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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
9
A kaleidoscope of reform talk and presidential banter spans states from Texas to New York. References to Roosevelt, Taft, and Indiana weave through editorials and quips about reform, newspapers, and public life with sly humor about Kentucky water, Georgia jokes, and Philadelphia awakenings.
The piece argues Georgia loses expert entomologists and a state chemist due to low pay, warning of long term costs to essential scientific services. It contrasts salaries for regulators with those for scientific officials and champions higher living compensation to retain talent. It also notes broader public salary standards and accountability.
An analysis notes temperance aims face hurdles from physical habits and social surroundings. It cites Ohio Magazine suggesting a tin cup substitute to curb drinking, but questions how to address the hard drinker who prefers the bottle.
The article argues that states' rights will dominate the coming national campaign with national figures urging a constitutional overhaul. It cites Beveridge, Taft, Roosevelt, and Judge Parker urging adherence to the Constitution or its amendments, warning against executive overreach and stressing government powers are enumerated and reserved to the states.
A fragmentary Georgia newspaper piece presents a collage of verse and prose. It weaves religious, humorous, and reflective pieces, including poems about happiness, the day’s end, and a fisherman’s faith, plus stray lines about a poet paid for a fifty line poem and a brief note on a factory plant expansion in Anniston.
A visitor reports on a Georgia camp meeting near Thomson with Dr John W Heidt presiding elder and a White Oak campground gathering of 1500 attendees. The piece reflects on Tom Watson's influence, local heritage, and the cultural value of such religious gatherings to community identity.
Three city meetings are planned this afternoon at city hall. The Board of Electrical Control, chaired by Pomeroy, meets at 4:00 to review a hospital petition for a connection to the electric lighting system. Ward 3 and Ward 4 council members meet at 4:30 with their elected successors. A bridge dispute between the city and Georgia Railroad over Oakland Cemetery to Decatur street is discussed with Saun ders McDaniel, the city engineer, and the city attorney. The Board of Health holds its regular monthly session at 5:00 with only renting business on the agenda.
A guidance piece on substituting nonalcoholic habits to curb drinking and smoking. It argues replacing drinks with tin cups and using toothpick motions for cigars to mimic the ritual without tobacco, aiming to aid habitual quitters. notes the tips come from humane sources rather than trade groups.
New Haven railway rejects arbitration on mileage payments and maintains withdrawal from the American Railway Association. The demurrage issue grows sharper as legal questions about the association arise, with a reported 1488 percent yearly rate advance noted.
In Pittsburg on a Sunday the wrong film was shown in the Western penitentiary chapel. Prisoners laughed and applauded as burlesque scenes played before Warden Johnston halted the screening and the chapel was cleared. In Montgomery boll worm damage fears rise as insects are found in several counties.
Scores of young men women and children express desire for peace pardon and power at a Georgia campmeeting The campground will be enlarged and new families will relocate There is noting a two step march titled At a Georgia Campmeeting stirring applause in Christian world as the tune travels from Venice to Paris and echoes Foster's Old Folks at Home
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