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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
8
An advertisement touts Poslam as a cure for eczema and related skin conditions including hives rash scabies and itching. It promotes two dollar jars with fifty cent samples and offers a mailed experimental sample from Emergency Laboratories in New York City to Atlanta readers requesting it.
Norfolk reports six indictments against Price & Co of Baltimore and associates trading as H B Boykin Co Norfolk local agents. Boykin and Daugherty arrested on bench warrants with $10,000 bail each. Maximum penalty is twelve months and $1,000 fine. Price says Price & Co has no agents outside Baltimore.
At a Lindale dance last night Joe Swat attacked John Broom with a knife, slashing his back and shoulder and inflicting multiple wounds. Both men were intoxicated and the assault occurred opposite M. H. Smith’s house in South Lindale where the event was underway.
The Georgia Savings Bank and Trust Company announces hefty interest payments to depositors and new 4 percent certificates from $100 to $5,000 issued for 99 days. Pass books offered for as little as $1, with deposits on or before July 10 earning interest from July 1. Officers include George M. Brown as president and Joseph A. McCord as vice president, among a roster of prominent directors.
A gas explosion at the Cedarhill Coal and Coke Mining Company in Tollerville killed nine men, most of them foreigners, as they descended in the cage. The shaft was wrecked and those not instantly killed were suffocated. all bodies were recovered amid frenzied searches by worried wives and families.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce presses a second bond election to fund $100,000 for paying and $100,000 for improvements in Vineville, Ga. A special council committee, Riley Hajl and Adama, plans to discuss the issue next week after a defeat last month.
A July 27 extra legislative session is called by Comer to consider reenacting laws struck down in court, expanding Birmingham, strengthening prohibition acts, and broader compulsory education. In Montgomery and Sewanee, bishops Guerry and Gailor opened a Southern Problems conference addressing patriotism, regional unity, and national loyalty with discussion from Judge Chalkeley and Dr. Johnson.
Piedmont Power Company’s directors, led by Louis B. Magid, voted to accept a fifty year franchise granted by Atlanta General Council. Secretary J S B Thompson filed the acceptance with City Clerk Campbell as engineers survey Atlanta for distribution lines and ducts. The firm plans up to 60,000 electrical horsepower, with 20,000 HP initial development already partly booked by Atlanta manufacturers. capitalized at 6 million dollars, with 5 million in bonds and 3 million in stock.
George C Mon treville and Miss Mabel Wager from Jacksonville Fla arrived in New York seeking a minister at Hotel Gotham. The girl's father Mr Wager intercepted them and accompanied the couple to Jersey City where a magistrate wed them. He then financed their honeymoon and returned to Jacksonville.
Cincinnati July 6 Judge Thompson overruled a motion for a new trial in a federal whisky case. The government obtained a jury verdict that thirteen barrels seized at Corbin & Company contained added spirits. It marks an epoch in whisky legislation with a bitter fight involving a Washington liquor association attorney and a government special attorney. Government chemists in Washington spent a year preparing the case.
The twenty fifth biennial Kappa Alpha convention opened in Birmingham Alabama with knight commander Edward Chambers Smith presiding. The meeting prioritizes extending territory beyond the south planning to add eastern northern and western areas while alumni already exist in the east. Rowan A. Green of Memphis was named president of the convention.
Boston July 6 Charles Francis Barker world chess checkers champion died last night after a period of illness. Born in Boston thirty one years ago he faced many top players before twenty and defeated many. In 1887 he won the world championship by defeating James White in Glasgow Scotland.
One woman was killed, another fatally injured, and two others slightly hurt in a runaway automobile descent from Wilkesbarre mountain. Mrs. James Hughes of the city died, Laura Cannon of Luzerne County Bar was badly hurt, James Hughes and the chauffeur were lightly injured. The car failed to stop on the steep grade, careened through a curve, and plunged into an embankment, throwing all occupants clear.
Asheville N C July 6 The Biltmore Red and Gun Club led by James A Pugh surrender the ten year lease of Vanderbilt s 55 000 acre Pisgah forest after Vanderbilts insistence that Dr Schenck head of his forest department acted without authority They return two years rent in advance and expenses and seek to negotiate a new case with Mr Vanderbilt to carry out plans for the largest preserve in America.
Alexandria Louisiana July 6 an eight year old daughter of N A David Mangfield fell from a moving train near the platform at forty miles per hour. The train halted and backed to locate the child whom they found in a sand pile uninjured and walking beside the track in pursuit of her parent on the train.
A special meeting of farmers planters and land owners from Arkansas Mississippi Tennessee Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Texas will be held in Memphis on Thursday July 8. Joseph Ewing of Ontario will address the session on Alfalfa Growing In the South. The aim is to form an organization to promote grain growing and stock breeding in the area plagued by boll weevil and other cotton pests.
Jacob Bloomer of Louvalia Ky through attorneys Batchelor and Doolan files in superior court to overturn his wife Mrs Bloomer’s divorce. He alleges she left in 1906 for a visit to Atlanta and remained two years, obtained a divorce without his knowledge, and married Nathan Froehlich while maintaining correspondence with him during the separation.
Valdosta Ga July 6 Rev A B Herring minister and farmer near Lake Park brought into Valdosta a beet weighing thirty five pounds placed in a show window attracting attention. He says he has seen chests in California and with favorable seasons they can be grown larger here. He has visited thirty three states and says South Georgia can come nearer producing everything that grows than any country. He is a Georgian by birth.
Tickets to Wrightsville Beach and return via Sea Board for five days. Special trains include sleepers and vestibule coaches. Reservations encouraged. Phones 100. 88 Peachtree Street.
Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas explains to President Taft that his absence from a White House dinner was due to his pursuit of his 12 year old son who went to Fort Myer to see the aeroplane fly and did not return until late. He says he let the boy go with a companion and alarm followed when the child did not come back. He notes the letter responds to newspaper criticism and aims to avoid rudeness.
In Macon Georgia July 6 two lumber concerns Hollingsworth Fletcher mills and the bird planing mills won separate gains in a U S court intervention case led by Standing Master J N Talley. The carriers of the Southeastern Tariff Association will pay apportioned shares of excess levy to the West. The claimants won under provisions for interveners in the Tift case with only a few claims left to resolve.
Dan B. Harris bought the Hammond estate at administrator Thad Hammond's sale for $137,600. He purchased the N J Hammond home at 234 Peachtree Street for $66,000, property at 76 Whitehall Street for $85,000, East Poe Street near Ansiar Avenue for $8,500, the corner lot at Houston and Fort for $5,000, a 65 acre Bagwell Road farm for $2,000, and a Packard Street renting property for $2,000. W J Davis also bought a half interest in a Marietta Street lot beyond North Avenue for $286.
Muskogee Oklahoma July 6 two men fought while guarding the body of John Manus who died of a heart stroke near Welling. George Grims Jr shot and killed his cousin John Grims. The Grims are prominent Cherekdee Indians within their tribe.
Athens Ga July Special board of trustees of Lucy Cobb Institute authorizes a loan of 12008 for improvements to buildings and grounds. Plans include a modern gymnasium fully equipped. Three thousand dollars set aside plus 3000 from Mrs Hoke Smith of Atlanta. Building ready for fall term opening.
In Macon Washington on July 6 a deal sold part of the Holm pswerth property between Third and Fourth streets on Poplar to Ed Welachsbaum for about 18 750 dollars. The five animal stores were included in the sale and the price was considered fair for the property.
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