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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1909
Page
2
The Nine O Clock Club will open its post Lent social season with the last German of the year, held Wednesday April 14 at the Piedmont Driving Club. The club, oldest social organization in town, promises a bright, enjoyable evening after Lent.
Yesterday's driving clubs and social crowds filled popular venues with spring fashions and tea gatherings featuring notable Atlantans and guests. Events include the Federated Day Nurseries meeting led by Mrs Dodge, Players Club planning for The Ides of Husband, and a Bride Saturday reception, with numerous society names and travel mentions across Atlanta and surrounding communities.
Sample advert copy notes special attention for ladies. Mentions piehler and a sample selection from Valley and notes availability at drug and department stores. Text is fragmentary and resembles a historic promotional notice for consumer goods.
Souvenir pamphlets from Trinity church mark Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with unique services by the veterans of the blue and the gray. The pamphlets include Dr J W Lee’s full address and two illustrations, a Lincoln portrait and a Dr Lee portrait. They can be bought at John M. Miller and Lester Book Company stores. An antique anecdote about Mendelssohn’s critic is noted in passing, illustrating a pupil’s counterpoint problem.
Father C N Jackson of St Anthony s West End reports successful three month fund raising tour and plans to start a new Catholic church at the corner of Ashby and Gordon streets to cost about 625 000 to 630 000. He visited many cities in New York and California and will confer with the bishop before construction. This will give the city three Roman Catholic buildings. Holy Week services listed with times include Holy Thursday Holy Friday and Holy Saturday activities at St Anthony s.
Acting administrator Forrest and George Aci will hold a Duncan estate sale at the county courthouse this morning starting at 10 30 oclock. The auction covers two pieces of real estate in downtown and other city lots, a central store at 17 East Alabama Street, a Peachtree Street lot near Harris, the Duncan home, vacant West Harris plots, West Harris Street holdings, state and city bonds, Birmingham bonds, Atlantic and West Point stock and debentures, and Exposition Cotton Mill stock. The Peachtree property sits opposite the former Blackley site recently bought for 480000, a block north of the Masonic temple.
Kee Flour is listed as available at every grocer, indicating wide shelf coverage and steady supply for shoppers seeking this brand.
Professor James E. Dickey of Emory College spoke at Gainesville Georgia urging subscriptions to a 5000000 endowment fund for the Methodist institution. Receipts totaled 2080 with contributors including John H E Redwine H J Rearee H H Perry Rev T J Christian Rev J R King Hayne Palmer William H Hosch Mims Minnie Merritt J H Howch W J Smith and others. Total listed 92086.
A series of property transfers and deeds records several transactions including William Rewling to Mrs Habbette Wall for a lot on Ivy Street at 6500 dollars, Jones W Roberte to Willem Rewling for a lot on Ivy Street at 10500 dollars, and multiple warranty deeds and mortgages across New Jonesboro Road East Cain Street and nearby avenues with values ranging from 180 to 106680 dollars, plus bonds for title and mortgages with power of sale. Also noted are transfers to and from Eugene Barnett, John Dunn, and Bedrock lenders, with cemetery and street lot allocations in Highland and Greensferry avenues.
In a comic Boston Courier sketch a nervous young man admits a nightly presence at 6 PM that never leaves. He vows to confront it and learn what it is, while his daughter and Crusty Pa react with wary humor.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch item extols glycerine as a versatile cleaner for coffee spills and cream grease stains. It advises rinsing the stained material with lukewarm water, then drying on the wrong side.
Roanoke special reports Henry W. Amos of Buena Vista was shot and killed by his sister-in-law Mrs William Campbell Amos after a reconciliation attempt. Amos was unarmed when Campbell fired a revolver and then a shotgun at close range, killing him. The incident followed his wife leaving him to live with her sister.
During a wedding celebration in Indonesia a stunned bridegroom showed visible unhappiness and restlessness rather than joy. The best man asked if he had lost the ring, but the groom replied that the rings were safe, only his enthusiasm was gone, creating a humorous moment.
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