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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1914
Page
5
Real bargain offered for two houses on Yonge Street near Decatur Street. Lot measures 50 by 100 feet, in a well improved area with good repairs and always rented for 264 dollars yearly. Cash price listed at 1800 dollars.
For sale a five room bungalow near Ponce de Leon Ave, Ponce de Leon Place. Desirable location with hot and cold water, electric lights, polished floors and tinted walls. Price four thousand dollars with five hundred cash down and thirty five dollars monthly, no loan to assume.
Real estate ads invite buyers to inspect four 5 and seven room bungalows in Inman Park with furnace heat and modern features at 4750 and 4500 dollars. Druid Hills offers a nine room two story with hardwood floors and furnace heat at a special close sale. Also on Randolph Street a four room cottage rents 10 dollars monthly. Additional country home on paved road seven thousand dollars with extensive outbuildings and farm equipment included. Vacant lot on St Charles near Highland 2500 dollars. Twelve lots in South Kirkwood near streetcar line offered with negotiated prices.
Comprehensive urban directory listing firms by category in Atlanta with addresses and telephone numbers. Includes auctioneers, auto registrations, bridge builders, building materials, florists, furniture, laundries, lawyers, loans, lumber, planing mills, real estate, road machinery, refrigerators, seed stores, structural steel, trunks and valises, undertakers, wagon works, wall papers, and a call to advertisers to use directory ads via Main 5000.
The sixty seventh annual communication of Atlanta lodge No. 59 of Masona was held at the Masonic temple. Officers elected and installed include R. H. Church as worshipful master John Terrell senior warden Charles EB Quarles junior warden W. A. Jackson senior deacon Dr. S. W. Merritt junior deacon Judge Buchanan senior steward Mr. Perkins junior steward J.Prennie Minor treasurer Thomas Evans secretary Walter Taylor relief board member W. H. Terrell Masonic Temple company trustee J. M. Fuller hall trustees George Holliday chaplain Pr G Young tyler members finance committee GH Holliday chairman Alvin H Richards and Horace H Pearson Past Master J M Fuller. The lodge received a handsome gold watch and the first jewel on post fromPast Master Louis Lawshe, with the jewel now given yearly to the new past master of the lodge. The presentation was by W H Terrell and the jewel by Alvin H Richards.
London correspondence reports a Manchester firm letter from an Englishman in Moscow describing strict enforcement of alcohol bans during wartime. Vodka shops closed, wine shops shuttered, and restaurants forbidden to serve alcohol, with no public grumbling and praise for teetotalism. He notes benefits for villagers and plans for a government sugar monopoly to aid the poor.
Petrograd reports a Calmuck deputation secured permission for armed service with Russia in World War I. They offer to supply 560,000 mounted troops. the emperor grants a military organization and Ks sacks privileges. Delegation vows 200000 dollars and 1500 horses to the imperial treasury.
The article notes a shift from home based entertainments to community wide social life. It discusses appointing a town social secretary to provide recreations and entertainment for the entire community and highlights Neillsville as a focal point of interest.
A fragment notes a joking remark about a woman’s figure and a comparison of Russian and British soldiers. It mentions Russian soldiers preferring cigarettes and rolling tobacco in newspaper, highlighting wartime smoking habits.
Vienna reports Austro-Hungarian and German forces preserve cavalry mainly for reconnaissance and screen work. The war has driven riders into machine gun roles while classic charges fade, with heavy losses and widespread trench fighting. Hungarians’ Honved units are noted for aggressive harassment of Serbs, yet overall cavalry may vanish from European battlefields as gains come in yards rather than miles.
A fragmentary diary style monologue moves through comic self-deprecation and stark notices of illness, beauty, and mortality. It juxtaposes mumps and San Jose scale imagery with a graveyard scene, a graveyard visit, and a wounded French soldier recounting bullets in mud.
A garbled list outlines real estate actions in Atlanta including a two story brick veneer apartment project at Myrtle Street and North Avenue with eight units costing about $20,000. Other items note sales of business interests, transfers of deeds, mortgages and liens across multiple downtown parcels including Washington Street holdings and properties along Cleveland and Dekalb Avenues with dates in 1912.
New York December 26 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Captain T L Huston spoke with Frank Farrell about selling the New York Americans club. Ban Johnson had previously led talks for the American league. Farrell admitted discussing liabilities assets and four year gate receipts. A Monday meeting will decide if Ruppert and Huston take over or end negotiations.
A compact survey of Latin American trade regions and banking links. Brazil Argentina Uruguay Paraguay form the Atlantic group. Chile Peru Ecuador Bolivia Pacific cluster. Mexico Central America Caribbean nations form others. Describes colonial histories, foreign investments, and the credit climate. notes Paraguay’s troubled finances but expects cattleman activity to boost times in the country.
The Ohio State Journal discusses President Wilson's call for retrenchment, warning that government expands through small added tasks that become permanent. It urges lawmakers to prune transient functions and consolidate services, noting contrasts with foreign labor inspector systems in England France Austria Belgium Prussia and Switzerland.
Pinehurst N C December 26 The Silver Falls Pinehurst women golfers announce their first tournament for January 4 the opening event in a 19 meet schedule running to April 6 with a prize garden and a long list of contributors and a detailed program of events including handicap medal play foursomes and multiple putting contests. Chattanooga Tenn December 26 Announcement: Catcher Pat Graham released unconditionally by the Chattanooga club and infielder Lunk claimed from Memphis via waiver.
A discussion on the phrase The Heart of Midlothian as it relates to the Edinburgh jail in Midlothian. Note mentions that the name was first given to the old Edinburgh jail and that it was torn down in 1817.
Corrections from White Provision Co listing cornfield hams bacon lard and pork products with prices per hundred pounds and per box, including specialties like country style lard compound lard and premium bacon in glass. Also shows sausage, dressed hog, fresh pork products and Swift cooking oil pricing across varying pack sizes.
A dense OCR listing of various groceries and prices including Sliver Leaf Brand Pure Lard and Compound Lard, Red Rock Syrup at 1640 per gallon, assorted beans, olives, flour and feed items. Also includes Atlanta live stock market quotes, Cotton and general goods prices, and scattered notes on naval stores market in Savannah.
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