Constitution Publishing Co Office and subscription notice
The London Office of The Constitution in Trafalgar Square invites Southerners to visit London offices and use facilities as headquarters. W H Overby and Charles H Donnelly are traveling representatives. M J Willingham and J M Jackson handle Alabama. City collectors named, subscription costs listed, foreign rates, and postal terms noted.
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Incident in Point Notes Lynching Lesson for Reformers
Atlanta January 8 1900 an editorial on the Newport News lynching contrasts white and black reactions. It argues vengeance and injustice follow lynching while condemning lynchers, urging colored leaders and white allies to separate the innocent from culpable violence and to uphold justice without tacit approval of mob acts.
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Supreme Court
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Uncounted Cotton Stock Drives Market Prices Down
The article attacks the practice of counting cotton production to set normal crop figures. It argues experts fabricate daily stock tallies across vast regions to inflate apparent supply, keeping prices low and profits hampered for farmers. The piece traces the flaw to a fictitious production threshold used by financiers and commercial men.
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Oklahoma
Farmers Fight Speculation In cotton Market
The piece argues farmers must resist outside influence and not sell in stampedes or in other markets. It condemns bogus counts of cotton, calls for farmer independence, and warns that speculation harms producers while praising cautious, self-led selling strategies. It critiques banking policy and Republican finance maneuvers, predicting lasting legislation.
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Republican Financial Plan Draws Sun Protest
The New York Sun faces backlash from Republican financiers over proposed currency changes. It argues that a bank controlled system, not a genuine gold standard, governs currency. The plan to issue 900 million in 2 percent bonds to fund national bank notes would cost the government and enrich banks, the piece contends.
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Assessors Rightful Role in Tax Policy Endorsed
The piece defends Atlanta tax assessors against political pressure, urging taxpayers to back fair valuations over higher levies. It argues officials must fix market values, not set taxes, and that any bond or expenditure decisions should be put to the people through direct vote, with careful scrutiny of necessity and cost. It notes voters previously rejected waterworks bonds, underscoring citizen primacy in fiscal choices.
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Georgia Nuggets and Verse From an Atlanta Note
A fragmented column from Atlanta features Bob Burdette greetings from California, Browning verse by J Morton Madden, and light poems and aphorisms about Georgia life. It blends humor on mule care, mottoes, and collective effort with selections titled A Pair To Draw To and On the Way, plus a Tennessee wife joke and a poetic flourish about storm and sunshine.
Foreign aristocrats draw warning from American wife
La Comtesse Lorean de Chavanne tells New York World reporters to beware titled foreigners as marriage partners. She recounts her unhappy marriage to a French count, exposing alimony schemes and social intrigues of the Faubourg Saint Germain. She urges American women to shun these arrangements and calls foreign nobles morally rotten.
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French Society Exposé Prompts Heiress Scams in Paris
A controversial manuscript by La Comtesse, educated in a Paris convent and linked to Mrs. Torrenzo, claims to reveal the inner workings of French high society. It narrates schemes where American heiresses are steered to noble circles for commissions, with a Philly temporary residence noted.
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Lively Scenes in The Police Court Crooked Town
A vivid courtroom tableau shows poor overworked Will toting clothes for a living and receiving a lighter sentence, while youths John and Joe defend a street fight over a cigarette with humorous mischief. Little Liza Hinton, a small girl, is arrested for Jovling in a vacant house as an aunt vows punishment. A washerwoman accuses Will Nesbitt of looting a clothesline with a judge settling fines, and a Hockbone incident ends with a $3.75 penalty for concealment and disposal of the meat.
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Dream Foretold Fatal Tree Tragedy in Ocilla
In Ocilla Georgia on Tuesday Charles M Tucker was killed by a falling limb while cutting trees. His father Judge Daniel Tucker dreamed of an aged man with a white beard signaling the death before Charles left home. The accident occurred near the plantation while a neighbor Cajah Harper rushed to assist.
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The Ball Called No 11 Rock Shocks Poolroom Crowd
A noisy Saturday night at a Blackpool pool parlor ends when a pool ball labeled No 11 Rock is hurled through a window and injures a passerby. Police seize the ball, arrest the poolhouse proprietor for disorderly conduct, and a damages dispute looms over ownership and restitution.
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Ulmer and Bell Shootout Leaves Bell Wounded in Orangeburg County
In Orangeburg County two teenaged boys, Wivle Bell eighteen and Willie Ulmer nineteen, fought a month ago after a quarrel. They agreed to meet again. Ulmer fired on Bell yesterday as Bell reportedly carried a pistol but may have had an ax. Ball strikes caused severe injuries. Ulmer surrendered to the sheriff.
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Brumby Monument Fund committees to report Wednesday
Chairman Joyner calls subscription committees to meet at 4 PM Wednesday at his office. Reports expected from Brumby fund committees on funds raised and progress after a letter to Congressman Livingston about federal aid for Spanish American War monument.
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Rushford Man Seized in Cha Police Action Released
Police acted in Rushford taking a man into custody and releasing him thereafter. Mrs. Sanders Carri Grady was transported to Grady Hospital with a serious wound.
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