Violinist Kubelik Seeks Breakfast Amid Atlanta Tour
World renowned violinist Jan Kubelik and wife Gabrielle LaPierre arrived in Atlanta as part of a tour with Madame Nellie Melba. Kubelik humorously expressed hunger for breakfast while photographers clamored for attention. Madame Melba refused interviews, staying in her room to rest before her concert, while Edmund Burke accompanied by her team prepared for the show.
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Jan Kubelik
Gabriel LaPierre
United
Nellie Melba
Tabernacle
Wizard of the
Georgian Terrace
Kubelik
Madame Melba
Edmund Burke
Senator Bacon May Undergo Kidney Operation
Washington February 11 Senator Bacon of Georgia may undergo surgery after a second X ray reveals a blot on a kidney likely a stone causing high fever. Physicians will consult with family and hospital staff to decide on the operation, which could be critical given the patient’s advanced age and the risk if the kidney is not removed.
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Bacon
Washington
Senator Bacon
Georgia
Atlanta Bank Campaign Speakers Set for Regional Hearing
The Atlanta Clearing House and Chamber of Commerce prepare for a regional bank campaign with a Friday afternoon hearing by the national organization committee. Speakers include J. K. Orr, Wilmer L. Moore, John K. Ottley, Robert F. Maddox, Joseph A. McCord, A. P. Coles, Mell R. Wilkinson, Charles S. Barrett, Oscar Elsas, R. S. Wessely, Milton Dargan, and R. J. Guinn addressing topics from banking trends to agriculture and insurance.
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J. K. Orr
Atlanta Clearing House Association
Chamber of Commerce
Wilmer L. Moore
Atlanta
John K. Ottley
Robert F. Maddox
Joseph A. McCord
A. P. Coles
Mell R. Wilkinson
Charles S. Barrett
Oscar Elsas
Georgia Rail Commission Denies Passenger Fare Increase Petition
The Georgia Railroad Commission rejected a petition by Central of Georgia and Atlantic Coast Line to raise intrastate passenger fares on March 1 for drawing room or parlor car spaces, arguing no extra service justifies higher fares. It cites likely interstate effects and outlines projected increases from Atlanta to Washington, New York, and Cincinnati if allowed. The dispute highlights growing clashes between the Georgia body and the carriers as the state contemplates action against the Interstate Commerce Commission petition.
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Central
Atlantic Coast Line
Georgia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia Commission
Central and the Coast Line
Interstate Commission
United States
Sleeping Car
Railroad Commission of Georgia
Commission
Atlanta
Washington
New York
Cincinnati
Clerk Hurt in Elevator Shaft Fall at Draper Building
Edward B. Fisher, a Draper Company shipping clerk at 40 South Forsyth, fell from the second to the first floor elevator shaft in the Draper Building. He was found unconscious at Grady Hospital with a possible brain concussion and doctors deem his condition not likely to be fatal. Fisher resides at 258 South Pryor Street.
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Edward B. Fisher
Draper Company
Forsyth Street
Grady Hospital
Draper Building
Fisher
South Pryor Street
Eufragette Rioters Put on Peace Bonds
London February 11 Seven members of the Women s Social and Political Union arrested for blocking outside the Bishop of London s residence were arraigned and bound over to keep the peace. They refused to post sureties and were sent to jail for four days imprisonment. The magistrate heard their claim that the demonstration protested the exclusion of suffrage from King George s speech. Squitt February 11 Bud Roberts killed at Babcock when his hand was caught in shafting in a planing mill.
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London
Women's Social and Poscal Union
George
Squitt
Bud Roberts
Babcock
Hint
Alleged Weaver of U S Badge to Fight It
The postoffice inspector’s office said F. S. Inge, accused of passing bad checks via bogus identification with a postoffice inspector’s badge, will go to Atlanta for Federal Court trial and plead not guilty. Inge, arrested last week in Pensacola, is held awaiting counsel and defense. At least six counts are listed in different cities.
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Europe
Atlanta
Gore
Weill
Pensacola
Indictment Sought Against Mercantile Bank Directors
Memphis Feb. 11. A petition prepared by 100 depositors of the defunct Mercantile Bank seeks an indictment of every director on criminal charges. The petition is to be presented to Shelby County Attorney General Estes.
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Memphis
Mercantile Bank of Memphis
Estes
Shelby County
Governor appoints Mrs Albert Howell Jr to board
Mrs Albert Howell Jr of Atlanta is named to the board of lady visitors for the Georgia Normal and Industrial School at Milledgeville, succeeding Mrs Sam D Jones of Atlanta who resigned.
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Albert Howell, Jr
Atlanta
Georgia Normal and Industrial School
Milledgeville
Sam D. Jones
Nurse Exonerated Of Fraud Charge
Judge Luther Z. Rosser Jr of the Municipal Court dismissed the case brought by G. B. Gatling against Miss Eva O. Skelton chief nurse of the Red Cross Hospital on Cooper Street. The judge ruled there was no ground for Gatling's charge that Miss Skelton had obtained money under false pretenses and Miss Skelton won a full exoneration.
