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Pleas for High Thinking at University Commencement
Editorial readers note four student speakers and one alumni orator at the University of Georgia commencement urged broader liberty of political thought in the south. The letters discuss race and the need to consider Supreme Court franchise actions as a possible turning point in southern politics. The five speakers came from diverse sections, delivering themes on freedom of thought and speech amid current times.
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Egster Constitution
Constitution
South
Merrill
Thomasville
Atlanta
Madison Bell
Crawfordville, Ga
The
Madibon Keil
Supreme Court of the
United States
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Alabama
Supreme Court
University of
Controversial Southern Presses for White Unity and Democracy
The Constitution endorses nonpartisan appeals for higher public thinking and a courageous zeal for free government principles. It notes shifts in attitudes toward white unity and negro presence, urging restraint from divisive politics while warning of ongoing concerns over negro influence in administration and the white vote. It then presents 1900 beet sugar industry statistics, noting its growing yet modest scale and potential impact on future policy.
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Southern
the Times
Undertakers Enter Politics Across Hudson County
An observation on undertakers moving from mourning roles to public office. Jersey City recently elected an undertaker as mayor, inspiring more to run for sheriff in Hudson County. The piece notes a shift in public perception, from superstition to respect, and suggests a broader trend of undertakers entering various government positions nationwide.
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Jersey City
N. J
Hudson County
New Jersey
Emancipation Proclamation Sparks Undertaker’s Political Rise
The passage notes the public’s mixed feelings toward him as a figure among the living and dead, and remarks that with emancipation proclaimed, the undertaker now enjoys unrestricted political rights. It frames his role as an emissary blurred with mortal and spiritual spheres.
Editorial on timber and button industry trends
The piece notes vast annual timber use for matches ties and poles, pulp, and shoe pegs, plus the rise of U S button manufacturing. It cites shifts from European to domestic production, including Austro-Hungarian exports and a 1900 button output split among materials, with regional growth in Iowa and nearby states.
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Europe
Austro-Hungary
United States
Austria-Hungary
Austria
Iowa
Germany
Mississippi
Mincie
Missouri
Local Option Preferred in Georgia Primary Verdict
The Augusta Chronicle argues the June 6 primary shows support for local option over statewide prohibition. It asserts rural counties back local option to keep liquor away from farms and maintain order, while cities seek self governance and reject a universal prohibition. The paper cites Vermont’s repeal as warning and urges temperance friends to accept the Georgia verdict.
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Augusts
Georgia
Prohibition
Augusta
Atlanta
Savannah
Macon
Columbus
Vermont
Real
Friends of Temperance and of Prohibition
Charley Horner Reports Thunder as God Scrubbing Day
Hithel Horner in Little Chronicle recalls Attic Charley Horner aged four describing loud thunder. Charley asks why mother, and says he hears God moving the tables, imagining divine scrubbing in the sky.
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Hithel Horner
Little Chronicle
Charley Horner
Jamie
An Angelic Ambition Tale in Little Chronicle
Ethel Babcock notes a quarrel between Little Dottie aged four and Clarence aged five. Clarence insults Dottie claiming she will not go to heaven. Dottie responds with a goofy, childlike denial and insists she will become an angel and tug hair when she is one.
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Ethel Babcock
Little Chronicle
Dottie
Clarence
Dottis
Atlanta's Wardays Fort y Years Ago
In June 1862 The Southern Confederacy reports on wartime policy and public safety. Governor Brown and Vice President Stephens urged crop shifts to feed armies and households. Toombs defies a Georgia public safety committee over cotton, while the paper notes flour seizures, salt shortages, and efforts to curb speculators.
