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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1914
Page
8
Sood pines over EW SILKS prices that crown the May Sale as the banner silk event of the year. The display uses mammoth window shows and the Silk Annex at 8:30. Featured items include $5 latins, $2.63, crepes, poplins, and beaded chiffons in a range of solid colors, patterns, and 40 inch widths.
Federal troops on the ground in Colorado quell the strike zone as regulars relieve state troops and strikers disperse. Leaders report disarmament talks with strikers under way while guards stay armed to protect company property. authorities urge peaceful withdrawal and rebuilding efforts begin in Ludlow and Forbes.
A Fulton County voter letter accuses MR TULL C WATERS of withdrawing convicts from major public works to build a boulevard across General Clifford L Anderson’s farm, arguing it wastes time and pays favor to Warren Bros and real estate interests while neglecting paving streets and sewers.
Several obituaries and funeral notices appear. Miss Lula Flowers of Doraville Ga dies at her home on Peachtree Road near Deraville and is to be buried at Prospect church after services by Rev V E Sanford. Dr and Mrs George Newton Flowers and siblings survive. Mr M Travis of Riverdale dies at 70. funeral at Pleasant Grove church with interment in church yard. ten children and a large surviving family listed. Miss Lula Flowers funeral planned for Prospect church with 1215 Southem train access noted. Avery Austin, 20, a Decatur druggist, dies at home. funeral at 2 pm at 3 North Church Street, interment West View. Mrs Beavers of Lawrenceville dies at 80. leaves several children including Mrs Alice T Smith.
Various notices report deaths including Lula Heil aged 45 who died Thursday at a private sanitarium with funeral plans pending in Quince, Florida. Other fragments reference plaintiffs in error and state court matters, plus references to Camden and East Point events, shipwrecks, and unrelated local legal phrases. The text is garbled and parts mention Beare and Beale’s chapel, Odd Fellows, and funeral arrangements, with scattered names and procedural terms.
A garbled district court docket-style notice lists numerous defendants in error and plaintiffs in error in Georgia appellate decisions. Names include Rigdon, Brown, Estes, Blach, Fidelit, Phentit, Wright, Culpepper, Harwell, Culpepper, Harbort, McLaughlin, Fones, Adams, Chistian, Williams, Lowndes, Skomus, Leaiklin, Langdale, Wilkes, Morris, Greer, Stokes, Hazlehurst, Swain, and Meaday among others. The paragraph references several counties and judges such as Morgan, Bleckshear, Park, Shoeffield, Post, York, Thomas, Greer, and Meaday, with mentions of various state and city courts and a juristic context of plaintiffs in error and defendants in error across multiple cases.
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