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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1915
Page
11
A prisoner on North Jackson Street received a severe reprimand from the recorder for keeping company with another man’s wife. The incident followed reports involving ED McGriff and the unnamed complainant, reflecting a strict local moral stance.
Recorder Georg B. Johnson dismissed yesterday the cases of disorderly conduct against Mc Griff Mrs Elia Lipp of 48 Jones avenue and her husband Charles Lipp of 166 Larkie street. The trio were arrested by Officers Haslett at Head By Evang in a soda stand on South and Alabama streets Stondag Ten e following a quarrel between the husband and wife.
Independent jitney bus operators rally against proposed city ordinance. J F Hazelton calls a meeting at 41 West Cain Street to organize resistance as council debates licensing limits from $40 to $200 based on vehicle capacity. Proponents claim a license is needed while many operators threaten to expand service if prohibitions arise.
Fulton grand jury probes alleged drug traffic law violations by druggists and physicians. Witnesses examined Tuesday with more to come. indictments possible if testimony confirms widespread morphine cocaine heroin procurement since the federal act began.
The Court of Appeals reverses a Bibb county conviction of Will Baldwin, holding that corroborating evidence must connect the accused to the crime by a chain of facts. Judge Wade writes that legal sufficiency is for the court to review, not juror whim, and notes one link missing invalidates the accusation. The decision upholds higher review of evidence adequacy in criminal cases.
Jerome Jones representing the Federation of Trades urged the sewer committee to pass a resolution shortening city sewer work hours from ten to nine per day. The plan would affect 250 white and 31 Black workers, with five minutes of context. A special committee was named to confer with Attorney Mayson to determine if the council has such power.
Round trip rate four dollars thirty five cents with specific rail options listed. Sleeper service advertised from Atlanta to Chattanooga at seventy five, with governor Slaton and party noted to depart Atlanta in April. For details contact J A Thomas city pass and ticket agent.
Crawford representing the South Atlantic division of the Nation Army, with headquarters at Lawta, traveled to Norfolk to attend the annual spring congress for the Southeast, where Maryland and Virginia are noted.
Brigadier Crawford will visit Columbia South Carolina Savannah Augusta and Brunswick on the return journey to confer with leaders about this year’s work plans in Georgia. He announced that two weeks are to be filled with big plans along improvement and extension lines.
An advertisement touts Jacobs Liver Salt as a daily tonic to flush the alimentary tract and activate liver and kidney elimination. It claims rapid relief from constipation biliousness sour stomach and headaches with no griping or nausea and promotes its superiority to calomel as a morning stimulant sold by Jacobs Pharmacy Atlanta.
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