Committee Gets Data On Direct School Tax Plan
City council weighs charter amendment to allow a direct school tax for maintenance, not new taxation. Alderman Albert Thomson chairs the committee. meeting next Thursday will feature Commissioner Guinn explaining the plan. Pro rata would add about 640000 based on 180 million in taxable values, on top of state and county funds.
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Charter Amendment Committee
Aeve
Albert Thomson
Council For
Guinns
Council
Birmin
Baroness Bertha von Suttner Dies at 72 in Vienna
Vienna reports the death of Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1915, aged 72. The Austrian writer and peace advocate had curbed obesity, requested cremation in Gotha with no ceremony, and planned ashes deposited in a columbarium. She edited Die Waffen Nieder, toured the United States in 1912 to promote peace, and once served as secretary to Dr. Alfred Nobel. Her work inspired the Nobel Foundation and she advised the Carnegie Peace Foundation.
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Bertha von Suttner
Baroness von Suttner
Gotha
Count Franz von Kinsk
Die Waffen Nieder
Tour Arms
International Peace Bureau
Berne
Germany
Austria
Adolf Wittgenstein
Gundaear von Suttner
United States
Weather Drives Cotton Market Selling Wave in New Orleans
New Orleans June 21 Weather improvements across the belt sparked a sizable selling wave in cotton last week. Prices peaked early, fell with Saturday gains, and rain in the east plus sun in the west altered crop prospects, suggesting a possible rise in next government condition figures.
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New Orleans
Thes Belt
Darouth
Canned grapes to be put up in new California cannery
A new California cannery will process canned grapes as part of a push to expand regional fruit preservation. The project aims to boost local agriculture output and create processing jobs in the area.
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New California
Large Audience Defies Heat at Sunday Organ Recital
A large crowd braved Sunday heat to attend the twentieth organ recital by Edwin Arthur Kraft, under the Atlanta Festival. The program opened at 4 pm, featured a transcription of Tchaikowsky by Kraft, and included MacDowell’s Woodland Sketches selections and a pastoral “To a Wild Rose.” Proceeds helped defray free Sunday program expenses.
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Edwin Arthur Hraft
Atlanta
Auditorium Armory
Tachaikowsky
Mr Kraft
Gray
MacDowel
Wolaland
Bilbo Faces Jury on Bribery Charge in Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi lieutenant governor Theodore G Bilbo is summoned to appear in Hinds County circuit court to answer a bribery indictment with former senator G A Hobbs. They allegedly took 200 dollars to influence a bill, with 1800 more promised, in a case tied to Governor Earl Brewer’s investigation efforts.
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Jackson, Miss
Jackson
Wife's Killing of Husband Stuns Portsmouth
Mary Hardy Polsom, a 4 Smith College graduate, is charged with shooting her husband Henry Holson near East Folsom. Police note she claimed lack of memory and showed remorse while insisting she acted in self defense to protect herself with a revolver. A county official doubted trial, citing prior asylum confinement.
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Portsmouth
Mary Hardy Polsom
Smith College
Henry Holson
Eaeter
Folsom
Jack
Saengerfest Plans For Saengerbund Festival In Louisville
Lawsville June 21 local committees finalize arrangements for the thirty fourth Saengerfest of the North American Saengerbund to be held in Louisville June 24 to 28. About 115 German singing societies from about 50 cities in the United States expected to participate in four days of music and song with a Saenger sund parade Volkestfest five concerts and a mass chorus of approximately 3900 voices under Louis Bergott of Cincinnati. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frederick Stir will provide instrumental music with soloists Mme Sarie Happold Rudolph Berger and Clarence Whitehill among others. Southern cities represented include New Orleans Memphis and Chattanooga.
