South climbs out of depression says Constitution review
The Constitution's New York financial review argues the south has moved out of recession as freight and cotton outflow rise. Clearinghouse data show Savannah and Charleston up while New Orleans and Norfolk falter little, confirming optimism for a banner southern year in 1915.
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Atlanta
J. H Holliday
Constitution Building
Pole
Washington
S Street
N. W
John Corrigan
Constitution
New York City
Hotaling
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Times Building
Thirty-eighth Street
Twenty-ninth Street
New York, Financial Review
Freigne’ Vis
Savannah
Charleston
New Orleans
Norfolk
Henry G. Hester
Six Month Review of European War Teems with Caution
AP surveys early midyear war developments. Romania and Italy strain toward Germany while Germany extends a 1500 mile front. Allies hold an edge as Belgium earns praise for delaying Germany, with France and England fighting stoutly and Russia showing unexpected tenacity at distant fronts. Submarine warfare gains new significance and a decisive sea clash remains to come.
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Associated Press
Romania
Italy
Ermany
Germany
France
Russia
England
Germany’s Submarine Gambit to Break English Supremacy
Germany aims to delay until submarines erode England’s dominance, a plan seen as unlikely to succeed. On the continent a deadlock prevails unless Russia Romania or Italy can add troops. Opinion holds Germany must yield to superior numbers and resources, with the timing uncertain.
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Germany
England
Russia
Rumania
Italy
North Carolina cattleman urges Georgia to back livestock show
B Frank Mebane of Spray NC, a master-builder in cattle, offers to work with Hereford leaders to stage a Georgia show to boost live stock. He pledges private funds to establish animal husbandry schools and, if NC balks, would back Georgia with 5000 each from fifty supporters. He urges Georgia to seize the chance to build a strong scientific agriculture base.
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Germany
America
TEX
North Carolina
Virginia
Tg Tlendelberg
Harvard
Hom
United States
Piedmont
Georgia
Locke Craig
Raleigh, Nee
Error about Davis misleads readers in Baltimore dispatch
A Baltimore dispatch circulating in the press contains a false line claiming Josiah Millard, a Davis treason trial foreman, died yesterday. The note confuses history since Davis was never treasonously convicted. he was detained briefly but not tried, then released. The piece urges accuracy and notes other fleeting editorial quips about politics and war.
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Baltimore
Josiah Millard
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Satan
Adams Eagle
Dapart
Old Man and the Sweet Singer of Southwest Georgia
Fragmented verses mix yearning for hills and sun with a cartoonish persona of the Old Man offering thrift and wisdom. A local voice riffs on misfortune, weather woes, and war impact, set in a rural Georgia tone with satirical jolts about poverty, travel, and daily life.
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Sweet
Southwest
Georgia
Trouble-Horse and the Road to a Wished-For Game
A collection of verse and quips reflecting wartime sentiment, rural humor, and civic voice. The item assemblage includes lines about faith in representatives, devil-blamed woes, cashiers rescuing subscriptions, and playful rhymes on weather, life, and dancing. Notable names and places appear in scattered form, with a Georgia philosopher, Bremen bank cashier, and Baltimore American quip among the pieces.
Bell Edison Vail and the 3000 Mile Telephone Demonstration
The Holland Letter recalls James R. Keene resisting a stock panic in 1877 and receiving San Francisco replies by telegraph. It celebrates the long distance telephone's triumphs from Philadelphia to San Francisco, noting Bell Edison Berliner and J J Carty, and honors President Theodore N. Vail for moral and technological leadership enabling cross-country voice transmission and the evolution of the telephone system.
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James R. Keene
Bedlam-Like
Stock Exchange
Lake Shore Railroad Company
San Francisco
New York
Denver
Telephone Company
Professor Bell
Washington
Chicago
Bell
Atlantic
Pacific
Edison
Professor Ball
Philadelphia
Berliner
Overland Telephone
J. J. Carty
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Carty
Bell Telephone Company of
Boston
Pickernell
Vail
Theodore N. Vail
Department of Justice
South America
Tare
American Telegraph ‘and Telephone Company
Mr. Vail
Missouri River
Hereford cattle bid lights Georgia bid by Mebane
Frank Mebane of Spray North Carolina appeals to Governor Craig and urges Georgia to back a movement to host a Hereford cattle and sale show. He pledges five thousand dollars for a permanent Georgia Hereford association and calls for a school of Animal Industry and Grossology while lauding Atlanta’s public spirit.
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Atlanta Spirit
Mebane
Craig
Georgia
Frank Mebane
Spray
Locke Craig
North Carolina
Atlanta
Hereford Association
State of
America
McCray
Hereford Cattle Association of America
Perfection Fairfax
N.C
U B
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Gossips
Poem urges ignoring neighbors gossip and scandal to keep a clean slate. Narrator stays cheerful and earnest, noting gossips will talk regardless and urging focus on doing right and maintaining spirits amid criticism.
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Walt Mason
Smuila
Ufe
Signals of Optimism Are at Full Mast
Editor Constitution praises southern resilience amid adverse conditions. The piece credits The Constitution and southern journals for uplifting mood, noting cotton price gains and bank loan activity as signs of recovery. A Victory, Georgia reader, John T. Hearn, commends the editorial stance.
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Benefth
New York Tribune
Tribune
New York
Texas
John T. Hearn
Victory
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