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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1906
Page
10
Mrs Rossman urges broad women involvement in Atlanta’s 1910 exposition. She proposes grand rally advertising, banners on drays, and wider fundraising by women and the Woman’s Club, to ensure heavy local support and a world attention for the event.
A condensed think piece promotes self care to curb tuberculosis spread. It notes one in nine die from consumption and stresses that neither strength nor cleanliness guarantees safety. The article highlights Eugene Wood’s fact story in June Everybody’s and urges personal vigilance to stop contagion.
Mayor Woodward announced the city’s total expected contribution to the 4910 exposition at 250000, with a plan of 26000 annually for four years and 150000 in the final year. The total now in sight reaches 644919.50 as committees expand and canvassing continues.
An advertisement promises a cure for kidney bladder and rheumatic troubles sold by druggists with month long treatment. It cites mail order testimonials and lists Dr. W. Hall, 2990 Olive St, St. Louis as a contact point.
A discussion on a proposed Atlanta exposition for 1910 urges broad public support. It argues women’s auxiliary fundraising, child involvement, and large-scale venue expansion beyond Piedmont Park, envisioning extensive rail and corporate backing to ensure success. The appeal emphasizes civic pride and collective action across all ages and groups.
An association of packers plans to promote their canned product, currently one can per person per year, by creating a shared trade mark and funding broad advertising. A one cent per case levy could raise twenty thousand dollars to run major ads in The Lapins Home Journal, aiming to double per capita consumption.
A pink blue eyed month old baby girl slept in a nurse’s arms as Mrs W B Hayes of 56 West Hunter Street told the police court the infant’s brief life story. The man claiming to be J F McDonough of Savannah Ga left with his wife two weeks ago promising to return. He asked the child be baptized as Mary Emmeline McDonough. Hayes cannot keep the child and after days of wakefulness notified the police. Probation Officer Gloer has the Savannah letter and the York Street address given. The Recorder ordered the infant placed temporarily in the Home for the Friendless and notified McDonough to take the child or support it. Hayes cannot explain the couple’s conduct and calls the affair a mystery.
May 25 special report from Dublin outlines suggested line expansions by the Macon Dublin and Savannah, Wrightsville, Tennille and Dublin and Southwestern railroads as well as possible Oconee division links to Gordon. Preliminary surveys are under way for extensions toward Hawkinsville and Cordele, with prospects of enhanced connections to Savannah and Covington branches raising Dublin’s status among Georgia cities.
A permit was granted to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company to erect a five story concrete freight depot on Central Avenue between Waverly Place and East Hunter Street, near Piedmont Avenue. The project, costing about 500000 dollars, will be built by Ferro-Concrete Construction of Cincinnati and completed in six months, vastly expanding the railroad’s capacity and infrastructure.
Attorney General John C. Hart will be asked to file a state action against the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company and the Atlanta Terminal Company to abate a monopoly over baggage delivery at the terminal station and the issuing claim checks. The move follows a supreme court reversal and awaits a firm filing date, with public relief anticipated soon.
Sorpethiing entirely new contains 17 pages and 13 views of Atlanta and points of interest. Just the thing to mail to your friends. For sale only by Jno. M. Miller Co. 39 Marietta Blvd, Atlanta, Ga.
Washington May 25 report that ten states have declined to send their national guard units to join regular troops in summer camps. Two states acknowledged receipt but did not indicate acceptance. The War Department seeks full replies to advance plans for combined camps.
Theodore P. Shonts Panama canal commission chairman arrives in Atlanta May 29 for Agnes Scott Institute commencement where two of his daughters study. He will deliver the Shonts prize, meet trustees at Ansley home, tour Atlanta, attend a Kimball Hotel buffet and smoker with the chamber of commerce, then give an address and banquet before leaving at midnight.
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