Immediate action urged to clear Peachtree Creek for Atlanta sewage plant
City officials and county leaders press for prompt cleaning of Peachtree creek to ensure the new Atlanta sewage disposal plant operates effectively. With the plant ready in about two weeks, officials warn that flooding and obstructions could hamper performance and waste time and funds. County public property committee meets Saturday to plan immediate action with Chief of Construction Clayton and Bond Commission Chairman Quilllan.
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Peachtree Creek
Clayton
City Bond Commission
Atlanta
Bond Commission
Quilllan
County Board
Public Property
Quillan
Standard Bale Size Rules for Cotton Bales Emphasized
The article urges farmers and gin operators to adopt a 27 by 54 inch standard bale with 400 pound minimum weight for proper density. It notes penalties of one dollar for oversized bales and ninety cents for underweight bales, and warns that nonconforming gin bolts reduce bale value by one dollar.
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C. V. Truitt
North Georgia Cotton Buyers and Manufacturers' Association
State adopts standard bale size to raise farmers’ cotton price
A description notes Mexico’s state law setting 27 by 54 inch cotton bale dimensions as the standard. It asserts conformity to the rules will push higher prices for farmers’ cotton and suggests other states will follow suit.
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Mexaa
Minnesota’s Menace and Georgia’s Appeal to Agriculture
At the national convention in Winnipeg, speakers praised southern resources while noting Minnesota wheat yields have fallen to fifteen bushels per acre. Minnesota schools are urged to teach agriculture to curb farm migration, as Georgia’s to improve rural instruction and sustain its agricultural future against depopulation.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Charlea Glover
Atlanta
Bruce Ravenel
Columbia
8. C
Telfair Stockton
Jacksonville
Fla
State Bankers’ Association of
Minnesota
France
State of
Georgia
State Agricultural College
Red Old
Red
Parcel post scam eyed as clever but not clearly fraudulent
Boston chamber of commerce cites a Kansas merchant scheme using parcel post COD boxes with waste and a receipt inside to collect past due sums. The scheme drew curiosity payments from recipients, with a Kansas district attorney calling it clever yet not clearly fraudulent since no prior promise was made. There is no final ruling on the matter amid broader commentary on Bryan's Olive Branch.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Parcel Post
Kansas
G. ©. D. Department of the Parcel Post
United States
Summer Chautauqua Echoes And Frosty Retreats
The piece mocks summer schemes and political bravado with wry lines about eloquent orators, congressmen in fall wardrobes, and a government ready to “attend to the steam hout” if hot air falters. It playfully references Mexico, Castro, and distant megaphone messages as satire.
Jast From Georgia by FRANK L. STANTON
The piece blends satirical verse and local snapshot drawing on technology, weather, economics, and daily life. It riffs on progress and society with regional colloquialisms, referencing air travel, telegraphs, rain, and editorials in Arcadia. It weaves humor with broader hopes for the future and critiques of prosperity.
Cotton Bagging Standard Set by North Georgia Cotton Group
In Atlanta on July 25 the North Georgia Cotton Buyers and Manufacturers' Association adopted a resolution requiring cotton be covered at the gin with strong bagging free from holes and ends wall-sewn. They approved six yards two-pound bagging ends and six bands as before, noting some reworked bagging may be preferable to rewoven new bagging.
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North Georgia Cotton Buyers and Manufacturers’ Association
Atlanta
Digens Nion
V. Truitt
Sounding Sands and Acoustic Wonders Worldwide
Various acoustic phenomena are found globally from barnyard echoes to musical sands in Arabia and Afghanistan. The article cites Hugh Miller and The London Globe, noting musical sands as a famed acoustic wonder. It mentions discoveries in Scotland and Ayrshire coast. on damp days the sands are silent, while dry warm weather heightens the musical note. Cruden Bay sands also show strong musical qualities.
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Arabia
Afghanistan
Hugh Miller
London Globe
Orient
Bay of Laie
Etge
Scotland
Europe
Ayrshire
Weat Kilbride
Portincrogs
Cruden Bay
Pig outlives man in Dover cliff entombment tale
London Chronicle recounts two remarkable survival feats. Corporal Andre Desrate, trapped nearly 100 feet deep in a Brest mine for twenty eight days without food or drink, was rescued after cries drew help. A 140 pound pig buried by chalk cliff collapse at Dover survived 169 days, dug out alive but weight reduced to forty pounds.
