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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1906
Page
6
The W W ER MVS CO at 62 Peachtree Street advertises a three day sale on nine remaining high-grade pianos from an initial 114. Prospective buyers are urged to act, with discounts up to $200, easy payments, and a move to 63 Peachtree Street after repairs.
Eleanor S Clarke pays tribute to Mrs A E W Cox a pioneer educator who advanced women's intellectual progress. She led colleges for women from Oak Howery Alabama to LaGrange Augusta Athens and the Tacy Cobb institute after the Civil War guiding hundreds of women toward self sustenance and leadership. Her life reflected piety and dignified restraint inspiring students across the South and beyond.
The pardon board granted a life sentence pardon to Will Taylor, a boy nearly one, after his mother petitioned alongside a sheriff and son in law. Governor Terrell signed the order, and the mother and child were released from the Chattahoochee camp, reuniting after years apart. Additional pardons or declines followed for several enjoined cases including Tod Joyce and Charles O Neal, with others denied. The record notes alibi doubt and evaluative judgments by officials in several cases.
President of Jamestown Exposition Company Harry Bt. George Tucker will be entertained at the Capital City Club Monday night by attorney J. Sam Sticer. Invited guests include Governor Terrell Speaker John M Slaton Speaker Pro Tem Clem Dunbar Senate President W B West and others.
Rain in Chattanooga measured 3.46 inches in 24 hours, the heaviest July rainfall in 27 years at the station, with the downpour confined to the local area. In Valdosta, heavy daily rains disrupt farming as ground remains too wet, crops lag, and yields look poor.
City Board of Health orders crackdown on private breeding of mosquitoes. Citizens with private mosquito setups will be arrested if not in compliance as the laboratory of hygiene issues a 4 percent proclamation. inspectors will survey yards for breeding places and advise kerosene oil treatment in sinks every two weeks.
In Birmingham on July 14 C C Wright a night watchman for South Birmingham was fatally struck on the head with an iron bolt. His body was later placed on a railway and run over by a freight car near Woodlawn. Authorities suspect black thieves involved in the night confrontation.
Solid two part glasses claimed to be invisible with no cement, marketed exclusively by John JL Moors & Sons in Georgia. The box lists 42 N Broad Street, Prudentis building, as contact, with claims of dressy appearance and eye comfort.
Catharine Johnson, labeled as a demechonde, was fined $28 for drunken disorder in the recorder's court. After a harsh laugh and outcry she paid $25, then returned to seat herself. earlier she struck a man with a copper spider causing a head injury in her home.
A committee headed by Boston Mayor John F Fitzgerald and led by William Hoge of New York announces a nationwide reception plan for William J Bryan on his return from Europe August 30 at Madison Square Garden New York. The group urges all anti trust and anti monopoly supporters to join and help host the event with speeches by Bryan and other notable figures.
Prize fighter Peter Maher arrived in Atlanta from New York to visit his wife’s sister at the Atlante hotel. He reacted with irritation to a writer spelling his name as Mayher, accusing the publication of a Dutch taint and nearly sparking a confrontation before deciding not to fight.
San Francisco July 14 Bishop Nichols announced the site of the Crocker mansion on Nob Hill will be donated to the Episcopal Church of California for a grand cathedral. He noted details are not yet available. The property is the most valuable residence site in the city and offers views of the Golden Gate and bay. Transfer arrangements are being made.
A playful ad invites readers to request a Muskoka Folder from Grand Trunk Railway System. It features a map, views, and facts for a family trip, urging a leisurely evening read with wife and children before planning a summer getaway at the ideal resort.
In Montgomery on July 14 a distressed mother pleads for clemency for her husband Oscar Eagle jailed for 20 years for murder in Tallapoosa county. The pardon board considers releases for Glenn Havis, John Williams, and Robert Watts as dates and insanity tests govern potential commutations and stays.
Washington July 14 Secretary Taft avoided a firm answer when asked if he would visit the Philippines next spring and whether such a trip might signal declining a seat on the Supreme Court. He noted an invitation to attend the opening of the first native assembly next June but said the decision would not affect his political or judicial future. If there is no change, the new Supreme Court justice to replace Justice Brown will not sit until after the Christmas holidays and is unlikely to be confirmed before the next Congress session.
Beginning Monday pay stations will operate in Atlanta drug stores, replacing the free service. Local calls will cost five cents per call under the new public pay station system designed to ease the burden on druggists and telephone companies, who have long shouldered the service.
Lovers of vaudeville will find a strong bill at the Castra this week led by Eddie Girard and Jessie Gardner in Dooley and His Diamonds. The program includes ventriloquist A Q Duncan, the Three Cantrells, Jupiter Brothers mind readers from Oklahoma, Major Tingle the 30 inch tall monologist, Marseilles the Anatomical Enigma, and a Detec tive's Tour of the World moving picture.
Thousands of Elks arrive for the forty second grand lodge session and twentieth annual reunion in Denver. Robert W. Brown of Louisville and Fred C. Robinson of Dubuque opened headquarters as the lodge numbers 1,042 with a total membership of 224,808, up about 24,000 from last year.
Bolton, a real estate man, killed Carl Gilga a famed ranchman at Clayton ML. Bolton fled toward Trinidad after the shooting amid reports of a lynching plot. A mounted policeman diverted the train route to the county jail as the armed suspect was captured.
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