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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1902
Page
9
Fragmentary text from a Chi area page hints at a rescheduled event or notice. Readable items include possible names and dates but crucial details are missing, leaving the core action unclear. Further legible text is needed to identify the involved parties and the new timing.
Readable fragments mention A. GA IGES and address lines with names and ages in a northern state. Details are incomplete but indicate a list of residents or clients and a reference to treatment or processing context.
A long review of Alabama politics details proposed changes to the state education system, independent supervision, and examiner staffing. It reports on courthouse workload easing and potential reforms, plus strong notes on lumber profits, mining, and a booming agricultural fruit and evergreen trade in Castlebury and Conecuh areas. The piece also covers state capitol improvements, a projected Carnegie visit to Tuskegee and Montgomery, and public interest in such high profile trips.
In Georgia at Ulytrie near Johnsonville a man named Gus Lewis was killed by Gus Johnson after a dispute fueled by drink. Witnesses say Johnson fired once from Shouse, striking Lewis in the temple. Lewis died later. Johnson claimed no memory of the event. In Kentucky, the Commerce Commission set January 15 to begin hearings on the Louisville and Nashville railroad matter, while John T. Kirby of Newnan died aged 66 at his home after a weeks long illness.
Fire swept the Jackson street home of Mrs. Floyd in Hawkinsville Georgia yesterday morning at eight o clock. Sparks from the chimney ignited the roof and a strong wind fed the blaze. The house was totally destroyed with only a small portion of the furniture saved. Insurance stood at two thousand dollars on the structure and five hundred on the furnishings.
Independent cigar dealers from across the county will meet in Chicago on January 1% to discuss ways to combat the tobacco trust. They aim to form a national association with headquarters in Chicago and plan to align with trade unions, especially the cigar makers and tobacco workers unions.
Secretary Root decides it impracticable for Generals Chaffee and Smith to travel to Manila to testify before the Glenn court martial. The investigation can be fully subserved by their depositions, along with other officers, thus avoiding their physical appearance.
The article details how Secretary Hester of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange certifies total U S port receipts from Sept 1 1902 to Jan 10 1908 for the Port Receipts Contest. It notes weekly crop statements, holiday delays, NY and New Orleans reports, and the need for timely mailed estimates and subscriptions to enter or renew.
Major J W Bushnell, Seaboard Air Line chief engineer, reports the Birmingham extension progressing well with about 1000 workers between here and Coal City. Tunnels at Roper's Gap and Black Horn Mountain under way, grading near completion, and rail/bridge work poised to enter Birmingham by early fall. Convict labor plan to shift to state control after January and a busy Christmas in Birmingham industries.
Union Missouri December 97 bank robbed between 1 and 8 this morning the Bank of Union vault blown open with nitroglycerine total contents about 15000 stolen two men believed professionals fled after firing about fifty shots to intimidate onlookers only two left the bank by nine oclock front and interior wrecked but insurance covered about 10000 the robbery left town on foot eastward no crew identified
A cable ship report from St Lucia notes Mont Pelee in violent eruption at 10 30 Thursday morning with dense gray smoke and dust towers and a luminous crater at night. Separate dispatch from Pittsburg places Cardinal Gibbons arriving to participate in Passionist fathers jubilee events starting tomorrow.
Large sums in iron sales and farming stock mark Alabama gains as the Alabama Stock Growers Association plans its January meeting in this city. Anniston is described as rapidly advancing commercially and industrially with over 3600,000 spent on new buildings in the past year including a $10,000 hotel and a $75,000 public building.
A widely sold remedy in Stuart's Catarrh Tablets claims to rapidly and permanently relieve catarrh wherever it occurs from the nose to internal organs. It emphasizes natural ingredients like Blood root and red gum, avoids mineral poisons, and promises quick relief from coughing, hawking, and throat clearing with a safe, palatable format.
A Michigan woman requests medical advice for a young man with suspected consumption. The letter accompanies a history of Frederick Hammann’s cure through Professor Hoff’s American Cure for Consumption, highlighting wide praise from physicians and the press. The piece emphasizes affordability and accessibility, urging immediate home treatment if symptoms align, and touts numerous cures among the poor.
An old advertisement describes Prof Hoff's Cure for Consumption and an American Bureau at New York laboratories of Bemmner and Schjesinger. It claims European imports and compounding per Hoff's instructions. A bottle is offered for 109 dollars with a multibottle package option and alleged safe treatment.
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