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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
14
Miss Jessie Fishel of New Orleans again loses the power of speech after a lightning shock yesterday. Doctors have found no cause for the rare condition and the family hopes speech may return with the next thunderstorm. Relatives note a prior recovery occurred when her feet touched hot water.
Robert G. Boville, national director of the Daily Vacation Bible School Association, heads to Atlanta to address the Man and Religion Forward Movement on Sunday at 3. The aim is to establish Atlanta branches and run schools in churches this summer to care for idle children after school ends. Boville will also speak to the Evangelical Ministers Association Monday morning and attend the Men and Religion Movement executive luncheon that day.
The Western Union has purchased 10,000 Underwood typewriters. Hardware men name Mobile as the next meeting site for the Southern Hardware Jobbers and the American Hardware Manufacturers Association. Officers listed include Charles nd Greensboro NC president A Parker Atlanta WM Picksew Orleafiz vice presidents John Dortian Richmond VA secretary O B Barker Lynchburg VA.
Washington May 20 President Taft and the diplomatic corps plus many officials contributed to a several thousand dollar fund to honor Major Archibald W Butt and Frank D Miller two Titanic victims A bronze tablet memorial will likely be placed behind the White House in the ellipse with congressional approval expected The site was chosen for Butt s long White House service and Miller s public grounds advocacy
The Warm Springs area of Meri wether County opened on Saturday May 18. Road conditions are reported as good.
Washington reports a senate resolution to require the president to compile corporation tax returns for review. Senator Hitchcock leads a measure amid debates on wealth amassing by Carnegie and others, seeking totals on capital stock, indebtedness, income, depreciation, taxes, and related figures across metals, mining, textiles, and sugar industries.
Columbia, May 30. The label case against John Bell Town, J. W. Boykin, and W. Q. Tatum, former state dispensary officials, began its second trial before Judge Ernest Gary. Only two minor witnesses were sworn this morning, while testimony by agent John T. Early from a prior trial was read. Early described paying Towll and Boykin as part of the alleged graft totaling about 22 500 dollars from Nivison-Welskopf Company, label manufacturers of Cincinnati.
The Wren's Nest at 312 Gordon Street West End opens its doors at 4 pm for a May festival styled like a royal coronation. A thousand children from the Memorial Association perform in a Fish Drill, May pole dances and a floral canopy procession, with Miss Constance LeReaux and Mina LeReaux among the performers. honorary patrons include President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.
The Forsyth theater reports record crowds for Keith Vaudeville starring Wakefield. Aimed as a top drawing card, the bill pleases both gallery and floor audiences across performances, marking Wakefield as a personal triumph and a standout act in the current season.
Practical little summertime dresses have lost one third and one half their prices for today and tomorrow. Striped and checked percales and ginghams in blues and pinks attractively trimmed. The bloomers of the same material detachable to save laundering. Sizes 2 to 14 years. Others at 69c for these two days, usually $1.00. Per determine, simple made garments with fresh trimming. Big Sunproof bonnets for larger girls, blue chambray and light percales with wide ruffles and bow strings.
Advertisement details colored and white percales and linens in low neck and short sleeves with high neck and long sleeves, sailor color, single and double breasted styles. All new and desirable at 1.50 dollars. Sizes 2 to 6 years.
Gilbert M. Davis, 72, longtime Bibb county official and Macon real estate man, died after months of illness. A war veteran, he served on the county board of commissioners, the city council, and led Bibb cavalry. survived by widow and two sons.
Oklahoma City police charged George J Blank after a dynamite blast ripped into the unfinished federal building, injuring the second floor and wrecking the structure. Blank, a structural iron worker from St Louis, denied knowledge of the acts and claimed innocence while authorities pursue possible accomplices linked to the McNamara trial bribery case in Los Angeles.
A blaze in Bellhaven crippled part of the Interstate Cooperage Company division in Raleigh area. Early reports estimate a loss of about 100000 dollars and two and a half million feet of lumber destroyed. Fire officials investigate the cause as crews work to contain the damage.
The Macon council committee investigates charges against Fire Chief Davia by Broilers Construction amid an inquiry into the connection with Faire, following a May 30 special session.
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