Atlanta to Center Space at National Conservation Exposition
The Atlanta manufacturers showcase at the Manufacturers Exposition prompts Knoxville officials to place Atlanta in the central space of the Southern States building for the National Conservation Exposition opening in September 1913 in Knoxville Tennessee. W M Goodman, manager of the exposition, views Atlanta's exhibits as central to southern and national conservation aims.
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Atlanta
Auditorium Armory
Knoxville
The
Conservation Society
South
Candler Building
Show a Success in Financial Way at Southern Show
Visitors praised the event as magnificent and financially promising. Mr. Sibley called it the poorest you will ever give yet forecast an annual fair. L. K. Plos sier lauded the education of the south and Atlanta spirit. J L Yancey praised Birmingham emulating Atlanta. Visitors departed by special Seaboard train after midnight.
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Mr. Sibley
L. K. Plossier
South
Birmingham
Atlanta
J. L. Yancey
Seaboard
All In the Good Old Days in Cape Cod
An excerpt praised for moral strictness recalls a colonial era in Cape Cod where corporal punishment and stocks were used for religious nonconformity. A preacher warns that sins incur eternal law and hellish torment. The piece critiques harsh religious discipline and fear of divine judgment.
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
East Atlantic
Cape Cod
Ain
Hell
Examining the Stars in Popular Mechanics August issue
David Todd discusses spectrum analysis and the spectroscope's power in chemistry biology meteorology physics and astronomy. The piece notes Ramsay’s findings the link between matter and luminiferous ether and how stars are identified by their elemental composition despite vast distances.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
David Todd
Iesa
Ramsay
First Nurse of Telegraph in Washington Remembered
Alfred G. Hall of Washington aged about eighty recalls being an early nurse of the infant electric telegraph. He recounts memories of linking Washington to Philadelphia and takes pride in those initial days when the line began working. His reminiscences appear in the August issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Washington
Dr. Co
Alfred G. Hall
Philadelphia
Mr. Hall
Telegraph
Popular Mechanics
Cushioning baggage at Pennsylvanian bag rooms
The Pennsylvania railroad begins using four by two foot wooden mats with scrap airbrake hose to unload baggage from trucks in baggage rooms. The new cushions reduce bag gage smashers power and spare travelers from smashed trunks, delighting the public.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Fragmented dialogue from an old rural tale
The passage presents a clipped, humorous exchange between Mrs. Weerey and Siar about worn shoes and discomfort. It captures a rustic, dialect laden conversation likely from a regional newspaper or story column, reflecting everyday domestic concerns and plotting a lighthearted domestic misunderstanding.
Uncle Joe Cannon Wins Congressional Olympiad Feature
Washington August 8 Uncle Joe Cannon won the feature event at the congressional Olympiad held by the Dogdays club near the capital. The night featured operatic and musical bits by Representatives DeForest Mann Taylor Conroy and Drincoll with comic turns and a playful quarrel about Monticello. The gathering, a mix of Republicans and Democrats, included jokes about a teething ring and a request for another Chimmie Fadder.
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Washington
Uncle Joe" Cannon
Uncle Joe
Joe
Henry DeForest
Schenectady
N. Y
Congress
DeForest
James R. Mann
Neq Taylor
Columbus
Ohio
Trovatore
Michael Drincoll
Buffalo
Maryland
Montgomery Constabulary
Baltimore
Cannon
Jefferson Levy
New York
Monticello
E. W. Townsend
Chimmie Fadder
No Cheap Beef for Americans
Chicago August 8 Poor beef supplies and record high cattle prices spark a warning from M F Horine statistician Union Stockyards and Transit Co that cheap beef would not return for several years. He cites past droughts deaths and harsh winters cutting breeding stock and notes it will take three to five years to rebuild herds with no quick relief ahead.
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Chicago
M .F. Horine
Union Stockyards and Transit Company
Chicaugo
Mexico
Canada
The Basis of Faith by Avtanthes
The author argues that childhood indoctrination fosters fixed beliefs that feel like truth. He cites the Catholic Church’s insistence on controlling child instruction as evidence that early dogma can become a lifelong automatic conviction. Adults trained to question such dicta may reassess reasonableness of dogma.
Bush Work From Judge On Pitcher's Delivery
A brief note from Yapville reports a judge’s remark about the new pitcher’s delivery. The visitor, a stranger, asks how the delivery strikes him, while R. F. D. is mentioned in passing.
Fires Ravage Terminal Clothing Store in Three Blazes
Three fires damaged the Terminal Clothing company at 7 West Mitchell Street. The basemen t fire caused about $1,000 in damage, the storeroom blaze $4,000 worth of clothing, and a late midnight flare affected collar boxes. Insurance covers losses. authorities suspect incendiary origin and investigated by Detectives Webb and Green.
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Terminal Clothing Company
West
Mitchell Street
Cummings
Webb and Green
E. Saperstein
Rakestraw
Milam
Continental Building and Loan to Close Doors Tomorrow
San Francisco authorities announce the Continental Building and Loan Association will close the next day after a stormy board session. State commissioner John Walker declares the firm insolvent with a shortage of 318,900 dollars due to ten years of gross mismanagement. William Corbin, secretary and general manager, is criticized by the commissioner.
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San Francisco
Continental Building and Loan Association
Pacific Coast
John & Walker
State Building and Loan
Walker
William Corbin
Quote on umpire and wife from Detroit Free Press
A clipped remark notes a figure who never kicks at the umpire and admits his wife is right when he stays out late. The Detroit Free Press frames the dig as a wry aside reflecting on restraint and self awareness.
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Detroit Free Press
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