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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1910
Page
2
The Waltham Watch Company offers broad guarantees only for watches bought from reputable jewelers and not for watches purchased via mail order houses. Dealers may service watches bought from jewelers, but mail order watches are not covered, and the company notes it does not sell to mail order houses and that such ads imply underground methods.
January 7 report from Berne states the Marquis Vosani Confalioneri former Italian minister to Switzerland receives appointment as ambassador to the United States succeeding Baron Mayor Des Blanches. He and his family are well known in Derne Berne and he speaks five languages and pursues painting and writing. He hails from an old Milanese family and is a personal friend of King Victor Emmanuel. Separately in Macon Georgia Senator A C Bacon shows improvement after illness and expects to resume duties in Washington by Monday after an indigestion spell, ending bed rest.
Washington reports Census Director Durand extended the application period for census enumerators to January 31 with tests set for February 3. In Macon Georgia applicants arrive at about twenty daily as districts prepare to fill positions, while Perry High School opens spring term with 118 attendees and plans to boost enrollment next week.
In Richmond Virginia on January 7 petitions for an absolute pardon for Charles W Morse the New York financier serving a 16 year federal sentence for banking law violations are being circulated by Morse's friends and kin. The petitions reportedly come from Mrs Morse and Morse's secretary and note that Morse's violation was technical.
In Macon Georgia on January 7 Judge Robert Hodges vacates next week's criminal branch business due to smallpox. Witnesses and defendants across all cases would be exposed to contagion, while the jury for the week will be rescheduled. Hodges will focus on civil matters, with the week’s docket to be arranged.
Washington January 7 The comptroller of the currency approved the conversion of the Georgia Bribing Company of Albany into the 19 Georgia National Bank of Albany with 8 100,009 capital.
Testimony centers on stockade potato and egg operations with witnesses describing prices paid and quantities. City official Henry Collier defends management, cites humane aims and notes need for more funds and improvements to stockade facilities.
A damaged OCR fragment describes a laxative product by the California Fig Syrup Co, praising syrup of figs and senna for family use and gentle, prompt action. It references well informed people and the system, with emphasis on beneficial effects and a preferred form.
The ad lists furniture pieces with prices including a 60 inch buffet wood knobs 35.00 china cabinet 15.60 china cabinet 23.00 mission sideboard 23.25 mission china cabinet 13.25 mission side tables 8.00 mission extension table 12.25 dining tables 11.50 to 90.00 buffets 19.50 to 187.70 dresser colonial pattern with wood knobs 362.00 chiffonier colonial pattern wood knobs 46.25 dressing table colonial pattern wood knobs 34.50 bed Napoleon design center table knobs 14.40 to
Daily routine of Mr Collier describes stockade patrols and weather-locked convicts. He cites $11,000 needed for improvements and proposes a stockade steward to handle cooking and laundry while one man would shackle prisoners. He defends potatoes sales as economy and recounts treatment of ex convict H H McGhee and personal funding of the chicken house.
A Western Express passenger train No. 23 collided with a work train at noon today killing two workers and the engineer. George Koener, engineer of the work train, and Fred J. Osbert, brakeman of Big Pine, are reported among the deceased.
Macon Ga January 7 Especial At the annual meeting of the Directors of the Georgia Southern and Merida railway the following officers were named for the coming year President W W Finley Washington D C vice president John B Munson Macon Ga assistant to president Fairfax Harrison Washington D C secretary Ri T Lankford New York treasurer HK Anstey Washington D C assistant secretary and total treasurer W P Hopper Macon Ga general counsel Hon John Hail Macon Ga Those who attended the meeting were Messrs J B Munson T C Burke T D Tineley W R Cox Major J Hanson EP McBurney H H Tift A S Pendleton B C Long Jacksonville.
William E. Christian, formerly assistant general passenger agent for Seaboard Air Line in Atlanta, is to be located at Columbia as city passenger agent after January 15. He has many friends in Atlanta and the South and his health has recovered enough to resume duties. Also, Union Pacific officials deny Salt Lake railroad acquisition rumors.
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