Atlanta Charter Fight Heats Up As Council Weighs Charters
Anti charter reformers rally and hold strategy session as Mayor Woodward backs a strong commission plan retaining pension and civil service laws. He argues voters should decide both charters at once, while trustees would manage city affairs under recall and merit protections. Local political lines sharpen amid calls for home rule.
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Swinmit
Woodward
Committee of Twentyfive
Candler-McClelland-Hopkins
J. O. Cochran
Executive Committee
A Staple Medicine for All Families
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a universal family remedy for stomach liver and bowel troubles including constipat ion indigestion and headaches. It claims broad safety suitable for all ages and urges trial with free samples by mail from Dr W B Caldwell Monticello Illinois.
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Caldwell
Geo. T. Mull
Prop
Hull
Prue
Okla
Ull
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce dinner speakers announced
The 1000 Atlantans will attend a formal informal dinner at the Auditorium Tuesday evening featuring four speakers Dr. David Marx Reuben Arnold Jr and R Orr and R A Broyles. The program includes Meistersinger songs and a Why is Atlanta symposium addressing city plan convention bureau and health efforts. Broyles expected to deliver a pointed civic speech while Orr explains the letters riddle.
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David Marx
Reuben RB. Arnold A
R. Orr
R. A. Broyles
Atlanta Chamber of Commrce
Chamber of Commerce
Atlanta
City Plan
Convention Bureau
Industrial Bureau
Marx
Arnold
J. K- Orr
Orr
Broyles
Business and Chamber of Commerce
Cooper
Chamber
Burden Shifted To Consumers In Coal Price Rise
A report notes an 8 to 10 cent rise per ton in coal production costs shifted to the public through higher retail prices. Wholesale increases fed stove and chestnut coal prices, with some areas showing sharper gains. Independent operators, linked contracts, and wage gains for miners are examined, along with broader impacts on consumers and a final note on an industrial school initiative in Lanatt, West Point.
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Supreme Court
Minerga
Public health official warns against Friedmann tuberculosis cure
Dr H SP Harris of the Georgia state board of health warns Georgians and Germans in New York against trusting Dr Frederick Franz Friedmann who claims a tuberculosis cure. He says Friedmann has offered tests and rewards but failed to substantiate claims, and that living tubercle bacilli injections risk harm while safer alternatives exist. He urges the public to await clear testing and denies credibility until proven.
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H. SP. Harris
Georgia State Board of Health
Frederick Franz Friedmann
New York City
Harris
Friedmann
State Board of Heath Laboratory
Georgia
Koch
Suspect Escapes in Handcuffs After Courtroom Break
J B Echols, seen at 120 South Boulevard, slipped from Judge Owens' courtroom and fled in handcuffs while awaiting police. He had reportedly shoved a counterfeit one dollar bill on L M Burel of 385 Edgewood Avenue. Chizena captured him as he tried to board a streetcar before Detective Waggoner arrived and secured the handcuffs, but he escaped down the stairs.
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J. B. Echols
No. 120
South Boulevard
How to Cure Rheumatism from Old Time Ad Copy
Prominent doctors prescription misuse advised at home with a home remedy. The ad claims simple formula using Toris compound and sasparilla mixed in whiskey, taken nightly in teaspoonful doses. It promises quick relief after a few doses and urges avoiding patent medicines while sourcing Toris compound.
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Bla
Automobile Bandits Raid Jewelry Store on Broadway
New York photo discussion: three men in an open jewelry store raid on Broadway near Forty-eighth Street. They fled in a taxicab after a volley of police shots, abandoning a tray of diamonds valued at $7,000. Detectives recovered the stolen jewelry bus. a chauffeur connected to the escape was arrested.
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New York
Broadway
Forty-eighth Street
YEGGIN TOWER ADMITS HE IS CHICAGO SLIM
James Morgan also known as J M Berris alias Chicago Slim admits his identity to Pinkerton detective Harry Scott. He says he will face trial in Chicago for the assault on Lieutenant Bernard J Burns at a North Wabash Avenue saloon and denies involvement in a 272000 Bank of Montreal haul. Pinkertons express elation over the arrest and identification.
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James Morgan
J. M. Berris
Chicago Slim
Harry Scott
Pinkerton Bureau
Chicago
Bernard J. Burns
Wabash Avenue
Bank of Montreal
New Westminser
British Columbies
Pinkertons
To Know This Man Is to End Your Sick Headache Trial
Advertisement offers Dr Burkhart s Vegetable Compound as a cure for headaches sour stomach and bilious blood with a 25 cent 30 day trial and prepaid refund if not satisfied. Ofers free trial to prove merits and lists Cincinnati Ohio address for Dr W S Burkhart.
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Europe
Burkhart
Dr. W. 8. Burkhart
Cherry His Square
Station R
Cincinnati
Ohio
Dahlonega Bank Robbery Suspects Captured in Bond
In Dahlonega Georgia authorities held several men in bonds of ten thousand dollars each after a failed Bank of Lumpkin raid. The group planned to execute an armed hold up but were thwarted before obtaining any loot.
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Chicago
Nim
Dahlonega
Sim
Sefer Bank
Lumpkin
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James G. Woodward
Hevciasionixim
DR. Geo. T."hule
J. K. Orr
Reuben R. Arnold and
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Robert Broyles
Geo. Muse Clothing Co
Pat
West Foint
Lanatt
DR. Friedman
Board
People of
Bandits
Heart of
Yeggin Tower
Burka
Stags
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Ce Nampie
Dent
Edmondson’s
N. Broad St
N. Pryor St
DeWitt's
H. S. Wampole
Cardus
King’s Discovery
Welch
Frank Edmondson & Bro
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N. Pryor
Bright
Warner
Arta
Nas
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