This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1915
Page
2
A convict used a long beard as a disguise after confessing to a robbery. The question arises whether a court can require a prisoner to shave for identification. The article notes Atlanta’s likely imminent decision on the issue.
A Seattle to Atlanta safe robber, Harry Mason, is confined at Fulton jail awaiting larceny charges in superior court. While in the Tower he has grown a full beard and altered his appearance, possibly complicating identification by arresting officers. The court may decide whether to require removal of the beard.
President Wilson sent a telegram to Brazil praising the Brazilian minister in Mexico City for services to the United States. State department messages say Tampico is quiet and railroad links now run to Sabinas from Basle Pass, with additional reports of bandits blowing up a freight train near Vera Cruz and Zapata followers attacking a passenger train on the Jalapa Teocelo line.
Athens will send a delegation of several automobiles to meet the scouts of the Seeing Georgia tour in Macon tomorrow morning. They will travel by Milledgeville, Eatonton, Madison, and Farmington, meeting Bishop en route. If timely they land in Athens. if late, they spend the night here before proceeding to Gainesville or Cornelia.
John G Anderson of Mount Vernon N Y will meet Robert Gardner of Chicago and Yale in tomorrow’s national amateur golf final after Gardner edged Max R Marston of Springfield NJ 1 up in 37 holes and Anderson defeated Sheri Sherman of Gaea 2 and 1 with steady play and clutch putting amid 2000 spectators at the club course.
In Macon Georgia on September 3 Mrs Frank Rogers widow and social figure was struck while crossing to drop a letter. The driver Cleveland Massee was exonerated by witnesses including Mrs Rogers daughter who witnessed the fatal accident.
Police arrested five Black youths Oscar Allen Riley Holmes Dan Harris Eminerva Palmer and Maggie Harris on disorderly conduct after joy riding two new cars stolen from West End Garage. Proprieties denied permission owners Jack Wail and Ben Percy reported the theft and damage during the midnight flight.
Forsyth constable W W Glover reports a bold highwayman lifted his watch on Fraser Street under streetlight and walked away amid astonishment. He said he came to Atlanta to see its wonders and did not attempt an arrest at once.
Rev D M Meiver will preach at the Druid Hill Presbyterian church Sunday morning on Saints in Caesars and Household of Christians in Difficult Places. In the evening Rev Harold Shields, recent graduate of Union Theological Seminary, will preach.
Real estate gains momentum as cotton markets improve and private money floods the loan market. George F Moore Realty cites brighter fall and winter prospects with lenders ready to invest, aiding a higher sales pace. Foster Robson reports a strong late summer market, with Doster Rowson handling fourteen properties valued at $72,400 in sales and exchanges.
The September Buildings and Building Management magazine devotes its Atlanta issue to the city and the busy building scene. It highlights the National Association of Building Owners and Managers convention in Atlanta starting September 14, with manager profiles and skyline illustrations by Greggs of The Constitution.
A garbled list of property transfers dated 1913 to 1918 records deeds from Sable C Stockton to Daniel Brox and others, with parcels on Peachtree, Pine, Roswell road, Lake Avenue, and Westland subdivisions. Entries include amounts from 0 to 4960 and notes of exchange and other considerations, listing buyers and sellers such as L M Copeland, Joseph Be Pord, S J Kelley, Paul Etheridge, and Mary Hastings among multiple street addresses.
The Southern Railway Company unveils a new trade mark showing the design SR and the slogan The Southern Serves the South The mechanism of the vast network is highlighted with connections across states south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi The company spends about 200000 annually on advertising including heavy campaigns in the North East and West to draw travelers to the South
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.