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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1914
Page
4
The article argues that business education through high school commercial branches and private colleges powers American industry. It highlights Atlanta as a Southeast center for commercial education offering accessible training in accounting stenography and office work. A business course is a solid investment, forming a foundation for breadwinning and future fortune.
The article argues that copper shipments held as contraband will be released with export restraint as Italy edges toward the Allies. It cites Italy’s Albania intervention, anti Austria sentiment, and Kaiser’s moves, predicting Italy may soon align with England France and Russia, risking neutrality.
David Grayson author of Hempfield presents a country editor who believes big life issues are the little daily details. He imagines a country newspaper filled with small items, asking if major topics like tariffs or the Philippine question matter next to potato prices. The remark reflects the editor’s practical, grounded view on news priorities.
The Georgia weekly editor is a patriotic advocate for local issues and civic ideals. He champions his community first, then the state, reflecting how rural editors influence public sentiment through focus on local matters and reliable storytelling.
The piece notes President Taft renewed attacks in New York and Massachusetts on the bull moose party and its plank for recalling judicial decisions. It argues the bull moose is dying, recalls the recall issue as ineffective, and urges patience with courts as imperfect but trustworthy, dismissing drastic remedies. Taft is said to miss the mark and not witness any potential upheaval.
The Department of Agriculture notes 33 420 members in girls garden and canning clubs in the south. These clubs spur crop diversification, aiding farm families during the cotton downturn. They complement corn and pig clubs, promoting a more productive and livable rural life for women and households.
Fragmentary OCR shows poem fragments about aging and memory with references to William Butler Yeats and a sonnet titled When You Are Old. Lines celebrate time, love, and enduring youth against Winter and darkness, invoking images of roses, light, and stars.
A compact collage of verse and prose pieces from a 19th or early 20th century rural paper. It laments editors’ comforts, parodies politics, and sprinkles seasonal pieces and humorous vignettes about Christmas, weddings, births, and rural life with rustic dialect and local color.
A detailed discussion notes rising payrolls in eastern industries due to wartime orders, Canada’s growing foreign trade and $100 million loan plan, Royal Bank of Canada strength, Canada’s export surge, and questions over John Wendel’s $60 million estate without a will, signaling broad cross border financial ties and inheritance questions.
George Sitch extols the Rhine as a grand waterway shaped by nature and German engineering. He notes its 8 foot channel, annual freight of 60 million tons, and its historical role from Romans to present, while lamenting its use as a national boundary and Alsace Lorraine conflicts. The piece blends history, tourism, and war era sentiment about the river’s significance.
Poet Walt Mason laments the demon Rum and the endless battle to curb alcohol. He notes minimal local triumphs, contrasts with Russia’s swift suppression, and muses about a strong despot to end the scourge for youth and age alike.
A Georgia relief appeal urges citizens to form local committees to aid seven million Belgians starving under German occupation. The Georgia-South Carolina shipload will depart from Charleston carrying foodstuffs, and donations of money and canned goods are requested. Signed by H. L. DeGive, chairman, and Dr. E. E. May, executive secretary.
A reader laments recruiting music as insufficient to boost Kitchener's army. The letter references a cornet solo of Home Sweet Home near Trafalgar Square and expresses doubt about morale-boosting value.
A 1914 Atlanta letter from Major Charles W Hubner to Woodrow Wilson offers a poem titled To Woodrow Wilson, praising the president as a Christian statesman. The White House reply thanks Hubner for the verses. The poem portrays Wilson as a pilot guiding the Ship of State through storms toward peace, asking for faith, wisdom, and divine guidance.
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