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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
5
A letter extols Swamp Root as a purely vegetable remedy curing kidney troubles and confirming full recovery after medical checks. The report also covers mutinies in Finland and Russia with executions, battles, and strategic failures, detailing casualties, fortifications, and the rumored fate of prisoners.
August 3 dispatch reports Emperor refuses Stolypin cabinet terms, fueling fears of a move toward military dictatorship. St Petersburg streets see armed patrols and barricaded barracks after muskets and artillery vanish, sailors clash with loyal troops, and Cronstadt slave mutiny spreads chaos as fires burn across Vasili Ostrov and Narva Gate.
Agents of the Society for the Suppression of Vice confiscated Fall catalogues from the Art Students League and arresteda bookkeeper Miss Anna Robinson on charges of obscenity. A wagon load of pamphlets was taken to the police court, with Magistrate Maye adjourning for a further hearing on August 7. The league operates in West Fifty seventh Street with studios and instruction in fine arts.
The Negro Young People's Educational Congress in Barnesville Ga heard critic ism from Rev EH H Proctor of Atlanta urging Negroes to avoid antagonizing whites, save and accumulate property, and pursue equality through economic advancement while discussing racial prejudice and self defense.
Steamer Thomas Newton en route to Elizabeth City struck the barge Mara near Pasquotank river. Fire from lime cargo spread to the vessel, which sank. Owners claim about 7000 dollars. Nine crew members aboard, no injuries reported. Crew and five passengers later went ashore in lifeboats. captain narrowly escaped suffocation. Barge Mare shelled by Newton’s owners. damages sought around 49000 dollars.
August 2 report from St Petersburg says Sveaborg mutiny collapses, rebels shoot surrendering comrades as Cronstadt threat prompts violent actions. Baltic squadron disintegrates. government officials gain momentum while revolutionists waver. Finland strike fails as Finns avoid leading a Rusalen movement. Mutineers turn guns on hard pressed comrades under a white flag.
A morning report describes Finnish regiment clashes at Petersborg and RiTimakt sabotage by Red Guards led by Jonann Koon. Mutinies spread from Derbent to Cronstadt with officers killed, martial law proclaimed, and general strikes planned as ships and fortresses fall into insurgent hands.
Detroit strikers and sympathizers clash with police at the Ideal Manufacturing Company plant on Franklin Street. A crowd of about 2,000 roughs officers, after repeated charges with revolvers, as 18 arrests are made. Trials set for tomorrow in police court.
Mayor Rush Culver of Marquetts Michigan declined a Detroit nomination for lieutenant governor saying he is entirely out of politics and would not accept the position amid the Democratic defeat.
A dispatch from London dated August 3 reports a disastrous fire at the grounds of the International Exhibition in Milan. Neve states that by morning two of the finest landings had already been destroyed.
The General Education Board uses a conditional allocation from the John D. Rockefeller foundation totaling 910,090,000 for higher education. Nine colleges receive gifts ranging from 25,000 to 76,000 dollars, provided they raise triple that amount from other sources. Institutions include Tulane New Orleans. Wofford College Boartonburg. Furman University Greenville. Wake Forest College Wake Forest. Howard College Birmingham. Southwestern University Jackson. Mississippi College Clinton.
Major General Douglas MacArthur returns to San Francisco after an eighteen month stay in the Orient. He was sent to observe Japanese operations during the Russo-Japanese War and arrived in June to witness Mukden’s fall, touring China, India, Java, Siam, and Burma before Washington placed him in charge again.
The London Graphic notes how art and advertisement fuse to educate and delight the public across walls stations and billboards. London Truth mocks royal wristbands with satire about the king’s sleeve and a joke on equal width lines.
A. Gage, linked to former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J Gage, shot himself through the heart at the Tourist hotel in Seattle after days of strange behavior. Mrs FLA Gage arrived two days before and detectives pursued him, noting he used several hotels and assumed names. The Chicago connection traces to Lyman J Gage and Alaska gold rush days.
In 1908 Roth and De Bort joined in a joint expedition to study upper air currents in the North Atlantic trade wind region. Their meteorological observations shed light on how trade winds shape climate, with emphasis on upper atmospheric movements beyond the lower air layers.
The text discusses wind patterns across latitudes, effects of the anti trade wind layer, and the rapid temperature rise at higher altitudes. It notes balloon sonde methods, drift indicators, and partial results from Rotch and De Bort, with reference to cloud movement studies for upper currents. An anecdote from Nassau Street describes a garter demonstration and crowd reaction.
A mob attacked Malcolm Allen on Marietta Street as a white boy competed and won in a clash that ended with a plank strike. The assailants fled inside a store before police including Officer Florence arrived to rescue the Black man and take him to the station. The assault case was set for court pending his condition.
Chettanoogs Tenn August 2 Captain I F Shipp reelected sheriff of Hamilton County by the largest majority for any Democrat, 1600 votes more than his Republican opponent. The lynching of Ed Johnson and the related contempt citation before the U S Supreme Court drew unusual attention, stirring race tensions across the county and state.
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