Subscriptions and political snippets from The Constitution 1910
Notice to subscribers outlines daily and Sunday rates, delivery areas, and partial six or three month terms. The issue also surveys Republican politics, Roosevelt’s movement, Taft, Lorimer, Cannon, and themes of progressivism, with lively editorial asides on the 1910 Georgia scene and national figures.
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Atlanta
Atlante
Tee Ee Tao
Abere- JR Holliday Constitution
Polo
Elf
Washington
New York
Hotaling
Broadway
Twenty Ninth Street
Thirty Eighth Street
Forty Second
Park Row
The New Railroad Law and Its Uncertain Impact
The new federal railroad law took effect amid debate over the long and short haul provision and the Interstate Commerce Commission's power to adjust rates. It curbs postal franks, contemplates a Court of Commerce, and raises questions about the creation and assignment of judges to a new bench.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Court of Commerce
United States
Circuit
Menace of Cropper Farming Warned by Walter Page
Walter Page argues in Worlds Work that tenant farming and the cropper form threaten southern development. He cites rising tenancy, potential census findings, and the drift toward feudalism, urging small farmers to own land and diversify. He praises the Land Owners Exposition as a remedy to lock up less land and boost state welfare.
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Walter H Page
Worlds
Mr Page
Roosevelt
North Carolina
Alabama
Farmers’ Union
Land Owners’ Exposition
Georgia
Russian Neglect Threatens Europe Cholera Epidemic
Report warns that outdated sanitation in the Russian empire fuels a cholera outbreak threatening Europe. Since January the disease has claimed around 57 000 lives, with municipalities unable to control spread. Europe remains on alert while America enforces strict port quarantines to prevent ingress.
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Russian Empire
Europe
America
Russia
Young Washington Woman Strangles Mad Dog with Bare Hands
Miss Maude E Barbour an 18 year old from Washington earned praise for tackling a mad dog that menaced her. She throttled the animal without screaming then had wounds treated and rabies ruled out. The Pasteur treatment is cited as successful in 33 local cases. The piece praises her courage and compares her to pioneer women and war-time carers.
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Maude E. Barbour
Washington
Barbour
South
At End of the Way A Patchwork of Verse and Lore
A rough, dialect rich mosaic of poems and notes blending sentimental lyric lines with humorous regional vignettes. Includes torn mementos of romance, rustic humor, religious allusions, and folk characters. The piece appears as fragmented verse and prose snippets, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century periodical style.
Beings for Forgiveness as Teen Shoots Father
In Memphis Tennessee on August 18 a 17 year old girl Tillie Morris knelt at her father Isaac Morris bedside praying for recovery before he died. He had allegedly beaten his invalid wife prior to the shooting while dinner was prepared. The girl, held on her own recognizance, will be arraigned in city police court on Tuesday for murder.
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Memphis
Tann
Tite Morne
Isaac Morris
Morris
Anid
Big Crowd to Hear Hall in Americus
Americus August 18 Special Arrangements are being made for a rousing meeting addressed by Hon Joe Hall of Macon on Saturday morning. He speaks for the Joe Brown governor campaign at the opera house at 1 o clock. Delegations from Plains Leslie DeSoto and other points are expected and a warm reception is anticipated.
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Americus Ge
Joe Hin
Old Hammar and
Tongs
Macon
Speska
Joe Brown
Opera House
Hail
Hoke Smith
Death of Tallahassos resident due to typhoid fever
The obituary notes the death on Monday of a Tallahassos native from typhoid fever. The body was transported by his parents and buried in the local cemetery.
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A M. Chapman
Tallahassos
Fin
Gossip at the Capitol and New Bank Charters
The Railroad Commission approved Blus Ridge Power to issue 500000 in stock and 800000 in bonds to improve water power on the Eto wah river near Canton in Cherokee county. Also new sidetrack work at Woodland follows citizen petitions and company plans to adjust tracks. New charters granted include the Hillyer Trost Company of Atlanta with 350000 capital and the American State Bank of Fitzgerald seeking a charter with 359600 capital. Captain Williamson vacationing in Columbus. Bleckley on vacation in Cincinnati returning next week.
