Atlanta Report on Appalachian Forest Reserve
An Atlanta report emphasizes forest preservation as vital to southern water power and cheap electric energy. It notes Appalachian forests support streams feeding southern power, urges forest reserves and fire control, and cites a November 29 1907 Atlanta meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers with talks by Kellogg Hall and others to build national support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Piedmont
Niagara
Clealler
South
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Asheville
N. C
Appalachian
American Institute of Eleterical Engineers
Piedmont Hotel
RB. S. Kellogg
Office of
Forest Service
United States Government
Maxey Hall
United States Geological Survey
W.S. Lee
Charlotte
Alfred Akerman
University of Georgia
M. Schoen
Atlanta Water Board to Open Bids for City Pump
The Atlanta water board and a city council committee will hold a 3 PM meeting to open bids for a new Hemp Hill station pump. After months of debate over vertical, centrifugal, or up and down designs, bids will be considered anew, potentially ending a long dispute that has troubled city leaders since Atlanta grew from Marthasville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Board
Atlants
Seecral Council
Hemphill Station
Atlanta
West
Brent
Marthasville
Contempt of Court for Oversleeping Kept in Debate
A discussion in the police court last Saturday questioned whether oversleeping excuses contempt of court. Two witnesses late due to oversleeping were not exempt, as providential causes do not apply to court appearance. Recorder Broyles ruled lateness from oversleeping contempt, though he did not fine the witnesses.
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Pellce
Ani
Brylas
Tlon
Morpheus
Jorge Briles
Darktown
Recorcher Broyles
Iourt
Steamer Monohansett Burns on Lake Huron
The steamer Monohansett, owned by A. J. McDonald of Cleveland, burned to the water's edge on Thunder Way, Lake Huron. Valued at $20,000 and partially insured, she was en route from Cleveland to Collingwood with coal when the fire started in the engine room Saturday night. The crew were rescued by the Thunder Bay Island life savers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Huron
Detroit
Mich
Thunder Way
A. J. McDonald
Cleveland
Collingwood
Ontario
Thunder Bay Island Life Savers
Young Ladies Challenge to Debate Men of Atlanta
After years of talks men concede public office to women yet refuse to serve. Wesley Memorial Church hosts a Thanksgiving eve debate at 8 30 between Wesley Memorial Philathae class and Baraca elana. Judges will decide. Courtly attendees welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Wesley Memorial Church
A Worse Failing in a Murky Quote Fragment
A fragmentary OCR reads as a distressed line about a husband who may walk in his sleep and a speaker delivering unclear speeches. The text is garbled, with mistranscribed words and missing context, offering little verifiable detail about events or identities.
Atlanta Negro John Hill Receives Carnegie Hero Medal
John B. Hill, the first Black recipient of a Carnegie hero medal, received a $600 check after saving two children by stopping a runaway team on Peachtree Street. Witnessed by Atlanta leaders, the act prompted Carnegie Hero Commission action and highlighted Hill as a law abiding, faithful employee and shining example for his race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Hill
Hill
Peachtree Street
Mr. Henry Inman
Hair
J. E. Hunnicutt Cotlidag
Peach
Atlanta
Carnegie Hero Commission
John Hill
John BR. Hill
Carnegie Herg Fund Commission
Commission Work Ahead On Atlanta Terminals Inquiry
The railroad commission of Georgia will reopen the monopolia question for the Atlanta Terminal Station and the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company next Saturday unless a track walkers report or a decision alters the schedule. Last week focused on Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company in a detailed, satisfactory report on organization and capitalization. service questions will be addressed later. Attorneys for American Baggage and Transfer Company and wholesale firms protested against alleged discrimination favoring the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company, seeking equal privileges for transfer firms. more complaints will be heard Saturday. The American Baggage and Transfer Company will file a formal complaint for argument in the coming session. December will address compress raid raises and excess charges on rash fares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Commission of Georgia
Atlanta Terminal
Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company
Major Cumming
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Terrell
Commission
Linton Slopkins
American Baggage and Transfer Company
A. T. Bancker
Atlanta
Atlanta Baggage and and Cab Company
Fall River typographers secure wage rise amid looming strike
A compromise reached in Fall River between the Typographical Union and three daily newspapers grants printers a $2 per week raise while employers sought 24 percent increases. The union had demanded $3 weekly and threatened to strike starting tomorrow.
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Fall River
Typographical Union
Mass
Dressing Cases Offered At Uniform Price Range
Three leading styles appeal to all buyers. Leather and hard rubber fittings include tooth and nail brushes, soap box, military brushes, or handle brush and comb. Normally priced at two dollars more, these sets are now set to fit a broad market with four fifty and five dollar options.
Dr Len Broughton Reports Tennessee Prohibition Push
Doctor Len Broughton returned from a Knoxville revival and urged stiff enforcement of prohibition. He predicted Tennessee would go dry, with Knoxville electing anti liquor officers and Senator Carmack likely governor. He warned Atlanta liquor interests to relocate or switch industries.
