Crematory Contract Debate Looms Over City Project
Mayor Woodward aims a new contract for the crematory that excludes the old agreement and includes a bond indemnifying the city for delays. Superior Court halted the first contract with an injunction, while the Destructor Company presses on. The July meeting will decide the measure, with potential veto implications affecting September timing.
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Woodward
General Council
Superior Court
J. T. Pendleton
Destructor Company
P. Goree
Evins & Spence
Goree
Bichloride Victim Did Not Die in Vain
CHICAGO June 24 The death of Lizzie Silverman 18 who swallowed bichloride of mercury tablets thinking them toothache medicine may save scores of lives snuffed out annually by the poison drug. Council considers three ordinances to prevent promiscuous sale of bichloride. Since publicity given the case of B Sanders Walker the Macon Ga banker there have been six deaths in Chicago from the same poison taken purposely or by mistake.
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Chicago
Lizzie Silverman
B. Sanders Walker
Macon
Augusta Sells More Levee Bonds July 10
Augusta city council fixed July 10 as the bid opening date for the third installment of flood protection bonds worth 250000 dollars. Already 500000 dollars of the bonds have been sold, part of a 1000000 dollar issue. Levee contracts exceed 600000 dollars, with completion aimed to guard against a 45 foot river tide. By next March the city should be protected against a 37 foot tide.
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Augusta
City of Augusta
Society Raffles Is Given 10-Year Term
Owen D. Conn known as the hundred thousand dollar society burglar received a ten year penitentiary sentence in San Francisco on June 24. The term is his sixth and longest prison sentence. Conn eloped with and later deserted Mrs. Mabel Clarkson wife of Chicago clergyman Rev. Nestor K. Clarkson leaving her with five children.
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San Francisco
Owen D. Conn
Small boy starts engine ends in deadly crash
In Buffalo on June 24 a small boy entered the New York Central Railroad roundhouse and climbed into a locomotive cab. He opened the throttle and leaped clear as the engine derailed into a freight train from the opposite track. Engineer Fred Ludake was killed, and William Froelich died shortly after.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York Central Railroad Roundhouse
Fred Ludake
William Froelich
Mrs Wilson Likely To Hurry Vacation
Washington dispatch reports President Wilson, in frail health, preparing a trip to the Summer White House at Cornish New Hampshire before the 20th if his condition requires rest due to heat and strain. The note emphasizes caution and potential travel as a temporary respite from official duties.
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Mrs. Wilson
Washington
Wilson
White House
Cornish
N. H
Lake Toxaway gets improved service via Southern Railway
Effective Sunday June 22 an electric lighted twelve section drawing room sleeping car will be operated daily from Atlanta at 9:45 p.m. to Lake Toxaway arriving 10:10 a.m. The same train reaches Asheville by 7 a.m providing better service to Western North Carolina.
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Atlanta
Lake Toxaway
Asheville
Western North Caro
Ministers Play Baseball in Atlanta Baptist Meeting
Sixteen Atlanta Baptist ministers plus two laymen faced off at the waterworks grounds after the association meeting. The Washington Street Howlers lost to the Hinky-Dinks amid banter over eligibility and ministerial tendencies. The day included a basket dinner with fried chicken and grape juice, and even a coach’s reading on pitching.
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Atlanta
Waterworks
Atlanta Baptist Ministers’ Association
Reach
Spalding
John E. White
Joel Wood
Caleb A. Ridley
Ridley
W. B. Riley
Minneapolis
White
Bean
Dr. White
Dr. Riley
W. T. Smith
Dr. Smith
Clothes Cleaners’ Union
Howlers
John Spalding
Parker
C. W. Daniel
A. F. O'Kelly
Hugh Wallace
FE. B. Gill
Hinky-Dinks
Hicks
Hawkins
J. W. Hambrick
A. H. Gordon
W. M. Sentell
L. W. Warren
J. F. Williams
Freury
Cardinal Farley to Visit Rome in September
Special Cable from Rome dated June 24 reports Cardinal Farley Archbishop of New York will visit Rome in September at the Pope’s request. The trip aims to strengthen ties with the Holy Father. Dominicans at Santa Maria sopra Minerva prepare functions during his stay. Cardinal Merry del Val and Cardinal de Lai are said to wish to meet him.
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Atlanta
Rome
Cardinal Farley
New York
Holy Father
Venice
Dominican Fathers
Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
Cardinal Merry del Val
Cardinal de Lai
Consistorial Congregation
Plan to Protect UO Expenditures
Representative Fitzgerald of New York, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, urged two steps to curb government spending. He called for Treasury esti mate revisions and for Congress to be barred from increasing or initiating funding obligations. He also proposed expanding the Appropriations Committee to 30 and keeping other committees to decide department needs.
