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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1902
Page
4
The police commission ruled a officer may seek public office if out of uniform and unpaid. Bonnell withdraws leaving the race, while Dukes continues as city sexton on leave until after the election.
Public Service of Railways reports for year to June 30 1902 passengers totaled 610 040 400 with higher passenger mileage and freight revenue per train mile despite a drop in tonnage. New directors elected for Georgia Southern and Florida railroad and appointments at Western and Atlantic and Seaboard lines are noted along with timetable adjustments for the Georgia to Augusta and Charleston routes.
Richard H. Edmonds, editor of The Manufacturers' Record, reports booming Alabama coal and iron operations. Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron pursues large new furnace at Gadsden while iron production floods the market. New York capitalists may seize control of Sloss-Sheffield, signaling a southern surge in iron and coal wealth.
The charter revision panel completed the report from the citizens forty-nine on franchises and municipal ownership. The council plans to publish the adopted chapter after typewriting, with no forty-nine meetings until the council committee reports, likely delaying until next week.
Cheap and second-hand school books and supplies offered for private and public schools with new books at publishers' prices. Ample help to promptly Watt on all. John M. Miller Co., 39 Marietta.
Conductor Thomas Murphy, a popular Southern Railway employee, was stabbed by a passenger on train No. 12 en route east near Biltmore in Asheville at 4 o clock this afternoon. The railway physician was immediately summoned.
Fulton county finance committee led by Chairman Walter R Brown approved a county tax rate of 5.20 per thousand for the new fiscal year, 1902, down from 6.06. The combined state and county rate will be 10.50 per hundred, with estimated total receipts about 310,779.80 after digests and other sources. Brown aims to relieve citizens from heavy taxes while ensuring county operations without borrowing next year. The board will meet to ratify the rate, and departmental apportionments will follow in days.
A six room cottage on a 450 by 100 foot lot at the corner of Auburn Avenue and Randolph Street near two streetcar lines. Built for $2600 and occupied by the owner until recently. Available to rent at $18 per month, offered as a 12 percent investment or a value residence in the fourth ward.
Review condemns McFadden's Row of Flats as dull and disjointed with rough humor and lugubrious music. Describes Grand programme art as archaic Arcadia themed set with pale figures. Notes Bijou theater sale opens Friday and previews upcoming bills at Grand and Bijou with varied acts and actors including Tim Murphy and Dorothy Sherrod.
Al G Field and his troupe visit the Grand next week presenting a string of novelties and extraordinary acts. The Mignant family tops the performance with startling original numbers using shaving mugs brass instruments bay rum bottles and even razors to produce melodies. A knife grinder joins in to extract music from tools of his trade.
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