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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1904
Page
21
A fragmented, OCR like note covers political talk from a wide range of topics including pacifism in Beirut, British imperial issues, American politics, railroads, and reactions to Theodore Roosevelt. It threads through anti Smoot, Manchuria trade, and foreign affairs with speculative commentary and satirical asides.
The article argues for extended cotton planting across the South citing rising demand and new uses from khaki cloth to mattresses. It warns against exhausted land, promotes intensive culture and diversified farming, and urges keeping living crops while expanding cotton output. It highlights global demand, colonial markets, and the need for prudent farming. It also notes Atlanta Carnegie library night openings and budget for books and maintenance.
Indiana state board of public instruction launches a drive to curb farm youth migration to Chicago and other western cities. Bulletins warn teachers to tell Boys beware of Chicago citing that three quarters who moved in five years failed, pushed toward unemployment and eroding agricultural vitality.
The article argues city life is harder for newcomers while many successful individuals originate from farming roots. It notes a shift in the South toward smaller towns, rising land use, and improved rural comforts via the rural free delivery system and telephone. With cotton prices rising postwar, urban demand may wane as rural areas grow.
A Britt Tribune critique laments reformers who push a quirky spelling style and argues for strong basic teaching. It mocks phonetic reading mistakes and urges teaching one thing well, emphasizing spelling, grammar, and word meaning over broad, abstract changes.
London firms unknowingly discarded pitchblende waste containing radium once valued at thousands per grain. Johnson, Matthew & Co. of Hatton Garden long processed uranium oxide to color glass, misjudging the future worth of the element. The piece notes radium could have fetched immense sums, and sources trace the material to Austrian mines.
Poems describe Brer Williams singing Salvation Free at a revival, a scene of Southern church life interwoven with images of cotton mills moving north, and a hopeful view of migration to Georgia. Other pieces praise perseverance, bid a lighted soul, and celebrate resilient rural work amid blizzards and poverty.
State Press Sidellights notes Omaha judge restrains a woman from speaking. Americas Times-Recorder questions the stage of government control over domestic life. Columbus eyed as terminus for a Georgia Florida road linking Lumpkin Cuthbert Arlington Cambridge Tallahassee to St Marks.
The professor dreams he is editor of a New York paper guiding a visitor through an office where editors boast diverse nationalities. A bearded giant proclaims he is not Glasgow, another insists he is from Tipperary, a Camel, and an Australian. The professor wakes with the scene fading.
Chicago reports show rising life expectancy driven by vaccination, antitoxin use, and sanitation. The piece notes lower death rates despite threats from crime and labor strife, while contrasting southern resort critiques with Chicago’s health progress and winter appeal. It also covers St Louis Democratic convention tensions and Hearst’s campaign plans amid party dynamics.
Rome January 17 special cable reports papal secretary of state Vary Del Val advised Queen Maria Christina that Pope Pius will not grant a dispensation for a marriage between King Alphonse and a blood relative. The disclosure responds to a newspaper rumor of Alphonse marrying his Bavarian cousin Maria Del Pilar.
Joseph S Stewart state agent for the University at Athens has printed 18 by 24 inch posters to be posted in public schools across Georgia. The signs show university buildings and explain how local youths can obtain a college education at a small cost, aiming to attract students to continue after high school.
Stockholm January 17. Björnson the great old man of the north for years fought Kang Oscar in Pichimeet and in the present now assures that his majesty is not nearly as old as Peunted King. Officially reports say he has patched up their differences and parted as friends. Björnson adds he is convinced the king does not belong to the Swedish party seeking to reduce Norway to a province. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, at the head of the Swedish jingoes, threatens war unless Norway acknowledges Swedish supremacy.
The National Board of Trade will hold its annual meeting in Washington for three days starting Tuesday with about two hundred delegates from across the country. Topics include interstate commerce law, ship sales tax, postage, isthmian canal, river and harbor improvements, reciprocity with Canada and Cuba, customs reforms, irrigation and forestry, national goal inspection and government reports.
An incoherent OCR fragment references Panamanian coast activity and Colombian forces. It mentions officers idle and a crew under a tree smoking, with stray phrases about the Denver Port and Pan ama. No clear event, date, or authoritative entities emerge.
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