Judge Orr Dead After Illness in West End
Judge Edgar H. Orr, 64, longtime Atlanta figure and former assistant state school commissioner, died Sunday at 1:39 AM from Bright's disease. A Emory graduate and early partner of Hal Lewis, he helped nominate Wilson at Chicago's 1896 Democratic convention. Survived by widow Miss Reynolds, son in railway postal service, and daughters Dollie Nellie Gertrude. Funeral today at 3 PM at Park Street Church, interment West View cemetery.
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Edgar H. Grr
Atlanta
Glynn
Fle
Emory College
Loxau A. Blockley
Wie
Ollocks
Park Street Church
Sev
Rogers
West View Cemetery
Funeral of Mrs Marx in New Orleans Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs Solomon Marx of New Orleans and Atlanta origin will be held in New Orleans Tuesday. She died Saturday night after a brief illness. She was sixty nine, married fifty years, golden wedding four weeks ago. Survived by husband and five sons and a daughter Cecilia wife of Prof Rieti Louisiana state chemist.
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Solomon Mars
Rabbit Marx
Atlanta
New Orleans
Rieti
Louisiana
Henry
Rchibald
David
Fred
Leander
Revolutionary Plot Scotched by Russia
In Petrograd on November 22 semi official reports say police uncovered a revolutionary plot led by members of the Social Democratic association and several Duma deputies. Eleven involved, including TM. Petrovsky Badayeti Moura noff Samocoff and Chagoff, were arrested or sought as an examining magistrate opened an investigation under article 12 of the penal code.
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Petrograd
London
Duma
Social Democratic Association
Russia
Social Democratic Organization
Viborg Road
TM. Petrovsky
Badayeti
Mouranoff
Samocoff
Chagoff
Expeditions To Delve Into Egypt History
Philadelphia, November 22. The University of Pennsylvania dispatches an exploring expedition to Egypt under Dr Clarence S Fisher curator of the Egyptian section. The party will travel via London to buy equipment and begin digging early January with emphasis on architecture. Dr Fisher formerly taught at Harvard and spent ten years in Egyptian excavation. Under his leadership the modest pyramid of Ka-Abe was uncovered.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Egypt
Clarence S. Fisher
London
Fisher
Harvard University
Kaa-Be
Major Comerford Fatally Stricken at the Conference
Marietta Ga November 23 Major J A Comerford longtime superintendent of the National located here died of heart failure shortly after Bishop Candler finished his sermon at the North Georgia conference He attended the service and passed away then His remains will be shipped to Washington to be interred in Arlington National Cemetery where he formerly served as superintendent Comerford also served as major of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry during the Civil War
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Marietta
Bishop Candler
North Georgia
J. A. Comerford
National
Comerford
Washington
Arlington Aeneters
Third Massachusetts Cavalry
Nickerson Named Treasurer of Episcopal Province
Athens Ga November 22 Special T H Nickerson of Emanuel church vestry has been named treasurer of the province of Le Waves embracing fourteen Episcopal dioceses from Kentucky to the gulf and from the Atlantic to the Mississippi He was previously missionary departmental treasurer and received the extra duty at the New Orleans meeting of the church.
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Athens
T. H. Nickerson
Emanuel Church
Province of le- Waves
Kentucky
Gulf
Atlantic
Mississippi
New Orleans
Large Macon oil warehouse fire endangers city
In Macon Georgia a warehouse of lubricating oil at the Standard Oil plant caught fire and burned, threatening several thousand gallons of gasoline nearby. Fire department stopped the blaze before it reached the fuel tanks, preventing massive loss. This is the seventh nearby fire in recent months with suspected arson.
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Macon. Ga
Standard Oil Company
Atreet
Macon Fire Department
Nalls
Standard DU
Cat
Macon
Meeting of Council Postponed After Death of Mrs Marx
The executive board of the Council of Jewish Women postpones its meeting due to the death of Mrs Solomon Marx of New Orleans. The full section will meet Wednesday at 8:15 PM in the vestry room of the temple for a strictly business session.