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Len G. Broughton
Knoxville
Len Broughton
Birmingham
Tennessee
Senator Carmack
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Florida
Fine dogs to star at the bench show this week
The Georgia Poultry Association hosts the pigeon poultry and pet stock exposition at Hastine's warehouse 16 West Mitchell Street this week. Manager Congdon of the Atlanta Gas Light Company brings a pair of white English bull terriers valued at 350 dollars each, bred from Montreal kennels in Toronto. The exhibit includes a dog with 49 blue ribbons aiming for its fiftieth. last year it took second at Madison Square Garden.
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eGorgia Poultry Association
Congdon
Atlanta Gas Light Company
Hastine
West
Mitchell Street
Montreal
Toronto
Canada
Congdon Beloven
Madison Square Garden
Attempt to Asphyxiate in Philadelphia Hearth
Fred Lutz a bookmaker attempted to gas his three children and himself at their Philadelphia home on November 24. He turned on the gas in the room where he slept with Frederick Jr Ena and Emily. The wife heard moaning from the room and found the family unconscious. Lutz suffered the most from gas exposure amid a feverish delirium and deathly intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Fred Lutz
Frederick, Jr
Ena
Emily
Lutz
Luts
Gan
Work Needed on Peachtree Street Repairs
The asphalt pavement on Peachtree street near the double car tracks is cracking where it meets bricks and bricks have sunk creating holes and ruts. Vitrified bricks were placed beside the tracks but will need reworking to restore the street to first class condition. The department of public works can perform asphalt repairs at a modest city cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peachtree Street
Peachtree
Bilis Ta Sixth Street
Department of Public Works
Salt Vost
Turner Case Delayed To January In Embezzlement Charge
M M Turner former councilman and secretary treasurer of the Georgia Redemption and Loan Company faces an embezzlement indictment for 52000. The criminal division trial is postponed due to illness and set for January. A separate injunction hearing on December 8 seeks to prevent Turner from disposing of property in relation to an 86000 shortage alleged by A O Marbut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. Turner
Georgian Redemption and Loan Company
Turner
Georgia Redemption and Loan Company
Pendleton
A. O. Marbut
Thanksgiving Prison Orchestra Debuts For Federal Inmates
A Thanksgiving concert at a Georgia federal prison near Atlanta features a newly formed inmate orchestra. Fifteen musicians from seven hundred prisoners rehearse under Warden Moyet, with former Pennsylvania ensemble leaders among them. Local vaudeville acts and city entertainers join for an afternoon program, giving inmates a meaningful holiday performance inside the walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Atlanta
Pennsylvania
Lonesomeville
Warden Moyet
John Philip Bousa
Victor Herbert
Thomas
Crown Heads
Allin
Or Pheum
Georgia Exhibit May Return From Jamestown To Atlanta
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson plans to send Secretary Foster Williams to Jamestown to supervise boxing packing and shipment of the Georgia exhibit now at Jamestown. The show ends Saturday night followed by a scramble for crates and freight cars. The exhibit will be moved to the state capital and placed in the state museum. Georgia has won two guild and two silver medals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. G. Hudson
Foster Williams
Agricultural Department
Jamestown
Atlanta
Georgia
Hudson
Hraith
Yeates
McCaliin
State Museum
Second Hand cupboard tale from a London telegraph
A minister ordered a small wooden cupboard from a rural joiner. On receiving the bill the pastor complained he could have bought a second hand cupboard cheaper. The joiner replied that though he could buy a quid german for three pence, they care about preaching them at that.
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London Telegraph
Thanksgiving Day Weather Brightens Atlanta Streets
Yesterday Atlanta celebrated Thanksgiving with a relief from ten days of dreary weather. The Washington weather man predicted fair skies and light west to northwest winds today. The focal weather office was closed and workers spent the day outdoors as the stiff wind dried roads and promised pleasant travel and bright sunlit views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Washington
Focal Weather
Clark resigns from Mobile and Ohio to join Missouri Pacific
Horace W. Clark, superintendent of transportation for the Mobile and Ohio, tendered his resignation effective November 30 and will assume a similar post with the Missouri Pacific. The Mobile and Ohio will announce his successor this week. Clark began as superintendent of the St. Louis division and later succeeded Newton W. Scott as transportation chief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace W. Clark
Mobile and Ohio
Mobile
Ala
Mobile and Ohio Road
Missouri Pacific Road
Clarke
St. Louis
Newton W.scott
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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
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John B. Hits
Aunt Maa Bech Ag
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Whitehall St
Broughton
Knowille
Tenn
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Sir Gilbert Parker
Reginald DeKoven
Edward Everett Hale
Egerton Castle
Brand Whitlock
Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
David Bispham
Sam Lloyd
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J. S. Leyendecker
Funk & Wagnalls Company
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