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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
9
Fragmented clippings reference Harriman in exile and Georgi in an earthquake zone while Cuba stirs calls for American intervention. Mentions of Roosevelt, Bryan, Jerome, and a looming 1908 campaign drum up political prophecy from various papers. Conflicting notes on candidates and party strategy end with speculative political geography.
The piece argues the Georgia majority allies against railroad grievances and highlights Atlanta’s mayoral race. It notes a strong late surge for a candidate advocating municipal ownership of public utilities, suggesting Atlanta is ready to pursue municipal control of water, power, gas, telephones, and street railways. The article urges exam of local conditions and cites water works as evidence of feasibility.
The Massachusetts bureau of labor reports on maternity statistics from seven county centers as of May 1, 1905, counting 46,022 married, widowed, and divorced women who bore 128,208 children. Native born mothers averaged 2.77 children, while their daughters averaged 6.47, a 67 percent rise. foreign born women averaged 4.83 children, with their Europe-born daughters at 7.76, 37 percent higher.
The article notes widespread destructive disturbances in Chile with Pelee and other cities cited. Scientific leaders foresee a long term, far reaching study of the phenomenon that could significantly advance human knowledge.
The nation increasingly recognizes forest protection as vital. Lumbermen and the National Coopers Association urge replanting and careful forestry where reserves remain intact. Roosevelt advised a forest reserve along the Appalachians with funding, passed Senate but not yet House action, and prospects for fall session look favorable. The shift reflects growing awareness of timber scarcity driving industry and agriculture toward remedial measures. The time to act is now.
A long prose fragment from Atlanta describes a moonlit night post card exchange. Dr John Jacobs and Mrs Jacobs tour Europe then share updates with Atlanta friends. Howard J. Ponder, Sam Wilkes, Colonel Wilkes, Lang Cameron, and W H Gregory are noted among returning or visiting figures, highlighting social and business links in Atlanta society.
A mixed, fragmentary column from a Kentucky Manville correspondent describes a booming barn industry with a Cragg family crop of barns, a humorous verse about a modern tobacco tale, and light jokes about news and religion. It mentions Dan Crawley expanding a barn to three stories, forecasts more barn plantings, and includes several light verse items and poems.
Charles I Branan, defeated Fulton county treasurer candidate, thanks 1490 voters and supporters. He cites growing push for a salary system for county officials, with officials moving away from the fee system and references praise from a county official and a commissioner for reform. Branan urges unity to back a salary bill aligning with grand jury recommendations.
Mrs. Schoppen notes Bargen & Co offering summer silks at 68 cents. Mr. Schoppen quips that they are richly priced for the moment, joking about his own finances as the sale is described in the newspaper notice.
Yonkers based Dandy Dixie impresario Nolan, clad in red and black pajamas, chased a Knoxville dispatch after a wreck delay on a Southern Railway trip to Anniston. He sprinted dawnward toward Asheville, sustaining scrapes, but reached the city in borrowed clothes amid concerns of possible arrest and a late show arrival.
Regular monthly session at Boys High School discusses changes to the teachers committee report. Transfers among grade assignments are approved for several teachers and a supernumerary position filled. School buildings overseer notes rapid room additions and 800 new desks being installed for the opening.
In Crisp County Cordele Georgia residents voted August 23 in a special bond election for 80,000 dollars. The bond issue was carried by a good majority to fund a new courthouse and related facilities with construction starting at once.
Findlay, a longtime Macon resident, has shown improvement after being shot recently while traveling home. He is expected to be discharged soon if his condition remains stable, and friends have followed his recovery closely. Contributions to a child relief fund are being sought in New York by the Merchants' Association via the National Bank of Commerce.
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