Immigrant Influx Faces Backlash In National Debate
The Athens Banner urges caution over large scale immigration, citing Philadelphia League figures for 1905 and prior years. It argues newcomers cluster in dense urban areas, displacing labor, increasing competition, and risking unsanitary conditions and social division.
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Leager Gays
Jne
United States
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
East
Near West
Miinola
Massachusetts
Roosevelt Faces Tough Task in Smoothing Football
The piece notes President Roosevelt’s effort to pacify football, praising his peacekeeping record with Russia and Japan. It compares the White House conference to a Hague gathering, suggesting it could humanize conduct and deter belligerents, with Roosevelt supervising and ready to denounce wrongdoers.
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The
Washington Globe
White House
Hague
Lam- Das
Georgia Still Democratic After Roosevelt Visit
President Roosevelt toured Georgia to honor his maternal roots and speak with locals. He observed Georgians’ cordial hospitality and noted their readiness to oppose him politically in the future, while acknowledging such trips won’t alter enduring party loyalties.
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Mitte Bulloch
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Atlanta
Georgia
Roosevelt
Beating the Air on Bond Repudiation in Georgia
The piece argues President Roosevelt oversteps by urging states to settle repudiated bonds with southern states. It asserts Georgia never owed such bonds, issued by an illegal legislature and signed by an improperly seated governor. The writer says the question is settled by Southerners and Roosevelt should stop intruding.
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Roosevelt
Europe
Theodore Roosevelt
Georgia
President Salary and the Cost of Visiting the People
The Banner cites the Macon Telegraph arguing over President Roosevelt’s travels costing $16,000 in rail fare from his private funds. It questions whether a president should mingle with the public during a term, contrasting with European salaries and urging either higher pay or different presidents if public access is desired.
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United States
Macon
Roosevelt
South
Cincimatas
Productivity of Labor Gains in U S Wage Levels and Hours
Economist J Lawrence Laughlin notes in a recent article that over the last fifty to sixty years money wages for unskilled workers rose about 50 percent and for higher grades over 100 percent while daily hours fell. He adds that wages increased even as prices fell for many goods workers consume.
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J. Lawrence Laughlin
United States
Great Britain
Productivity and wages rise with industrial progress
The article argues that advances in productivity and industrial techniques have raised output and lowered unit costs, enabling higher real wages with fewer hours. It suggests wage gains come more from productivity than unions, and favors productivity-based pay over uniform minimums driven by threats or strikes. It emphasizes internal, initiative-driven gains over external labor pressure.
The Czar Nicholas II Praised for Intelligence
A wave of praise for Czar Nicholas II unfolds from diverse witnesses. W T Stead and Count Tolstoy are contrasted, while diplomats and ambassadors recount a sovereign who is intelligent, conscientious, and a steadfast man of his word. Georgia figures in a campaign defense of Col James M Smith against slander.
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Nicholas
Russia
W. T. Stead
Review of Reviews
Mr. Stead
Count Tolstoi
Nicholas II
Count Tolsto
Peterhof
Col. Smith
Nat Arnold
Georgia
South
Ishmael
Hagar
Gal
Rome
Tibune
Col
J. M. Smith
Jetter
Atlanta News
University of Georgia
Attack on James M. Smith draws press condemnation
The unjust attack on Hon. James M. Smith of Oglethorpe county, a gubernatorial candidate, has drawn strong condemnation from editors and the public. The Rome Tribune and the Warren Tom Clipper publicly denounce the smear campaign as uncalled for and harmful to character.
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James M. Smith
Oglethorpe County
Rome Tribune
Warrentom Clipper
Infamous punishment case argues due process void in Jamison ruling
The judge voided Jamison’s sentence for lack of due process and because one man cannot adjudge in famy. The respondent argues Jamison should remain in custody under a police court sentence, contends insufficient state appeals exhausted, denies immediate release by habeas corpus, and cites first ten amendments as federal limits while state remedies exist.
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Jamison
Cuain
Citywide law enforcement pledge without bias
An archival statement notes that enforcement across Macon was uniform and impartial, applying to all individuals regardless of race color or class, emphasizing equal treatment under municipal laws. The text underscores a principled stance of non-discrimination in policing and public order.
