Locker clubs on Georgia appeals court ruling
Locker clubs across Georgia await the State Court of Appeals decision on Judge Moses Wright’s ruling that the Hill City Club used a service check system to pay attaches serving liquor, a practice deemed an evasion of prohibition and a potential nuisance. The case tests whether locker clubs may compensate staff from liquor service fees.
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State Court of Appeals
Moses Wright
Rome
Rome Law and Order League
Hill City Club
Superior Court
Court of Appeals
Court of Review
Hill City
League
Elks
Cooa
Law and Order League
CC. L. Wilkerson
Wright
Poets Rise At Atlanta Commencement Laureate Named
In Atlanta commencement week many schoolgirls become poets as flowers bloom and dresses shine. Washington Seminary crowned Louise Ware of Kirkwood as official poet laureate of the graduating class, recognized as a real poet.
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Mrs. Browning
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Washington Seminary
Louise Ware
Kirkwood
Woodberry School
Edith Howe McCool
Carolyne Chisolm
Girls’ High School
Sunday American
Miss Chisolm
Miss Ware
Cochran Opens flo Senate Fight in 1914 bid
Representative elect Cochran of Fulton County announced his U.S. Senate campaign at Douglas County Chapel Hill stressing gradual reform and support for Georgia manufacturing and agriculture. He urged expanded technical education and liberal state funding for schools. The piece also describes a large Southern exposition site near Knoxville with multiple pavilions and a focus on land, forests, water, and industry.
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Ralph CO. Cochran
Fulton County
United States Senate
Hoke Smith
Chapel Hill
Douglas County
Cochran
Georgia
National Conservation Exposition Plans Ahead in Knoxville
National leaders of conservation led by Gifford Pinchot are arranging exhibits for the National Conservation Exposition to be held in Knoxville in September and October. The event aims to promote the development and best use of the country’s natural resources through object lessons and will have a national scope as installation nears completion.
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T. A. Wright
Knoxville
M Goodman
National Leaders of Conservation
Gifford Pinchot
Atlanta Flood Sufferers Thank Atlanta for Aid
The Sunday American reports a note from Hamilton Ohio Citizens Relief Committee thanking Atlanta residents for generous flood aid. Treasurer L P Clawson says many givers true to anonymity, accepts this public acknowledgment on their behalf.
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The
Sunday American
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Hamilton
Ohio
Atlanta
L. P. Clawson
Four poets share hearts in Sunday American camp
The excerpt notes four poets who contributed pieces to The Sunday American and praises a collaborative, noncompetitive spirit among poets. It highlights a cheerful, creative mood on the local mountain of poesy and celebrates modesty and support among writers.
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Atlanta
Sunday American
Quarter Century Tech Commencement Week at Georgia Tech
The Georgia School of Technology observes a quarter-centennial commencement with a baccalaureate sermon at St. Luke's Episcopal Church by Dr. Thomas E. Green. A procession forms at 10 a.m. from North Avenue church house and proceeds to Peachtree Street. Events include the board meeting, Claxton’s literary address, president's reception, junior promenade, evening dances, and a burlesque pageant with 1000 students anticipated.
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Peachtree Street
Thomas E. Green
Chicago
America
North Avenue Church House
North Avenue
St. Luke’s Church
Board of Trustees
United States Commissioner of Education
P. P. Claxton
Tech Y. M. C. A
K. G. Matheson
Crystal Palace
Grand Opera House
C. Alphonse Smith
Edgar Allan Poe
University of Virginia
Joseph M. Brown
Herbert S. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce
Tech
Southerner to Head Accountants of U S
The National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers elected officers. President S. M. Wilhite of Louisville Ky will lead, with William M. Justice of Buffalo NY as first vice president, George M. Rex of Providence RI as secretary, and Duncan McInnis of New York as treasurer. Milwaukee will host next meeting and San Francisco the 1915 convention.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers
Petal
S. M. Wilhite
Louisville Ky
William M. Justice
Buffalo
N. Y
George M. Rex
Providence
R. L
Duncan McInnis
New York
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Sugar Freight Rates Up By Five Cents A Hundred Pounds
Washington June 7 The Interstate Commerce Commission approved a five cent per hundred pounds freight rate increase on sugar and related commodities for the Illinois Central and sixteen other railroads from New Orleans to Sterling Illinois, amid rising shipping costs.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commissiin Today
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Sterling
Wood Is Acquitted In Dynamite Case
William M. Wood president of the American Woolen Company was found not guilty by a Suffolk Superior Court jury in Lawrence dynamite case. The jurors had deliberated since yesterday afternoon. Frederick E. Atteaux was unable to reach a verdict. Dennis J. Collins of Cambridge was convicted on two counts. The three defendants faced fifteen counts of conspiracy to plant dynamite during the textile strike last year.
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Boston
William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Lawrence
Suffolk Superior Court
Frederick E. Atteaux
Dennis J. Collins
Cambridge
Crops Improve Across Georgia Bright Weather Lifts Yields
Reports from Quitman in Fulton County describe unusually cheering crop conditions. A letter to Assistant Commissioner J. J. Brown states corn is tall enough to hide a mule and much has been laid by, while cotton stands over two feet high.
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Quitman
Fulton County
J. J. Brown
Doctor Drops Dead in Atlanta Patent Medicine Showman
Dr. L. J. Johnson, famed for touring patent medicine shows, collapsed and died in his Terminal Hotel apartment late Saturday while chatting with his wife. He had appeared in good health and had been in Atlanta for the past month. Heart failure is reported as the cause.
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L. J. Johnson
Terminal Hotel
Dr. Johnson
Atlanta
Americans in Mexico appeal to Washington
Three hundred Americans in Southern Tamaulipas representing 68 families sent a wireless message through Consul Miller to Washington asking if the U S Government will provide protection. They say they fear for their safety after repeated indignities and financial losses and cannot leave without ruining long accumulations of life’s work.
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Tampico
Mexico
Tamaulipas
Wilson
Miller
W. W
Canada
Vera Cruz
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