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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1913
Page
4
Savannah July 17 Colonel Pleasant A. Stovall editor of The Savannah Press and minister to Switzerland was guest of honor at a BP & T club reception. He receives a massive solid silver punch bowl in colonial style with a dozen silver cups matching and topped by the American and Swiss flags.
London reports that Romanian troops near Sofia press for terms while Bulgaria under King Ferdinand seeks peace talks. Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, and Greece maneuver as fronts flare, Varna railway control shifts hands, and Bulgarian forces clash with Ketvian near the western frontier. Ferdinand telegraphs King Charles of Romania signaling readiness to negotiate a settlement.
Galesburg police and relatives search for 16 year old Marie Hart after she left home to go to the movies and did not return. Neighbors and authorities drove the city overnight in a bid to locate her, as reports suggest she may have been kidnapped by strangers.
Report describes a young chorus girl carried from the Old Will theater to Grady hospital in a cab. She was semiconscious and undressed to only a gauze undergarment. Police investigated two theater crew members present and questioned why she was not sent to the hospital sooner.
Spartanburg to host a receiving station for pellagra patients as US Public Health Service opens a dispensary. Rupert Blue, surgeon general, writes to Senator Tilman noting urgent outbreak needs and the hospital’s role in treatment and study. Aimed to serve up to 400 cases under the Thompson-Mebadden pellagra commission observation.
Elizabeth July 17 The warden Charles W Dodd at the county jail ended a hunger strike by William Turner a prisoner who refused to eat for forty eight hours. Dodd offered fried chicken and watermelon in his cell ending the protest in an abrupt manner.
Washington July 17 The administration will make no move in the Mexican situation and will reserve an announcement of its future policy toward the Huerta government until after President Wilson and Secretary Bryan confer with Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson en route to Washington from WeaJeo City. Officials say the United States may await stable conditions and a return to normalcy as Carranza’s rebellion grows, with no definite recognition planned before October elections.
Southern Steve Manufacturers in regular quarterly session decided to fold their next meeting in Orangie Ind in October. Attendees from across the south were present for the gathering.
The Travelers Protective Association has not formed a railroad committee to campaign for a uniform mileage book valid on all U S railroads. The eastern district is divided into four subdistricts with a member of the committee in each. About forty mileage books are requested by traveling men across the country and support is mixed among railroads. The association aims to establish the uniform book in the eastern U S within two years.
A garbled OCR list records numerous 19th and early 20th century real estate transactions in Atlanta. Entries cite owners, lots, streets such as Woodward Avenue, Terry Street, Peachtree Fifth, Edgewood Avenue, and South Boulevard, with dates from 1908 to 1912, and values or considerations noted alongside deeds, mortgages, and estate transfers.
A modern 7 room home at Moreland and Alta Avenues on a 50 by 180 foot lot with a 10 foot alley. The house includes a servant's room, garage, hardwood floors, furnace heating, and is fully complete with up-to-date features for a contemporary home.
Classified reader notice listing rental and storage offerings across multiple urban addresses. Entries reference properties on Piedmont Highland Larkin Auburn Ivy Pine East Pine Fair and nearby streets with varied rents and unit statuses. Names Forrest and George Adair appear in the snippet alongside broker or agency cues in a fragmented ad fragment.
A 14 month old boy of Mr and Mrs Thomas Harrington Ludewiler died after a kernel of corn became lodged in his windpipe during play. Medical aid arrived too late as the grain caused a fatal obstruction.
In York July 17 Justice Thilbin ruled that George B Stone could not remove his dead wife from a Woodstown cemetery plot to place her in a single grave for sale, stating that remarriage does not give a widower control over his late wife’s body.
Friends and relatives of Mr William Q O Stocks invited to his funeral from 33 Nelson Street this Friday afternoon at 2.20. Pallbearers named Barnes Jr D L McEilbenn Thomas P Lowman Booth Chess Lagomarsino James McDonald. Automobile tunes to depart Barclay & Briton Company 246 Ivy Street at 12 o’clock.
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