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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
6
A store extols busy staff and fair pay with a two percent bonus on sales. It praises upright workers and notes a profitable Anniversary Sale boosting almost every paycheck. The message emphasizes service, smiling customers, and good will as core store values.
A sale offers embroideries priced from five to twelve fifty with a few pieces at two nineteen. About 600 yards are offered, mainly white materials like crepes voiles glass cloths mulls and linens with some colored novelties. Fabrics range 27 to 45 inches wide and the event emphasizes quality over quantity.
An advertisement touts $1 gloves in black white and tan with variations in stitch. Also promoted are 11-button long gloves at $1.98 made to order by a top French maker in black or white.
YTRACTIVE pleatings of unusual charm have popped from their boxes to greet the 47th Anniversary Sale. Made of shadow laces, marines or chiffons. Some styles combine the two ma terials. White, black, cream and sera, also black with white and white with purple, Copenhagen, green, navy or red, (Main Floor, Right)
Advertisement notes crisp all silk taf feta ribbons with satin back for firm bows and sashes. Available in white, pink or blue, brocaded with four designs, six inches wide. Prices 29 50 cents, highlight on durability over ordinary taffeta.
Oklahoma City May The seventeenth quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South plans a select fifteen member committee to tackle the Vanderbilt University issue after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled the church did not control the university. The bishops urged equal lay and clerical representation on standing committees and reviewed church finances and missions, including Vanderbilt’s loss and potential Carnegie gift implications. Delegates debated federation with the national church, women’s rights, and church governance reforms as the conference runs three weeks.
Several brief notices report the deaths of Louise Cartledge Eva Morris J Murphy Rowzie W S Kincaid Annie Ruth Brown Dorothy Fox Lily Johnson Rosalee Peek. Tributes note ages, family survivors, funeral times, and locations including Patterson's chapel Munday's cemetery Hollywood West View Augusta Ga Dallas Ga Jonesboro Rome and local churches.
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as a powerful blood purifier, claiming it flushes poisons through the skin like sweating, cures eczema and rashes, and quickly banishes eruptions. It urges readers to obtain the bottle from druggists and to avoid substitutes, directing inquiries to the Swift Specific Co. medical department.
The Constitution grants 25,000 extra votes for first subscriptions before midnight May 9, open to all candidates. Start now to gather votes and boost your chances with a large prize pool and cash rewards for new subscriptions. Many prizes listed including Oakland Touring Cars and Ludden & Bates pianos, plus $10 per $100 of new subs for non winners.
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