Improved Gas Quality Aimed By New Inspector
City smoke and gas commission expects Atlanta Gas Light to raise candle power to twenty for the same price. A new smoke inspector, likely C P Poole or E C Kollock, will be announced Friday to resume the crusade against nuisance gas and push for stronger action.
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R.M. Harwell
City Yoke and Gas Commission
Atlanta Gas Light Company
State Railroad Commission
Atlanta
Harwell
Robably
C. P. Poole
E. C. Kollock
Ower
Deaf
One Negro Killed in Atlanta Christmas Fights
Police and hospital reports show a calmer Christmas in Atlanta with only one fatality and fewer arrests than 1911. The day included a fatal shooting by another Black man, several injuries from a toy pistol incident, numerous emergency calls, and a set fines scale for Christmas peace violations.
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Robert Henderson
John Henry Perkins
Crew Street
Atlanta Hospital
Perkins
Will
Beavers
Grady
Judge Broyles
Recorder’s Court
Recorder Broyles
Grady Hospital
Unaway Boys Aim to Return to Atlanta Homes
Two orphan brothers Artis aged 11 and Lawrence ran away from the Southern Christian home in Atlanta two weeks ago to become tramps. They are now in Jacksonville, Florida, seeking to return home. Lawrence is held by Jacksonville police, Curtis has written to Mrs Elizabeth Scott seeking help, and plans to be sent back to the home. They traveled by foot and on a passenger train, surviving rain and hardship before being helped to Jacksonville.
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Iis
Holmes
Lawrence
T O
Chris
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlanta
Maye
Curtis
Elizabeth Scott
Southern Christian Home
Cou
Artis
Tlanta
Ksonville
Hotel bureaus urged to ease lonely guests plight
Chicago December 26. Frank Floren and three Boston girls at the Congress hotel lament the need for hotel introduction bureaus to pair lonely travelers with desirable young men. Floren, a clerk, says such a service would help strangers who are lonely and reduce the unpleasantness of hotel living.
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Hicago
Frank Floren
Boston
Congress Hotel
Florentine
Els
Santa Claus killed by heavy fur coat in Hamilton
Alder man James Mackay, manager of a major Hamilton business, died after acting as Santa at St. Joseph church entertainment. Overheated in a large fur coat, he grew faint on reaching home and died moments later saying he felt dying.
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Ottawa
Ontario
James Mackay
Hamilton
Canada
Santa Claus
St. Joseph Church
Eab
Lipton mocked by Boston crowd for fickle compliment joke
In Boston on December 26 Sir Thomas Lipton amused a roomful of friends after Mayor Fitzgerald earlier joked about the Liptons. Lipton claimed his future wife would be in the room and named his daughter Rose, prompting laughter as he admitted he knew how it feels to be rejected.
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Boston
Thomas Lipton
Fitzgerald
Honey Fitz
Sir Thomas
Copley Plaza
Lady Lipton
Rose
Ananias Club
Atlanta
Carfare
Jamaica
Anti-Saloon League
Milton
Omar
Society For the Prevention of Useless Giving
Speculators Corner New Year Eve Tables in Chicago
In Chicago on December 26 speculators have cornered New Year’s Eve cafe table reservations, with prices for a table of four at $64 and deposits of $6 per person. Downtown cafe managers say they do not know how scalpers obtained the tickets, and many fashionable loops show reservations impossible to secure while venues with scalpers advertise “tables in any case” available.
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Chicago
Escapes Ape Men Fattening Him for Cannibal Feast
Guy De Villepion, ex teacher from a South American coast academy, recounted being fattened by ape men while crossing from Ciudad to Buenos Ayres. He escaped after adventures and reached Callao, describing the savages as half man and half ape and saying they planned to eat him before he fled.
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San Francisco
Guy de Villepion
South America
Ciudad
Buenos Ayres
Callao
Admiral Dewey Celebrates 75th Birthday at Home
Admiral George Dewey marked his seventy fifth birthday in Washington today spending most of the day at the home of Mrs Dewey. He is reported in good health and spirits.
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Admiral Dewey
Washington
George Dewey
Dewey
Atlanta Christmas Day After In Joy And Wealth Of 1914 Style
Atlanta recounts Christmas with humor and hardship as the day after tiles over into a cooky, crowded scene. The piece notes citywide tipsy revels, local carfare woes, a call to charity and civic groups, and sparse injuries with no major fatalities. It surveys police activity, ammunition in use, and post office and express workers recovering from the holiday rush.
Income Tax Plan Talked For Extra Session
Washington reports after Speaker Clark and President elect Wilson met that Democratic leaders intend to push an income tax law at the upcoming extra session in March or April. Clark and Underwood favor settling the national tax problem and seek related tariff action, with currency reform and Wall Street supervision likely on the agenda depending on a trust investigation committee report.
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Washington
Clark
Wilson
House
Congress
Oscar Underwood
Underwood
Wall Street
Trust
Gaskins commits suicide rather than serve six years
Nashville Ga December 26 Batey Gaskins shot himself in the head ending a long legal fight over a six year penitentiary sentence for assault with intent to murder. After two trials and Supreme Court remands the target prison term was confirmed, and he killed himself upon learning the decision.
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Nashville
Batey Gaskins
Gaskins
Albritton
Thomas
Supreme Court
Gaskine
Channel swept by terrific gale wrecks ships in coastlines
Plymouth dispatch reports a terrific gale in the English Channel driving vast waves onto the coasts of France and England. The Brazilian steamer Goyaz carrying passengers and cargo went ashore on the Atlantic coast at night. tugs rushed to assist. Early morning two schooners were driven ashore and several fishing craft are missing.
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Plymouth
Eng
English Channel
France
England
Goyaz
Atlantic
Brumby Burglar and Forger Escapes from Jail in Alabama
Benjamin M. Brumby, dubbed the smoothest pen artist in America, escaped Montgomery jail after trimming bars with a new saw. He is wanted in Atlanta on burglary and forgery charges for breaking into Smith Hammond Smith offices, forging signatures, and cashing a $592 check. Pinkerton detectives have long tracked him. Brumby, once invited to Atlanta, left habeas corpus proceedings pending and fled to Montgomery where he was later arrested in a pool hall.
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Ala
Benjamin M. Brumby
Brumby
Ben Brumby
Marietta
Monttgomery
Smith
Atlanta
Alabama
Brown
Georgia
Grant Building
Alex W. Smith
War Hero Brumby of Marietta Named Black Sheep Cousin
The report recounts Benjamin Brumby, a Marietta scion once deemed the family black sheep, who vanished after a 1890s era appearance with Lieutenant Brumby during a Dewey reception. An Atlanta arrest attempt in Montgomery failed due to habeas corpus, with Pinkerton involvement and a local detective from Atlanta city force.
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Atlanta
Smith
Brumby
Montgomery
Atlanta Pinkerton Agency
Hollingsworth
Georgia
Benjamin Brumby
Marietta
Cobb County
Lieutenant Brumby
Admiral Dewey
Ben Brumby
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Unaway
International News Service
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Woodrow
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