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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1901
Page
3
The passage argues for a cross party approach to tariff policy and trade, noting Roosevelt's fixed four year stance and potential Southern Democratic alignment. It asks whether a Southern Democrat should join Roosevelts Cabinet, given the national call for a truce in politics and shifting trade priorities.
The Athens Banner notes Atlanta’s growing money syndicates and calls for limits on corporate power while stressing rights must be protected. It accuses the city’s dominant monopoly of shaping politics, including backing James G. Woodward for alderman, and predicts the Rapid Transit Railway Co. will influence his term.
Washington dispatch reports a feud between Lieut. Gen. Miles and Adjt. Gen. Corbin over Col. Whitney’s appointment as a presidential aide. The piece links Roosevelt’s possible alliance with Miles to the Whitney selection amid army headquarters maneuvering and long-standing intra-service criticism. Political reformers urging third parties are urged to push for real change despite opposition from old party machines.
In Constantinople a report from Samakov Bulgaria states Miss Helen S Stone was abducted by brigands on September 5. The letter says she is alive and well treated but held for a ransom of 25000 Turkish pounds. It suggests Bulgaro Macedonian committees were involved.
A gang burglarized eight to ten stores in Maysville on Sept 27 seizing pistols cartridges and hardware. They forced entry to Girrard & McElroy blacksmith and carriage shop and robbed pants shoes dry goods clothing and cash drawers. An attempt on the post office occurred but no arrests have been made yet.
New York dispatch reports three ministers at a king's council discussing South Africa with no sign of an autumn session to replenish wartime funds. Chamberlain stayed afterward, questions about the South African situation noted, campaign expenses arranged to January. Separately, Czolgicz’s defense lawyers are praised for their competence and restrained strategy in the President's slayer case.
An advertisement promotes S. S. S. as a blood purifier and tonic, claiming it removes poisons from the blood and cures diseases of blood origin such as cancer, scrofula, rheumatism, and eczema. It touts a fifty year record of cures, invites medical correspondence, and offers free consultative service through The Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta, GA.
In an interview from Skibo Castle, Rev. D E Mackay describes Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic aims. He notes 350 Scottish church organs funded at 1500 to 3000 dollars each, totaling near a million. Mrs Carnegie backs the plans and the Carnegies, with daughter Margaret, plan to return to New York in November aboard the St Louis despite delays at home. Carnegie also says he could have averted the steelworkers strike had he been in Pittsburgh.
In Wittacooner Georgia Elisha Lott, a farmer, fatally shot his son-in-law Randal Metts at B F Summerlin's store after Metts wed Lott's daughter last spring amid sensational circumstances. Lott, from a prominent Coffee County family, faces the community as the first white-on-white slaying in the county's history.
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