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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1900
Page
8
Fragmentary text references a purchase and logging engine with numbers 1-2-31 and a der piock, mentioning Box 435 and a year night. Names and locations are obscured, leaving little recoverable context or coherent event.
In his annual report Recorder Nash Broyles appeals to the Atlanta City Council for a reform school to aid boys ten to eighteen who appear in police court. He cites rising cases, praises the police, and urges charter changes to extend imprisonment, plus a reform facility as essential to the city’s future.
A speaker at a club entry praises the Marlboro Hotel as the best in New York, contending 1900 hotels exist in the city while asserting the Marlboro offers top service, location in the theater district, and easy access to depots.
Pennsylvania Railroad retires about 950 long service employees east of Pittsburgh on pensions averaging near their former wages. A roughly $300,000 pension fund is available, with plans to expand and require a larger appropriation as the program extends toward Pittsburgh. No high level positions affected. future hires limited to under thirty five.
At a New Year meeting the Evangelical Ministers Association of Atlanta elected Rev. J K Probst president and backed a resolution urging Congress to deny government licenses in dry counties. The plan also seeks to amend the interstate commerce law to ban delivery of intoxicants into prohibition areas and calls for a memorial service for Dwight L Moody.
The first annual convention of the Southern Journalists Association met at the Kimball house with two sessions, electing John Marshall Acee as president to January, Fred B. Smith as editor of The Southern Journalist, and naming Elmer C. Wood, W. W. Williams, and John K. Arnold as officers. Louis M. Starling won poetry laureate. Birmingham, Alabama, chosen for the next meeting. The new constitution was adopted.
J E Lilly of Wignalbal Mo recounts a typhoid fever that progressed to pneumonia and weakened him until Dr King s New Discovery rescued him. He credits one bottle with relief and growth to full strength. The medicine is sold in 60 cent and 1 dollar sizes with a 10 cent trial bottle at drug stores, guaranteed.
Chief Marbury reports 1899 set extreme weather records in Atlanta with February coldest ever 8.5 below zero and a January chill. Summer and August saw high averages. year featured severe cold snaps, warm spells, and notable precipitation patterns across monthly summaries from January to December.
County board plans a 10 o clock meeting to fill offices and elect a new chairman. The session may run long as candidates for chairman, vice chairman, and multiple county posts are reviewed. Officials sought include superintendent of public works, alms house physician, county physician, attorney, courthouse janitor, jail and courthouse engineers, weightwatchman, and clock winder.
Colonel Warren H. Sutton, government associate counsel in the Elephant Butte dam case, says a Las Cruces court finding against the government allows the English company to proceed with building its large irrigation dam near Elephant Butte, New Mexico, to supply water to El Paso and surrounding areas. The government will appeal to higher courts.
Judge Hammond ruled that attorney Lee Langley should not be required to answer certain questions posed by Mr. Austin. The committee considered the questions an attempt to obtain evidence for a damages suit. Langley may testify, but the questioned points were deemed inadmissible. The dar association committee will push the investigation to a rapid completion and present its report at the Atlanta bar association’s next meeting.
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