Constitution Daily and Sunday newspaper rates 1915
The Constitution details postal rates for 10 to 18 page papers and carrier, mail, and outside Atlanta pricing. It lists editors Clark Howell and Roby Robinson, station contacts, Washington bureau address, and New York distribution points.
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Standard Southern
Clark Howell
Roby Robinson
Albert Howell Jr
E. B Black
H.W. Grady
Atlanta
United States
Mexico
Oqolliday
Constitution Building
Atlant
Washington
Hotaling
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Times
Thirty-eighth Street
Twenty-ninth Street
Atlanta Traffic Ordinance Proves Promising With Persistent Enforcement
The Atlanta traffic ordinance shows strong early success in easing congestion and improving safety. Police and public cooperate well, with only one court case so far, for profanity, not jaywalking. Continued, unrelaxed enforcement is urged to make the measure permanent and effective.
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Atlanta
Jay Walling
Traffe
Jay
Helping Ireland Brighter War Era Business Gains
A Belfast dispatch reports Ireland capturing markets once held by enemy traders as Irish makers expand into cords carpets and cigarets. Women and girls employed in Belfast and Dublin benefit as new workshops boost employment for those hit by wartime hardship.
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Ireland
Belfast
Philadelphia Record
Dublin
Constantinople
iSeyrt
American Made Turkish Carpets Impress Weavers
Remarkable Turkish style carpets have been produced in America matching top Orientals. The craft in American weaving is so advanced that some pieces rival the finest Turkish goods, though a few lacked a Made in America label.
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America
Henry Watterson’s Fifty Years of Married Life and Public Service
The piece honors Henry Watterson on his fiftieth wedding anniversary and fifty years of distinguished public service. It portrays him as a knight of the Old South and the New, unwavering in work and public life while receiving national tributes and enduring affection from a worldwide circle of friends.
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Henry Watterson
The Domestic War Spirit and World News Wit
A collage of wartime musings on alien marriages in England and Germany, humorous asides about public figures and diplomacy, plus satire on figures like Villa Whitlock and Ford. The piece blends comic and tragic wartime observations, highlighting patriotism, preparedness, and shifting loyalties across nations.
A Dalton Christmas Roundup From The Dalton Citizen
Christmas items and humor fill this Dalton Citizen fragment with notes from the settlement. Humor columns mention Abe Gawk’s Christmas list, local dances, jail humor, and a moonshine claim while community snippets discuss church bells, gifts, and small-town chatter.
Sermon on Dives and Lazarus by Dr Lyons in Town Church
Dr J S Lyons preached that Dives the rich man was not needlessly cruel but failed to make God his highest good. Lazarus sought God and thus earned eternal reward. The sermon urges readers to choose a spiritual center as gravitation governs life and destiny.
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Dives and Lazarus
DR. J. S. Lyons
Dives
Lazarus
J. S. Lyons
Abraham
Divgx
God
Doubtiess
Dr. Lyons
Fifty Counties Spend $1.76 Million on Dixie Highway in Six Months
Chattanooga December reports show fifty counties expended over 1.7 million dollars on the Dixie Highway in six months with projections of about 6.9 million more in two years. The boom includes paving plans across Kentucky Ohio Tennessee Illinois Georgia and Florida with hundreds of miles already paved or under contract and bond issues rising in Florida. Prominent engineers anticipate vast mileage to be paved by 1917 and tourism to accelerate construction.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Dixie Highway
Chicago
Vanville
Tfl
Toledo
Cincinnati
Ohle
Jacksonville
Miami
Fla
Tallahassee
Bartow
Kentucky
Hamilton County
Florida
Tennessee
Ilinois
Cook County
Metropatia
Georgia
Assoviatiion
Ohio
Indiana
W. W. Marr
Cv Cief
Illinois
Officizia
Carl G. Fisher Ia
Inots
East Point Royal Arch Masons Elect New Officers for 1916
East Point Chapter No. 17 Royal Arch Masons elected officers for 1916 at a Saturday night meeting in the East Point Masonic hall. High priest Charles Reno. king H. E. Hartefield. scribe J. S. Cleveland. captain of the host H. E. Boydston. principal sojourner J. K. Danbery. royal arch captain J. T. Shep ard. master of the veils F. B. Edwards, W. J. Henson, and S. W. McGee. secretary A. J. Johnson. treasurer W. N. Spencert er. John Morten. The chapter reported prosperous year and favorable retiree remarks.
