Atlanta Welcomes Shoe Retailers At Third Annual Meeting
Delegates from most southern states attend the Southern Shoe Retailers Association meeting at the Piedmont hotel in Atlanta. Mayor Winn and Major R. J. Guinn greet the visitors with warm welcomes as sessions open and social events follow at the Transportation Club and Forsyth Theater, with a smoker at the Atlanta Club later in the day.
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Southern Shoe Retailers’ Association
Piedmont Hotel
Winn
R. J. Guinn
Chamber of Commerce
Othrs
Atlanta
Transportation Club
Forsyth Theater
W. S. Buck
A. H. Meadors
Nashville
Marx
Byck
Moors
Major Guinn
Orr
Meadorg
Annual Shoe Association Meeting Opened in Atlanta
Buffet luncheon adjourns Piedmont to Transporta ton Club for talks. President Meadors presided at 2 PM session with annual address by Shendora tracing the group’s three year history. J K Orr Shoes and James H Stur of The Shoe Retailers spoke as visitors enjoyed theater, smoker, and city tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shendora
New Orleans
J. K. Orr
Allanta
J. K. Orr Shoe Company
Orr
James H. Stunr
Boston
Sve
Forsyth
Atlanta
Officers of Association
Asuuianda
Allen H. Meadors
Nashville
J. K. Orr Shor
Piedmont
F. J. Paxon
Artmaster
Foreign Mothers Dominate New York Births
Tabulation by the bureau of vital statistics shows a high share of births to foreign mothers in New York City. The current birth rate runs about 11,400 per month with 8,000 born to foreign mothers and 3,500 to American mothers.
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New York
Bureau of Vital Statistics
New York City
Thea
Strip the toga off Stephenson
Washington March. Senator Stephenson’s election is denounced as bought by money and bribery. Kenyon’s vigorous senate speech condemns the purchase, cites corruption, and urges expulsion if proven. He argues Americans will drive money changers from power and insists public policy, not wealth, should govern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stephenson
Reck
Kenyon
Senate
Iowa
Clapp
Jones
Kern
Lea
Iowa Town Claims Largest Percentage of Big Men
In March four North Liberty, a 250 population town just north of Iowa City, reports the highest share of big men in the middle west. Five residents total 1,480 pounds, averaging 316 pounds each: Miles Gordon 371, J P Line 239, C E Stewart 310, M J Stener 286, and 8 P Finch 285.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
North Liberty
Middle West
Miles Gordon
J. P. Line
C. E. Stewart
M. J. Stener
8. P. Finch
Uncle Sam Wages On Blind Tigers in Indian Territory
Muskogee Oklahoma March 4 The department of justice orders Grant Victor United States marshal to enforce federal prohibition in eastern Oklahoma as before statehood. Victor will likely appoint about 200 deputy marshals and up to 30 US commissioners plus a federal judge to try liquor cases. Possessing or transporting liquor across the state line becomes a penitential offense with seizure and arrest of holders. The Oklahoma Indian Territory remains under federal prohibition as Indian country per federal appeals court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Okla
Department of Justice
Grant Victor
United States
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Victor
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Sister Mary Regina Kerr Assaults Attendant at Mercy Hospital
In Jeffersonville Indiana on March 4 Sister Mary Regina Kerr, 14 years head of a local insane asylum, suddenly attacked a woman attendant at Mercy Hospital as inmates watched. The attendant freed by reopening the front door and reinforcements arrived. Kerr was moved to a sanitarium in Council Bluffs Iowa last night, with exhaustion blamed for her behavior.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Siater Mary Regina Kerr
Mercy Hospital
Sistue
Mary Regina
Council Bluffs
Frozen body found on porch in Indianapolis
The 26 year old Miss Mary Batchelor, once a student at Indiana and Depauw universities, was found frozen and snow covered on the back porch of her brother George H. Batchelor, an attorney. Death attributed to heart trouble after an evening alone. family out when she reportedly went to bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Mary Batchelor
Indiana
Depauw
George H. Batchelor
Old Glory Floats Over Palmyra Island
London announces United States annexation of Palmyra Island southwest of Hawaii after the West Virginia planted the Stars and Stripes. Francis Dyke Acland says Britain had long abandoned the island and holds no interest. island reportedly sold for a dollar with crabs as sole inhabitants.
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London
United States
Palmyra Island
Hawaiian Islands
West Virginia
Stara and Stripes
House of Commons
Francis Dyke Acland
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Great Britain
Demonstration train to tour the state in farming exhibits
A ten carriage demonstration train from Louisiana farms left Baton Rouge for a statewide tour. It carries improved farming machinery soil testing and cattle from the state experiment station canning equipment and boys and girls corn club exhibits. Experts will lecture and show moving pictures at each stop with a sleeper attached for the team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiane Farma
State Experiment Station
Income Tax and Free Sugar Bill Moves Forward in Congress
Washington march 4 the ways and means committee agreed to report favorably the free sugar bill along with the excise measure taxing incomes above five thousand dollars for individuals and corporations in two years. Chairman Underwood plans to push the sugar bill through this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ways and Whans
Underwood
Preachers Draw Lots To Decide On Pulpits Shake-up
Fourteen east side ministers from nine denominations chose pulpits by lot for next Sunday. No pastor will preach in his own pulpit while each speaks on church union. They call the exchange a shake-up and formed the West Central Ministerial Union. Tuesdays are clearing house days to convey member preferences to each faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
East Side
West Central Ministerial Union
Cambridge Professor to Probe Sphinx Secrets
Cambridge March 4 Harvard professor George Reisner, famed for identifying the sphinx, plans another expedition this month to the Sahara monument. He discovered a hole atop the Great Sphinx head in Egypt and will travel from Alexandria to resume excavation with full gear and hopes of uncovering hidden riches.
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Cambridge
Mass
George Reisner
Harvard
Sahara
Egypt
Reismer
Alexandria
Sphinx
First Queueless Crew From Celestial Land Arrives
New York reports the first crew of queueless Chinese sailors arriving in port aboard the Anglo-American Oil Company's steamship Kennebec from the Far East. The crew, arriving amid a cargo valued over two million dollars, cut off their queues in sympathy with revolutionary rebels in Hankow, while preserving the clipped pig tails for possible future restoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anglo- American Oil Company
Kennebec
Far East
Ilankow
Gulliford
Clown Leaves Sawdust to Enter the Minister
Peru Ind March 4 After ten years as a circus clown Raleigh L Wilson of Lincoln Neb resigns to pursue ministry He notes he may return to the circus and keep the option open He first explored the idea after being invited to preach at a Minnesota church as a prank and found the reception favorable
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Peru
Ind
Raleigh L. Wilson
Lincoln
Neb
Wilson
Minnesota
Pope
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Golden Great Northern States
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
British Columbia
North Dakota
Ww. C. Thorn
North Elahth Street
Great Northern Railway
W. W. Orr
Southern Shoe Men
Dixie
Iowa Town
Oxfords
Muse
Russia
Uncle Sam
Blind Tigers
United Cigar
Peachtree
Decatur Streets
American Tobacco Co
America
United
Cigar Stores
Tol As
Celestial Land
Clown
Texas
Austin
Peter Radford
Texas Farmers’ Union
Mulsion
Norway
St. N
Central Bank & Trust Corporation
Central Bank’ & Trust Corporation
Nomeseapre
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