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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
3
A dense listing from a Santa Maria style market shows produce and groceries with prices for fruits vegetables and staples. Items include rabbits oats nuts and mixed produce with prices per crate per pound and by the hundredweight alongside daily domestic goods and canned staples.
The Sun discusses money rates and market talk on call and time funds. It notes sustained pressure on Great Northern and Northern Pacific preferred stocks while St Paul common stock reflects a broad waiting movement and potential developments affecting rights to stock holdings.
Salisbury North Carolina December 14 A Baptist church meeting will vote on disciplinary matters. Len G Broughton of Atlanta travels North Carolina denouncing theatergoers dancers and other sins. Rev R E Neighbor will lead election Sunday December 16 and a majority approval could church prominent members.
Macon Georgia December 14 reports Atlanta is the only place where the price of haircuts may advance with the new year. Macon will increase prices for barber services, affecting local customers.
The Pryor street school opens with an expanded program in January. Annie Roddey named principal with Lucile Nolan as assistant. Grades one to seven planned, with several promotions and staff reshuffles among Walker and Crew street schools.
In Raleigh on December 14 Elder T H Barnhill testified in his own defense in a revenue law case. He denied burying whisky and constructing a pump to extract liquor from barrels for sale. He said he has served as a minister for twenty one years.
President Roosevelt plans to revoke his order to the public printer for a simplified spelling system. The House adopted a resolution directing that reports and documents emitted by executive departments follow standard orthography from generally accepted English dictionaries.
New York December 14 Andrew Carnegie toplines a golf outing to ease grief after the demise of his phonetic spelling project. A secretary says he is too moved for words and cannot comment on Congress action though he may attempt the 18 hole record.
New Silk Taffeta waists offered in black and colors priced at 3.00 7.50 and 10.00 by Chamberlin Johnson DuBose Company with a focus on affordable women’s fashion.
Georgia will have about 400 state banks by January 1, 1907 if pending applications are granted. There are 393 state banks now, with 70 chartered since 1905 and about ten more applications awaiting action. The state also has 64 national banks and one trust company.
Special to The Georgian. George E. Boland, once a policeman, drank laudanum from a 10 cent vial then tossed the empty bottle into his mother's lap before others intervened. A physician and Boland's nephew treated him. he remains ill but not in danger.
Haralson Georgia December 14 Gue Brooks was nearly killed while killing hogs a 400 pound hog toppled as soft ground sank and trapped his head in mud he was revived after minutes of life signs returning the head would have been crushed if ground had been firm
Alex Johnson of 391 Auburn avenue was held at gunpoint Thursday night at Auburn avenue and Jackson street. He was ordered to surrender his money, about 13 dollars, before the thief fled.
Emmet Jones, held in Alexandria police court on breaking into a store, was found dead in his jail cell and died at the hospital. Authorities believe he killed himself by poisoning shortly before his death.
Edgar Be. Curbow a brakeman sues Southern Railway in federal court seeking 15000 alleging brake failure caused by a defective chain that broke while he attempted to stop a car, throwing him from a car and injuring him.
Herbert Lang aged 14 and Ed Murphy aged 11, white youths from Fulton county, are to enter the state reformatories after burglary convictions. They will be sent there early next week as the first Fulton county boys to join the reform system.
Statistics note permits for several frame dwellings including 887 Jackson Street and 186 Forrest Avenue with amounts like 1000. Payments record transfers such as Parker to H Young on Kennedy Street and a warranty deed on East North Avenue. Obituary mentions Silas Mores aged 18 and William Calown. other lines list property transfers and debts.
The Relief Association of the Police Department elected officers at the police station on Thursday. Sergeant J. Bheparak becomes president, N. Sheridan secretary and treasurer, with con conductor. A warrant was issued for T. O. Phillips on charges of assault and battery after a trolley car incident, Phillips bonded out the same day.
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