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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1921
Page
18
A letter fragment shows an uncle requesting a hundred dollar draft and a birthday gift for Mrs Zander. He asks for a card to be enclosed and sent on a specific date, with instructions to kiss Chester and express appreciation. The tone is personal and urgent.
Yaarab Temple caravan arrived in Chicago from Des Moines en route to Atlanta. Medinah Temple nobles hosted entertainment after a lake tour and a big league baseball game visit. Potentate Heinz and wife planned a Cleveland stop to boost Kiwanis before the caravan heads to Atlanta.
A prominent New York importing firm criticizes House resolution 0734, the Volstead draft to enforce Prohibition. The letter lampoons the measure as making medicines and foods less wholesome, mocks the use of crude alcohol in medicine, and predicts broad ridicule if the bill passes.
Memphis Tenn June 17 W A Campbell an automobile mechanic and his wife were shot and killed at their home following a quarrel with Noble Davidson a newspaper employee who fired on them with a rifle Davidson disappeared after the shooting His wife has recently obtained a divorce Mrs Campbell had testified for Mrs Davidson Davidson said the shooting was in self defense and that Mrs Campbell was accidentally killed Davidson surrendered later this afternoon
New York fire department declares toy balloons a fire hazard after tests show they could explode when touched by a cigarette. An ordinance to ban sale of these toys will be sent to the board of aldermen. Also noted is a novel invention of two gear wheels and a chain operated by a crank to raise and lower limousine car windows.
Salvatore Cala, 31, Italian, confesses in writing to aiding the murder of Daniel Kaber, Cleveland publisher, stabbed in his bed with an accomplice named Victoria Pusselli. The confession, 12 pages, claims colla borated plan by Emma Colavito and a midwife, with Cala paid $5,000. Extradition papers are prepared as Cala says he saw no partner for 15 months. Mrs Eva Catherine Kaber seeks dismissal of the murder indictment while the trial date is set for June 28.
Henry Lincoln Johnson, the Negro Republican national committeeman for Georgia, conferred with President Harding at the White House but said they did not discuss politics. He refused to reveal the purpose of his visit or other errands that brought him to the executive offices.
Edinburgh June 17 Three Americans were elected vice presidents of the International Association of Rotary Clubs in the closing session after a ballot. Ralph W. Cummings Lancaster Pa first vice president Billy Copelick Council Bluffs Iowa second vice president H J Luther Stark Orange third vice president Dr Crawford McCullough Fort William Ontario unanimously elected president G Sloan London presented bound copies of A History of the English People and scarves of Nottingham lace. The Longmont Colorado and San Francisco clubs won travel and women attendance trophies while the UK secured the International gold trophy.
Clifford Coleman, a fugitive from justice, forfeited $200 bail in Everett Washington on a liquor charge after police found him with two stills. He told officers he planned to work his way through college by moonshining.
In Poughkeepsie a sensational Stillman divorce case unfolds over a telegram read as a baby birth notice. The defense argues the phrase Little Black Bear arrived signified a family code to inform a guide of a boy’s birth, while nurse Gilligan testifies of visits and a ring gift, as testimony seeks to prove cohabitation near the birth time.
In Chattanooga on June 17 Judge M C Tarver issued an order at Dalton directing Sheriff W M Holmes to hold a carload of liquor seized en route from a Kentucky distillery to California druggists in the jail at Trenton Dade county under guard until further orders The Alabama Great Southern railroad counsel Judge M M Allison will ask the federal court in Atlanta to make permanent the temporary injunction preventing destruction of the whisky and to return the shipment to the railroad so it may proceed to its destination
Augusta Ga June 17 Special The Augusta Aiken Railway and Electric Co won a temporary injunction from Judge Henry C Hammond preventing Augusta from enforcing a 1901 ordinance to place wires underground. A hearing to extend the injunction permanently is set for July 18. City notified company deadlines carry $100 daily fines or 90 days imprisonment.
Washington reports a government rebalance as Brigadier General Charles T. Menoher withdraws his recommendation to relieve Brigadier General William Mitchell. Mitchell promises not to repeat actions that angered Menoher as Secretary Weeks seeks a stable aviation leadership. Congress weighs abolishing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, raising concerns over civilian control of flight. The NAC was formed in 1915 with military, Smithsonian, weather, standards, and civilian members including Orville Wright.
Denver June 17 The annual AFL convention defeated attempts to unseat delegates who lacked union labels on clothing. The tailors' union sought pre entry checks while the garment workers argued enforcement impossible in a voluntary federation. Benjamin Schiessinger labeled the resolution discriminatory against women workers.
In Colquitt superior court Judge Thomas ordered the grand jury to investigate reports of mob violence following the murder of Lorene Wilkes a 12 year old white girl at Autreyville The court convened in Moultrie Ga on June 17 and urged careful inquiry into disturbances surrounding the crime.
Mrs Emma K Ramsey of Everett Massachusetts praises Priest Drug Co Indigestion Powder saying she gained weight and overall benefit. She would recommend it and notes a friend supplied a trial bottle. For sale to all druggists with ordering instruction and sampler offered.
A primary session investigates a murder with John Henry Williams, identified as a negro, held in Columbus jail for safekeeping. The article notes ongoing legal proceedings and the detention of Williams as part of the case.
F Robin Graham, 42, died at home 82 West Fifth Street. He worked with the Atlanta branch of New York Life Insurance and held prominence in Masonic circles with Malta lodge Atlanta Consistory and Yaarab temple. Survived by wife, three sons John LEngle and Robin, mother Mrs Caroline Robinson Graham, and brother Carroll R Graham of Bainbridge, Georgia. Perry, Ga June 17 special Lydia Barfield Wasner wife of John A Wasner died at home on Macon Street and was buried in Barfield family cemetery about two miles north of town. Wasner was 62 years old.
A summary of multiple obituary notices from Perry and surrounding Georgia towns. The items report several deaths including Mrs. Sarah S. Clark aged 80 with survivors W. Smith and J. B. Harrison and others. Idawee Harlan Jackson infant daughter of Mr and Mrs T Jackson. Mrs. J F McWaters dies at 447 East Fair Street with husband and eight children listed as survivors. other lines mention Mrs. J Gaddy and Mrs. Mattie Morris and J M K Barfield and Frank Barfield as survivors in extended family notices.
Local lodges issue notices calling members to attend services and meetings. B R B G A 35% asks all members to vote on wage reductions Sunday June 19 at Enbor Temple at 9 30. Capital City Lodge 642 meets at 423 Marietta street Saturday after noon at 1 for last tribute to Brother Ailand. Malta Lodge 41 invites all to St Lukes Episcopal church at Peachtree and Alexander at 2 15 for tribute to deceased Brother Robin Graham.
The notice lists multiple obituaries and funeral details for James Frank Head Sarah E Head Cora G Baden Carrie E Barton L F Miller Thomas Strickland Byrd G H R Barnett and Sarah Clark. Services span Antioch church Milledgeville Lawrenceville Greenwood South Bend with interments and funeral directors Awtry Lowndes Poole Brandon Donehoo Bazemore.
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