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Saengerbund
Louisville
United States
Goldista
Louis Bergott
Cincinnati
Chicago, Symphony Orchestra
Frederick Stir
Will
Mme Sarie Happold
Rudolph Berger
Clarence Whitehill
New Orleans
Memphis
Chattanooga
Weather to be fair in southern states
Washington reports unsettled showery weather in the northern districts east of the Rockies on Monday with likely continuation into Tuesday in the middle Atlantic states and New England. Generally fair weather expected elsewhere through the week, except Florida may see afternoon thunderstorms, with warmer early week conditions in the east and moderate temperatures most days east of the Rockies.
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Rocky Mountains
Weather Bureau
Middle Atlantic
New England
Florida
Rockies
Bennet Offered Place by Attorney General
Thomasville Ga June 21 Special Colonel M C Bennet of Camulla has been offered an assistant's place in the office of Attorney General Warren Grice. Bennet has not announced acceptance and the matter remains under advisement. Japan's top wrestlers are descendants of a long line of professional grapplers.
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Thomasville
M C Bennet
Camulla
Warren Grice
Bennet
Promise Start Today On Whitehall Paving
Work to begin on Whitehall between Mitchell and Garnett as crews prepare to pave the street Monday morning. Nym Hurt, assistant chief of construction, says weather won’t delay the project and expects Whitehall to open to traffic before next Saturday night. He plans to work block by block to minimize disruption. The county will mix material in its old plant.
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Whitehall
Mitchell
Garnett
Nym Hurt
Engineer Hurt
Hansell
County Forces
Knights of St. John gather in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati June 21 a musical high mass at St Peters Cathedral opened the Knights of St. John pre convention activities with Archbishop Henry Moeller presiding. Tonight the second and third degrees were conferred on 400 members as James B. Dugah, supreme president, said the convention would be largely routine.
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Comcinnati
Onlo
Knights of St John
Steters
Henry Moeller
James B Dugah
Suffragette Baiting Popular in London
London June 21 suffragette baiting had become the regular Sunday amusement of London crowds. Police were kept busy in Hyde Park protecting the women and escorting them to places of safety. Various suffragette meetings were broken up and speakers hustled from platforms with threats of a ducking in the Serpentine. From the temper of the crowds these threats probably would have been put into execution except for the energetic action of the police. Several women spectators were subjected to rough treatment.
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London
Hyde Park
Vaudeville Actor Jumps to Death in County Jail
Cincinnati Ohio June 21 Robert Maloney of Cuero Texas vaudeville actor known as Willard The Wizard dies in county jail by jumping from the fourth tier to a cement floor breaking his neck He was under indictment for first degree murder for the December hotel murders of his wife and Jena.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Maloney
Cuero
Texas
Willard the Wizard
Maloney
Jena
Police Seek Slayer of Temple Citizen
Detectives from the city and county chase James Weathrooks of Temple Ga across Atlanta and Fulton County for the slaying of George Thomas Westbrooks a blacksmith killed with a hammer Friday afternoon in a fight Westbrooks died Sunday morning Weathbrooks fled Temple Saturday and is believed to have relatives near Elizabeth Cotton Mills police monitor that area and he is known to have had two prior fights in Atlanta
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Atlanta
Fulton County
James Weatbrooks
Temple
George Thomas Westbrooks
Thomas
Westbrooke
Elizabeth
Weathbrooks
Sunday School Convention Opens In Chicago Tomorrow
Hundreds of delegates arrive for the international Sunday School convention in Chicago. Speakers include Tred B Smith originator of the Men and Religion Forward Movement Dr F B Meyer of London Booker T Washington Rev Takest Akai and Rev H Kawasume of Tokyo.
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Chicago
Tred
Smith
Men and Religion Forward Movement
F B Meyer
London
Booker T Washington
Akai
H Kawasume
Tokio
Journeymen Horseshoers Delegates Arrive for International Union Meet
Memphys Tennessee hosts delegates from the Journeymen Horseshoers union as the International Union gathers for its annual convention. An influx is expected before the opening session, with five days of meetings planned starting tomorrow.
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Journeymen Horseshoers
Tenn
International Union of Journeymen Horseshoers
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