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Railroad Commission
Blus Ridge Power Company
Etowah River
Canton
Cherokee County
Woodland
Atlante, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
Trost Company
Phil Cock Yeater- Day
Hillyer Trost Company
Atlanta
Hearty Hillyer
William Hurd Hillyer
Charles EB. Currier
F J Paxon
Bleckley
Logan Bleckley
Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Notice from F L Hudgens on unauthorized name insertion
Chamblee Georgia resident F L Hudgens informs that his name appeared in an advertisement by William Schley Howard in last Friday's paper without his authorization. He states support for Hon L F Livingston and requests prominent correction to prevent public deception. Dated August 17, 1929.
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Constitution
William Schley Howard
L. F Lvingston
South
Howard
L Hudgens Chamblee Ga
Name Not Authorized in Political Charges by Harvie Jordan
Harvie Jordan states his name was used without authorization in charges against Hon O B Stevens by Hon J A Perry, a retiree candidate for commissioner. He says there was fertilizer tag correspondence from 1805 published during his Southern Cotton Association presidency and asks for correction to avoid political controversy.
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O B. Stevens
J A Perry
Atlanta
Perry
Tocal Press
Dessera
Daily
Southern Cotton
Stevens
Harvie Jordan
Atlanta Second in Postoffice Gain for July 1910
Atlanta ranks twenty first in gross postal receipts among fifty large U S post offices for July 1910. It shows the largest percentage increase, 1339 percent, over July 1909, beating Dallas New York City and Chicago in growth.
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Gate City
Atlanta
United States
Dallas
Texas
New York City
Chicago
New York
Lightning injures church choir in Shawmut
A lightning strike at Shawmut Baptist Church in West Point Georgia during organ movement injured a choir member Joe Williams whose condition was described as doubtful by physicians. Other choir members suffered shock but avoided serious injuries.
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West Point
the Baptist Church
Shawmut
Joe Williams
Fourth Called Term Texas Legislature Opens in Austin
Austin on August 18 the fourth called session of the Texas Legislature convened after Governor Campbell issued the proclamation. The call highlights reform of the state penitentiary system and enactment of passenger rate law as governor recommended actions for the lawmakers.
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Austin
Texas
Campbell
Schooner Ba'wyer Overdue From New York
Pensacola Florida August 18 uneasiness over the safety of the American schooner Ba'wyer on voyage from New York to Porto Rico. The vessel, chartered to load there, was due August but has not arrived and no word has been heard since July 18 departure.
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Pensacola
Fla
Ba’ Wyer
New York
Porto Rico
Political Naming War Between Hoke Smith and Brown
A compilation of editorial snippets from Georgia papers during the campaign criticizes Governor Brown and Governor Smith. The clippings reflect mutual attacks, defenses by supporters, and calls to expose truths as the election nears.
Carolinian Drowns in Savannah River
A Carolina worker named Marlow, 28, of Andrews 8, drowned this morning at the Atlantic Coast Line bridge over the Savannah River 15 miles north of Savannah while employed by American Bridge Company on a new bridge. JD Boyd, his fellow worker, was seized during the attempted rescue and nearly drowned before freeing himself. Marlow’s body was recovered four hours later. He was unmarried and the son of J M Marlow of Andrews 8.
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Savannah Ga
Apeelal
I Marlow
Andrews
Atlantic Coast Line
Savannah River
Savannah
American Bridge Company
JD Boyd
Marlow
Jim
J M Marlow
Andrews 8
New Road Brings Life to Waynesboro and Sardis Rail Link
Special trains will run as the Brinson railroad extends to Waynesboro in September with a new townsite by Sardis Land Company. A steam shovel will move to Sardis and another depot site is prepared at Skinner Jet End, signaling a major inland town revival along the route.
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Waynesboro
J A Davis
Surta
Brinson
Millhaven
Mrd
Sardis Land Company & Corporation
Sard
Sardis
Waneabore
Howard Addresses Fulton County Voters Twice Next Monday
William Schley Howard, candidate for congress from the fifth district, plans two short speeches to Fulton county voters in Atlanta next Monday evening. The first at 6:00 to 9:00 in front of the Graay monument and the second at 7:00 at the courthouse plaza. Each talk will run about twenty minutes.
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William Schley Howard
Fulton County
Atlanta
Graay Monument
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