Unclear newspaper items mix political notes and ads
Fragmented OCR text from a 1812 Atlanta issue blends postage rates, subscriber notices, and political commentary. It references The Constitution’s sale in New York, travel notices, and editorials on Taft Roosevelt and Baltimore conventions amid stray ad copy and local notices.
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Atlanta
Eor J. K Solziday
Constitution Building
Atlsata
Washington Burhau
You
Hibbs
John Corrigan, Jr
New York City
Hoteling
Broadway
Forty-second
Trent
Times
Thirty-eighth Street
Birthetrest
Gor
HL Donnelly
W. 2
Overamy
D. L
Alma
Saprey
Desler
City mulls closing Forsyth viaduct underpasses
A vast public meeting urged the council to petition the legislature to close the Forsyth viaduct underpasses. A special committee will seek railroads agreement to allow public use of private rail approaches, aiming to make access permanent and benefit both railroads and city.
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Counc
Forsyth
General Assembly
Fulton
Recognition for Mr Gregg by The Constitution Cartoonist Honored
The Constitution celebrates Lewis Crumley Gregg, its cartoonist, as his health cartoons win the American Medical Association contest against over four hundred rivals. The award honors years of service at The Constitution and signals potential advancement as his humorous series gains wide notice.
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Lewis Crumley Gregg
Mr. Gregg
America
American Medical Association
Gregg
Seaboard reorganizes with Warfield as chief executive
The Seaboard Air Line appoints S Davies Warfield as executive head, moving director meetings to Baltimore, signaling a new era aimed at upgrading the line. Plans call for double tracking from Richmond to Birmingham, with focus on southern conditions and future growth. The move promises improved trackage and equipment, positioning Seaboard to capture rising southern demand. Wardfield’s leadership is portrayed as ideal to steer this property toward its full potential.
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South
Seaboard Air Line Railway
S. Davies Warfield
Warfield
Maryland
Seaboard
Baltimore
New York
Richmond
Birmingham
Washington
Southern Railway
Atlanta
Atlanta Spirit and the Press Unite for the Common Good
A ten day sequence shows Atlanta newspapers uniting to serve the city. They collaborated on garbage disposal, bond issue school reforms, and Piedmont Park lake bathing rights, leaving partisan aims aside. The pattern reflects a civic ethos that boosts Atlanta’s national prestige and nonprofit unity across classes.
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Atlanta
Constitution
Piedmont Park Lake
The Paper's Busy Der and Other Oddities
A collage of quirky verses and sayings portrays a restless era with lines about trolleys cars and airships. It blends local humor, editorial tangles, and rustic tales of goats mules and newspapers shaping a nostalgic urban march toward an uncertain sky.
Atlanta Bid to Host Master Plumbers Convention
The Master Plumbers Association of Georgia will meet in Savannah next week while the Atlanta chapter plans to secure the 1918 annual convention for Atlanta. W. and Loftin, president of the Atlanta group, with 40 or 50 members, will travel Saturday night to invite the state body. About 800 members are expected in Savannah for the session Monday through Wednesday.
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Master Plumbers’ Associatilon of Georgia
Savannah
Master Plumbers’ Association of Atlanta
Atlanta
W. & . Loftin
Atlanta Association of Master Plumbers
Tech Alumni Banquet at Piedmont Tonight
The Atlanta Alumni Association of the Georgia School of Technology holds a banquet at the Piedmont hotel tonight at 8:80. Noted speakers include Hal G. Nowell Judge George Gober M Ashby Jones and W M Fambrough among others. Faculty and senior class will attend as guests. Paul Norcross of Atlanta presides.
