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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1910
Page
4
The London Express reports sealing wax language resurging in Paris with boxes of twelve colored sticks for weddings mourning condolence and ordinary business. A political crowd laughs as a heckler mocks a speaker calling him out with a friend’s reply and a joke about a sneeze.
Beverly Mass August 19 Aft and Teddy likely patching break rumors swirl over Roosevelt's stance on Taft. Officials deny official replies while Griscom and Longworth may visit Oyster Bay to ease tensions. Republican leaders seek to correct misapprehension and hasten clarification.
Manager Hugh Cardoza announced Forsyth theater opening on Monday August 29 with Eva Fay the tar magiste headlining. The Lyric opens Labor Day, Grand September 8 with Iph ma e, and Orpheum October 10 with Polly of the Circus. A women only matinee similar to last year will occur.
In Gulver Indiana on August 19 12 year old Isabel Fuller daughter of E R Fuller Richmond Virginia risked danger to save F Thompson of Atlanta Georgia from drowning. Thompson an expert swimmer was seized by cramps 300 feet from shore and the girl swam to him aided until a boating party arrived to rescue them.
J F McMurray testified before a congressional committee investigating Indian land affairs that he held multiple contracts with the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations for general and special legal services. He claimed yearly salaries, fees and expenses totaling large sums, plus contingent fees in citizenship cases and on land sales. The committee will continue questioning McMurray about overall Indian attorney costs and related practices.
The New York mayor, shot Aug 9, is expected to leave Hoboken hospital within ten days. Doctors deem no operation necessary as neck wound heals well. He will rest with his family and may vacation in Adirondacks or return to St James after recovery.
The Fulton Joe Brown Club meets at the Grand Opera House at 8 15 tonight inviting electric fans to stay cool. Prominent speakers from across the state attend. Joe Danson, once a speaker for Hoke Smith, explains why he shifted support to Brown.
Macon Georgia August 19 fully four hundred laborers are engaged in municipal improvements. Several contracting forces work to complete paving and sanitary construction in Central City this year. Over ten years since such large projects began, Mayor Moore and the city council expect to finish much of the task soon. Main streets will be paved and Vineville section sewered. total expenditure nearly half a million dollars. Work has advanced in all departments under Eden Taylor, chairman of the street committee.
Camp Perry Ohio August 14. Throughout the two days of preliminary firing in the National match light prevailed but winds zigzagged this after noon limiting clear cracking. The National Rifle Association held its annual meeting with Lt Gen J G Bates presiding. Secretary’s report shows 1,663 entries across four days, 18 civilian rifle clubs 13 college clubs 22 schoolboy clubs and 41 annual members. Medals and trophies were awarded for the week’s matches. Individual revolver matches led by C E B Orr Aston Hide Club and W H Spencer Missouri and C E Reising Connecticut. Grand aggregate honors: Orr 1,815 Reising 1,812 Lyon 1,807. Evang skixmiait match won by United States infantry, Tennessee National Guard second Seventy-fourth New York third. Lt G C Brant Ninth U S Cavalry won annual members championship match with 68.
Grace Margaret Gould reports in the September Woman's Home Companion that American women resist the new ultrafine French skirts. Mina Gould notes they prefer practical, modest modifications to the style while still hearing about the latest fashion.
Reports from Bari and Trani in Apulia detail a virulent cholera outbreak with rising deaths, prompting mass exodus from affected towns and fears of spread to other regions. Rome denies local cases while preparing the Vatican lazaretto as a possible emergency hospital.
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