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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1900
Page
2
A cab driver testified in a lively, farcical police court session over a dispute involving Lula Smith, Rumy Floyd, and a baby claimed as theirs. The case featured drunken conduct, fight over the infant, and a volunteer interpreter, with arrests and light punishment amid comical courtroom banter.
A misdated Chattanooga dispatch claims the Atlanta Knoxville and Northern railway will meet in Marietta and consider an Atlanta extension. Articles note the Atlanta line now enters the city over Western and Atlantic rails and that funds will be set aside for improvements. The Marietta meeting is to decide on an Atlanta extension today.
The building committee of the county commissioners postponed yesterday afternoon's session to 10 o'clock this morning at the facility in Jules. Rosser and other members were to be present. Granite samples from Stone Mountain Lithonia quarries were shown for consideration by contractor Gude and Venable Brothers. The panel aims to decide the proper granite for the new courthouse annex with a quick conclusion expected.
A health column extols moderation with Grape Nuts tasting notes and benefits while reporting a large barn blaze at George White’s Maysville farm in Huntsville Alabama. The fire killed six mules two horses three cows and destroyed two hundred bushels of corn hay and more. White had no insurance.
Three tiny fires were stopped with little damage. At 9:53 a.m. box 83 responded to 27 Woodward Avenue the home of A M Allen, roof hole minor damage. At 10:15 a.m. Major Terry’s residence Inman Park saw shingles burn briefly. At 3 p.m. box 994 tackled a defective fuse at Glennang Tra Street, small blaze easily put out with minimal loss.
Tyner’s Neuralgia Pills claim guaranteed relief for neuralgia with no opiates and available at druggists. A fragmented note references Knoxville coal lands and a plan to build coke works in East Tennessee, mentioning Chicago and other locations.
An advertisement claims you can become an optician by mail through Kellam and Mavre g College of Optics in Atlanta Georgia. It seeks earnest energetic students and promises comprehensive knowledge of optometry and training for professional practice.
The Comer-Bishop farming Company the largest farming venture in Alabama dissolves. It operated 12 000 to 15 000 acres in Barbour county east Alabama with lands held mainly by B B Comer of Birmingham and C H Bishop of Eufaula who will run their own interests. Indications point to cotton price lifting agricultural activity next season. Heavy orders for rep lizers reportedly placed.
National banks in the city held annual stockholders meetings to elect directors for the coming year. Third National reports prosperity with deposits near 935,000 and designated as U.S. depository. Exchange Bank president EB Hosser added as director. Atlanta National, Fourth National, and Capital City Bank also re elected boards with varying dividend notes and a cashier’s retirement due to ill health. Battleship Massachusetts arrives in New York and may supply crews for Kentucky or Kearsarge.
The analysis lists rain, colder and warmer periods, and wind changes across states including Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Alabama Mississippi Florida Texas and Louisiana. Eastern and Western Florida expect rain and winds, while Texas shows mixed clear and rainy days. Cities such as Chicago Cincinnati Jacksonville New Orleans and St Louis appear with conditions.
Reporters and citizens press for Census Director Wines as Atlanta awaits his appearance to set in motion the 1860s style enumeration. The delay sparks jokes and local speculation while officials quietly track his arrival.
Incomplete ad notes journals and ledgers cashbooks and similar office books kept in stack. It promises sale at much less than usual and mentions John M Co as the seller. The readable text is fragmentary and lacks full details.
Arthur Wall and Miss Bertha Johnson wed at the Johnson home in Monrovia with Rev. J W Hilliard officiating. Misa Cora Jenkins married William McNeill at the Jenkins home in Cluttevile with Rev. W D Pettus officiating. Both ceremonies were quiet and in the same neighborhood.
E B Tate and Dr A B Stovall of Elberton, who recently bought the Andrews Milling Company property near Carlton, intend to erect a cotton mill there or on the railroad linking the power source by electricity from the shoal. The project aims to utilize water power in Danielsville county to run the mill.
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