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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1912
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR text reports a Sunday weekly edition with names including Howell, Roby Hob, and Bert Howell among others. Mentions Holiday, business notices, and possible local notices but lacks clear events or actions.
The notice outlines subscription rates and delivery options for a Atlanta newspaper, with daily weekly and tri weekly plans and carrier routes. It then shifts to a long column of political humor and commentary about the Bull Moose, Congress, weather, and elections, referencing figures like Lorimer and Thaw and jokes about watermelons and the South.
Chicago aviators form the American Aviators association to safeguard pilots by enforcing regulations that bar flights when risk is high. They aim to curb promoter coercion and crowd pressure, pledging prosecutions for mercenary promoters. Andrew Drew notes air mastery is still misunderstood. The Wright Brothers’ caution shown amid mishaps underlines the danger of reckless flight for spectators and profit.
A fragmented reading of verses and prose notes various themes. The piece references Mister Dollar and a storekeeper, a preacher and state politics, then shifts to poems about love and night. It includes a distracted stream of lines, fragments, and rural humor with regional dialect and biblical imagery.
In a Thursday double header, Umpire O'Toole awarded the game to Atlanta after visiting New Orleans used delaying tactics as rain threatened. With the score 4-0 in favor of Atlanta after 2 1/2 innings, he forfeited the game to Atlanta by nine runs, a bold move praised by at least one spectator contributing $5. The incident highlights widespread criticism of unsportsmanlike stall tactics that delay play.
Chief John E. Wilkie of the U S Secret Service greets the Camorra trial at Viterbo Italy as a landmark in international jurisprudence. The two year case aimed at murders but sought to break the Camorra and Mafia influence, with hoped deterrent effects on crimes in the United States and a push for closer cross border cooperation to curb criminality.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce pursues a conference on southern readiness for the Panama Canal. St Elmy Massengale leads the effort with chamber support to align commercial, industrial, and transport leaders from the region. Emphasized are cotton, manufactured goods, iron and steel, and expanding southern manufacturing driven by cheaper power and labor, with Atlanta poised to gain premier benefits.
Macon Georgia July 12 Special at the next meeting of the county commissioners action will probably be taken to place two county offices on a salary basis. The sheriff and clerk of the city court may receive fixed yearly salaries to save the county about 12000 annually. Officials income figures are to be gathered for legislatures. Estimates put the clerk of the city court at no less than 6000 yearly and the sheriff higher. The ordinary and clerk of the superior court earn fees with unknown annual income. Proposals set sheriff at 8500 per year plus expenses and the clerk of the city court at 2500 plus office expenses.
Henry Jackson of Georgia, a collector of internal revenue, returned from Washington where he attended a conference of the Republican National Executive Committee. He found the president in excellent humor and confident of victory this fall, despite being worn from recent work. Jackson says he did not seek the position of assistant secretary of the treasury.
News notes from Atlanta cover campaigns and visits. J C Brown travels home for campaign work for agriculture chief. Watson returns to Thomas, Davison to Milledgeville farm, Price tours south Georgia noting fruit crops and cotton prospects. Bacon solidifies Senate bid with $200 assessment. Cooper’s campaign dates listed. Webster returns to office after Birmingham trip.
The executive committee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions condemning the proposed removal of the Erskine memorial fountain at the junction of Peachtree and West Peachtree streets. They urge the city to protect monuments and direct a copy to the mayor requesting the fountain not be moved.
The railroad commission refused to grant the petition to allow other cab firms to use the plaza at the Terminal station. Petitioners argued the plaza is public and private hacks should be allowed access. The commission denied the petition, citing a priorSupreme Court ruling and noted Atlanta Baggage and Cab company holds a contract with Atlanta Terminal for plaza use.
Three young Atlantans plan a two week walking expedition into the Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee leaving this afternoon. E M Boland and Henry and Albert Bridewell of Glennwood Avenue will trek from Bryson NC into the wild country beyond Conaluty using Mingus Mill Creek as their guide. They will sleep out in the open with army style gear and lean to shelters. Their route exceeds 100 miles ending in Knoxville Town for train back to Atlanta.
The Supreme Court cites prodigies like Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Spohr to reject an arbitrary age limit in a Georgia railroad death case. James sued for $7500 over his child’s death, claiming the child’s capacity to provide services. The court remanded for jury determination on whether age can justify compensation.
At Coney Island Motor drome near midnight two cars raced at fifty mph on a saucer track when a torware axle failed. George Cook’s car somersaulted from the rim while Jack Randall’s car passed beneath. Cook was found unconscious under the wreckage but not fatally hurt.
Athens July 12 Special p 1 about 10 000 boys in corn clubs this year each tending an acre under government guidance. Many report yields over 200 bushels per acre and costs as low as 1 00 per bushel. Counties railroads and citizens offer prizes. statewide impact expected with a Georgia corn show in Atlanta this fall to display 1912 results.
Washington July 12 farmers of this country were being paid more by 176 per cent for their products on July 1 this year than they received last year at that time according to Victor H Olmsted chief of the bureau of statistics department of agriculture This increase covered crops representing about three fourths of the value of all crops Corn barley rye potatoes hay hogs beef cattle veal lambs milk eggs butter wool and other items showed higher prices while cotton flaxseed apples and cotton seed fell. Crop conditions on July 1 were generally better than a year ago though below recent years average The June period was slightly less favorable for crops than the average June but much better than June last year.
Mayor Winn declares an end to citing moral obligations for debts in the coming year. He says no more resolutions calling for moral obligations will be approved except for two public improvements, the crematory and the voice alarm system. He warns that all other moral obligations will be cut, avoiding a debt the city cannot handle.
Columbus Ohio July 12 State Senator Isaac N M Huffman was sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary after being convicted of taking bribe money to influence his legislative vote.
US District Attorney Carter Tate sues Southern Railway in local court for 2500 dollars claiming a crew on a Greenville South Carolina to Atlanta run exceeded the hours of service by 18 hours 55 minutes on January 25. The crew named includes conductor J C Bear engineer J E Mooney fireman F W Westmoreland and brakemen J R Perkins Stephen Poole. Each violation could carry 1500 or 37 500 dollars per case. Also mentions a separate note about a boy killing a companion in Maysville Kentucky.
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