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The Constitution is carried by local agents and mailed outside Atlanta at 65 cents per month or 13 cents per week. Outside Atlanta rate is 9 cents per month or 14 cents per week. Office at 40 West AY Constitution Building. Washington Bureau chief is John Corrigan Jr. State Correspondent in charge. Availability at Hotaling's Newsstands in New York. Not responsible for advance payments to out of town carriers or agents.
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Times-Picayune Blasts Mann Over War Speech Partisanship
The New Orleans Times-Picayune denounces Republican Leader Mann for insinuating President Wilson aims to push the U S toward war over the German crisis during the presidential campaign. It urges Republicans to repudiate Mann, labels partisanship treasonous, and credits Wilson’s peace efforts.
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New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Ilinaig
Congress
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Wilson
Germany
United States
The
Times-Picayune
Ir. Mann
Congressman Mann
Mann
Put It Up To The People Charter Revision Debate
The charter revision committee urged council to place the Dunlap resolution before Atlanta voters for direct decision. It outlines two 25 member committees to draft a revised charter and a concentrated form, aiming for greater economy and efficiency in municipal government. The report stresses letting the people decide the form of charter.
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Atlanta
Charter Revision Committee
Atlanta Charter Vote Proposed By Voters Choice
Two charter revision plans from rival committees are to be submitted to Atlanta voters. The article urges the council to place the issue before the people, arguing that residents deserve a direct choice between the rival charters and control over governance and finances.
Banishing Booze Signals Global Shift in Liquor Attitudes
The Globe notes Canada has largely banished liquor from public life in the present generation, with press and parliament alike turning away from alcohol. England shows slower reforms, Russia pushes full ban, and sober soldiers cited by Grand Duke Nicholas illustrate widespread gains in temperance and public welfare.
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Toronto Globe
Canada
The
Globe
Canadian Press Association
Department of Business
England
Russia
Nicholas
Boose
Georgia Peanuts Push Diversification Amid Boll Weevil
The Georgia Department of Agriculture issues a bulletin urging crop diversification as boll weevil impacts crop focus. Peanut oil gains value, with mills planned across the state consuming about 60 tons daily, plus packing plants boosting demand for cattle, hogs, and peanuts. The department praises diversification while a Chicago court decision jokes about Bacon writing Shakespeare.
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State Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Southwest
Georgia Department, of Agriculture
Just 4 Georgia Opera Bride Song and Prose
A brisk collage of whimsical verse and quotes from a 19th century newspaper. It features a playful Opera of the Bride scene with Violet Lily and the Lady Rose in bright colors, a Mockingbird troupe, Don Quixote maxims paraphrased for modern readers, spring verses, a political jab about an ungrateful candidate, morning greetings, and a light local humor piece about cows eating bank notes.
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Violet
Lily
States Do Not Want Real Prohibition Says So-Called Dry States
A letter to The Constitution editor argues that states are not ready for real prohibition. It contends interstate shipment laws block enforcement, cites Georgia as example, and claims prohibition gains are political and financial rather than public safety outcomes. LEB, President National Mode & B, Lewisville Ky, April 24.
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Prohibition
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National Mode
Lewisville
Metropolitan Opera Singers Visit Grant Park In Secret Practice
Fritz Ritter, florist at Grant Park, reported that three or four singers from the Metropolitan Opera quietly practiced in German in a secluded spot Wednesday. The encounter drew officials later but the singers’ names were not disclosed. Also, a Teddy Bear arrived at Grant Park Zoo weighing 550 pounds, sent from Florida, and a half day for Memorial Day closed city offices. City maps for the Plumbing Department arrived, showing detailed sewer and building data for Atlanta.
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Fritz Ritter
Grant Park
Metropolitan Opera Company
Fritz
Oscar Cochran
Grant Park Zoo
Florida
Muscle and the idle power of the body
George Fitch argues muscle is the body’s power source, shaping human progress from farming to industry. He mocks overreliance on machinery, notes public fascination with muscular display, and calls for a commission to conserve muscle while critiquing criminals and society’s use of force.
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New York
San Francisco
America
Commission
ABE MARTIN on Deffyk aky'a Hallet Russe
Miss Fawn Lippincut finds the piece ornery yet well done. She adds a motto about risk improving results, noting nothing ventured nothing earned.
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Miss Fawn Lippincut
Aida Opera Tonight at the Auditorium Armory
Verdi's Aida, based on an ancient Egyptian tale, opens with the famed aria Heavenly Aida and follows love between Aida and Rhadames amid palace plots. The Ethiopian king Amonasro, Amneris, and priests shape a dramatic tragedy ending in a shared death beneath the tomb.
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Verdi
Rhadames
Amonasro
Ethiopia
Egypt
Memphis
Ammeris
Amenasra
Ammaeris
Ida
Ramfis
Amneris
Hadames
Nile
Alda
Rhadatmnes
Hhadames
Vulcan
Ptah
God
Adlaves
Thebes
The
Lis
Osiris
Ajda
Amneria
Ramsis
Legal action as remedy for lynchings in Georgia
Judge James B. Park reports a 1916 Morgan County case where an assault with intent to rape a white girl led to a due process trial after a venue change. He praises Morgan County citizens for upholding law and orders, resisting mob violence, and supporting a fair, publicly observed conviction and sentencing under 1919 law.
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Middle
Georgia
Morgan County
Peage
Clarke County
Morgan Superior Court
Athens
Madison
South
James B. Park
Ocmulgee Circuit
Greensboro
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Hason a county fair pumpkin tale
In this verse riff from Rippling Rhymes by Walt Hason a father counsels his son to quit games and garden instead. The boy defends farming raising pumpkins with blue ribbons at the county fair over threebase hits or ball play. The poem moves to a gentle scene of the father at the well musing on age and labor.
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Tam
Relieve Georgia Supreme Court and Appeals Pressure Plan
Atlanta April 24 C B Horton suggests governors appoint three superior court judges per judicial circuit to review writs of error involving $300 and less twice yearly at central locations. This would ease overwork, speed decisions, and allow appellate courts to handle cases in detail, improving service.
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Supreme Court
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Court of Appeals
Georgia Court of Appeals Decisions Against State Appeals
A survey of Georgia Court of Appeals judgments lists numerous cases from city and superior courts with errors for plaintiff in error. Lawyers named include James G. Howard P N New Davis S I New, Thomas J Shackeltorn, Wolver M Smith, Henne t Harrell, and Hugh M Dorsey. Several cases are noted as reversed or affirmed with judges Beall Hill and others presiding.
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City Court of Dublin
Wicks
James G. Howard
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Hicka
W. A. Dampier
S. I. New
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Carrollton
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Beykin
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Higgs
Suerior Court
George
Mann
Patterson
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Smith & Smith
C. EB. Roop
A Porter
City of Atlanta
Fulton Superior Court
Wills
Nelly & Scott
J. L. Maggon
W. D. Wills
Drew
City Court of Catro
Willie
M. L. Ledford
J. Q. Smith
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