Cotton outlook and securing measures loom for 1915
The text discusses cotton exports and consumption in Europe, noting that English mills may use about 3,500,000 bales while Continental Europe uses 6,000,000. It warns of a potential 3,000,000 bale surplus carried into 1915, needing financing and acreage readjustment. Calls for federal aid, united merchant banker effort, and improved warehousing and storage for the crop.
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Great Britain
England
Europe
Georgia bankers call business meeting on cotton problem
A Georgia meeting led by John D. Walker of Sparta is set for Atlanta next Monday August 17 at 10 oclock to discuss solving the cotton crisis. Bankers merchants and warehousemen from across the state are urged to attend to craft concrete plans for protecting producers and ensuring fall revenue.
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State Capitol
Atlanta
John D. Walker
Sparta
Georgia
Walker
South Fulton
Harris
Fulton County
Fulton
Said &I Lime
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Hunter and
Grant Streets
James E. Warren
Mr. Massengale
Eb T. Willams
Foho W. Moore
W. M Smith
Judge Harris
Harlem
Augusta
Sparte
Warrenton
Macon
Alpharetta
Ilspos
Marcia
Marsengale
Cross Hardwick
Slaton Waycross
Speciel
Slaton
Hardwick
Slaton Clu
Grant
Newt Morris
Morris
E. Dunn
Waycross
J. M. Slaton
Staton
Senate
Ware
Coffee County
Cordele Cordele
John M. Slaton
United States Senate
R. C. Hareris
Isaiah Williams
World cotton use by country and wartime demand
The article outlines 1914 cotton trade demand by nation, listing the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Japan, Spain, Belgium, Canada and smaller European producers. It estimates total world consumption at about 18.69 million bales, notes potential war impact adding up to around 8.6 million bales, and flags Continental Europe as the major risk to supplies.
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South
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Austria
Italy
Russia
Japan
Spain
Belgium
Canada
Europe
A Common Sense View on Home and Woman Roles
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish argues homes are the nation’s bulwark and women must preserve them. She urges training for home making over suffrage funds, praises practical home economy, and calls for school reforms to instill respectability of marriage and motherhood in girls. The piece stresses women as keepers of homes amid wartime uncertainty.
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Finhh
Woman Suffrage in Old Georgia
SAM W. BMALE argues Georgia’s early constitutions allowed voting without regard to sex, but later restrictions and state barriers blocked women from the polls. He notes 10 states already grant suffrage and urges national constitutional action ending sex-based voting bans.
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General Assembly
Andrew Johnson
Meade
Atlanta
United States
Empire State of Georgia
Toombs
Barber
Georgia
Duty He Owes the People Contending Georgia Congressmen
The Columbus Ledger notes Congressman Charles G Edwards cancelled speaking dates to return to Washington to aid cotton growers protection while Georgia’s other lawmakers like Tom Hardwick are in state campaigning. The piece questions the duty of elected officials and their presence in national affairs versus local needs.
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The
Columbus Ledger
Charles G. Edwards
Washington
Savannah Press
Savannah
Georgia
National
Tom Hardwick
Edwards
Overstreet
J. W. Overstreet
Sylvania
Scraven County
Judge Overstreet
Screven
Uffingham
Tattnall
Balloch
Jenking
Fidwards
Chatham County
Matrimonial Life Preservers in July Magazine
A man with twenty five years of marriage experience says quarrels grew, but a devoted baby and a shared sense of humor saved the marriage. Laughter over arguments helped them make up and stay together.
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Firet
Uniosa
Training negro children for home duties and domestic service
The text argues for proper training of negro children focusing on home and practical housekeeping. It calls for readjustment of the common period curriculum and supplementary schools for training housekeepers, domestic labor employers, and domestic service degrees reflecting southern domestic employees.
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South
Government by Regulation and Four Great Commissions
The Outlook argues for a fourfold national regulatory system with a national tariff commission for foreign trade, a national trade commission for domestic commerce, an interstate commerce commission for transportation, and a national banking commission for finance. It urges ex officio state secretaries and distinguished industry leaders on these bodies and compares them to the federal reserve board and Interstate Commerce Commission.
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America
United States
National Tariff Commission
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Interstate Commerce Commission
National Banking Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Con- Brean
National Trace Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Trade Commission
National
Tarif Commission
Tariff Commission
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
National Trade Commission
National Trade Commission and
Stalled by George Matthew Adams
A reflective piece on urban traffic and personal responsibility. An automobile stall endangers progress and patience, urging self knowledge and careful engine handling to avoid stalling one’s thinking and actions in the crowded city.
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George Matthew Adams
Great City
Ite
Harder to Get
A garbled Baltimore Sun fragment presents a casual exchange about dating and fear of a pitcher’s ballgame request. The readable bits hint at a domestic chat with terms like dear and daughter and mention of a baseball pitcher, but details are fragmentary and unclear.
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Baltimore Sun
Georgia Political Grist Rallys On Labor Fears and Attacks
Georgia political notes cite former Governor Brown charging union leaders organize negro farm workers, warn of social equality experiments, and allege law violations. The piece also covers ex Judge Morris attacks on the governor’s wife and statewide reactions, plus campaign stumps by Slaton Hardman Harris Brown and local race updates across counties.
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Jerome Jones
Columbus
Georgia
South
Marks
Mir. Marks
S. B. Marks
Georgian Federation of Later
Negro First Congregational Church
Atlanta
Hoke Smith
Newt Morris
Morris
Hardwick
Alpharetta
Cumming
Slaten
Judge Morris
Jonn Hi. Blackburn
Barnesville
Newt Morry
John M. Slaton
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