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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1913
Page
4
A police commission move aims to create a board of inspection for the department to curb the yearly arrest total. A special committee of Commissioners Fain Veeny and Colcord will study feasibility and appoint an expert criminology as inspector to work with the desk sergeant at police headquarters.
A St. Louis lad claims a home hair recipe turned three weeks growth into four or five inches. The mix uses water rum Barbe Compound and Bluecorine Apis applied to the scalp two to three times weekly, suggested to promote growth, reduce dandruff, stop shedding, and darken or soften hair, all for little cost from drug stores.
The piece discusses a wish for full authority to release prisoners at the judge’s discretion and outlines a plan where every arrest is investigated by the prisoner and arresting officer. Philip Weltner highlights Atlanta’s high annual arrests and large police court fines, noting 1912 totals of $86,000 versus New York’s $166,009.
Grainerd Minn November 24 Joe Graves a Chippewa Indian of Walker Minn has signed as a pitcher for the Philadelphia American baseball team for the season of LYrd Graves in recent seasons pitched for Walker and Brainerd and has been regarded as a local wonder.
In Buffalo New York on November 4 the Rodman Wanamaker exposition delivered American flags to 189 Indian tribes across the country. The touring exhibit, begun last February in a tribute to justice and mercy, has covered nearly 20,000 miles in six months, including 8,000 miles by stage coach across mountains and deserts. The tour will conclude after visits to the six nations and a final report from the expedition.
A girl tearfully called poultry show official Tom Poole to plead entry for her birds after the November 21 deadline. Poole reassured her that children’s entries are separate from the general entries and will be accepted until midnight Wednesday.
About 100 delegates have reached Macon for the South Georgia Methodist Conference with expected attendance near 500 by tomorrow. The meeting opens Wednesday at Mulberry Street Methodist church with Bishop Warren A. Candler presiding and runs through December 1. Sessions cover education and social issues, with plans for bonds to support four Methodist colleges and a possible church name change.
Federal Judge Landis resumed his inquiry into why a U S soldier's life is valued at 150 dollars as attorney changes unfold. Mrs Mary Panek, whose son Edward died in a Mobile and Ohio wreck, had a 750 settlement with the railroad with 250 to her attorney Smejkal. L M Chester, railroad claim agent, was not present in Mobile Alabama court.
Washington announces southern delegations will press Congress for federal aid to fund levee construction. Cane Sparkman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee calls a meeting as Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana plan to seek billions for flood damage prevention. Other valley states expected to send representatives.
London report says four prisoners faced charges for stealing and receiving a $650,000 pearl necklace that vanished while in registered mail from Paris to London on July 16. It was later found on a London sidewalk with few pearls missing. Arrests followed September 2 during negotiations over the pearls. Lockett and Grizard sentenced to seven years penal servitude each. Stibermen to five years. Guttworth to eighteen months hard labor. Jolly May Irwin mentioned in the closing line.
London November 24 The Women’s Social and Political Union announces a newly formed bodyguard for Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst during her return from the United States. In a speech at a weekly meeting Mrs Dacre-Fox warned the government that police attempting an arrest on arrival would face strong resistance.
The speaker said arrest of the militant leader would not be allowed and noted a bodyguard for Mrs Pankhurst led by General Flora O Grummond is formed to oppose police violence. She claimed suffragists will defend themselves if needed and referenced appeasements and banquets.
Advertisement notes a sleeping car service from Atlanta to Chattanooga on the Southern Railway leaving at 8 20 p m and arriving to occupy at Chattanooga until 7 30 a m the following morning with unspecified dates.
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