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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1910
Page
8
A sale listing girls dresses in multiple styles with sizes 2 to 6. Prices range from $0.98 to $2, including bloomers and size 6 frocks. Limited quantities and assorted odds and ends mark the stock as budget values for the season.
Western Union Telegraph plans a broad reorganization to place Atlanta as the Southeast headquarters by September. B F Dillon will lead the new southeastern division with four districts based in Atlanta Nashville Richmond and Jacksonville under a multi executive office structure mirroring Bell Telephone ownership. Edward T Hall of American Telephone Company endorses the plan and will oversee initiation.
Betting heated up as Joseph M Brown enters the governor race. Jo Burns of the Kimball House posted a $1 000 wager that Brown will carry the state, with Smith as alternate. Brown headquarters report heavy mail, steady visitor turnout, and strong organizing efforts under G Ef Maddox and JG Perry, signaling robust support for reelection.
Annie Clair, a white woman prisoner at the city stockade, smashed thirty two panes with a shoe in a fit of anger. She faced Recorder Broyles in police court, bound over on a malicious mischief charge set at seventy dollars, after Superintendent Sanford described her conduct and insults.
Right Rev Bernard M Skulk of Bt Hyacinth's Le Salle visits Mobile and announces the purchase of Dwight on the Mobile and Obloj Fallroad, planning to establish a winter home and bring 100 Polish families from Illinois to settle, with a focus on truck and fruit culture.
Former Georgia governor Hoke Smith suffered a severe kidney attack at his Atlanta home and canceled Waycross and Macon speaking engagements for the week. Doctors say the condition, while painful, is not life threatening, and he hopes to resume duties early next week.
Lincoln Neb July 28 William J Bryan will continue the contest for county option and the initiative and referendum He notes the Democratic convention failure disappointed yet the fight has helped secure a declaration in favor of initiative and referendum in both parties He urges turnout at primaries to nominate county option friendly candidates across senatorial and representative districts. Republicans and all parties should nominate such candidates in many districts.
Dorfenteu weather notes highlight Seaboard, City Ticket Office at 88 Peachtree for a $10 round trip every Thursday. Community notices urge travelers to plan trips to Wrights Ville Beach. Also a rural business update from Moultrie, Georgia reports Norman Brothers wool clip sold at 23 16 cents to Kirkland & Co. of Savannah. 16,000 pounds in the lot.
An unclear advertisement extols Cascarets for liver and bowels presented as merit rather than hype. Mentions a treatment by Senne and deggie Baeza with claims of effectiveness against various ills.
The Americus Canning Company run by Roberts Bros of Baltimore closed a long season with more than one million peach cans produced. Ware Progress and Raymond Orchards near Americus contributed, shipping 80 carloads and four trains worth of peaches to the east and north. The Americus plant, under Moser Langrell management, packed over 760000 cans amounting to about 2.25 million pounds, the Made in Americus Ga label appearing on all output.
Americus Georgia July 26. Sumter County Commissioner Frank Sheffield urges linking Smithville road north of Americus to Florida highways to form a south Georgia and Florida system to the Gulf of Mexico. He argues the route could cut travel to the gulf to a few hours, attract visitors, and encourage regional road development. Several locals support the feasibility of extending Florida roads into Georgia to create a coastward highway.
Pike County Confederate Veterans Camp 421 held its annual reunion at Evitt Springs, Barnesville, Georgia, with a large turnout and a splendid dinner. Col. A R Wright of Sandersville delivered a magnificent address. Officers elected for another year were J 8 Lifsey commander, G L Summers and J E Strickland vice commanders, BY Beckham secretary, Rev C EB Laven mplesn. L Summers and JB Sf te Ger, Rie as.
In Macon on July 28 James Johnson, a Black man, faced U S revenue officers and deputy marshals as he measured peach brandy. A wooden distillery and crude peach beer were seized, much of the brandy poured out. White farmer Wellmaker and another Black man Roberson Wes faced hearings. officers reported heavy revenue activity in the region.
R A Burnett known as Dick Burnett announces for councilman in the third ward. Residing at 92 Park Avenue eleven years, he is vice president and general manager of the Ladder and Specialty Company, furniture manufacturers, and sole owner of the H A Burnett Coal Company. He urges friends to vote and influence for his bid.
The Seventh District Farmers Institute covering Brooks, Thomas, Grady, and Longott counties will meet in Moultrie on August 6. The event rotates county by year with support from the State College of Agriculture extension service. a favorable request from Quitquilt County's farmers earned an extra day. The sixteenth senatorial district institute gathers next Monday two miles south of Wrightsville under college auspices.
An advertisement extols Smiths Pineapple and Butternut Pills as a liver tonic and gentle laxative. It asserts the liver produces bile to clean bowels, preventing biliousness and indigestion, and credits the pills with preventing constipation without harsh purge. It emphasizes suitability for women and habit formation avoidance.
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