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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1907
Page
5
The piece surveys editorials and remarks from various papers on public figures and policy. It notes Bryan’s push for arbitration, Roosevelt's stance on Hughes, and satirical takes on reform debates while hinting at Georgia politics and tariff reform delays.
Labor Day plans in Atlanta are nearly complete with a major parade and afternoon recreation. Organized labor has won friends through careful civic involvement and vows a broader celebration than ever before in the city.
The Brownsville incident remains a live issue in Army history as Brigadier General Myer notes in the 1907 department of Texas report. It cites negro troops from the Twenty-fifth infantry firing promiscuously, killing a civilian and a horse and wounding a policeman, with names of guilty comrades withheld, leading to the battalion being dismissed from Roosevelt's service.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reports a wave of acquittals and juries tolerating vengeance over betrayers of women, highlighting cases from Virginia to New York. It discusses proposed statutes codifying “unwritten law,” recounts prominent trials, and weighs public trends in jury decisions on killings tied to honor.
A collage of editorials from several papers lampoons the Georgia legislature as it adjourns for the year 1907. Authors mock the session and its lawmakers while noting no extra session was required and the state must endure "hot air" from Atlanta and lingering humidity as cotton prospects waver.
The piece notes a surge in inditable offenses and property crimes in England, with violent theft declining. It cites Liverpool crime rates, rising figures for offenses against property, and a shift from violence to clever fraud. Education is blamed for sharper criminal methods, while prosecutions lag behind economic crimes and non-criminals increasingly partake in theft.
A collage of clipped notes from The Charleston News and Courier The Augusta Herald The Savannah Press and other papers lampoons on Atlanta expansion myths taxes on social clubs and the idea of Greater Atlanta It notes January 17 as a turning point and cites Fulton County taxation while poking fun at extravagant hats and fashion costs.
A whisky distilling firm from Atlanta intends to move 49 workers to Chattanooga on January 1 and set up a free telephone service between the two cities. The move is framed as beating the prohibition wave by creating Atlanta’s largest dry town status first.
The piece argues appetite is a natural guide rather than a vice and urges respecting it from childhood onward. It contrasts civilized practice of suppressing appetite with animals’ instinctive discrimination. It warns against artificial cravings driven by cooks and weather, urges belief in appetite as a reliable guide when not manipulated.
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