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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1910
Page
13
A fragment from a 1510s Atlanta column jabs political figures and trusts as it muses on Congress, Roosevelt, Taft, Cannon, and labor costs. It lampoons the meat and beef trusts while noting Tennessee and Indiana politics, the shade of Washington, and the country’s hunger for reform amid a century’s stare.
An editorial endorses a $600,000 bond issue for Laurens County to fund a civil engineer led program that surveys and contracts all miles of road. It argues durable main roads plus convict labor for maintenance will reduce costs and produce year round access, urging counties statewide to build roads to stay.
An Associated Press dispatch from Washington and a Paris cable date Roosevelt hedging on his legislative program while focusing on four main issues. Paris hints he plans to land in New York in June, possibly via the Philippines and San Francisco, to influence party unity and settle tensions with Taft.
The Secretary of the Interior Ballinger plans a lottery style reform for government western land allotments starting with 172 forty acre farms near Yuma California. The aim is to reduce scramble yet show the south prize in publicity and investor interest through real estate advertising and regional commercial backing.
A garbled table from Gondokoro in the Soudan Upper Nile mocks European rulers and power, praising Bwana Tutbo as a local king while deriding Western officials and wealth. The text riffs on a notion of imperial limits and cites figures like the Kaiser, Nicholas of Russia, and an American president in a satirical frame.
A collage of dialect verses and humorous notes from The Fayette Democrat Leader. Bits of folklore tease fate and trouble, with jerky sketches of plantation life and old Southern sayings, including jokes on divorce bread and weathered wisdom from Greenleaf to Georgia. Combines comic verses and brief oddities.
Barrington Willson, longtime Atlanta youth, arrives in Thomasville to lead a newly formed Times Enterprise venture. The company buys bankrupt stock of the old Times-Enterprise Publishing, plans a modern plant, and aims to publish an up to date daily paper for South Georgia, shifting from morning to afternoon edition with full daily press reports.
The Journal of Labor argues for wage safeguards on city contracts to protect union standards and prevent cheap contractors from setting labor rates. It urges fair bidding based on union wage scales to preserve living costs, encourage labor development, and sustain Atlanta as a prosperous city for workers.
Invitations were issued to all local Pythians to attend at Castle Hall in the Kiser building on Tuesday night the 22d as Uniform Lodge No. 123 Knights of Pythian confer the third rank on a large class of esquires. The event, a major Atlanta Pythians occasion, features new yet non radical ritual innovations and a rehearsed program led by Master of Work Ed L. Humphreys. The roster includes King B J Owens Monitor Oia Witherapoon Pythagoras J A Buchanan Herald G F L Cox master-at-arms W A Rector senators W J Scott J T Busbee Major D T Grittin Jack Head J C Buchanan Dr W H Hoey Jay R Reynolds H B Wretnail Dr W W McAfea scribe J C Jones headman Colonel W I Scott attendants R E H Lawshe and Major A Dipble. Cigars and light refreshments will be available and a medical staff will be on duty. A large attendance is expected.
In Point a PitreGuadeloupe February 2 twenty thousand sugar cane cut ters walked off work causing a full agricultural stoppage. Troops and police are stretched thin as strikers demand improvements. The unrest began yesterday when 1000 workers struck and burned five estate buildings where they were employed.
Efforts are under way to secure a presidential pardon for Rev. James R. Kaye of Lincoln Illinois. Kaye was sent to the Peoria workhouse for six months on a charge of possessing molds of United States coins. A petition to President Taft is being supported by influential friends.
Senator Borah of Idaho received hearty applause from a woman in the senate gallery as he introduced a resolution to amend the constitution to permit woman suffrage. The enthusiastic suffragette’s identity was not disclosed.
A Des Moines restaurant keeper, G. H. Arlington, is implicated after allegedly cutting the throat of his sister-in-law Mrs. Sarah Arlington in the afternoon. The incident reportedly occurred in town on February 21. Arlington then inflicted a self-inflicted throat wound. Police reports describe the event as a domestic tragedy with Arlington in custody.
Crown Prince Constantine of Greece reportedly abandons Athens for St Petersburg, joins the Russian army, and plans residence in Russia. He inherits property from Queen Olga and seeks to dodge pressures from German and Greek ties as King George I contemplates leaving Greece. Royal divorce waves and social clashes in Paris follow, with Georges Jametel losing favor and Duchess Mecklenburg Strelitz seeking stability after a publicized marriage loss.
Editor Constitution recounts a reader’s claim that raw cranberries crushed into a poultice applied to an inflamed arm at night can reduce erysipelas as a simple remedy. The author, Robert Bryan Harrison of Atlanta, Ga, asks others who were helped to respond. February 19.
Chicago reports Samuel Bherry Gross accuses Edmond Rostand of plagiarizing The Merchant Prince of Cornville in Cyrano de Bergerac and Chanticler. He calls for a three man court to examine evidence and possibly expel Rostand from the French Academy. A manuscript copy reportedly left at Porte Saint Martin in 1889 and publication in London in 1896 are cited.
Washington on February 21 announced proclamations granting minimum customs duties to Morocco Abyssinia British Guiana Guatemala Ecuador Bolivia Peru Chile Greece Portuguese Timor Cape Verde Angola Portuguese Galena St Thomas and Prince Islands. Judgment Against Bond Co in Baltimore 3000 plus interest awarded for evading revenue laws tied to 6130 gallons of spirit.
Stella Pittman a young teacher at her mother's country home in Hamilton says two robbers entered early today and took all the cash after threatening her. The men forced her to stay quiet as they searched the house and cut the telephone wires before leaving.
Montgomery Ala February 21 county families investigated by Te HG Perry of the health department reporting today show one third infected by hook worm. This ratio based on 1000 families of several thousand persons. Pike county finished two weeks ago showed 35 infected to 68 examined.
Miss Dorothy Whitcomb died last Tuesday at Clifton Springs and was buried Saturday at West View. The service at North Avenues Presbyterian Church featured notable music led by Rev. Richard Orme Flinn with organist Joseph McLean and singers Mrs. Peyton BH Todd and Mrs. Theodora Morgan Stephens. The funeral reflected the esteem of the community and her musical talents.
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