Big Society Ball Featured for Atlanta Day
A large society ball will close Atlanta Day during Harvest Festival week on Tuesday November 16. Mrs William Lawson Peel is in charge with twenty five representative women aiding. President Davison expects hundreds of society folk in costume to attend and lead the grand march with fifty colonial dames, followed by hundreds more in period dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
William Lawson Peel
Peel
Davison
Decatur Athletic Club
Pantaathletic Club
Loess Hackley
William Suhley Howard
Decatur
Miss Hackley
University of California
Berkeley
Washington City
Colonial School
William Schley Howard
Hackley
Druid Hill Tea Dance and Decatur Club Parties
Social notes describe tea dances at Druid Hill Golf Club and a large Decatur Athletic Club weekend dance. Attending are Miss Jessie McKee, Miss Isabel Robinson, Miss Elaine Robinson, and guests including Miss Marian Rickison, Virginia Lipscomb, Dorothy Arkwright, Helen McCarty, and Messrs. Joel Tiart, Willard McBurney, Lynn Werner, Remsen King, and Jack Burt. A luncheon for Miss McKee by Miss Isabel Robinson is planned amid several entertainments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss McKee
Dorothy Harman
Josephine Mobley
Jessie McKee
Mr. Winship
Isabel Robinson
Elaine Robinson
Joel Hurt, Jr
Driving Club
Marian Rickisom
Virginia ‘Lipscomb
Sgabel Robinson
Dorothy Arkwright
Helen McCarty
Joel Tiart
Willard McBurney
Lynn Werner
Remsen King
Jack Burt
Fragmentary listing of names and titles
A snippet shows a garbled list of names and honorifics including Mrs and Mr titles with partial surnames such as Brazslton, Beardes, Lub beck, Carnes, Hunt, Porter, Bearden. The OCR yields unclear fragments lacking context or events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aire
Howard W
Souser
T. E. Sennessy
L. Hardman
Atlanta Theaters Report Busy Week Ahead with Daring Stage Shows
The Atlanta theater scene draws big crowds and strong receipts last night amid near full houses. For next week Forsyth hosts Urieux's Damaged Goods with a strong advance. the Atlante presents 1915 vaudeville Revue headlining Kirst and Safety First. Also screening The Fatal Car and The Wireless at Strand and Paramount releases feature John Mason, Hazel Dawn, Bruce McRae, and Galliana.
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Forsyth
Vauideville
Jane
Sophyse Barnard
Lou Anger
Atlanta
Harry Green
Flo Irwin
Clara Morton
Hickey Brothers
George and
May Favre
Sx Brag Girls
Metropolitan Opera
Iduse Baliet
Eo Anc Oprana
Jas Bean
Ancestan
Bruce McRae
Galliana
Paul McAllister
John Mason
Hazel Dawn
Paramount 16
Extra Session Call Mailed to Georgia Legislature
Governor Harris issued a proclamation for an extra session in November directing senators and representatives to consider general appropriations for 1916, special deficiencies, prohibition, Western and Atlantic railroad disposition after lease, state warehouse system, fish laws for canal fisheries, and auto license tax.
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Harris
Georgia
Atteenton
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Fair and Colder Weather Forecast
The weather forecast predicts fair and colder conditions after yesterday's cloudy, chilly start. Temperatures edged into the sixties with a warming spell in the afternoon before clouds returned and a further drop is expected. The forecaster noted summer's end required one more cold spell.
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Duak
Florida Package Law Prompts Supreme Court Fight
Jacksonville October 1 A test case of the Davis package law will be argued before the state supreme court in Tallahassee following the arrest today of Aleph Pricha and another local saloonkeeper on the charge.
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Jacksonville
Fla
State Supreme Court
Tallahassee
Aleph Pricha
Farrar Triumphs in Debut Screen Role in Carmen
Geraldine Farrar stars in the first U S presentation of Lasky’s Carmen at Symphony Hall Boston with 2500 in attendance. The audience cheered as Farrar and her entourage acknowledged the ovation. The premiere featured a fifty piece orchestra and was produced by Cecil B DeMille. Farrar wept at her performance and praised the animation of the pictures. Major city officials attended and Samuel Goldfish presented a $10 000 fur coat from the Lasky company. Carmen opens nationwide November 1 via Paramount Pictures and plays the Lyric next week.
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Boston
Musy
Geraldine Farrar
Lawyels
United States
Symphony Hall
Carmen
Miss Parrar
Miss Farrar
Melrose
5. L. Rothapfal
Cecil B. DeMitte
James M. Curley
Samuel Goldfish
Jesse L. Lasky
Morrig Gest
Stationers 10 Meet in Atlanta in 1916
Atlanta wins the 1916 convention of the National Association of Stationers and Manufacturers to be held in late September or early October. About 400 attendees are expected, including Frank Waterman of Waterman Fountain Pen and Richard Carter of Carter's ink. The Atlanta Convention Bureau and Charles M. Marshall led the bid, with Ivam J. Allen also involved.
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Atlanta
National Association of Stationers and Manufacturers
Atlanta Convention Bureau
Charles M. Marshall
San Francisco
Frank Waterman
Waterman Fountain Pen Company
Richard Carter
Carter
Mr. Marshall
Ivan J. Allen
Stockbridge Named President at Farmers National Congress
Dr H E Stockbridge editor of The Southern Ruralist Atlanta Ga was chosen president at the Farmers National Congress closing session in Omaha Neb The meeting left the next site to the executive committee Resolutions favored woman suffrage endorsed Keating Oil urged a Yarm woman's bureau in agriculture and opposed loaning money to war nations The parcel post received praise with calls for improvements and a rural credit program government control of private rural credit interests was urged.
