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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1914
Page
14
King and Dick Jemison will provide play by play at 3 oclock from 9 Viaduct Place for the Chattanooga versus Atlanta matinee. Fans will view from portable chairs with an up to date scoreboard as crowds attend, admission is 25 cents, rain checks issued good for future games.
Tech High errors and costly mishaps pave the way as Georgia Military College defeats Tech High 13 to 5 at Ponce de Leon. The game, first in a three game series, saw early pitching duel before a four-run fourth inning by G M C. Parkinson Parks Camp Smith Ghershing and Hooper Harland noted on the batteries.
Heavyweights Willard and Boer Hodel forecast a seven round battle at the Orpheum theater Tuesday night. Willard promises to slug and finish with a hard right, while Hodel recalls past exchanges and expects a decisive mid bout spark. Tickets on sale at Tumlin Bre and Rew Ringside, lower and balcony seats priced around $1 to $2.
One hundred eighty six members of the Sigma chapter Phi Chi medical fraternity of Atlanta Medical College held their banquet last night at the Winecoff hotel. Toasts were given by J Q Folmar and several doctors, including Westmoreland Thrash and Strickler. Westmoreland praised the college for using profits to teach medicine and noted the school has met all requirements within six months without outside endowment.
Local note previews a baseball game at Pence Leon park featuring the Bloomers against the Atlanta Federals. The piece humorously imagines umpire Lou Castro delivering a shrill spiel as the teams prepare to bat.
Amateurs and semi professionals prepare for a notable exhibition game. Margaret Cunningham will pitch for the women team against local rivals. Diteher Goningham is favored to perform and Golden the Federal pitcher may appear. Crowd anticipation runs high as both sides expect a large turnout.
Amateur baseball opens in Atlanta with two top leagues, the Sunday School league and the City league. The Sunday School league divides into North and South Sides with six teams per section, each team playing five others in a 15 game schedule, ending August 1 followed by a two-winner playoff. The City league features six fast teams in three rounds, with today’s slate including South Side matchups and North Side contests at local venues such as Piedmont Plaza and Machinery Hall, highlighting the opening day.
Mrs Mary Redding Logan aged 82 died Friday afternoon at her Atlanta home 428 Peachtree street Funeral services were held at 4 pm at First Methodist church with Dr H M DuBose and Dr A M Hughiett officiating The body lay at Barclay Brandon undertaking until 10 am then moved to son Frank Logans home 196 Juniper street She was daughter of Col Anderson W Redding a Georgia leader and widow of James L Logan Survived by James L Logan a brother Col BR Redding of Griffin a sister Mrs Ella Sapp of Texas and two sons Frank and the text ends abruptly in the provided snippet.
Rome Ga April 24 Special Sensational allegations fill Floyd superior court suits by Mrs Lula Curry Porter against State Mutual Life Insurance and D W Curry and against State Mutual and Walter Griffin. She charges coercion via threats of criminal prosecution over debt claims tied to her husband, with property transfers via her father to the company to avoid legal limits on a married woman's power. She seeks injunctions and a May 7 hearing. similar claims by Mrs Belle Vernon Porter involve her home valued at 10000 and Griffin as intermediary. Judge Maddox denounces the suit as False.
The document notes that the defendant denies direct or indirect involvement in any felony agreement but acknowledges repeatedly refusing to become party to such arrangements. It adds that a complete answer will be given at the hearing on May 7.
After a Piedmont hotel lecture by Professor Arthur D. Call the Georgia Peace Society adopted two resolutions. One urged solving the Mexican issue without war and the other called for May 18 Peace Day observances by schools churches and civic bodies. Dr J J Hall was selected as delegate to the national peace convention in Washington.
The American Peace Society argued that if the Mexico conflict had arisen a decade earlier Atlanta would be in an uproar, but now the city watches calmly. They say states do not fight each other and advocate substitute national legislation leading to international law, noting war never reveals truth.
About three hundred guests attended at Taft hall for a Shriners patrol ball to raise funds for entertaining visiting Shriners in May. The Shriners appeared in form with their ladies and the entertainment boosted enthusiasm for the upcoming convention. Refreshments were served.
Pensacola Fla April 24 Definite instructions from the war department order Fort Barrancas to prepare for 4000 additional regular troops. We will receive units from the Atlantic seaboard immediately and consider mobilizing three or four brigades of national guard and volunteers.
Augusta Georgia April 24 Special in opening his campaign for the United States senate at the opera house here tonight at 8 o'clock Congressman Thomas W Hardwick made the declaration that the Slaton campaign for the senate has collapsed that there is no Slaton band wagon now and Slatons friends are carrying the war cry All aboard to the convention and Save us there He says the governors one hope is to hitch into the boat tails of some good candidate for a governor as his last salvation The public records of Felder and Slaton were both compared with his own but specific attention was paid to Slaton and especially to the statement of W S West which he said has not helped Slaton Certainly he says the people of the state of Georgia are not going to elect two men from Atlanta to the United States senate on the same day Hardwick says Slaton has shown the people he has not as much nerve as Ralph Cochran because Slaton would not risk going into a contest against Hoke Smith while Cochran did Wardwick says his campaign will be based on four points fitness and qualification of the candidates public record of each and his training and capacity services rendered to the people and the party the course each would follow in the senate if elected
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