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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1912
Page
14
Two Macon justices of the peace will perform marriages at the reunion without charge for veterans of the late war. Judges Hugh Mchervey and W A Poe offer the service, marking a new departure for Poe and a rare no-fee record for Mchervey despite many ceremonies.
Editor R O Foss of The Winder News criticizes a published Wilson Club list from Winder. He notes many names are wrong or from outside Walton Jackson and Gwinnett counties and argues the list does not reflect true voting strength or support for Wilson.
LaGrange Georgia city council passed resolutions to let voters decide on a $150,000 waterworks bond, $15,000 for school facilities, $50,000 for a gas plant, totaling $215,000. Additional proposals include a $40,000 auditorium and $12,000 electrical plants to be privately operated.
Cairo Georgia April 11 Special In the county officer primary held here yesterday two to four candidates contested each post. Elected were H Herring as ordinary M McNair Sr for superior court W J McKown for treasurer RW Ponder re elected tax collector J W Cannon re elected sheriff R I Nicholson re elected coroner B L G Harrill re elected surveyor L We Rigsby re elected county school commissioner S S Weathers for commissioners ads and revenue.
An intelligent 40 year old woman, wearing modest clothes, applied to the Associated Charities in Atlanta for transportation to Montgomery Alabama to investigate a matrimonial ad claiming a wealthy physician. Officials advised caution, declined aid, and offered advice. The New York native had come to Atlanta via a sanitarium operator, lost her job, and hoped to repay any loan through marriage. A Montgomery property check revealed no record of the suitor. She planned to travel as soon as funds for transportation could be secured.
W H Flourney, painter and union labor advocate at Fulton County Underwood Club HQ, says he renounces Governor Wilson due to anti labor records and declares strong support for Underwood as a friend of labor and capable Democratic leader. Printer Earle Griggs notes workers seek tariff relief and backs a tariff strong Democrat like Underwood.
Miss Hanriette Masseling will tell Faust to children at the Carnegie library on Friday April 12 at 4 o clock. The following Friday April 19 she will tell Tannhauser at the same hour. These two operas plus Aida, shown last Friday, are all she will tell this year.
In Rome on April 11 negotiations proceed between the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Home and officials of the Chattanooga Rome and Atlanta Interurban to build a Rome to Gadsden line connected to the main north Georgia route. The line would boost Alabama trade and gain patronage from Rome businessmen due to current poor rail facilities.
An advertisement touts Bowden Lithia Water as a natural remedy for dyspepsia and indigestion. It claims it aids stomach fermentation, prevents sourness and headaches, and may deter kidney and bladder issues and Bright's disease. Physicians supposedly endorse it. orders via mail from Lithia Springs, Georgia.
The notice describes Fred Lir Morgan of Lakewood Heights in the South Bena District, age 26, troubled for over two years with digestive and heart-related symptoms. After trying various remedies, he reports notable improvement after using Quaker medicine and Extract Oliver S. Sil.
In Whittier County two young men, ages under twenty, face larceny charges after a store theft. Manager Byrd, not yet a lawyer, praised the defense as a splendid showing. The case centers on the main evidence, a ten-cent ban.
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