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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1902
Page
9
In a Crooked Alley police matinee scene a drunk man Mack George admits he swiped gasoline from a tank, mistaking it for beer. The recorder clarifies the law against swiping gasoline and names a possible sentence of fifteen or thirty days.
In a village court Cherry Briles admits stealing corn roasting ears from a garden and is sentenced to thirty days in the stockade. Lulu, sleeping on a citizen’s doorstep, is fined 10.75 dollars and warned. Mollie Care, caring for Little Amy in ragged clothes, is admonished for child neglect as the judge urges better care and threatens city intervention.
After a five year break from New York, magician Kellar returned to the Victoria theater to a large audience. He showcased levitation, hypnotic tableaux, the Hindoo clock, the blue room, and other tricks, reportedly costing his act thousands of dollars and drawing crowds eager to see mystery and new visions in stage magic.
A Chicago gas company employee and a superintendent clash over a street tear up. The piece then notes scientific fatigue, leisure’s dangers, and a blend of current notes about airship plans, smallpox transmission, telephone exchanges, leprosy theories, and an acetylene insect trap, with multiple named individuals and places threaded through the report.
A comic talk between a young Scotch lady and her aunt on marriage. The aunt recalls three thoughts about wedlock, beginning with who will take her, then who will inherit, and finally who will marry her, as life’s trials bound her to the notion.
An army officer recounts a sententious reply by General Nelson A Miles as rumors swirled about his retirement. A fellow officer overheard a joke about becoming a mere figurehead, and Miles dismissed it as a patience testing act by the command.
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