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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
4
Savannah wants Col Graves to attend the auto races during Thanksgiving week. If he accepts, he will face a lively crowd and a chance to study the blind tiger problem under favorable conditions. The item reflects local media satire about sports and public events.
A Georgian paper faces severe censure for its hostile stance on the convict lease system. Ex Judge Spencer Atkinson criticizes the paper's accusations as unfounded while Holder’s testimony before the House shocks the state. Critics say indiscriminate condemnations undermine the reform cause and the paper’s influence.
A Georgia reader letter condemns sensational reform zeal in the Georgian. It argues for vigorous exposure of official wrongdoing without crude attacks on private or public figures. It warns against methods resembling Northern newspapers, urging measured, responsible journalism aligned with Georgia’s public sentiment.
The article notes Taft’s early opposition to Democratic deposit guarantee plans and reports growing support for guaranteed deposits in several Republican states. It argues East financiers favored safe banking, while conservative papers in the Northeast show GOP divergence, urging a government supervised insurance system funded by banks to curb reckless practices.
The New York Journal of Commerce argues that government guarantees would reduce reckless banking, curb asset speculation, and prevent future bank failures. It contends bankruptcy fear is unfounded and urges careful, nonhasty assessment of the Taft administration stance on this crucial issue.
The editorial urges Colquitt and Sumter counties to accelerate road work using engineering crews and durable materials. It laments past meeting focus away from highway planning and calls for a special session or bond issue to fund a complete road system that will attract immigrants raise land values and boost crops.
A Cleveland professor, Thwing, says many women fail to instill grit in boys during formative years. He blames parenting for “Little Lord Fauntlerbys” and notes boys revolt against such namby pambyism as a saving force. Col Watterson mocks Rooseveltism and Bryanism, calling it a political broadside.
Washington sources intimate Senator DuPont, head of the powder trust, will be gently asked to resign the chairmanship of the Republican committee on campaign speakers. Since Bryan highlighted the Republicans' awkward position, many holes remain to be scrambled from before the campaign ends.
The text notes that large inheritances are now common in the North. A short NY item reports W. B Leeds leaving thirty million, but such sums no longer attract global attention. The commentary implies fortunes once remarkable now draw little comment.
A sale advertises mens pants at 2.00 and 2.50, soft undergarments, sheets, bed spreads, lace curtains, remnants of domestic linen, and embroidery items offered at low prices. It promotes sheets at 48c, a closeout of sheeting, and bulk towel lots, inviting customers to see and purchase during the opening period.
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