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Brown
Stephens
Robert Toombs
Toombs
Eufaula Committee
Georgia Committee
Confederacy
Atlanta
A E Seago
Fon Willam Watkins
Seago
Watkins
Hemust
W. P. Howard
Watkins Seago
Prohibition under Bayonet Rule Sparks Georgia Outcry
In 1860s north Georgia and Atlanta, Lawton's bayonet enforcement of prohibition provoked fierce local resistance. Citizens evaded the law, liquor flowed despite checkpoints, and even a grocery merchant sold liquor openly for a shoe peg price. A decisive talk in a back room ended the shop’s liquor sales, revealing the rule as a farce driven by harsh authority. WALLACE PUTNAM REED.
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Georgia
Lawton
Atlanta
Wallace Putnam Reed
Atlanta puffs up with dreams of depots and fame
A string of satirical notices from several papers mocks Atlanta's vanity and sensationalism. References mention a local heir to a fortune, a notorious chicken thief in Birmingham, and boastful claims of the city as home to Woodrow Wilson. The piece ridicules grandiose depictions of progress and the Mont Pelee eruption reports.
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Atlanta
Macon News
O'Rouke
Americus Times-Recorder
Birmingham
Augusta Herald- Atlanta
Augusta
Brunswick News
New South
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Martinique
Mont Pelee
Acore
Nashville
Tenn
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Princeton
Vienna
Macon
Names That Haunt The Racecard And A Washington Post Writer
A spectator criticizes horse names like Goody Two Shoes and Stem Winder as nonsensical, then features Henry Litchfield West of The Washington Post visiting Atlanta to discuss Conventions Campaigns and Candidates. West notes Cuban reciprocity bill opposition in Congress and comments on southern race relations and Atlanta’s nightlife.
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Washington Post
Dublin
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Washington
Congress
Weat
Interest in Brunswick superior court race grows
The Brunswick circuit seeks candidates for the unexpired term caused by Judge 3 W Bennet’s resignation effective July 1. Parker tops the recent primary for the full term starting January, with E A Cochran also seeking the unexpired term and others suggested to the governor. Governor Candler has not decided yet but may appoint within a day or two.
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Brunswick Circuit
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E. A. Cochran
Candler
Barbecue Invitation Draws Terrell To Lee County Event
The Lee county barbecue invites Hon. Joseph M. Terrell and state officers to attend a Lee County dinner to be scheduled after the state convention. The Mossy Dell grounds near Leesburg host the event, with J A Lipsey as club president and John M Hinen overseeing the feast. Solicitor Beazley presents a poem titled Good Old Lee celebrating Georgia’s “state of Lee” and civic hospitality.
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State House
Lee County
C H Beazley
Lee
Colonel Terrell
Georgia
Mossy Dell
Muckatee Creek
Leesburg
J. A Lipsey
Svhich
John M Hinen
Beazley
Resigning Preacher and Camp Movements Appear in Huntsville
In Huntsville on June 23 Rev George L Bitzer resigns as pastor of the First Presbyterian church and plans to return to Lynchburg Va. Company F 3rd Alabama departs for Birmingham to enter camp at Lake with 35 men under Lt Thomas P Hay as part of a forthcoming encampment.
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Huntsville
Ala
George L. Bitzer
First Presbyterian Church
Bitzer
Lynchburg
Huntaville
Leutenant Thomas P. Hay
Menis Warning
Birmingham
Cam At Lake
Alabama
Soldiers Will Go North to Fort McPherson Prep for Sixteenth Inf
Troops from the Twenty-third United States Infantry prepared to leave for Plattsburg New York by July 15 or earlier. The Sixteenth Infantry from the Philippines may arrive to relieve or join them, with possible substitutions depending on timing. Rifle practice at Waco Texas has been ordered discontinued. Southern hotel in Chattanooga leased by W R Steele for four years starting July 1. Huntsville secures base park improvements with a fence. Tullahoma to send a crack team to play two games here Tuesday.
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Plattsburg
Sixteenth Infantry
Philippine Islands
Fort McPherson
New York
Southern Hotel
Huntsville
Ala
W. R Steele
Chattanooga
Tullahoma
Hunteville
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