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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1909
Page
14
Our Summer Furniture Store offers air tight moisture proof garments on hangers, trunk options from 20 to 34 dollars with a strong iron clad guarantee, plus Old Hickory Rock Maple Willow Indian Splint Crex furniture. Verandah sets include settees couches arm chairs rockers divans tables swings hammocks plant stands for the summer home and porch.
Vice President Ball of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen will name his arbitrator at noon today, placing pressure on General Manager Scott of the Georgia railroad to act. After a brief Atlanta meeting, both sides hint mediation has ended and arbitration is the next step. Ball plans to announce first, then Scott must respond within five days or federal officials may name a third man under the Erdman act.
In Parkersburg a council vote 11 to 1, with two absent, rejected temperance measures and renewed the loom license for another year. In Kingston Jamaica a lightning strike caused a large dynamite explosion injuring two men and damaging many buildings, the blast felt across the west district.
An appeal to well informed readers touts Truth and Quality as a top laxative option. It argues Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or dosage increases, acting pleasantly and naturally. The manufacturer California Fig Syrup Co. is promoted as the sole producer, with wide sale through leading drug stores.
Storewide sale highlights nearly every white fabric and fresh summer wash cottons. June arrivals create bright picks in the department with new stock noted as reasonably priced at multiple discount points.
In San Francisco on June 7 the twenty second week of Patrick Calhoun's trial opened with evidence addressing corroboration and contradiction of prior testimony. Prosecutor Samuel F Johnson, who claimed pressure from United Railroads employees to produce favorable evidence, faced pointed cross examination. Other witnesses, including Ray Schindler, described alleged raids and stolen documents, while testimony explored connections among Scott Handlon Bandion and Burns related to a 1907 claim about employment and a purported trap involving Gallagher supervisors. A separate notice announced an Oakland revival service at the Baptist church led by Rev. W. J. Ballew with Rev. Charles Titman conducting the sermon. services would be held at Oakland City Schoolhouse on Oakland Avenue reachable via East Point car.
Peter Pras, 60, drove out terrified occupants with a pistol at a dry goods firm where Charles Le Tune fired two shots into his head and then, after slashing his throat, shot himself. Le Tune, an Iowa transplant, suffered an obsession that others sought his death.
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