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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1912
Page
7
Social items note moves within town and visits. Hollister Hive No 1 plans a regular review at 12 Alabama street on March 14 with meeting at 3 o'clock sharp. Various residents are visiting, traveling, or ill, including Connerats, Martins, Sisson, Wessels, Carston family, and Drs Blalock Houk Childs.
A string of local guests and travelers are listed from Miss Lamar to Mrs. Brantley. Names include Duey Hoke Smith Annig Lee Meek and Jacksons in New York and Florida trips. Mrs Luther Rosser and Miss Rosser return from two months in Florida. Various residents travel between Georgia Florida and North Carolina visiting family and friends.
Norfolk reports the Virginia Polytechnic Institute commandant of cadets and many cadets develop sudden bald spots after recent haircuts. The mass close clipping shocks mess hall observers and prompts doctors to treat colds affecting about twenty cadets. In Florida a sailor in Key West is stabbed to death in a saloon by a civilian, with the victim J Goodwin from Roe North Carolina nearing the end of his enlistment.
Special report from Macon recounts Jesse B. Hart closing a deal for a 16 story hotel on Plum street between Second and Third. The $30,000 project includes a five year lease to William T. Ragan. This brings Macon to four new hotels in a year amid ongoing construction on others.
Windman Smith 66, a Hampton county farmer, left a note for his family then drowned himself in Lowndes Lake near noon. His body was recovered floating on the lake surface. Officials cite mental derangement as the reason for the act.
Austin March 12 State Labor Commissioner Starling refutes a federal report claiming Texas cotton mills are deplorable. He states he investigated conditions and found no truth to the accusations and says wages and men on the Patronage List of loan sharks are misrepresented.
New Orleans March 12 A damage suit for 100 000 was filed by Leo V Hastings 26 born in Donegal Ireland a Trinity College graduate and noted athlete against Natalbany and Natchez Railroad Company alleging a December accident while coupling cars left him hopelessly paralyzed deaf and blind in one eye and paralyzed on one side with severe mental anguish over ruined life and ambitions.
The piece argues premature gray hair stems from sickness nerves blood and nutrition with heredity cited. It promotes Robinnaire Hair Dye as a pure restorative not a bleach claiming it returns color and health while cautions about scalp conditions and dandruff needing treatment.
Columbus, Ohio March 12 Willam Jennings Bryan urged the state constitutional convention to adopt the initiative and referendum and recall arguing the recall is an evolution not a revolution. He praised recall for empowering the people while defending judicial independence and warning against delaying reform. Governor Harmon previously favored waiting to test these measures elsewhere.
New Orleans March 12 Happy a well known city fire horse perished in a stall fire at Patrol No 2. Firemen answered a call to another blaze when flames raced through a shed in the rear of the patrol station. Barking dogs alerted workers but the fire had already damaged part of the station and stalls before it was controlled.
Two Besant children in Troy Alabama were badly burned when a kerosene can exploded while a 2 year old played with it and spilled oil. The 5 year old sister tried to help and was burned as well as the mother who attempted to extinguish the flames.
The Atlanta Club porter and his family are hired by Dave Montgomery of Montgomery and Stone for his New York household. Though born in Missouri and based in New York, Montgomery maintains Southern ties and often visits the South. Manager Hugh Cardoza facilitated the arrangement, with a transportation fee of 75 dollars. The trio departed for New York on Monday.
Marion Lawrence pleaded guilty to bringing a young girl from Louisville Kentucky for immoral purposes. In federal court Judge Locke fined her 560 dollars and suspended a prison term on her promise to leave Tampa.
An old style ad promotes removing blemishes and blotches by mercurialized wax beauty treatment. It claims powders and paints worsen appearance and suggests nightly use of mercurized wax with cold cream, washed away with water and soap each morning to absorb dead skin flakes.
Washington March 12 The government argues in the US Supreme Court to dissolve the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger. Attorney General Wickersham Kellogg and Severance present briefs after April 1. Government says two rail systems compete across Missouri to California and seeks to apply rule of reason to restraints on expansion and rates.
John D. Culley, a Foster & Robson clerk, testified that Dr. Frank Edmondson struck him with a whip causing a black eye at the Georgian apartments. The physician admitted striking Culley but said it was with a flat, not a whip. Judge Broyles fined Edmondson $25 plus costs.
In Birmingham, two boilermakers, Claude Drake and R A Walton, were fatally stabbed in the lavatory lobby of a hotel by Benjamin F. Crossland a New York stationary engineer. The men accused Crossland of being a scab after a dispute over unions. Both victims died from their wounds.
Mrs. William Kelly of 167 Angier Avenue is happy with two diamond rings found yesterday morning by Detectives Pate and Rosser. A Negro maid, Lois Jackson, was arrested for petty larceny after allegedly sporting the rings before being brought to detective headquarters.
A Pensacola theater roof was partially blown away by a severe storm. Winds felled trees and damaged houses while harbor craft and docks suffered heavy impact. Rain drenched the audience and several people suffered minor cuts from shattered glass as panic nearly ensued.
An 1900s style column promotes home hair removal with delatone paste and a magatone witch hazel rinse for soft complexion. It also sells Mother's Salve for pain relief and a dry shampoo made from cornmeal and box contents to lighten and soften hair.
Marjorie H. Hamilton, famed calendar girl and weight loss pioneer, is courted by Denver suffragists to head a historic political push. Despite public interest and her beauty platform slogan Fat Vanishes a Pound a Day she declines candidacy to focus on her business, while organizers press for her endorsement and influence.
A Norfolk confession from Miss Trix Cooper describes a yearlong left side pain. After prolonged illness and failed remedies she credits Cardus, the tonic, with rapid improvement within a week and full restoration within two weeks. The ad urges women to write to the Ladies Aid Dept in Chattanooga Tenn. for treatment details.
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