New York Destructor bid favored for Atlanta garbage plant
The finance committee and city council likely to accept the New York Destructor Company bid for a sanitary garbage disposal plant to be built on the old crematory site. Cost ranges from 275 000 for disposal to 441 000 with pumping and power equipment. Mayor Winn pressures action as Health Board backs the New York plan and promises annual savings.
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Finance Committee
Atlanta
New York Company
W. J. Dowd, Jr
Rudolph Henry
New York
Health Board
W. L. Gilbert
Board of Health
Brown and Hutchens Back Underwood Delegation
Governor Joseph M Brown and manager G R Hutchens of the Underwood campaign returned to the city and endorsed The Constitution stance on Watson. They urged naming Watson as Georgia’s delegate at large to Baltimore and praised his service to Underwood. Hutchens warned that only known Underwood supporters should be sent to the May 29 state convention.
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Joseph M. Brown
G. R. Hutchens
Georgis
Thomas. &. Watson
Underwood
Baltimore
Georgia
Watson
Hutchens
eaWtson
Atlanta Journal
Esparla
Wilaci
Hui
God never intended flats says health official in Chicago
Chicago May 10 Secretary E R Pritchard of the department of health told the State Micro Scopical Club last night that God never meant people to live in flats. He noted improved transportation shrinking the world but not enough to force roosting in tenements. He spoke on Education and Publicity Ride of Public Health Work. He said the death rate since 1897 fell nearly in half due to publicity, while pneumonia bronchitis and tuberculosis rose, a trend he linked to close housing of modern flat dwellers.
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Chicago
E. R. Pritchard
Department of Health
State Microscopical Club
Gog
Atlanta's First Hotel Clerk Returns After Sixty Years
An elderly farmer from Hainesville Louisiana visits Atlanta, his first return since leaving sixty years ago. He recalls being the city’s first hotel clerk, father to eleven, grandfather to ninety-two, and great grandfather of thirty, now astonished by Atlanta’s rapid growth. He came to see his sister-in-law at Bailey Street.
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Hainesville
Lefe
Mra
8. A. Camp
Bailey
Street
Althoys
Williams Denies Own Testimony In House Inquiry
Washington May 10 Edward J Williams of Scranton Pa denied before the House judiciary committee parts of the testimony he had given against Judge Archbald Williams had been a partner with the judge in negotiations to buy a bank from the Erie railroad for a profit of 12000 for the Lackawanna and Wyoming railroad The committee is weighing impeachment proceedings Worthington counsel for the jurist cross examined Williams pointing to an assignment of bank property Williams admitted signing but repudiated its contents He said he may have signed under influence of drinking He repudiated a letter claiming he had warned Boland about consequences of discounting Archbald notes and noted payment to Boland Williams also said Archbald paid his fare from Scranton to Washington prompting the judge to answer to subpoenas before the committee
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Washington
Edward J Williams
Scranton
Chick Wits
Hesselbst-Jadee
Robert Archbama
Sommerce
House Judiciary
Wiliams
Archbald
Erie Railroad
Lackawanne and Wyoming Railroad
Erie
Erle Farm
Archvala
Williams
Worthington
Boland
Archhbald
Ughter
Archbold
Congress raid at ballpark over pension bill uproar
Washington May 10 Congressmen were rounded up after police raided the American League ballpark to force a quorum on a private pension measure. More than twenty lawmakers were found at the game and escorted back to the House where colleagues hazed them. A rain check fell from a hat during protests as Rep Roddenberg proposed segregated Jim Crow homes for black Civil War veterans. the amendment was defeated.
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Washington
Pensl
House
War Department
Roddenberg
Georgia
Congressional plan to end short sessions and elect new Congress
Washington May 10 Special Senator Bacon of Georgia on a judiciary subcommittee discusses a proposed constitutional amendment to create a new Congress soon after November elections. The plan aims to have Congress meet in January and inaugurate the new president the same month, ending the old Congress after a short session.
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John Corrigan, Jr
Washington
Senator Bacon
Georgia
Senate
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Gompers Praises Bacon Bartlett Bill At A F L Meeting
Washington May 10 The executive council of the American Federation of Labor adjourned to attend a meeting in a body. Gompers praised the Bacon Bartlett bill limiting the writ of injunctions and argued it will pass. Bartlett spoke for the bill and said the Democratic party supports it. Senators Backa and Smith push for Senate action. Georgia figures prominently in backing the measure and restoring workers rights. The bill may reach the Senate before Wednesday week.
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Jerome Jonenx
Washington
Committee On Rules of the House
Bartlett
Georgia
Bacon-Bartlett
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
National Democratic Party
Schley Howarah
Hardwick
Rules Committee
Ita Paiéage
Itta
Bryan Working for Nomination in Baltimore Convention
Washington May 10 A Harmon national headquarters statement attacks Bryan over pre convention posture. It argues a candidate must win northern states and those carried in 1900 while accusing Bryan of courting Wilson and Clark to force a deadlock at Baltimore to secure his own nomination.
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Washington
Bryan
Baltimore
Harmon
North
Wilson
Clark
Pound Goes To Normal School In Athens Georgia
Professor Jere Pound, former state School commissioner and head of Gordon Institute, is elected president of the State Normal School. Branson resigns as president after twelve years, but is elected to chair rural economics. Pound is expected to accept and arrive tomorrow. The new department aims to pioneer rural economics training across the nation.
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Athens
Jere Pound
Gorden Institute
Barnesville
State Normal School
Prudential Committee
Pound
C. Branson
United States
Prenaop
Veing
Severe Louisiana flood battle as rain and wind rise
After four days of sun the rain returned across Louisiana with strong winds. In New Orleans 6 inches of rain fell and the Mississippi rose over levees as gauge readings near 22 feet. Baton Rouge faced the worst deluge in weeks and Gardere reported a 40 mile wind with a torrent of rain threatening levee strength. New Roads logged about four inches of rainfall by 7 pm as water surged against the levees.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Mississippi
Canal Street
Weather Bureau
Mississippi River
T. DO. Waddill
United States Army Corps
Gardere
Weather Prophecy Showers in Georgia Forecast
Georgia forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday with cooler conditions. Wet weather outlook includes chances of thunder with a cooler air mass moving in from the north. Local impact minimal but plan for rain.
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Georgia
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