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Eact Point
Royal Arch Masons
East Point Masonic Hall
Charles ¥. Reno
King
H. E. Hartefield
J. S. Cleveland
H. E. Boydston
J. K. Danbery
Royal Arch
J. T. Shepard
F. B. Edwards
W. J. Henson
S. W. McGee
A. J. Johnson
Tresaurer
W. N. Spencerter
John Morten
East Point
North Avenue S S Big Christmas Offering for Nacoochee School
The North Avenue Presbyterian Sunday school raised a large Christmas offering for Nacoochee institute, with classes delivering gifts on the platform. Items included wheelbarrows, beds, sewing machines, an organ, and cash totaling about 148 in hand plus 3300 in value of other presents. The gifts, packed in a special freight car, will be sent to the mountain school in time for Christmas.
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North Avenue Presbyterian Sunday School
Nacoochee Institute
Nacoochee Valley
North Avenue Sunday School
Philathea
Nacwochee
Annual Banquet Held By the Nelms Lodge And Officers Named
The Nelms Lodge of Masons No. 24 Smyrna Ga hosts its annual banquet in Smyrna on Sunday with late Fulton County Sheriff Neline noted as founder. Officers elected include M Taff worshipful master J Fill senior warden Arthur L Crowe junior warden T Westbrook secretary Po Man ning treasurer P F Brinkley senior deacon W M Johnston junior deacon FB Rawls senior steward DL W Goddard junior steward A J Oslin chaplain.
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Nelms Lodge of Masons
Smyrna
Smyrna Satunday
Sheriff Neline
Fulton Counts
Smvens
W. M. Johnston
FB Rawls
W. Goddard
A. J. Oslin
School Mass Meeting Delayed To Tuesday At Milton Ave
The mass meeting for Milton Avenue school was postponed from Friday to Tuesday due to bad weather. Parents and patrons discuss instructional provisions for sight grades with Mayor Woodward Councilmen Freeman and Hall Alderman McDonald and School Commissioners Green and Hatcher to participate. County Commissioner Turman will preside, under the Parent Teachers association.
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Milton Avenue
Woodward
Freeman and
Hall
McDonald
Sehool
Green and Hatcher
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Turman
How the Hampshire Hog Got Into Georgia Society
An account from The Hampshire Live Stock Record about a Hampshire hog gaining entry to polite society after a sale in Atlanta. The piece recalls a newspaper reading moment, mentions Miss Dooly and a judge, and celebrates the hogs’ social ascent and supposed virtues.
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Hampshire
Atlanta
Ansley Hotel
Constitution
Telegraph
Society
Hampshire Hog
Georgia
City Hall Christmas Carol Inspires Atlanta City Meeting
A chaotic early 20th century style City Hall scene unfolds as the Atlanta City Council plans a historic afternoon session. Reports describe tight seating, frenzied finance chatter, and a festive note with rumors of gifts and Christmas displays accompanying the formal proceedings.
Christmas Greeting to Our Dear Ones in Heaven
Mrs. Lammie Hodges offers a sentiment of heaven as a perfect home free from sorrow. The verse imagines loved ones in a radiant afterlife, where flowers, music, and divine love prevail, and reunions on the heavenly shore erase earthly partings. Elberton.
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Heaven
Earth
Aden
Grite
Angel
A Christmas Prayer Recalling War and Hope
A historical prayer reflects on war’s waste and a plea for peace. The lines call God to end conflict, ease widows and orphans, and restore brotherhood, justice, and goodwill. Read by Mary M. Harkie, its tone blends devotion with wartime yearning for mercy and a divine star of hope.
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God of Mercy
Meace
Mary M. Harkie
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