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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1909
Page
5
Hundreds of women suffer kidney related pain and fatigue and many do not suspect kidney trouble. The ad claims Swamp-Root, a kidney liver and bladder remedy, can restore health, offering free sample bottles by mail and urging readers to buy fifty cent and one dollar bottle sizes at drug stores.
New YorkOctober 4 The presbytery admitted Rev Archibald Black to the ministry amid liberalism accusations. Prominent New York pastors plan a formal protest. Dissenters will raise the issue before the General Assembly. They challenge his disbelief in biblical infallibility and questions of the resurrection.
Weeds White and J R Houchin yesterday filed with the clerk of the Rupert court an application for charter under The Vitreous Metal and Manufacturing Company. The company capitalized at 40000 aims to manufacture treatment buying and selling metals and related materials. Principal office said to be in Atlanta Owens vohnaan named attorney for petitioners. Charles Dianes and Jim Ellison listed as scants. Greeka warn and roommate awoke after a brick thrown through their window at 122 East Fair Street about 10 oclock last night. They fled and later reported to police. EF J O Sullivan arrested as believed to have thrown the brick.
Ten balloons launched from the Aero Club grounds in St Louis toward the southeast at 500 feet. Gas bags range from 40 000 to 78 000 cubic feet and race for medals and prizes. McGill injured and sailing the Indiana in a ham mock. The Lahm Cup, held by Captain F. B. DeForest Chandler, is one prize. The fleet hopes to cross Kentucky or Tennessee by morning. the larger balloons may last up to forty hours.
A brief note highlights K K K Flour as a trusted kitchen staple. The line stresses purity as a key selling point, positioning the brand as a dependable ingredient in home baking and cooking.
A 12 year old white boy, Patterson, was arrested by Detectives Coker and Dorsett for stealing clothes, money, and watches from several high school boys at Ponce de Leon park after a football game on Saturday September 25. He reportedly confessed, naming four others. Some watches and knives were recovered as officers search for the others.
Joe and Ralph Everich aged 16 and 14, two blackface vaudeville dancers from Louisville, Kentucky, were refused a salary of 60 dollars per week by a local moving picture show manager who said the amount was too steep for boys their age. They appealed to police, stating they had a contract for the sum but were turned away upon reporting for work.
Rome October 4 The consistorial congregation pronounces personal and general excommunication against all inhabitants of Adria and its suburbs for injuring Bishop Bogglant with sticks and stones during the recent clerical demonstration This marks the first general excommunication of a city during the present pontificate.
Durham October 4 Donations totaling sixty four thousand and sixty dollars were announced at Benefactors Day honoring Trinity College. President Kilge praised B N Duke for a sixty thousand dollar gift to fund buildings and libraries while contrasting the generosity of wealthy donors with public debt and urging Trinity to uphold high ideals amid urban pressures and social debates.
Fernandina Wanamaker, daughter of Rodman Wanamaker and granddaughter of John Wanamaker, married Count Arthurd Herren of Paris in two ceremonies. The Catholic service at 81 Philippe du Roule included full orchestral accompaniment, followed by a Protestant blessing at the bride’s Champs Elysees home officiated by Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer of Philadelphia.
Amos Frater the late bridegroom and companions Fred Shumate and Millard Stephens were jailed after a drunken spree on Carroll street. The trio, employees of Fulton Bag and Cot ton Mills, shared about three pints of whisky and assaulted a wagon man, pouring liquor on his clothes before police apprehended them. The incident recalls Frater’s earlier marriage drama with Jennie Partain though he had since tried to reform.
New York October 4 A bicycle policeman who caught a speeding automobile after a four mile chase found it contained Major General Leonard Wood United States army who was taking a man injured after running into the machine on Fifth Avenue to a hospital The general saluted the officer and said he would not arrest the driver The injured man did not wish to press charges and the policeman departed after recording the automobile number.
In Parkhurst New York a minister and Bannard a former police commissioner launched political moves. Parkhurst announced plans to advocate from his pulpit for Republican mayoral candidate Otto. Bannard said he would campaign for Bannard’s support in the MeClellan era amid city politics.
The Joan Albert Johnson memorial commission was organized today to raise at least $25 080 for a suitable memorial to the late Governor Johnson. No individual contribution shall exceed $1. The fund is intended to honor Governor Johnson with a lasting tribute.
Montgomery notes Governor Comer appointed C E McCall probate judge of Choctaw county and examiner of public accounts. He named W H Lindses to the Legislature to the probate judgeship. Ralph Garner was made assistant bank examiner and additional examiners are to be named this week.
A humorous Chicago News item quotes a widow and a spinster debating marriage status. The widow says a woman is always waiting for a husband, with the spinster asking how to figure it out and the reply outlining waiting for him to come home.
Multiple brief obituaries and funeral notices tell of Mrs Margaret Meeve agenst dying at 4 AM at 212 Fox Street, with daughters Mrs W R Brown and Mrs L Harda and sons J I and W A Reece. funeral to be in Kennesaw. Robert Campbell Strauss, 22, dies at private sanitarium. services at 3 PM from 30 East Avenue. interment in West View cemetery. survived by father, mother, and brother Alva Foley. Alva Foley, 63, dies at 137 Paine Avenue. funeral at home this afternoon. interment in Casey Cemetery. C. R. Harvin Jr., Lawrenceville oil company superintendent, dies at home. body shipped to Manning, SC for interment. survived by wife and one child. M D Rountree, Flippen leader and planter, dies after months of illness. funeral from Flippen Methodist Church at 3 PM Tuesday. survived by wife and brother J W Rountree.
A mother describes how switching from coffee to Postum improved her nerves and energy. After a failed first trial, a longer boil yielded a rich flavor and clear health gains. She credits Postum with steady work capacity and tests it as safer for children and adults alike.
New Orleans mourns a ban on rich creole dishes served to President elect Taft last February. To welcome Taft later this month, New Orleans plans a music heavy visit with French opera season starting earlier than usual. A box of honor will be kept in the old French opera house on Bourbon Street for Taft, Sherman, Cannon, and other noted guests during the Lakes to the Gulf Waterway convention.
Wolfville Nova Scotia October reports five of seven aboard an auxiliary sailboat perished when a squall capsized the craft during a Baut Island excursion. Victims include Robert Martin 60 Mrs Robe rt Martin 44 Percy Martin 14 Hattie Martin 16 Gertrud Stivers 3. Robert Stivers and his wife clung to the overturned boat for four hours before rescuers arrived. Mrs Stivers not expected to recover.
In San Antonio on October 4 Ray Haher played a melodrama villain while his wife Olive Ruggles Baker, a Chicago actress, lay dying in a sanitarium. He answered encores and rushed to her bedside as she died. his body was sent to Chicago.
In San Francisco on October 4 Charles R K Crane newly appointed minister to Pekin was recalled to Washington tonight by telegram from Secretary Knox. Mr and Mrs Crane were to sail tomorrow for the Orient. The Post Office requests twenty million additional Hudson-Fulton commemorative stamps after the original issue of ten million.
Mrs W B Scott, wife of a Lansing baker, was found yesterday in her home woodshed tied by wrists to a rafter with toes touching the floor. Two masked men gagged and hung her for over two hours before her husband and a neighbor found her. Police say she entered shed, was tackled, bound, gagged, and hung, then robbers searched house for money.
New York October 4 A speeding automobile struck a tree near Coney Island. Five men rode in the car. four were found with broken ribs or injuries. One, unconscious, was discovered hanging over a tree limb. He was not seriously hurt.
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