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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1916
Page
17
The piece argues for competitive charter drafting in Atlanta with two committees, one to develop a traditional charter and another to craft a commission form. It notes broad city agreement on action to improve economy and efficiency and urges quick, politics-free decision by voters.
President Wilson demands a clear U S posture toward Germany over submarine policy. The note says no more diplomacy without action and Germany must honor promises or face consequences. Also memorial notices Atlanta pioneer Benjamin B Crew and brief city musings on spring, politics, and neutrality.
A collage of river imagery and verse reflections blends rustic humor with war notes. Narratives imagine Shakespearean seasons, dreamlike fishing, and a hand organ serenade beside notes from poets and seekers of rhythm, ending with local briefs on moonshine ghosts and political candidacies.
Commissioner H M Stanley announces confidential reports from 170 Georgia textile mills show only five or six pending reports expected this week. Data will feed statistical tables on mills, spindle counts, capital, employees, raw and finished product value, and annual cotton use.
The readable fragment hints at city progress being hampered but provides no clear actions, dates, or involved entities. The fragment lacks identifiable people, organizations, or locations to anchor a concise historical summary card. Further context is required to produce a precise T and S.
Poem contrasts old rural labor with modern farming tech. The speaker recalls hoe tilling corn, weed paring, and grit for pay, then observes today’s cultivators, locomotives of machines, and workers riding in cars while cattle and crops thrive with less strenuous effort.
A 1916 commemorative verse honors Shakespeare on his tercentenary. The poem proclaims his enduring fame beyond nations, arguing that only in time’s vast span can room be found for his expanding glory and that humanity’s art lives on through his works.
Announcement of the enlarged Lewis C. Gregg art studio in The Constitution building signals a new era for local artists. The school now offers night and summer classes, accommodation for 26 000 idle school children, and draws on Gregg’s fourteen years leading Atlanta’s art department. Regular daytime classes stay, with Thursday through Friday evenings and weekend sessions guiding students in drawing rather than painting.
A letter from Helberta Crate Company of Bainbridge protests proposed railroad rate changes for fruit baskets in Georgia. It cites 20 000 pound car minimum, shifts to 15 000 pounds, and higher per 100 pound charges. Comparisons to Knoxville Nashville Evansville and New York rates are included, warning of closures if enacted and noting favorable but inconsistent treatment across routes.
ABE MARTIN notes a dye shortage won’t worry the feller with a badger gray mustache as long as shoe blacking lasts. Miss Pawn Lippincut says new dances prove dull unless you stay seated on the davenport, except you walk around.
Only a few days remain for The Constitution readers to obtain the song book Heart Songs. The volume, prized for daily home use, features four hundred songs selected by music lovers and group-assembled under unique circumstances.
Georgia Court of Appeals affirms multiple judgments from city, superior, and municipal courts across Waycross Leesburg Brooks Bibb Calhoun Columbus MIllen Atlanta Crawford Ben Hill Baldwin Leary and other counties. The list includes American National Insurance Davis Hadden Conley City of Jackson Parke State and numerous others with various counsel noted.
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