Atlanta Athletic Club cross country sprint event on Thanksgiving
Interest grows for the third annual cross country run of the Atlanta Athletic Club to be held Thanksgiving morning. Start at the club house on Auburn avenue and trail through Piedmont and Ponce de Leon to Feachtres street back to Auburn, finish at the club house. Medals awarded to top three and a silver cup to the best team with more than one entry. Entries close November 24 and registration is with the Southern Amateur Athletic Union. The course record is 16 minutes 1.345 seconds set by Walter Locke of the Atlanta Athletic Club.
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Atlanta “Athletic Club
Auburn Avenue
Piedmont Avenue
Ponce de Leon Avenue
Feachtres Street
Southern Amateur Athletic Union
Elysa
Walter Locke
Atlanta Athletic Club
Brooklyn Nationals to Train in Augusta Next Season
New Brook lyn National League manager Wilburt Robinson outlined plans at a luncheon. The team will train in Augusta Georgia from February through March, then tour the South for exhibition games before arriving in New York on April 15. They will play exhibitions with the New York and Philadelphia Americans and the Newark team. Governor Tener of Pennsylvania, future NL president, is to throw the first ball at Ebbetts field.
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New York
Wilburt Robinson
Brooklyn
Lon Flay
Augusta
Philadelphia
Protest Planned Over Negro Player in Kansas Game
Pittspur Kan November 20 A protest against the appearance of a negro football player with the Southwestern College of Winfield Ban in the Thanksgiving day game against Kansas State Normal school eleven will be made by officials if the latter school agrees urgently an inquiry reached today a member of the normal squad asked that a protest be made
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Pittspur Kan
Southwestern College
Winfield
Kansas State Normal School
Jension
Nashville Baseball sells Ed Noyes to Galveston
In Nashville on November 20 the Nashville Baseball club sold catcher Ed Noyes to Galveston. The transaction marks a notable change for both teams as the move shifts a key player and alters roster plans for the upcoming season.
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Eddie
Noyes
Nashville
Tern
Nashville Baseball Club
Ed Noyes
Galveston
Battling Levinsky Knocks Out Hagen in Title Bout
Philadelphia heavyweight contender Battling Levinsky defeated Ed Hagen by knockout in the seventh round of a ten round bout in New York. Levinsky substituted for Guubdat Smith after Smith withdrew due to a damaged eye from a prior fight with Sam Langford. Levinsky weighed 176 pounds while Hagen tipped the scales at 165.
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Ed Hagen
Willy Battling Levinsky
Philadelphia
Guubdat Smith
Hagen
Sam Langford
Smith
Levinsky
Heaviar
Longest Serving U S Supreme Court Staffer Dies
Washington November 20 Archie Lewis longtime robing room attendant for the Supreme Court died today after 64 years on the government payroll He claimed to have served two thirds of all justices who ever sat on the bench dating from Chief Justice Taft era in Washington
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Washington
San
Archie Lewis
Supreme Court
Tane
Tragic double murder suicide in Chicago
Chicago on November 20, Albert Zinkie, 44, shot and killed his mother then took his own life. Police report says financial hardship prompted the act and the two were said to be “hard up and better off” by A. Hote, who found them.
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Chicago
Albert Zinkie
A. Hote
Zinkis
Columbia Given Ten Day Extension to Rejoin League
Columbia’s time limit to raise funds for re entry into the South Atlantic league in 1844 has been extended ten days. Local Secretary W Brown received a telegram from N P Corish of Savannah, league president, granting the extension. Re entry also hinges on Augusta fielding three teams to form an eight club organization.
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Columbia, & CG
Columbia
W. Brown
N. P. Corish
Savannah
Augusta
Atlanta Soccers Open Season With Lithonia Clash
The Georgia Soccers league’s new Atlanta team travels to Lithonia for a Saturday opener against local boys. After two Piedmont park practice games, locals are said to present a strong front. A Saturday game at Lithonia precedes future matches at Piedmont park with Auburn, Birmingham, and Chattanooga eyed for early dates.
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Lithonia
Atlanta Soccers
Piedmont Park
Lithonia Baturnay
Flats
Auburn College
Birmingham
Chattanooga
ATL
LITHONIA _Statt
A. Jones i Hicka
Patterson Jette
Patterson Hughes Wollison -Harsey Jones - Gibson
Ok Jones
W. Jones Aarkery Webster Strachan Gliimun
Roosevelt Tests Southern Navy Yard Plans in New Orleans Probe
Acting Secretary Roosevelt plans to recommend reopening the New Orleans navy yard to repair lighter draft vessels after a southern inspection. He notes the yard’s machinery is in good condition and could operate profitably with limited spending. He also weighs Pensacola as a concentration camp site for Marines and outlines plans to station about 800 Marines there after base maneuvers in Cuba and Guantanamo.
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Roosevelt
New Orleans
Navy Yard
Navy Department
South Atlantic
Portsmouth
N. H
Pensacola
Fila
Caloo
Guatanamo
Baby tangled in car fender in New Orleans crowd
A city street incident in New Orleans on November 26 ends with a Black woman grabbing her baby from a passerby after a bystander notices the infant wedged in a car fender. The child is rescued and unharmed.
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New Orleans
R. Kireet
Chy Detlynn
Thas
Yeni
Kaiser Catches Cold Cancels Opening Ceremony
Emperor William of Germany caught a cold today and canceled his attendance at the opening of the German Ship Building Society convention in Berlin on November 26.
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Berlin
William
German Ship Building Society
Florida Fruit Lands Scandal Indicts Eight Officials
Eight Florida Fruit Lands officials and agents were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on conspiracy to use the mails to defraud in sales of 180000 acres in the Everglades to about 12000 buyers across multiple states. The case involves trusteeship, large contracts, and alleged underwater tracts awaiting drainage schemes by the state.
