City Council to vote on bonds for sewer and schools
The bond commission urged the council to authorize a December 15 election for 3 465 800 in bonds to finance a city sewer system a new schools program waterworks a city hospital and crematories. Reports from subcommittees detail costs and locations with an ordinance to limit use of funds. A broad campaign will explain allocations to voters.
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Bond Commission
General Council
Atlanta
Commission
Council
Thse
Atelanta
Heefclock
Seasion
Quitman
Huddleston
W. F. Terrell
James L. Matson
F .O. Foster
John &. Murphy
Hering
New York
Proctor Creek
Peachtres Creek
Solders
Loyd Street
Dr Fred Cook Tells Graphic Story of North Pole Conquest
Narrative of Dr Fred Cook and the Cook Bradley expedition from American shores toward Eskimo villages and ice fields. Officers and sailors profit by barter with natives as the story details Arctic life. The piece appears in installments with the second part promised Friday morning in The Constitution.
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Fred Cook
North Pole
Dr. Cook
Constitution
New York Herald
Taft’s census supervisor choice angers North Carolina Republicans
In Durham on September 14 the Taft administration named Professor Gragson of Trinity College as census supervisor for the fifth district, triggering strong Republican protests. The district now seats a Democrat, Governor Kughen, with a Republican successor elected last year as Moorehead. Republicans rail against the appointment as political spoils and vow to press Congress to block it.
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Taft
Gragson
Trinity College
Kughen
John Motley Moorehead
Glason
Branham
Republican County Executive Committee
Massachusetts
Mugwump
Judge Connor
Hett
North Carolina
Morehead
Glasaon
Bride Threw Baby in Neighbor Hog Pen in Tennessee
News brief from Bristol Tennessee reports Mrs. James Disher a 20 year old new bride allegedly threw her infant into a neighbor hog pen possibly to be eaten by hogs. Preliminary inquiry notes a neck string and physicians say the child was strangled before disposal. Separate item from Wittsburg Pennsylvania states Westinghouse Airbrake directors declare regular 2 percent dividend and an extra dividend.
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Bristol
Tenn
James Disher
Abingdon
Disher
Wittsburg
Westinghouse Airbrake Company
Warning Given by James Hill on Food Supply Future
James J. Hill warned at the American Bankers Association convention in Chicago that the United States may stop exporting foodstuffs. He said the idea we feed the world is being corrected and unless agricultural population and output rise, home food supply could become a bigger concern than foreign markets. He noted rural depopulation and rising farm land values in western states, contrasting U.S. conditions with Europe.
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Chicago
United States
American Bankers’ Association
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railway Board
Hill
Lawrence O. Murray
National Bank
Murray
George M. Reynolds
Tutnoll and Ghicaro
Charles Deneen
Joseph T. Talbert
Chicago Clearing House Association
Robert Lowry
Atlanta
Bankers’ Association
Cannon
Bank- Co
Polar Quest Begins Aboard the John R. Bradley At Cape York
Dr Frederick A Cook recounts the quiet launch of an Arctic expedition funded by John R Bradley. The Gloucester schooner with motor and ice protection heads toward North Star Bay after finding Cape York blocked by ice. Weather and ice force a coastal reroute as guillemots and eiders circle the polar coast.
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Gloucester
Mass
John R. Bradley
MR. Bradley
Cook
Cape York
North Star Bay
Petowik
Tragic gas death ends life of S C Glass in Harris Street
Steve C Glass finds wife Mia Glass dead at 109 West Harris Street as she asphyxiates herself with gas from a chandelier tube. Note on table mentions church money and forgiveness. Neighbors and husband discover the scene after their son Stiles sleeps on the porch awaiting his mother.
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Steve C Glass
West Harris Street
Stiles
Mia Glass
Mr. Glass
Mamma
Mr Glass
Mrs. Glass
Li Autrey
Mre Glass
Hapitat
Glass
Weather Prophecy Unsettled Weather Across Georgia
Unsettled weather is forecast for Wednesday and Thursday across Georgia with local showers and moderate winds. The outlook warns of variable conditions and potential brief downpours in parts of the state as the system moves through.
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Georgia
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