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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1912
Page
23
Housewives gear up for fall cleaning and learn a phone saves steps worry and money. The ad promotes a phone at 8 1-3 cents per day from Atlanta Telephone & Telegraph Co with A B Conklin as general manager calling 309.
Washington reports President Taft after vetoing the wool bill with disapproval, his twenty-fifth measure to reach him this session. He has issued four tariff vetoes, and another major veto involving the Arizona statehood recall. He plans additional vetoes this session and will send steel tariff and legislative appropriation vetoes to Congress next week.
Washington August 10 senate approves house amendments to the proposed wireless telegraphs regulation law and sends the measure to President Taft for signature. The action completes legislative approval and positions the bill for presidential assent.
New York August 10 Special T R will let George do it Mr Perkins director in the steel trust the harvester trust and various other big concerns to organize the pull moose forces nationwide and weld them into a voting machine for November Perkins will be home organizer He must devise a plan appoint state managers and subordinates while Roosevelt excites the campaign Gifford Pinchot will push conservation nationwide and insist only the bull moose can implement it
If you intend to move September 1st call our Main or Ivy office at once and sign a contract for telephone service. Give at least two weeks notice and state current location and the address to which you are moving. With advance notice we will relocate your phone to the new location at once or as soon as possible. Southern Bell Telephone.
Chicago dispatch notes that three of the four women on the progressive national committee plan an appeal to suffragists in ten states. They seek support for a new party aimed at advancing women’s voting rights in Colorado Wyoming Washington California Utah and in Ohio Kansas Michigan Nevada and Wisconsin where amendments are on the ballot.
Off duty Policeman Pittman chased Jim Crawford a negro youth who attempted to sell an eight-dollar Jersey calf to a crowd of negroes. The pursuit spread along Decatur and Boulevard as rumors of lynching and a fatal attack circulated, but the calf was later found stolen from Druid Hills and valued at over fifty dollars.
Friends urge Martin F Amorous to run for mayor of Atlanta after years on the city council and finance committee. He has ties to lumber and real estate in Georgia and Florida and civic work through the chamber of commerce. Several rivals: Aldine Chambers George Brown Steve Johnston and John McClelland have already declared.
Washington August 16 In a Senate debate on post office appropriations the focus was increased pay for rural mail carriers and federal aid for good roads. Quorum issues blocked votes while amendments on road funding and a pay raise for rural carriers moved slowly. a plan to study road costs via a federal commission faced initial opposition.
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After extensive testing of foreign and domestic makes and a thorough investigation, Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation selects Alco as their preferred motor truck. They note their long experience with various brands and emphasize price not guiding the decision. The text includes a reproduced order for a 3.2 ton Alco.
Washington August 10 Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh announced a reform ending a sixteen year dispute over export drawback on sugar and syrup. A fixed three cent per gallon rate will apply to syrup while refined sugar drawback varies with duties paid on raw sugar, ensuring total drawback does not exceed 99 percent of duties. Previously fixed sugar aid and 36 percent syrup value drew concern of inflated refunds. the polariscopic test method was rejected as not lawful.
Blanche Wright a well known entertainer lost 73 pounds through a self treatment method after trying pills drug therapies and dieting without success She claims the method is safe reliable and free to learn by writing to her at 1090 A Waterloo Ind with a stamped reply note
The memory of Professor W A Bass longtime Atlanta Boys High School teacher is honored with a bronze tablet in the school chapel. Alumni association members led by James L Mayson and W A Fuller arranged the tribute crafted by the Atlanta Stamp and Sign company as a wall plaque above the chapel platform.
Los Angeles reports a surge in demand for seats at Clarence Darrow's bribery trial next week. Final arguments set for Friday. evidence completed yesterday. opening for prosecution Monday by W J Ford. Horace H Appel to lead for defense with Earl Rogers sharing duties. Darrow expected to give his closing plea midweek.
Washington August 10. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee managers announce a clear majority of 100 in the next House and say they will open headquarters at once in Chicago. Representative Toloyd of Missouri, chairman, said adjournment and active work would begin immediately.
A Georgia committee urges Judge Pottle’s reelection to the court of appeals at the August 21, 1912 primary. They praise his legal ability, judicial temperament, and integrity, noting his brief bench tenure yet strong opinions. They argue for regional diversity on the bench and urge voters to support his candidacy. Signed by Andrew J. Cobb and others from Athens Savannah Atlanta Columbus Augusta Gainesville Cordele Hawkinsville Forsyth Rome Camilla Waycross.
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