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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1901
Page
5
Atlanta June 17 1902 reports that Georgia cotton mill owners agree to end child labor by shift rules and higher skilled labor, aiming to reduce parental pressure and avoid legislative interference. They pledge educational investment and tax contributions, with night work for children under twelve only if supported by a widowed mother.
A long opinion piece condemns the Republican push for protection and praises Democratic support for public enterprise. It argues the Pennsylvania Railroad may challenge the steel trust by using its own steel interests to compete, risking broader monopolistic control and altered export dynamics. The piece reflects early 20th century concerns over trusts, monopolies, and federal trade policy.
The piece laments labor strikes and condemns the National Metal Trades Association for refusing to bargain with unions. It argues that employers miss a conservative force that could foster lasting understanding and questions why workers would organize if employers oppose unions. The writer urges the association to reverse its stance.
President Stuyvesant Fish warned Mississippians to unite and work together as Iowa prospers with shared effort. He contrasted Mississippi s isolation and lack of communal interests with northern joint action, citing railroads mills roads and bridges built collectively and urging coordinated plans to boost the state s economy. He cited Georgia watermelon and peach industries as examples of unsynchronized effort hurting growth. The Mississippi note concluded with a call for educated leaders to drive change.
The piece notes expectation surrounding President Fish's forthcoming address at the University of Mississippi. It argues that inviting him signals an inquiring mind and suggests Mississippi may anticipate important future results from his remarks.
The piece urges a good road from Atlanta to the Soldiers' Home to boost access and support for the institution. It laments missing driveways, notes roads diverted to streetcar use, and argues more traffic would improve maintenance and sympathy-backed funding. It also references various political and social observations in a scattered editorial tone.
The Kansas City Journal notes postage stamp sales reflect business health, citing St Louis Globe-Democrat data. From 1881 to 1900 per capita stamp receipts rose from 67 to 138 cents, with nine teen years showing near 1 2 percent growth, despite population gains.
The Boston Herald reports the Theosophical Society of America held a public conference at the YMCA. Charles W. Leadbeater, its representative, described occultism as the apotheosis of common sense and urged treating its phenomena as facts of exact knowledge. He praised American psychic power and urged applying this to parapsychic topics.
Fragmentary note discusses the arm affected and critiques commercialism as a disease. It argues that the profession in question must combat this progress with strenuous regular business and require clear explanation and apology. The text references violence and thuggery but its meaning is obscured by damaged OCR.
A collage of playful verses and brief vignettes from Georgia. It includes a parody about a beloved Georgia melon and lines about field hands, a warehouse note, a weather quip, a political aside, and reflections on love and Providence. The piece weaves rustic humor with country life imagery and seasonal humor.
Georgetown case moves to U S district court grand jury in Charleston Tuesday morning. Captain Fred Miller former Atlantic Steamship Waccamaw captain faces attempted assault charge on Mrs Thompson wife of steward Thompson. Miller out on bond. vessel last reported in San Francisco, now Charleston bound. Mrs Thompson remains in Cleveland Ohio. trial attendance uncertain. Miller, a famed seaman, is sixty and a New Jersey resident.
New York Sun notes dogs planes and types writers as top second hand sale items with cameras and bicycles close behind. Household furniture horses carriages follow, then jewelry watches sewing machines and musical instruments. Books are far down the list as people typically wish to keep them.
A clipped Washington Star fragment cites a legislature discussion about a Paris robbery and French method of obtaining money. The Peoria Herald notes the supreme court and cabinet views on congress and imperial governance, with garbled continuation about responsibility and ruling authority.
Brunswick and Birmingham project progress noted by B C Machen en route to New York with cash behind the venture and terminal facilities secured in Brunswick. Clergy half fare permits become yearly credentials after July 1, with removes per-ride privileges and a push to sell annual books. Convicted forger R H Thomas jailed in Knoxville. Southern carriers propose one way settlers rates from Ohio and Mississippi river gateways to southern states. Multiple railroads announce limited round trip excursions to Colorado and Utah in summer 1901.
Arthur T. Abernethy of Rutherford College North Carolina is chosen to assist Prof Avellanus editor of The Latin Herald in a vast Latin text revision effort. The plan aims to produce a parallel Latin text with explanations, a major classical undertaking praised as historic. Mayor Hal G. Newell attends the Georgia Phi SA EB gathering in Monroe.
Dr Josiah Midfeid writes to all bishops of the Church of Eastgod about capital punishment. Not one favors abolition. Clergy views align with Englishmen, strengthening the stance.
Colonel W A Hemphill returned from Philadelphia where he led Georgia delegates at the Southern Industrial Association meeting. He says the gathering will attract northern capital to the South, with Atlanta and Georgia well represented by Hoke Smith and others. The next convention is planned for Memphis in December with a strong Georgia showing anticipated.
Washington June 10 Special says there is general view that President McKinley’s declaration he seeks no third term was timely, curbing open talk of a third nomination. Names named include Foraker Spooner Fairbanks Odell Roosevelt and others as potential Republican successors amid party dynamics and past convention drama.
The article argues abolition trends in Italy and partial changes in the United States reduce capital punishment. It cites historical homicide rates and capital sentences from 1896 to 1900, noting numbers of executions and the influence on public policy. Bishops in England weigh mercy against maintaining a penalty viewed as harmful to humanity.
New York Herald reports a hostess faces the difficult task of arranging a formal dinner to satisfy rank, avoid uneasy pairings, and entertain women, while fearing two hours of stilted conversation and gossip. A suggestion favors shortening the meal, noting a St Petersburg cable describing a forty minute embassy dinner as precedent.
The article discusses schemes in England and Germany to run electric trains near 100 mph and to offer low fares. If a railroad of that kind is built across New Jersey, it could shift business away from Philadelphia banks, corporations, mills, and stores, risking local trade and livelihoods. The piece notes potential impacts on regional commerce and employment.
Fragmentary passage discusses people traveling to a metropolis each morning to earn money after breakfast foods like serappie and catfish and returning by dinner time. Mentions Philadelphia and New York with dates in a seven day cycle and an exclamatory line SOPESDEE.
A Richmond Va case reports detectives uncovering two gold watches believed stolen, hidden under a hen cage as part of a scheme to trap the items. The article also includes a miscellany of verse fragments and unrelated notes on politics and weather.
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