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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1914
Page
8
A local appeal stresses that idle poor families and struggling workers need support as factory hours shrink and wages fall. Citizens are urged to buy homegrown products such as Eureka Coffee Aragon Shirts Capitola Flour and Radium Hose to boost local employment and prosperity, with the Home Label leading the way.
A four poster walnut bed once owned by Colonel Roosevelt's maternal family has been gifted to Theodore Roosevelt by C W McClure of Atlanta. The donor notes the bed's 1825 inscription and its Roswell origins, and cites political ties to Georgia.
Brooks County may welcome Belgian refugees with free homes and farms for twenty families for one year. A telegram from the American Belgian Relief Committee in Atlanta confirms readiness to arrange transport to Savannah and Quitman. Local landowners have offered farms, with some suggesting fifty properties may be made available.
The cotton buying movement grew on Tuesday with new participants The American Homing Company via J E Raley & Brack tied to local agents substitutes cotton bags for jute and pledges to buy one bale from each agent The Cotton Products Refining Company will use cotton bags instead of jute The Butterick Susubsing Company through C W Donnell manager will buy 36 bales with 5 in Atlanta 11 in New Orleans 15 in St Louis and 5 in Chicago
The Atlanta Art Association will hold a week long salon at the Ponce de Leon Apartments starting November 7. Exhibits of etchings water colors oil paintings drawings pottery and other arts will be shown to encourage local talent. Entries should be ready by November 3 with judging on November 4 before the public opening.
The regional bank for the sixth district plans to open in Atlanta by November 16 per Secretary McAdoo’s Washington announcement to the twelve regional bank boards. The site options include Healey and Hurt buildings and two Alabama Street banks, with ~30 initial employees from the district and potential growth to 1400–2000 if check handling expands. Newly elected Atlanta bank governor Joseph A McCord attended the directors meeting in Washington.
The Georgia Railway and Power Company petitions the state railroad commission to discontinue intra car service during morning and evening rush hours on routes 5 West Peachtree to South Pryor, route 14 Orme to Magnolia, and route 16 Jackson to Pine and Woodward. Citizens along West Peachtree Pryor oppose the move as the commission prepares to hear the Louisville and Nashville petition to end certain local Etowah to Cartersville trains on Wednesday.
National Apple Day brought many to Atlanta as apples flood the streets. Prices fell from 450 to 150 per barrel due to the European war leading merchants to store large quantities. The town shows a fruit boom with apples highlighted as a winter staple and growers seeking broader support.
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