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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1901
Page
11
A fragmented social note blends fashion trends with natural imagery as spring promises new belts and corsets, birdsong and bees, Emerson quotes, and a nod to Saint Cyril Bostom on humility. The piece weaves cultural touches with casual aphorisms about compensation and change.
The piece notes a craze among girls at the seaside to bear small arm tattoos, often college insignia, applied via adhesive designs before sun browning. It also lists winners and honorees from the Buffalo exposition Beaux Arts showing Cecilia Beaux and several women receiving medals for painting, sculpture, and illustration, plus social leaders and travelers connected to Atlanta society.
Miss Norma Pritchard entertained at a watermelon cutting Friday evening with a large gathering of attendees from Augusta Union Point Thomson and nearby areas including Miss Hazel Thomas Susie Pritchard Annie Leila Marion Willams Roberta Lily Ragan Mattie Mae Rice Barnette McGaughey Aline Tolbert Memie Holt Mrs Lella Redwine Carrie Pritchard and many others.
The Twentieth Century Club, a group of young women musicians, advances its aid by scholarships. Five new awards bring the total to eleven since January, open to Atlanta area students unable to pay tuition. Applications due by September 1 to president Mrs. Harry W. Young. Scholarships include voice and piano from local instructors.
An 1901 notice proclaims Mrs J W Cherry joining the Cain Street school as head of navy and preparatory departments. It extols her long experience, strict yet kind discipline, and skill in handling backward pupils. Endorsements from Mrs C D Crawley and Supt W F Slaton praise her thorough teaching and strong character.
The piece asserts there are several methods to create a picture but the best yields true lifelike likeness. A life like image is essential. without it the work fails, no matter the shadows or lighting. The Condon Art Gallery at Whitehall and Alabama claims to offer such lifelike portraits and invites patrons to visit for the best results.
A column lists Alma Higgins Ida May Williamon and others as they travel from North Carolina to Atlanta and beyond. Several residents including Miss Sarah Lee Miles Mrs Haynes and Miss Belle Rhodes are noted en route to destinations such as New York Jacksonville Baltimore and Memphis. Guests like Miss Leia Reynolds Miss Elizabeth Wynne and Mr Archibald Rose are mentioned with plans to visit relatives and return from cities including Memphis Washington and Florence.
A fragment lists people traveling or visiting cities including Baltimore Philadelphia New York and Buffalo. Captain Haskells Av New York appears. Mrs Woodward and Miss Daisy Woodward return to Macon. Mr and Mrs St Elmo Massengale expected home soon after a western trip. Mrs Charles EE Smith and daughter Ailen are in New York on business and will visit further locations.
A letter from Paris says Mr. J. P. Stevens will bring back exquisite dainty stationery styles this fall. French designs will dominate the coming season and reach Atlanta likely before New York, with sketches already sent for engraving for the September business opening.
Selections note visits by Mrs Clower and family in Athens and Mrs Wilcox in Philadelphia. Mentions Colonel Martin of Ocala and Hon E W Martin in Washington. Dr John Keely to Beardmore in September. New York study opportunities advertised by Mrs Monroe offering music art and languages with chaperone options for daughters including travel prep. Also mentions liver and kidney wellbeing tonics.
A Monday sale lists Cambric and Na in sock covers, lace edgings, and items including 22x22 Irish linen napkins at 65 per dozen, 20x20 napkins at 1.50 to 1.75 per dozen, 20x40 Huck towels at 1.65 per dozen, and 72 inch bleached Irish damask at special low prices, with multiple unit quantities.
Special sale Monday offers Oxford gray brown blue and tan skirtings at 1 to 2 dollars per yard. Silk remnants length 24 to 6& yards feature fancy stripes and plain silks in waist lengths. Also note new belt pins leather bags hat pins beauty pins scissors tooth brushes and other small wares with discounted prices.
Arbitrators who ruled on the Atkinta Railway and Power Company returns will each receive 250. The Power company pays its arbiter and half the governor named fees, totaling 500 for the company and 20 for the state from the contingent fund. Macon street rail arbitration cost 75 for the two-day task. Names include W. F. Jenking, Judge Allen Fort, H. E. W. Palmer, Judge Alex S. Erwin, ex-Governor Northen, and W. T. Gentry. The piece closes with an ad for Hood's Sarsaparilla as a vitality booster.
The article highlights strong literary and historical instruction for women, with extensive library work at Southern Female College of College Park. It notes ambitious programs including music, painting, elocution, and planned lectures, a broadened college course toward an A B degree, enhanced faculty, and a thriving library and facilities for the next session.
Low rates from Atlanta to Oklahoma and Indian Territory via M., EK. and gr. Ry. offered on August 20, September 3 and 17. For full information, rates, and schedules, call or address John P. Daly, T. P. A., 621 Easttable Building, Atlanta, Ga.
The Pan American Exposition crowds prompt advance bookings at the Monroe a family hotel at 490 Pearl Street Buffalo. It offers large airy rooms for one dollar daily and en suite options with meals in an English oak dining room for fifty cents. Reference through Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Bureau of Information.
An advertisement for The Genuine Webster Unabridged Dictionary offered at half the price of other editions. The notice claims the work is double indexed with a present year supplement and invites readers to come in for an explanation on the offer. Contact John M Miller Co at 8 Mariett.
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