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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1909
Page
11
Many people struggle to keep glasses on especially in warm weather. We have studied the problem and gained practical experience. Although we offer every style of guard and device, we sometimes design special guards for difficult cases. Most people can be fitted satisfactorily with nose glasses. Visit 14 Whitehall 125 Peachtree.
The forecast for Atlanta and vicinity today shows a partly cloudy sky with no rain expected for the day. Another forecast indicated dry conditions, but the overall outlook remains unsettled with potential changes later.
In clear skies and low humidity, temperatures stayed in the high eighties, making for very pleasant morning weather. Burt and Captain Kirk were out strolling as Burt praised nature while Kirk enthusiastically spoke of architecture, joking about building castles in the air.
Colonel Robert J Lowry to respond to the address of welcome at the American Bankers Association annual meeting in Chicago The event includes a toast The Ladies by the club of ex Officers of the bankers association in which Lowry will participate during the convention in Chicago.
A local jeweler advertises a superb stock of loose and mounted diamonds. They match stones admirably and offer to suggest or submit designs for settings.
Dr. Bernard Wolff and Dr A Van Dyke urge the city attorney to draft ordinances addressing unsafe moving picture shows and cheap vaudeville theaters. They describe overcrowded, poorly ventilated rooms with minimal sanitation, risk of tuberculosis and other airborne diseases, and call for ventilation, seating limits, and vacuum cleaning standards enforced by law.
During a reunion in Commerce Georgia veterans staged a sham battle. A Jefferson company attacked, breastworks were built and pickets posted, and a regular battle ensued. The local veterans were victorious.
A Georgia South Carolina Florida and Alabama photographers convention planned for the end of August is canceled due to the recent burning of the Hotel Tybee. The event had been expected to draw over two hundred participants.
Savannah daily reports no body located for Walter Walsh, a deck hand aboard the government dredge Morgan who fell overboard while stepping into a repair boat. He disappeared beneath the current and was swept away after missing his foothold. Walsh is believed to have recently arrived in Savannah from Roxboro, Massachusetts.
Walter A. Bowyer a flagman on a Louisville and Nashville passenger train was struck by lightning while flagging a freight near Bay Minette Alabama. He was rendered unconscious and later picked up by the freight engineer. Bowyer under an umbrella at the time is said to be recovering.
The Guarantee Trust and Banking Company plans a 5 story white marble and terra cotta skyscraper at Peachtree and Walton Streets costing 125000. Plans by H L Winston of Mowbray and Finger reached Atlanta with specifications for an artistic building featuring marble, green trim, and modern bank offices.
Some applicants for the vacancy on the railroad commission may be ineligible under the new law. The act bars anyone who can influence or raise prices of commodities that serve the public, with a provision detailing qualifications for commission membership including age voting status and business connections.
In Macon on August 19 Brad Robmann a driver for the White Steam Car Company and J Schofield manager were sought for an escapade on the Houston road. A fine machine skidded and turned over but an automatic gasoline cut off saved the car from immediate destruction. The driver was said to be out for a ride without permission.
Judge T A Parker of the Brunswick circuit will be appointed as judge of the new Waycross circuit once his resignation is received. Governor Brown authorized the announcement and cites Parker’s popular election to the position. JoH Thomas remains solicitor general of Brunswick, with no current applicants for Waycross solicitor. Two Brunswick circuit judgeship candidates, C BR Conyers and Bolling Whitfield, are pending, with appointment expected after a few days. Invisible Toric bifocals ad copy follows.
Mobile Ala August 19 News reports the death of J W Harrill of Levens Lumber Co one mile east of Billigville Mississippi. Harrill was riding a logging train that ran into a burning trestle. The engine fell through Harrill was trapped and burned. Engineer Mobert Strichland suffered severe burns while attempting rescue.
Farmer L Travis aged 73 near Fellowship Church ten miles from Rome Georgia died by hanging at his home. Family found his body in a wagon shed this morning after noting he had threatened to take his life several times recently and blamed ill health as the probable cause. In Roanoke Virginia Judge Staples ordered a local option election for September 20 despite wets appealing to the Supreme Court.
Prominent Georgian Howell Cobb longtime Athens city court judge died at home after paralysis. Funeral set for tomorrow at 6:30 PM in University of Georgia chapel where his father’s funeral was held in 1868. Survived by wife Mars and children including William, Zach Lamar, Howell, Carlisle, and Carolyn Cobb.
Charles C McClaughry former deputy warden at the United States penitentiary in Atlanta has left for Booneville Missouri to head the state training school. The Versailles Statesman notes his reformist prison views and aims to reduce liberating cells while focusing on merit and youth rehabilitation.
The August 19 filing in Winston Salem reveals J C Roberts of Kerneraville left $10,000 cash to the North Carolina Methodist Protestant Conference for a college of the conference with the income supporting education for poor aspiring ministers. The estate totals about $50,000 for relatives.
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