Commercial High Seniors Graduates in 1923 Exercises
Three thousand people attended Commercial High School graduation at the auditorium on Thursday night. 120 students received diplomas as W. W. Gina and Wil fig A. Sutton presided. A class processional opened the program with songs and readings. Maury Wall read an essay, Miss Rosa Barrett won a medal for best essay, and Miss Tall had only one absence in four years.
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Commercial High Schol
Audiforium
W. W. Gina
Board of Education
Wilfig A. Sutton
Bruce Forster
Hous
Enerranean
Maury Wall
Sutton
Mins Tall
Sanford Supersteiy
Commercial High
T. W.townsend
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Rosa Barrett
Farmer personal crisis report in Georgia
A Georgia farmer, Evans, faces a personal crisis reported May 31. Details are limited to the farmer’s residence and the incident context described in the brief notice.
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Spreial) Evans
The
Bethlehem district farmer shoots self after illness and crop worries
In Bethlehem district Barrow county, a farmer named Evans ended his life Wednesday afternoon with a pump shotgun. He had been in poor health and worried about crop prospects. After dinner he left with the gun, told his wife to stay back, kissed her, then two shots were heard. His body was found with two gunshot wounds. He leaves a widow, several small children, and a brother William Evans of Oconee county. Funeral and interment were at Bethlehem.
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Ng Kethlehem
Barrow County
Tle
Evans
William Evans
Oconee County
Bethlehem
Unsettled Weather Forecast From Local Meteorologist
Unsettled weather with possible thunder showers is forecast for Friday by C. E. von Herrmann. Cloudy morning expected, with precipitation likely in the afternoon.
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C. E. von Herrmann
Mr. von Herrmann
Hal Crawford Starts Journey to Atlantic City
Hal Crawford 10 year old Home for the Friendless boy, selected by The Constitution as guest of Atlantic City Kiwanis, departs with delegates to the International Kiwanis convention. He will be greeted as city mayor, escorted to the Dennis hotel, and invited to visits in New York Newark and Jersey City. Delighted on board the train, Hal has never left Atlanta before.
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Atlantic City
W. J. Carrington
Vietory
Hal Crawford
Ocean
Dr. Carrington
Hal
Miss Samuel
Broad Street
New York
Kiwanis
Miss Lan
Newark
Andersey City
Tal
Atlanta
Felon
Adventuriouia Surprize
Constitution
Jersey
Samuel
Tid
Street Railway Fight Spurs Atlanta Transport Plan
Archive accounts a 1923 Atlanta council hearing where J R Atkinson urged regulation of jitneys and city transportation reform. He warned that without expanded streetcar service and public cooperation, growth and tax revenue would stall, and Atlanta would face costly traffic and transit failures.
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Special Council
Council
Atkinson
Atlanta
L Tle
Sumor
United State
Canital
Disney
United States
Street Way
Luchie Street
Republic
Des Moines
Birmingham
Smith Silent On Repeal Stand Debate In New York
New York witnesses a heated session on repeal with Governor Smith at the table on the floor as Assemblyman Culliver and Mrs Ida Sammis Woodruff present opposing views. William H. Anderson of the Anti Saloon League protests on behalf of 4000 to 5000 churches while Colonel Hayward argues repeal would legalize bootlegging and invite poisonous liquors. Gompers urges repeal in a letter backing state action to modify the Volstead act, while Gillett counters with constitutional double jeopardy concerns and warns against weakening federal enforcement.
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Culliver
Ida HL Sammis Woodruff
New York State
Anti-Saloon League
Hayward
Harding
Daugherty
Gompers
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mullan-Gage
New York
Mr. Gompers
James P. Holland
New York State Federation of Labor
Gillett
Ransom H. Gillett
Smith
United States
Union of States
Newburg
Wayne E. Wheeler
Wheeler
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Miss Mary Hall
J. E. Evans
Credit House
South
Liberal Credit
Home Art Supply CO
Whitehall Street
Atlanta Constitution
Gor
Newbro Hfg. CO
Georgia
EN Tnt J
Kirst
Stee
Atlanta Real Estate Board
Transportation Committee
J .R. Smith
Benjamin D. Watkins
George T. Northen
Georgia Railway and Power Company
Caltorn
Public Service Commission
Vow
Atlipta
Marietta
Gordon
King Cw. Co
Whitehall
Peters
Decatur
Nynet
Pacos
Hse Gandh
S.essssees
Carh Wes
Dover
Carter
Perry Ste Ford
Aniv. Nair
Tn. A
Tordsoni
Eile Price
Seslaediae
Ford
Atlanta Pbms
Alvenio
Auto Department
Miain
King Hardware Company
Sug Ttudeerreeter UC
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