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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1912
Page
5
Six elevated shaded tracts with ram can and water access entice buyers seeking a small acreage for chicken farming summer homes or year round residences. Convenient to a car line and a 25 cent trolley ride from downtown Atlanta the parcels promise a healthy home site at a moderate price for land near the city.
Real estate agencies in Atlanta reported a high value of announcements on Wednesday totaling about 600 600 dollars marking the largest transfer activity of the year aside from a notable sale. The day saw multiple large parcels sold including a 1400 foot frontage tract bounded by Spring Luckie Bartow and Walton Streets and a corner sale at Forsyth and North Forsyth Streets to Hugh Richardson for 469650 dollars. Other deals covered vacant lots and houses across Chestnut Avenue Cohen Street Dargan Street and West End Park with prices ranging from 1000 to 400 000 dollars and street frontage varying from 50 to 384 feet. The catalog lists numerous deeds mortgages and transfers among Realty Trust Company Georgia Realty and Investment Company and individual buyers.
A long list of fruits vegetables and groceries from Fidelity Fruit and Provision Co. details items like Alabama and Florida cantaloupes strawberries cauliflower celery lettuce peppers apples and more by the drum crate or box with prices and various brands. The notice also includes corrected provisions by White Provision Company and Ogienby Grocery Company with numerous stock items and prices. London market notes follow, citing American securities and a Grant funeral detail.
Aaron Haas longtime resident of Atlanta and German immigrant dies at home in Waverly Way after several weeks illness. He aged 71 lived in Georgia most of life and aided civic projects and education. Survived by widow and four sons Edwin Leonard Albert Herman Haas, and brother Isaac Haas of Cleveland. Funeral at 3:30 pm at Jewish Temple South Pryor and Richardson streets.
In Covington area news, Liddell Childs heir of W. W. Childs of Covington dies at his Newborn home after a brief illness. He married Miles Pearl Mitchell and had begun a new business this spring. Funeral held at Methodist church with Rev. T. M. Eliott officiating. Also noted are the funeral services for Mrs. B. M. Blackburn of Spring Street West Third, with interment at West View. Mrs. Blackburn, formerly Miss Antoinette Martin of Madison, survived by husband Benjamin M. Blackburn and two children, plus four sisters and four brothers.
The West Point Route offers a $7.25 round trip from Atlanta to Montgomery and return for the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association meeting April 23 to 25, 1912. Tickets go on sale April 20 to 22 with trains arriving Montgomery before noon on April 23. Final return by midnight April 30. Four daily trains. Reduced round trip fares from all southern points.
William G McAdoo former Georgian and New Yorker revisits Atlanta for a brief stop before heading to Brunswick and then returning to New York. He spoke at Folsom's restaurant about the Hudson tunnel and its construction during a lunch with Walter P Andrews, but declined to discuss politics.
W G Schroeder of Continental and Commercial Bank of Gahi gago declares a new policy that married women on the payroll must quit. Married women will be dismissed or not rehired, unless they become widows, as the bank automates the dismissal when a wife marries.
Colonel Roosevelt denounced Taft managers as relying on bosses and patronage in Omaha and Silver Creek speeches. He claimed Taft would lack broad support if voters chose, and accused Lorimer and Penrose of backing a “progressive king.” He refused a joint debate with Gardiner, saying links were forged by Lorimer.
Secretary Wilson told the senate finance committee that North Dakota could grow enough sugar to supply the United States. He estimated farmers could yield eighteen to twenty tons of beet per acre if immigrants were diverted to farming, making the nation independent of tariffs and saving about 30 million a year for the people.
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