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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1914
Page
6
Advertisment notes ONYX silk stockings retailing at $1.50 to $2.00 with choices of three weights. Describes full plump silk with smooth finish, uniform threads and variations such as life feet, silk tops, or lined tops. All black, sizes to 10, price $1.19 in a sale.
The 47th Anniversary Sale features regular and outsize silk petticoats in high grade fabrics. Numerous styles include embroidered scalloped flounce, jersey satin, messaline, and all silk varieties in black, white, and shades. Most items valued up to $6, offered at $2.47 Saturday.
Advertisement lists various cosmetic powders and toiletries with prices from 3c to 49c. Items include Williams Violet or Carna tion talcum, Bradley’s toilet waters, Jor Cold Cream, Woodbury’s Face Powder, Latella invisible Powder, Pompeian Massage Cream, and Coryloposig Talcum Powder. Main Floor Center.
Atlanta's council and school board nearly swooned at a luncheon hosted by Girls High and English Commercial High faculties. Jessie Muse and Mrs Wise led a 700 student tribute with speeches to the mayor, councilmen, and the schools, following a salary-equalization resolution.
Witness details pressure to shield J P Morgan from an indictment linked to New Haven financial dealings. He describes meetings in New York with Ledyard and Robbins, and mentions the director’s concern for Morgan senior’s health. The letter to the district attorney was not introduced, and immunity questions loom as hearings pause. Governor Folk anticipates next witnesses may include Ledyard or Baker as resumed hearings begin Tuesday.
In Bremen Georgia on May 22 a wild man terrorized Biggers station briefly stopping motorists with a knife. Sheriff Parker and Bremen officers chased him through woods and fields and overpowered John Preast who had been clearing the public highway of joyriders. He was lodged in jail.
The Uncle Remus Memorial association dedicates the Whren's Nest on Saturday with a 3 PM ceremony and 5 PM festival on Joe Shandler Harris's grounds. Gov. Slaton delivers the dedicatory address. May queen crowned. cadets from Georgia Military Academy and Marist College escort dignitaries. Miss Lake from South Carolina to tell fortunes. A large reception follows with committee volunteers listed and a small admission fee for entry.
Roanoke Virginia May 22 Jap Mitra the pitcher sold earlier to the Atlanta Southern League club has been repurchased by the Roanoke Virginia league team and is expected to report here for work Monday.
Theaters present Urama y Bour performances at 2, 3, 5, 50 and 9 o clock and a thrilling drama Seated Orders. Grand features Pathes special pictures The Shriners In Atan tar parade and punishment park. Monday adds Bir Barnes of New York a Vitagraph drama and other Vitagraph stars. Week showcases Keith vaudeville headlined by Red Heads with Joseph Caress and sixteen entertainers. Sweethearts Duffy and Lorenge, a dancing act, plus Dorothy Meather in a strong medicine card. Webb and Hurns Italian minstrels and six Samerins perform Russian novelty dances. Lyric presents Tha Eacapa matinee and tonight. Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary opens Monday with Miss Estoile La Verne leading students from the country to New York.
5S. R. Howard of Gainesville Georgia was held up and robbed of four dollars sixty four cents last night at the underpass on Decatur Street by two negroes. One held a gun while the other searched him. Howard grappled with the robber and tried to throw him between himself and the gunman but was thrown down as the robbers fled. He describes the suspects as one black and one yellow.
Friars Point Mississippi May 2 two men Davye Washington and Joseph Thomas were hanged for the March 18 murder of deputy sheriff Frank Mullen. Thomas confessed on the gallows that he plotted with Washington to kill Mullen who was sent to arrest them for a misdemeanor.
A string of funeral notices and deaths reported from Augusta Rome and Gainesville details names ages and burial plans. Mattie Britt 66 of Augusta died Friday. funeral Sunday at Immaculata Conception Church with interment at Orchard Knob. Other obits include Miss Edna Duncan of Gainesville buried at Salem Cemetery. Mrs Angelica Hogan 88 with arrangements later. Margaret M West 80s with eight children. Miss Mary Jones de Leon 16. Dennis Osburn 1 for a Worrest Park residence funeral. Mrs G R Gibson buried at Kennesaw. Alice Maude McDuffie 4 with death noted.
The notice lists a residence at 22 Batley Street with a body at Poole's chapel and a funeral at the residence Sunday at 1 PM, followed by interment at Sardis cemetery. Ruth Silvey’s funeral is set for this morning from 62 Sylvan Avenue with remains sent to Forest Park Georgia for informant. A January 16 Chicago anniversary plaquette attack on a train near here left the victim unconscious. police pursue the unidentified assailant as investigations are led by Lee J. Keena, American consul general.
A list of reportedly advertised dwellings and remodels with prices and owners including South Prade Washita Himira place Avon street Whitebsd street Welch street Dreary street and Milton Verreil at 16 Dreary street. Prices shown range from 1.00 to 10,000 reflecting small frame and one story dwellings in multiple locations.
Brief notes from WhilAem superior court and Chatham rulings show several reversals and judgments in the Bowen v Smith Hall Grocery Co Dixon and other cases. Attorneys Lawton Cunningham Osborne Lawrence appear in multiple motions and oppositions with briefs to be filed within terms.
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