Have Your Bundle Ready Bundle Drive In Atlanta
Atlanta launches Bundie day urged by The Constitution and Associated Charities. Residents are asked to assemble usable clothes and shoes for the unemployed, with every home given a chance to contribute by telephone visit parcel post or express. The Charities runs a distribution machine ensuring funds are not spent but aid goes to those in need.
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Atlanta
Constitution
Associated Charities
Lanta
Time to Quit and End Congress Filibuster Wagon
Editorial urges an extra session of Congress should not occur after two years of politics and delay. It argues business and national recovery require swift action with less jawing and more consensus, criticizing ongoing filibusters and urging unity to let the economy move forward.
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Congress
Washington
Packing Plant News Spurs Georgia Editors Visit Moultrie
The Moultrie chamber of commerce promotes the new packing plant with wide publicity. Fifty Georgia editors toured the facility as guests, and each is expected to return home a booster for packing plants in their areas. The plant is cited as boosting hog and cattle markets, advancing diversified farming over all cotton.
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Chamber of Commerce
Georgia Packing Plants Push Fuel for Growth
A fragmented note praises expanding Georgia packing plants and a growing chamber of ecommerce at Moul irfe, highlighting public-spirited work to support industry.
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Georgia
Chamber of Ecommerce
Moul Irfe
Finance sheet endangers Atlanta schools in overhauls
Editorial applauds council for breaking a long deadlock on the city finance sheet while criticizing the current funding system. It argues the present method overuses current revenue and cripples permanent improvements. The piece laments the closure of the normal school and warns education suffers as the city pursues a flawed fiscal path.
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Council
Atlanta
America
Light and Life Echoes From Georgia Columns
A collage of verses and local notes from Georgia papers features feisty quotes, memorials, and light verse. Reflections on faith, fate, and light hint at personal gods and public memory, with a Georgia memorial remark on signs in the heavens and a satirical wave from The Thomasville Times.
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Love
Aiding Derelicts in Atlanta Social Aid Drive
The Christian Helpers league seeks broad Atlanta support to expand its non denominational rescue work on Decatur Street. It aims to reclaim derelicts and restore them to self sufficiency with the league home serving as a haven for many in the down and out. Contact Probation Officer C J Coogler for details.
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Christian Helpers’ League
Atlanta
League
Decatur Street
C. J. Coogler
Isaac Schoen Suggests Garden Plot Action in Atlanta
Letter from Isaac Schoen of Atlanta dated February 10 1915 to The Constitution urges using vacant plots on city outskirts to grow gardens. He argues against the one crop idea and notes high food prices and unemployment, asking editor to advocate a garden effort to help the community.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Isaac Schoen
Atlanta, Ga
A Mother's Prayer Amid War and Peace Pleas
A mid-war poem plaintively pleads for an end to killing and loss. Mothers beg God to spare husbands and sons, deploring royal greed and earthly treasures. The verses mourn battlefield sacrifice while urging divine mercy and the return of loved ones home.
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Atlanta
Georgeh A
Chamber of Commerce meeting sparks public business debate
The Holland Letter reports on the third annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Washington. It notes informal talks as a key influence, discusses foreign trade expansion, and cites speeches by Theodore Gurton, Redfield, Hamlin, Herrick, Wilson, and McRoberts. The piece highlights public discussion of business principles and potential combinations to aid foreign trade within Sherman act bounds.
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Chamber ‘of Commierce
United States
St. Louis
St.Louis
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Congress
United States of America
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Uited States
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New York
Jacob Schiff
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Federal Senate
Theodore H. Gurton
Ohio
Commerce
Mr. Redfield
Federal Reserve Board
Charles S. Hamlin
Myron T. Herrick
Wilson
Samuel McRoberts
Addrega
United States Inn
McRoberts
Holland
Sleighing as a Lost Romance in Modern Times
George Fitch compares old fashioned sleighing to today’s cars and climate changes. He recalls winter romance, echoes of engagement rings, and the shift from sleighs to automobiles, noting non skid tires and the end of the snowbound era.
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George Fitch
Britain Faces Bread Famine in Napoleonic Era
A scattered montage of historical notes recounts Britain nearing a bread shortage during the Napoleonic wars, with an 1800 law restricting bread sales and a royal grant to Thomas Toden for a wheat substitute paste. It notes seamen’ s biscuits poor in quality, and a harvest the next year easing conditions.
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Britain
London Chronicle
F. W. Hackwood
England
Thomas Toden
Great Britain
High Seas
South Needs Diversification and a Protective Tariff
Indiana editor argues for southern diversification from citrus to crops and urges a protective tariff as vital for national welfare. He cites Florida and Georgia contrasts, cites Belgium and Germany farming, and warns against political party lines hindering business policy. He calls for shifting from cotton emphasis to domestic manufacturing of finished goods.
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Belgium
Germany
Austria
Leg
Florida
Lincoln
South
Rhythms and Rants on Handwriting in Plain Verse
A satirical piece urges readers to keep signatures readable and avoid gaudy flourishes. It warns that ornate writing tires readers and can provoke harsh reactions, urging writers to prioritize legibility and restraint over flair. It references signatures, pranks, and aging journalist names as cautionary examples.
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Prigon
Greeley
Think Autoists Should Be More Careful
A letter from Robert Fischer of Atlanta urges enforcement of city ordinances to curb dangerous auto driving that endangers ambulances and fire wagons. He recalls near misses on Marietta and Por syth streets and Harris and Peachtrea streets, urging editors to press for stricter enforcement to prevent a fatal accident.
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Porsyth Street
Jet
Stanpen
Sande
Waa
Harris and
Peachtrea Street
Wwagonsy
Robert Fischer
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