Music Festival hosts blind guests at opera in Atlanta
A reader urges the Atlanta Music Festival Association to invite the visually impaired of the city to grand opera, suggesting the Metropolitan Company would welcome such guests. The note argues the festival should actively support the blind community and host them as honored guests. Fargo report: Armour Packing fined $100 for selling lard underweight, violating state law requiring printed weight on containers.
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Music Festival Association
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Armour Packing Company
Sparks plans 700 acre resort with 150000 bond issue
A proposed hotel project near a 250 acre links and a 700 acre tract contemplates 150000 dollars in six percent bonds and 200000 dollars in stock. Sparks to fund half the bonds and half the stock with 100000 dollars for the hotel, 30000 for indebtedness, and 12600 for trust company interest. A legatee for the hotel is set at 12000 for year one, with 190 extra rooms after three years raising rentals to 24000 annually. The Macon chamber opposes political meddling but backs enforcing prohibition law during Confederate reunion, while avoiding endorsement of prohibition itself.
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Sparks
Politica
Macon
Macon Chamber of Commerce
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Law and Order League
Chamber
Haverty Opens Spring Show with Furniture Display
The J. J. Haverty Furniture Company at Pryor and Auburn hosted a spring opening yesterday drawing hundreds. The store featured ornate decorations, an orchestra, and homey groupings of summer furniture. Visitors wrote names for a raffle with a $26 furniture prize won by Mrs. J. S. Winningham of 237 Richardson Street.
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S. Winningham
Richardson Street
Grand Jury Probes $500 Jewelry Theft Case
The grand jury will investigate larceny charges against Mia L. Chambré, a white woman, and Frank McManus, ex-soldier, arrested for complicity in stealing jewelry worth $500 from the Little Piedmont hotel. Chambré testified she found the trunk and rented the room. McManus allegedly rummaged the trunk and discussed taking the jewelry. Witness L. J. Mearbry claimed ownership of part of the pieces.
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Little Pied'mont Hotel
Campaign Funds Publicity Adwash in April Printing
Publicity notice references campaign funds and broader advertising activity with April dates. Details are fragmented but indicate a formal release or notice about campaign financing and promotional material.
Alderman Urges Investigation Of City Electrician
Alderman Van Dyke announces a plan at the next meeting to appoint a special committee to review the conduct of the city electrician. Turner is to be questioned about delays in arc welding, a free phone at his Peachtraestr home, private electrical work in the city, and related charges.
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van Dyke
Window Display Attracts Women In Atlanta
A Chamberlin Johnson DuBose window display drew many Atlanta women with hand made Irish crochet blouses the gowns and dress accessories also captivating. The intricate lace work of Irish peasants featured in designs on the blouses with sprays of flowers and delicate crochet adding to a spring like scene at the Hunter and Whitehall corner.
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Atlanta
Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company
Ireland
Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose
Hunter and
Whitehall
No Troops To Gather On Mexican Border
Washington reports dismiss rumors of a large U.S. army concentration on the Mexican border. War Department statements dated April 3 show six regiments sail plans to end tropical duties in the Philippines in 1912. Some officers scout Texas camps for returning troops, but officials say no border buildup is planned.
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United States
War Department
Philippines
Texas
Department of Texas
Governor Harmon Heads to Nashville for Tax Talk
Governor Judson Harmon departed Columbus for Nashville Tennessee where he will address the Southern Commercial Congress on agriculture. Attaches say he will explain the impact of Ohio’s new tax laws on farming in detail and then return by Wednesday.
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Nashville
Columbus
Ohio
Judson Harmon
Tenn
Southern Commercial Congress
Opera Star Mada Rappold credited as American singer
The article profiles Madame Mada Rappold a noted soprano of German origin who rose to prominence in the Metropolitan Opera and is celebrated for her Leonora in Il Trovatore and her acting presence. It notes her Roumanian decorations and a warm welcome awaited in Atlanta while also reporting $60,000 in opera ticket sales to date. A separate brief reports a bid to stay Clarefice V. T. Richeson’s death sentence with a governor’s consideration set for April 26.
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Atlanta
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Boston
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