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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1912
Page
16
Postmaster McKee returns from Washington after talks with postoffice officials on Atlanta improvements. He expects favorable action soon and notes increased business at the Atlanta office. Atlanta may test motorcycle mail collection.
Review of Puccini’s La Boheme at the Metropolitan, focusing on Farrar as Mimi and Martin as Rodolfo, with praise for Farrar’s distinct Mimi portrayal and the ensemble’s vivacious acting. Conducted by Sturant, the production highlights include Scoti’s Bohemian eloquence and Alten’s Musetta, supported by Reschighan, Ananian, Audi o, Segurola and Cors e.
A party of Metropolitan Grand Opera Company directors from New York, led by Otto H. Kahn of Kahn Loeb & Co, arrive in Atlanta this afternoon for a several day stay. They will attend performances, stay at the Georgian Terrace, and meet local hosts Mr. and Mrs. Clark Howell. Other notable figures include Henry Rogers Winthrop, Paul D. Cravath, Frederick B. Keech, and W Forbes Morgan Jr, with more names possibly joining.
J D Patterson, superintendent of the Atlanta Joint Terminal, has known Oscar Underwood for more than twenty years and calls him honest and a man to be proud of if elected president. Patterson notes their lifelong friendship and says Underwood would not do an act bringing shame.
The Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company advertises neat mail boxes for home use with each new depositor receiving one. Open an account to start with 1 and earn 4 percent interest compounded July and January. The bank, a depository for United States Postal Savings funds, lists officers George M. Brown president John W. Grant vice president and Joseph E. B. Boston secretary treasurer.
Judge W. A. Day president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society arrives in Atlanta at 6 30 this morning and spends Wednesday as guest of F. W. Bars Georgia manager. Former assistant to the US attorney general under Roosevelt and former US treasury auditor, Day requests no public entertainment. He visits Burrs home Corinthian Apartments then Brookhaven Club and agency headquarters afternoon accompanied by William Alexander secretary of the Equitable.
James T. Scott reports from Charleston that neither the Clyde Line steamer Iroquois nor the Merchants and Miners' steamer Cretan sustained serious damage after a collision off Cape Lookout on the morning of the 22nd. The Iroquois returned to Charleston under her own power and continued to Jacksonville. No injuries to passengers and cargo remained undamaged.
A vintage advertisement touts Lax-Pos as a liver stomach kidneys and bowels strengthener with a systemic tonic. It urges trying the first bottle on a money back plan and having the druggist call for a follow up.
J. A. Camp, a Pullman car conductor, was knocked down by an auto owned by Dr. L. C. Fischer on Weachtree Street near Five Points. Camp was carried to his home after Being examined by a physician who found him slightly injured. Witnesses said Camp stepped into the path as the car moved slowly. police took no action.
Tens of thousands of East Side residents gathered around the Educational Alliance building on East Broadway and Jefferson Street to honor Isidor Straus, a Titanic victim, with a lecture postponed due to the crush. Police withdrew as crowds grew, reserves were called, and the event was deferred indefinitely.
In Alpena Michigan on April 23 four children arrived to Mrs. B E Wen eski of Posen a nearby village. Two boys and two girls all healthy the couple already have one other child and the father works as a farmer.
New York April 22 mediation of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers dispute with eastern railways aims to avert a strike on fifty lines east of Chicago and north of the Potomac. Conference committee will confer with US Labor Commissioner Neill and Judge Knapp. railroads have not clearly accepted mediation. A later Washington note says Neill expects talks tomorrow and Knapp will join. A Southeastern rail union referendum on wage demands has been taken, with results due in a week or ten days.
Oklahoma City April 23. National Association of Retail Grocers hears reports on defeating parcels post and reforming laws on exemptions bankruptcy and collections. Delegates back a bill against relabeling and against preferential prizes, favor uniform selling prices, and seek legal safeguards for small retailers. A $25,000 budget and a joint wholesalers retailers convention plan are approved.
In Chicago from April 28 to 30 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold its fourth annual convention. The program will cover topics such as lynching segregation race prejudice and related subjects with speakers including Jane Addams Louis... Kingsley and others listed in the local committee.
Digaby N. April 23. A legless foreigner found marooned on Mink Cove beach in 1863, known as Gerome, refused to reveal his identity or origin for nearly fifty years while under government care. He could not talk or read, and his last days were spent in quiet custody. Fishermen noted an unidentified schooner entering the harbor in August 1863, a boat lowering to the vessel, and the next day a man found in a dory with fresh leg wounds. His secretive past remained unbroken.
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