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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1906
Page
15
The fragment discusses publication length rules for THE GEORGIAN, mentions submitting manuscripts and stamps, notes the Georgian platform advocating public utilities ownership and lower rates, references street railways and cooperation, and hints at a visible call to action or stance in the direction of city improvements.
Washington Post compiles extracts claiming President Roosevelt would veto any bills restoring discharged Negro soldiers or altering their records and would ignore unconstitutional laws. The pieces urge a formal denial by the White House while noting the president’s loyalty yet warning of misrepresentation across journals in Washington.
A garbled list of names and addresses includes Augustus O. Bacon at 1757 Oregon Avenue and A. 8. Clay at the Normandie. Others named: Bi Wwardwick at Shoreham, Overstreet at the Metropolis, F. Livingston at 1916 Biltmore, and M. Grigan at the Metropolitan.
A reflective meditation on life as the trainable arena of growth and purpose. It extols joyous living, kindness, fellowship, and duty, portraying God’s world as a palace of delights where providence invites cheerful service and mutual support. The author urges gladness, generosity, and steadfast hope as the core of a meaningful life.
A fragmented memorial poem recalls Edw Sven Zile and a vanished friend. The verse laments a dear companion, recalls childhood joys, and imagines a phantom sleigh and a snowbound grave marker for a cherished, now departed soul.
Washington reports the government issued strict regulations to back the Mellen Company plan for a new independent oil pipeline from Bartlesville Indian Territory to Texas ports. The $5 million line aims to free the southwestern oil field from monopoly by blocking Standard Oil control and ensuring operator independence.
Christina will be in general holiday for the office men of the railroads in the general offices. Most of them closed at noon Monday and will remain closed until Wednesday morning. All the commercial offices will remain closed Christmas day, only the telegraph offices will remain open on this day. RAILROAD LETS CONTRACT FOR BRIDGE STEEL Spec to The Georgian, Bristol, Tenn, Dec. 25. The South western Railway Company, now constructing a line of road from the Virginia coal field to a deep water connection on the Carolina coast, has let the contract for nearly 000 tons of fabricated steel for use in the construction of bridges along the route.
Nearly all visiting members of the theatrical profession in Atlanta were banqueted Monday night by the International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employees and the Theatrical Mechanics Association at a Porsyth Street room. It was a royal Christmas festival with abundant food and festive spirits, featuring a clever program of reels, songs, talks, and playful skits that added to the merriment of the occasion.
Guests in the New Kimball palm room will spin a Wheel of Fortune to win gifts from a central cedar tree during Tuesday dinner. Kris Kringle guards a giant cake wheel while Will Zimmer’s pigeons add color near the tree as electric lights blaze. A grand display of game and premium meats accompanies the Christmas feast.
Monday afternoon in Atlanta residents faced an unusual quiet as the mayor ordered all saloons to close from 4 PM Monday until Wednesday morning. Those unable to drink could not obtain more liquor and the streets grew orderly with few intoxication incidents reported on Christmas Day.
Willie D Cochran 17 aids a ill elderly man on a hot August day carrying a dress suitcase to the Terminal. The stranger later sends a Christmas gift from Columbus and a letter praising the boy’s courtesy and kindness.
Four thousand U S printers still on strike for an eight hour day will receive a total gift of 19800 from the International Typographical Union. Each man gets 2.50 plus regular strike pay with the stipulation the funds buy Christmas turkeys for their families. The Illinois supreme court upheld fines and jail terms for Michael Flanner, John M. Shea, Charles F. Woerner and Harry Brown in a case against the Inkling Union of Pressers.
New York date to Oyster Bay Fort Cove school receives Christmas gifts from President Roosevelt. He sends a substantial check to the principal and small gifts like books to each pupil, with teachers remembered as well.
Carrie Swayne, a former soubrette who toured America and Australia, claims letters furnished by Frank Gardner’s wife show he admits her work earned most of his fortune. She seeks about 10 million of the reported 20 million, and says she believed Gardner was her husband for 18 years until discovering another wife in Philadelphia.
Paris reports James H. Hyde and Mile Yvonne Garrick are engaged to marry per a Le Cri de Paris line, with boulevard chatter claiming Garrick left for Venice with her heart's choice and resigned from the Comedie Francaise manager. friends say she will return to Paris after marriage.
A scrambled chronicle of items from December 25 including Pa-Devil Garrick at Good Field theater for Pop's Fortune, the Battle of Trenton, Clara Bears with civil war notes, Patricece Gilmore and a bandleader born, a pirate Saylor later a president, Ble Water natives, a 1861 universal amnesty proposal, Marshall Ku Klux outbreak, and Britain’s penny postage inauguration.
St Petersburg December 25 The court martial trying Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and 78 officers for surrender to the Japanese at the Sea of Japan battle on May 28 1905 handed down verdicts. Nebogatoff Lichino Apraine Gregorieff Sheavern and Lieutenant Smirnoff were sentenced to death but the court will petition the emperor to commute to ten years fort imprisonment. Four other officers receive short fortress terms while the rest are acquitted.
Washington reports that President Diaz of Mexico has ordered the Compania de Riegos y Torrens de la Baja to prove within ten days it can control the Colorado River overflow toward the Salton Sea. The company must have capital, workers, and equipment ready to close the breach within three months and return waters to their former bed to prevent further Imperial Valley damage.
A jewelry store on Whitehall Street reported a theft of a $200 diamond ring after a clerk found a counterfeit stone in a display tray. The bogus ring, with a brass setting, replaced a genuine piece during a holiday rush. The thief remains unknown and the incident was reported to police.
Special to The Georgians from Macon Georgia reports that Gordon McDonald shot and killed Coley Cheney and Herchel Burns after a quarrel at Cochran Sunday. McDonald confronted Burns at his home and, when Cheney and Burns prepared to fight, produced a pistol and murdered both men. All involved are white and well known locally.
Frank J. Russell, private secretary to millionaire lumberman John E. DuBoise of Dubolse, Pa, killed himself at the Hotel Henry last night. His body found this morning. A letter and promissory notes indicate financial troubles. He left a young wife and child and wrote an emotional note saying he did not intend to be dishonest but fell into wrong doing and had to continue.
Guayaquil reports General Eloy Elfaro elected constitutional president for four years. Elfaro led a January revolt against President Garcia, causing Garcia to flee the country and Elfaro to reorganize the government.
Special to The Georgian from New Orleans reports Rev. William Gibbons SOL has been moved to Hotel Dieu for a relapse of his recent woes. He is sinking fast and it is believed he cannot recover.
A long New York gossip column notes habit changes from automobile influence on voices and the era’s social foibles. It reports a mass roast shipment to the president by George Griot the butcher, and tallies holiday spending by Philadelphia stores Chicago and Pittsburgh merchants. It mentions a U S Supreme Court decision on a Kentucky conferee’s tax and a social quarrel at the Durand embassy.
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