourth period began, with two weeks ahead. The daily schedule featured campfires, a spelling bee, and accounts of front line experiences in France, as Scouts reviewed Camp Life and activities led by Scout Executive Roland I. Shine.
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Atlanta
Gainesville
Joseph Gershon
Irving Samuels
David Tipp
M Fr
William Eplan
Winsor Lotton
Graham Dozier
Howard Curran
Edward Bailey
Edwin Wheeler
Albert Whittle
Howard Brown
Friendly
Roland I. Shine
Shine
France
Frank McCormack
Resuming Search for Stone Body in Canadian Alps
Calgary reports a new Swiss guided party forms to recover W E Stone president of Purdue University who fell from Mount Ean on July 16. Dr Stone's widow travels with rescue group toward Banff while son heads to Mount Eanon to continue the search. Mrs Stone rests at camp after a rough mountain trek and shows no lasting injuries.
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Calgary
Alberta
W. E Stone
Perdue University
Mount Ean
Perg
Calvary Herald
Trail Centre Camp
Banff
Pellagra Reporting Move Draws Georgia House Support
A Georgia resolution proposes making pellagra a reportable disease to enable accurate monitoring. Rep Murphy Holloway of Fulton leads the measure with backing from Rep R C Woodward of Cook. Support grows amid concerns about unchecked Pellagra prevalence in the state.
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Georgia
House of
Murphy Holloway
Fulton
R. C. Woodward
Cook
Stewart-Warner Debuts Warn-O-Meter for Cars
Stewart-Warner unveils the Warn-O-Meter, a radiator cap device intended to gauge engine temperature and enhance car appearance. The new meter integrates with existing cooling systems and is designed to attract attention on modern autos.
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Stewart - Warner
Ewart Products Service Stat
Warner-Meter
A. Davico
Warn-o-Meter compatibility boosts aircraft engine safety
Ed Yancey of the Atlanta office touts the Warn-o-Meter automatic reostat driven heat indicator for aircraft engines. The device uses green and red lights to show safe and excessive heat, readable day or night, aiding operations. The United States Army Air Service plans a continental model airway system with Washington DC to Dayton Ohio routes, five main stations, ten subs, and twenty emergency fields.
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Ehig
Ed Yancey
Atlanta
United States Army Air Servikelg
Washington
Ninth Ward citizens plan new park in Atlanta
Alderman Oscar Williamson of the ninth ward leads a project to beautify Goldsboro park a three acre tract bought in 1918 along Euclid and North avenues. The plan includes walkways playgrounds and courts with estimates to be obtained and funds requested from the city council and county aid anticipated.
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Atlanta
Oscar Williamson
Ninth Ward
Euclid and
North Avenues
Goldshoro Park
Williamson
Min
Ool
Aidhenna
Wilhhamson
Council Finance Committee
eKaib-county
Coal Famine Warning Issued by Acting Fuel Administrator
Acting Fuel Administrator Roy S. Cox warns Montgomery residents that a serious coal famine could occur this winter if domestic users delay buying fuel. The advisory urges immediate purchases to prevent outages, comparing the danger to past shortages and urging prompt action by consumers and officials.
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W Montgomery
Ala
Roy FR
Cox
RSE
Palabra
Protest to move Camp Gordon hospital for disabled negro troops
Mayor Key urged Congress and W D Upshaw to oppose using Camp Gordon for a hospital for disabled black soldiers. Public Health Service plans a three hundred bed facility with twelve hundred beds overall, aiming to spend about a million dollars around Atlanta, with Nashville also bidding. Georgia delegation supports Atlanta, while Pershing favors retaining part of the camp for white soldiers and training.
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Key
W. D. Upshaw
Camp Gordon
United States Public Health Service
Jordon
Pershine
Gondrosgman Upshaw
Ito
Public Health Service
Atlanta
Nashville
Georgia
Genatites Ag
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Mobile
Als
Mobile Auto Club
Gabriel
Waynesville
N. C
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Thomas J. Buchanan
Fuzzy Woodruff
Cele
Ninth Ward Citizens Planning New Park
P.O. B. Flint
Michi
Cord
Sea Us
Buick
Buick Motor Company
Buick -Motor Company
Peachtree St
Atlanta, Ga
Bateman
Borden Springs
Gall Becke
Isle
Tarigae
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