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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1901
Page
10
Miss Caroline Gordon hosts at Southerland while Miss Eve Hudson returns to Gainesville and many social circle members head to Grant Park for a moonlight picnic. A lively talk on Queen Alexandra and the royal garter stirs fashion chatter as other society figures travel, host, and attend dances at the Georgia Club and nearby houses.
Miss Laura Witham entertains at an informal tea at her Peachtree home for guest of honor Miss Mary Truitt of LaGrange. Attending are Misses Lula Callaway Agnes Ladson Alice Cary and Mesera Joe Calaultt Henry Leonard Will Tanner George Lownes and George Muse.
The five Georgia counties show an aggregate tax digest rise of over a million dollars, led by Lowndes with a 421,118 gain driven largely by cotton factories. Lawnees and Macon counties post notable increases across lands, notes, personal property, building and loan holdings, and bank shares, while broader industrial development remains concentrated in the south and middle regions.
Local society notes detail Miss Isabel Black and Miss Kate O’Brien visiting friends in Nashville and Tybee, Mrs George Adair improving, several Augusta visitors at Miss Elia Pope’s, Mr and Mrs Frank Black in Quebec, and numerous guests from Athens to Newnan and Savannah. Informal suppers at Piedmont Driving Club planned and residents traveling to New York, Buffalo, and Ocean cities for August and September visits.
A moral tale on labor and capital contrasts a generous patron with a poor seamstress unpaid for weeks. It follows a mother earning a dollar daily, owed 75 cents for night work, and a boy who misses school books while a rich patron dodges small bills. The piece argues mutual obligation, warning that both sides must honor debts to sustain workers and patrons alike.
Special report from Augusta notes the afternoon marriage of Miss Fannie Hansberger to Special-Hon Joseph H Reynolds solicitor general of the Augusta circuit. The ceremony occurred at St Patrick's parsonage with Father McMahon- White officiating. The couple left by Georgia railroad for Tate Spring Tennessee and then further west. The bride remains a leading Augusta figure among local amateur cliques.
Mitchell county reports a $225,119 increase in a single year while Fannin, Dougherty, and Dade counties show smaller rises or declines, according to tax digest data. The development wave over the past three to four years predominantly hits the southern region with few gains in north Georgia from new factories.
Auction sale of entire household to be held today at 1 60 a.m. at 265 Washington Street.
A crowded Lyceum audience applauded every act in the second performance. Welds and Ward led the laughs with parody, the Couture Brothers impressed with acrobatics, Kate Dahl sang new numbers, Julia Kingsley impressed in Her Uncles Niece, and Drawee showcased clever juggling. The Vitagraph pictures include a Georgia plantation cotton scene. Miss Hollinger, once with the Grand stock company, is cast as Ron in New England Folks at Fourteenth Street in New York, with rehearsals starting in September.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Gin and Buchu as a remedy for kidney weakness and Bright's disease warnings. It claims to restore vitality, purify blood, and relieve symptoms like back pain dizziness and urinary issues, offering free medical advice and suggesting a $1 price.
A passenger fare of $2.50 to Birmingham Alabama and return via Southern Railway. Travel on Monday July 5 at 8 00 am. Tickets are valid for return on the following Tuesday.
Advertising copy touts a sale on fine fabrics and linens including Nainsooks Mulls Persian Lawns Chiffons Claires Waet Linens Talie Damask Toweling Crashes Hacks and bed linens offered at a quarter under prices for cost savings and value.
Remnants of fine laces and broken assortments in Vandyke and French varieties, Chan tilly insertions, black and white clunings, Zag Zag galoons, waved band laces, and more are offered at remnant prices about half value. Clearance pieces include white and colored vausts in varied styles. some pieces formerly priced from 200 to 250 dollars, all on the remnant counter sale.
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