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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1910
Page
15
The Baltimore Sun cites Atlanta as a growing political stage with sharp quips about Cannon Roosevelt Taft and suffragettes. Analysts note campaigns, platforms, and elections stir across Georgia as politicians seek support amid fires and economic talk. The piece highlights Roosevelts influence and the nations reaction to a busy political season in 1910.
The Georgia election ends a brief orderly campaign with Hoke Smith elected governor. The Constitution notes the conduct was peaceful and urges post election focus on business and state progress, honoring a nonpartisan news stance and subscriber interests.
The article analyzes Taft’s bold course aligning with Roosevelt amid New York Republican power struggles. It argues the president’s declared accord may influence fall elections, while Vice President Sherman faces scrutiny over alleged bad faith and conspired opposition to Roosevelt and Hughes. The piece weighs chances of lasting peace versus an eventual split between Taft and Roosevelt.
The Pajaro Valley in California drives town prosperity through big red apples. Boosters bond for 26 000 for a pavilion and growers add 30 000 to display 50 carloads of first rate fruit while inviting all America. They tout 2 925 000 bushel boxes yearly and a huge bearing tree count, arguing with proper development and publicity the valley can rival Georgia and Oregon Washington in apple output.
The New York Journal of Commerce urges revival of abandoned eastern lands. It notes rising production costs, declining yields, and migration to Canada or Texas, advocating scientific farming and attractively priced lands to draw intelligent young farmers. The piece compares New York, the South, and the broader eastern states, urging renewed agricultural effort.
The Journal of Commerce notes that vast undeveloped lands lie west of the Mississippi, with free lands exhausted and migration turning toward Canada and Texas. Census projections show a shift to southern states and Gulf regions, while the need to protect soil and prevent farm abandonment grows urgent if the South is to fulfill America's promised destiny.
Atlanta saw two rival governor candidates parades with about 30,000 supporters, yet no disorder occurred. The police deserve praise for precautions and residents for restraint in what was described as a carnival night with enthusiastic displays and rival songs and torches.
A fragmentary item blends a Georgia harvest themed lyric with a ragged prose digression about a jury, moonshine districts, and weather, interlaced with admonitions to praise and dream of harvest. The tone mixes folk song imagery with scattered moral reflections and rustic humor.
Special agents of the Justice and Treasury departments are probing sugar sampling in New Orleans. Assistant Attorney General W Dennison says no conclusions yet. Frank Cabrino, previously linked to agar frauds in New York, was sent to New Orleans in disguise and then left the city as the grand jury plans to meet in October.
Rockland Maine August 23 The torpedo boat destroyer Paulding established a new record in oil burning warships during a standardization trial on the Rockland course. Her fastest mile was 33.94 knots.
Governor Gillett issues a call for a special session starting September 6 to authorize a five million dollar bond issue for the Panama-Pacific exposition and hotel men projects. The meeting involves delegates from counties and San Francisco participants attending the Exposition in 1915.
Heck Thomas narrates a Lawton written letter dated July 22, 1887, describing Atlanta’s defense, Hood’s retreat, and General Phil Kearney’s death at Second Manassas. He recalls Beauregard and Lee era bonds, Harper’s Ferry, Fredericksburg, and kindness shown to Kearney’s widow, along with local figures like Colonel L. P. Thomas and Bud. He relays street memories, riots, and early Atlanta policing tales from Decatur Street to Whitehall Street.
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