Georgia Fruit Crop Prospects Grow With Winter Weather
The Georgia fruit outlook promises a phenomenal season with millions of dollars in revenue for orchards. Six million bearing peach trees yield over 4 million dollars annually, while other fruits rise in importance due to Georgia Horticultural Society and state agriculture efforts. The Constitution urges doubled enterprise in scientific horticulture, noting thousands of idle acres could become productive fruit fields, letting growers “pick money from the trees.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Phoebus
Georgia Horticultural Society
State Department of Agriculture
America
Education as an Important Southern Problem
Dr. Charles W. Dabney of the University of Tennessee writes in The Chattanooga Tradesman on elevating southern education to restore prewar leadership. He urges expanded industrial and scientific training, more funds for higher education and better common schools, and intensified development of the region’s material interests to match the North and East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Dabney
University of Tennessee
Chattanooga
South
Dabney
Education and industry urged to lift the South in the twentieth century
A speech extols the South’s resources and calls for expanded education from common schools to universities. It argues investment hinges on trained managers and advocates rapid improvement of technical and higher education, warning that growth depends on funding and educated people to meet competition.
Reliable Cotton Bulletins Amendment Aids Southern Farmers
The amendment to the permanent census bureau bill requires official seven day weekly cotton crop figures from gin records during the marketing season from September to March. It aims to curb speculation and give farmers reliable data on acreage, yield, and weather effects to improve pricing understanding and profits. The change is praised as a good day’s work by southern senators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Permanent Census Bureau
Department of the Government
Agricultural Department
Congress Rebuffs New Force Bill Effort and Electoral Inquiry
A column assesses how lawmakers resisted another force bill and a party bid to cut southern representation. It notes Republicans deride the plan as a doomed bid to bait the South, while a minority caucus seeks an electoral laws inquiry unlikely to alter representation. It also riffs on political gossip and clerical banter from Washington.
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Dickdom
Ohio
Crumpacker
Moody
Congress
Crumpacker & Co
Temperance Education Law Map Ceremony in Georgia
In Boston Mrs. Mary Hunt led a gathering marking Georgia as the last of forty five states to adopt temperance education laws requiring physiology and hygiene in schools. Speakers recalled Vermont’s first act in 82 and praised Georgia’s passage, with maps showing white for states with laws and black for those without. A large black patch was removed from a historical map, symbolizing Georgia’s joining the white states. a souvenir patch and notes from Massachusetts official Frank A. Holt accompanied the ceremony.
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National
Department of Scientific Temperance Education
Woman's Christian Temperaure Union
Georgia
Boston
Mass
Mary H. Hunt
Vermont
United States
National Congress
Hunt
Canada
Academie de Paris
Belgium
Woman's Coistian Temperance Union of Georgia
Candier
Candler
House Committee On Education
Huntbald
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Earth
Sud
Frank A. Ht
Massachusetts State Board of Education
G. R. Glenn
Mr Glenn
Massachusetts
Temperance Education
Glenn
Jenni Hart Sibley
Georgian Woman's Christian ‘Temperance
Trend of Current Events as McKinley Had Said It
Editorial notes from The Hartford Times and The Baltimore Sun critique Secretary Long and cabinet views on American trusteeship in the Philippines. They argue the Philippines story hinges on economic gain and expose suspicion that promoters seek material advantage rather than moral aims.
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McKinley
Hartford Times
Secretary Long
Boston
United States
Aff Cherubs
Baltimore Sun
Long
Philippines
Cherubs
Massachusetts
Hothia
Gleam of Gold and a Georgia Winded Poem
A mixed fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century text blending lyric lines about love and glory with humorous vignettes and regional dialect humor. It references a New York Sun correspondent in Florida, a judge in Lee County, and sketches of poems, songs, and rural scenes. The piece moves through romantic imagery, social jokes, and quick anecdotes about climate, pensions, and poetry clubs.
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New York Sun
Florida
O’possum
Women Suffrage Hearings In Senate and House Committees
Delegations from the Woman's Suffrage Association urged passage of an amendment in hearings before Senate and House committees. Speakers included Miss Lygan Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt, citing progress in Idaho Utah Colorado Wyoming and England Australia Sweden Norway and Wyoming governors support for suffrage and women in office reflect public benefits.
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Washington
Woman's Suffrage Association
Committee On Woman
Senate
Bacon
Georgia
Lygan
Anthony
Congress
Philippines
House
House Judiciary Committee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Idaha
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
Mus Abe
Stine Blackwell
Mississippi
Anna Shaw
Weiver
Idaho
Fenwick Miller
England
Australia
America
Panama Route Favored Over Nicaragua Says Ernst
Colonel H. Ernst of the Isthmian Canal Commission told the Senate Interoceanic Canals Committee that the Darien route is impracticable before a tunnel. He favored Panama for being shorter and cheaper to operate, despite higher dam and health challenges. He noted floods on the Chagres river as a major construction risk and suggested police and sanitary control would be needed.
