Joyner Probes Fire Rings As Georgia Dept Takes On Arson
Captain W. T. R. Joyner state inspector has built a live wire department with fifty three suspicious fires investigated this year and multiple indictments. Several arrests statewide, including a noted suspect in Atlanta, show progress in stamping out arson and limiting losses to around $20,000. Joyner stresses a system where reports from sheriffs trigger unbiased probes, sometimes involving prominent citizens, leading to indictments and ongoing cases.
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W. TR. Joyner
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Captain Joyner
Atlanta
Jarmer
North Boulevard
Gemeon Copeland
Sanford
Joyner
Osset
Georgia
Free Night School at Tech Draws Large Attendance
Georgia Tech offers a free night school with 142 enrolled this fall and growing interest for winter. Classes run two evenings weekly from 7:30 to 9:30, December 11 to March 4. Twenty six subjects will be taught, with applications processed by Professor J N G Nesbit.
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Tech
Georgia School of Technology
J. N. G. Nesbit
Georgia Tech
Nesbit
Osteopaths Launch Campaign to Help City Schoolchildren
Osteopaths in Atlanta convened at the Clermont Hotel to begin a drive aiding public schoolchildren. They warn over half show spinal curvature or back defects and propose free treatment, muscle-building classes, and spine realignment by osteopathic care to prevent deformities and shorten recovery.
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Atlanta
Giscloves
Plermont Hotel
W. R. Aspley
Z. Barge
Brags
Elizabeth Broach
Ww. Bischman
Fear of Zeppelins Strong in London
Mrs. AH Otis wife of W B Pritchard’s niece fled to America to escape Zeppelins and stays with the Pritchard family at 103 Washington street. She reports London has widespread anti air defenses and blackout measures with searchlights and closed theaters. She believes Germany will retreat and abandon attacks by February.
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AH. Otis
W. B. Pritchard
America
Pritchard
Washington Street
London
Otis
Iron bolt driven into machinist head in Valdosta accident
In Valdosta Georgia on November 21 J W Ewing a machinist at the Valdosta Machinery Company suffered a grave injury when a tire swung free striking him on the head and driving an iron bolt two inches into his skull He was working alone beneath a locomotive at the time and was found impaled on the bolt by nearby workers He survived the immediate shock but recovery seemed unlikely leaving little hope for his future condition
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Valdosta
J. W. Ewing
Valdosta Machinery Company
Ewing
Bope
Pork Condemned for Cholera at Macon
Macon Ga November 23 special eight hogs which had been sent to a local packing house were found by the city food inspector to be affected with cholera. They were condemned and sent to the city crematory. The hogs were sent by Boone of Toombsboro. He contested the action prompting involvement by Dr Peter P Bahnsen state veterinarian and an assistant who upheld the inspector. An inspection of Boone's near hundred head herd was ordered. A week earlier a cholera infected hog in Fast Macon market was condemned.
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Macon
Boone
Toomsboro
Peter P. Bahnsen
Toombsboro
Photographer Run Over By Automobile in Aldesta
Aldesta Ga November 23 Specially W C Flynn a young photographer who recently moved from Jacksonville Fla was run over by an automobile on Hill avenue near dark tonight and severely injured. The car driven by Mrs Emile Briggs Dyer belongs to her mother Mrs M Briggs. Flynn was cycling and apparently did not see the car which followed closely behind him. He bent at the corner near the city hall and was struck with the limb broken and possible internal injuries.
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Aldesta
W. C. Flynn
Jacksonville
Fla
Hill Avenue
Emile Briggs Dyer
Briggs
Flynn
City Hall
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New Pastors Named for Big Bethel and St Pauls
At the Macon annual conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. F. R. Sims is assigned to Big Bethel in Atlanta, and Rev. W. Lendon to St Pauls in Atlanta. The transfers were announced by the bishop during the session in Sparta Georgia on November 21.
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Macon
African Methodist Episcopal Church
F. R. Sims
Atlanta
Big Bethel Church
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Lendon
St Paul's Church
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