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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
9
The author urges strict discipline for officers who drink while in service, arguing that intoxication endangers life and property. The piece compares police conduct to railroad policies requiring abstinence and calls for immediate discharge after first intoxication conviction, framing safety as paramount.
A subcommittee chaired by Representative R Akin of Glynn investigates tax reform options with a plan to start by a central board to correct and equalize county returns. The aim is gradual reform. next year a broader step and within years a model tax law statewide. Action this session is urged to prevent postponement.
The speaker argues not to wreck the whole structure over one dynamite charge but to commence work now and seize the favorable reception to tax reform. A compromise yielding half a loaf is preferred to no bread, reflecting current public sentiment.
The Georgia appropriations committee endorses curbing riders on the general appropriations bill. Maintenance only funding from constitutional institutions will be allowed without new or special projects. Nonessential items require separate bills and public debate to ensure economy and accountability.
A Georgia Constitution symposium reports nearly all lawmakers expect favorable crops, with corn and hay in strong condition and livestock increasing. They view agriculture as the financial backbone, urging diversification to reduce dependence on outside markets and bolster state independence.
A Missouri firm requests quotations on cattle from Georgia as demand grows for southern beef. The piece argues Georgia must expand cattle farming to reduce imports, noting climate and space shape the future. It emphasizes cattle and cotton as complementary industries and warns against relying on western ranches.
A collage of rural dispatches blends weather lore, editorials, and local humor from Georgia and Kansas. Citizens muse on heat, cold, and crops while a local editor comments on fortune, parliamentary puns, and community life, weaving a portrait of a bygone small town.
A New York physician is being sued by a patient for shortening his life. The critic quips that the doctor should be thankful he didn’t pull it. While La Follette vows week long speeches, Congress stalls. A lobbyist’s only vacation comes when he cannot break away. Foreign ambassadors face a hard task maintaining dignity after paying rent, with little left for the butcher and baker.
O E Tate of Elberton argues crimson clover can restore soil, boost hay yields, and enable winter cropping by rotating clover and cotton. He cites local success, a clover club of 109 women, and references Country Gentleman articles on clover benefits in Delaware. He urges inoculation publicity and wider adoption of this practice.
A letter to the Georgia legislature questions increasing Confederate veteran pensions from 60 to 100 dollars annually. It asks who pays the pension money, how many recipients are not veterans, and whether taxing children and grandchildren is legal. The author argues for targeted aid based on need and suggests counties be responsible for their own veterans funding, urging a legislative investigation into Georgia’s pension obligations and tax methods. Dayton County, Georgia July 7, 1910.
A circular on restricted bills of lading draws protest from banking and cotton sectors. Officials including A P Coles of Central Bank and Trust Corp and Haynes Maddfs of the Gerela Bankers Association argue such restrictions would destroy negotiability and hinder exporters and cotton buyers from securing value through foreign exchange channels. The issue to be aired at a July 113 meeting in Atlanta will address implications for banks, exporters, and foreign exchange practices.
Time has shown the futility of fighting at long range and the value of stepping closer to opponents in business and life. Closer reach brings personal supremacy, clearer purpose, and better vision. Imagination grows with proximity to work, revealing defects, reducing wasted motion, and increasing power per effort for larger growth.
The article argues Hamlet draws on the Mary Queen of Scots murder story and Scottish history rather than pure fiction. It links Gertrude, Bothwell, and Darnley to the play and cites Robertson and Knox, noting ghostly revelations and parallels to Holyrood and Edinburgh settings.
A humorous reminiscence on sleepless town life and the forest as a sane refuge. The narrator recalls nocturnal escapades of peers singing ballads, police encounters, and a milkman’s dawn trek, contrasting urban noise with sylvan calm and the woes of modern life.
A Dawson News item argues for stricter enforcement over more concealed pistol laws, contending existing statutes suffice and focus should shift from new laws to enforcement rather than expanding legal restrictions.
Fall River Massachusetts, a major foreign city with 222900 people, hosts diverse communities including French Canadian, Irish, Turkish, Servian, Bulgarian, and Greek residents. The river runs through the city, dividing it, with the city hall built over it for peace, boasting 10000 corporate stockholders and a strong mill industry alongside varied demographics and ambitious civic aims.
ARS B.D. Napd of Milledgeville Ga argues for a $2 appropriation to reclaim swamp lands via levees. He says thousands of acres along the Oconee River could yield two crops yearly, with 160 bushels of cotton and 150 of corn per acre using fertilisers, turning waste land into productive farmland with government support.
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