Tide Turns As Southern Trade Shows Improvement
After the European war outbreak, weekly bank clearings in Atlanta Augusta Macon and Savannah decline 20 to 10 percent from the previous year. The first week of 1915 marks a stark shift toward improvement with Atlanta down only four percent Augusta twelve percent and Savannah sixteen percent. The nation follows this rebound as readjustment and recovery signal better times ahead for cotton and general business.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Augusta
Macon
Sayannah
Atlinta
Savannah
Untermyer Defends Stock Exchanges As Open Markets
Samuel Untermyer, acting as special counsel for the congressional money trust probe, defines stock and commodity exchanges as legitimate trading venues but warns against inside maneuvering. He notes the exchanges function to provide transparent pricing and liquidity, especially important when property must be sold in a hurry, while acknowledging past criticisms and the parallel with railroads in entangled fortunes.
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Samuel Untermyer
Congressional “Money Trust
Untermyer
Pittsburg
Exchanges and railroads learn lessons from war
The narrative asserts that adventurous speculative activity on major exchanges has ceased for good, with the markets and railroads now behaving properly. It claims the European war taught both institutions and the public the proper, legitimate roles of exchanges amid a broader lesson in market responsibility.
Master builder charts bold highway plan linking Louisville to Chattanooga
Co E James of Indianapolis leads a development push for a west to south highway through Walden's Ridge connecting Signal Mountain Inn to Chattanooga. He offers 650000 dollars and surveying services to build a direct airline route from Louisville to Chattanooga, potentially saving distance and accelerating southern corridor links. The Hoosier club would mobilize regional cooperation across counties to extend the road to Crossville and Louisville, with Atlanta and Jacksonville termini shaping the broader south highway network.
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Chicago Jacksonville
Hoosier Club
Indianapolis
Chattanooga
Co. E. James
James
Signal Mountain Inn
Walden's Ridge
Signal Mountain
Tle
Toost
Hnk
Louisville
Nashville
Walden’s Ridge
Crossville
Tenn
Soo
Chicago
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Gradual British concession signals easing of contraband ban
The British embassy announces payment for naval stores seized before contraband status, applying the principle to other commodities. The note hints at relaxing the ban, while remaining preliminary. The American protest shown a restrained tone that aided a likely satisfactory adjustment of the dispute.
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England
Chicago to test lawyerless court with limited cases
The Chicago municipal court under Chief Justice Harry Olson will launch a lawyerless trial branch later this month. Complainant and defendant will present their own cases, procedural technicalities will vanish, and justice is to be expedited. Initially cases up to fifty dollars only, with plans to broaden the scope as the experiment proceeds. The effort invites scrutiny as a potential model amid broader litigation costs. More Mexican trouble looms as a New Year list of generals is compiled, highlighting leadership excess.
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Chicago
Harry Olson
World-Wide Hope From a Winter Fire
A reflective frontier tone pursues hopeful resolve for a new year. A traveler’s courtesy prompts rest but the quest continues, urging “Hope and heart unfettered free” to keep the world-fire glowing toward brighter days.
January Misprint Rounds Up Holiday Echoes Across Papers
A collage of 1920s holiday items and verse from The New York Times Paris correspondent, Glasgow Courier and Kansas City Star. It notes wartime poetry, Christmas mischief, a fragile eye in hospital, and satirical lines on New Year resolutions with Bright with a rolling panorama of cultural snippets and social notices.
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Atlanta
J. BR
Holliday
Constitution Building
Washington
N. W
John Corrigan
Constitution
New York City
Horauny
Forty-second Street
Times Building
Thirty-eighth Street
Broadway
Twenty-Ninth Street
Paris
New York ‘Times Telly
Ralile
Kansas City
The Holland Letter and a Millionaire Judge Hornblower
The Holland Letter discusses stock market overdiscounts and renewed confidence spurred by interstate commerce rate decisions. It highlights export prospects, Southern railroad trade facilitation, and a large mural of letters from manufacturers. It then profiles Judge William B. Hornblower, whose estate is appraised at over one million dollars, noting his modest lifestyle, prudent investments, and a suspected link to his son Hollands death.
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Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Securtios
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Odle
Great Britain
Heratet
Tite Oced Company
Santen Corporation
South
Southern
Mailliax Harrison
L.handler
Mexico
3Fexico
Amon
Aikroads Aganey
Tug Sunt
Une South
South America
Mississippi Valley
Middle West
South American
Harrison
Southern Railroad
William B. Hornblower
Hornblower
Fife
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Washington
New York
Court of Appeals
Holland
Flint Michigan's rise from wagons to autos
Flint Michigan grew from a wagon town of 15 000 in 1900 to a bustling city of around 51 900 with the auto industry at its core. The factory whistle shapes daily life, wages, housing, and local culture while cars and garages redefine the community and its economy.
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Flint
Mich
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason at Corker's store
Job Jagsworth arrives in Pukville on a frosty day and seeks a home but dodges a bill. Corker accuses him of being a crook from Mudtown and shows him the door, warning that a bad reputation follows him wherever he goes.
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Job Jagsworth
Pukville
Corkers
Corker
Mudtown
CIA
Loneliest Evenin in Dialect Poem by Iwin Pugh
A dialect poem from Iwin Pugh expresses deep loneliness in the evenings after a lover has left. The speaker recalls past routines of beer and pipe with the beloved, now replaced by waiting and prayer. The voice laments solitude and hopes for a return.
Rumor and War Rumor From London Chronicle
A poetic reflection on rumor during wartime, tracing how rumors spread about Jellico and Russian forces, suggesting misleads about defeats and recoveries. The piece satirizes how rumor travels from lip to lip, mixing truth and falsehood to stir public emotion.
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The
London Chronicle
Jellico
Rubber Embargo Threatens U S Rubber Industry
The British embargo on rubber raw materials endangers 250000 American workers and large investments, risking famine prices for rubber goods. Brazil and other sources may fill demand if embargo lasts, pushing US factories toward layoffs while prices swing for Brazilian and British rubbers. The embargo's aim and possible relief options are debated by industry leaders and government officials.
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Great Britain
United States
Hagland
New York
England
Ament Satis
B. G. Work
Goodrich Rubber Company
Lusitania
Bryan
Cecil Spring-Rice
George B Hodgman
Hodgman Rubber Company
Rubber Club of America
Brazil
Europe
Froriser
Lia Wore
Colombo
Canada
Fiere
Vic
Thes
American Congress
Germany
Austria
Colon
France
Australia
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Retrouble
Ostosn
Aoiwath
Adams Enterprise
Eldimu
Plaved
Glasgow Courier
Glasgow
New Fear
George Bailey
Hougton Post
Sccare
Stanton
Michigan
George Ritch
Good Old Smash
Fere Marquette
Yalup
AGA
Walt Mason
Lonely
Evenin’s
Childer
Iwin Pugh
Bering’s Strait
Timbuctso
Cork
Waterloo
Kansas City Times
Grant City
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