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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1905
Page
13
The Atlanta city salesmen enjoyed the annual outing to Tyheechina aboard a comfortable train with low rates. The large excursion featured seaside amusements and entertainment, praised by organizers as a permanent, popular event that brought congenial participants from Atlanta and highlighted excellent order throughout the trip.
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute announces a short summer school and camera institute from July 5 to August 2. Lectures and demonstrations include speakers WW M Hays Jon Wine and others. Special prizes offer cash for best corn ear yield, best average, and poultry care, with prizes ranging from $3 to $18 for various competitions.
In Texas on June 24 the jury found V V Lee Robertson a Black defendant guilty of attempted criminal assault against a white woman and fixed his punishment at life in the state penitentiary as spectators cheered despite court warnings.
Health department notes about one baby born every five minutes in New York city for a week. Reported births raise the city’s birth rate to about 30 per 1000 last year, with expectations it will reach 32 per 1000 in 1906. The rise follows past concerns over race death by own action and places New York above other cities.
A report to the surgeon general from Captain Ashford shows 95 percent of about 100,000 Porto Ricans near Abon Wo are afflicted by the lazy worm. A field hospital is set up at Abzontia with a $15,000 appropriation to eradicate the disease using last year’s methods. The program aims to educate locals and expand treatment as authorities note strong public response and rising demand for care.
The city’s political scene grows lively as ward primaries return after last year’s general nomination system vote. Candidates for alderman and council seats are named across wards, with strong contenders in Second Ward, First Ward, Third Ward, and others. The shift to ward primaries aims to maintain high standards in local government.
The Atlanta Y M C A reports final examinations for its night school program. A large cohort of adult students nationwide completed courses across subjects taught by an international committee of examiners. Successful participants include Frank Bandy, H V Dean, E H El red, Charles Heard, and others in arithmetic, bookkeeping, English, electricity, mechanical drawing, Spanish, stenography, and typing.
Beaumont Texas June 24 Excessive rainfall has devastated the rice crop in southwest Texas and southwest Louisiana. An estimated sixty percent of the late sown crop will need replanting as heavy rain and floods persist. Damaging floodwaters and washed out young rice threaten the season with further rain forecast into the week.
W H Gregory of Louisville Ky, president of Citizens Life Insurance Company, hired H H Cabaniss in Atlanta to manage the Georgia state operation. Gregory, a Georgian with Kentucky capital backing, built a fast growing company with eight and a half million dollars in policy writing in under eight months. The article lauds Gregory and the company’s rapid Southern expansion, noting Cabaniss as a prominent newspaper executive.
Eleanor Virginia Ivey infant daughter of Mr and Mrs W D Ivey and granddaughter of Mr and Mrs J O Waddel died at Cedartown on June 19 1905.
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