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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1912
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes list editors and staff including Clark Howell Roby Robinson Albert Howell and J. E. Grady. Mentions Sunday edition and tri weekly schedule with Holliday as business manager.
ATLANTA July 16 1912 including subscription terms for daily and weekly editions and notices to subscribers. Editorial quips about politicians Roosevelt Taft and Wilson appear alongside local humor and commentary on current events and topics such as harvest hands and moonshine.
Georgia faces reclaiming about 2.7 million acres of swamp and floodland. The house appropriations committee will consider a Randolph Anderson bill to fund $5,000 yearly for five years for preliminary surveys, with federal matching funds possible. The effort aims to boost value and health by draining and reclaiming inundated areas.
Reports from the fiftieth annual National Education Association convention in Chicago reveal 12,000,000 rural pupils among 20,000,000 public school learners with only a third showing satisfactory progress. Georgia officials decry chronic underfunding, low teacher salaries, and policy failures that pull children from schools to work in fields, urging immediate federal financial intervention and a reform to strengthen rural education for future progress.
The 1912 weather toll in Georgia widens crop damage and road costs. Entomologist Worsham notes loom of losses as floods devastate cotton and other crops. Bridges wash away in Cherokee county, raising repair expenses and delaying road and city street work. Despite higher crop prices offering some offset, the outlook remains cautious with a push toward eventual recovery.
A fragmentary collage of verse and prose items: a ballad about an Arctic voyage aboard an iceberg ship as a playful nod to cold adventure. snippets from a Georgia club report about a thrill of weather and harvested melons. poems in dialect about melons in rain, politics, taxes, and a Georgia cracker persona. light humorous notices and rural wordplay.
Letter to the editor argues against new rules banning fillers in fertilizers. Cites guaranteed vs actual values, favors high grade mixes, warns against home-mixed fertilizers, notes Florida phosphate sand content, and urges lawmakers to target crooks and dishonest manufacturers instead. July 12, 191%. This page also laments fried chicken boom in Gainesville and discusses Deaf Academy in Cave Spring with education statistics and policy notes.
City organist Dr. Percy J. Starnes delivered a notable improvisation at the Auditorium on an old English ballad and featured Chopin Funeral March. Attendance was about 1,508 due to a storm. The program included Rachmaninoff, Handel, Offenbach, Mendelssohn, and an improvised section by Starnes.
Dreamland's Love unfolds in verse as a longing for a true love beyond earth with a shadowy bride, memory preserved by angels, while a separate banking update in Newnan, Georgia notes July dividends. The report lists First National and Coweta National at 4 percent, plus Manufacturers' National and others with varied percentages, alongside gains in surplus and undivided profits.
The Second Baptist church hosts A Month in Babylon with Dr. John E. White drawing a parallel between ancient Babylon and Atlanta social vice. He highlights the fiery furnace motif and 200 modern vice districts, arguing only moral faith can curb the city’s moral slide. He warns that tolerance of vice harms all, urging Atlanta’s religious forces to improve the city.
Washington July 14 The final debt paid by Colonel John Jacob Astor a Titanic victim will help fund a Washington memorial to the men who died on the ill fated Inez Mrs Archibald Forbes a New York social leader received the debt note and a dollar bill Astor handed her after a bridge game valued as his only winnings He made a jest about beginners then perished with others while the loan aided the memorial effort
New Orleans July 14 The Old Absinthe House dating to 1762 will remain in operation when the federal ban on absinthe takes effect on October 1 The landmark cafe has hosted notable visitors and was remodeled in 1826 Its proprietor F Ferrer declares absinthe can be manufactured in Louisiana and remains unfazed by potential health board rulings despite the ban on imports.
During his Sunday service at Moore Memorial church Dr Holderby defended Anti Saloon League officers and Atlanta preachers against recent legislature criticisms. He praised their morality, dedication to suppressing whisky saloons, and high character, asserting no better moral record or intellect exists among them.
Dr Hugh K Walker addressed about 4500 at First Presbyterian Church with a sermon from Philippians 3 13 The speaker urged realistic effort noting the Yonder is never here and framed life as unfinished toward a future consummation The report also notes an upcoming Farmers Institute in LaGrange Georgia with speakers from the State College of Agriculture including McHatton Hast Bradford and Vanetter under local auspices by Troup County officials.
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