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Washington
Fitzgerald
New York
House Committee On Appropriations
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Treasury
Appropriations Committee
House
Seaman Ends Life as Squad Hunts for Him
SAVANNAH June 24 A seaman T Eason of the United States cruiser Tacoma on shore leave in a Southern cruise shot himself in a public square as a squad approached to arrest him. He had overstayed leave and was despondent for some time according to reports.
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Savannah
T. Eason
Tacoma
Eason
Surgeon Uses Bronchoscope to Inspect Lungs in Rare Cases
Philadelphia June 24 Dr R S Skillern of the Medical-Chirurgical Hospital reports success with a U shaped bronchoscope with mirror and electric light enabling him to look into the lungs and remove foreign objects such as collar buttons from affected areas through this instrument in rare cases.
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Philadelphia
R. S. Skillern
King George Hosts Poincare Amid Militant Guard
French President Poincare arrived from Portsmouth to a royal greeting by King George at Victoria station. Crowds cheered as the pair traveled to St James Palace, with hundreds of police and detectives protecting the procession from militant suffragettes. The visit concludes with a state ball at Buckingham Palace. Rudyard Kipling penned a poem in his honor.
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Atlanta
London
Poincare
France
Portsmouth
King George
Victoria Station
St. James Palace
Buckingham Palace
Rudyard Kipling
Partial Confession By Accused Slayer
Homer Carmack, held for the murder of J. J. Folks of Phenix City Alabama, was moved to Opelika Alabama and jailed. He gave a partial confession naming two other men who deny the charges. Carmack comes from a leading Phenix City family.
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Columbus
Homer Carmack
J. J. Folks
Phenix City
Ala
Opelika
Lee County
Alabama
Carmack
Sunday American promotes The Market Place of the South
The Sunday American declares itself the market hub for the South, inviting readers to use its pages to sell goods and reach broad Southern audiences. The fragment emphasizes wide distribution and advertising reach for sellers and advertisers.
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South
Scientist Declares Mrs Stetson Not a Church Member
Alfred Farlow, chairman of the publication committee of the Christian Science Church in Boston, replied to Augusta E. Stetson of New York that she is not even a member of the church and hence not the head or authority on Mrs. Eddy’s teachings.
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Boston
Alfred Farlow
The
Christian Science Church
Augusta E. Stetson
New York
Mrs. Eddy
Wilson to Accept McNab Resignation as Caminetti Trials Ordered
June 24 The White House says District Attorney McNab of San Francisco will resign immediately with a successor named. President Wilson instructs Attorney General McReynolds to report on the McNab Caminetti case and may cancel the postponement of the Caminetti white slave trials, overruling DOJ. The cabinet members urged action to avoid an embarrassed administration.
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Washington
McNab
San Francisco
White House
Wilson
McReynolds
Diggs
Caminetti
Department of Justice
Secretary of Labor
Interior
Lane
Church and Civic Bodies Uphold McNab
In Sacramento on June 24 church and civic groups denounced Attorney General McReynolds for delaying trials of Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti on white slave law charges. Resolutions urged President Wilson to proceed with trials and urged McNab not to resign, with fifteen women’s organizations backing McNab.
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Sacramento
Cal
McReynolds
Maury Diggs
Drew Caminetti
Wilvon
McNab
Macon Judge Bars Occult Testimony
In Bibb County Georgia Judge H A Matthews refused to admit Dixie Jarrett Haygood Abbott known as the Dixie Magnet as a witness in a habeas corpus custody case O S Shipman vs Martha Shipman over a 6 year old girl. The mother prevailed as the court ruled her testimony and the seeress claim were not competent.
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Macon
Dixie Jarrett Haygood Abbott
Dixie Magnet
H. A. Matthews
Bible Superior Court
Matthews
O. S. Shipman
Martha Shipman
Seaboard Announces Low Rate to Gettysburg
Seaboard offers a round trip from Atlanta to Gettysburg for 18.20 with tickets on sale June 28 to July 1. Stop overs allowed and service includes steel trains and an a la carte dining car. Low fares from other origins. ticket office at 88 Peachtree.
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Atlanta
Peachtree
Recreation drives Atlanta workers at Brookhaven plots
Recreation must accompany a man's work and nature re-creates nervous energy for Atlanta's hustling scene. Brookhaven lots face the recreation works of Atlanta's busiest men, the 4 C's club. A few lots are offered at low prices and easy terms.
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Atlanta
Brookhaven
4 C’s Club
Chaingangs in Georgia protest bulletin on reform
A stark denunciation of Georgia chaingangs claims thousands of inmates including many youths endure brutal confinement. It argues chains quell crime but degrade families, urging lawmakers to free the state from this disgrace and seek humane road-building methods. The piece condemns politics and calls for policy change.
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