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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1904
Page
27
The text riffs on international tension from Britain to Japan and Russia, mentions Roosevelt allegiances, Panama Canal talk, and political quips. It slides into domestic oddities like a New York cabbie with $60,000 robbed and a Georgia sun, blending political rumor with tangential anecdotes and misfits in a brisk, era-tinged collage.
A defense of Baltimore’s great Sunday fire, its immense damage near 200 million dollars, and the lessons for municipal safety. The piece links the disaster to explosive materials in buildings, urges stronger ordinances, and notes the need for fireproofing. It cites Chicago, Hallamore, and questions on city responsibility and insurance pressure, urging stricter control of stored explosives.
The death of Paul Romare marks the loss of a key figure in Atlanta’s banking scene. A founder and longtime leader of the Atlanta National Bank, he served in every trust position from bookkeeper to president and helped drive the city’s commercial growth. His memory is tied to the bank’s and city’s progress and prosperity.
A Gueton's Magazine writer argues the east holds advantages in experience skilled labor better machinery and access to supplies while southern mills push to profitable returns. The piece notes recent shifts in product quality in the south and urges focusing on improving American production to meet global demand rather than fearing foreign competition.
The article discusses advances in medicine and surgery, noting doctors increasingly use electricity and imaging in treatment. It highlights radium as a costly but revolutionary discovery that challenges conservation of energy, claiming radium constantly emits energy without diminishing its bulk.
The piece discusses early ideas about radium, its potential as a cancer remedy, and a New York doctor using fluorescent methods alongside quinine. It also comments on public interest in predigested breakfast foods and previews Senator A. Clay’s Panama Canal treaty speech and Georgia senators’ support.
The Nashville News relays The Atlanta Constitution's thorough treatment of why free silver coinage lost political traction. It argues world gold output and rising prosperity shifted conditions, leaving bimetallism as overshadowed by broader economic trends while maintaining that the issue remains alive in principle, though not a dominant political force.
At the Madison County Farmers' Club meeting held Saturday afternoon in Huntsville Alabama members adopted a resolution backing a national Department of Agriculture proposal to establish an experiment station in north Alabama. They pledged full support to aid the institute.
A fragmentary poem prose piece recalls a Georgia night where a speaker mourns a dead love. A colored philosopher recounts a haunted house tale and a door that opened revealing a throat-cut man. The piece blends longing, death, and superstition with brief social vignettes on spring and literary life.
An item from Putnam notes Congressman Adams plans return to the legislature next year with a Senate run in the twenty eighth district and Jenkins Jr as a potential successor in the House. The piece also covers district delegates for the National Democratic Convention, a Cave Spring inspection trip for the State Academy for the Deaf and Dumb, and new county school commissioners in Henry and Fulton counties. It mentions Judge Holton visiting for Patti sing, the Wilcox county court house project, pension money visits by Georgia judges, and State Senator Hudson's Capitol appearance.
Architect P Thornton Marye will travel from Atlanta to St Louis to help close the contract between Atlanta and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. City Attorney James Is Mayson drafts the agreement. The Atlanta building will mirror the depot at Mitchell Street and serve as the exposition’s model city gateway.
Mayor Howell and Sam D Jones of the Atlanta chamber of commerce sent telegrams of sympathy to Baltimore’s mayor after its calamity. Howell’s message expressed grievous sympathy and Atlanta’s felt concern. Jones’s telegram conveyed Atlanta Chamber of Commerce support and heartfelt condolences.
In Hunteville Alabama police hunt firebugs believed to have set two barns owned by S J Mayhew and J J Bradley. Each barn stored rag and suffered losses above 600 dollars. A second barn burned Saturday evening and a third attempt on Friday night targeted the same owners.
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