New City rises from ashes with grand school centric set
Alexander City completes a new school building after a devastating 1992 fire that destroyed much of the town. The modern facility features ten classrooms and a chapel with 1000 seats, serving about 400 pupils, and stands as a monument to resilience. Since the blaze, merchants rebuilt with forty eight brick stores and the town vows further progress.
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Alexander Ity
Ala
Svecia
Alexander City
Book Contest Fires Suit Involving School Textbook Case
A dispute over a state school book contract leads to a criminal libel case against Prof Duffey, with Judge McMichael accused of bias. Duffey’s letters critique Gov Smith and Mr McMichael, who chairs the education committee and faces a forthcoming commitment trial. The school book commission prepares for open session to hear publishers.
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Rial Book Publishing
Atete
Jonesboro
Profasser
P. E. Duffey
E H. McMichael
Buena Vista
McMichael
Ma- Tian
Charles Baferrill
New York
Wbel
Clarsas
Roffey
Smith
Duffey
Sor
Ransey
Book Commission
Dock Commission
Hoke Smith
Philip Cook
Daffey
Bbss
Tuffey
Duffey, Bir
Charles E. Merrit
Ough Commission
Profesor Pound
Vote for Jos. Lorwus Alderman Second Ward and J G Wood Mayor
Vote for Jos Lorwus Alderman Second Ward. Vote for J G Wood for Mayor. He has given Atlanta two of its best administrations and all other business prospered. He has known Atlanta for 56 years.
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J. G. Wood
Ward
Atlanta
Col Thomas L Williams Dead In Knoxville
Colonel Thomas L Williams former Tennessee railroad commissioner died at his home in Knoxville this morning. He was a respected lawyer and a prominent Democratic politician in the state.
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Tennessee
Beoxville
Tenn
Thomas L Wiliams
Williams
Beauty and Bad Breath A City Folly Warned
A campus style column argues that beauty cannot save a woman from social rejection if she has bad breath and suggests charcoal lozenges as a cure. It notes men will avoid foul breath in any woman and promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges sold nationwide, asking readers to mail for a free sample.
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Stuart
America
Carrie
Stuart Bidg
Spiking Season Advances at Emory College Oxford
Emory College Oxford reports a spiking season begun after Sept 1 with initiations by several fraternities. Active members and alumni aided by bands fostered cordial relations between fraternity and non fraternity students. Initiates announced from Atlanta include Joseph Gray Blount and John David Tiller by Phi, Robert W Woodruff by Kappa Alpha, Laouty Carhart Nor Wood Griffin and Bo Terrell pledged by Phi Delta Theta, R M Girardeau G pledged Alpha Tau Omega, and Theo Bean and W L Reynolds by Delta Tau Delta.
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Emory College Oxford
Ttse
Atlants
SCH Phi
Joseph Gray Blount
John David Tiller
Kappa Alpha
Robert W. Woodrutt
Phi Delta Theta
Laouty Carhart
Nor Wood Griffin
Bo Terrell
All Candidates Withdrawn in Alabama Republican Split
Birmingham September 23 at the executive committee meeting of the Davidson anti-administration wing of the Alabama Republican party voted to withdraw all state officer candidates. Support was urged for Thompson regular wing nominees in the coming election. An advisory committee will maintain the organization with W F Aldrich as chairman. The note ends with praise for J G Woodward for mayor and a remark on Huddleston’s votes against firemen policemen and teachers.
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Birmingham
Ala
Davidson
Republican Party
Alabama
Iftela
Folewera
Thompson
W F. Aldrich
Eberhard Pleads Guilty in Murder of His Aunt
Hackensack Sept 23 August Eberhard on trial for the death of his aunt Ottillie Eberhard changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to thirty years in State prison after a conference with the prosecutor. The court noted mental strain but imposed sentence immediately as Eberhard stood silent.
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Parker
Eberhard
Large Steel Plate Order From Pittsburg Steamship Co
Carnegie Steel Co received what may be the largest single order for glass platen steel plate. The Pittsburg Steamship Co, based in Cleveland, ordered eighty thousand tons of stret plates for Lorain and Gale docks. Work on the plate smelting began last night and most plant units will resume operations due to the demand. Georgia Rural Carriers Name Washington Maptemtue EB local chartes Brown appointed regular rural carrier. Cochran 898 appears in the rural route listing.
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Steamship Company
Pittsburg
Wid
Carnegie Steel Company
Pittsburg Steamship Company
Cleveland
Lorain
Gale
Georgia
Washington
Chartes & Brown
EL McNall
Ponte
Cochran
Foster Assigned to Lusk ey Government Survey in Alabama
J. S. Foster has been assigned from Washington to survey Alabama forests. The appointment follows a recent act of the legislature, and the work will be borne largely by the state.
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J. S. Foster
Luskey
Montgomer
Ala
J . Foster
Washington
Alabama
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Payne
W. H. Hotcombe
Thes. J. Guchanan
Wade P. Harding
New City
Old Town
Mada
E. H. McMichael
Thomas H. Goodwin
Jos
Lorwus
Col. Thos. L. Williams
W.l.douglas
W.L. Douglas
W.L Douglas
Brock
Douglas
Bort Ag
Emeluadoaten
Sprehrchiy
J. M. High CO
Emory
J. G. Woodward
Huddleston
August Eberhard
Wm. H. Terrell
Jos. Loewis
Atlantic
Pacific
Moerlein
a/é
Thomas Bradley
Beth
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Cincinnati, O
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