Private Sanitarium Aids Opium Habit in Atlanta
An advertising feature promotes Dr. Marion T. Davis private sanitarium at 141 Spring Street Atlanta for morphine and whiskey addiction treatment. It asserts willpower fails against opium, touts a physician guided program, and invites inquiries from physicians while noting confidentiality in dosing. It urges patients to seek cure through his method and invites letters at Post Office Box 565 Atlanta.
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Marion T. Davis
Spring St
Atlanta
Postoffice
Spring Street
Dr. Davis
Welcome to Odd Fellows Grand Lodge Session in Athens
Athens GeorgiaMay 21 Special Athens in readiness for annual convention of the grand lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Georgia. Delegates arrive next Tuesday May 24 and a full three day program includes parades, degree contests, base ball games, Shakespeare outdoor performance and numerous entertainments with thousands of dollars spent on decorations and hospitality. Renowned officers from Rome Atlanta Fitzgerald Brunswick will preside while local education institutions assist with campus parades and tours.
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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 by suicide in New York hotel
Michael J. McManus, secretary to U S Senator Nelson W Aldrich, was found dead in his room at the Hotel Roland in New York. Gas escaped from five jets as windows were shut. Washington officials note McManus had recently traveled from Warwick R I and appeared normal before his death.
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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 Mine Bureau Chief
Speaker Cannon met at the White House on May 1 to press President Taft to appoint David Ross, head of the Illinois bureau of mines, as chief of the new government bureau of mines in Washington. Ross is a constituent of the speaker.
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Cannon
Ross
Washington
White House
Taft
David Ross
Tellinois Bureau of Mines
Government Bureau of Mines
Mr. Ross
Charities Convention in Session in St Louis
The thirty seventh meeting of the Associate Charities and Corrections in St Louis draws large attendance with speakers from across the country. Georgia’s Carteron Gibson will discuss industrial education in the south. Jane Addams presides as National Association president. Sessions cover social survey methods, adult blind care, woman delinquency, medical school inspections, adult probation, health and sanitation, school and community, and a Tuberculosis prevention lecture by Dr Beherns.
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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 25
The Negro Baptist Sunday School Congress will convene in Atlanta for five days starting May 8 with workers from every state. The mass meeting on May 29 at the Auditorium features Ray Walker and Rev. W. F. Graham as principal speakers. A 100-voice chorus will lead songs written by aer o authors under 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 in Georgia
Bwainsboro Georgia May 21 Special drought has persisted for six to seven months with little crop damage overall. Crops are backward due to cold weather especially cotton but corn prospects look promising. Farmers scale operations and move toward cash basis to gain independence, merchants report declined trade.
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Bwainsboro
Gordon Circle Declines Excursion Plan
Mrs. A. M. Purtell chair of Gordon Circle press committee for King's Daughters and Sons requests details as Gordon Circle states it will not sponsor an excursion.
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Gordon Circle
A. M. Purtell
King's Daughters and Sons
Tallulah Falls
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Davis
Tim
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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