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Rabbi Marx
Solomon Marx
New Orleans
Council of Jewish Women
Temp
Elberon Hotel Burns in New Jersey Fire
Elberon New Jersey November 22 wire reports the $100000 Elberon Hotel was destroyed by fire. The Building had been closed since September and police investigate the blaze origin.
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Elberon, N. J
Elberon Hotel
Tremendous Orders for Medical Supplies
New York reports a distressing shortage of wound care materials for European battlefields. Red Cross says absorbent cotton gauze bandages and related items are vastly insufficient. Russian and Servian needs drive huge orders. American manufacturers operate around the clock but struggle to fill demands. Many hospitals report shortages of anaesthetics gauze and bandages as relief efforts flood in from voluntary groups and France receives aid via the French Line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Red Cross
Russia
Servia
Austria
Germany
France
French Line Steamship Company
Europe
Atlanta Board to Seek Funds for Two New High Schools
Parents press for immediate action on improved school conditions as the Atlanta Board of Education plans to request additional funds beyond $500,000 for two new high schools. It also seeks new buildings in districts with the worst congestion, aiming to inform residents for a well weighed council decision.
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General Council
Board of Education
Atlanta
Recognition delayed of Haiti government
Washington reports the United States will not recognize the Haiti government set up two weeks ago under Davilmar Theodore until reassurances that revolutionary days are over. The de facto regime was asked to send a commission to discuss terms and a potential loan, with possible U.S. supervision of customs receipts.
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Washington
Haiti
Davilmar Theodore
United States
Litte Island
Zenbite
State Department
Theo Gore
Helti
Dominican Republic
Quiet Thanksgiving at National Capital
Washington November 22 President Wilson and officials will be largely absent shaping a quiet Thanksgiving in the capital. Public business will dictate early departures as the president plans to leave tonight for Williamstown Massachusetts to visit his daughter Mrs F M Sayre and will not attend the Army Navy game.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
Williamstown
F.M. Sayre
Christian
Miss
Virginia
Jewels Worth $20,000 Secured By Burglar
In Chicago on November 22 a downtown jewelry store lost twenty thousand dollars in jewels after a burglar gained entry with a false key and used a secret reply to the alarm office. Two clerks saw the man escape on a street car.
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Chicago
Pope Benedict Addresses Faith To Vast Rome Audience
Rome November 22. For the first time since his election Pope Benedict delivered an address in St Peters. Fifty thousand people heard his Holiness speak on Faith. Afterwards the Te Deum was intoned.
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Rome
Benedict
St. Peters
Funeral Notices for James E. Stebbs and Local Deaths
Obituary notices from Dawson and surrounding areas report funeral services and interments for James E. Stebbs of Dawson conducted by Rev. Morgan and Rev. Calloway with Masonic rites, plus brief deaths of Virginia Byars, Mrs. Susie Stosteller, Mrs. H. A. Howell, Harland Moore, Miss Neta Lavender, and J. W. Kerlin, detailing survivors, locations, and interment plans.
At the Theaters 2 Highlights Stage Returns and Cast
Eurene Walter adapts The Trail of the Lonesome Pine with June as a focal figure in a mountain girl study. Eleanor Mantell stars at the Atlanta Theater with Otis Skinner in The Silent Vatee, while Frohman brings a strong company. Forsyth promises Melville, Higgins, and The Singing Theater plus The Pekin Mysteries and Doris Wilson sisters amid renewed acts.
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Eurene Walter
John Vox, Jrs
Lonesome Pine
June
Eleanor Mantell
Atlanta
Wale
Wtute
Otte Skinner
Mr. Skinner
Charles Frohman
Julia Eckert Galdman
Reading
Gouverneur Morris
Forsyth Theater
Melville
Higgins
Urey
Homer Lind
Doris
Wilson
Snowe
Man Hit With Ax In Dublin Ga Special
Two white men T Adams and John Faulk quarrel over work on Faulks place near Dublin. Adams struck Faulk over the head with an ax he planned to use on a hog. Faulk will recover and Adams faces legal trouble. Adams was a tenant of Faulk. City Coal Co. offers Red Ash Coal at $4.25 per ton.
