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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1914
Page
10
For 46 years Rich's has practiced trading up and trading down to balance quality and price. The catalog describes constant testing and replacement of goods once deemed best with better options for similar money, asserting Rich's leads Atlanta retail.
Up to two dollars laces and embroideries offered in a spring sale. selections include hand embroidered waist fronts and white voile garments with Madeira work, allover Venise laces in cream or white, shadow lace flouncings and perfumed flouncings in Venise and Carrick designs. main floor right.
New failles arrive in 37 inch at 1.75 in wistaria bronze and taupe. 36 inch at 3 in amethyst wistaria navy Alice Copenhagen black. 43 inch at 3.50 in black Copenhagen rose. Silks, Main Floor, Left.
New neckwear hos iery gloves jewelry and everything that goes with the Easter hat and suit.
NEAT and practical shirt style with gusset shoulder and ball pearl but tons. AH white or white with black blue or lavender stripes. $3.98 Silk Shirts are made of a heavy white habitat silk with extended shoulder deep sailor collar and pico stitching. One plain, one with cord. Similar style in Jap silk finished with silk tie. (Second Floor.)
An ad claims the best silk stocking secured for $1 with pure thread silk in medium to extra heavy weight and lisle feet. It mentions a choice of sisle or silk garter top, spliced silk heel, and lisle-lined options, available in black, white, and many other shades. Main Floor right.
At a Monday ministers meeting a dispute arose over replacing the word action with principle in the Baptist association resolutions supporting the First Baptist church against locker clubs. Dr Daniel left in protest after chair ignored his motion and later accepted an apology for the disruption.
In San Diego on April, riotous scenes marked the closing of the murder trial of Paul Aubain, 40. After a verdict of guilty, Aubain sprang over a railing and wounded Assistant District Attorney Dempster McKes with a spoon fashioned weapon. Spectators overpowered him. police restrained the assailant as about fifty friends of the victim group protested. Aubain faced murder charges for killing two Italians, claiming they had attempted blackmail.
The Supreme Court of Georgia heard arguments and submissions in cases Cherokee Life Insurance Company v. F P Davis et al from Floyd County D HB McWilliams v Shelby Smith et al commissioners from Fulton County and Charles Shepherd et al v State from Newton County.
Secretary Bryan was ill with bronchial infection and grip in Washington. Though improved, doctors advised he remain at home for several days to recover.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin essay recalls Nebuchadnezzar’s grass diet and links grass to early grains as mankind’s staple. It discusses grass as nourishment and contemplates future shortages driving herbivore sources. It notes Mrs. Fiske will perform in an eighteenth century costume comedy next season.
A fragment urging caution against clinging to present possessions and wisdom about financial resources, implying prudent restraint in spending and attachments.
A pony show and gymkhana will be held on Saturday April 11 at Piedmont Park for the Home for Incurables. Events include two jumping classes two contests for girl riders a boys riders contest a pony exhibition several races with prizes for best pony by height and driving ponies. Donations from local sponsors and judges listed. Entry fee 5 cents. mail by April 10 to Captain L Johnson at the Georgian Terrace. Show starts at 2 29 PM.
Tloyd Brown testified in a divorce suit in Judge Bulis' court describing years of conflict after his wife left, hid the beds, and finally struck him with a fire shovel. He claimed calm silence and separation ensuing, with the wife never returning. Judge Ellis granted the divorce.
Multiple funeral notices detail deaths and services across Atlanta and nearby towns. Obituaries list T. C. McLendon widow Mrs. McLendon, other locals such as Cony O'Donnell, Alfred Kemp, H. B. Wilson, J. Hills, Theodore Ford, Audry Jackson, and Dan Evins with service dates, burial sites at Oakland cemetery and West View, and family survivors spanning Georgia and nearby states.
Detroit reports practically complete returns from twelve Michigan counties on the local option question. Ingham County Lansing area voted to wet or dry, Clare shifted to wet, Roscommon and Ingham to dry, six counties stayed dry, two by small majorities, another to the drys, and two remained wet. Michigan ends with thirty four dry counties and forty nine wet counties. Major counties retained dry status but by smaller margins than years past.
Four year old James Edward Shaw son of a plain clothes police officer at 109 Bryant street attempted to ride a Grant Park trolley car about 11 am Monday. Grabbing the rear bumper he was dragged a full block from Bryant and Park to Woodward avenue. A bystander lifted him off as the car stopped for a passenger. The boy’s toes and legs were torn and cut but he was saved from worse by clinging to the bumper. He was carried home and left with his mother whose name was not given.
Washington April 6 Mr K F Shah the new Chinese minister arrived in Washington from New York with nineteen of his staff to be registered as token of China accepting American ideas The state department will be advised soon and the president will receive the newcomer at the White House next week Shah will study a report by American engineer G D Jameson on the Huai river reclamation project which entails a 20 million loan with support from the American Red Cross. Roanoke Va April 6 Mrs Maude Mayo a 20 year old from Louisville Ky arrested for forging a $50 check this afternoon.
Demonstration on current wardrobe items includes sea son shirts priced at 1.50, silk shirts at 1.50, regional suits 15 to 25, hats from 2 to 4, tuxedo and full dress options at 15 to 25, parcel post paid on purchases. Also promotes Adjusto shirt that converts sleeves quickly and drawers from shirts.
Cumberland Md April 4 The Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church adopted a resolution expressing profound appreciation of the act by Hon Josephus Daniels secretary of the navy in banishing alcoholic habit from the navy The conference congratulated Daniels on Christian statesmanship said it would increase efficiency and hoped other government departments would follow the example
Vancouver April 6 The Empress of Russia delivered a record 1 000 ton consignment of 6 792 260 eggs from China to North America Most eggs are headed to destinations in the United States The import marks a new high in Sino American egg trade for the period
Two street locations listed: 89 Whitehall Street and 1416 South Broad Street. No further context or actions provided in the readable text.
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