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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1910
Page
105
Dr William M Baird argues against fake cures and overhyped X rays pointing out that genuine value comes from proper diagnosis and patient education. He warns against excessive use of proprietary medicines and proclaims his long focus on chronic diseases while offering open office access and transparent methods.
The article discusses Georgia likely enacting a competent weights and measures law after states like New York and Massachusetts and highlights Fulton county’s missing standard weights. It criticizes the current dead letter rule, notes lack of penalties, and cites moves by Secretary of State Philip Cook and others to pursue stronger enforcement.
Gainesville Ga May 21 Special Monday May 30 promises a gala day as the National Rural Letter Carriers Association ninth district holds its annual session. Speakers include W F Crusselle of The Atlanta Constitution on the duty of patrons to carriers Hon P H Lindsey ex president of the National Association on the organization and Hon Hoke Smith on the progress of the South since the sixties. All carriers in the district are urged to attend and the public is invited.
Americus Georgia May 21 special announces tentative program for the Georgia Press Association annual convention. July 13 a 60 mile automobile tour with a Country Club stop for refreshments and July 12 a banquet at the armory hall. Expenses to be shared by Americus and Sumter County with 1500 apiece. Committees plan extensive entertainment and a large ladies committee will organize. Fifty autos expected to transport visitors and escorts.
Cartersville Georgia on May 31 will host a municipal cleaning up day led by Cherokee Club civic improvement committees. Mrs Oscar T Peeples heads the new club which will award cash prizes for best kept front yards with five dollars for white citizens and two fifty for colored citizens. The city will provide a wagon and crews will clear trash from streets and yards starting at 9 am with bells and a prolonged fire bell sounding.
Bainbridge Ga May 21 Special The Bainbridge public school faculty was elected with all former members reelected except Miss Griffin who did not apply and Miss Lu elie Chariton of Senora chosen to fill her place. Miss Williams the music teacher was not an applicant and Miss Belle Arnold will take her place. Closing exercises were held Friday night at the opera house with plans for a new school building and bonds to be voted soon for a $60 000 school house.
Cartersville Ga May 21 Special The Bartow county Masonic convention meets in its thirteenth annual session at Kingston on Tuesday May 31 Speakers after dinner include Henry Banks grand master of the state Past Master Max Mergerhardt and Thomas H Jeffries of Atlanta.
In New York on May 21, Clara Morris near death asks for Mollie Revel to be brought to her bedside to extend her life. Doctors fear she may pass away soon as her wife’s eyesight worsens. An advertisement pleads for Revel as specialists monitor Morris’s deteriorating condition.
The former United States postoffice building in Americus Georgia a three story marble structure owned by the Karrold estate was purchased today by the Americus Bank of Commerce and will be converted into a modern banking house for use by the bank. The building is among the handsome edifices in south Georgia.
Atlanta adopts an ordinance creating a city inspector of weights to test scales of all dealers monthly and to verify coal and wagon weights. The appointee serves two years at 100 dollars monthly, posts 2000 dollar bond, and can be removed for incompetence. He may enter stores and seize inaccurate scales and compel weight verifications.
The Bartow county teachers institute will be held in Cartersville June 6 to 16 at the public school building. Prominent educators attending include Professor RH Powell state supervisor of rural schools Mrs Walter B Hi0 of the school improvement work and Professor Hite with an assistant from the extension of the college of Agriculture. All farmers in the county interested in the work are invited.
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