Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, one Robert Elliott Burns, 38, American legionnaire, broke, held up a grocery store, stole $4. That was seven years ago. Since then, he escaped from a chain gang, became moderately rich, respectable in Chicago as editor of the Greater Chicago Magazine (real estate). Last week, in court, he waited to discover whether he would have to return to chains. His wife, his one time landlady who, he said, discovered his record, forced him into marriage, had disclosed him at last. Reason: She, 51, was jealous of one Lillian Salo...
...proposed main line runs: Los Angeles-Phoenix-El Paso-Midland (Tex.) -Fort Worth-Dallas-Atlanta. At Atlanta it contacts with a New Orleans-Mont-gomery-Atlanta line and with an Atlanta-Charlotte-Washington-Philadelphia-New York...
Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones, golfer-lawyer, was last week admitted to the bar in Atlanta, his home town...
They also told of attempted purchases of other papers in the same general region, including the Asheville Citizen and the Atlanta Constitution...
...Atlanta, one Walter Dorsey, Negro chicken thief, explained his technique to the judge: "I just sprays 'em with chloroform. Then stand back and wait. In about five minutes they flop off the roost and are ready for my sack...