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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1914
Page
6
Advert announces Madame Grace Corsets with fresh styles at a third off price. Corsets described as fashionable with a medium bust, long graduated hips, made of fine coutil and three hose supporters. All sizes offered at 1.89 each.
Standard 50c face powders 19c and other lines like Dorin's Violet Perfetto in fresh white and brunette tints. Also discounted are luster powders tools and hygiene items including Listerine Sanitol toothpaste and vanity sets with mirror and puff. Main Floor Center.
Florida Governor Trammell meeting in Placida calls for federal action to aid cotton states through direct government loans to growers and processors, funded via treasury-backed banks at low interest. He cites emergency currency programs and compares past federal aid to irrigation and Wall Street rescues, urging nationwide relief.
A letter from George Fe. Johnson states the city council may elect a recorder pro tem at its March meeting, clarifying he has not advocated for any candidate and that such appointment falls to the council. The City Code requires a clerk of the Recorder's Court be chosen and serve at the council's will or until a successor is elected.
During an evening event at Chester Elliott's residence guests assisted in saving Mrs. W. S. Bullard from a fast burning home next door at 255 May son and Turner avenue. The six room house was completely destroyed with no reported loss of personal belongings.
Washington and El Paso report delays in Vera Cruz troop withdrawal as Villa asserts independence from Carranza. Carothers heads to Chihuahua to speak with Villa amid talks to patch rifts among Mexican chiefs. Villa promises protection to foreigners as U.S. officials weigh the impact of the revolt on evacuation plans.
Albany September 26 Secretary Daniels of the Navy discusses a proposed great inland waterway from Massachusetts Bay to the Gulf of Mexico before the Atlantic Deeper Waterways association. He says the waterway would boost internal commerce lower transport costs and provide strategic advantages in war by enabling naval movement and harbor access and would cut transportation charges for navy yards.
London dispatch reports Major Rosa Tankavitch tied to Serb intrigues and blamed by Austria for supplying revolvers used in the Sarajevo murder. He was found dead by Austrians near KErupagine where he commanded a Servian artillery battery.
Many firms assist the buy-a-bale plan as branches are ordered to take six bales each. Gimbel Bros New York offers 10008 bales while Saxon Motor Co Detroit pledges 500 bales and Sherman Mapte Atlanta reports two bales bought at 10 cents per pound. Mr Sherman vows to trade for 1000 bales with Georgia farmers. The parade in Montgomery on September 25 attracts over thirty thousand spectators led by Governor O Neal highlighting the war influenced demand drop.
Sales activity in the last week shows encouraging movement with several small transactions and one exchange of 7600d prow vectors. Friday transfers exceed the prior year by about $100,000 as realty men remain optimistic amid financial uncertainty. One notable sale: I. Harling sold 17 13 acres and a nine room house on the Tonesboro road two miles beyond Lakewood Heights to Paul B. Etheridge for 6000.
Obituaries report I H Hall a prominent retired Boston financier dying after a trip to Tallahassee and returning with family, body to be sent to Boston for funeral. Another notice lists Mrs I V Crouch of Pelham dying after long illness. arrangements for interment in Saluda county South Carolina. The column then details multiple DeKalb Fulton area property transfers with numerous deeds and mortgages recorded, including lots on East Georgia Avenue and Moreland Avenue, and various dates and amounts. A separate item notes the death of James Henson, aged 14, at residence on Chattahoochee Avenue after typhoid fever, survived by parents and a bride, with funeral arrangements pending. additional notices mention a man who collapsed at Haines and Mitchell streets and other local property transactions.
Washington reports massive drops in American export trade to Europe in August due to WWI. Germany shipments nearly halted, France and Great Britain fell modestly, Belgium and Argentina hit hard. Overall August exports to Europe fell by 68.8 million dollars from a year earlier with total trade at 116.4 million last month versus 187.2 million a year prior.
Rome dispatch reports Basel says Switzerland refused Germany request to move three army corps across Swiss territory, blocking the army transit plan. The Giornale D Italia carries the Basel source noting Switzerland's refusal amid War War II era tensions.
Italian authorities issue a decree prohibiting all serial navigation over Italian territory. The Rome dispatch from The Central News notes the prohibition. In other news Manchester reports 1000 students in an evening school of commerce.
Reports from Sonora say no fighting is imminent though Governor Maytorena claims state independence. Prominent Mexicans in Mexico City believe peace between Carranza and Villa may still be possible before irreparable break. Villa’s actions could justify continued American occupation of Vera Cruz with telegrams to Villa receiving no reply. Antonio Villareal, Nuevo Leon governor, urged pacification to avoid bloodshed and return to reason.
Funeral notices list James E. Williams of 185 Forrest Avenue to be laid to rest Saturday at 4 PM with Rev C B Wilmer officiating, Oakland cemetery interment. Benson funeral for Sid Henson on Chattahoochee Avenue Hills Park at 3:30 PM with Rev Charles L Bass officiating. Dobbins family funeral at 267 Washington Street Sunday 2 PM, Hollywood interment, pallbearers meet at Harry Goole parlors at 1:15 PM.
Rev G L Hickman will preach at St Luke's Methodist church Sunday evening at 7 45 oclock Official figures fix the number of cows in Hungary at 2620000 more than 2000090 are pure blooded animals of the best milk producing breeds London has twenty five daily newspapers
A letter from Mia KE Summers of Notre Dame, rad, offers a home treatment claiming to cure rheumatism, neuralgia, backache, kidney pains, and other aches by removing uric acid from the blood and purifying the system. She urges sufferers to write for proof and a personalized prescription.
London report cites The Express correspondent describing twenty two German cavalry charges Sunday night near ons under crown prince supervision. The objective is to weary the allies and deprive them of sleep.
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