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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1909
Page
16
An advertisement asserts no cure for an itching palm but claims Poslam soothes eczema and related skin ailments within days. It promotes two dollar jars and a fifty cent trial, available at Atlanta druggists, with a free mail sample from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
Mrs Harriet F Brandon and sister Mary Inman Gray petition in May Inman Gray v James Gray et al asking to be relieved from resisting a widow’s claim of about 67000 against their late father Walker P Inman’s estate. They propose paying half the claim from the estate, while remaining residuary legatees would bear the cost. The case drew comment from former Governor Joseph M Terrell as audit hearings proceed.
An industrial convention to promote settling the wiregrass lands of Georgia will convene at 10 o clock Thursday morning October 25 in the Macon chamber of commerce. Speakers include M B Richards Washington industrial agent Southern Railroad Judge John Myers George McLean Waycross and others from railroads and counties. The conference will consider plans for the movement and may appoint additional delegates from Wiregrass counties.
Brigadier General Albert Milla commanding the department of the gulf and Lt. C Allen depart Thursday for New Orleans to meet President Taft and the presidential party. It is a mark of courtesy and pleasure for General Milla to host the delegation.
A 60000 ton shipment of rails for a new Uruguay railroad arrived in Pensacola from Birmingham and is being loaded on a steamer for export. American financiers back the project with landings at Port Antonin near Montestage, marking a major rail line construction milestone.
Lamps express the best ideals in practical art. Our desk and reading lamps suit desks, brackets, halls, libraries, dens, and living rooms. See the beautiful assortment.
Atlanta’s Great White Way gains a $1,000 set of brass and copper electrical chimes attached to a double dial clock. Westminster and Cathedral tones ring at quarter hours with a Westminster hour stroke, Reveille quarter past, Cathedral half, and a 16 stroke Westminster hour. Built for city display, a 24 inch dialed clock and 12 foot master mechanism are installed by McClintock Loomis expert W Hushaw.
The open season for hunting opens November 1 in Fitzgerald area with quail partridge wild turkey and pheasant from November 1 to March 16 dove season July 16 to March 18 marsh hen and snipe November 1 to March 15 woodcock and woodchuck September to February A tax of 26 cents per hunter per county applies and written landowner consent was discussed amid legislative debate to regulate hunting practices and preserve dwindling coveys.
In a recorder's court Bradford Martin, accused of beating his wife, was fined 1375 with 35 paid to his wife to return to South Carolina. His defense highlighted poverty and borrowed clothing. Separately Anna Norman faced charges for letting her bulldog bite a girl. she blamed hardship and refused a reduced fine, lamenting her family’s woes.
A concise advertisement from Walter Ballard Optical Co at 70 Peachtree Street promotes invisible bifocals. The firm claims to furnish more of these high-class glasses than any other house in the south and sells other makes while recommending only the best.
Rev Wo A Taliaferro of Opelika Alabama has accepted the Dublin Baptist church call and will begin duties late November. Until then Rev Allen Fort of Chattanooga, the former pastor, will fill the pulpit.
The Southern railway's fifteenth annual report mailed to stockholders shows 453 new plants and manufacturing establishments started in the past year. Tonnage per mile rose nearly 59 percent in the last decade and 42 percent in the past year, with 70 percent of tonnage now produced in the southern states. The report notes the fertile industry of the south and that 2,653,873 bales of cotton were spun and woven in southern factories, with 1,600,266 tons of cotton related goods hauled last year ending June 30, 1909. President Fintex lauds the south as vital to future traffic and national prosperity.
Night train to Birmingham departs Gletser at 9 p m. arrives Birmingham 1 30 a m. Effective November.
Roger Merritt, a Black man, was convicted in the superior court for outraging a 16 year old girl on Simpson street. The jury did not mercy him. He had a prior conviction but a new trial was granted on evidence of his alibi. Sentence was not immediately passed due to the late hour.
Jim Tillery, a Dublin post office employee, was arrested on a Saturday and jailed on arson charges for setting fire about two years ago to a two story dwelling on Jefferson Street. A Continental Insurance Company investigator helped build the case. The home was insured for $2,009.
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