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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1913
Page
1
Edward Okle Painter, noted Jacksonville citizen, dies in a large insurance mystery. The inquiry this week traces a vast estate and a traced dollar mark amid ongoing investigations into the tragedy and its financial implications.
Fairbanks Alaska reports an acute meat famine with beef pork mutton and poultry stock sold out. No meat available until June 10 when a steamer from Lake La Barge is due to bring forty head of cattle. Also noted is discussion of three theories on the financier death: self-inflicted, accident, or insanity.
New York June 7 The piece argues Attorney General McReynolds proposes killing taxation on corporations that exceed a set business threshold threatening a drastic change in how trusts are dissolved. It warns such policy could unsettle markets, provoke a reaction in Europe and undermine credibility of Wilson administration.
After yesterday's market close the 50 stocks averaged 67.16, down from 82.10 a year ago, a decline of 14.14 per share. The year’s total decline equates to 1,640,400,000, effectively wiping the assets of the Steel Trust, the era’s largest corporation. The daily drop of 1.05 implies a bear gambling profit of 115,500,000 for yesterday.
Reynolds Forsbrey, a Clinton prison inmate serving a life term for murder, plotted an April escape with two confederates by building a gasolene bomb and ladders to scale walls. Margaret Ryan aided from a mountain retreat with clothes, fast horses, and plans to flee toward the Canadian boundary. The scheme was uncovered after ladders were found in the basement.
Washington June 7 More office seekers crowd the postmaster general burleson daily than all cabinet members combined. Senators and representatives descend on him by the score with two or three candidates for postmasterships under each wing. Many have lingered so long they look lean and hungry. Burleson wears a careworn hunted look as pressure grows and Republicans predict civil service rules will be flattened out.
Milwaukee woman Violet Morgan Adamson, 30 plus, said the one day marriage by Wallace Henry Adamson, who posed as a Milwaukee broker, was worth $500 though he vanished with her money after taking her homeward ticket. Local authorities recovered her fare but Adamson did not return.
June 7. Miss Jessie Stewart of Pasadena died from injuries after a plain dish slipped from her hands while washing it. She reached for the dish, fell, breaking her arm and leg, and the dish broke her toe. Transferred to a hospital, internal injuries ended fatally weeks later.
Georgia cotton growers face yearly losses up to 70 million dollars unless they adopt farm storage, better bales, drying, grading, and a general warehouse system. Charles J. Brand cites reforms including uniform weights, official grades, improved lint strength, and bank-backed negotiable warehouse receipts to foster gradual marketing and banking cooperation.
Or lando Dammit of Elmford North Carolina has begun legal steps to change his name. He says the name causes worry and embarrassment especially when his name is spoken aloud at lodge meetings and by friends. He recalls being teased in school and during football cheers with his name sung out repeatedly.
Governor Clark is urged by wire to suspend game laws allowing killing of ducks and geese currently flying north to breeding grounds. The season closed in March and within a week there will be no fresh meat in the camp.
Lady Mac Donnell recounts in Remiscences of Diplomatic Life the time she boxed the ears of Wilhelm then Crown Prince in Berlin after he accused her of cheating at checkers. She notes his humor and later quips about the incident whenever they met.
Chicago reports the purity ball hosted by the Progressive Hygiene Club where girls in gowns and slit skirts attended. J B Caldwell of the International Purity Association urged marriage at 27 for men and 25 for women and noted dancing should be spiritual. He commented hoop skirts were more conducive to proper dancing and that a man's arm at a partner's waist symbolized leading through life.
Rome June 7 The proof that Hertian waves can be transmitted through thick walls is given as a result of wireless experiments conducted by Father Alfani. He succeeded in transmitting and receiving messages from a radio station inside the Florentine Cathedral.
Cumberland Maryland June 7 a policeman arrested a man he believed emerged from a freight car then learned the captive was Mrs Lula B Ingram a young widow of Mulberry Grove near St Louis She said she started the trip with her brother in law Harry K Ingram a St Louis commission merchant on a $6,000 wager She later withdrew a $50 bill from a large roll and bought a ticket for Newark New Jersey
Chico June 7 Charles McLen non, prominent businessman, sails to Panama for one day of employment on the canal. He will act as a cement mixer for 24 hours and aims to prove his help in building the big ditch. Frank Morehead accompanies him to observe and enjoy a vacation.
In Jacksonville on June 7 the mystery surrounding Edward Okle Painter’s death is framed by a $1,178,000 life-insurance dispute. Miss Okle Painter, his daughter, now runs the estate and is expected to be a key coroner witness as insurers, detectives, and lawyers pursue the truth of Painter’s death and the vast insurance proceeds.
A Jacksonville business figure held a million dollars in new life policies since February as questions surround his death after falling from the ferry Duval near Fernandina. Investigators weigh accident versus suicide and apoplexy, with insurers noting premiums far exceed his annual income.
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