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Nicaragua
Washington
H. Ernst
Isthmian Canal Commission
Committee On Interoceanic
Senate
Darien
Panama
Panama Canal
Ernst Sid
Bohio
Concada
Ernst
Chugrea
Wanda
Benitor Moygan
Chagres
Rohlp
United States
Canal
Battleships To Venezuela Route Planned By North Atlantic Squadron
The North Atlantic Squadron comprising the Kearsarge Alabama Massachusetts and Potomac will visit Cienfuegos Cuba Colon on the isthmus of Panama and Cartagena on Colombia before skirting the northern coast of Venezuela and rounding up at Trinidad before turning northward.
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Castro
Washington
Avy Department
Higginson
North Atlantis
Kearsarge
Alabama
Massachusetts
Potomac
Cienfuegos
Cuba
Colon
Panama
Carthagena
Colombia
Venezuela
Trinidad
Postmasters Confirmed by Senate in Washington
Senate confirmations grant postmaster appointments across multiple states including Tennessee North Carolina and Georgia names such as William AL Trent Tyre Glenn J F Wray J W C Long B L Ware and others. The report notes February 1 as the confirmation date with towns like Salisbury Reidsville and Kings Mountain represented.
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Washington
Senate
Tennessee
William AL. Trent
Knoxyne
North Sarolina
Tyre Glenn
Bona
H Ramsey
Salisbury
J. F. Wray
Reidsville
J. W. C. Long
Statesville
B. L. Ware
Kings Mountain
Washington to Confer on Cuba Security Policy
February 18. Chairman Payne of the House committee announced a central group of party members would meet to discuss Cuban security. The announcement signals a formal central discussion among leaders on Cuban policy and related security measures.
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Cuba
Washington
Payne
Wers and Mesne Committee
Cmmmine
Secimrerity
Taft Discusses Sedition Laws and Aguinaldo
Governor Taft told the Senate Philippines committee that Manila remains a center for insurrection, justifying suppression of secret societies as war measures. He described Aguinaldo’s personality, noting his dignity and limited education, and commented on Luna's assassination and the dangers of internal Filipino rivalries.
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Washington
Taft
Philippines
Senate Committee On the
Samar
Mamula
Manila
Civ
Tha
Wright
United States
Ulus
Beveridge
Patterson
Aguinaldo
Aguialdo
Luna
Nomination by President Names Guenther and Platt Son
The president sent nominations to the Senate naming Brigadier General Francis C. Guenther for artillery and James Platt of Connecticut as district dis quiet judge for Connecticut. Thomas V. McAlister is nominated for collector of customs at Vicksburg and George Barelay Rives as third secretary of the U S embassy in Berlin. Mr Platt is noted as the Senator's son from Connecticut.
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Senator Platt
Connecticu
Washington
Senate
Francis ¢. Guenther
James + Platt
Connecticut
United States
District of Connecticcut
Thomas V. McAlister
District of Vicksburg
George Barelay Rives
Berlin
Platt
West Virginia Governor to Attend Charleston Meeting With Roosevelt
West Virginia Governor B White, with 25 of his staff of 30, will travel to Charleston tonight to meet with President Roosevelt. The delegation aims to discuss state issues and seek federal attention.
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West Virginia
Charleston
Waabington
White
Roosevelt
Staf
No Discrimination Against Negroes Denied in Education Funds
Washington February hearing before Senate committees on education and labor challenges claims of racial discrimination in government educational funding. Commissioner Harr asserts no discrimination exists, while charges persist in some areas about fund distribution and access for the colored races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
National Council of Women Heads to Washington and Charleston
Mrs H N Stevens of Portland national W C T U president and Miss Anna A Gordon were in Boston en route to Washington to attend the national council of women and to Charleston where the congress is to be held early in March with Mrs Stephens to preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Council of Women
Boston
Mass
H. N. Stevens
Portland
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Anna A. Gordon
Washington
Charleston
D. C
Stephens
Five story Wew Hotel planned for Anniston Alabama
A new five story hotel is slated for Anniston to be built at the northwest corner of Noble and Twelfth streets, one block from the business district. Construction will start soon as work begins at an early date.
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Wew
Anniston
Ala
Noble and
Twelfth Streets
Trustees defer election of Broun successor in Alabama
At a meeting in the governor office trustees of the MuLurn Loarch decided not to vote on Broun's successor this winter. Gr. O. D. Smith, senior member and chairman of the faculty, will serve as executive head until the regular meeting next summer in Montgomery February 1.
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Dr. Broun
Montgomery
Ala
Speclinj
MuLurn Loarch of Trustees
Lr Broun
Gr. O. D. Smith
Tutwiler Made Commissioner
Montgomery February 18. Judge Jones of the federal district court appointed Carl Tutwiler United States commissioner at Troy. Tutwiler has for four years been one of the two Democratic county officers after the election of Melis.
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Tutwiler
Montgomery
Ala
Judge Jones
Federal District Court
Carl Tutwile
United States
Troy
Melis
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