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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1910
Page
6
A jumble of satirical notes on campaigning figures including Taft Bryan and Rockefeller, with quips on Crippen and Oster Bay conferences. It mocks politicians, press, and the era’s wireless hype, noting restless voters and roads, fashioning a broad, wry colonial voice.
Wickersham endorses placing General Lee in Statuary Hall as a symbol of reconciliation after the Civil War. Taft approves the verdict and Virginia’s rights are affirmed, urging North and South to move past bitterness and pledge loyalty.
Dr Joe Jacobs in The Constitution argues Georgia peach by products like kernels and low grade fruit yield significant profits if properly processed. He cites kernels used as almond substitutes and kernel oil imported by druggists, urging Georgia growers to form cooperatives for oil extraction and kernel roasting for candy. He notes European producers maximize all orchard outputs and warns Georgia neglects such by products is wasteful.
The Crippen case returns to center stage as a London dentist and his accomplice outrun police aboard the Montrose. Wireless alerts Scotland Yard from mid ocean, and a desperate pursuit unfolds with dramatic romantic flair and a modern man hunt amid stormy seas.
The national civil service commission proposes a policy to reduce or eliminate women stenographers in government work, claiming men are more amenable to discipline. The plan calls for substitution of men, but experience from many American firms, including Atlanta mercantile houses, casts doubt on the commission’s conclusions.
The passage riffs on Cuba policy, Phillonites and unloading to Japan. It quips about Taft advocating two months vacation per year and Pinchot using influence to save forests. It hints at coal trusts impacting next winter and ridicules optimistic rhetoric with a surreal elephant image.
A rambling miscellany of dialect verses and editorials on summer toil and political life. It weaves humorous pieces about harvest songs, a travelogue of an editor’s trip, and a light polemic on the looming legislature, all framed by a rustic patriotic mood and local folklore.
A collage of editorials and remarks from The Albany Herald Coffea County News Waycross Herald Augusta Chronicle Macon News and Savannah Pres discuss Governor Brown Smith and Hoke Smith. They praise his Durham mines handling, call for stability and prosperity, and note editor opinions on labor and education in a Georgia governor race.
A Georgia newspaper piece argues for compulsory school attendance, criticizing lawmakers opposed to it. It cites Lumpkin and Jefferson counties data, cites illiteracy rates, and defends compulsion as civilizational progress while contrasting white and black literacy and funding dynamics. It portrays opposition as rooted in farmer interests and racial politics.
Washington reports the department of agriculture will have a standard cotton system in general use across cotton exchanges by September 3. The bureau of plant industry is sending out standard grade samples and expects exchanges to be sufficiently supplied to base transactions on these standards by month’s end. No enforcement power exists but broad approval is anticipated.
Washington August 1 The passbook system long used in savings institutions will be adopted for proposed postal savings banks once established by the United States government. A committee of officials has reviewed the coupon system for postal bank deposits but has not decided if it would be advisable. The system offers advantages yet could create complications.
New York reports that Quebec province has banned pulp wood exports from lands held by settlers on ticket. The ban exempts properties where small payments have been made and ownership passed. This marks a second step in Quebec’s push to halt pulp wood exports used for printing paper, following earlier restrictions on crown land wood.
The Knights of Columbus of America begins its annual convention with hundreds of delegates from Canada the United States Newfoundland Cuba and Panama in attendance. A Rome Genoa pilgrimage is planned after the closing ceremonies Thursday. An early morning wreck on the New York Central near Utica kills Engineer West of the Buffalo and Toronto Special train No 26.
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