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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1906
Page
13
A local retailer advertises a large Panama hat collection with genuine one piece Panamas and extraselects. Hats range from five dollars to one hundred dollars, including options at seven fifty ten twelve fifty fifteen eighteen and twenty dollars. Special high price hats claim weeks of labor by South American weavers. Come tomorrow and browse or buy.
A discussion of American bridge design praising aesthetic aims and noting Boston's forthcoming West Boston bridge across the Back Bay. It highlights the push for monumental, artistically styled spans, cites major examples like Croton Water works, Cabin John, and Eads bridges, and credits public funding and the Boston Elevated Railway for the new structure linking Boston to Cambridge and Harvard Square.
The six month term of the Atlanta Bible School ended Friday night with afternoon addresses by Hon W B Merritt and Rev Dr Seddon. Merritt thanked Dr Hunt and colleagues for their work while night speakers included Walker White Edward Young Clarke and Rev E Dowman. Whites talk urged youth service to God. Clarke spoke on The Awakening Appreciation of the Bible. Dowman praised skilled workmen and the Bible school’s usefulness. Instructors included Rev Rolfe Hunt DD Rev MoE Fair Mrs Rolfe Hunt and Miss Nellie Gray with several special lecturers.
A fragment describes a jail scene with Fannie Jones, a stylish shoplifter, boasting about stolen dry goods. The recorder mocks her, noting evidence while she explains buying fabrics from various stores as gifts. Another piece recounts Uncle Joe Harvis, an old darkey cited for drunken rants during a possum hunt tale.
Important conference in Minneapolis brings together Southern Western and Northern lumber associations including Yellow Pine Northern Pine Pacific Coast and Northwestern Harlock to standardize grade nomenclature and unify terms across regions to avoid regional discrepancies in inch boards by grade.
In a crowded recorder court session, Beutel's family quarrel over care of his daughter and stepson led to a custody decision. The girl will live with their aunt, while Beutel must pay up to five dollars weekly for support. Another case against Strickland for neglect and theft of his wife's belongings highlighted ongoing family poverty and strain.
An important meeting of the Credit Men's Association of Atlanta will be held tomorrow night at 8 15 o'clock in the assembly hall of the Piedmont hotel. President Wilmer S. Moore will preside. A Dutch supper is planned. The adjustment bureau will report, the legislative committee will present recommendations for needed legislation, and the election of officers for the ensuing year is on the program. Delegates will attend the national Association of Credit Men sessions in Baltimore June 13 to 18. Officers include Walmer L. Moore president, Clark first vice president, Kiser second vice president, Ernest L. Rhodis secretary and treasurer. The executive committee comprises W Harlan, Joseph A Mcnard, F Mugen, Alfred Lrultt, and M tdugh White.
Augusta Ga May records show the chamber of commerce directing a move to create a state bureau of immigration and urging similar bodies in the state to press for action. A New York financier affiliated with the Augusta Chronicle contributed notes about the effort and thanked supporters at the quarterly meeting.
The association known as a street enterprise marks twenty years of activity. It reports a successful but cautious operation, with several members needing care after a recent incident. Authorities advise caution as investigations proceed to learn the full extent of the events.
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