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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1910
Page
7
A 1910 notice announces postage rates for The Constitution with daily and tri-weekly options, rates for Atlanta and outside areas, and subscription terms. It lists staff correspondents and agents, plus offices in Atlanta and New York. The remainder are editorial jabs on politics, tariffs, and public issues.
Editorial argues for the Georgia railroad commission to require prompt reporting of wrecks and injuries by railroads. It criticizes suspension of the rule and calls for amendments to protect railroads while ensuring full disclosure of causes, saying reports aid life protection and quicker hazard detection.
In a strong show of unity, representatives from labor, capital, bankers and professionals endorse the $3,060,000 bond issue. Advocates urge every eligible Atlant an to register by deadline and vote on the bonus at the upcoming election.
Reports from flood struck Paris describe forewarnings by the hydrographic service as the Seine swelled. Authorities rallied to meet the crisis while the public, scoffing, ignored the threat until the disaster overwhelmed the city and produced panic.
President Taft pledged support to the Farmers' Union in stamping out gambling and manipulation in exchanges. A strong delegation of farmers urged him to back a crusade, with Taft hinting at special recommendations to Congress and calling for Farmers' Union members to rally behind him before the looming elections. The political atmosphere remains uncertain as Republican lines blur and tensions rise within Congress.
The piece calls on farmers to secure abolition of pernicious features of the New York Cotton Exchange and similar reforms at other exchanges that burden producers and consumers. It asserts the president’s pledge to aid relief and urges immediate action to enlist Congress and hold officials to account before autumn elections.
A garbled collage of dialectal verse and snippets from Georgia life features a spoof about a Smokehouse Ham party, a cranky citizen’s take on law and hog stealing, springtime weather musings, a home meat trust joke, and regional quips about luck, trade, and optimism.
Letters advocate adoption of Eastern Time for Atlanta citing benefits and public approval while Greensboro prefers Eastern Time amid dissatisfaction with Central. The page includes editorials by W E B Dubois on Negro education and a call for local support for school music programs, plus a letter urging pecan meats as staple food.
J B Norman of Norman Park Colquitt is a modest master builder who founded Norman Institute. He has funded the school with about 70 percent of endowment money, growing it from 60 by 74 feet with 35 scholars to a campus with 1500 boarders and 100 local pupils, plus a free ministerial and elementary program.
A fuse blew on the motor halting all elevators at the Atlanta National Bank Building yesterday afternoon from 3:30 to 4:00. A crowd waited in the basement, others walked up, and rumors of a strike circulated until electricians installed a new fuse and service resumed.
Rev. Allen C. Shuler of Western Heights Baptist Church invites babies of all entrants to a Sunday 12 o clock service contest with prizes of 5 dollars for the prettiest and 1 dollar gold pieces for fattest and leanest. Three impartial judges will select the winners. A march drill by babies under three adds novelty to the event.
Valdosta Ga February Speciel A hot municipal primary drew a large vote Roberts ran unopposed and captured all 666 votes C F Clark W A Jenkins W D Peppies O K Jones and B E Dekle led county contests with thirteen candidates Others defeated were J Coffee B H Jones J B Martin Jr Mashburn J J Newman J H Powell and B J Sirmana
Barnesville February 3 Spe cial The Thomaston Times has today purchased by Messrs B H and J B Hardy editors of The Barnesville News Gazet e Mr J B Handy will move to Thomaston and take charge of the paper It aces the Times to an old established paper and for years has been the only one in Upson county Mr Hardy has been connected with The News Gazet te for several years and is a practical newspaper man This will make three Hardy brothers at the head of weekly papers B H H Hardy The Barnesville News Gazette A S Hardy The Gainesville News and Hardy The Thomaston Times
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