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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1910
Page
10
A physician with 33 years in the field offers confident claims on treating stricture, syphilis, and chronic gonorrhea with humane methods. He promises free examinations, broad office hours, and mailed booklets titled Diseases of Men and Health Essays in plain packaging on request.
The article recalls 19th century Atlanta theater life at the Iltire theater on Decatur Street with actors like Neafie and Iago roles, plus the dramatic testimonial of Ayole. It notes a near lynching of Wiligin Choice, the disguising tactic by Marshal Whit Anderson, and memories of Adah Isaacs Menken and Jack Sheppard performances. It also mentions Warren county progress, Judge A W Fite praising Cartersville’s Glorious Fourth, and Bartow’s name change honoring Francis Bartow, with references to Govs Worthen Atkinson Terrell Smith and the Palmetto Regiment leader John J Martin.
Washington report on Charles Diver a motorman mortally injured while saving passengers during an electric flu crisis after a broken feed wire on the Cabin John Bridge line. He leaped to shield two women with a newspaper in hand, was engulfed in flames, and died after being treated at a local hospital. His wife had just become a mother two weeks earlier.
Culpeper Virginia June 20 Specials A striking object lesson in the value of good roads showed the 20 mile coal haul from Southern Railway tracks to Sperryville by a three ton motor truck. The 18 tons of coal were moved in two and a half days, four trips, previously two weeks by a six mule team. The Smoot Sons Company tannery at Sperryville will use the truck to transfer coal and hides to the tannery and goods to market. Federal aid for better roads is urged to end the “bad roads tax” and reduce transport costs for farmers and manufacturers.
In 1846 the Palmetto regiment encamped on the Atlanta hotel block near the old Georgia road near Marthasville later named Atlanta. The veteran recalls Marthasville as muddy and small, meeting Bondwey Kind locals, and describes rail progress, the West Point road, and a 30 mile march out to Montgom ery. He served in Mexico and advised Douglas and Stephens at the courthouse before 1860. He notes Atlanta’s growth to about 6,000 and his residence on McDonough Street now Capitol Avenue.
From the Progressive Farmer and Gazette, Raleigh NC, the article describes early chick care to prevent sleepiness and bowel issues. It warns against removing chicks from the mother prematurely and advises weekly topical greasing while hens brood. Remedies for drooping chicks include scraped raw Irish potato, boiled meat and red color mix, and venetian red mixed with molasses to create a pink mash.
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