Atlanta Theatre Ad Offers Two Week Minstrel Run Cast
The Atlanta theatre page announces two weeks of live minstrel shows at the play house starting next week headlined by Briens Minstrels described as the year’s best. Featured acts include Morton, Namoni Glass, JC Nugent, Howards Animal Spectacle, and the Mendelsohn Four, with a packed Forsyth tabloid week featuring School Days and a noted Human Hearts engagement.
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Atlanta
House de Live
Apell
Obrien
Bijou week offers Schaller brothers and vaudeville mix
Ilka the minor league star and theatergoers praise the program at the Bijou this week. Schaller brothers billed as gladiators headline a sensational act with acrobatic balance and film features. Also Frederick Elmore Alvarez and Martelli perform in a singing act. Special feature films accompany each show with matinees Monday and Saturday at 2 20 and 4, evening shows at 7 80 and 9.
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Schaller Brothers
Thera
Prince
Deerie
Frederick Elmore
Alvarez
Martellip
Flood on Altamaha River Recedes After Heavy Rains
Brunswick Ga March 29 Special After three days over their banks the Altamaha and other freshwater streams in this section are receding. Railroad trains resumed regular schedules between Brunswick and Jesup after being one day behind. Town yards were flooded and property damage occurred as waters rushed over banks during the unusually heavy rains.
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Brunswick
Altamaha
Southern Railway
Jesup
Herett City
Honduras Guards Against Revolution Near Puerto Cortes
Following the death of President Manuel Bonilla rumors of a revolutionary plot reach Honduras. The north coast port of Puerto Cortes is heavily fortified with 600 trained troops, reinforcements to Tela and La Ceiba, and guns mounted around town. General Lee Christmas heads the military effort, with censorship on telegrams and a proclamation to continue Bonilla’s policies. Bonilla’s funeral in the capital was marked by ceremony.
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Puerto Cortes
Honduras
Manuel Bonilla
Tela
la Ceiba
Gulf
New Orleans
Lee Christmas
Benia
Bertrand
Lonilla
Manuel BoniNa
Republic
Degacibatva
Ware County Without Demonstration Agent
Waycross March 23 Special The resignation of Dr J B W Smith leaves Ware county without a district agent for farmers demonstration and cooperative work. Professor J Phil Campbell will name a successor. During Dr Smiths tenure many farms showed gains from new methods and over fifty farms were used for demonstrations. The timing of the appointment is uncertain but spring work continues.
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Waycross
Gap
J B W Smith
Ware County
Smith
J Phil Campbell
Banks County Farmers Behind With Planting
Maysville Georgia March 29 Special The late rains have kept farmers from preparing to plant a considerable amount of land was planned last fall and every farmer did his best to clean up and drain but they are sadly behind.
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Maysville
Bailiff Knight Sentenced to Three Years for Killing John Studstill
Bailiff William Knight, convicted in superior court of killing John Studstill, received a three year penitentiary sentence from Judge Thomas on March 29. Nashiile is noted in the record as part of the case details.
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Nashiile
William Knight
John Studstill
Thomas
Oklahoma adopts electric chair to replace hanging
Oklahoma City March 29 Cruce today signed a bill providing for electrocution in this state instead of hanging. The law takes effect at once. Several men in the state are under death sentence by hanging, but their cases will not be affected by the new law.
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Oklahoama City
Okla
Cruce
Negro Old Line Company Makes Southern Debut
The Standard Life Insurance Company, headed by H B Perry, has been licensed by the Georgia insurance department. It is believed to be the first old line life insurer organized exclusively by Negroes to write insurance among Negroes. The company, based in Atlanta, shows solid finances with $100,000 capital, $38,000 in premiums, 8 percent promotion expenses, and 2 percent organization costs. It has $100,000 in Georgia municipal bond deposits and $400,000 in applications on file. Its officers include Perry as president and Wm Horstskell as vice president, with Harry Pace as secretary and Thomas Slater M.D. as medical director. Eldridge of New York serves as consulting actuary. The board comprises prominent Southern Negroes from the cotton belt. Eldridge is the lone white member and national actuarial expert who prepared policy forms and rates. The home office will be in Atlanta, aiming to do business across the South among Negroes.
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Forsyth
Thomases
Forsith
Norfolk
Atlanta
Atara
Standard Life Insurance Company
H. BH. Perry
Georgia State Insurance Department
State Insurance Department
Georgia
South
H E Perry
Wm Uortskell
Harry H Pace
H C Dugas
JO Ross
Thomas H Slater M
George Dyre
Constantinople
H G Dwight Jong
Orient
George F Brett
Brett
Annie Winsor Allen
George Hodges
Everett P Wheeler
John Finley
John Burroughs
Yoshio Markine
Masefield and
Gibson
Robert Shafer
Thylife
The
Atlantic
Robert M Gay
America
Isman Catholic
William Canon Barry
Margaret Prescott Montague
C F Tucker Brooke
van Cleve
Mary 3S Watts
Katharine Fullerto
Gerould
Louise Imogen Guiney
Dressed Like Girls And Fooled The Cops In Waycross
Waycross reports a skater ordinance evasion by six boys who dressed as girls with hats to skate on sidewalks. Police previously allowed girls on walks, leading to gentle enforcement. The youths now seek new ways to circumvent the rule to continue skating.
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Threw Away His TRUSS Fools Doctors and Cares Himself
A fragment claims a patient discarded his truss and mocked medical advice while asserting no rupture victim, regardless of age or severity, should despair of cure. The text reflects a bold stance on self reliance and treatment skepticism from an unknown era.
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Etrennoua
Bea
Collings
Ofl
West Point School Chooses Contestants For District Meet
West Point Georgia March 29 Spe cials West Point High School has selected representatives to attend the Fourth District High School meet in Buena Vista in April Declamation Wilfred Wright Necitation Marie Cumbee Spelling Pearl Kersey Idils Eissay Josephine Allen Boys Essay Ralph Hodnett Accompanying the contestants to Buena Vista will be Messrs Burt and Thaxton with Professors Thomas president of the association and other staff leaving April 10 from West Point. The item then includes unrelated editorial and literary items from the Atlantic and other figures.
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West Point High School
Buena Vista
Wilfred Wright
Necitation
Marie Cumbee
Spelling
Pearl Kersey
Idils Eissay
Jtosephine Allen
Lesay
Ralph Hodnett
Thomas
Miases Burt and
Thaxton
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