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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1904
Page
17
Special notices announce the annual stockholders meeting for electing directors and other business. The session is set for February 9 1904 at 1 o clock in the Empire Building Atlanta Georgia with H F Van Deventer as secretary.
Georgia sees rain Sunday and cooler, Monday fair. Virginia warmer Sunday with rain by night, Monday fair and cooler, fresh south winds. North and South Carolina warmer Sunday, rain by night, Monday fair and cooler with fresh south winds. Eastern Florida warmer Sunday, rain and cooler Monday with east shifting to south winds. Western Florida rain Sunday, then fair and cooler Monday with south winds. Mississippi rain Sunday, cooler Monday with fair, fresh south to west winds. Louisiana rain Sunday, cooler north portion, fair Monday with northwest winds. Eastern Texas colder Sunday with rain on coast, Monday fair, northwest winds. Arkansas fair and cooler Sunday and Monday. Tennessee and Kentucky rain or snow Sunday, colder west, Monday cooler east.
A traveler recounts a frigid, crowded New York experience, describing hotels as homes for most residents, dense dining rooms, bustling streets, and tough street dialogue. He notes oversized feet at Brooklyn Bridge, cold wind, closed barber shops, and the bravado of New York noses and mufflers, ending with advice to contact executives by advance wire.
The narrator describes painful indifference in New York, claiming strangers face hostility and lack of help. He recounts experiences asking directions and being directed away, contrasts with kindness elsewhere, and laments coldness and isolation in the big city. The piece ends noting a preference for where people are more human and helpful.
A traveler recalls a cross country ride by train through New Jersey Delaware Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia describing yellow painted towns and board signs along the way. The narrative shifts to winter sun over snow capped hills and the journey through the South culminating in a broadened sense of American identity.
Georgia marble from Blue Ridge quarries dominates interior finishings of Atlanta’s Fourth National Bank Building at Marietta and Ponce Streets. The piece highlights Harry Dewar and associates as leading advocates, noting marble's reach from Nelson to New England and Colorado.
John L Moore & Sons at 42 N Broad street offers carefully fitted eyewear with scientific frame adjustment, while Jne M. Miner Co at 39 Marietta and Corbett advertise blank books and office supplies. The item mentions James J Corbett and a potential meeting with Fitzsimmons over a theatrical engagement and contract terms. A separate local obituary notes an old Negro man, aged 125 years, in Wartrace, with details about his ancestor Emmett Thompson and North Carolina origins.
Keely Company employees purchase a frame for a six foot bust portrait of General John B. Gordon by James J. Flowers. Displayed at Keely's store, the painting will be presented to the Confederate Soldiers' Home and hung in its parlor for the veterans. Oreks Palmetto wine samples will be given away tomorrow at Jacobs Pharmacy.
Well known lecturer George Bo Wendling arrives in Atlanta from Oxford Georgia and will speak at the Grand Monday evening under the Atlanta Lecture Association. He tours the south yearly and will also lecture at Brenau College Gainesville and open Carnegie Library auditorium at Newnan.
Editor B F Holder Jr resigns from The Athens Banner after twenty one months to launch The Athena Herald in mid March. H J Rowe of The Banner assumes editorial control. The Banner and Herald will maintain friendly relations as Athens gains a new afternoon paper.
The Floyd County grand jury of Rome Georgia endorses raising funds for a Georgia building at the St Louis exposition. They describe Georgia as rich in resources and urge prompt, substantial support, praising a timber Georgia home styled building decorated with state art.
A large business means two things a full assortment and low prices. The largest stock means the fullest stock and the low est prices. This is the largest store has the largest stock does by far the largest business and sells all goods on a closer margin than is possible for stores with a smaller volume of business think this over. Jacobs' Covers Quinine Capsules and thoroughly good. Cures the worst colds in 6 to 8 hours if used promptly. Price 15¢.
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