West Virginia Mine Strike Probe Opens as US Tests Martial Law
A US government inquiry into the Patut Creek and Cabin Creek mine strike begins in Charleston West Virginia. The Senate mine strike investigating committee reviews martial law records and military proceedings to determine civil rights violations. First witness J Bruce Reid says shootings occurred last June and describes guards’ accounts. He notes dozens arraigned and twelve jailed for conspiracy to murder during the Battle of Maclow.
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James I Pratt
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Weather Prophecy Unsettled Forecast For Georgia
Report notes unsettled weather with possible rain on Wednesday and cloudier skies on Thursday with rising temperatures. Local report lists highest temperature around 66, mean about 53, and normal of 75. Rainfall in past 24 hours reported as 0.93 inches with deficits since month start and year start.
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Éaneinteemee
Electric system indorsed by Athens chamber of commerce
Athens Georgia June 10 Special. Athens chamber of commerce backs extending the Duke electric line from Anderson to Atlanta and pledges effort to bring the system through Athens. If supported by local business and citizens, Duke plans to connect Winston Salem Morfolk and the Atlantic coast with a standard gauge electric network integrated with railroad routes.
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Emory College Votes Down Intercollegiate Athletics
Oxford Ga June 1 A single vote keeps Emory College from adopting intercollegiate athletics despite student and alumni petitions. Trustees split fourteen to ten and vow the fight will continue as the college faces attendance declines and church conference scrutiny. Leaders from both sides spoke, with alumni advocate Lauren Foreman and student orator EB Mtathens urging change.
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Thiateea
Georgia
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Methodist Church
Itha
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J Gordon Lea
Stewart R Roberts
Atlanta
L & Robeson
Thomas Whipple Connally
J BR Wight
Cairo
Baptist
Mr Connally
Methodist
Baptist Church
John F. White
Peachtree Street repair urged by county commission
Chairman Shel by Smith to propose a resolution at 10 this morning urging immediate work on Peachtree Street from Fifteenth to Buckhead. He favors temporary repairs this year and a full pavement replacement next year to save costs and improve the main Atlanta thoroughfare. Local property owners press for timely action and expect a repair squad to begin within thirty days.
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Unfrocked Parson Weds His Affinity After Years
Stamford Connecticut June 10 Jere Knede Gonke and Floretta Whaley wed by a justice of the peace in a hotel parlor after a trip to Willimantic for a divorce decree copy. The license followed a decree naming Mrs Cooke as respondent. The couple, elopers, plan a New York home, while Cooke works as a house painter.
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Stamford, Conn
Jere Knede Cgonke
Floretta Whaley
Willimantic
Marinda Clarke Cooke
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Miss Whaley
New York
Hempstead
Girl at organ struck by lightning in Georgia church
Mies Grace Barnes, organist at Macedonia Baptist Church in eastern Butts County, was severely injured Sunday afternoon when a lightning bolt struck the belfry during Sunday school. An accompanying woman was unharmed as a plank splintered beneath her. The church interior suffered damage, and the building, completed last year on the original site, marks the county’s first house of worship.
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Mies Grace Barnes
Macedonia Baptist Church
Butts County
Wanted Intelligent Man for Permanent Outside Position
An advertisement seeks a healthy, well appearing man between 25 and 25 years old for a permanent outside general business and traveling role. Must provide first-class references. Respond to Q. Box 8 care Constitution.
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Classified Ad Promises Quick Hire Reach at The Constitution
A brisk classified notice claims 30 replies and finding the right person on the first day of the ad. It assures capable men and women can be reached with a phone line to Mainenan for hiring inquiries.
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Atlantan Reunites With Wife In Wild West Parade
In a chaotic Atlanta parade scene, a man named John R. Edwards saved Agnes Slade from a saddle mishap on the Buffalo Bills Wild West float on Whitehall Street. The pair, estranged after a Boston quarrel, recognized each other, rekindling their marriage as she plans to rejoin him in Atlanta after her engagement ends in two weeks.
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Murdered man and wounded daughter shock Harrisonville
Arthur Kellar, a railway worker from Harrisonville, MO, was killed with an axe in his home last night. His 7 year old daughter was critically injured while his wife Mrs Kellar frightened the assailant from the house. An inquest heard about life insurance and domestic quarrels, with a vague description of the murderer. No suspect is named.
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Atwood's Erie Flight Fails to Reach Sandusky
Sandusky Ohio June 10 Harry Atwood the aviator who left Heorne Mich in his hydro aeroplane for a trip over Lake Erie to this city had not reached here tonight No word has been received as to his status or whereabouts while hours before he had started from Heorne Mich and was not yet accounted for.
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Heorne Mich
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Woman Killed in Ipswich Strike Riot
In Ipswich Massachusetts a deadly riot outside Ipswich Hosiery Mills left one woman dead and seven others wounded by bullets amid clashes between Industrial Workers of the World strikers and 600 English-speaking employees. Fifteen were arrested including organizer Nathan Herman and E. I. plus, as police tried to restore order after bricks and bottles were thrown.
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Industrial Workers of the World
Nicoletta Pandelopoulou
Salem
Allere
Hall
Board of Selectmen
Nathan Herman
Indastria
Dictograph affidavit alleged padding in Felder Woodward notes
Sworn charges claim stenographer George M. Gentry's dictograph transcripts were padded with Colgar's involvement and a $50 payment. The document, presented to Mayor Woodward, cites attempted purchase of original notes by Colyar and urges grand jury scrutiny for forgery while officials deny the claims.
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James G. Woodward
Thomas B. Felder
Charles C. Jones
Williams House
Atlanta
Ed O. Miles
Woodward
George M. Gentry
Milea
Gentry
Washington, D. C
Jeannette Henning
James L. Beavers
Newport Sanford
Gay C. Febuary
Colyar
Beavers
Lanford
Police Chiefs Favor Segregated District in Reform Talk
Washington June 10 police chiefs at the annual convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police denounced reformers methods on the social evil. Speakers urged better legislation to aid police in controlling the problem. Heads favored segregated district over total suppression. a committee to study the issue was adopted.
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Washington
International Association of Crists of Police
Divorce Granted to Polo Player Wife in Maine Court
Mawile Livingstone Waterbury of New York, polo team member, was granted a divorce from Lawrentes Waterbury in Portland. Crust and abusive treatment alleged. She was awarded custody of their two children Lawrence Jr and Ahna L with father access on reasonable terms.
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Mawile Livingstone Waterbury
Lawrentes Waterbury
New York
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