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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1921
Page
8
Public health warning style alert about a fraudulent claim promoting Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless liver remedy. The message urges readers to demand their money back if it does not outperform calomel and warns against stomach upset and weakness. It ends with a request to call Belle Isle Taxicab.
Commissioners authorize a ten mile road to be paved with concrete starting by March 15 and finishing within 300 working days. County Engineer Shi could earn a bonus if the project costs under 2.75 dollars per cubic yard, but Shi later surrendered the contract after a superior court injunction.
A vintage medical ad promotes Creo Mul sion an emulsified creosote remedy for chronic coughs and persistent colds claiming twofold action soothing and healing the lungs. It promises relief with a money back guarantee if symptoms persist when used per directions.
A vintage advertisement extols Creomulsion as the top remedy for chronic coughs colds and throat and lung ailments. It claims creosote plus soothing ingredients heal inflamed membranes stop irritation and boost appetite and body weight while building up the system after colds or the flu.
Washington January 21 Senators pressed for cloture on the Fordney emergency tariff bill with a unanimous consent vote set for February 15 and debate to be limited if approved. Senator Penrose led the cloture petition with 34 Republican signers as Democrats assailed the plan as a tariff trap raising costs for workers and consumers.
Washington January 31 The federal trade commission announced consent orders requiring thirty five ship chandlers and repair companies at South Atlantic and Gulf ports to stop giving cash commissions and gratuities to induce trade. The order followed agreements to discontinue the practice and a probe into similar actions at other Atlantic ports. The House Judiciary Committee weighs a Sims bill making it a misdemeanor to offer or accept money or value in ship supply purchases, with hearings set for February 12.
Washington January 31 prohibition leaders in congress plan a tighter Volstead law. They push a flat jail sentence for first offense selling liquor and oppose widening court-imposed fines. Proposals would seize all private cellar stocks and extend home-brew controls, with federal commissioners to try minor liquor cases. A major amendment fight is anticipated when the new session opens in April.
Hoboken N J January 31 the death toll from the Hotel Colonial fire rose to thirteen. Seven women and six men perished with Misa Blanche Kahler 38 of Jersey City identified as the thirteenth victim. Two men burned remain in serious condition. five victims remained unidentified this morning as investigators rely on clothing and jewelry to aid identification.
Washington case upholds court martial convictions of Alexander Kahn, Donald Fisher, and Robert Lecocq for murder while inmates at Leavenworth. Higher courts affirm lower court dismissals of writs of error. Also sustains ten year sentence for Captain William J. Givens for manslaughter of Private Will Mefurkin at Camp Swift in 1918.
Three United States destroyer division under Captain Kenneth M Bennett arrived in Callao Peru forming the advance guard of the Atlantic fleet to patrol Peruvian waters. Admiral Wilson will visit Lima and a four day holiday starts tomorrow with a banquet for Admiral Wilson and a ball hosted by the American colony.
The Manchester Guardian describes Allied reparation terms decided in Paris as folly. It warns Germany could only pay by exporting goods, noting annual exports of £300,000,000 would provoke fierce protests from French, English, and Belgian manufacturers.
Alonzo Field a Georgia bar leader and longtime state political figure died Monday morning at a private sanitarium in Atlanta. He lived at Stone Mountain and ran a city law office, with deep ties to business and civic affairs in Atlanta and Stone Mountain. A Gwinnett native and prominent Mason, he served in the Georgia House in 1912 1918 and 1914 and in the Senate 1915 1916 for the Thirty fifth district. Funeral set for 2 30 p m Wednesday at Stone Mountain Baptist Church with interment in Stone Mountain cemetery. Survived by three sons Robert Alonzo Jr and Winnie Field, all of Stone Mountain. wife predeceased him.
Baltimore dispatch reports a train on the Annapolis Short Line struck a bus filled with school children near Shipley Virginia between Baltimore and Washington. Two children were killed and several injured. some taken to Camp Meste hospital.
Notices mailed to all members of the Southwest Georgia Watermelon Growers association announce its annual meeting in Adel at the courthouse noon Thursday February 2. The ten county group will include over a hundred leading melon growers. The Cook County Chamber of Commerce will serve lunch and the business session will begin immediately afterward.
Senator Johnson asserts westerners deserve immediate disclosure of the tentative Shidehara Morris treaty details. He argues the pact effectively repeals California alien land laws and blasts Secretary Colby for withholding the report. Johnson demands public, not secret, knowledge of the treaty and its implications for the west.
Washington January 21 The Eastman Kodak Company withdrew its appeal to the supreme court from lower court decrees in the government anti trust suit. The decrees issued in August 1916 provided for dissolution of trade combinations and contracts deemed restraints of trade. The company asked that the mandate carrying out the decision be saved at once.
Americus Ga January 31 special Members of the senior class of Ellaville High school have just been presented class rings Miss Lilliant Douglas and Miss Mattie Mae Cox of the faculty in charge of the presentation Seniors who
A newspaper ad touts Dr Bosser’s Remedy a herbal inhaled smoke for catarrh asthma and colds. It claims the medicated smoke reaches head throat and lungs without cubebs or tobacco and offers a trial packet of 20 cigarettes for six cents plus mail order from The Blosser Co Atlanta Ga.
The page lists several individuals including Miss Nell Livingston, Miss Mae Page, Miss Doris Arrington, Miss Nina McMahon, Miss Mary Carter, Miss Mary Tooke, Miss Vera Jordan, Miss Christine Mott, Lon Arrington, Hayward Johnson, Lucius Battle, William Owen, and George Snyder. The fragment reads as a roster or social notice without context.
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