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Luther Z. Rosser, Jr
Municipal Court
G. B. Gatling
Eva O. Skelton
Red Cross Hospital
Cooper Street
Rosser
Gatling
Miss Skelton
Cotton Oil Plant Burns in Birmingham Fire
Fire destroyed the seed house of the Farmers and Ginners Cotton Oil Company in Birmingham causing an estimated $140,000 in damage. The blaze began this morning under unknown circumstances. The company is led by Albany, Georgia residents.
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Birmingham
Farmers and Ginners Cotton Oil Company
Albany, Ga
Queen Mary Gains in Stock Boom Privately Holds Consols
London reports Queen Mary earned about 35000 dollars from a stock market surge. Her Majesty purchased a substantial block of British consols two weeks earlier to capitalize on rising prices.
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London
Queen Mary
Stock Exchange
McReynolds Names Clerk as Social Secretary
Attorney General McReynolds has detailed Julia B. Rochelle a civil service employee earning 1800 dollars yearly as his social secretary. She handles his correspondence dictates acknowledgments to invitations and helps arrange bachelor fetes.
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Washington
McReynolds
Julia B. Rochelle
Civil Service
Fifty Arrested Daily in Anti-Spitting Campaign
CHICAGO, Feb 11. Police have arrested more than fifty men daily in a crusade against public spitting, with sixty five individuals chased into court to answer a charge of spitting on sidewalks.
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Chicago
Peggy Drop dance introduced by Miss Wilson in 1920s Washington
In Washington on February 11 a new dance named the Peggy Drop was introduced by Miss Margaret Wilson. The dance resembles an old fashioned curtsy in the minuet and is described as a graceful new social step by its promoter.
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Peggy Drop
Washington
Margaret Wilson
Hungry Hawks Take Fuzzy-Wy In Oceanside Standoff
In Oceanside New York on February 11 a small Japanese cat named Fuzzy Wy was stalking sparrows when a flock of hungry hawks swooped in and killed it. The incident illustrates urban wildlife and predator behavior in residential areas.
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Oceanside
N. Y
Fuzzywy
Grand Jury Indicts Gus Stephens and Grace Kells in Murder
Lexington report says a Williamstown Grand Jury jointly indicted Gus Stephens and Mrs Grace Kells for the murder of Joseph Kells husband to Mrs Kells. Mrs Kells jailed and Stephens has been in custody since soon after the crime.
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Lexington
Williamstown
Gus Stephens
Grace Kells
Joseph Kells
Bank Committee Plans Visit and Hearings in Atlanta
The Reserve Bank Organization Committee announces hearings in Atlanta on February 13 and 14 to consider regional bank claims. Secretary McAdoo Secretary Houston and Miss Nona McAdoo head the party, joined by Comptroller Williams. Cities including Atlanta Birmingham Chattanooga Savannah Columbia Jacksonville Montgomery and Charleston will present their cases.
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Washington
D. C
Reserve Bank Organization Committee
Atlanta
Milton E. Elliott
Georgian Terrace
the Treasury
W. G. McAdoo
Agriculture
D. F. Houston
Nona McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Helen Robinson
Birmingham
Chattanooga
Savannah
Columbia
Jacksonville
Montgomery
Charleston
Nantucket Captain On Trial For Ship Sinking
The trial of Captain Berry, commander of the Merchants and Miners steamship Nantucket, began in Philadelphia today. He faces charges of negligence and carelessness after the Nantucket rammed and sank the Old Dominion liner Monroe, with about 40 lives lost, and the case may take three weeks.
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Philadelphia
Berry
Merchants and Miners
Nantucket
Monroe
U S Sites to Break 8 P C P Rail Pact
General McReynolds ordered a suit in equity filed in Salt Lake City against the Central Pacific Railway Union Trust Co of New York and fifteen individuals to divest the Southern Pacific of control of the Central Pacific.
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Washington
McReynolds
Salt Lake City
Central Pacific Railway
Union Trust Company of
New York
Southern Pacific
Central Pacific
Ada Robson Recovers Voice After Appendectomy
Miss Ada Robson of St. Clairsville Ohio regains speech after an appendicitis operation following a nervous breakdown two years earlier.
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ST. Clairsylle
Ohio
Ada Robson
Walking Barefoot Penance Leads to Police Station Bed
Chicago, Feb 11. John Martin, who calls himself a messenger from God, walks barefoot in the snow as penance. He slipped and fell face-first under a sidewalk, and police carried him to a station house for warmth and safety.
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Chicago
John Martin
Sect Tries to Tramp Devil Out of Boy in Illinoi
Duquoin Illinois February 11 In an effort to cast out seven devils the Holy Rollers trampled Noah Hickman an epileptic boy. He suffered a few broken ribs and medical authorities investigated the incident.
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Sect
Devil
Duquoin
Ill
Noah Hickman
Ex-King Manuel and Wife Attend Film with Fans
London February 11 Ex-King Manuel of Portugal and his wife sat in a 26 cent seat at a moving picture show refusing a special place.
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Atlanta
London
Manuel
Portugal
Probers ridicule graft charges against police on hearing
Samuel C. Crane, attorney, faced sharp questions from Police Commission chair and members as he defended his graft accusations against two turnkeys. He pledged to back his claims with witnesses and noted lawyers support. Verney Garner Johnson voiced skepticism while Bayne denied all charges.
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Sensations Prumoc
Samuel C. Crane
Crane
Bayne
Brennan
Verney
Beavers
Johnson
Garner
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