Two New Victims Of Air Crash Near Visalia
Sacramento dispatch says Harold E. Page of Union City Michigan and Joseph W Weatherby of Fort Davis Texas were killed instantly when their airplane crashed to earth near Visalia about 200 miles south of Sacramento. Both men were in Sacramento when the plane fell.
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Sacramento
Cal
Harold E. Page
Union City
Mich
Joseph W. Weatherby
Fort Davis
Texas
Visalia
Here
Senator France Granted Permit to Enter Russia
Berlin June 27 United States Senator Joseph L France received permission from Russian authorities to enter Russia to study general conditions. He will travel with his secretary Mr Watson and is expected to reach Moscow before week’s end.
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Berlin
United States
Joseph L Rrance
Watson
Riga
Russia
France
Moscow
Southern Business College praised for placing students in government jobs
An Atlanta reader cites extensive school surveys and a letter from Earl Heard praising Southern Shorthand and Business University. He credits thorough training for securing a government position and encourages others to enroll. The note, dated June 23 1921, highlights business courses, day and night classes, and a center at 11 Whitehall Street.
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Southern Business College
Whitehall Street
Earl Heard
Young Heard
The
Southern
Atlanta
Southern Shorthand and Business University
Earl
A. C. Briscoe
L. W. Ames
Atlanta, Ga
Mayfield killings leave ten dead in house fire
Ernest Lawrence, in a farm house near Mayfield, is suspected of murdering ten relatives and neighbors then setting the house ablaze and killing himself. Authorities found oil can and weapons. one woman likely died by an ax. Neighbors say the Drew family and Lawrence family had been cordial neighbors, often switching weekends together.
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Mayfield
Ernest Lawrence
Lawrence
Marion McCain
Hines
Otis Drew
Drew
Delmer Drew
Shota
Screama
Latyrence
Doctors Endorse Child Placing Bill in Georgia
The Fulton County Medical Society and the Georgia Medical Association endorsed the Child Placing bill to regulate foster home placements. Judge Harper Hamilton of Rome will introduce it in the House. The measure requires licensing, careful investigation of handlers, and records for each placement with violations treated as misdemeanors.
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Fulton County Medical Society
The
Georgia Medical Association
House of Representatives
Harper Hamilton
Rome
Board of Public Welfare
Fulton County and State Medical Societies
E. C. Thrash
Candler
Burr Blackburn
State Board of Public Welfare
Women Push Georgia Bill for Full Voting Privileges
Mary Latimer McLendon, head of the Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association, asks legislators to back a constitutional amendment removing the word male and to pass measures defining women as voting and office holding citizens. She cites 1920 disfranchisement and urges raising the age of consent from 14 to 18.
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Georgia
Mary Latimer Mc‘Lendon
Georgian Woman's Suffrage Association
McLendon
Fie
Otey Mitchell Named Attorney for Southern Bell and Cumberland
Otey B. Mitchall was appointed attorney for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company. A Virginia native who grew up in Atlanta, he studied at Marist College and the University of Virginia, served as a World War I staff officer, and returns to Atlanta to join the companies’ law department after previously working in the tax division.
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Otey B. Mitchall
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company
Major Mitchell
Virginia
Atlanta
Marist College
University of Virginia
Burnham
Law
Weevil Will Return Says Henry L Brown
Henry L Brown county demonstration agent warns boll weevils will reappear in Fulton County. He urges farmers to collect and destroy old yellowing cotton leaves near old buildings fence rows and woods to confine the weevil to small areas and prevent spread.
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Tarry L.rown
Fulton County
Mr. Brown
Revival at East Atlanta church reports 34 conversions
East Atlanta Christian Church at Moreland and Flat Shoals avenues reports 34 conversions from revival services led by Pastor Rev. T. T. G. Linkgus. Services started two weeks ago and run through next Wednesday with special music by an augmented choir under A. D. Helms. Professor A. T. Osburn heads 8 pm lecture on The Inner Loves of Life Tuesday.
