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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
10
A 1910 Constitution page proclaims that Greater Atlanta women are organized and militant for bond approval. It links sanitation, education, and medical care to wartime sacrifice by southern women and asserts broad civic duty to back the bond measure for safer, larger schools and healthier city services.
Real estate firms in the South promote farm land sales to farmers in the South and West, arguing southern acres yield higher dividends and cheaper first costs. They claim railroads neglect southern opportunities and urge readers to consider Southern properties as superior to Western lands.
A Georgian paper mocks the ground hog forecast and praises the gopher’s steadiness. It argues the gopher’s instinct remains faithful through erratic predictions and stubbornly ignores January sun or October chills. The piece fends off the ground hog’s prophecy with wit and local color.
The article discusses a $50 check Taft sent to Captain J W English for the Merrin Brown College industrial department, signaling support for industrial education of African Americans. It contrasts Bishop Smith’s classical education stance with Rev R D Stinson’s industrial plan, arguing the college’s fate hinges on which approach prevails and noting public sentiment favoring industrial education for immediate community benefit.
In a Turner Tabernacle talk, advocates like Inman English Lea promote industrial education for African Americans, arguing it provides practical foundation for 8,000,000 Southern blacks and condemning classical schooling as wasteful and harmful. Critics seen as opposing mass preparation, risking collective decline.
An editorial in Fire and Fabric questions how legislation can lower wool prices and argues tariff reductions could cut costs for consumers. It notes that trusts and monopolies distort supply, urges intelligent inquiry into food storage and market cornering, and says real relief may come from tariff cuts and laws curbing trust power.
A garbled verse collage mocks heroism and social critique. It contrasts a nonheroic man from Georgia with satire on meat prices, a dream country, and a polemic about labor, poetry requests, and everyday life. It blends snippets from poems, jokes, and political text with scattered proper names and places.
Journal report highlights Bulloch County's pledge to buy no meat from the West for six months and its broader agricultural success. It notes 12,000 bales of sea island cotton yearly, a robust banking position, and how intensive small-farm cultivation sustains prosperity.
Fulton county commissioners unanimously endorsed the Alabama street viaduct project and agreed to cooperate with the city council on securing land grants from owners and railroads. They also backed a bridge plan over Western and Atlantic and Southern railroads at Bellwood Boss avenues, with the county to build approaches if the city and railroads erect the bridge and abutments. The board agreed to lay a 12 inch water main along Lee to McCalls street, and discussed bridge repairs with Cobb County authorities. Moving picture theater licenses were fixed, and police leadership was reorganized with Chief Zach Rowan given supreme authority over the county force.
Savannah and Statesboro railroad president J Randolph Anderson testified before the railroad commission on delaying freight without prepayment. He argued shipments from Central of Georgia to Statesboro via Savannah should be prepaid, and questioned the routing via Seaboard. The commission also reviewed Athens Electric Railway Company rules and tariffs amid objections from Athens officials.
In Lyons election today the Young Mens Progressive League routed conservatives with every on the ticket elected by a large margin. New mayor and aldermen named include C. Smith and R. Wilson with Brown, Brown, and I. H. Corbitt joining the council. Macon Volunteers inspected as Major Palmer praised their readiness. An annexation election matter was set for a future date after City Attorney Lane sought a filing of the contract objections before Judge Felton.
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