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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1906
Page
8
Command staff urges Georgia Confederate veterans to attend the national reunion in New Orleans while others stay home to manage memorial day events. General Wiley aids in coordinating attendance and ensuring state representation, with home observers handling local ceremonies.
In New York on February 27 President Peabody of Mutual Life Insurance declines to discuss claims that William Waldorf Astor criticized his stance in the Mutual Life Mississippi Central dispute. The New York office says no communication had been received from Astor.
The Interstate Commerce Commission, in an opinion by Commissioner Prout, dismissed petitions claiming unjust and unreasonable oil transportation rates favoring Standard Oil. The action centered on complaints by the Fred G Clark Company, Waverly Oil Works, and others against Pennsylvania Railroad and related defendants, with the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad as principal defendant.
A vintage health ad states that constipation affects many and is caused by ignorance of proper remedies. It promotes Hunyadi Janos Luna Water as the most effective and inexpensive solution. One dose used each morning promises quick relief with no harsh gripping effects.
Aliasing desertion after eight years of marriage in Syria, Mrs Wormaya George sues Ed George for divorce and seeks to restore her maiden name. The case follows a chronology of travel to America, later remarriage, and discovery of a second wife. Also in Atlanta, Mrs Callie Barrow Starnes seeks a total divorce from Dr W Starnes over morphine and opium addiction, alleged harassment by a detective, and jealousy. Additional divorce filing: Mrs Birdie Brown sues C M Brown for brutal treatment and alleged infidelity, seeking custody of a child. Property transfers and deeds are listed for several parcels in the city and surrounding areas.
A savage morning wind tore out heavy glass from the Candler building on Houston Street near Peachtree in Atlanta. Bank clerks and workers were spared serious injury as glass shattered, ladders were toppled, and the scene resembled a daytime trestle of flying debris. The gusts reached over fifty miles an hour, causing windows to brace and skyscrapers to swing while clocks paused on upper floors.
English spinners form a commission to travel to the United States to study baling, marketing, and transport of raw cotton. They aim to verify cotton growth tests in the southern states and plan to meet American spinners and planters in Washington in May. The commission departs March 20 and joins the Washington conference with planters and spinners.
The council plans to discuss civil service rules for the police on tomorrow afternoon at 3. The bridge bid from the Oliver company for the Washington street viaduct may also be reviewed, potentially prompting debate. A three day postponement is possible until after the new police board is sworn in, with Amos Fox and George E. Johnson’s terms expiring soon and J W English and John J Woodpide to replace them. Grant Wilkins has written council members urging consideration of his viaduct bid as an alternative to the Oliver offer, arguing cost benefits for city and railroads. The discourse centers on delaying final action until the new board assumes duties.
Ralph Bingham of vaudeville fame will headline an Evening in Atlanta on April 2 at the Tabernacle Baptist Church. Proceeds go to the Old Ladies Home. The program features Worth Wiese and Sopa and tickets are on sale locally.
Ash Wednesday opens Lent with sackcloth and ashes as Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches set altars to black for forty days. Atlanta Episcopalians begin a detailed seven week observance from March 1 in the Brown Building with daily noon services and a structured program led by bishops and clergy, guiding penitence and spiritual growth through March and into April.
Washington February 27 the senate finance committees subcommittee of Burrows Booener and Baley to investigate charges against W T Vernon of Kar aan nominated for register of the treasury. Vernon a negro has favored separate schools for negroes this has aroused a faction against him involving moral character.
An old advertisement touts Dr Cascaret as a direct tonic to bowel muscles. It promises relief from constipation without griping or purging and claims not to create a drug habit. The copy emphasizes waking lazy bowel muscles like a cold bath and urges purchase of genuine tablets from Sterag Renedy Company.
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