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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1912
Page
3
Delegates from southern states gather for the Southern Shoe Retailers Association third annual meeting at the Piedmont hotel. Mayors and chamber leaders welcome guests, with executive sessions, a buffet luncheon, theater party, and a smokers’ reception shaping a bustling Atlanta visit.
Visitors to the shoe association convention enjoyed a buffet luncheon at the Transporta tion Club after a morning adjournment from the Piedmont. President Meadors delivered the annual address outlining the association’s three year history since New Orleans. J K Orr of Atlanta spoke and James H Stone of Boston followed. Evening entertainment included a Forsyth theater party and an Atlanta Club smoker. Officers and executives were listed, with sessions to continue today including a luncheon, city tour, and factory visit ending in a Piedmont banquet with toastmaster F J Paxon.
Washington reports Senator Stephenson’s election was accused of bribery and corruption with money and improper influence. Senator Kenyon and others disputed the majority findings, calling the methods a riot of corruption and urging expulsion for the use of vast money to secure a seat.
The Department of Justice orders U S Marshal Grant Victor to enforce federal prohibition in eastern Oklahoma and the former Indian Territory. About 200 deputy marshals to aid, plus up to 30 federal commissioners and possibly a new judge to handle liquor cases. Possession or transfer of liquor across state lines becomes a penitentiary offense. all liquor will be seized.
New York City vital statistics tabulation shows about 11 300 births per month, with 3 000 born to foreign mothers and 3 500 to American mothers. The data highlight the share of births to foreign-born mothers in the city.
North Liberty population 250 near Iowa City reports the largest share of big men in the middle west. Five men total 1,580 pounds with an average of 316. Names: Miles Gordon 371, J P L ninger 239, C H E Stewart 310, M J Stener 285, S P Finch 285.
Jeffersonville Ind March 4 After 14 years guiding an insane asylum Sister Mary Regina Kerr turned violent at Mercy Hospital. She ordered attendants out and barred doors while inmates watched a fight before reinforcements arrived. She was removed to a sanitarium in Council Bluffs last night cited as overwork.
Indiana news reports the frozen body of Miss Mary Batchelor, 26, a former Indiana and Depauw student, found on her brother attorney George H. Batchelor's back porch. Death attributed to heart trouble. The woman had been visiting a neighbor and was not missed until the Batchelor family returned home late.
London reports that the United States annexed Palmyra Island southwest of Hawaii where the cruiser West Virginia planted the Stars and Stripes. Francis Dyke Acland said Britain had long abandoned the island and has no interest, noting it was sold for a dollar and inhabited only by crabs.
A ten coach demonstration train left Baton Rouge carrying Louisiana farm exhibits. It showcases improved farming machinery disease prevention livestock care and canning apparatus along with corn club exhibits. A sleeper coach houses experts and lecturers for stops across the state with illustrated talks and moving pictures for evening sessions.
March 4 report from the ways and means committee favors the free sugar bill alongside the excise bill. The income provisions and enforcement details are to be reported for further action.
Fourteen ministers from nine denominations in Chicago decide by lot the pulpits for next Sunday. No pastor will speak from his own pulpit, and each will address the theme church union. They form the West Central Ministerial Union and hold weekly clearing house day to align parishioner preferences with the chosen churches.
Cambridge, March 4. Professor George Reisner of Harvard, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx’s identity, plans this month to explore the head cavity he found in the statue. He will proceed from Alexandria to the monument with full excavation equipment.
New York reports the first crew of queueless Chinamen arriving in the port aboard the Anglo American Oil Company's steamship Kennebec from the Far East. The cargo, valued over 2 million dollars, included copra sago kooskoos buako muteckee salted busts and human hair. The crew severed their queues in Hankow to show support for the rebels but saved their pig tails for possible reattachment if the Manchus regain power.
Peru Indiana March 4 After ten years as a circus clown Raleigh L Wilson of Lincoln Nebraska resigns to devote himself to the ministry He reserved the right to return to the circus if he willed He first tested a pulpit in Minnesota last summer joining a church group and delivering a sermon praised by church leaders
The notice invites readers seeking health and strength for themselves or loved ones to obtain Ozomulsion cod liver oil emulsion, highlighted as palatable and easy to take. A generous 3-ounce bottle will be mailed to those who send their address by postcard or letter to Ozomulsion, 548 Fear St., N. e.
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