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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1901
Page
15
ISMA DOOLY argues the phrase linking educated black voters to greater influence is dangerous. He warns such claims justify social hierarchy, stressing the vote as a social force guiding laws, unity of integrity, and the need to resist racial prejudice while valuing education and character.
Memorial Day custom began in California with Mrs. Forbes arranging garlands and flowers to float from the shore to the sea for unknown naval dead. Comparisons and praise followed from figures like Captain Crawford and Admiral Dewey, with nationwide interest spurred for future observances along coastlines and rivers.
The proprietors of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds have given away over ten million trial bottles hoping to help the needy. The medicine is claimed to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all diseases of the throat chest and lungs. Free trial bottle available from druggists with regular size one dollar guaranteed or money refunded.
In Goldsboro township, Wayne County North Carolina, Roby Robinson of Atlanta is the highest bidder for the $25,000 opening bids of the Goldsboro town ship school bond issue. The bonds bear 4 percent interest and will be issued July 1. The school board, by unanimous vote, awarded him the entire issue amid bids from across the United States.
The transcript quotes a debate where Greene complains that Senator Keener is accused of being corrupt and receiving a house as payment for his vote. Gray defends Keener, explaining the allegations stem from a bet over a bill and deny any improper gain.
In a moving scene from The American Boy a ragged group of mourners raise 21 dollars for a blue and white violet pillow for a boy named Jimmy Peters known as The Kid. A florist recalls the boy’s courage and his final act protecting a frightened woman’s child from a runaway horse.
Red Hot from the Gun was the ball that struck G B Steadman of Newark Michigan in the Civil War. It caused horrible ulcers that resisted twenty years of treatment. Then Buckieh’s Amica Sale cures cuts burns bruises and boils and eruptions.
A historical advert highlights Swamp Root at 33c and a wide array of tonics and cordials. It emphasizes quick relief for pain and travel use, listing many brands with prices from 18c to 50c, including Chamberlain’s Diarrhoea Remedy and Wakefield’s Blackberry Balsam. The page markets medicinal bottles for cholera, cramps, diarrhoea, and summer complaints.
A fragment advertising various health tonics and remedies including Palmers Blood Purifier Hood's Sarsaparilla and Vin Mariani. Also lists prices for Brown's Iron Bitters Packer's Tar Soap Mennen's Borated Talcum Powder Hire's Root Beer Jacobs' Foot Comfort and Violet Ammonia. Mentions Jacobs' Borated Talcum Powder as soothing infant powder and summer bath item.
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