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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1906
Page
1
Fragmented OCR text shows garbled notices from a ward, with misspelled names and partial sentences. It references a meeting, local officials, and a memorial of events. The readable fragments hint at public notices about local governance and community matters without full details.
The text announces a lodge communication to be held Friday at 7:30 p.m. with a cordial invitation to all Brethren to attend at Masonic Hall. It mentions degrees to be conferred and lists officers including Champion and Sard, with Secretary.
Meeting of the stockholders of the Air Point Railroad Company to be held at Irvings Station on October 16, 1908 to discuss company affairs and upcoming actions. Officials urge attendance by all shareholders to vote on proposed measures and officers.
The Constitution reports complete returns showing Russell Powell and Hill leading among 16 candidates for the new Georgia court of appeals. Russell 20 706 Powell 22 382 Hill 21 084 Peeples 20 461 with three counties yet to report. Hill leads his nearest rival by over 600 votes and final results are not expected to change.
In Houston on October 8 the Halley Crane debate was abandoned after Crane’s side demanded opening and closing remarks. Bailey will speak at one location and Crane at another at 8 o clock, with different venues. A separate note mentions an armed band hijacking a mail train near Asia River, stealing 125000 after wounding three guards.
New York and New Orleans cotton futures rise as October and December contracts gain due to anticipated frost in the southwest and potential gulf storm. Prices climb with October around 10.88 and December near 10.99 amid heavy buying by traders and anticipated squeezes from short positions. Total sales estimated at 760,000 bales as market ends, modestly higher.
A suspicious locking package resembling an infernal device was found in Governor Pennywacker’s mall at the executive mansion in Harrisburg. The 3 inch square box carried film pieces and yellow ribbons, later opened to reveal a small cartridge shell like case with black powder. officials deem it non dangerous and say it was sent by a practical joker.
Warrant sworn against WwW. T Swink by secretary treasurer W. R. Callaway of Nun tally Company after Callaway bought a cow advertised as gentle. The cow kicked milking pail and milker, refused to be milked, and charged workers, prompting Callaway to sell or give away the animal following its costly misadventures at 149 Formwill street and Shippey stockyard.
A Penn Yan man identified as M J Carroll seeks a wife and has posted a grape basket note in Atlanta shippers. The note requests a good looking, well to do young lady about 21 to correspond, offering little beyond a hopeful match. Local shippers McCullough Bros. report finding the note amid grape car lots.
Tornadoes crossing the Mobile and Ohio line near Kushna and Mayville left 14 dead and millions in damage. A train brake and a warning belted cord saved a passenger train by minutes while a house owned by James Lewis was destroyed. Trees felled, wires down, and hoses driven into the ground marked the destruction as Mobile reported little damage beyond the outbreak.
In a Downtown Chicago incident two clerks J W Hunts aged 30 and Harry Wilfred aged 17 fought in a fourth floor window of the Lakeshore railroad office. They clutched each other in a death grip as they plummeted to the pavement at 1 15 PM. Hunts died instantly, Wilfred died en route to hospital. The fight stemmed from a prior dispute and ended with the pair’s bodies tumbling to the street amid stunned pedestrians.
Louis Clein, previously owning a Decatur Street saloon, sees license refusal as injustice and vows to align with prohibitionists. He offers 50 to 100 dollars of his hard money to support the movement and urges action against Fulton county liquor. He vents anger over business loss and calls for anti prohibition town measures. Also notes marriage of Charles D Halliwell to Ruth A Cote, nurse, with Halliwell a top American Tobacco Company official and wealth around 20 million.
Kas ICHITA October 5 C A Mosher of Wichita received a commission as general in the Cuban army Wednesday and, after secretary Tait arrived in Havana, was asked to resign. A draft for his salary since the commission date was sent. Mosher, a lieutenant in the Eighth Illinois Infantry, is over ninety.
A violent cyclonic wave struck New Orleans and surrounding parishes in October, with at least three tornadoes causing extensive damage across five parishes and Biloxi. Six people died and nine were seriously injured as two major storms flattened hundreds of buildings and damaged mills and crops.
Fulton county grand jury indicts sixty African Americans for murdering Officer Heard during a Brownsville patrol on Rep-24. The posse, eight county officers and three citizens led by Lieutenant Poole, confronted armed suspects. Heard was killed and several officers injured. The panel adjourned until Friday October 12 for riot and other cases.
L. Danielx, who finished chemistry at the Tech in 1905, won the Harrison Fellowship of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and will have free tuition there. He is from Fulton county and spent two months after graduation in Philadelphia before resuming studies following the award. The Virginia Municipal League met in Newport News with Roanoke’s H Kings as president and Newport News’ S R Buxton retiring as secretary treasurer.
Birmingham police arrest H W Rubloff on forgery charges after a tip from J L Smith of Salem. Rubloff is wanted in Minola ch for obtaining money under false pretenses.
Washington dispatch reports showers Saturday with cooler conditions in the northwest, followed by fair and cooler weather Sunday. Fresh to brisk winds shift from south to west. Local readings include highest and lowest temperatures, mean temperature, and precipitation figures, with noted excess since the month start.
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