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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1909
Page
8
A local clothier urges shoppers to compare prices and quality, promising high weave wear and workmanship at lower prices. The message argues style is a key argument for buying, noting even poor fabrics can be cut in good style and urging confidence in the selling firm.
Martin W Littleton of New York served as orator at the first memorial celebration since the private cemetery became a national institution. In Greeneville Tennessee thousands gathered at the national cemetery for the Andrew Johnson Memorial Association ceremony with Walter P Brownlow and relatives of Parson Brownlow in attendance.
New York May 43 The widow of the man killed by Captain Peter C Haines Jr made her vaudeville debut at Rockaway Beach theater The program included a piano sketch a singing and dancing team and a request number The Rosary she said was her husband’s favorite The widow announced that his death obliged her to support herself and her children
On May 3 in Fitzgerald Georgia a Decoration Day service remembered Union soldiers buried in Andersonville National Cemetery. 13 722 Union dead received flowers from Georgia soil, with GAR Fitzgerald post leading exercises and Lincoln Gettysburg address read by Rev Everett Hollingworth. Americus Light Infantry guarded the ceremony and fired a salute with taps. Also from Macon Mayor A L Miller ill and Pro Tem N I Brunar acting.
George Dunning of Kansas City won the marathon here on May 1 with a time of 316 228 percent and finished 124 miles ahead of Frank Johnson of Granite City Illinois who took second. Guest Harrison of St Louis placed third with a mile separating Johnson and Harrison.
In Marietta and Atlanta Decoration Day events occurred with federal graves decorated. The Seventeenth Infantry from Fort McPherson joined ceremonies at Marietta National Cemetery, where Major Eduard Chinoweth led a march from Cobb County to the post. An afternoon program at the federal prison featured vocalists, instrumentalists, and a formal address by Rabbi Marx of Atlanta.
An old advertisement extols Kodol as a pleasant liquid that digests all food, soothes indigestion, and prevents chronic dyspepsia. It claims the stomach should be aided, promises faster relief, and offers a money back guarantee if the bottle fails. The flawed copy mentions dosing, guarantees, and distributor details.
In Hodgenville Kentucky on May 31 a statue of Abraham Lincoln was unveiled in the public square Mrs Ben Hardin Helm of Louisville pulled the cord removing the drapery The platform included Governor Augustus E Willison Henry Watterson Robert T Lincoln and Judge George DuBalle An invocation was offered by Ralph H Enclow with speakers including H O Roar and E J McDermott The event drew Kentucky officials and prominent figures in a simple ceremony celebrating the emancipator's memory.
Robert T Lincoln, 69, son of President Lincoln, collapses from heat as Hodgenville honors his father with a statue ceremony. He leans on Henry Watterson and rests in a private car, later recovering fully. He regrets missing the mile ride to the birth cabin.
Sam Fitzgerald a young white man who came from Ashburn Ga was struck by a South Georgia and West Coast freight train while crossing the tracks at the South Georgia depot. One set of truck wheels rested over him, crushing both legs. He died an hour after being taken to Matthews and King sanitarium. His father retrieved the body for burial.
Savannah Ga May 31 Special EBOW Hauser a street car conductor was struck by a car in the Gwinnett street subway and killed instantly late tonight. The report notes a separate conviction of a Black man in Alexandria Va for a murder, with scant corroboration in the fragmented text.
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