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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1915
Page
2
Six months into 1915 Atlanta's deficit in building operations compared with 1914 narrowed from three quarters of a million to a $13,000 gain by Tuesday close. Substantial permits issued that day helped erase the overhang, with December permits already 7 percent higher than last year. Tuesday's permits totaled about $55,000.
A New Yorker author Edward J Woods claims a tobacco habit can be punished in three days with benefits. His 1886 booklet promises health improvements as nicotine leaves the system including calm sleep clear eyes and better digestion. He offers to mail the nook free on request from Station 4 New York City.
Included in these were a 30000 permit to J G Dodson for a new residence in Druid Hill an alteration job at 1000 on the D Greenfield estate at Forsyth and Hunter Streets the National Pencil factory and a 10000 permit to Buckeye Cotton Oil mill for improvements on its plant at Ridge Avenue and the Southern Railway December permits now stand 246060 against 122000 for the same month last year. The value of 1915 permits is now 4578843 compared with 4504353 for last year.
Mrs N Z Gordon faced a burglar in her 492 Courtland Street bedroom as jewels worth $600 lay within reach. The intruder fled when she shouted for a gun and the cook heard the cry, leaving the thief startled and wounded enough to need medical attention.
Peter Mion, leasing the new theater on the corner of Forsyth and Luckie streets from Hugh Richardson, offers 26 in gold for the best name for the moving picture house. Construction is progressing with walls of the first floor completed yesterday.
John Thomas, a one armed Black man, was bound over to the grand jury on a $500 bond and fined $50 and costs after a Sunday night shooting spree in Darktown. The sensational trial centered on a rifle and an attempt to kiss a baby, with bullets and rocks said to have driven residents to seek cover behind furniture and beds.
Atlanta has been chosen as the headquarters for the southwestern mule market serving allied interests. Brigadier General C. H. Bridge and Captain L. F. Bridges oversee operations from the Georgian Terrace hotel, with regional control over Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City, New Orleans, Newport News, and St. Louis.
Dr. Mugen Kuehnemann, professor at Breslau Imperial University, will lecture in Cable Hall on December 29 in English titled The Significance of the European War. A prominent thinker and orator, he has long been welcomed in American universities and returns amid wartime interest. The talk is hosted by local German societies including Deutsche Gesellschaft, Turn Verein, and Freundschaftshund, with Victor H. Kriegshaber introducing him.
City clerk lists ward by ward polling sites for recall vote stating 14 009 voters registered after books closed. Sites include 14 South Forsyth Street first ward and multiple addresses per ward such as 744 South Pryor and 322 Peachtree Street with notes on nearby landmarks and stores. Campaigns plan ward meetings. anti recall group plans no meetings. Awaiting council organization as recall vote looms.
Detectives Hamby and Vickery raided Henry Boyd alias Monk Bord at 76 Yonge Street and seized twenty one barrels of unopened liquor plus various brands. A second raid Monday night added thirty more unopened barrels and several cases. Boyd faces trial Thursday at 2 30 p m.
In Atlanta on Tuesday the lease market showed three Peachtree Street agreements all north of Baker Street. Terman and Calhoun leased for Victor at Smith to Ludwig and Morton, agents for Holler Hight motor cars and Mack trucks, a two story and basement building now under erection at No.
The article lists multiple real estate leases and transactions at 320 Peachtree Street and nearby addresses, detailing lessees such as Sonth Term Oakland Motor Car Company, Hubbell & Oakes Motor Car Company, and various buyers and sellers. It also notes building permits reducing a deficit and mentions numerous property transfers with dates ranging from 1913 to 1916.
A compilation of quit claim deeds mortgage transfers and property transactions with names such as D C Martin W W Wadaworth George Ware Ophalla Shindiebower and others. It notes parcels along Rivers Road Palmetto Avenue Abbott May 3 1913 and Electric Avenue among street names and dates mainly 1913 1915 1916 and 1925. Includes a lease for Atlanta Terminal railroad post office and building permits totaling several thousand dollars.
Capital City lodge No 842 F SA uM will hold a special communication Wednesday evening at 435 Martella street 7 10. Public maturation of the year and other items under dispensation. All qualified brethren invited to attend by order of W M Mincey and secretary Marti
Funeral notices for Mrs Virginia Matthews and Mr B W Graham list family mourners and pallbearers. The Matthews service is in Clem Georgia at 1 o clock with pallbearers named and flowers sent to Harry G Poole. The Graham service is at Greenberg Bond Co chapel Houston Street with interment at Greenwood and pallbearers meeting at 4 20.
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