Traveling reps and political jabs in a 1910 slice
A garbled 1910 clipping satire cites traveling representatives and public figures like Blackburn Moore Overbey Donnelly Stokes and Wiles, lampoons beef trusts and Taft, and jabs at editors, celestial imagery, and politics, weaving a collage of contemporary names, places, and events into a chaotic, opinionated column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackburn
Moore
HO Overbey
Donnelly
Srumbeloe
of Stokes
Constitution Publishing CO
Bond Vote Framing Atlanta's Greatest Crisis for 1909
The city faces a $3,000,000 municipal bond election on February 15 to fund improvements. Advocates argue bonds avoid direct taxes, distribute benefits across wards, especially the south side, and protect Atlanta's spirit as Greater Atlanta rises. The choice pits the Greater Atlanta flag against retrogression, with unity across races, classes, and districts urged.
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Atlanta
America
Greater
Merging Women of City and Country Unite Georgia
Mrs Hugh Willet spoke at a Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs conference urging urban and rural wives to join in mutual improvement and civic welfare. Wives from farms statewide supported closer city country cooperation, seeing complementing roles and shared reform goals for a new era.
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Georgia Federation of Womens Clubs
Georgia
Conference of Farmers’ Wives
Hugh Willet
Federation
Willet
Mfe
Acres
Bach
War talk and public hysteria in the Spanish conflict
The Buffalo Courier, with John W. Foster, argues war might have been averted if McKinley's diplomacy had not faced Hoge pressure. It warns that war drums rise from hysteria, cowardice, and prejudice, noting Roosevelt's restraint in earlier crises and doubting any feasible diplomacy could have fully prevented the era’s conflicts.
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Buffalo
John W. Foster
Spain
McKinley
Foster
Tenry
Courier
Japan
California
Roosevelt
Helping the Negro to Help Himself in Atlanta Meeting
Prominent Atlanta citizens including Captain James W English attend a Turner Tabernacle gathering to support Morris Brown College industrial department. The aim is to equip the department for practical results, raise funds, and steer African Americans toward self reliance through education and industry.
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Atlanta
James W English
Turner Tabernacle
Morris Brown College
R D Stinson
Captain English
Charles W. Daniela
First Baptist Church
J. Pope Brown
Samuel M Inman
S R Belk
St Marks Methodist Church
South
Ohio River
Hello to Hello for Georgia's rural telephone growth
A Swainsboro dispatch cheers the spread of rural telephone lines in Emanuel county and surrounding areas. Farmers connect to towns and long distance systems, reducing isolation and enabling faster access to physicians markets and repairs. The letter links rural lines to wider national progress and hints at broader rural solutions.
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Emanuel County
Swainsboro
Constitution
United States
Georgia
Edison
Betl
America
Welcome Signs of Georgia and Oddities in One Sheet
A garbled mix of Georgia flavored verse and local musings features spring imagery and regional dialects. It touches on seasonal change, humorous anecdotes, historical notes, and oddities including a Noahs Ark joke from a booth Tarkington anecdote, all presented in a nostalgic small-town newspaper tone. The readable fragments suggest light cultural snippets, politics, and humor from a rural Georgia-tinged page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth Tarkington
Tarkington
Noah
Change to Eastern Time Would Benefit Thousands
A 1910 Atlanta letter argues moving from Central to Eastern time would extend daylight for workers and reduce after-dark hazards. It claims two and a half hours of evening recreation would boost health and productivity, benefiting employers and employés alike, urging adoption to align with business and civic life.
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Atlantas
M3 306
Isoo Snort
Constitution
Atlanta
Boclack
Allanta
Cnangs
Schi
Elinger
UW Beok
John Woodsole
Central
Beck
Honor Worthily Bestowed on C T Ladson As Atlanta Trades Union Adviser
Fifteen years ago a small group of Atlanta workers formed the Atlanta Federation of Trades and elected C T Ladson as legal adviser. On Wednesday night the federation re elected Ladson, praising his faith, leadership, and selfless service as the growth of the organization continues and the working people place heavy trust in him.
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Journal of Labor
Atlanta Workingman
Atlanta Federation of Trades
C T Ladson
Avante Federation of Trades
Ladson
Atlanta
Federation
C. T. Ladson
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Clark Howell
Roby Robinson
Ausota
Statea
Mexico
M&page
Atlante
Holliday
Tarciory
Washington
Tha Cnstitutions
Hibbs
Fiteerth Street
John Corrigan
New York
Hotaling
Broadway
Twenty-ninth Street
Thirty Eighth Street
Fort-second Street
Aix
Park Row
Telesphone
Madison Square
Chicago
Wiles
Happy
Wilbur Wright
North Pole
Peary
Speaker Cannon
Bis Cigar
Florida ‘Times-Union
Boston
Jack Trust
Adam
Eve
Taft
Baltimore
Senate
Noah Webster
Newspap
Mar
Providence
Marthasville
Electton
Organized Women
Johnston
Hood
Sherman
Chamber of Commerce
South Side
Lord
Das
Hell
Wulz
Billville
Congress
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