Private Sanitarium Promises Easy Opium Cure in Atlanta
A detailed appeal for morphine and whiskey addicts to seek treatment at Dr. Marion T. Davis’s private sanitarium in Atlanta, citing his experience with drug addictions and alcoholism. The piece emphasizes physician oversight, confidentiality, and the risk of relapse if the method were published publicly. It notes Davis’s association with Dr. Woolley and invites readers to write about their cases.
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Marion T. Davis
Spring St
Atlanta
Postoffice
Spring Street
Davis
Dr. Davis
Odd Fellows Convention Turns Athens Morning to Color
Athens readies for the annual Grand Lodge of Georgia Odd Fellows convention with the Rebekahs and the Encampment. Delegates including John F. Davis and E A Baughan arrive as the city decorates streets and businesses. The three day program features parades, degree contests, baseball, Shakespeare and university campus events attracting about three thousand visitors.
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Athens
Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Georgia
Grand Lodge of the Rebekahs
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
John F. Davis
Rome
Grand Lodge
E. A Baughan
Atlanta
Agnes Dickson
Fitzgerald
Rebekah State Assembly
L. Eliott
Brunswick
Department of Patriarch
Millitant
Great Order
The
Odd Fellows
Mammoth
Clayton Street
University of Georgia
State Normal School
Virginia
Nebekas
Odd Fellows Hall
Georgian Hotel
Clarke Rifles
Pattiarch
University Artillery
Rebekah
Deupree Hall
Clarke Riffes
University Battalion
Aldrich aide McManus dies in New York hotel room
Michael J. McManus, secretary to Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, was found dead in his Hotel Roland room in New York on May 21, with five gas jets open and windows closed. William James, Aldrich’s butler, said McManus was his assistant at the senator’s Washington home and appeared in a normal state the day before.
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New York
Michael J. McManus
Washington
D. C
United States
Nelson W. Aldrich
Roland
McManus
William James
Butler
Aldrich
Cannon Urges Ross for New Government Mines Chief
Speaker Cannon called at the White House on May 1 to urge Taft to appoint David Ross, head of the Illinois bureau of mines, as chief of the new federal bureau of mines. Ross is Cannon's constituent.
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Cannon
Ross
Washington
White House
Taft
David Ross
Tellinois Bureau of Mines
Government Bureau of Mines
Mr. Ross
Charities Convention Opens in St Louis With Notable Speakers
The thirty seventh meeting of the Associate Charities and Corrections is in session in St. Louis with wide national attendance. Georgia’s Carteron Gibson will discuss southern industrial education. Jane Addams presides as National Association head. Lectures cover social surveys, adult blind care, woman delinquency, medical school inspections, probation, health, and tuberculosis prevention.
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Associate Charities and Corrections
St. Louis
Carteron Gibson
Columbus
Georgia
South
John K. Ottley
Atlanta
Associated Charities and Corrections
Jane Addams
Hult House
John Daniels
Buffalo Social Survey
Richard Silvester
Metropolitan Police Department
Washington
Martha P. Falconer
Girls’ House of Refuge
Philadelphia
Caswell Hillis
University of Texas
Carleton Gibson
Columbia
Llouis H. Beherns
St. Louis Tuberculosis
Negro Baptist Congress Meets in Atlanta May 8 to May 29
The Negro Baptist Sunday School Congress will convene in Atlanta for five days starting May 8 with delegates from every state. The mass meeting on May 29 at the Auditorium features Ray. C. T. Walker and Rev. W. F. Graham as speakers and a 100-voice chorus led by Rev. N. H. Pius.
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Negro Baptist Sunday School Congress
Atlanta
National Congress
Ray
C. T. Walker
D.D
Augusta
W. F. Graham
Richmond
Congress
N. H. Pius
Liberty Baptist Church
J. W. Jackson
Jackson
Eufaula
Cuthbert
Hot Springs
Not a Single Good Rain in Seven Long Months
Bwainsboro Georgia May 21 Special drought persists with little crop damage yet crops are delayed by cold weather cotton remains small yet corn prospects look promising farmers prune debt and shift to cash farming while merchants report reduced trade indicating a move toward farmer independence in the county
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Bwainsboro
Gordon Circle Declares No Excursion Planned
Mrs A M Purtell chair of Gordon Circle press committee of King's Daughters and Sons asks that the group state no excursion is being organized.
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Gordon Circle
A. M. Purtell
King's Daughters and Sons
Tallulah Falls
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Negro Baptist Congress
West End
Yallu
Elbert Hubbard
Henry Selfridge
Chicago
London
Mr. Selfridge
Equitable
Threadneedle Street
Selfridge
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Paul Morton
Broadway
New York City
J. E. McLauchlin
Atlanta, Georgia
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