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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1902
Page
5
Leaders from North Carolina and Virginia rally for education reform. Governor Aycock, Dr Melver, and Dr Alderman highlight unity, school funding, rural libraries, and district conferences to expand public schooling. Strong endorsements and public support mark the event.
Governor Aycock of North Carolina addresses an education conference in Thens Georgia urging statewide literacy for both races. He links taxation for schools to liberty, urges local taxation, and stresses reaching rural districts to educate children and uplift the South, citing shared revolutionary heritage and the need for sacrifice.
Leaders from Georgia Georgia Virginia and other states push for rural eight month schools teacher pay reform and expanded public education. Hon Hoke Smith Dr William Harris and Dr Henry St George Tucker urge equal rights support for black and white students while calling for broader publication efforts to spread educational progress.
The article reports on Georgia politics and national issues, noting a 320,000 agricultural appropriation for cane syrup experiments and debates over meat price controls tied to the beef trust. It covers Rep. Livingston and other legislators pushing tariff repeal for live animals and meat products, plus public building funding for Moscow, Georgia.
Scrofuia is commonly inherited and often affects children and adults. It causes neck bunches, abscesses, skin eruptions, inflamed eyelids, sore ears, rickets, catarrh, wasting and general debility. C I Hood Co offers medicines claimed to permanently cure these conditions, with testimonials available on request.
House leaders unveil omnibus public building bill authorizing 173 projects nationwide totaling 15.8 million dollars. Atlanta’s limit rises to 2 602 358 with 170 000 for additional land, while other cities like Richmond Memphis Dallas and Norfolk see higher caps and site cost rules.
A northern and southern fellowship promotes universal public education, arguing poverty cannot sustain civilization. Dr Alderman urges patriotism through schooling, while Hamilton Viable lauds cooperative efforts, condemning tax-haters and opponents of negro education as major foes. The gathering cites Reconstruction era ideals and pays homage to southern heroes and memorials.
Senator Hernando D Money of Mississippi was detained on information by street car conductor Orphan Shaner after an incident aboard a car. The conductor and foreman Hooper were involved. Money and Hooper posted bonds, Shaner collateral. Trial set for next Thursday with Money denying the knife attack and claiming misidentification.
A Baltimore syndicate including Seaboard Air Line principals and New York firms bought 31 400 shares of Cochran estate stock. Buyers listed are John L Williams Sons Richmond J W Middendorf Co Baltimore Vermitye Co New York Harlgarten Co New York. Williams Cochran, a Yonkers caper manufacturer, was linked with Williams and Middendorf in Seaboard creation.
The conference elected officers for the next year including President Hubert C. Ogden and Treasurer George Foster Peabody. A busy programme followed with talks by Dr W T Harris, Prof H N Snyder, and Dr Albert Shaw on education, denominational college work, school equipment, and reinforcement. Afternoon activities focus on Memorial Day exercises.
William C. Larmen, vice president of People’s National Bank of Salem New York, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health after five years of weakness from heart trouble thin blood and head pains. He asserts four boxes produced a dramatic improvement and urges others to try the pills noting their efficacy for blood disorders nervous weakness and related conditions. The ad claims the pills are a universal remedy sold by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady N Y with a warning to avoid substitutes.
Officials heartened and alarmed by Manila cables reveal General Smith admitted giving orders to kill and burn Lamar and to seize all capable of bearing arms in a court martial proceeding. Political fallout looms as Republicans fear the admission will harm the party in elections while the War Department seeks to mollify with testimonials supporting American soldiers in the Philippines.
Washington April 25 The House passed 145 private pension bills including pensions for the widows of General William Ludlow at 50 dollars monthly and "Pargon" Brownlow of Tennessee at 30 dollars. The day featured general debate on the agricultural appropriation bill with Mr Cochran of Missouri accusing trusts of supporting both parties and buying influence, noting senatorships bought like produce and questioning representation in one state due to a failed bargain.
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