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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1914
Page
11
Charman Humphrey leads finance committee in urging a bond issue to resolve the city’s rapid growth woes. The analysis warns current income cannot fund both maintenance and needed permanent improvements in health, schools, sewers, water, and street projects, especially in newly annexed areas and underserved Negro quarters. The clock runs now.
The author argues growth requires public investment in health, schools, and streets funded by bonds. Atlanta's bonded indebtedness stands at six million with a six million borrowing margin, unlike New York which bonds to its limit. Georgia limits bonds to seven percent of assessed value, with values often 60 to 65 percent of true value, ensuring fiscal prudence and protecting future prosperity. The piece frames bonds as the only viable path through a crisis demanding decisive action.
The annual message to the legislature is blasted as gutter politics and vituperation aimed at enemies and cabinet officers. Critics lament the state’s decline from historic figures like Calhoun and Pinckney, warning that the leader’s crude rhetoric harms South Carolina’s standing.
The city weighs a ten foot widening on Peachtree street near Forsyth and Pryor to relieve chronic congestion at the bottle neck where three streets merge. The Winecoff Hotel setback is part of the plan and city action is awaited to free development across the corridor.
Dr J P Kennedy, Atlanta city health officer, presents a statistical study urging a health dept budget increase from forty to fifty thousand dollars yearly. He argues the extra ten thousand is a small price to pay if it saves many lives as Atlanta’s death rate among white and colored residents has fallen over three years, with 1913 showing improvement.
A 1913 report cites white death rate at 11.49 per thousand and colored at 26.98, with 666 white and 33.4 colored. It argues disease crosses racial lines via the negro reservoir, urging $10,000 extra for reforms to reduce innocents’ deaths and boost the city health department. Dr Kennedy advocates liberal health funding, noting Atlanta spends little on health conservation compared to other cities.
A trio including Jack London and Upton Sinclair propose a human laboratory in Nevada to rehabilitate twelve of the nation's worst youths from nine thousand candidates. They seek to study whether environment and tailored rules can reduce crime, with broad social and economic aims guiding the controversial experiment.
A lyrical fragment blends seasonal imagery of winter and spring with a playful tide of romance. It references lovers, vines, mocking birds, and a yearning for warmer days, interwoven with an ad noting The Harvard Crimson offering to craft letters of all kinds including apologies and acceptance notes.
A collage of rustic anecdotes, folk verses, and local notices recounts misadventures with trouble, dollar songs, and a Texas bard inspired piece. Threads mention Mister Dollar, a courtroom line, and a Georgia moral about justice, all echoing patchwork 19th or early 20th century editorial style with scattered dialect and regional references.
Lithia Springs G E Lumpkin urges support for Rep Adamson’s plan to fund a federal prison road project in Atlanta era. The proposed highway would showcase the region, boost property values, and require minimal county costs for prisoner maintenance while attracting national attention and development. Citizens and local boards urged to write letters and memorials to Congressmen Howard, Lee, and Adamson.
The 1912 Atlanta death rate fell to 1625 per 1000, but infant mortality remains high. The health officer urges funds to hire two visiting nurses, dairy and milk inspectors, a veterinarian, and expand tuberculin testing to reduce child deaths and improve city sanitation and life preservation.
Essay-style piece urging readers to define personal boundaries to reach goals. It advises assessing what has been begun versus finished, setting limits on each task, and expanding aim as initial boundaries prove workable. The writing emphasizes starting small and building toward larger ambitions.
A L Jennings, once an Oklahoma outlaw who served five years in prison, has been admitted to the bar after studying law following his release. He now announces candidacy for governor, claiming restoration to citizenship and a changed societal attitude toward those with criminal records. His declaration highlights personal reform and public interest in second chances.
Guidance on sulfur fumigation and chemical cleansers to disinfect homes. It covers using burning sulfur to purge infestations, cautions on ventilation, fire safety, and methods to treat clothing and surfaces with solutions. Emphasizes cleanliness of the cellar and floors as essential to preventing disease, with practical steps and warnings on toxic substances.
A 1814 recipe by Urs Dudley Tield Malone describes Frozen Chocolate Padding a simple yet delicious dessert. It uses grated chocolate, sugar, water, and whipped cream folded together then chilled in a mold with buttered edge parchment and cracked ice. The final pudding is unmolded and served immediately.
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