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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1912
Page
4
Miss Addams denounces prostitution as a social disease fostered by hypocrisy and political corruption. She warns that treating vice with contempt fuels a corrupt system where brothels, saloons, and game rooms form the base of governance.
Mrs Jane Dowie widow of Dr John Alexander Dowie founder of Zion City hired detectives to stop movement to remove his body from its grave to a museum. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Dowies successor, announced plans connected with the incident.
A former leader proposed a mausoleum near Shiloh Tabernacle where his body would rest. He envisioned a Pilgrimage to the mausoleum during Passover.
Articles of Incorporation for Tennessee Hallway Light and Power Company filed in Augusta. Authorized capitalization set at 70,060,080 dollars, claimed as the largest Maine corporation. Promoter names not disclosed. April 1923. Portland, Maine.
The Royal Arch Masons of Georgia began their annual convention in Macon with about 200 delegates. Officers elected include Rev. A. E. Sanaburn as grand master and H. B. Saxon as grand treasurer. Past masters jewels were presented to R. L. Colding and J. C. Greenfield.
Judge Nash Broyles fined Wash Mills $25 in Justice Jacksons court calling him a disgrace to the city and unfit for a Peace officer. Mills faced disorderly conduct and concealed weapon charges and was bound over on $1,000 bond for the two latter counts. He fled after a street fracas with a man named Jack Bills, sparked by a woman, as police arrived. Judge Broyles dismissed the case against Sills.
Two rival theaters feud over rights to display the film Sitting Bull to colored patrons. Arcade claims the Famous has no right to use the film due to contract. injunction granted against the Famous, case set for May 6, while Famous screens Sitting Bull for Negro patrons in the interim.
London April 23 Reginald McKenna home secretary introduced in the house of commons the Welsh disestablishment bill. It provides that after July 1 following passage of the act the four Welsh dioceses will cease to form part of the province of Canterbury.
Cleveland on April 23 reports school children are swatting the fly for a reward of a cent for every ten dead flies delivered to city hall. The two week crusade may wipe out ninety percent of the pest, say health authorities as the offer nears expiration.
Nashville April 23 The stretch to mark the Natchez Trace from Tennessee to the southeast saw a marker unveiled by Old Glory chapter D A R Franklin The bronze tablet marks 16 miles from Nashville A plan calls for markers along the full route to be placed at intervals along its length.
President Taft will travel to Massachusetts New Jersey and Pennsylvania beginning tomorrow returning to Washington Sunday for speeches with political leaders and moments of golf and motoring. He is expected to deliver about a dozen speeches and may respond to Roosevelt criticism.
Washington April 23 The senate voted 42 to 26 to insist on its amendment to the house resolution for direct popular election of U S senators. The move sends the measure to conference again. Senator Borah Idaho was the sole Republican voting with Democrats against the motion.
Boston April 23 William C Matthews a negro lawyer was sworn in today as special assistant United States attorney at Boston. Matthews a former Harvard baseball and football player is the second negro to be appointed to the assistant district attorneyship in the past six years, following William H Lewin a former Harvard football man named by President Roosevelt.
A Madisonville Kentucky coal mine blast and ensuing fire on a Sunday killed six workers, with officials believing five more may have perished. The disaster, at the Coil coal mine, reports indicate four bodies were recovered including a foreman named Hollowell, as rescue efforts continued amid the charred debris.
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