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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
21
A garbled column curses preachers and politics, deriding funeral sermons, Roosevelt supporters, and theatergoers while mention of Comstock and Gordon surfaces. It notes fiery public sentiment, theater safety warnings, and chaotic references to global affairs and the Pacific.
Governor Terrell announces that Liberty Hall, Alexander H Stephens's Crawfordville home, will model Georgia's display at the St Louis World’s Fair. Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis’s home, represents Mississippi. Georgia seeks $25,000 for Liberty Hall, with $8,000 already subscribed, to fund erection and exhibits. The Georgia Building will be part of a broader state show with many buildings and nations represented.
The piece notes Atlanta mourning a recent theater fire in Chicago with victims named Griffin and others, while factions debate memorials. It also mentions Savannah News reporting Judge Parker might accept the Democratic presidential nomination, a fact tied to earlier bar association meetings.
A fragmented poem reflecting remorse and divine redemption. The speaker laments missed healing grace and enduring hellish portions, noting temptations, despair, and longing for mercy. The piece mentions a prison house, watchers, and a plea for Christ to erase sins.
Fragile notes report a questionable retirement rumor involving Marle George II and Clarabelle. The sequence mentions a fetched loan of 35309 from a father to cover a wedding trip, amid unclear motives and motives.
A chorus of editorials from Savannah to Chicago honors General James Longstreet as a brave Confederate leader. Tributes praise his battlefield skill and loyalty while noting mixed postwar politics and the costly war that shaped his career and legacy.
A Georgia page carries verse and prose on New Year reflections and local characters. Brer Williams faces comic misfortune as a hollow New Year tale unfolds, with Brother Dickey recounting moral tales, prayers, and songs. The piece also notes General James Longstreet's death, marking a somber close to a storied era.
A Georgia reader urges southern towns to help German immigrant settlers adapt. The letter notes differences in climate farming and customs, warns against misrepresentation, and urges community guidance, practical instruction, and welcoming outreach to turn newcomers into productive, law abiding neighbors.
A report notes 204 marriage licenses issued in 1902 at Baldwin, with 69 to white individuals and 185 to degrees. The piece covers Milledgeville’s new city council dinner, Confederate veteran views on Longstreet, Kansas politics, and college library funding plus an appeal for Carnegie Library support in Atlanta.
Assistant Commissioner BRF Wright notes brisk fertilizer sales totaling about ten thousand dollars in two to three weeks as farmers brace for planting season. Georgia Treasurer Park reports daily receipts near one hundred thousand dollars since January, with over four hundred ninety thousand collected by yesterday and a potential million in ten days. Governor Terrell faces funding strains for rewards as bills and contracts, including Lawton Evans History of Georgia, shift through approvals.
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