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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1905
Page
15
An advertisement highlights a curated selection of men’s gifts emphasizing style quality and value. It touts easy choice with many items such as stylish canes and smart walking sticks, promising customers will find something pleasing for any man.
Holiday display offers fancy suspenders in gift boxes and varied patterns. Smart vests range from 1.00 to 5.00 with plain, figured, and novelty styles. Bath robes and lounging robes imported as gifts priced 1.00 to 5.00. Handkerchiefs and umbrellas in many styles, prices 1.00 to 15.00.
An ad extols Rogers, Peet & Co and Hart Schaffner Marx suits and overcoats as the finest gifts. It lists prices from 15 to 40 dollars for suits and 15 to 75 dollars for overcoats, highlighting elegance and value.
Local Atlanta retailers promote Miller Chase and Daniel hats as premier options and claim to be the citys largest sellers of Stetson hats. The ad touts the latest styles in hats underwear shirts and collars and promises to supply mens furnishings and fixings to best advantage.
A prominent Jewish paper argues that New York legislative probes into life insurance expose management extravagance but do not threaten the core concept of life insurance. It cautions against sensationalism, notes solvency remains solid, and urges policyholders to stay calm while noting possible modest dividend adjustments.
Mathew C. Garrol, merchant tailor at 72 Peachtree, opens a clearance sale tomorrow. He offers suitings and trouserings in the latest weave and design at deep cut prices. His haberdashery line also goes at greatly reduced rates as he prepares for a trip to New York, urging early shoppers.
The Bath, a whaleback barge loaded with 2,300 tons of coal for Boston, parted from the tow and drifted offshore from Newport News Virginia. In gale force winds the Bayview fought the sea then stood by until morning, leaving the adrift barge unseen as dawn broke over the Atlantic.
Prison Commission recommends clemency for Shell Cochran and W T Channell, both serving life terms for murder linked to 1900 Eastman riot and a postmaster killing. Also urged commutation for Robert George, Dodge County, and several others in varied sentences. Governor to act later this week.
The McClure Ten Cent Company opened a six store in Birmingham on Coird avenue, with a brick exterior and green trim. The chain, operated by southern men, sells goods from 5 cents to 1 dollar, importing items directly from Europe and Asia to cut importer profits. Additional stores are in Atlanta Marietta Athens Brunswick and Griffin Georgia, with plans to expand to other southern cities.
Calendar display event at John M. Miller Company located on 39 Marietta Street announced by Christy Calendars with details of stock and showroom schedule.
In Cheraw South Carolina Judge Watts refused to order the exhumation of Robert Keith Dargan's body after representatives of an unpaid $25 000 life policy sought the move amid rumors he died. The decision, opposed by the Darlington Coroner, suggests private parties lacked grounds for the order and hints morbid curiosity influenced the case, which recalls the Dargan death linked to oil mill insolvencies.
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