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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1909
Page
5
Direct sale of whiskies claims no commissioned agents, asserting legality and high quality. Advertises six to twelve quart shipments, prepaid express, Kentucky blends aged five to eight years, with prices and mispelled promotions. States Southern Distributors for a brand, listing various volumes and 100 proof claims.
An old two story Crossroads Inn near Norcross on the Chattahoochee river road in Gwinnett County stands as a century old landmark. Once a Cherokee trading post and stagecoach stop, it housed a post office and mail system, with wax seals and 12 1/2 cent postage. Parts of an old coach, a muster ground, and hidden passages hint at a storied past and slave-era activity. Now empty, the inn sits near Stone Mountain, haunted by legends and time. Dora Riser Webster.
Brussels chief clerk to the state health department mails diplomas to thirty doctors recently passed by the state board of medical examiners. The papers are handsome and signed by the board members.
Anticipation runs high as couples prepare for spring weddings with gift ideas centered on silver tableware. Families often select a common pattern and coordinate all gifts to harmonize with it. We offer chests made to order and stock patterns totaling about a score.
Atlanta citizens discuss widening the East Point road via donated land not purchased by county. Board ready to act once property owners donate land. many holdouts fear uneven burden. Fullerton urges immediate action to avoid delays and safety risks from traffic congestion and frequent accidents on the road.
Hart Superior court convenes with new officers to hear Hugh Wall’s case. Wall, white, was convicted of manslaughter in 1908 for killing John Norris with a shovel during a gambling dispute at Wall’s Hartwell home. He received fifteen years, now to seek a new trial after a reversal by the court of appeals.
A track walker spotted a washout between Lulu and Cornelia on a southern railway line on Friday night. He warned approaching trains, preventing a possible wreck as north and southbound locals halted and a relief crew built a temporary trestle, delaying the New York and New Orleans Limited by about eleven and a half hours.
Boston Mass March 18 All women who decline to remove their hats are barred from the First Baptist church of Somerville Mass according to an announcement by the trustees who after study for some time decided to promulgate the new rule last night The measure targets headwear in services.
Discover a claimed skin remedy claiming to purify blood and clear boils pimples and eczema. The advertisement urges letter requests for a free trial package of Stuart's Calcium Wafers and notes druggists and physicians endorse the product.
Rudolph Wintzer of Buffalo orders and receives a 30 horsepower Overland motor car from the Atlantic Motor Company agent in Atlanta after inspection of a 500 horsepower gas engine installed recently for the Georgia Railway and Electric Company. Wintzer, a leading gun engine expert, will drive the vehicle in Atlanta for a few weeks before shipment to Buffalo where he is chief engineer of the Snow Steam Pump Company.
The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers executive committee will meet at the association headquarters in New York on April 7 to fix the date for Atlanta’s show. The Boston exhibit closes a successful season as other cities like Denver St Louis and Beeton have held shows and Atlanta eyes nationwide access to the south. The Atlanta committee awaits the New York conference to harmonize plans with national coordination and secure hearty cooperation. The exact date will be decided to fit the overall circuit and assured success.
Letter from Lucius L. Middlebroook of Covington Georgia dated March 12 1909 urges Governor elect Brown to appoint a Confederate veteran as adjutant general of Georgia over younger candidates. He argues veterans are better suited for the post, cites a Georgia regiment in the Spanish American War and General Lawton’s Philippines campaign, and endorses veterans under 62 who remain fit. He signs respectfully.
Special report from Montgomery dated March 18 notes doctors in the Anti Tuberculosis League of Montgomery pushing for a regular purse to care for patients. It reports 882 deaths in Montgomery last year, including 101 among the Negro population, and mentions Black physicians joining the effort to address the high death toll.
Washington gossip column notes that Alexander Stephens would have approved of addressing Philander Knox as Mr Knox while hinting he would be a great secretary of state. It recalls Mrs Josiah Obl and her daughter in Washington social circles and mentions Obl’s real estate sale near Cleveland Park. It also covers forestry bill struggles, congressional bill fate, payroll and appropriations totals, and a weather forecaster’s awkward White House visit with Taft.
The Atlanta real estate men, by a special committee, pass a resolution mourning the death of E P Black a prominent coal dealer and valuable city citizen. The statement praises his integrity, friendship, and public spirit and extends condolences to his bereaved family.
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