Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the 13-year-old game had so far palled, and so far deteriorated from the exalted pastime it was meant to be, that the men who still make a living from it changed its character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...
...Michigan. What made Michiganders admire him much was his great feat as a mining engineer-the discovery of the Moose Mountain iron range in Canada. Brawny, brainy, he made a good public servant-Georgia's claim to Chase Salmon Osborn is that he usually winters near Albany, Ga., where his estate is known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have had to point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie...
Born. To Dr. and Mrs. William Howell Riser Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., twin children; boy, girl. Mrs. Riser's father is John Huston Finley, famed associate editor of the New York Times...
...flagpole and people will gape. Put a woman in a public boudoir: will not people gape and gape again? Believing that they will, M. Rich & Bros. Co. (department store) of Atlanta, Ga., engaged Edna Kirby, cinemactress, to live in one of their show windows for a week. She arrived in Atlanta one morning last week, was welcomed at the city hall by Mayor I. N. Ragsdale, then went about her window business-a daily routine of lounging, eating, lounging, dancing with callers, chatting, tidying, lounging. At 9 p. m. she prepared to retire. The curtains of the show window were...
Passengers on the Royal Palm Limited, Florida bound, were robbed of their clothing and valuables one night last week before the train reached Atlanta, Ga. They suspected a young couple who got off at Atlanta next morning, rushed into the passenger station after them, had them arrested. Negro baggagemen were amazed that white folk should wear blue pajamas and pink negligees in a public place in broad daylight...