Atlanta Home Plans Stock Reduction At June Meeting
The Atlanta Home Insurance Company intends to cut capital from 500000 to 400000 and liquidate 60 percent of its stock paying stockholders 90 cents per share. Board actions cite high taxes and reduced northern business with focus on the southern field. The plan, proposed by directors, will be voted by stockholders at the June 6 meeting.
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Atlanta Home Insurance Company
Atlanta Home
Joel Hurt
The
Atlanta Home Ber
Atlanta
Robert J. Lowry
Joe Hurt
John T. Hail
Insurance Notes on Lancashire Reinsurance Shifts in Atlanta
The Lancashire reinsurance move prompts leadership changes in Atlanta as ErNest Boyd resigns to join Frank & Du Bois in New York. Morton Dargan remains United States Manager with Misell as southern general agent while Atlanta clerks shift to other companies. Ben R. Padgett joins Penn Mutual Life Insurance as an office man who will also write policies.
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Hartford
Royal
Lancashire
Boyd
New York
United States
Frank & Dus Bois
Ben R. Padgett, Jr
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Agency
Padgett
Suits and Haberdashery Lessons For Economical Dressing
For the man eager to dress well and save, the store offers lessons in fashion and value. The shop emphasizes fatest fabric and pattern, newest styles, and low prices, inviting customers to browse endless furnishing goods and late shapes with no charge for instruction.
Confession Alleged in Rabun County Murder Trial in Rabun
The Rabun county case involves O Byme killed while traveling salesman from Atlanta. Chub Wall stands charged and faces a likely new trial after claims from fellow inmates at the Tower that A S Beck confessed to the murder. Court orders summoned prisoners as witnesses to attest Beck’s statements. The Tower inmates assert Beck’s tale may exonerate Wall, with officials watching closely.
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Bis Court
Chub Wall
O'Byrne
Atlanta
Anutler Ovieunér
Rabun County
P. P. O'Byrne
CG. W. Wall
Wall
Supreme Court
Hier
United States
A. 8
Beck
B. EB. Willams
J. B. Estes
A. B. Calhoun
William i
Rebun County
Penn
Vrinuner
Autopsy Held After Disputed Bentley Body Case
Physicians conducted a post mortem on Lewis Bentley at the undertaker’s and settled the dispute over the body without hospital return. A death in an auto accident prompted consent for autopsy to address potential damage suit, while police and sanitary officials weighed rights and custody before burial later that day.
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Bentley
Lewis Bentley
Acouste
Justas
Grady Hospital
David Howard
Sanitary Department
Hope
Lawshe Will Construction Reaches Agreement Among Heirs
A consent verdict in the estate of Er Lawshe, deceased, named H C Leonard as executor. The court construed the will with heirs Join Z Lawshe Annis B Hardeman Margaret M Lawshe and Er Lawshe Jr identified as sole surviving children. Property fronts 101 feet on Peachtree Street to Spring Street. each heir receives specified Spring Street lots and the Peachtree home place is to be sold for 19060 with proceeds allocated.
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Er Lawshe
H. C. Leonard
John Z. Lawshe
Mr. Lawshe
Mr. Leonard
Z. Lawshe
Annis B. Hardeman
Margaret M. Lawshe
Er Lawshe, Jr
Peachtree Street
Spring Street
Margaret WM
Lawshe
Annie E. Hardeman
John Z
Baptist Delegates Prepare for Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans
Atlanta delegates sail to New Orleans this afternoon at 4 oclock for the Southern Baptist convention opening tomorrow. Two bodies meet today the trustees of the Southern Baptist theological seminary and the committee on co operation. Prominent Atlanta Baptists will attend, and the complete Atlanta list includes Abnott Adal Bagley Bell Brown Broughton Cabaniss Connally Dougherty Danson Graham Green Hillyer Hopkins Jameson Jones Kerfoot King Landrum Maddox Monteith Northen O Kelley Paxon Pendleton Solomon Spall ing Stewart Ward White Willingham Wills Landrum. Officials expect a lively session with discussions on a new board and increased church accessions and funding.
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Southern Baptist Convention
New Orleans
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Committee On Co-Operation
Atlanta
Valdosta
He, Abnott
A. D. Adal
H. C Bagley
DT. B. Bell
Mo OL
Brittain
Elijah Brown
George M. Brown
Lea
Broughton
H. Cabaniss
EB. Ll. Connaily
A. & Ward
J. E. White
E.G. Willingham
J. W. Wills
L. M. Landrum
W. J. Narthen Wili
TWO SISTERS SEEK WORK IN ATLANTA
Daisy and Della Edwards two sisters ages eighteen and fourteen visited Chief Ball to request employment. From Flowery Branch they hope to help their mother and brother, offering to wash dishes or be a help in a good family. Chief Ball found them temporary lodging at Tabernacle Home and urged local families to offer work.
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Bim
Atlanta
Daisy
Della Hdwards
Ball
Flowery Branch
Daisy Edwards
Chief Bell
Tabernacle
Quielty
Captain Smith Appointed Colonel and Aide to General Kelly
Prominent Atlantan Captain Henry H. Smith received formal notice from Major Charles W. Anderson that he is appointed as colonel and aide de camp on Major General BD. C. Kelly's staff for the Memphis reunion. Smith, a veteran of General Forrest's cavalry, will attend the Confederate reunion on May 28.
Northerners Honor Confederate Graves at Camp Chase Cemetery
Confederate Memorial Day observances in Columbus honor imprisoned Confederate dead at Camp Chase. Col. William H. Knauss, a Union veteran and Columbus real estate man, began the yearly services, now joined by Southern and Northern veterans. Captain R M Clayton of Atlanta helps coordinate flowers and donations for fresh blooms each June.
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Columbus
Camp Chase
William H. Knauss
Colonel Knauss
Natonal Waterworks Association
Knauss
Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery
R. M. Clayton
Atlants
Clayton
Atlanta
Relief Corpa
South
Aged Negro Finds Son Body in a Convict Pickling Vat
An old man traveled to Atlanta after his son Emory Hurt died in a Bartow county convict camp. The body, sent to a medical college, was retrieved from a pickling vat after the father identified it. Governor Candler arranged burial funds and burial with an undertaker. The incident spurred talk of a law to bury convicts who die in prison.
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General Assembly
Hurt
Emory Hurt
Bartow County
Atlanta
Oglethorpe County
Winder
Candler
Colrgirt
Tnd 7Atenta Medical College
Dr. Campbell
Campbell
Howard
Corivicta
Columbia Wins Southern Educators Meeting
The South ern Educational Association will meet in Columbia South Carolina the week after Christmas with G B Glenn as president. Columbia offered to cover preliminaries and hall costs and guarantee 400 new members. The plan includes a one fare rate to the convention via the Charleston exposition and could bring about 1500 attendees. Other candidates were Chattanooga Knoxville and Asheville.
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Southern Educational Assocation
G. B. Glenn
Columbia, & C
Columbia
Jusg
Gienn ‘Sud
Cahmmbla Has
South Carolina
Grenn
BR. B. Fulton
University of Mississippi
P P. Ciaxton
Greensboro
Normal and
College For Girls
Frank Smith
Knoxville
Tenn
Chattanooga
Asheville
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