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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1921
Page
8
A sensational home remedy ad claims Dr Blosser's Remedy clears catarrh by inhaled medicated smoke. It asserts safety for all ages, no tobacco or cubebs, and healing effects for asthma deafness and colds. Money back guarantee is promised.
An advertisement warns that a persistent hacking cough signals bronchial trouble and urges using Lung-A-Tone from Jacobs' Pharmacy Co. The ad notes Lung-A-Tone is free of dangerous drugs, available in 60c and 1.00 sizes, produced by Malading Laboratories in Atlanta, Georgia.
Washington reports on a House hearing about a proposed 10 million dollar addition to the sundry civil bill for continuing the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals Alabama. Colonel Hugh L. Cooper calls it a national calamity not to proceed, noting potential power savings and government sale pricing, while criticizing misquotations and stressing the project spans 60 000 square miles across seven states. A navigation survey of the Tennessee river is cited, and nitrates from Norway are discussed as farm fuel. Representative Burns of Tennessee forecasts a vote by week’s end.
Washington reports higher authorities will not interfere with the discipline of Eugene V. Debs jailed at Atlanta. He is denied visitors after issuing a statement favoring a pardon from President Wilson. Debs violated prison rules by attacking the government in a published interview and will remain confined until the department of justice changes the order.
Samuel M. Castleton Debs chief attorney says he is not surprised by Superintendent Dickerson withholding Debs statement during the campaign and releasing it only after Palmer overruled him. He notes no Justice Department ruling denied Debs visitors and asserts the interview was a discussion not a signed statement.
City council Monday proposed an ordinance to move pensioned employees to lighter duties. Departments would report employee duties and salaries to a committee which could reassign unfit staff to lighter work at two thirds pay. Councilman J C Wood chairs the benevolence and pensions panel.
The Westchester Fire insurance company will not pay $500 to B F Bell administrator for a house destroyed by dynamite during the 1917 fire. The supreme court reversed lower courts upholding the policy clause excluding losses from explosions. On agreed evidence the municipal court had ruled for the plaintiff, but all higher courts sustained the insurer with Justices Beck and Atkinson dissenting.
An advertisement proclaims Nuxated Iron as a cure for common female ailments linked to weakness and nervousness. It claims improved digestion, reduced headaches and breathlessness, and faster return to strength within two weeks, urging readers to recognize the product by its packaging and the NL emblem.
The executive council of the American Federation of Labor will meet to frame a national policy on the industrial situation ahead of a larger conference of 109 labor unions called by Samuel Gompers. Chief topics include organizing against the open shop, publicity tactics of opponents, wage controls, anti strike laws, and compulsory arbitration.
Marietta Ga February 21 Startling details of a plot to free all Cobb county jail inmates were revealed after four negroes began a premature escape Monday. Bar removal allowed two to flee before bloodhounds and pursuit recovered two. others fled into a swamp. Warden J W White said details would not be released but pledged tighter future precautions and noted the scheme’s likely failure.
The Georgia Insurance Commissioner notes confusion between two firms Jefferson Standard Life of Greensboro North Carolina and the Jefferson Insurance Company of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia firm had its license revoked and a $10 000 deposit forfeited amid alleged violations. The commissioner's letter clarifies the North Carolina company has no ties to the Pennsylvania firm and has long complied with Georgia law and remains solvent.
The Citizens & Southern Bank club held its first 1921 meeting in the bank director’s room with 92 employees and officers present. Visitor S. H. Vorhees, vice president of National City Bank New York, gave a talk on banking, employee duties, and public courtesy. Short talks followed by W. W. Banks Howard McNair La Young T. C. Erwin and others on cooperation. Refreshments were served after the well received session.
Four of six prisoners, all African American, jailed in Terrell county jail at Dawson, Ga., escaped last night by moving a bathtub, digging through a rusted iron floor, and tunneling to the outside. One had been jailed only since Saturday and likely would have joined trial.
Local advertising is urged as essential, with big electrical firms led by General Electric funding a national campaign. The traveling exhibit, staged at the Piedmont hotel during the Carter Electric company convention in Atlanta, showcases a miniature 12 by 14 theater with four sections, powered by advanced lighting and displays. It travels from New York this year to the Pacific coast in May, aided by twenty specialists and a baggage car for scenery.
Washington reports a transfer of a portion of the Syrian mandate from France to Great Britain is viewed by officials as an apparent violation of the Versailles treaty. The State Department says tracing mandate boundaries is a League of Nations function, though a full study of mandates is needed before ruling on the Franco British agreement. The Supreme Council at San Remo might have provisions to determine boundaries, though not in strict conformity with treaty terms.
Sylvester Ga February 21 Special. The jury found Mace Giddens guilty without mercy and the sentence was automatically death by hanging. Joe Jackson was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged April. T R Kimbrough and wife convicted of larceny and each sentenced to twelve months at the state farm. Fireworks traced to late thirteenth century.
In cold or wet weather Cheney's Expectorant is touted as the standard prescription of hundreds of physicians for coughs croup colds and whooping cough. It is claimed to be better than quinine or alcoholic stimulants and is offered for sale by all druggists at a very small cost through Constitution Want Ads.
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