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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1914
Page
20
Advertisement listing a two story eight room home on West Eleventh Street near Peachtree. Features include servants' rooms garage two baths and all conveniences. Lot 350 by 152 with loan assumption of 6500 and remainder permits. Price quoted at 16500.
A real estate notice offers two new terrace homes on Ponce de Leon Ave priced at 12 750 each. The shaded hill location overlooks the countryside. A vacant lot next to the property is offered at 5 000 with reasonable terms.
Listing describes a new one story bungalow on Juniper Street near Eleventh, priced at $6,250 with hardwood floors furnace heat and full amenities. Terms mention a loan assumption of $2.00 and balance by the purchaser.
A listed property on West Fourteenth Street priced at 10 500 offers a elevated shaded lot of 0 175 feet and a well equipped house with every convenience. The description promises a desirable location and attention to discerning buyers.
Fragmentary note describes a property on East Third Street priced at 38,500. Mentions proximity to Feos Terrace and West Beachtrain, with references to a likely real estate listing or investment. Details are unclear due to OCR errors.
An item notes a $6,000 price on Thirteenth Street near Piedmont for a two bedroom, one bath home with a sun-room modification. The plans, promoted by Neil Hown architects, promise a hardwood finish, carbide heating, and detailed interior layout with three bedrooms or more.
On Penn Avenue, a modern nine room house on a 30 by 130 foot lot is offered at 11000. It features a cement basement heating furnace and modern conveniences. Terms may be arranged to suit purchaser with loan potential.
Desirable building lots on Stewart avenue and West Lind Brookline Elbert and Catn grhe streets offering 200 foot deep lots with shade trees and all park conveniences. Restricted to protect homes in a residential park near city school and city park. Two car rides to town. Prices range 900 to 21 790.
Description of lots opposite Piedmont Park on Piedmont Ave between Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Fourteen lots, 67 by 200, with pine from F113 5G per foot. Sunny avenue frontage, shade trees, east facing, and park view. Priced at about 7,200 to 10,000.
Seeks buyer for 11 acre parcel with nearly 300 feet front on a paved road close to Mast Lake club grounds. Over 800 feet frontage on Boulevard DeKalb a major thoroughfare. Improvements planned to connect Atlanta and the Hast Takes section. Value and terms favorable at 16000 dollars.
A ledger of various Atlanta real estate actions includes transfers of ownership and mortgage transactions. Listings reference street addresses such as East Point Road, Inman Street, Martin Street, and Confederate Avenue, with entities like the RK Company and Prudential Trust. The notes show prices, dates, and parcel descriptions across multiple years, including June, August, and November entries.
A Chicago Herald analysis argues war may be prolonged by continued production and reduced living standards, with Europe facing a long, costly conflict. It notes England Russia France and Germany may expect a drawn‑out struggle, while America should seize commercial and industrial gains from the war’s duration.
A historical meditation on Napoleon III and the era of dynastic wars. The piece contrasts Napoleon III's 1870 campaign with earlier 19th century conflicts, noting how pretexts favored by rulers can drive wars and how history repeats itself despite republics.
Analysis from The Outlook outlines racial, political, and strategic tensions fueling a European war. It cites Serbia's Serb and Slavic roots, Austrian expansion aims, Russian Mediterranean motives, German ambitions with Austria, and Britain France alignments. The piece argues Balkan federation could have prevented a continental conflagration and laments missed unity among Balkan nations.
The struggle ahead will be tremendous and unpredictable. Still, England and France have shown calm dignity under global pressure. The United States remains bound to neutrality and hopes autocracy does not gain strength.
The New Britannic, sister to the Titanic, launched in Balfast Ireland, is ten times bigger than its old namesake. It will carry 2500 passengers with 50 crew, feature six large derricks for rapid lifeboat deployment, and divide the hull into fifteen watertight compartments. The design emphasizes unsinkability with enhanced bulkheads and safety systems following the Titanic’s fate.
Munich reports an extraordinary case on relations between military personnel and civilians. Lieutenant Selder of Ingolstadt garrison attacked a lodger’s servant and the landlord’s wife with a saber after an argument, injuring the woman. A court martial convicted him, but the Nuremberg superior court acquitted, citing self defense. Damages were assessed at 12 dollars to the landlord’s widow and 230 dollars to the maid. appeals were dismissed.
Berlin reports almost 61 000 students enrolled at Germanys twenty one universities in the last semester with about 4 000 attending lectures without formal inscription Rostock is the smallest with just over a thousand Berlin leads with 8 538 only about 6 000 of the 61 000 are women and foreign students number about 6 000 Medicine attracts the largest crowd with philosophy philology and history close behind Most universities are crowded.
Dewitt B. Lucas recounts a quarry incident where a blasting powder salesman seeks the boss. A dirt‑covered worker emerges from the pit, the stranger mistakes him for the manager, and a shouted correction brings the man back to the job. The scene ends with a tense, comic misidentification.
A playful poem fragment riffs on weather heat and gossip with classical allusions and tongue in cheek humor. It references Miss Caspandra Abel Ham Japheth Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in a witty caution about heat and social scrutiny.
From The New York World overview of Europe after Napoleon, detailing the 1814 Vienna Congress, royal bargains, and the reestablishment of monarchical rule. It traces nationalism's rise in the United States and among Italians, Germans, and Slavs, contrasting imperial despotism with constitutional freedom.
London reports that a duchess asked a popular musical comedy actress to pressure her husband the duke to stop threatening his wife. The actress and duchess shared tea and discussed the duke's conduct, with the actress noting she could intervene if needed. The affair is described as high society sensationalism.
Copenhagen reports Icelandic patriots assigning a national day and flag for ships registered in Iceland. Debate in Danish parliament over marine flag rights delays approval. Icelandic flag displays navy blue field with a white cross and cardinal cross within the white border.
A returned traveler warns that moving pictures in the South Seas are demoralizing natives by breaking peaceful customs and inciting crime. Islanders, though good natured, show volatile reactions to dramatic films. An example from Samoa recalls a former policeman and two others who robbed a plantation manager, fired, and were killed or captured after ensuing battles.
London reports the grouse shooting season opened August 12 but bags will be smaller due to two misfortunes. A cold last spring wiped out early broods and eggs in exposed places across southern and eastern Scotland. A mysterious disease, blamed on bad weather and unstable food, destroyed many links. About half the breeding stock was lost, dampening prospects for the season.
Panama August 15 census by canal police shows Canal Zone total population 37,961 including 10,070 Americans and 27,891 aliens. Compared with February 1914 figures, 7,333 residents left the zone since then, as the prior total was 45,258 with 2,535 Americans and 35,401 aliens.
Fragmentary 1848 text describes Pan Slavic nationalism arising during the Frankfort diet and Prague congress while Bohemia faced revolution. It notes Vienna’s hopes to keep Slavs quiet, Habsburgs' wary stance, and the birth of Pan Slavic power amid calls for a broader Slavic congress and rising nationalism.
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