Subscription Rates and Delivery Details for The Constitution
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS outlines pricing for Daly and Tri weekly plans with yearly and quarterly options, carrier delivery in Atlanta, and rates for daily Sunday editions. It lists Washington Bureau location Hibbs Building and staff contacts, plus notes on New York distribution and hotel stand sales, with traveling representatives named for subscriber verification and routing.
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Daly
Roth
Atlante Table
Atlanta
Washington
the Constitution
Hibbs
Fifteenth
John Corrigan
New York
Vickers
Constitution
Hotaling
Broadway
Twenty-ninth Street
Thirty-eighth Street
Fusty-second Street
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Park
New Peonaylvagia Railroad Nation
Madison Square
Lorimer and the political squabble in prose
A clipped political column comments on Senator Lorimer and Joe Cannon, noting resignations and revenge while weaving in songs of spring, airships, and the 1912 presidential scene. It references Bryan, Wilson, and other national figures with satirical overtones about campaigns, Congress, and public policy.
Spread of Commission Government in Georgia and Nation
The article reports mayoral support in Rome for abolishing the city council and public works board in favor of a three member commission. It notes widespread southern interest, cites Birmingham and Montgomery in Alabama, Des Moines versus Galveston, and presents the move as bringing power closer to the people while reducing friction and inefficiency. Atlanta stands to analyze both virtues and flaws from a judicial perspective.
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Georgia
Hancock
Rome
Board of Public Works
Birmingham
Montgomery
Galveston
Des Moines
Houston
Atlanta
Licensed Larceny of the Bagging Trust in Tariff Row
The piece denounces the cotton bagging and ties duties as a robber-like lever on southern farmers. It cites a six tenths of a cent per square yard bagging duty and a 13½ cent bundle tax, plus a 45 percent ad valorem rate on foreign bagging. Congress should place bagging and ties on the free list, with Representative Bartlett of Georgia pushing the measure.
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Congress
South
American Bagging Trust
Board of General Appraisers
the Customs
House
Bartlett
Georgia
Eliminating the loan sharks in Atlanta
Philanthropic businessmen outline plans to starve out loan sharks by creating Fidelity Mutual Savings and Trust Company with 50000 capital to offer lawful rate loans to needy small borrowers. Stock to be oversubscribed. aims to provide humane banking access and a substitute for usurious lending.
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Atlanta
Fidelity Mutual Savings and Trust Company
Sunday Hours for Postal Clerks
The Chamber of Commerce backed movement for shorter Sunday hours for post office clerks and reduced Sunday general delivery hours faces the risk of mail congestion. Adequate clerk staffing on Sundays is urged to ensure timely distribution to post office boxes and outgoing mail, avoiding overburdening workers and local business.
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Chamber of Commerce
Expansion of the Fruit Exchange in Georgia and South Carolina
The article reports on a shift to scientific marketing of the region's watermelon and cantaloupe crops in Georgia and South Carolina to maximize grower profits, noting an official announcement from Georgia Fruit.
Exchange to Handle Important Crops for Two States
The Exchange, formed through effort spurred by The Constitution, aims to aid agriculture and finance by its latest move. Melon growing has suffered from market fluctuations and poor transport and refrigeration, but scientific handling promised by the Exchange could reduce these problems and improve enterprise.
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Field Captain and Conspiracy of Home Harvests
A collage of verses from a Georgia themed page contrasts political apathy with rural toil. It features a farmer-congressman metaphor, a Missouri born philosopher Omar Gray’s advice on public opinion, and pastoral reflections on spring, peace, and longing. The piece blends political quips, sentimental lyrics, and short moral musings.
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Missouri
Omar Gray
Briareus
At the End of the Path Poem Verse by Henry Kaward Warner
A Baltimore Evening Run poem fragment describes peaceful dreams beyond the path where violets blue and lovers eyes, musk and delight recur. It envisions silver ladders to an unknown land of light and laws, free from pain, care, and grief.
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Mona
Pele Beamy
Ailver
Henry Kaward Warner
Baltimore
When Trollope Tossed
Lord Rosebery notes the tough truth of literary rewards in a Dickens centenary tale. George Smith recalls Anthony Trollope resisting a £2000 offer for a serial, proposing a pound for a toss and choosing liberal terms after negotiation. Trollope declined the challenge and declined to join the short wager at the club.
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Pal Mail Gazette
Lord Rosebery
George Smith
Anthony Trollope
Moving Hotel Up River Captivates Nantasket Crowd
The Nantasket Point hotel, a 23 4 story structure, was rolled from its river foundation to two lighters and towed almost a mile up the Weir River to a new Nantasket beach site. It was then set on land in under forty minutes without a mishap.
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Boston Herald
Wier
Hull
Nantasket Point
Wler
Nantasket Beach
Georgia Fruit Exchange Plans Melon and Cantaloupe Marketing
The Georgia Fruit Exchange announces it is ready to market watermelons and cantaloupes from Georgia and South Carolina. It outlines marketing plans, low fees, and a per car charge of ten dollars for watermelon shipments and ten percent plus five percent fees for cantaloupes, urging growers to join, sign contracts, and recruit neighbors to enlarge the distribution network.
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Au Mem Prower
Itigan
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Mare Kheta
One Constitution Reaches Wide Circulation in Tennessee Mountains
A Harriman Tennessee reader describes how a single newspaper copy travels through his town and into the mountains, passing from a carriage maker to a schoolteacher’s mother, a cook, and a washerwoman. He notes the library may keep a copy on its table.
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Story Hour League
Atlanta
Tennessee
Dennz
Knew the Traits From The Philadelphia Times
A police sergeant jokes with a young patrolman about earned stripes. The sergeant notes hard work, contrasting it with loafing on corners. The patrolman replies with a sour smile, acknowledging the pride of advancement.
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Philadelphia Times
Some Smoke at the Doorway Incident
A clubman returning home late is warned by a policeman that the door cannot be opened with the latch key. The clubman exclaims and notes he has smoked his latchikey, with laughter following.
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Scott
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