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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1910
Page
7
A late 1910s style column notes Roosevelt shaping unmade politicians and political scenes. It highlights Georgia ties and Beverly moving pictures to stir attention, with multiple jabs at leaders like Cannon, Bryan, Ballinger, and Yeats, all in a brisk political roundup.
The Constitution reports that Georgia farmers anticipate harmony replacing the recent split within the Farmers Union. Reunification would stop internal strife from hindering progress toward organizing agriculture on a business basis, benefiting Georgia’s economy and prosperity.
Moultrie chamber of commerce subscribed 250 to the Greater Georgia fund surpassing its 150 assessment. W C Vereen, president of the Greater Georgia Association, also heads the Moultrie group. The city voluntarily increased its gift and signals broader support as the drive advances. The move symbolizes local business backing for Georgia’s regional expansion and attracting capital southward.
The Commercial notes a swift widening of city benefits into country life. Railways telegraph rural free delivery telephones and cars boost farm living, cutting hardship and raising education and prosperity, with Georgia highlighted for roads rural mail and rail growth advancing civilization outward from cities.
Francis P. Conroy and H. H. Richardson of Jacksonville board of trade visited Atlanta to push interstate highway plans. Duval county's $1,000,000 bond issue will fund roads to the county line as part of a Florida Georgia link, with counties between poised to join. The scheme promises mutual profit and potential expansion as farmers and business interests gain from improved routes.
The piece argues for a nationwide southern highway system linking key cities from Atlanta to Jacksonville and beyond. It envisions interstate, railless transport supported by widespread road-building, with Georgia already pushing the project on multiple fronts and a national rollout likely as states join in the effort.
A fragmentary regional chatter piece riffs on Georgia life with poems and verse stanzas about Amen and Hooray on Sunday, weather, watermelons, and a rural life outlook. It weaves political quips and rural humor with lines on sewing, suffragette sermons, and the daily bread from the soil.
The Macon Telegraph reports Governor Brown sent two companies of militia to the mines to avert violence and preserve peace. The action prevented bloodshed, kept order, and led to relief for stranded foreigners when militia arrived. The governor’s swift, prudent move is praised as just and fair. Other clippings note Hoke Smith, cooling voter sentiment, and musical notes from New Orleans.
Moultrie Georgia July 21 Special The directors of the Moultrie chamber of commerce closed an enthusiastic meeting by subscribing 260 for the Greater Georgia movement. Moultrie’s assessment was 150 but they increased it by 100. The fifteen member board pledged their membership and will send in a 10 initiation fee immediately. This is the beginning and it is believed many commercial bodies in the state will follow.
Thomas Corrigan recalls July 23 1864 in Atlanta when Hood and Sherman clashed near Peachtree Creek and Grant Park. He describes crowds, marching lines, artillery thunder, ambulances and makeshift hospitals on Decatur Street as surgeons worked under blue tents. The piece mourns the war's horrors and recalls Generals Hood Sherman Toombs McPherson Walker with War’s terrible toll.
Captain Thomas A. Hill of the Forty second Georgia, a Texas native and longtime Georgia Military Institute alumnus, traveled from Texas to reunite with his Civil War comrades. He recalled his service, captures, and prison ordeals, and spoke of the deep bonds with the “Fighting Forty second” as he awaited the courthouse reunion.
Captain Collson regrets cannot attend the reunion at Atlanta Turn Verein Hall on Pryor Street. Mr Howell hosts a dinner after the courthouse session, with the Bible presented to Miss Mayson on behalf of absent Captain Collson. Schwarz & Bleim manage the turnout for the veterans’ gathering.
Savannah Ga July 21 farmers fear boll weevil has entered this county and may spread. No specimens caught yet as farmers inspect plants where insects worked. New Cabinet for Madriz Washington July 21 cable from Consul Olivares at Managua reports formation of a cabinet dominated by Zelaya adherents and former government officials.
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