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East Atlanta
Wil
Doctors Urged to Unite Against Prohibition Curse
Atlantic City June 27 Doctors nationwide urged to unite to repeal the Volstead act in a keynote by Dr W Wallace Fritz president of the Allied Medical Association of America at the annual convention He called prohibition a curse that worsens drunkenness and harms public health arguing physicians must protest to protect therapeutic liberty and oppose liquor salesmen roles of druggists and liquor dealers
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Atlantic City
N. J
W. Wallace Fritz
Philadelphia
Allied Medical Association of America
Raincoat Incident Brings Laughs at Georgia Banking Dept
Assistant superintendent B A Thompson suffered a mishap in crowded offices when a torn pair of trousers exposed him as four beauty queens watched. Examiners and clerks reacted with surprise as a rain coat and quick escort to a tailor saved the scene. Thompson vowed to sue for a million dollars.
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B. A. ‘Thompson
State Banking Department
League of Nations
Banking Department
Thompson
Fr. Thompson
Georgia Banking Department
Mammoth Cave
Supe
PLC
Searcy
Bank Eaminer
Supe Waa
Thanks Atlantians for Hospitality to Delegates
A letter from Frank B Farmer of the Indianapolis Ad club thanks Atlanta citizens for hospitality shown to delegates of the recent ad convention. The note praises the Atlanta Ad club Kiwanis club Boy Scouts of Atlanta and local citizen efforts during the visit in a warm, appreciative tone. Delighted Wrightsville Beach offers sleepers daily via Sea board with low round trip rates and reservations at City Tibet Office 19 Walton St.
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Atlanta Ad Club
Charles Hohenstein
Frank B Fanner
Indianapolis
Yankees
Planner
Atlanta
Kiwanis Club
Boy Scouts of
A A. C of W
Wrightsville Beach
Seaboard
City Tibet Office
Walton St
Tyy
Criticism of Vocational Training Board Sparks Senate Hearing
Washington reports the federal board for vocational education drawn into sharp questions from the senate committee probing veterans services. Senators fault the board’s bureaucratic system and contract schools, while Miss Sadie Maple describes misaligned training, delays, and punitive moves against men. The testimony includes alleged poor conditions at Baltimore hospital centers and calls to move tuberculosis patients from Fort McHenry.
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Washington
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Senate
Pome- Tene
Ohio
Sutherland
West Virginia
Walsh
Massachusetts
Sadie Maple
Army Hospital
Baltimore
Fort McHenry
Two Divisions Held In Criminal Court In Fulton
Judge Z A Littlejohn of Amerous Ga presides in the emergency division while Judge John D Humphries runs the regular division in Fulton superior court. This is the second week of criminal divisions with Judge W E Thomas of Valdosta presiding last week. It was indicated Monday that extra sessions will go to 4 o’clock after this week as cases disposed in the first two weeks allow Humphries to continue regularly unassisted.
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Z. A. Littlejohn
Amerous
Fulton Superior Court
John D. Humphries
W. E. Thomas
Valdosta
Humparies
Major Generals Rent Realty From War Dept Facilities
Washington June 27 The war department plans to rent surplus arsenals and other government buildings expanded during the war press. Secretary of War Weeks announced that department buildings across the country will be put on the market for tenants as the war period winds down.
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Washington
War Department
Weeks
Weeks Plans Economy Drive Using Government Facilities
Weeks pushes private use of government machinery storage space to cut rentals. He notes savings of about 269000 dollars over two years from annual rentals of 1500000 dollars. The plan includes bidding for tenancy and consolidating wartime work. On July 1 the government will end its lease of the 10000 acre Lakehurst chemical warfare ground though savings from that move are undetermined due to lacking rent rates.
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Chinery
Lakehurst
Fabric Sale Prices From Silk and Pongee Lineup
A catalog of fabric prices lists Crepe de Chine at 89c per yard and Japanese Pongee at 85c, Chinese Pongee at 59c, plus specials on Satin 1.69, Bridal Satin 1.95, Broadcloth 1.39 to 1.95, Radium Taffeta 1.69, and Silk Duvetyne 3.95 per yard. Many items feature marked-down rates and bulk deals.
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B. University
Edmonton
Alberta
Arctic Circle
Swift & Company
Brookfield
U.S. A
E. B. Adams
Mer
Atlanta Nat'l Bank
Alsbama
A, Hill
Mgr
Otey Mitchell
Southern Bell
Weevil
Henry L. Brown
Medical Association
Jacobs’ Pharmacy Cor
Whitehall
Alabama
As Rears
Uso Pie Vie Kasai Aarte
Meteors
Tert
Treas
Vocational Training Board I Critiised
Livingston Medicine Company
Griffin, Ga
Regenerator Club
Galif
Chantilly
Marquis
Boheme
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