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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1902
Page
4
VVF offers unrivaled values to thrift shoppers with abundant bargains. Tomorrow's specials aim to meet every demand, making disappointments impossible. The store bills itself as Atlanta’s largest bargain outlet drawing thrifty buyers citywide.
Store changes move Linen Goods and White Goods to left of main aisle near entrance Domestics to right of rear section and Men's Furnishings beyond elevators. Monday offers 15000 yards Nainsook Cambric and Swiss Embroideries up to 19 cents a yard on bargain table and 21000 yards embroideries up to 36 cents a yard on bargain table. Opening of new Music Department with popular songs and piano pieces at lower prices.
Short items report a Macon board meeting postponement due to illness of Commissioner Stevens, funeral notices for Miss Mary Hart and Dewey Parker, and various local notices. Also listed are a drum corps meeting, a wounded contractor on crutches, family updates, bank clearings, council finance, location of manufacturers exhibit, births at 249 Central, mayoral agenda, foreclosure decrees by Judge Newman, and police chief staff reminders.
A Negro man snatched Miss Pearl Parkes pocketbook containing 475 dollars at 6 30 pm on Ivy near Peachtree street and fled. Parkes has described the thief to the police as an effort to locate him. The Atlanta Baptist Sunday School Association schedules a 3 pm meeting at Edgewood Avenue Baptist church with speakers A P Stewart M L Brittam and George Andrews.
G. K. Guerry of Lyons Georgia proposes a system that would let a naval commander control ships from Washington via a curve ray telescope, a wireless telephone, and an automaton on the flagship. The piece mocks late 19th century tech leaders, weighs potential US adoption, and imagines a future where admirals operate battles from afar, provoking reaction and jokes about rewards.
Vineyard Haven Mass March 1 news that the five masted schooner John B. Prescott of Fall River bound from Newport News to Boston with 4209 tons of coal foundered February 23 at latitude 29 north longitude 72.13 west. She was brought in today by the schooner Savannah which stood by and rescued Captain Harding and twelve crew. Built Camden Me 1893 the Prescott measured 230 feet long 44 feet beam and 23 feet depth of hold.
James Bailey, president of the Record Publishing Company, died at 8:30 this morning in Philadelphia. He had been with William M. Singerly since the Record’s founding, starting as a foreman in the composing room and later serving as managing editor. After Singerly’s death he acted as company president.
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