True Hospitality By Mrs. Frank Learned
An essay extols simple gracious hospitality over lavish display. It urges hosting with heartfelt cordiality, avoiding excess, and teaching generosity to children. The piece notes excess entertainment tires guests and stresses making homes places of good cheer and welcome for all, including older guests and even not easily agreeable ones. The excerpt closes with a plug for an article about Atlanta’s birth by pioneer women in The Sunday American.
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Atlanta
Sunday American
The New Girl and The Old Girl in Modern Life
A columnist contrasts two women the New Girl a self supporting modern professional and the Old Girl a dependent socialite. The piece argues the independent worker better embodies progress over traditional marriage dependence and endorses modern feminism and self sufficiency with a nod to Rev. Dr. John E. White.
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Janie
John
Hopkins Battles Boredom After War Hero Return
Hardly the Same Fall Young Hopkins has just come back from India and is being lionized in society. At a dinner with a superior officer he tries to entertain his host's niece with war stories, but she remains bored as he recalls a horse shot from under him and a family tale about Broadway.
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Paris
Solomon
Hopkins
India
Wilds
Waterloo
Broadway
Novice Reporter Misfires With Telegraphic News
A young reporter sent a rushed wire story saying a judge was down shooting. The editor answered with a terse rebuke urging restraint and focus on the incident.
Medicine for Lung Trouble Promises Recovery
An advertisement touts Eckman's Alterative as effective for throat and lung troubles, claiming many recoveries even when surroundings help only arrest symptoms. A testimonial from Weldon, dated 1905, cites severe pneumonia and typhoid pneumonia improving after starting the remedy, with a call to request booklet and evidence.
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Eckman
Weldon
Fort Worth
Canon City
Echman
Jacobs’ Drug
Pele
Aunt Dodges Pianos for Graphophones and Aquarium Bargains
In a humorous exchange, Mrs Davenport recounts bartering an old piano for a graphophone, then swapping it for an aquarium and finally a canary in a gilt cage. The tale ends with the canary dying and the dressmaker turning the cage into a dressing sack, leaving Marjory amused by her auntie’s perpetual bargaining.
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Adele
Marjory
Tom
Uncle Tom
Baby silencer invention shocks Kansas City crowd
Esther Prouty of Fort Wayne Indiana unveiled a baby silencer at the Hotel Baltimore claiming it muffles cries in public. A rubber hood covers the mouth with a gauzy padding inside, allowing breathing and removal for feeding. The device, worn only in public, produced a muted buzz rather than noise.
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Esther Prouty
Fort M Wayne
Ind
Baltimore
Kansas City
Baseball Sensation Gordon Kelly Delights Atlanta Club
Gordon Kelly a mountain youth with no baseball background impresses manager Bill Smith during tryouts in Atlanta. He gains fame through page one photos as big league scouts flock, while Mildred Deery and Forrest Cain compete for his attention and land interests. The Boston Nationals and other clubs stop by for exhibitions, and Atlanta owner Callaway contemplates selling Kelly to satisfy stockholders amid mounting bids.
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Gordon Kelly
Mountains
Bill Smith
Atlanta
Atlanta Georgian
Mildred Deery
Galen Deery
Forrest Cain
Mildred
Gordon
Mr. Deery
Cain
Boston Nationals
Callaway
Clu
Fleharty
Fpleharty
Musser
Vols
Dobard
Graham
Long
Schwartz
Agler
Perry
Vol
Whitey
Alperman
Noyes
Welch
Kelly
Long Tom Morrissey
Bailey Long
Jack Oldring
Gordon Kelly Sinks Nashville in dramatic final play
In a tense finish at Ponce DeLeon Park, Gordon Kelly drives a line drive home as Atlanta catcher Noyes collides with him at the plate. Kelly scores the winning run amid a field rush, then collapses unconscious while Mildred Deery tends him, the crowd in shocked silence.
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Gordon Kelly
Atlanta
Fleharty
Ponce DeLeon Park
Nashville
Kelly
Noyes
Isis
Mildred Deery
Daley
Callahan
Vols
Welch
Goalby
Mildred
Prizes Offered For Best Solution of The Triple Tie
The Georgian offers $250 in prizes for readers who guess the finale of The Triple Tie mystery. Judge’s consensus will reward the writer closest to A H C Mitchell final chapter, sealed in a bank vault, with $100 to the top contestant. Additional prizes bring total awards to $250.
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A. H. C. Mitchell
Mitchell
American National Bank
Mr. Mitchell
The Ball Player Gordon Kelly Wounded at Atlanta Game
Gordon Kelly suffered a leg fracture at Ponce DeLeon Park when a crash at home plate ended the game. Boston club figures McAleer and Taylor arranged care, touting him as the gamest kid. Nurse Mary Elston tended him as newspapers chronicled Mildred Deery’s role in the scene.
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Ordon Kelly
McAleer
Taylor
Boston
Callaway
Gordon Kelly
John
Mac
Mr. Kelly
John Taylor
Boston Club
Atlanta
Elston
Mary Elston
Miss Elston
Mary
Kelly
Mildred Deery
Gordon
Deery
Miss Deery
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Dorothy DIX
Marie Antoinette
John E. White
Creaie
Mar J Jory
Mrs. Davenport
Verdashes
Lagrippe
International News Service
Dr. Pierce
Atlanta Society
Arspaia Acti Silkigloves
Niagara Silk Mills
North Tonawanda, N. Y
New Yor
Chicago
San Francisco
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