Last Chance to Enter Atlanta Horse Show Classes
Entries for the third annual Atlanta Horse Show are due by midnight with eligibility for mailed entries. The event, to be held at the Auditorium Armory in October 1920, offers cash prizes in harness classes and cups for saddle classes. Contact Mr Congdon at the Electric and Gas building or Manager W S Blitz Assistant Secretary J B Sverett at Inman Building offices.
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Atlanta
Auditorium Armory
Victoria
Surrey
Congdon
Electric and Gas
W S Blitz
Price Paid for a Grave Poem and Burial Controversy
A contested will-like poem exchange governs burial rights for a famed Jewish poet once author of Hatikva. The contract assigns burial duties to a writer named Omry Trieml, amid legal challenges by Galician claimants who insist the burial honors their lineage. The dispute unfolds as New York’s East Side mourners await the poet’s interment.
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Ladas Adler
Stedter
Ators
Marcus
Marius
Galica
New Yorks
$4.50 Recipe Claims To Cure Weak Men
An advertisement touts a home study cure for nervous debility and weakened manhood. It promises a quick, quiet restoration of vigor via a physician created prescription, offered free by mail from Dr A. E. Robinson in Detroit, with assurances against harmful medicines.
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South
Bellera
Robinson
Detter
Mick
Bifocals Furnished In New Curved Solid Lens Claim
Bal lard Optical Co at 75 Peachtree Street promotes curved solid lenses that require no cement or frames. They claim the new bifocals eliminate the need for two separate glasses, presenting it as a major modern improvement.
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Walter Ballard Optical Co
Peachtree Street
Georgia WCTU Elects Officers at Macon Convention
Georgia WCTU held its closing season diamond contest for children in Macon on October 8. Officers chosen include chairman Mrs T E Patterson of Griffin and honorary president Mrs J H Sibley of Union Point. delegates Mary Harria Armor Mo A Burkes Eli Peacock and F B Gregory to the national WCTU convention in Omaha Neb.
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Macon
Madison
Georgia
J B Huff
Columbus
August Burghard
Mary Harria Armor
Burkes
Eli Peacock
Eastman
F B Gregory
Americus
The
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Omaha
Neb
Mellin Denies Report on Personal Interest in Steamboat
New Haven October report claims President Mellin of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad denies acquiring a personal stake in the Boston to New York steamboat line. He has previously denied any direct or indirect company interest. In Constantinople October 8 officials deny responsibility for Adana losses and say foreign claims will be rejected.
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New Haven
Gunn
Mellin
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Boston
New York
W Morse
Mellen
Constantinople
Adana
Train derailment kills one in Greene, Iowa
One person died and eight were injured when a passenger train struck a fallen plank near Greene, about forty miles north of Waterloo. The plank broke, derailing the locomotive on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific line.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Greene
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Taft Visits Glacier Point Two Big Sequoias Draw Lo
President Taft reached Glacier Point Cal October 8 after a 26 mile mountain drive from Wawona. He viewed the Sequoias including Grant the largest tree and posed at the Wawona monarch trunk. The party, at 7000 to 7700 feet, enjoyed a fire as cold evening set in.
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Glacier Point Cal
Taft
Wawona
Glacier
Tri Weekly Constitution to Reach 1.75 Million Readers
The Tri Weekly edition of The Atlanta Constitution will reach about 350000 homes with an average of five readers each, totaling roughly 1750000 readers nationwide from Texas to Virginia and Ohio to the Gulf. Advertisers are urged to add a paragraph with copy due by 6 o'clock this afternoon, with pricing information by calling Main 228.
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Tri Weekly Constitution
Texas
Virginia
Ohio
Gulf of Moxico
Atlanta Constitution
Publc
The
iAtlanta Constitution
Cook and Curtiss Lead St Louis Centennial Parade
In St Louis on October 8 a parade opened a weeklong centennial celebration led by Arctic explorer Dr Frederick Cook and aviation winner Glenn Curtiss. More than half a million spectators watched troops, fronts, and schoolchildren march as dignitaries cheered. Cook called the reception the finest since returning to civilization, a sentiment that surpassed his greetings in Copenhagen.
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St Louis
Frederick
Cook
Glenn H Curtias
Rroims
Civilization
Chicago
Copenhaven
Ansley Park Promises Ideal Homes and Big Profits
The advertisement extols Ansley Park atop The Prado and Maddox Drive as a superior Atlanta residence and investment. It invites visitors by car to view plans, highlights golf, parks, boulevards, and outdoor amenities near Piedmont Park, with Olmstead landscapes and future city growth cited to urge immediate lot purchases.
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Ansley Park
Atlanta
Piedmont Park
Olmstead
Boston
Mrs Annie White Dies at 63 on McDonough Road
Mrs Annie White, aged 63, died last night at 10 o clock at her residence on the McDonough road. She is survived by her husband BF White four sons two daughters one brother and four sisters. Funeral services will be from Marvin church Sunday morning at 10 o'clock with interment in Marvin cemetery.
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Annie White
Aegd
McDonough Road
BF White
Slaters
Marvin Church
Marvin Cemetery
Capitol Avenue Baptist Sunday School Rally Day Observed
Sunday morning rally day activities at Capitol Avenue Baptist Sunday school feature solo readings recitations and chorus singing. Dr Charles W Pantel of First Baptist will deliver the rally day address as the church decorates for an enjoyable hour. home department members are urged to attend. At First Presbyterian Church a special morning service at 11 o clock led by Rev W L Lingle preludes the communion service.
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Capitol Avenue Baptist Sunday
Charles W Pantel
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
W. L Lingle
Dunn & Sons Incorporated Charter Filed in Fulton County
Albert L. and Walter Dunn filed in the superior court a petition for charter for 4 L Dunn & Sons Incorporated. The company is capitalized at 1,000 dollars with privilege to increase to 100,000 dollars. Its object is to operate an automobile sales agency.
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Albert L
Walter & Dunn
Fulton County
4 L Dunn & Sons Incorporated
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Candler
Mitchell & Forsyth
Pacific Coast
Southern Pacific
Pullman
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Southern Ry
West Point
Louisville & Nashville R. R
Louisiana
J. F. van Rensselaer
Candler Bldg
Peachtree St
Atlanta, Ga
Glacier Point
Cook and Curtiss
St. Louis
Dr. Miles
Mr. Ansley
Prado and
Maddox Drive
Blue Ridge Mountains
Plata
Forrest
George Adair
Edwin P. Ansley
North Forsyth Street
Broughitons
Orleans
Weather Bureau
Gulf
Cuba
Florida
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