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The
Fruit Lands Company
United States
Grand Jury
Kansas City, Mo
Florida Fruit Lands Company
Everglades District
Florida
Richard J. Bolles
Jacksonville
Fila
George A. Paddosk
Chisago
Jesse DL. Bingsly
Florida Fruit” Lands Company
Agoe
R. ¥. Bailes
Pla
Everglades
Robert J. Martin
Joseph H. Berders
Kansas City
Judge Park Sworn In as Congress Member
Judge Frank Park was sworn in as the new congressman from the second district. He named J C Faircloth of Sylvester as private secretary, replacing the late Andee u Reddenberg. The House adopted a policy letting members go home after tariff and currency bills, with four-fifths leaving and only a few remaining to idle. Republicans and Democrats alike showed absence on roll calls, as Representative Mann of Illinois had previously called roll daily but ceased, amid a slack session.
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Washington
Frank Park
Adamson
Bartfelt
Park
J. Cg.ircloth
Sylvester
Faircloth
Andeeu Reddenberg
House
Senate
Wilson
Representative Mann
Illinois
Mann
Docket Finished by Criminal Court in Atlanta
The criminal court of Atlanta finished its docket late Thursday and recessed until Saturday. It will hold sessions in the criminal court Pa in the Thrower building with jail cases given prominence at the Saturday session.
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Criminal Court Pa
Thrower
Coal Rate Hearing Adjourned In Philadelphia
The Interstate Commerce Commission coal roads rates investigation was adjourned indefinitely today due to the sudden illness of Commissioner John W Marble who had been presiding. Marble suffered an attack of acute indigestion last night.
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Philadelphia
Interstate Commerce Commission
John WW. Marble
Marble
Fatal rattlesnake bite ends Bohee farm life in Tampa
W A Bohee, a farmer in the Wi muc neighborhoods, was bitten on the left leg by a large rattler while cutting cabbages. He died about four hours after the strike. Medical aid failed to stop the poison as authorities captured the snake.
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Tampa
Fla
W. A. Bohee
Wimauma
Nim
Bohee
Harwell's Charge Arouses Slaton In Atlanta Smoke Row
Superintendent Whitlam Slaton of Atlanta schools vows a rigid probe after City smoke chief R. M. Harwell claims schools violate the smoke ordinance. Slaton says he would welcome court scrutiny to force funding for needed school improvements and nuisance abatement.
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R. M. Harwell
City Smoke Commission
Nash Broyles
Atlanta
Slaton
Chai Harwell
Janotary
Harwell
Slaten
Hecorder Broyles
Tinsley Being Tried for Cotton Larceny in Savannah
Savannah Georgia November 20 special before a courtroom full of spectators the state case against Mieming D Tinsley charged with larceny after trust of 257 bales of sea island cotton valued at 22000 from Savannah Trust Company began at 1230 pm Tinsley senior partner in Tinsley Hull cotton factors prominent in civic and social life of Savannah Attorneys Osbournes and Lawrence moved to strike documents evidence potentially quashing the indictment if sustained the trial could end abruptly otherwise the case would proceed
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Mieming D. Tinsley
Sea Island
Savannah Trust Company
Tinsley
Shot Ee Tinsley & Hull
Cotton Factors
Social Iife
Attorn Osbournes & Lawrence
Return trip brings Panama memorial site plans near Mobile
Mobile readers report Dr Clarence J Owens managing editor of the Southern Commercial Congress and fellow delegates returning from the Panama excursion. In Panama the group selected a site for a permanent memorial to Senator John Sevier Morgan, praised as Father of the Canal.
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Mobile
Ala
Clarence J. Owens
Southern Commercial Congress
Panama Eoial
Mobius
Tropics
Panama
John Zevler Morgan
Canal CR
Best Lump Coal Four Dollars and Seventy Five Cents
Piedmont Coal Co announces best lump coal priced at 4.75 per unit from its outlet at 1023. The notice highlights a standard coal grade for purchasers and local supplier details.
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Best Lump Coal
Piedmont Coal Co
White House wedding prep as Miss Wilson to wed
Washington reports final preparations for the White House wedding of Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson to Francis Bowes Sayr. carpenters build the platform. east room will close for ceremony. gifts arrive including a Good Old Recipes cookbook, diamond pendant, and Minlaid mahogany tea set. Margaret Wilson oversees the musical program.
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Francis B. Gayre
Jeasie Woodrow Wison
White House
Igve
Lis
Dort
Gove Ment
Miss Wilson
Wizon
House of Representatives
Trea
Congress
Jessie Woodrow
Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayr
Aly
Bryan
Andrew
Carnegie
Mme. Riane
Margaret Wilson
Wedding Gift of Colonial Silver From California
Miss Jessie Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, will wed next Tuesday. A silver service costing 1500 dollars, purchased by subscription, was sent from San Francisco as a wedding gift. The piece features old colonial design and will be presented during the ceremony attended by a Marine band choir of boys.
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Marine Bani
Wigene
California
San Francisco
Wyomen
Jessie Wilson
Wilson
Chicago Sells Bonds On Installment Plan
Chicago reports mixed results as the city introduces an installment plan for selling bonds. The city controller aimed to sell bonds over the counter but progress was limited. In the first week under the new method only a portion of the issue was sold, with the balance to be offered within sixty days.
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Chicago
Local Sleeping Car to Chattanooga via Southern Railway
Train schedule note from Atlanta to Chattanooga shows a sleeping car leaving at 8 20 p m and occupying the route until 7 30 a m at Chattanooga. The item states departure from Atlanta and duration of the overnight journey.
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Chattanooga
Southern Railway
Atlanta
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