Atlantas Bond Issue Debate Prompts Citizens Commission
The Atlanta need for bonds hinges on a nonpartisan approach. Mayor Woodward may back the issue if it serves the city, while opponents should avoid politicizing the welfare of residents. The Constitution urges a representative citizens commission to audit Atlanta’s needs, educate the public, and present a verdict on bonds.
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Woodward
Atlanta
Federation of Trades
Women's Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
Teachers’ Association
Bankers
Supreme Court
Let Atlantans Decide Fate of Atlanta Bond Issue
The city’s reputation and health Suspected disease cited as motive for bond funding. Majority push for issue though some doubt remain. Inaction risks higher penalties, calling for decisive public vote on the city’s finances and future.
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Partizan
Crestige
German Trade Growth Seen by Bernstorff for Nations
Count von Bernstorff reports Germany’s foreign trade more than tripled over 40 years with imports up 208 percent and exports 262 percent from 1872 to 1912. By 1891–1911 Germany leads, with America at 105.1 percent, while England and France trail. Population rose 56 percent from 1871 to 1910, and living standards and budgets expanded. America must recognize Germany’s rising power to compete globally.
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Germany
Count von Bernstorff
Count von Bernstorfff
England
France
United States
America
German Empire
Associations of Credit
No Sterilized Cupid Sparks State Senate Rebuff
The South Carolina state senate rejects an eugenical marriage law, while Wisconsin faces repeal pressure after enacting rigid matrimony qualifications. The piece argues reform should come from conviction, not law, and notes a pending Hague conference and a tired secretary of state amid corporate signals.
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South Carolina
Wisconsin
Dreaming in the Fields and the Gulf Coast Tale
Dreaming of harvests and fields of corn and cotton, the piece blends lyric excerpts with a humorous Texas tale. A Glasco Sun reader recounts extreme damp heat along the Gulf Coast, describing a hot shower and a stubborn wagon that finally moves after a drying sun returns.
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Texas
Glasco Sun
Gulf Coast
Missouri Horse and Other Tales in Unlikely Fragments
A compilation of quirky editorials and regional humor notes from The Kansas City Star, including odd letterhead quirks of W. W. Jones and county justice, stray dialect vignettes, and a humorous doggerel about sunlit mornings, prosperity, and the drift of progress amid Missouri culture.
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Jude
Missouri
Justice of the Peace
Kansas City Star
All s Grist at This Mill
Bootle's baby proves curiosity pays in a homemaking column about sharing kitchen wisdom. Neighbors help solve cooking dilemmas and practical tips emerge, including turning cheap ingredients into tasty meals with careful preparation and farmed advice.
Why South Is Called the Land of Dixie Origin
The Constitution prints a reader question on Dixie’s origin. Major W Hubner of the Carnegie Library cites Mayon and Dixon's line that separated free and slave states, noting the term likely arose as Texas joined the union. Further details are in Century Dictionary volume 22. Readers with more light are invited to respond.
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South
W. Hubner
Carnegie Library
Encyclopaedic
Texas
Century Dictionary
Cyclopaedia of Names
Learn Something NEW Every Day and Grow Your Mind
An exhortation to daily learning stresses that knowledge fuels progress and joy. It urges mapping a reading plan, seeking knowledge wherever found, and distributing it across life to reaccumulate as increased understanding.
Water Power in Georgia Power Plant at Tallulah Falls
The Georgia Railway and Power Co of Atlanta has opened a hydroelectric station at Tallulah Falls. It is among the largest water power plants worldwide and the largest now operating in the south. Five turbines drive power to a 310000 volt line, with outdoor substations reducing voltage for local distribution. the Atlanta outdoor substation is the largest of its kind.
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The
Georgia Railway *%& Power Co
Atlanta
Atintna
Salem Witch Trials Story From Massachusetts History
In the 17th century Massachusetts, belief in witchcraft spread from isolated cases to a panic. In 1692 Salem faced Trials led by Hawthorne and Corwin, with Tituba confessing under threat, leading to executions and mass imprisonments before Governor Phips pardoned the condemned in 1693. The episode left a lasting caution about fear and justice.
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Massachusetts
New England
Samuel Parris
Islem Village
Joan
Tituba
West Indies
Witenery
Parris
Tituha
Goody Osborn
Sarah Good
Marsh
Salem Village
John Hawthorne
Jonathan Corwin
Bridget Bishop
Phips
Judden
Rebeka Nurse
Susannah Martin
Eliabeth How
Sarah Wilder
Nurse
Cleurch
Satan
Good
Osborn
Heston
Schem
Gallows Hill
Salem
Andover
Favorite Recipes Of Distinguished Women
Mrs WM Shuster recalls Kentucky corn dodgers shared by a Kentucky cook in the Philippines. She describes mixing white cornmeal with boiling water and salt, adding lard, cooling, stirring in cold milk, shaping into oblong cakes, frying then baking until brown.
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Bootle
Sara
Miether
Wolk
WM. Morgan
Kentucky
Broken Vows and Cigars Save for Will Power
A humorous quarrel between a husband and wife over New Year abstinence from cigars. The husband claims social pressures and urban life force him to resume smoking, while criticizing his wife's vanity and dieting efforts. He recalls shelling out money for cigars and jokes about will power and recurring temptations.
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Sorrey
Mrs. Jamesworthy
Jamesworthy
Excelsior
Wienerwurst
Ananias
More Business by George Fitch
An essay satirizing the American obsession with relentless growth and profit. It argues that the motto more business fuels hustling, capital accumulation, and annual race-like rivalry, but leaves workers stressed, contentment scarce, and happiness elusive as enterprises chase doubled outputs and new ventures beyond measure.
Grievous Error Report With Odd Dialect Clues
Fragmentary OCR style text describes a supposed narrow escape in America and an incident where a man mistook a cowgirl for a heifer during travel in the west. Contains garbled names and nonsensical phrases, suggesting transcription errors rather than a clear report.
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Bai’ Iyro
America
Duke Smixture
Waila
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