Wind swept disaster cuts lives across the South
A broad storm swept the Southern states damaging homes and killing many. At least 21 deaths are reported in Alabama with additional fatalities in Tennessee Louisiana Ohio and Indiana. The storm also injured several and left communication crippled across Georgia and other states.
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Atrsons
Alabama
Tennessee
Louisiana
Ohio
Indiana
Georgia
Atlanta
Fees, Co
Kentucky
Mississippi
Louisian Aransas
Tornado Kills 18 in Alabama Village Wiped Out
Selma dispatch reports Lower P tree Alabama a village of 500 persons wiped off map by a tornado at dawn. Eighteen killed and property damage runs into thousands of dollars. Several families, including Dr Hart and wife, Georg Williamson and others, are dead or missing with many injured. Federal aid sought as wires to town are down.
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Selma
Ala
Lower P Tree
Jollers
Hart
A. Cooper
Georg Williamson
Im Clark
Porter Stabler
L. Bryant
Choates
Huntsville
Anniston
Hail Wind and Rain Storm Damages Atlanta Suburbs
A severe hail wind and rain storm swept the Atlanta vicinity causing wide damage and isolating several towns from outside communication. Telegraph lines were down in many sections and trains were held up in numerous places as the storm continued to affect the area.
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Atlanta
Sevevoyr
Fhone
Repe i
Bryan Denies Ordering Palm Beach Gambling House Closures
In West Palm Beach on March 21 authorities denied a New York report that William Jennings Bryan the secretary of state forced Governor Trammer to shut gambling houses in Palm Beach. The denial stated Bryan did not intervene and the move to close venues came from Governor Trammer acting on Law and Order League complaints amid a broader anti gambling drive.
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Bryan
Palm Beach
West Palm Beach
Fla
William Jennings Bryan
Trammer
New York
Trammel
Law and Order League
Conscience Stricken Thief Returns Loot via Parcel Post
An unknown thief returned stolen silverware to Police Chief Beavers after learning it belonged to the Woman's Exchange. The package, lacking a card, contained spoons knives and forks from a South Broad Street building and was mailed with an apology and request for delivery to the owners.
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Beavers
South Broad Street
Woman's Exchange
Exchange
First Anniversary Of Parents Teachers Club Great Success
The Ira Street School Parents-Teachers Club marked its first anniversary with a social gathering. Dr. George B. Hinman spoke on Early Influence of the Chik and Mrs. J R Little discussed neighborhood clubs. Officers were Mrs. T C Alston president Miss L G Wood vice president and Mrs T A Sappington secretary and treasurer. Since forming the club eighteen Atlanta schools established similar groups and monthly lectures on sanitation disease and sex hygiene are given by physicians and educators.
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Parents-Teachers’ Club
Ira Street
Georgia Mothers’ Congress
George B. Hinman
J. R. Little
L. G. Wood
T. A. Sappington
Ira Street Club
Atlanta
Pure Food Show to Feature Cooks at Auditorium Armory
A cooking school and pure food show will run next week at the Auditorium Armory open daily from 10 am. The event offers special sections for negro cooks to learn all aspects of food preparation. Proceeds go to the Home for Incurables.
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Auditorium Armory
Atlanta
Building for Monroe gets $5,000 site appropriation
Monroe moves toward a government building project as a $5,000 site appropriation is authorized. The Treasury Department in Washington states readiness to receive proposals for suitable sites in Monroe.
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Monroe
Treasure Department
Washington
City Neglect Bids Rescue Mission Care for Epidemic Boy
In Atlanta a 14-year-old, Clarence Bigby, with cerebrospinal meningitis, lies at Union Rescue Mission unable to gain hospital admission due to poverty. Doctors condemn the city’s lack of isolation beds and call for hospital care, noting the disease’s high mortality. The family, recently from Macon, seeks relief as antitoxin helps little amid worsening delirium.
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Clarence Bigby
Union Rescue Mission
Marietta Street
Benson
C. F. Benson
Fourth National Bank
Grady Hospital
Bigby
Atlanta
Macon
Clarence
Merchant Faces Bigamy Charge Leaves for Albany
Savannah dispatch reports Pooler merchant Owen Greiger taken to Albany to answer a bigamy charge. He claims mistaken identity and vows innocence while his Pooler wife accompanies him. Separately Gretna Green marriage records show Leila Hammersley Simpler wed August 5, 1911, in Albany, Rev. J. A. Rumney officiant.
