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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1905
Page
5
Readers in New York are urged to visit The Constitution office at Broadway and 38th Street for copies with a note to Christmas cheer. scattered item notes touch on Taft, politics, holiday trade, and press scrutiny with varied commentary and names.
An essay praising Georgia’s prosperity and civic virtue frames Christmas as a Cotton Christmas. It lauds industrial and banking strength, agricultural success, and moral integrity across Georgia, arguing Christ’s birth elevates all faiths and underscores the era’s peaceful, prosperous era.
District Attorney Jerome aims to present 211 testimony after the committee finishes its inquiry by January 1. He pledged relentless prosecution of insur ance grafters if evidence warrants indictments. Prominent life insurance insiders face possible grand jury scrutiny amid alleged misappropriation of trust funds for private gain.
Representative Landis of Indiana urged federal control over life insurance in the District of Columbia territories and insular possessions. His bill would create a division of insurance in the commerce and labor department and appoint a superintendent to require annual reports from all companies. He argued the move would expose scandals and align insurance practice with prudent investment.
The speech by Mr Landis denounces life insurance profiteers and urges federal oversight. He cites large policy lapses and dividends, and attacks directors as politically minded profiteers. Rep Ames plans a Massachusetts inspired federal code to regulate insurers nationwide, with a District of Columbia check. The piece notes support from President Roosevelt and calls for uniform regulation amid state sovereignty concerns.
An Apalachee tribe meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men last Thursday planned a mock trial and mock charges against a high standing member, with a committee to present next Thursday’s sleep preparatory for the event. Bucks of the reservation invited. widows and orphans remembered. Delays cited for the New York and Caronia steamers due to stormy seas between December 9 and 20.
A fragmented Christmas column blends dialect verses with holiday reflections, noting winter woes, charitable thanks for gifts amid a wrecked poley, and poems about love and memory. It interweaves schoolhouse moral lines and rustic humor with seasonal longing and weather imagery.
Georgia readers are urged to scrutinize a plan for educational voting qualifications. The Macon Telegraph quotes Sam Small arguing that such reforms would flip county majorities to black dominance, threatening white supremacy and Georgia’s political balance.
Multiple Georgia papers report Atlanta plans a grand 1910 exposition funded by public support, with forecasts of a million to half a million dollars raised and claims it will be the largest and best in the South. Observers note strong civic enthusiasm, urban boosterism, and broad regional backing.
Mount Vernon Georgia December 24 Special The Union Bayxist Institute closed its first term Thursday night with a recital by the muse and elocution departments in the auditorium. Each pupil acquitted himself crediting instructors and the institution. The teachers spend holidays at their homes: Gates at Jeffersonville, Golding at Louisville, Swimmie at McRee, Burch at Tastman, Carolyn Blalock at Gamesville.
An aged man sits by the fire recalling youth as Christmas bells chime. Vivid memory returns of a joyous boyhood with a beloved woman, a sleigh ride, and a tender grandfatherly moment. A child’s voice interrupts the reverie, then the dream fades to dust as time moves on. Atlanta, Ga.
Public interest in the proposed Admiston hospital grows as Calhoun lodge No. 46 Knights of Pythias makes a voluntary contribution. Collections will be taken at each lodge meeting and other secret elder lodges are expected to follow the example to aid the effort.
Schooner E H Moore bound from Norfolk to Wearneck Gloucester county Virginia with cargo of lues and shingles stranded this morning one mile south of Little Island Reef station. wreck total. Crew rescued by the attached lifeboat. vessel declared a total loss.
New York December 24 four thousand dollars worth of antique jewelry including diamonds emeralds rubies and pearls was stolen early today from a firm on 9th avenue. Police are investigating the burglary and reviewing surveillance and employee records for leads.
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