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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1910
Page
4
A satirical mixed-essay on politics and figures like Roosevelt Taft Bryan and Hughes. It lampoons platform fights vacations and tariff battles while imagining airships and safety gear for a restless nation. The piece references Uncle Joe Cannon and Mayor Gay in a broad political panorama.
The New York Produce Exchange adopts an amendment prohibiting foreign oils from meeting cotton seed oil contracts. The rule aims to curb inferior English oil entering U S markets, protecting American industries and consumers. The measure favors American oil, benefiting southern cotton seed industries and domestic commerce.
John D. Rockefeller urged a broad, practical merger of world religions in a Cleveland Bible class. He argued that business-like organization could reduce waste and inefficiency in religion while preserving core tenets such as life after death and the golden rule, noting religions share common fundamentals yet differ in denominational labels.
The Boston Transcript contrasts two recent events, one about Black progress and another about Booker T. Washington visiting Delaware to deliver a message of hope, progress, and unity. The piece notes the contrast as a warning and inspiration, urging study by both white and Black communities.
A Spokane reader proposes statues for Izaak Walton, patron saint of fishermen, and Eve of Eden. The Spokesman Review endorses a local yet national framing, arguing Eve should be pictured with Georgia peaches and Elberta fruit, celebrating a broad, nonlocal context.
The speaker discusses potential symbols for national statuary including Eve as a votes-for-women figure and a bird emblem, while noting the suggestions are tentative and open to conviction. The passage blends imagery of prohibition era motifs with a call for civic symbolism in Washington and national identity.
A collage of dialect verse and remarks from a 20th century Southern newspaper page. It blends weather refrains about rain heat and storms with homely sermons and political satire. The piece mentions mosquitoes in the Rich Hill Review and comments on lawmaking and biblical references.
Brunswick Ga July 17 Special Glynn Superior court convenes Monday for a week to try William B Lyons and Archie Lyons former Wayne county sheriff and deputy sheriff on a charge linked to Judge Con vers illness Two hundred jurors were summoned and many witnesses from Wayne county are expected The defense and state have strong counsel and observers predict a hard fought case potentially lasting ten days or more or fits a venue change from Wayne to Glynn county
Partly cloudy with light showers across parts of the county on Sunday and a strong west wind easing the heat. Monday outlook calls for partly cloudy skies with probable showers and thunderstorms. The Gopher is away in St Simons for a couple of weeks, so weather trivia pauses until a return.
Haralson county Georgia held its non partizan white primary on Saturday. Official counts were not released but leaders conceded victory for W. W. Summerlin as representative FR H Parker as sheriff J G Holcomb as clerk J D Wisner as tax collector W O McBray as treasurer and J A Walker as tax receiver. Atlanta Riders Made Trip to Macon on motorcycles Harry Glenn Harry Egan and P R Cefabe from Atlanta rode the route to be covered tomorrow by a Buick pathfinder arrival in Macon with lunch and return pleased with the spin.
Americus Ga July 17 18 candidate J E Mathis of Sumter announces for the state house. Three candidates compete for two Sumter seats: Carter Nisbet and Mathis. Bagley withdraws for business reasons. Senate hopefuls Shepard and Taylor are the only senatorial candidates. Brown and Smith partisan clubs form in Americus. Sumter has 1879 registered voters.
A large crowd greeted Kinoch J. Giles in Statesboro as he debated with Charles G. Edwards in Bulloch County. Attendees filled the courthouse, applauded loudly, and speculation grew over Bulloch’s four convention votes. Representative J. B. E. Anderson introduced the speaker.
Leon Morane the French aviator won all first prizes for speed altitude sea flight and general merit at the Bournemouth meeting. He reached 4160 feet altitude and flew 18 miles around the Needles lighthouse return in 25 minutes. Alan Boyle son of the Earl of Glasgow was injured when his monoplane fell from height and is in alarming condition with concussion.
An Atlanta observer, Mr Hall, discusses Porto Rico irrigation progress, sugar output, and cattle and tobacco wealth, noting the island’s US possession status. He compares Canal era irrigation and a large Rio Grande project, then shifts to tariff effects on everyday goods like knives and thread, with anecdotes on price shifts and a railroad steel debate.
Americas July 17 special reports a peach crop crisis with orchards losing ten carloads of fruit due to shipping car shortages while Fort Valley area shipments proceed. About 230 carloads have left Americus, with total season projections near 260 cars plus two million cans canned locally.
J T M Daniel, secretary of the State Farmers Union, recently released from a private sanatorium after an operation, departed for Union City to attend the annual Farm ers Union convention starting tomorrow. He is not yet strong enough to resume duties but hopes to return in a few weeks. Mecon Gs July 17 special reports work on the Central Georgia Power Company plant at Jackson progressing, with the Maron transmission station near completion and much current to be used locally once the plant is in operation.
In Ocilla Georgia Irwin County prepares to organize a Joe Brown Club at the courthouse. About 112 voters signed the initial list yesterday with plans to grow the group today. Judge J B Clements of Irwinville is expected to be elected president at the formation.
Abram Rubin and Harry Dannen, white defendants who pled guilty to shoplifting in Macon city court, begin four months on the county chain gang. A wife and infant son await Rubin’s release, a scene described as one of Bibb County’s most pitiful court cases. In other Macon news, Alderman Bill Ginn and the city council push for park commission legislation to be introduced in the coming session, plans underway with a special committee headed to Atlanta to press the measure.
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