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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
10
Pictures of varied size and style fill the Auditorium Armory for the Southern Photographic exhibition. Eight hundred attendees witnessed the opening as City Attorney James J. Mayson gave the welcome, with R A Hempnill presiding and introducing the speaker.
Walter Pritchard Eaton of New York, a magazine writer, is in Atlanta with a commission from The American Magazine to prepare an article on the Atlanta Loan and Saving Company and its methods in fighting the money shark business. Eaton attended the board meeting with President Woods White and bank officials, and White discussed the bank’s success in combating money sharks, leading to Eaton being commissioned to gather data for a detailed article to run soon.
Dr Stiles Bradley of Worcester Mass preached the commencement sermon at the Georgia Normal and Industrial College in Milledgeville Ga in the Methodist church The subject Can We Believe In Immortality drew a large spellbound audience and was described as a wonderful treatise by reporters
Davis Street School children who won $25 in Atlanta's clean up contest accuse dumped trash near their doors. They report 4,709 pledges to tidy yards but much garbage from nearby areas ends up at the school yard with flies and two dead cats found in a front yard hole. They seek help from C J Haden and chamber of commerce to relocate dumps and protect students from germs and sickness.
A spectacular Shrine Parade through Peachtree Street marks the Shriners reunion in Atlanta. The 2:30 PM march from the Masonic Temple to Whitehall and Mitchell streets leads to cars to Ponce de Leon Park for a grandstand show and exhibition drill. A 6:46 PM barbecue at Ponce de Leon springs follows, with a ceremonial skating rink event and about 100 candidates to be initiated. Only stag events are open to the public. attendance for women is indirect.
Savannah report: on Tybee Island a three year old boy named Joseph McNally drowned while swimming at low tide with two companions. The swift current swept him out of depth. despite a large crowd and police picnic, rescue efforts failed and his body was recovered.
Senator W J Harris of Cedartown proposes two bills to Georgia lawmakers. One would abolish the current state printing system and create an expert printer to secure bids and oversee contracts with a governor, comptroller general, and secretary of state on the awards. The other would enact a Kansas style blue sky law requiring stock sales certificates of authority after asset review to deter fake enterprises.
Albany Ga June 4 special Judge Frank Park adjourned Calhoun superior court after a day's session to let farmers attend to crops. Adjourned term set for first Monday in August. Grand jury indicted Lewla J. Nix, white man, for murder of Clem Mallins, 17, shot in a field after a minor misunderstanding. Nix is in jail at Morgan.
A lightning bolt struck seven to eight miles north of Albany and traveled along Postal Telegraph company lines into the local office at about 6 pm. It exploded in the switchboard with a cannonade. Mrs. R. J. Cutie, wife of the manager, was knocked from her chair and others were shocked but not seriously hurt. Damage occurred in the office.
In Macon Georgia the Georgia Academy for the Blind will close a week early due to measles. An official contracted the illness two weeks ago, and a nearby attendant also fell ill. No hospital on site prevents isolation, prompting the emergency closure and a push for a hospital building.
The Georgia Military Academy summer school begins today at College Park with boys from the city entered. Major Dick and Captain Griffin lead an plan mixing book work and physical training. Activities include baseball, track, tennis, gymnasium, game rooms and a reading room under shade trees.
Three long term white convicts from Sumter county chain gang escaped under gunfire near Sumter county woods. The fugitives from Fulton county are Harry Langdon jailed twenty years for burglary Luther Glover four years for burglary and Dixie Burge eight years for burglary. Dogs tracked them but the escapees separated and fled into Muckabee swamp as guards pursued.
Cornelia Georgia June 4 Special Hon J D Price of Oconee candidate for commissioner of agriculture spent Sunday here after a collision with a stump badly disfiguring his car. He was en route to Clarkesville for Ninth District Agricultural school commencement, then planned to Dahlonega for North Georgia Agricultural college exercises.
A 1900s style notice praising Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle cure for chronic constipation. It cites widespread belief, testimonials from J N Catlett of Commerce Georgia and Mrs varvin of Ridgeville South Carolina, and offers a free sample by mailing to Dr W B Caldwell Monticello.
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