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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1914
Page
2
Local want ads explain cost per word and line, require two lines minimum, and disallow phone-only submissions. Operators offer guidance, with telephone entries billed on publication day and paid via mail or solicitor. Every home has use for Constitution want ads.
Lost and found notes list small black and tan terrier with green collar near Peachtree street, contact Ivy 6054, reward. gentleman's watch engraved Real 7th Regiment National Guard New York. white and brown dog tail missing with reward. umbrella marked F.H. at Bull Park. various ads for tailoring, millinery, services, and business notices pasted in a single column, reflecting a bustling urban classifieds page.
A jumble of classified ads lists opportunities for a state manager position with a $6,000 to $8,000 annual pay and a $400 capital need, plus boarding houses for sale or rent, and various sales of clothing and household items. Also advertised are a shooting gallery for sale, dance instruction studios, musical instruments for sale, patent and invention promotions, and a theatre of miscellaneous offerings. Addresses include Ivy 7362 and Main 1418, with contact notes for W. S. Metrewin and Gandolph & Patent Attorney.
Eight white men and an Eskimo family, survivors of the Karluk, are aboard the revenue cutter Bear after months marooned on Wrangell Island. Three explorers died. four groups were missing. The Bear sails for Nome with Munro, Williamson, McKinley, Hadley, Chase, Templeman, Williams, Maurer, and the Eskimo family.
The Dittler Brothers printing office at 218 Hast Hunter was robbed during the night. Emil Dittler found the office in disarray at 9 am, noting a wedged rear window, a damaged safe lock, and papers scattered. The thief rimmed the lock, unlocked the safe with knowledge of the combination, and stole a gold watch, Elks pins, gold beads, two bracelets, and $50 in gold, totaling about $560. Detectives Moon, Patrick, and McGil are on the case.
The article notes lingering warmth in the midst of winter with lingering summer style. Forecasters predict a brief belated summer later this month as clouds part and sun returns, bringing light clothing back into fashion for a short period despite current wintry conditions.
Washington reports unsettled weather with showers in the central valleys and extending into eastern and southern states by Tuesday. Temperatures will average near seasonal in the south while below normal elsewhere. Frosts likely along the northern border and in the northwestern states and the Rocky Mountain plateau regions.
Police report no results from a city wide search for a bandit who robbed a Kansas City Southern mail car in Shreveport. A heavily masked white man allegedly leaped through a door as the train slowed, forced clerks to cover, then fled with a mail pouch containing about twenty registered parcels. No losses yet valued or identified.
The Forsyth hosts Lew Dockstader in a vaudeville bill with Nana Spisell Brothers and Muck, Grayton Kennedy and Matte Rooney in The Happy Medium, and Hamlie Subers plus Matt Heefe in blackface bits. The Lyric presents Beauty Youth and Pure, Columbus Amusement, with 35 performers and 20 dancers in 15 costume changes. The Grand shows Northern Lights as a five part feature, continuing daily from noon to five, with 3 and 30 cent pricing.
Colonel L Brown long time general agent for Southern Railway passenger department will be interred this morning at Oakland Cemetery. Body to be brought from Terminal station via Southern Railway train No 39 arriving 11 40 A M. Funeral will include family, South ern Railway officials and pallbearers from his long time associates. A large Atlanta contingent of passenger department staff will attend in tribute.
A reflective column argues that wartime loyalties shift with alliances as French and English cheer each other in shared fights while Germans praise English in another scenario. It contends that the fiction of racial enmity is a dangerous, malign idea shaping history and economics.
In Fulton County Georgia a September 1914 bond validation petition seeks approval for twenty nine thousand dollars and fourteen thousand nine hundred dollars in city bonds to fund water works and sewerage systems with interest at five percent. Notices invite objections and set hearings at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta at 9 am. Also listed are divorce notices in the Fulton Superior Court including Maud Arnold v John Arnold and Etta B. Morgan v Frank Morgan with dates of terms and required appearances in November term 1944.
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