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Merchant
Albany
Savannah
OwenGreiger
Pooler
Leila Hammersly
Greiger
J. Simpler
Leila Hammersley
J. A. Rumney
Rumney
Strange
Dictograph as Trap For Chicken Thieves Latest Innovation
NEW YORK. March 21. K. M. Turner, inventor of the dictograph, rigs West Nyack Ridge Eye Farm with a combined telephone dictograph and burglar alarm system. By day it links farm buildings to the superintendent. at night a switch activates alarms and a dictograph to listen in on thieves. The superintendent can identify numbers and coordinate farm hands with shotguns to surround thieves before any chicken is harmed.
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New York
K. M. Turner
West Nyack
Turner
Ridge Eye
Georgia Too Hot for William Rockefeller Returns to New York
William D Rockefeller, after a hot spell at Jekyl Island near Georgia, has returned to his New York home. He plans to stay a few days under medical care, with no health condition details provided.
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Georgia
William Rockefeller
New York
Jekyl Island
William D. Rockefeller
Cowcatcher Used as Ambulance in Railway Accident
R M Cochran of 45 Clay Street, three miles from East Point, was severely injured between freight cars on the Central of Georgia line. Trainmen improvised an ambulance by using the mogul locomotive cowcatcher to rush him to Atlanta, then to Atlanta Hospital for treatment of a crushed foot.
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Central of Georgia Railroad
R. M. Cochran
Clay Street
East Point
Atlanta
Cochran
Wilson revokes Taft land office move in first reversal
Washington March 21 President Wilson issued an executive order reversing Taft era action. The land office was moved from Carter to Gregory by Taft at Senator Gamble’s urging and is now restored to Gregory. This marks the first reversal of a predecessor’s executive order by President Wilson.
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Washington
Wilson
Carter, & P
Gregory, S. DD
Gregory
Carter
Taft
Gamble
Conspiracy Discovered in Capital and Assassination Plot
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian reports Henry Lane Wilson US ambassador to Mexico and Mrs Wilson fled to US battleships in Vera Cruz after a conspiracy against the ambassador was uncovered. Ten conspirators arrested and rurales hunting others. Wilson claimed health trip to Vera Cruz. authorities doubt this. In Washington, Carranza rebels defeated federals near Porfirio Diaz City with 29 revolutionaries killed and 8 federals.
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Henry Lane Wilson
United States
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Mr. Wilson
Huerta
Felix Diaz
Wilson
Fletcher
Confederate Veterans Reunion Fund Drive Underway
Citizens committees in Chattanooga Tennessee launched a campaign to raise forty thousand dollars for the entertainment of Confederate Veterans during the annual reunion set for May twenty eighth and twenty ninth.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Citizens’ Committees
Confederate Veterans
Eloping Wife Seeks Forgiveness Amid Divorce Suit
Leslie H. Appelgate proprietor of the Cafeteria on Forsyth Street files for divorce after his wife Lula M. Appelgate eloped with Howard Terry from the restaurant. He states she left January 2, 1913, later sent letters from Nashville pleading to be forgiven and to return.
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Leslie H. Appelgate
Forsyth Street
Superior Court
Lula M. Appelgate
Howard Terry
Nashville
Tenn
Tears Doomed Son Confesses Robberies in Americus
Arthur Jones confessed to stealing guns and hardware from stores in Americus and Plains after his aged father wept at his arrival and urged a full admission. The confession occurred in front of Chief Barrow and Plains chief, following Jones being found with stolen items in Tifton.
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Americus
Arthur Jones
Barrow
Tifton
Jones
Ellenwood Addresses Atlanta Banking Institute
Dr. E. D. Ellenwood pastor of the Universalist church spoke on Timely Topics of Vital Interest before the Atlanta chapter American Institute of Banking. The audience of 40 heard about local conditions affecting bank employees as the chapter reports steady membership growth with eighteen new recruits. The group may pursue banking courses to prepare for national board examinations later this season.
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E. D. Ellenwood
Universalist Church
Atlanta
American Institute of Banking
Charter Special Election Sparks Council Fight in Van Dyke Row
Leaders of the anticharter bloc vow to ignore the mass meeting mandate for a 60 day election submit a revised charter to the people. Capt James W English announces a Committee of 100 to press the mass meeting request as council prepares for a dramatic clash over sovereignty in municipal affairs.
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James W English
Antis
James R. Nutting
James E. Warren
Albert Thomson
Claude L. Ashley
Roy Abernathy
Aldine Chambers
A. HF. van Dyke
Committee of 25
Smith
Charlies W. Smith
Council
Woodward
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Missis
Ana
Vario US
Ltd
Florida
Teachers Club
Pri
State Department of Health
Mrs. Bigby
Wife
U. S
Porfirio Diaz City
Carranza
State Department
Lanpazos
Atlanta Banking Institute
van Dyke
W. G. Humphrey
Martin Amorous
United Front
J. W. English
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