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Atlanta Alumni Association
Georgia School of Technology
Piedimont Hotel
Hal G. Nowell
George ©. Gober
de. M. Ashby Jones
W. M. Fambrough
Miles
Tech
Gusats
Paul Norcross
Atlanta
Tech Alumni Association
Sowa Ing Echies
Will
Bathing pool planned for Grant Park with rail funding talk
Mr Wilby reports a proposal for a 1008 swimming and bathing pool with showers at Grant Park costing 16060 to 20000. It would be a paying project for the Georgia Railway and Power Company after a conference with President Arkwright. A park card committee plans to allow the Georgia Military Academy to build boathouses at Lakewood with government outfitting for naval drill.
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Grant Park
Wimmer
Wuby
Arkwright
Georato, Railway and Power Company
Ara. i
Wilby
Georgis, Military Academy
Lakewood
Judge Speer’s $20,000 fine confirmed in ICC case
Macon Ga June special Judge Emory Speer of the U S district court has word from the Supreme Court that his finding in the government against Merchants and Miners Transportation Co has been sustained. The case tried in Savannah a year ago charged violation of the Interstate Commerce Act. Speer fined the corporation $20,000 and the appeal to the Supreme Court also sustained the ruling, requiring payment of the fine.
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Macon
Emory Speer
United States District Cover
Supreme Court
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Savannah
Speer
United States Court of Appeals
I Middle Georgia Fonds To Be Stocked With Fish
Macon Ga June 7 Special That a quarter of a trillion fish of various kinds will be distributed during the next two months by the government hatcheries at Warm Springs Ga to individuals for stocking ponds and lakes throughout the state was the announcement made by representatives of the bureau of fisheries who were in Macon today Several thousand black bass brim sun fish and speckled catfish were carried through Macon to be distributed among the lakes and ponds at Bolingbroke Forsyth Griffin Pomina Hampton and Forrest Park
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Macon
Warm Springs
Bureau of Fisheries
E. L. Vickers
Bolingbroke
Forsyth
Griffin, Pomina
Hampton
Forrest Park
Sword of Washington Blesses Phi ladelphia Bride
Deathbed instructions from Job LaBroe lead a Philadelphia bride to cut her wedding cake with General Washingtons sword. The 14 inch blade and fluted ivory handle passed through Heweston and Hewston families since colonial days, symbolizing loyalty to freedoms and the revolution.
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Philadelphis
Drin
Washington
Theae
Job LaBroe
Harold
John Heweton
Philadelphia
General Washington
Hewston
Marriage Portion of $50 Given to Each Young Woman
Northampton Maia June 7 The financial Institution known as Smith Charities founded by Oliver Smith of Hatfield awards $50 marriage portions to eligible young women in several towns. Since founding the organization has distributed over $2 909 000 for marriages apprenticeships and widow support.
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Northampton
Maia
Smith Charities
Oliver Smith
Hatfield
Sophia Smith
Smith College
Hadley
Ratfield
Amherst
Williamsburg
Deerfield
Greenfield
Whateley
Georgia Leads In Home Owned Automobiles And Road Building
Georgia reports lead in home owned machines with over fourteen thousand automobiles statewide. Georgia also surpasses other Southern states in farm motor use, with Tennessee ranking second at seven thousand. A Georgia town under two thousand people hosts two hundred home owned machines, highlighting rural adoption and road development progress nationwide.
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Georgia
A. Martin
Southern Clipping Bureau
Union
New York
Tennessee
Americus Pledges $25 000 for New Railroad
Americus, Ga June 7 Special. Local business interests plan to complete the $25 000 subscription to the capital stock of the Americus Tifton and Atlantic railway tomorrow. The Americus Board of Trade backs the move as a survey team prepares to map a route southeast to tidewater, with strong county support noted along the line.
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Americus
Americus, Tifton and Atlantic Railway
Americus Board of Trade
Tifton
Tidewater
Advertising’s deceptive craft and the history behind it
The piece argues that modern advertising manipulates consumer confidence through carefully crafted claims. It suggests merchants study costs and angles relentlessly, turning every item into a lesson in commerce history, urging readers to learn from the current advertising report within the paper.
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Commerce
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