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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1910
Page
3
A Bureau of Labor report shows continuous wholesale price increases from September 1908 through March 1919, with March prices 7.5 percent above March 1909 and 328 percent above the 1890s ten-year average. Of 257 commodities studied, 126 rose in 1919 vs 1908, 81 unchanged, and 104 fell.
A string of short funeral notices lists deaths of Louise Tramblay, B P Brown, Minnie E Reed, Martha A Wynne, Mary E Burgess, Matthew Hills, Victoria Milam, Jessie Johnson, Sanford Brand, and Sanford, with graves at Oakland, Sardis, West View, Wesley Chapel, East Point, Casey, and Conley Georgia. Services held at various chapels and residences. interments planned in local cemeteries.
A conference at Atlantic City between United States Senator Penrose and Oliver of Pennsylvania led to nominating District Attorney W. A. Blakeley of Pittsburgh for governor at the Republican state convention in Morrisburg. Blakeley rose to prominence through the Pitt rafters war, a move seen as a counter to the Republican risk after Dalzell's district primaries. Oliver fears a possible Republican defeat could yield a Democratic legislature and jeopardize reelection prospects.
New York June 21 A coroner autopsy found Mrs Margaret Smollen died of general septicaemia from natural causes. Earlier reports claimed mystery surrounding her death at a private sanitarium after an operation. Smollen, 25, heiress worth about 1 million, had been separated from her husband James Leavitt and had gone abroad. The couple’s former chauffeur, James Smollen, nicknamed The Candy Kid, testified as a witness. Corbett aided the investigation and later kept Smollen employed amid her marital troubles.
Crowds flocked to Ponce de Leon despite threatening weather as the park opened for summer. Matthiessen led a two hour big band concert, with daily 2 PM openings and evening Sunday concerts. Amusements show improved appeal and affordable prices. Future dates include Sacred Heart church Sunday school events and other schools and institutes planned at the resort.
Mrs D B Adams twenty four swallowed a large quantity of bichloride of mercury in her room at 61 North Forsyth Street yesterday before 4 30 PM. Boarders alerted a physician who gave temporary aid before Grady Hospital ambulance arrived. She claimed to be employed as a cadet with no stated reason for her despondency. She took 1 1/2 grains of the drug.
Directors of the Atlanta Hydro Electric Power Company accelerate financing for the 5 million bond issue as a court grants the name change from Piedmont Power Company to Atlanta Hydro Electric. The dam across the Tugaloo river will stretch about 70 miles? across the river and create 16,000 horsepower for Atlanta and other points. Birth announced for Lillian Mary daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Smith of 125 Crescent Avenue, granddaughter of Jasper Newton Smith.
Madrid reports Queen Victoria of Spain seeks to outdo Queen Mary by becoming Europe’s first mother of many children. The wager arose during a Wright brothers European tour when Mary claimed court precedence with the aviators. Victoria vows to outpace her rival and keep the details private.
Atlanta Lodge No 78 B P O Elks plans a Flag Day ceremony Tuesday June 24 with a street parade at 7 PM followed by an event at the Grand Opera House at 6 30 PM Exalted Ruler Walter P Andrews leads the parade Ed Clapp Esquire serves as marshal Matinee Music provides both parade and opera house music Decorations will be elaborate and each guest receives a small American flag The public is invited to attend both events and lodge officers will host an evening of entertainment and inspiration.
Early this week a conference will form a plan of campaign with committees from the Chamber of Commerce Ad Men’s Club city council and Merchants and Manufacturers Association. Sam D Jones chairs the chamber group as experts with railroads. Bangkok Manufacturing Company Limited reports 15 250 gross profits and 14 percent dividend.
A telegram to Chief Noe Jennings reports the violent death in Alex andria La of James B Powell, believed to be from Atlanta. Police failed to confirm his identity Sunday night. A fuller investigation is planned as Alexandria officials theorize Powell was cut by a railroad train after initially being killed.
Annual Children's Day exercises were held at Wesley Memorial church yesterday morning with Major KR Guinn as superintendent and the teachers in charge. The congregation filled the lower floor and there were many in the balcony, with special interest in a notable portion of the program.
More than 200 census enumerators in Louisville and Jefferson county formed the Census Enumerators Union No 1 to urge Congress to address extra duties and salary delays. P resident P Tomppert lauds support from sixteen cities as vouchers are sent to Washington. A Sunday meeting is planned to seek decisive action.
Marion Gurganius, his son William Isaac, and John T. Morgan received terms totaling 8 years in a federal prison near Atlanta for the April 18 assassination of Deputy W A Anderson in Alabama. John Gargantua, 16, was sent to reform school for ten years.
In Oakland cemetery yesterday afternoon the J OC Root Camp No 80 Woodmen of the World unveiled elaborate monuments in memory of late Sovereigne Patterson and Wooding. Sovereign H Nelson presided. Rev George W Mullins delivered the day’s oration as a large crowd attended despite cloudy weather. Flowers decorated other graves of society members. a similar ceremony is planned at West View cemetery on Sunday, June 6 for a monument to late Sovereign C Waters.
The C P Glover Realty auctioneer sale at East Lake offered 27 lots with prices ranging from 1133 to 226. Only six missed 600, most bringing over 300. A tallyho carried folks to the scene after two special wars. The primary and kindergarten departments under Wiletta Allen and Vertha Conway presented a program highlighting old Sunday school methods and church hymns. Pastor Rev Frank Siler spoke briefly.
Atlanta post office likely to report receipts exceeding six million dollars for the current year as the fiscal year ends. Receipts for January through May reached about 495,742 dollars, with projections for six months over 3500,000. A new postmaster, DeWitt C. Cole, is expected as the year closes and debates on dividing post office work into two departments continue amid plans for expanded staff and potential creation of a superintendent of mails.
Manager Harry Sloan plans to invite the Old Women's Home to a Thursday matinee at the Lyric featuring Elmo and the stock company. Staging notes praise the company after strong recent shows and name performers such as Emma Bunting, George Whitaker, Edward Leonard, and Miss Bessie Burt.
Rev A R Holderby preached at Moore Memorial church that modern sermons dilute the gospel with sugar coated messages and neglect the true law eternal punishment and duty to God. He warned that theaters draw larger crowds than churches and urged the church to abandon worldly compromise.
Hugh Fullerton praises Mordecai Brown in the June American Magazine for his exceptional Three-Fingered Brown due to a damaged right hand. The article explains his overhand breaking curve, release point, and the extraordinary control that makes his pitches rise, arc wide, or dive sharply depending on release, with rival players acknowledging it as the greatest curve.
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