Giant Hailstorm Strikes Atlanta Cause Massive Damage
The Atlanta hailstorm tore through the city causing extensive damage to office buildings, greenhouses, and homes. Hailstones measured up to four inches, weighing seven ounces, prompting glazier crews to work overnight. A hailstone blew from Howell's Station, reaching a Southern railroad work train and shattering a car window. The storm, with 50 mph winds, blanketed the city in a sulphur yellow haze as it raged for ten minutes.
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Atlanta
Howell
George Hutchins
Southern Railroad
Hutchine
Thies
Atlantic
Boreas
Hogers Davis
Lowell Machine Shop
Prudential
J.C. A. Brennen
Brannen Brothers
Marietta Street
Bitty Holmes
Atlanta Advertssing Service
Whian
Braselton
Fred G. Wilhelm
Woodward Avenas
R. C. Bruce
Marquis
Courtland Street
Auditorium Armory
Pauline Manaffeh
Edgewood Avenue
Atlanta Storm Rips Windows as Hail Bats City
A fierce hail storm battered Atlanta causing widespread window destruction from Peachtree to Whitehall. Buildings such as the Equitable, Fourth National, and Empire reported heavy glass losses, with skylights shattered at the Kimball House and Grand theater. Reports describe cattle killed, several injuries, and outages to streetcars and telephones as damage mounted citywide.
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Peters
Peachtree Street
Equitable
Akylight
Fourth National Bank
Empire Building
Kimball House
Candler
Whitehall
Peachtree Streets
Ed Cerf
Heston Shoe Company
Southern Railway
Pendhtres
Atlanta Floral Company
King Hardware Company
Baltimore Dairy
Underwood Typewriter Company
Ponce de Leon Floral Company
J. P. Matthieasen
Grand Theater
Fledmont
Warfield
David Warfield
Piedmont
Avanta
Birmingham and Atlantic
Electric and Gas Company
Sunny South Publishing Company
Universalist Church
College Park
Rutherford - Lipscomb
Ponce de Leon Avenue
Taft Backs Crane in China Post Resignation
President Taft directs Crane resignation to be accepted after the State Department findings. Crane says he is relieved by the decision yet felt bound to the president and accepted the Chinese post at Taft's request, citing assurances of service to the country in construction work.
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Crane
Taft
Washington
Charles R. Crane
China
Mr. Carpenter
Prescott, Ariz
Carpenter
Storm Toll in Tennessee and Surrounding Areas
A Tennessee cyclone storm reported killed three people, injured many, and damaged towns including Denmark in Madison County and Mulberry in Lincoln County. Severe winds, fire, and falling debris caused widespread destruction while Rome and Chattanooga suffered heavy rain, hail, and power outages with extensive property loss.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Denmark
Madison County
Albert Barnes
Covington
Stanton
Buford Station
Rome
Borme
Chattanooga
Hixson
Cleveland
Society Girl Guilty Of Speeding Her Auto
Miss Jeanor Sears, a Heston society girl, was found guilty in Quincy police court of overspeeding her automobile and fined 15 dollars. Harvard law student Harold W. Vanderbilt defended her. It was noted there were reports of an engagement with the Vanderbilts, which were denied.
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Quincy
Mass
Jeanor Sears
Harold W. Vanderbilt
Harvard
Humiliation and resignation amid public service conflict
The statement describes personal humiliation felt by Crane, who cites official conscience and support over national honor, noting he had not seen a prior newspaper article until a Sunday arrival. He accepts responsibility for his connection to the piece, framed as incidental, and prepares to depart after a 4 o'clock move.
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Crane
Rane
Special numbers from the Mus Princess shop sale
Special items from Wallace and medallion trim catalog include outing gowns short skirts and maids aprons in soft flannel and fine celeste fabrics. Babies department features coats caps kimonos hood shawls sacques bonnets and hats, all offered at low prices to dress little ones nicely.
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Baby
Weather Forecaster Describes Atlanta Hailstorm
Section Director von Herrmann of the local weather station reviewed the Thursday afternoon hailstorm that battered Atlanta. He called it a local thunderstorm with a brief ten minute duration from 6:05 to 6:15 p.m. Winds peaked at six miles per hour, with .14 inch total precipitation. Temperatures fell from 72 to 65 as barometer swung, and hail formed from warm moist air rising to higher, freezing layers. He estimated hail may have formed more than two miles high, though measurements were not available. No further storms are forecasted for Friday.
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Coca-Cola Place
Edgewood Avenue
Grady Hospital
Mandle Walker
Tata
Wallstone
Piedmont
Fulton Hag
Catton Mille
Devery
Broad
Hunter Streets
von Herrmann
Empire Building
The
Constitution
Atlanta
Hospitals Suffer Heavy Damage From City Hail Storm
A severe hailstorm shattered plate glass in operating rooms and wards across Grady hospital Elkin Goldsmith sanitarium Tabernacle Infirmary and damaged the Tabernacle skylight. St Josephs infirmary Presbyterian hospital and Atlanta hospital lost panes while nursing staff comforted frightened patients after each crash.
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Grady ‘Hospital
Elkin- Goldsmtth Sanitarium
Tabbernacle Infirmary
Tabernacle
St. Joseph's Infirmary
Presbyterian Hospital
Atlanta Hospital
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Russia
Byck’s
Howell's
Neal
Empire Life
Georgia
Empire Life Insurance Co
Wm. W. Reid
S.C. Callaway
Pres
Thos. M. Callaway
Home Office
BE. A. Minor
East Aanta
Juniper Street
Baltimore
Akyscraper
Constitution Office
Hood
J. I. Walker
East Lake
Decatur Street
Conklin
Charles Conklin
Fourteenth Street
Peachtree
Mr. Conklin
Tom Donaldson
Lynam
Indy
Knox
Chicago
Decatur
Ala
Buffalo Bill
Athens
Miss Sears
Mus
Lin
Ceial
Moreen
DuBose Company
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