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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1914
Page
26
Osear Underwood accused several Republicans of panic preaching and predicting disaster to derail the administration. He praised the currency bill as clearing a path to prosperity and cautioned that only revenue-driven calamity cries echo a desperate opposition.
The Constitution features interviews with Atlanta business leaders praising the city’s strong start to the year. Reporters note rising prosperity, revised upward forecasts, and a belief that Atlanta’s cotton revenue and favorable currency shifts spur continued growth.
Health Officer Kennedy argues that white efforts to improve Black conditions are self-preserving in Atlanta. He cites 1913 figures showing white death rate 1149 per thousand versus Black rate 2498, claiming racial mortality disparity reflects broader social neglect.
A historical editorial argues that higher white death rates in Atlanta reflect infections among blacks who work and mingle with whites. It claims universal sanitation enforcement is needed and warns the ignorant reservoir of disease among blacks threatens the health of whites in the South.
The finance committee outlines tentative apportionments showing limited current funds allow partial street improvements and certainty to proceed, while major needs like new schools and hospitals are blocked by money shortages. It asserts city plans for grade changes and widening streets, with Ivy Street a proof of potential gains, but condemns financing permanent projects from current revenue.
The article critiques Senator Martine of New Jersey proposing government ownership of coal mines in West Virginia as a cure for strikes. It argues federal control of private industry risks expand, urging popular pressure and education over top-down intervention to curb oppression by any elite.
The National Business League of America endorses a 5 percent freight tariff increase on eastern railroads, arguing current net earnings fail to maintain equipment and service. The move aligns with shoe manufacturers and other industries to restore a reliable transportation system and revive prosperity, estimating about one billion dollars needed to rehabilitate rail networks.
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce plans an apple and horticultural exhibit at the next autumn corn show. H. G. Hastings leads the effort highlighting Georgia apple potential in Blue Ridge regions, Rabun county prize fruit, and the fruit’s hardiness and year round marketability.
Fragment from a dialect piece featuring a fiddle loving speaker who revels in old time dancing and gospel joy. The narrative shifts to the Contrary Rabbit's Foot joke about luck and a devilish rabbit foot, ending with a wary saint admiring moonshine detours.
A collage of quotes and fragments from a Dalton Citizen columnist and poems. It mixes dialect reflections on life, religion, and society with sharp lines on women’s suffrage, home rule, socialism, and modern dances, ending with a cautionary note on aging and ambition.
A century’s notable trial ended with the Beecher Tilton action in Brooklyn. Judge Neilson overseen, witnesses numbered in hundreds as Beecher and Tilton faced off over alleged confessions and marital scandal. After seven days of deliberation the jury remained deadlocked nine to three for the defense.
Mrs Andrew F Barchfield wife of Representative Harchfield of Pennsylvania shares a doughnut recipe learned from thirty years in the household. She advises generous lard to reduce absorption, combines sugar eggs baking soda nutmeg butter sour cream or milk salt, and flour to form a soft dough. Cut and fry in lard or cream for best results yielding a dozen doughnuts.
From the Pall Daily Gazette the piece notes Jesus College Oxford suffered a fire and is famed for many alumni named Jones. Between 1715 and 1826 there were 718 Joneses at Oxford, 259 of them named Jane, and Jesus College educated fewer than half and a bit more than a third of all Joneses in that period.
A chaotic tale features Mrs Curfew and a red nosed man peddling a chemical stain remover The piece mocks get rich schemes and warns against unscrupulous sales tactics while describing a home wartime atmosphere and a pledge to boycott the agent. Many characters spout boastful lines and lurid promises amid a farcical scene.
A descriptive sketch of Cairo highlighting its mosques and mosques, pyramids and sphinx, suburbs like Tigoum, the old university and its inventors, the bustling street life, camel traffic, and the Arab drivers. It notes Cairo as a major railroad hub connected by camel routes, with a lively tourist season and a distinctive local culture.
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