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Dublin
T. Adams
John Faulk
Faulks Place
Adams
Faulk
Eight Die in Suspected Black Hand Arson Fire in NYC Tenement
Eight persons perish and seven more injured in a five story brick tenement blaze on Hast Twenty-ninth Street. Investigators pursue Black Hand leaders after a tenant received threatening letters demanding 31 000. Fire may have started near apartment of Geetana Shambri. a related extortion note and a fatal heart attack after rescue are noted amid panic and collapsed stairs.
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New York
Hast Twenty-ninth Street
Annie Cataldo
Daniel & Devison
William H. Cozine
Marino Rosata
Rosata
Miecés
Joseph Polaki
Eagan
Bureau of Combustibles
Geetana Shambri
Apolice
Shambri
James R Pearce Dead Fulton mill superintendent dies at 33
James Russell Pearce longtime Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills superintendent died Sunday at 3 AM in his Kirkwood home after three years of illness. A former head of the New England American Cotton Mill association, Pearce was 33 and lived in Atlanta 33 years. He leaves a wife and six sons plus sisters and brothers. Funeral Tuesday at 2:30 PM from the residence with interment at West View.
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James Russell Pearce
Fulton Bag
West Boulevard
Kirkwood
Pearce
New England American Cotton Mill Association
Atlanta
Masons
Knights of Pythias
Knights Templars
Royal Arcanum
National Union
Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Weat View
Kindergarten Meeting At Atlanta Fres Kindergarten
The regular meeting of the Atlanta Fres Kindergarten association will be held this morning at 11 o'clock at Car neste library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta Fres Kindergarten Association
Carneste Library
Julius Bernard Dies After Long Illness
Julius M. Bernard, a popular Globe Clothing salesman, died Sunday at 3:30 PM at his home 70 East Thirteenth Street after six months of illness. He came to Atlanta about twenty years ago from Richmond Indiana and joined Globe Clothing when the store opened. He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Eufaula Alabama. Surviving are two sons, Maurice and Stanley K. Bernard. Funeral at 2:30 PM from the residence with interment in Oakland.
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Julius M. Bernard
Globe Clothing Company
East Thirteenth Street
Flness
Mr. Bernard
Atlante
Richmond
Ind
Globe Company
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Eufaula
Ala
Maurice
Stanley K. Bernard
Intermtat
Oakland
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Reaves
Convention of Georgia Baptists
Carrollton
Judge Orr
Nickerson
Episcopal Province
National Capital
James E. Grubbs, Dawson
Aeuwaon
Seventh Avenue
James E., Stebbs
EB. F. Morgan
Te Methodist Church
T. M. Calloway
Baptist Shareh
Masonic Fraternity
Dawson
William D. Grubbs
Virginia Byars
Jackson
Jacason
Virginia ‘Byars
Wil Fincher
Ndfv Jackson
Fincher
Smith
Ritts County
Orton Ene Gordon Byar
Eatonton
George Byars
Griffin
Preston Cemetery
George Goddard
Susie Mosteller
Susie Stosteller
Highland View
Hen
J. H. Foster
W. & Kendall
WF. White
Henry ML. Hart
Mamie Foster
H. A. Howell
Zebulon
eeUlon
WA. Howell
Harland Moore
Hugene B. Moore
Frances
Eugenia Moore
B. G
L.A
L. T. Moore
Patterson’s Chapel
Sharon
Nieta Lavender
Geoulon
Royeclal
J. S. Lavender
Montezuma
Tate
J.P. Mitchell
Oun
J. H. Kerlin
J. Wf. Kerlin
Wast Point
Hemper Chapel
Fayettevilla
Trail of
Otis Skinner
Keith Vaudeville
Man
City Coal CO
Black Hand
James R. Pearce
Fulton Cotton Mills
Julius Bernard
Kingsbury Piano
Carolla Inner
Euphona
Victor Records
William M. Brownlee
Vies Pres
Mer
North Broad St
Georgia Railway and Power CO
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