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Macon
Name Jenkins County Honors Georgia Governor Jenkins
A celebration proclaimed the creation of Jenkins County named for Charles Jones Jenkins of Richmond County. The piece recounts his prewar renown as lawyer and Georgia statesman, his Reconstruction governorship, and the military ouster that followed, noting the county’s formation from Burke, Bulloch, Emanuel, and Screven.
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Jenkins
Charles J. Jenkins
Charles Jones Jenkins
Savannah Press
Sam Small
Joe Hill Hall
Bibb
House Committee On
Richmond County
Georgia
Dixie County
Burke
Bulloch
Emanuel
Screven
Small
Commonwealth
Johnson
Congress
United States Army
Thomas H. Ruger
Judge Speer Reversed by U S Supreme Court in Jamison Case
The U S Supreme Court reverses Judge Emory Speer in the Jamison case, upholding the Macon recorder’s constitutional right to sentence offenders to the county chain gang. Jamison, arrested March 13, 1904 for drunk and disorderly conduct, pled guilty and was fined or jailed. Speer had ordered Jamison released after habeas corpus, a ruling now overturned. The decision preserves local recorder courts and signals caution toward federal intervention.
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Georgia
United States Supreme Court
Emory Speer
Jamieson
Recorder’s Courts
Is Is
Recorder’s Court
Macon
Jamison
Speer
Henry Jamison
Blacon
Governor Jenkins Honored For Exile Seal Rescue In Georgia
The narrative recalls Governor Jenkins concealing money and the Great Seal to protect it from usurers, then returning the seal to rightful custody upon Governor James Milton Smith’s election. He was thanked by the general assembly and a gold duplicate seal ordered as a token of gratitude. In 1877 he led as president of the constitutional convention.
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Commonwealth
Canada
James Milton Smith
Jenkins
General Assembly
Georgia
People of
Southern Field Makes Appearance At City Launch
The first issue of the Southern Field, an agricultural and industrial weekly, appears in the city published by T. Larry Gantt and son. The seven column eight page paper is well printed, up to date, and attractive. It serves farmers, mechanics, business people and all classes with strong advertising support already evident.
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Southern Field
Gantt
Yancey L. Gantt
Hyomel Cures Catarrh Says Athena Residents
The ad touts Hyomel as a near miracle for catarrh with R T Booth credited for its discovery. Pack costs 1.00 and includes inhaler, dropper, and bottle. four breaths daily allegedly clear air passages. If it fails, H R Palmer & Sons refund the purchase.
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R. T. Booth
Athena
H. R. Palmer
Bons
Cotton oil vs lard sparks Georgia debate in 1905
In a Piedmont lobby discussion, Western and cotton oil men clash over lard supply and the virtues of cotton oil. A Georgia observer argues Georgia should consume homegrown products as cotton production soars, asserting cotton oil's purity and flavor.
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West
South
Georgia
Atlanta Constitution
Pybus Guilty and Heavily Fin ed
Percy W. Pybus, 19, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in superior court for running down and killing Branch Lewin Jr. in Atlanta on Washington Street. Judge L. B. Roan imposed a $350 fine plus court costs or 12 months in prison. The father, G. E. Pybus, meat market proprietor, paid the fine. Pybus had earlier been fined $100 in recorder's court after grand jury investigation.
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Atlanta
Percy W. Pybus
Little Branch Lewin, Jr
Washington Street
Superior Criminal Court
L. B. Roan
G. E. Pybus
Peachtree Street
Pybus
Recorder’s Court
Grand Jury
Fugitive Holds Pursuers At Gay Alstead Hotel
George Ford locked himself in a hotel room in Alstead New Hampshire on October 25 as a sheriff and a posse of ten closed in to arrest him for murder. He allegedly shot Fred Shortcleve in a quarrel moments earlier. Police blocked all exits and planned to starve Ford into submission.
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Alstead
N. H
George Ford
Sherif
Fred Shortcleve
Ford
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