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Omaha
Neb
Farmers’ National Congress
H. E. Stockbridge
Southern Ruralist
Atlanta
Congress
Department of Agriculture
America
Europe
Interstate Commerce Commission
Asia
Belcher on Trial for Dynamite Attack in Albany
Dougherty superior court heard the case of W J Belcher accused of attempting to dynamite a dwelling in Albany occupied by Margaret Williams a white woman from the restricted district. About twenty people were inside when Chief Brosnan dived under the house and cut the fuse near four sticks of dynamite. Jealousy cited as motive. The jury retired for verdict tonight.
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Albany
Dougherty Superior Court
W. J. Belcher
Margaret Williams
Helcher
Belcher
E Y Clarke May Quit Brooks County Club
Quitman GA October 1 Special General Secretary E Y Clarke of the Brooks County Industrial Club returns to Quitman after work on a Georgia motion picture. He faces departure for two months as manager of the Georgia Harvest Festival and may become vice president of the Georgia Chamber, prompting fears of reduced local duties. Committees were appointed to handle Brooks floats in Atlanta during Harvest Festival week as Quitman enjoys prosperous conditions.
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Quitman
E. ¥. Clarke
Brooks County
Brooks
Atlante
Quirman
Motion Picture Patents trust declared illegal monopoly
In Philadelphia on October 1 the United States district court ruled the Motion Picture Patents company and associates formed a restraint of trade. The government said the defendants engaged in interstate and foreign commerce in motion pictures and related gear, naming General Film Biograph Edison Kalem Lubin Melies and Selig among others. The court found the contracts a conspiracy illegal under the anti trust law, except Melies Manufacturing operations.
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Philadelphia
Mojtion Picture Patents Company
United States ‘District Court Today
Motion Picture Patents Company
General Film Company
Biograph Company
Thomas A,dison
Ing.” Lassanay Film Manufacturing Company
the Kalem Company (Inc
George Kleine Lubin Manufacturing Company
Afelie Manufacturing Company
Frank L. Dyer
Henry X. Marvin
J. J. Kennedy
Wiliam Pelser
Samus Long
J. A. Berst
Siegmund Lubin
Gaston Melies
Albert Smith
George K. Spoor
W. O M. Selig
Submarine War Tactics and American Aid Reported
Reports from London describe German submarine losses reaching fifty or more with secrecy surrounding the count. US and British forces employ submarine detection nets, armed patrols, and fast small motor boats to hunt subs across channels and seas near Britain. Aeroplanes track subs from above, guiding destroyers to submerged targets and aiding coastal defense efforts. Additionally, six gasoline launches for naval service were loaded for the Leyland liner Bohenti as part of a contracted shipment.
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London
Act
Great Britain
Palley
Germany
United States
British Isles
Hingland
Canada
Boston
Bohenti
Tolnarrow
Uiverpadl
Naval Service
Democratic Victory Predicted by Speaker Clark in Missouri
St Joseph Mo October 1 Speaker Champ Clark of the national House of Representatives reviews the Democratic record and expresses confidence in a 1916 voter verdict. He credits the party with tariff reform currency measures and the Underwood bill while contrasting Republican failures and the hoped for continuance of Democratic leadership under Woodrow Wilson.
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St Joseph
Champ Clark
National House of Representatives
Clark
Moses
Underwood
National Reserve Bank
Intrasta
Ship of State
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic House
Democratic Senate
Republic
Crushed Under Horse Johnie Hudson Dies Near Roberta
Macon Ga October 1 Special Johnie Hudson a young farmer living near Roberta station in Bibb county was killed tonight on the Milledgeville road when a runaway horse crashed into the rear of his wagon and crushed him. Another man in the wagon was uninjured. The city ambulance rushed him to the hospital but he died on arrival.
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St. Mark's Church
Gong Bs
St. Marx's Church
Merritts Avenue Church
St. Mark's
Old Sixth Methodist
Christian Fellowship
W. R. Hendrix
St. Mark’s
Macon
Johnie Hudson
Roberta Station
Bisb County
Milledgeville
Hudgoh
Hudson
Indian Troops Mutiny Report From Baghdad Dispatch
Berlin October 1 The Overseas News agency cites a Lokal Anzeiger dispatch from Bagdad reporting a mutiny by two Indian regiments in the British army the Eighth Mursena and the Tenth Sikh In the ensuing fighting 1200 British soldiers were killed and 1100 Hindus were killed or wounded The latest British army lists do not show a Mursena regiment.
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Berlin
Puckerton
Overseas
Lokal Anzeiger
Bagdad
Eighth Mursena
Southern Business College Shorthand Graduates’ Career Claims
A fragmented notice highlights former students praising the Southern Shorthand and Business University at No 10 West Mitchell Street for aiding quick employment. Reported quotes praise the Bookkeeping program and shorthand training, while urging attendance to secure enduring positions.
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Southern
Mitchell Street
Clarkesville
Tam
Picely
Social Cirel
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Ray Harrigan
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Mainer Hardin
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M. Rich & Bros. Co
Whitehall Street
al G. Field Minstrels
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Minsteein
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Tamisht
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Keith
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Lyric
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Cr Aess
Spapp
E. Y. Clarke
Brooks County Club
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