State's Shame Call for Tax Reform in Georgia Schools
The Savannah Press denounces Georgia's treatment of rural country school teachers amid delayed pay and frequent salary discounts. It accuses officials of misusing constitutionally allocated funds and condemns the system as a legal violation and an example of unfair, dishonest governance. The piece calls for genuine tax reform by the legislature.
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Coun
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Georgia
Page’s speech hails America as a melting pot of races
Dr. Page argues the Anglo-Saxon line in the United States is blurred by diverse European and global bloodlines. He claims the south preserves the pure Anglo-Saxon strain while other regions mix, and that racial admixtures are beneficial for a healthier, stronger national character as America evolves toward a new composite identity.
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London
Waller
H. Page
Great Britain
Page
Congress
Bach
Europe
America
A Born Mediator Chooses Mediation Over Strife
President Wilson appoints William L. Chambers commissioner of mediation under the Newlands act. The piece praises Chambers as a skilled mediator noted for resolving Georgia railroad dispute and predicts his role could foster compulsory arbitration, shaping capital and labor relations and benefiting the public. References to Wall Street, lobbyists, Ex-King Manuel, and travel musings appear as wide-ranging commentary.
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Wilson
William L. Chambers
Judge Chambers
Georgia Railroad
tIahor
Georgia Deserted City and Southern Speech Parodies
A fragmented piece blends dialect humor with political venting. It mocks officeholders and chautauqua culture, notes economic worries, and references a presidential visit and regional fables. The passages feature caricatures titled Only One of Him and The Retiring One, with playful verse on national sentiment and labor.
Georgia plan to fund public schools with cash basis
The Georgia common school system faced long delays in teacher salaries since 1859. A proposed constitutional amendment would levy a one year extra mill tax for a dedicated educational fund to pay teachers monthly, avoid bonds, and reduce discounts. A second amendment would create a two mill state fund for public schools, with counties adding one to five mills, forming a three mill total. The plan aims to prevent future fund raids and place school finances on a stable, nationwide model.
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Georgia Common School
Ashley
Friends of Education
Georgia
Board of Commissioners
County Board of Education
Florida
Muttle
Every Day Examinations for Personal Betterment
A 1913 Con stitution essay urges daily self examination to grow from yesterday’s lessons. Reflect, compare, and review life actions to maintain keen interest and progress. Accept failure, reject regret, and push toward success and firmer joy in living.
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Haradrum
Veteran of Fifth Georgia seeks pension proof from comrades
An old soldier from the Fifth Georgia regiment under Colonel Detlef Jackson, wounded at Chickamauga, asks for help locating a former comrade to verify his service and obtain a pension. He signs as F. Hallmane of Arab, Alabama, House No. 2, writing July 15.
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Fifth Georgia
Detlef Jackson
Chickemeauge
Sergion
F. Hallmane
Old Theories About Lightning from The London Chronicle
A peek into archaic beliefs on lightning its effects on sleepers and trees. Forefathers claimed no one struck while asleep no tree burned by lightning splinters chewed were tastier than dentists work. They warned that mentioning lightning after flesh would tear clothing.
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London Chronicle
Tima Sahobiboy
Origins of the Sunday School Across Ages and Places
The piece surveys early forms of Sunday instruction from Luther in Germany and Borromeo in Milan to Raikes in England, noting disputes over true origin. It cites Brechin Scotland and Wycombe England as precedents, and argues credit should be shared among several figures rather than a single founder.
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Robert Raikes
England
Martin Luther
Germany
Cardinal Borromeo
Milan
Gloucester “Journal
Raikes
Gloucestershire
St. Catherine Street
Thomas Stock
Cesterel
St. Cathier
Stratford
Shakespeare
Church of England
Gloucester
Brechin
Scotland
Brein
Stock
King
St. Catherine's
Pitt
St Mary de Crypt
Southgate Street
Northgate Street
Stoclaw
W. H. Havergal
Th Chhurch
Steel
Ball
High Wycombe
Diplomacy as a Nation's Craft and Its Quirks
A satirical analysis of diplomacy describing it as truth with reverse English and a game of miscommunication. It jokes about diplomats wearing knee breeches, misunderstandings, and the long road to a “good” diplomat. It notes American diplomats avoiding velvet diplomacy and once wrongly praising a great one who died early.
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Powder Trust
Europe
Anantaa
Why He Opposes It The Cuthbert Leader Protest Against Treutlen County
The Cuthbert Leader urges opposition to creating Treutlen County arguing the name is unmusical and hard to spell. The Madigonian chastises Georgia for low teacher pay. South Georgia farmers expand truck farming with cucumber plots near Quitman and tomato shipments from Tifton bringing good prices.
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Cuthbert
Treutlen County
South Georgia
Quitman
Tifton
Carioad
Can't Trust Itself. Wall Street Telephony Menu Plan
Fragmentary notes suggest a Washington Star item proposing new telephone menus to identify speakers and prevent miscommunication. The text is garbled but hints at structural changes to wall phone systems and potential safeguards against wrong party contact. The exact proposal and entities remain unclear due to the damaged source.
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Atlanta
J R. Holliday
Constitution Building
Ariante
Washington
Hutaling
Newslands
Broadway
Washington Star
Story of the Momen Calls for Help by Walt Masan
A fragmented tale features a wild man criticizing a Squashville booster club and its charity tours. He recalls running a restaurant and the burdens of public spirited drives, laments tax on small business, and the chill of a city’s booster politics. He describes escape to solitude under a Moonbeam light while recalling a failing restaurant and community fundraising.
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Squashville
Squashville Beer Club
Wildwood
Maan
West Palladium
Jake
Bed Club
Kalamazoo Ang
Jim
Enis
Mary Queen
the Palladiur
Contai
Boosters Club
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Livine
Brother Williams
Ginru
Silver Sea
Pechans
Paradise
Perliceman
Trustior
Cedartown Stannard
Eilori
B. Russell
Adams
Ron
Gittin
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