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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1909
Page
3
The notice touts 12 acres on Ponce de Leon Avenue with a claimed profit of 25000 after two years. It specifies an $98500 cash requirement with balance due in one and two years, and warns that without sufficient cash the proposition is hopeless.
A distressed land ad offers 340 acres seven miles from Atlanta near a railroad station with several daily trains and sidetracks. Ten acres under cultivation and a large amount of timber, fenced with wire. Priced at 20 dollars per acre with easy terms, foreclosure imminent in a few days. location near Decatur and Peachtree Road is claimed.
A new high class storefront on Piedmont Avenue near the Driving Club opens today with walls not yet finished but soon to be completed. Across the street, Piedmont Park property is slated for improvement, with prices and terms not yet disclosed.
A fragmented notice describes a Ponce de Leon Avenue lot sale offering 1002 220 feet for 3750 dollars. It mentions price increases to 4500 dollars for adjacent lots, owner’s rigid terms, minimum frontage and set-back requirements, a guaranteed high neighborhood, and possible easy terms with yearly payments.
At 66 West Peachtree Place a well rented nine room house sits on a dandy corner lot. Terms are very easy and price is below its value. Exclusive handling means no owner lookup to find a cheaper deal.
Advertises a near finished Dixon Place cottage between Peachires and Piedmont avenues with a large porch and living room, offered on easy terms and cheap. Describes full rooms and attractive location on Eleventh Street.
Two city lots on Piedmont Avenue offered as good residence sites or potential factory locations. They are valued at $2.00 each, with a slightly lower price for a quick sale. The text advertises Piedmont Avenue as a leading north side street and notes cheap city plots at this rate.
A compact description describes a combined lot on Ponce de Leon plaza with a residence to the front and a coal yard site along the railroad to the rear. A 100 by 190 feet tract along the railroad is offered near Green Bed Avenue. The writer hints at a value to be worked out.
Beautiful grove lots near Highland Avenue each sized about 220 feet at $1,000 each. Cash or terms offered. Call in neighbors and buy me out now. Your chance to acquire prime property.
Several new cot tages on the north side advertised at 500 dollars cash and 35 dollars per month. The copy promises high class accommodations with a proud boast of superior quality and desirability.
An era style listing includes a druggist pitch for Chichester’s Pills and Brand, with a long river of market quotes. It covers Liverpool grain prices, London stock market moves, Treasury balance details, Chicago pork and lard quotes, New York cut meats, naval stores in Savannah, and various turpentine values.
A local price sheet from Aliania Georgia dated January 27 shows bananas at 3 cents per pound, eggplants at 2 dollars per crate, tomatoes at 2 dollars and 753 cents per crate, peppers at 3 dollars, okra at 1 dollar 26 cents per crate, celery per bunch 7 sequins and 00 cents, grapefruit fancy priced at 3 dollars per crate with various sizes, smaller sizes at 2 dollars, potatoes bushes at 1 dollar 10 cents, pineapples 2 dollars 25 cents per crate, oranges all sizes at 32 dollars 25 cents per crate.
Metals in New York and London edges lower with spot prices around £126 18m and futures near £127 Jn. Local market dull and quiet with Gerline at £1 34 in London trading and plating futures near £60.2d. Electrolytic copper at $13.1 ES and cast at $15.374Q 13. Seemingly slow activity noted with prices steady and limited demand across markets.
Local industry brief notes Clinch field as a standout coal resource. Report mentions its quality indicators and potential regional impact, with officials emphasizing extraction viability and market interest from buyers.
New York reports a near steady cotton market with a net decline and 226000 bales traded as rumors of a bear pool surface among Memphis dealers. Financial notes show sluggish stock activity amid bank liquidity concerns, with gold shipments to Argentina and rising money market tensions influencing prices.
Chicago traders saw wheat rise near day’s peak on rumors of Balkan war and strong corn demand. May wheat closed around 1.07 1/4, July 1.07, with firm oats and steady pork futures. Wheat flour clearances hit 485000 bushels. corn shipments to the Gulf supported prices amid larger trade volume.
January 27 New York opening notes heavy selling from southern accounts driving a price decline. Spot buyers kept the market from a deeper drop as plantation movement increased, while Liverpool cables report a heavy market and weaker demand from Manchester. Atlanta Clearing House figures and wool trade details follow in terse financial bulletins.
Chicago and New York trading lines show nearby wheat futures at May 1.07 with July higher and cash readings around 1.13 for No 2 red. Oats and rye move modestly with mixed bids, while Kansas City figures mirror soft gains and steady receipts. Prices are reported against a backdrop of steady shipments and market activity.
A long list of produce items with varied prices per pound, crate, or box, including poultry and dressed meat, dairy, and vegetables. Markets in Keanake City, St Louis, and New York report steady to mixed trends in butter eggs cheese and poultry, with notable entries for ducks geese turkeys and citrus.
An advertisement offers the remaining half of Block B in West Point Georgia for sale by bondsmen. It describes about 18,000 square feet of ground, a long brick building with an 80 by 60 foot store, two large warehouses with rail access, nine large bottling warehouses, offices and a large hall. Ground floor rented with guaranteed annual rent for five years. hall and seven offices remain to rent. The sale aims to fund adjustments after enlarging No. 2 mill. The Atlantic and West Point and Western Alabama railway purchased half of the block and erected a depot and hotel. Address ANG MFO. CO. West Point GA.
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