Constitution Yearns for Newsrooms in Havana to Beverly
Washington Bureau of Constitution reports scattered notes from New York and Broadway, billing delivery to hotels and hotels on Twenty-ninth to Forty-second streets. Subscriptions travel with reps, while editorial snippets rail about tariffs, weather bureaus and Roosevelt politics. Chronicles of politicians, publishers, and a roaming press amid a chaotic 1900s public life.
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Washington Bureau of Constitution
Hibbette
Jot Corrigan
Patriotism at 25 a Month? Atlanta Council Debate
The Atlanta city council meeting on waterworks and pensions drew little attendance yet resurrected a plan to double council salaries. The Mayor should veto this move, seen as undemocratic and indelicate, with critics arguing a full attendance process is needed and questioning the value of higher pay.
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Cat
Maddox
Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce
Reno Fight Backlash Sparks National Debate on Prizefights
The Reno incident, a brutal clash between a black challenger and a white fighter, triggers nationwide revulsion and calls to bar prizefights. Memphis bans race-based bouts, while critics say states’ rights cannot shield a shameless display that disgraces the country for money. The piece argues a broader moral stand against racial brutality and public indecency.
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Nevada
The Problem For A Nation In The Newark Lynching
A Newark Ohio mob lynched a white man over whisky regulation, illustrating nationwide lawlessness. The piece notes rising pistol-toting in Georgia and weak courts across states, warning that contempt for law endangers civilization and demands action rather than denial.
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Little
Ohio
Newark
America
Georgia
Chicago
New York
San Francisco
Georgia Senate votes to ratify federal income tax amendment
The Georgia Senate endorses a national income tax by ratifying a proposed federal constitutional amendment. The house faces a decisive choice to reflect two decades of Democratic pledges. The piece urges Georgia to honor its public declarations and avoid damaging its national reputation.
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Senate
Georgia
House of Representatives
House
General Assembly
Congress
Supreme Court
Union
Platform writer calls claim absurd over convict law credit
The Atlanta Journal claims Hoke Smith deserves credit for a new convict law shifting from leasing to road work. Pendleton rebuts, noting the 1908 platform demanded ending convict labor and moving convicts to public works. Governor Smith offered no plan, yet the legislature adopted the platform’s stance and enacted the law, Pendleton says.
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The
Atlanta Journal
Hoke Smith
Brown
Smith
Free Abor Bhd
Women burn skirts as distress signals on Lake Michigan
Two couples adrift in a disabled launch on Lake Michigan used blazing skirts as a distress signal. Lifesavers spotted the signal, rescuing Mr and Mrs Mathew Staff of Helena Montana and M Evers and wife of Ever e Inc. The incident followed by a separate report of F H Lincoln killed by a streetcar in Philadelphia while boarding a train at West Philadelphia.
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Hammond
Ind
Lake Michigan
Mathew Staff
Helena, Mont
Evers
Ever E| Inc
Philadelphia
F. H. Lincoln
Philadelphia Rapid Traneh Company
West Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mobile Woman Dies at Sea Aboard Sabine
Mrs. William F. Petersen of Mobile Alabama died at sea aboard the Mallory Line steamship Sabine. The vessel arrived in New York from Mobile and southern ports. The body was brought to port.
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Mobile
New York
William F. Petersen
Ala
Mallory Line
Sabine
Letters From Readers Question Racism and Censorship
A Georgia letter writer questions the race sieges over displaying boxing pictures. The author argues bans reveal America’s supposed fear of race conflict, cites Mexico’s stance, and contends such bans advertise domestic turbulence rather than safety. The piece criticizes censorship and urges calm debate.
Man Impaled on Pickets in Chicago Tragedy
In Chicago a man named Clay W Phelps fell from a three story window and was impaled on an iron stairway guard. Police found him dead in a upright position. Pickets in the mailway entered his side. In Manila a board barred Johnson Jeffries pictures fearing Filipinos reactions. Elmer Cooper, a salesman, shot and killed one of two highwaymen during a botched robbery attempt. The other thief escaped.
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Chicago
Clay W
Phelps
Manila
Municipal Board of
Maalghan
Elmer Cooper
The Popular Snow Prophet and Other Rural Verse
A fragmentary page curates weather lore songs and local anecdotes. It notes a snow prophet, a Bilville editor with misfortune after a train accident, and townsfolk praying for rain. It cites Mysterious Letter B on oat blades, plus rural reflections on harvest, luck, and trouble.
Political comment from state press on education to vote
A collage of editorials from state papers lampooning or supporting Governor Brown and Hoke Smith. It covers education to vote, campaign tactics, and reactions to the Chattanooga land purchase, with multiple named papers and figures cited.
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Lumpkin Independents
Smith
iFrom the
Senola Enterprise Gazette
Brown
Georgia
Chattanooga
Tate
Gooi, Acund
Hase
Brown and Smith
Atlanta
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W. W. Blackburn
Atlanta. GA
Taft
Beverly
Oyster Bay
National Weather Bureaua
Fence Cove
Roosevelt
Beveridge
T. R
Bagamore Hill
Teddy
Speaker Cannon
Maine
Mr. Rockefeller
Millana
Reno
Coring
Tidings Retary
Shakespeare
Memphis
Europe
Jeffries
Johnson
American Union
C. A. Beazley
Leesburg, Ga
Satan
Bilville
Seain
Gallatin Democrat
Benton Miller
Kidder
A. A. Newman
Harrison Township
Noggeia
Georgina
Americas Times-Recorder
Hawkinaville
Woud
Dusloesa Mense
Bryan County Enterprise
Joe
Jackson Argus
Judge Hart
Peers
Fissman
Sandersville
Pasty Wee
Willy
Georgis
Macon
Madison Advertiser
Goodewill
Heke Smith
Dalton Argus
Little Joe
Soen
LaGranze
Polis
Dahlonega
Oglethorpe Echo
Royston
Hart
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Bibere
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