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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
11
The Constitution promotes its Want columns as the best way to buy or sell items with ten cents per line per insertion and a discount for ads run for a month or longer. Ads received after 3 p.m. may be delayed. Also advertised are remedies for menstrual issues from Frank Edmondson & Bro of Atlanta, offering mail order sales.
Found and lost notices from a vintage Peachtree St page describe a small gold socket with Mizpah engraving and a photo of two young ladies, plus a ladies’ gold watch monogrammed M. B. H and a missing item reward near Grand and Whitehall. Also an advertisement for Wilkerson Bros. creamery butter at 77 Peachtree.
Money to loan and carpet cleaning services listed with Bee Oey ESee. Anderson Hardware Company advertises natural wood preserver waterproof economical lasting. Artna Pal 10 N Forsyth Street and The Sign Man at 2% N Broad with phone 669 appear in the notices.
Arrival and departure times for multiple rail lines at Union Depot Atlanta Georgia including Central of Georgia Railway Georgia Railroad and Southern Railway connections to Jonesboro Savannah Hapeville Macon St Augustine Montgomery Covington LaGrange Palmetto Columbus Chattanooga and Washington. Through sleepers dining cars and through services listed with schedules and notes on daily or Sunday operation.
A wedding in which Mamie Harber and Isaac Polak faced a lost license was completed after attorney Morris Macks advised the rabbi that the ceremony could proceed. The license was later found under a table as guests celebrated three hours after the vows.
Ordinary Wilkin son voided the will of George Thompson who died in July 1691 in Atlanta after the two children of the deceased proved the document invalid due to fraud. The will left Humphries Street property to wife Mary Catherine Thompson. The brother M W Smith signed during probate after an earlier two-signature version, and a new signature allowed solemn probate. The two adult heirs now seek administration and equal division, risking litigation if Mrs Thompson has sold the property.
Frank J. Cheney pledges one hundred dollars for every catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The Toledo firm F J Cheney & Co asserts their product acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Notarized statement dated December 1886 promises testimonials and nationwide sale through druggists.
Georgia readers learn that P J Sullivan is planning to seek the presidency pro tem of the state senate. The announcement follows his strong, popular parliamentary record and wide backing across the state. An enthusiastic Terrell meeting in Athens organized a 200 member club with aims to carry Clarke county by 300 votes. A Columbus campaign committee of prominent locals is set to lead the Wiley Williams prison commission bid.
Colonel T. B. Neal, banker, of 711 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, is in extremely critical condition this morning at 1 30 o clock after several days of serious illness. He remains conscious but prognosis is grim. Friends hope a change for the better may arise, though his steady decline in the last day foreshadows a likely death.
New York April 4 reports Fitzsimmons refused to fight James Jeffries in Los Angeles San Francisco or anywhere in California. The bout is effectively off as no site in the east or south is acceptable. Alec Greggains of the San Francisco Athletic Club had offered 50 percent of gross receipts with deposits and a $50,000 bond, but Fitzsimmons declined to consider it.
The building inspector issued 243 permits in March totaling about 112 533 dollars, down from the prior year by 61 106 dollars. The largest permit on March 24 was a 37500 two story frame dwelling at Piedmont avenue and Fourth street for W L Reynolds. Most permits covered dwellings or repairs and improvements.
Miss Maud De Witt Talmage daughter of Rev Dr DeWitt Talmage and Clarence Frederick Wyckoff of Ithaca were married today at the bride’s parents residence in Washington. Rev Frank DeWitt Talmage of Chicago, brother of the bride, officiated.
In Birmingham a Gypsy party reports the death of Thomas McNally aged 63 at a suburban camp. The estate is valued at about 30 dollars in cash. McNally, an Englishman who wandered for years, had saved a small fortune through thrift. No relatives are known. The body will be buried next month per Romanian custom.
Public notice urges voters to support W. W. Thompson for coroner and C. I. Branan for the legislature. Advocates favor a salary system for county officials.
W. W. Thompson appeals for votes in the coroner race, describing himself as competent sober and reliable to handle the office.
Mayor Mims cited inability to be in two places at once as he asked the police commissioners to move their meeting from the second Monday to the second Tuesday. The session, held in the mayor's city hall office, followed a clash with Capital City Club's schedule. Commissioner Day asked about Atlanta officers in Charleston. the mayor praised the men as splendid and creditable, saying they left a favorable impression on Charleston residents and reflected well on the department and town.
A New York tug Covington towing coal barges Kentucky Mystic Belle and Mindora reported near Highland Beach after losing Mystic Belle and Mindora off the New Jersey coast. A yawl named Mystic Belle or Mindora reached Mount Pleasant New Jersey with uncertain survivors. Bonds Beach life savers say a yawl bearing Mindorn came ashore at Atlantic City but no further details on the other barges or crews.
Mexico City reports American Heer Company entering to fatten and ship meat in refrigerators from interior points, challenging Spaniards who have controlled meat, stockyards, mills, and candle trade. Sharp American competition already impacts the city’s grocery trade, triggering alarm over the Yankee invasion of a long monopolized field.
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