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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1915
Page
4
Readers urged to enroll for the fall term starting next Monday at the Southern Short and Business University. The ad touts strong prospects for one of the largest enrollments in the school's history and cites Atlanta business leaders endorsing the institution.
Washington reports four million dollars in this year’s federal appropriation to aid the organized militia with actual field service and rifle practice funds. Distribution to states follows efficiency plans, favoring real strength counts and auxiliary units. Texas, Alabama, and several others see reductions, while New York and several northeast states gain sizable increases.
The text lists various state and district allocations ranging from two thousand dollars for Wisconsin to one thousand dollars for California Delaware Fiorna Idaho Indiane North Dekots Washington and the District of Columbia. Maryland and Vermont receive amounts close to last year while a mention of evading and possessing an organization suggests legal concerns.
Chicago August 11 indictments charging manslaughter and criminal carelessness were returned in the Eastland disaster case. The captain engineer and four officers of the St Joseph Chicago Steamship Co are named. Bonds set at 20000 for officials and 100000 for Pederson and Erickson. Charges allege unseaworthiness, overcapacity, hiring an incompetent engineer, insufficient crew, faulty ballast tanks, and unsafe ballast and hatch operations.
Washington August 11 prosperity reports from one hundred national bank examiners were made public today by the comptroller of the currency The reports show a generally marked improvement especially in areas with low mood Crops everywhere are good with some exceptions In the middle west and Maine continued heavy rainfall caused damage Demand for money remains about normal and banks are reported able to meet reasonable demands.
London dispatch reports the Turkish cruiser Goeben, formerly the German ship Goeben, torpedoed by an Allied submarine near the Bosphorus. The crew is said to have run the vessel aground in a narrow creek where workers are building a dike to enable repairs.
Montreal August 11 The Canadian Pacific Railway Company forms Canadian Pacific Ocean Services Limited to acquire Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Allan line remains with Ocean Services in place, traffic agents HR & A Allan stay. The Asian One gains backing for fleet expansion. Operations start after October 1st or November 1st.
Miss Nettie Smith, 17, of Piedmont Mills, South Carolina, is in police custody at the request of her father William Smith. He asked Chief Mayo to locate her in Atlanta where she had run away seeking work. Officer Andrews placed her in custody and she remains held until her father retrieves her.
Secretary of Labor Wilson addressed the International Typographical Union session in Los Angeles. Baltimore was selected virtually to host the 1916 convention amid clashes between former President Lynch and delegates aligned with the present administration. Wilson praised labor reforms and the anti injunc tion law while publishers voiced wartime losses.
New Orleans city leaders sent a Cleveland electrical expert to survey the city for a municipal electric light and power plant after rejecting the current rates from New Orleans Railway and Light. The firm offered to cut current rates to 9 and 8 cents net with further reductions after 1917. officials estimate a municipal plant could cost about $6 million. In Macon, Georgia, failed bids for mayor against Bridges Smith lead to potential candidates and a new solicitor race.
Turnkey Rakestraw was surprised when prisoner W E Harrison aged 20 entered for search. The right pocket yielded bleeding scratches as a kitten meowed from inside. Prisoner refused to surrender the pet, keeping the kitten in station sergeant’s office overnight.
MoM Mauck of 435 Peachtree Street ran a weinie stand at Pine Street junction. Three robbers, described as negroes, approached at about 1 a.m. asked to light cigarettes, then extinguished the light and seized the cash register before fleeing.
Plainclothes officers rounded up nine women in a night raid against street walkers and sent them to police headquarters pending possible trial. Recorder Johnson presides while Matron Bahnefeld is on vacation. nine prisoners occupy the women’s ward, the largest one-night arrest tally in a year.
Multiple obituaries dated August in Milledgeville and nearby areas note the deaths of Mrs J E Byalck Myrick a long time resident wife mother and connection to Alabama families. Funeral services were held here. Other notices report the deaths of Mrs Elizabeth Sawyer Mrs Frank Revson and Mrs Lena Howell with details on survivors and pending funeral arrangements.
An article argues Vitalitas cannot be replicated synthetically and remains uniquely effective as a tonic and corrective. It claims its value lies in a holistic, earth derived composition containing iron, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, aluminum and trace minerals, aiding stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels and blood. Copies available from Jacobs Pharmacy at 23 Whitehall Street.
Jules Biscayart, an Atlanta mechanic, has assembled a touring racer from parts of various cars. He operates a repair shop at 112 Auburn Avenue and plans a long tour to New York this morning with a modified Studebaker engine, torpedo hood, side port holes, and four exhausts, painted gray, aiming to set a new record between Atlanta and New York.
In Huntsville Alabama on August 21 well digger JL Jackson aged 60 died from gas in a 32 foot shaft. He entered the well while damp air lingered and rescue attempts failed before helpers arrived.
A man breathing heavily observed a smoky object near the bottom of a well. He and Jackson suspected a piece of paper lit by Jackson. After briefly leaving, the man returned to find Jackson lying down. He was removed and pronounced dead. Jackson had recently arrived in the city from Winchester, Tennessee.
An advertisement touts S.S.S. as a purely vegetable blood treatment celebrated for 80 years. It claims to cure rheumatism catarrh scrofula skin diseases and blood disorders with root herb and bark medicine. The copy urges readers to obtain S.S.S. from drug stores or write to the S.S.S. Co. in Atlanta Georgia.
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