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London Chronicle
Brest
Andre Desrate
Desrate
W. B. Carpenter
Dover
Connecticut
Ohio
Fulton
Hudson
Golden Stair
Morton
Ika
Spoondritt
Old Dobhin
Hire
Boaggard
Mra. Spoonaritt
London merchant funds Southwark park children's amusements
A London merchant named Finsler started giving over $2,300 yearly to provide toys, stories, and crafts for children in Southwark park. Boys play cricket while girls gather around a helper to hear fairy tales and sew dolls clothes as babies nap on rugs nearby.
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Indianapolis News
Great Tower Street
London
Southwark Park
Kot
Flnsler
Mr. Finsler
Carlyle and the G C B in the London Chronicle
The text discusses Carlyle’s view of a proposed GGB honor and Froude’s remarks. It notes he would not accept a hereditary peerage due to his childless status and reflects a Chelsea omnibus conductor’s reaction to Carlyle’s refusal. The overall tone critiques distinctions of honor and rank.
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Carlyle
Rimaelf
Froude
Disraeli
Claraell
GGB
Chelsea Omnibus
Dr James Barry a Woman a Sphinx of Army Hospital
An 1865 account recounts Dr James Barry the English Army Hospital inspector general who lived as a man for decades. The piece notes his long service from 1818, battles in Waterloo and Crimea, and posthumous reveal that he was biologically a woman, sparking London gossip and inquiries.
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West Im
England
James Barry
B. Rogers
Barry
London
Waterloo
Crimea
Kensel Green
Army Hospital
Kansel Green
War Office
Finspector General of Hospitals
Third West India Regiment
Leters
St. Thomas
Barbados
Jamaica
Speed Limit in Modern Inventions by George Pricms
A humor piece tracing the idea of a speed limit from early steam to modern motor cars. It lampoons rapid advances and notes enforcement absurdities, joking that policemen on velocipedes should curb auto speeds to protect pedestrians.
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George Pricms
Good Old Steasb
Fulton
Printer’s error echoes in Te Deum over centuries
An observer notes a medieval printer’s slip in the Te Deum phrase Make them to be numbered with hy saints. The archaic Latin numerari appears in manuscripts and early printings, altering the meaning from to be numbered to to be rewarded. The quirk persisted through print history, shaping congregational singing until a corrective edition limited the drift.
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London Chronicle
Hunday
Constitution's Victory Feted by The Sandereville Georgicans
The Atlanta Constitution reports triumph as the legislature passes tax equalization law. It notes no other paper matched the Constitution in persistent support for the bill's passage.
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Sandereville Georgicans
Atlanta Constitution
Jokes of the Court of Louis XIV in Savoy Tale
In H. Noel Williams's Rose of Savoy a chapter recalls the playful royal women. The three princesses staged pranks at Trianon by placing a patard under a bed and, at Marly, caused a tobacco odor from Mme de Chartres and her sister smoking pipes borrowed from the Swiss guard.
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H. Noel Williams
Rose
Savoy
Trianon
Monsieur
Marly
Mme. de Chartres
Chinese Educated Here Will Lead New Ministry Officials
The Chinese republic's ministry of agriculture and forestry plans extensive use of educated youth. Lai Kui Liang, 1903 Massachusetts Agricultural College graduate, named vice minister and launching The Chinese Agricultural Journal. EH Heleb, 1909 graduate, directs translation of foreign agricultural rural literature into Chinese for the ministry.
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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
United States
Lai Kuei Liang
Massachusetts Agricultural College
EH. E Heleb
Neighborly Sympathy Turns Bizarre in Porchside Tale
A retired merchant recalls a morning neighbor Higginbottom disruptively mowing kindling. He recounts misfires with a clothesline, failed sympathy from Spoondrift, and a horse nursing disaster that ends with a fence board brawl and a costly fine. The tale exposes mismatched aid and human folly.
Georgia Should Be Independent
The Price of fresh beet is already high for the rich and now drought in cattle states Iowa Nebraska Oklahoma pushes it higher, hawkishly noting cost concerns amid unsettled markets.
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Georgia
Hawkinsville
Iowa
Nebraska
Oklahoma
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