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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1914
Page
6
A column highlights Peter Thompson serge dresses priced at $9.95 in navy blue with red braid trimmings black buttons and silk tie. Dresses available in sizes 13 15 and 17. The item is pitched as an unusual value in the top column.
New sweaters offer diverse styles and colors including deep green with white collar and cuffs, maroon with black trim, and two tone accordion patterns. Designs feature belted or collar options, long rolling collars, sailor collars, or collarless looks with button trims. Sizes for misses and women from $2.50 to $7.50.
Soft bathrobes priced at 295 in multiple colors with two pockets and sateen collar. New kimonos in wool with floral trims and silk bands priced 595. Solid color albatross with light embroidery 450. Cheney silks offered in varied patterns and colors at 450. Second Floor display.
The yarns are carefully selected and each garment is woven and hand finished. The stock includes garments of all kinds from cotton to wool to blends. Union suits vary in length and neck and sleeve options with styles for women and children priced from 50 cents to 3 dollars.
A compact ad listing woolen fabrics priced at one dollar. It highlights plaids serges checks and yarn weaves on the main floor left section, noting all wool fabrics 40 to 42 inches wide and featuring styles like crow's feet and broken checks.
Atlanta shoppers respond to the six month plan to stock curtain nets and scissors. Prices rose but the store keeps buying and selling. Available in filet, madras, cable and novelty nets in cream white and Arabian colors from 10 to 45 inches wide on the third floor.
Mrs Nelms mother of the missing Nelms sisters travels to San Antonio to aid in prosecuting Victor and Mrs Innes. An affidavit by Marcus Walker, a Pullman porter, places Innes and his wife with Beatrice Nelms on the Atlanta Birmingham leg, contradicting Innes denials. The mother credits Burns detectives and local officials while urging justice and protection for other mothers and daughters.
Evangelist Klein preached on The Armageddon and the Second Coming at St Pauls Methodist Church to more than two thousand listeners. He linked current European war to prophetic timelines and urged readiness for Christ, detailing battles at Carmel and Revelations references. Services continue daily with a men’s rally planned for Sunday. The revival marks the church’s most successful in history.
New York September 16 sixty two vessels with over 260000 tons will be placed under the American flag by United Fruits Co. Minor C Keith vice president announced. The Stars and Stripes were raised today at Zacapa the first of the companys fleet to switch to American registry. Thirty seven ships owned by Elders Fyffe now fly the British flag and operate between Central American ports and England and Holland.
A song rally will be held at Capitol View Church corner THIS and Athens avenues on Sunday evening September 3 20 at 8 o clock Admission is charged and a free will offering will be taken.
Adele returns to the Atlanta for a two night engagement described as the decade’s biggest musical success. The cast includes Carolyn Thomson John Pari Mae Phelps Stephen Stott and others as Adele Baron Myrianne Robert Feilx and more. Tickets available this morning at Koressa 7. Forsyth reports record crowds and advance matinee sales.
Report describes Mexico under Huerta governance collapsing into anarchy with 35 000 soldiers and thousands of Yaqui Indians as brigands. It claims no courts or laws and notes Zapatista raids on Mexico City waterworks, threatening residents and property. States Carranza lacks any effective government or martial law.
Congress and farmers groups argued over emergency currency and the need for a cotton market. Senators and representatives pressed for federal advances to cotton producers, while state and national banks debated the use and impact of issued currency amid fears the market would not be cured without price support and storage facilities.
Amid chaotic Mexican political strife and reports of brigands marring the land, American forces in Vera Cruz plan to remain until at least October 10. Brigadier General Funston urged a cautious evacuation to aid refugees, while Villa lauded President Wilson for moving to withdraw troops on a commemorative day.
Montgomery September 16 Atlantic Coast Line passenger train 58 wrecked near Grady two miles north of Atlantic Coast Line wreck. Engine baggage car express car and one coach overturned. Fireman Jim Hawkins pinned beneath engine but alive. Passengers not seriously injured. Locomotive lay in road, track torn up for a long stretch. Cause not stated.
The Georgia Supreme Court announces affirmations in multiple cases from diverse districts including Gordon Polk and Fulton Counties. It notes expanded summer work sessions to prevent automatic affirmances and outlines the pending docket schedule for the October 1914 term with hearings to begin November 10 and continue until all October term cases are heard, excluding criminal cases and fast-writs of error.
Washington September 16 Ambassador Morgenthau at Constantinople was instructed today to protest to the Turkish government against abrogation of the capitulations Secretary Bryan announced today.
Word from Hamburg reports the death of David Wolfsohn the well known Zion st. The notice notes his prominence and origin in London, dated September 16 with time indication.
Pensacola September 24 Naval stores factors and operators have been called to meet in Montgomery Alabama next Saturday to form an organization for the sole purpose of marketing their product It is said the federal department of justice has announced it will not consider such an organization in violation of the anti trust law.
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