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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1901
Page
2
An odd item listing mentions a Warner Bros girdle corset offered in every size valued at a dollar with scattered phrases that read like garbled OCR text. The readable parts hint at merchandise inventory or an ad fragment from a historical newspaper page.
Ex Governor Bob Taylor’s Confederate veterans reunion address in Brownsville Tenn details Southern valor and future prosperity, praising past battles, urging industrial growth from regional resources, and urging younger generations to uphold the old Confederate traditions.
Tomorrow display of Ladies' Dress Skirts in imported broadcloth with satin trim priced at 10.00, plus wash skirts from 1.00, Pique and Linen Skirts at 2.00 to 3.00, and silk parasols discounted. Includes trimmed hats, stylish shirt waists, lisle under vests, and children's dresses in ginghams and lawns with choices available tomorrow.
One table of fancy white lawns Dimities and Mahoela cloth priced 124c to 25e a yard must close out Monday. 25 pieces white India linen Sheer soft quality valued item priced for Monday. Fine round thread Bastiste 42 inches wide worth 40c yard priced for Monday. Long Cloth highest grade 12 yards bolt priced for Monday. Derby Ingram Art Squares 9x9 feet fast colors on sale for $2 Monday. Window shades with borders fringed ends lace inserting mounted on spring rollers complete fixture $1 values sold Monday.
A newspaper notice advertises embroidery edges and insertions at 10c and 15c per yard, Hamburg and Swiss edges at 20c to 25c, and embroidery flowers priced 1.00 to 1.50. Also featuring Galoon bands for light summer dresses at low prices, narrow Valenciennes laces by the bolt, and all over laces in black white and cream at 1.00 values, all offered Monday.
Wash Goods Department displays a Monday sale of new blue and black fabrics and fancy duck suitable for shirts. Prices include many 35c values all at one price. Dotted and figured Dressa Swisses once selling at 19c per yard priced at 26 and 29c for dress patterns. Tables feature fancy figured lawns and colored lawns and dimities in multiple price points on the bargain counter.
An aged pension swindle tale unfolds in a grim Darktown court room. Jim Appling, Lucretia Tarlton, Melton Jones, and others recount schemes and miseries tied to a pension scam and urban hardship. The recorder presses for truth while residents reflect hardship and social satire. The piece merges dialect narration with a legal proceeding and local poverty.
The Fifth Regiment Band offers two concerts at Lakewood today an afternoon program and an evening program featuring marches overtures waltzes and solos including Stars and Stripes Forever Home Sweet Home and My Honolulu Lady with works by Sousa Verdi Gounod Waldteufel and Bracken in a period city notice style.
Solicitor J T Hill of Dooly County noted by The Constitution as a possible attorney general candidate to succeed J M Terrell. He said many friends urge him to run but has not decided. He suggested South Georgia governors may be reasonable but does not expect to enter the race soon. He left for Lithia Springs to spend a brief visit with family.
General Wood boarded the Marco Cas tie steamer at Havana on July 2 to recuperate in America. Although he wished to walk ashore, doctors insisted he travel on a portable cot. Cuban sympathy accompanied his departure as Morro Castle was due in New York next Tuesday.
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