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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1912
Page
2
Marietta council resumed work on repaving a street section from Tabernacle Place to North Avenue. Only one bid for asphalt macadam and Woodstock paving failed to meet specifications. Property owners had limited costs to $2 per front foot, so a new petition will be prepared asking for preferred pavement type within seven days.
Joe Curtis reports the Atlanta Ad Men Club's delegation of 3 452 people in 752 cars paraded past cameras for an al fresco Dallas News luncheon at the Country Club. The Atlanta banners and linen dusters proclaimed Atlanta Always Ahead as Georgia and Atlanta parties headquarters grew with speeches at the Dallas Press Club. The Associated Advertising Clubs of America reported a 70 percent membership surge to 9 781, with 44 new clubs across 19 states and regions, and George W. Coleman urged greater home use of advertising especially by women.
A report to the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Manufacturers Association urges continued warfare on the closed shop. It calls for enforcing the union label on city printing while a rival committee promotes open shop printing and urges patronage of nonunion printers.
Louisville May 20 The 1918 general assembly of the Northern Presbyterian church was awarded to Atlanta Ga with Rochester and Atlantic City withdrawing. Atlanta will host four branches of the church in 1913 under the Pan Presbyterian Pentecostal Union. The assembly debated pensions and a $100 000 endowment fund for ministerial relief and sustentation with a joint twelve member board effective July 18 112. Consideration on the intermediate catechism continues tomorrow.
Lincoln Memorial hall at the Temperance Industrial and Collegiate Institute in Claremont Va was dedicated with Governor Mann presiding. The plant is valued at $750,000 and serves Black students nationwide. founded twenty years ago by John J. Smallwood with ten pupils and under $50 cash. Mrs. John Hay contributed to the $50,000 tuna for Lincoln hall.
Bodies of two of the five people who drowned when an automobile plunged through an open draw at Ninety second street and the Calumet river were recovered today and tonight. Anna Mahoney and John Boyd identified by clothing and letters. Florence Mahoney, sister of Anna, and John W are among the others missing.
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