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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
12
Publication listing shows The Constitution as a daily and Sunday issue with tri weekly schedule and names Gqelark Howell Roby Robinson and a note on Business Maniewt.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce approves resolutions led by Wilmer Moore to urge state health boards to launch a coordinated campaign against hookworm disease. The text notes millions affected across the South, with Georgia counting a quarter of a million sufferers, and urges sanitary action, shoe-wearing, and soil-pollution control to curb infection.
A 1909 notice from The Constitution Publishing Co Atlanta outlines advertising management, subscriber notices, and distribution via Hoteling's News Stands in New York. It references staff names, bureaus, and delivery to hotels, with a satirical local tone about politics and current events of the era.
Judge Pierce argues English court procedure outpaces American methods in capital cases. He cites four murder trials resolved in ten days, with full rights protected, due to focus on main facts and elimination of extraneous matters. He warns American reform must reach state courts to avoid a farcical justice system.
The text praises Eskimo explorers for their unselfish fighting spirit in harsh arctic conditions. It argues their drive sustained weeks of bleak labor toward a symbolic goal, contrasting them with famed explorers. It elevates their courage as pure manhood without vainglory, and suggests their names deserve historical recognition alongside Cook and Peary.
A Georgia column presents a jumble of verse and prose from October readings. It includes a ruing poem about October and a gospel talk by Brother Dickey on resisting evil, plus snippets titled The Risky Journey and The Level Headed Maun. The page closes with reflections on a Wilderness Worker and a note on the Lamar Democrat philosopher.
Governor Willson of Kentucky advocates arming independents to resist organized pools in tobacco and barley districts. The piece warns this could spark civil war as night riding and private force supplant state police, questions the legality and danger of abandoning law enforcement to citizens.
In the polarized coverage of the pole bid, Eskimo guides and assistants emerge as the indispensable factor for both Peary and Cook. The hardy northern inhabitants provided support that enabled the expeditions to endure extreme cold, fatigue, and harsh terrain, making possible significant milestones in Arctic exploration.
In a letter from Butter Springs Alabama J T Moncrief warns that southern mills misjudged cotton supply as prices surge. He argues mills may shut down only if farmers rush sales and urges continued holding to seize higher futures. He notes Texas Louisiana and Mississippi crops are below average and fields are nearly bare.
At the state capitol Governor Brown and other officials witnessed a wireless telephone demonstration. One unit sat in a vault, another in the main corridor, with no wires, yet sound carried clearly. The Collings device won a Seattle medal and Southern agents from Newark to Atlanta are promoting its use. Governor Brown offered a $100 reward for Wiley Abney, charged in a 1892 murder in Paulding county. Judge John W. Maddox of Rome visited Atlanta and rumors link him to the Rome circuit judgeship if Judge Moyes Wright steps down.
Mark Sullivan of Collier's Weekly is in Atlanta studying industrial growth and the Georgia good roads campaign. He praises road-building as a catalyst for prosperity, notes nationwide interest, and plans to visit Georgia Tech to view technical education during his stay.
The Atlanta Horse Show to be held at the Auditorium Armory on October 19 to 22 will close entries this Saturday. Local entries are urged by Chairman R. C. Congdon and the association offers special classes for local horses, with prizes for harness pony classes and saddle riders. Entries may be sent to Mr. Congdon at the Electric and Gas building or to Assistant Secretaries J. B. Everett and W. O. S. Blitz at 66 and 67 Inman Building.
The Atlanta Music Festival Association postponed action on five nights of Metropolitan Grand Opera at the Auditorium Armory until a special committee reports feasibility next Monday. The executive meeting at Colonel Peel’s offices named President Peel Victor L. Smith and R. Wessels to the committee. Smith secured the contract from M. Dippell of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company.
Two men, Tom Jackson and Alfred Huguley, were bound over for burglary in a case involving the Franklin-Turner Printing Plant on Ivy Street now owned by C. H. Johnson. About 66,000 pounds of metal worth around 2000 dollars disappeared from the composing room since the plant’s sale on September 1. Junk dealers L. B. Story and Dr. H. Story faced charges of receiving the stolen metal. Detectives traced entry to a rear window. metal was moved to a Negro house at Lynch's Alley. Johnson, in New York during the theft, identified linotype and electrotype pieces. Attorney Harvey Hill prosecuted.
Judge W P D Ellis of the superior court upheld the provisions of the late Rosa F Monnish will granting property to her minor daughter Jeanette. Dr W A Monnish challenged guardianship by the Central Bank and Trust Corp and executor rights. the case had been ruled against him in ordinary's court and affirmed on appeal. Property involved valued at $20,000.
The Colonial of the Strachan line departed for Liverpool carrying over 13 200 bales of cotton. It is the seventh steamer this season, which is expected to be the largest on record for the port. September cotton exports set a new port record.
The trustees of the Norcross Public Library have rented two rooms on the second floor of the new Masonite building. Books will be moved in at once and the library kept open every afternoon and one evening each week.
James O Hamilton died at his home in Vienna after a two week illness. He served as president of the Bank of Vienna, the Dooly County Savings Bank, and the Citizens Bank of Cordele. He was widely popular and his funeral drew a large crowd. He is survived by his wife Mary Holmes, five children, brother W C Hamilton, and two sisters Mrs Hunt and Miss Cram of Cordele.
Thomas Gulden of Tucson Arizona, a delegate who visited Carmen’s convention and Wareroas, has returned and bought a lot in Central Park West End to build a home for his sister and widowed mother He questions why working people endure a dangerous climate and endure six months of worry to rest six months for comfort.
Washington October 7 Eight midshipmen have been recommended by the academic board to be dropped from the Annapolis Naval Academy for failure to pass on their reexamination last month in subjects they were deficient in at the June exam. The men are A H Ruhl Maryland Arnold Simmons Kentucky F O Webster Maryland C P D Hibbard Minnesota Phil McAfee Georgia Randolph Dickings Washington W P Doodey Arkansas J H Calhoun Colorado If they do not resign the board's recommendations will take effect.
Thomas Cobb, 12, son of Maud Barker Cobb state librarian, suffered a serious eye injury during a rock battle with neighborhood boys near his East Ninth Street home. It is uncertain if the eyeball will be removed, and he may temporarily lose sight. He attends Professor McKeon’s school and was well liked by friends. The incident appears to be a playground pastime mishap rather than malice.
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