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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1912
Page
19
A pasted miscellany from The Washington Bureau covers subscription notices, travel reps, and local agents. It references rates, discontinuation processes, and cautions about payments to unauthorized agents, with scattered political commentary and social notes about March expectations, Mexican issues, suffragettes, and public figures.
The piece notes the clash between Taft and Colonel Roosevelt, each backed by powerful supporters, as Southern Republicans influence a national convention that may ignore real majorities. It warns such a paradoxical setup risks resentment among loyal states while the political theater continues to amuse.
A defense of Southern textile conditions against federal probes and New England critiques. The author argues northern reports exaggerate abuses while praising Southern mill welfare schemes, noting child workers are better cared for and housing and education are well provided in the South, despite some inevitable flaws.
The looming Great Britain miner strike threatens civilizational activity by halting coal supply, paralyzing transportation, and stalling factories and markets. Government pressure pushes toward compulsory arbitration as both miners and mine owners demand concessions while public welfare suffers in the background.
A collected set of verses on campaign life, party critique, and civic satire. It mixes observational lines about campaign bands, political pressure, and personal resolve with mock dialogue from rustic characters. The pieces reference March winds, spring, and public rhetoric, maintaining a thrifty, period voice.
Washington March The house passed a resolution directing a thorough investigation of steamship line practices in oversea and coastwise trade. The committee will probe pools conferences rebates rate fixing and earnings pools among ship owners and railroads and ownership links to railroads or controlling interests.
Americus Georgia March special reports Dr Lansing Burrows pastor of Americus First Baptist Church has delivered his five thousandth regularly prepared sermon. A veteran of forty six years in ministry he served in the Confederate period and the ordnance department aiding ammunition transport. For twenty five years he has been secretary of the Southern Baptist convention and has preached in five states. He previously led the Binett Baptist church of Augusta for seventeen years.
Judge Speer testifies before the grand jury in a case involving Harris Williams, charged with rifling a post office locker at the Desoto Hotel. The hearing notes his statements regarding the disputed slippers and related details.
The United States Department of Agriculture conducts a soil survey of Dougherty County, led by M. WarL Carr, with field work in progress and a completion target of May. The project creates a base map detailing soils, streams, rails, roads, and plantation roads, sending samples to Washington and Athena for lab analysis. The final report will describe soils, suitable crops, fertilizer practices, and potential green manure benefits, plus climate notes and boll weevil risk mitigation strategies.
In Savannah on the Central of Georgia Railway a new method will begin April 1 to educate workers through moving pictures. The program targets colored laborers and other less educated employees, aiming to teach fundamentals of railroading where books fail. D C Buell, head of Harriman lines education, will organize and collect the films and plan the course.
The funeral of Mrs. Van Astor Batchelor was held yesterday at 10:30 a.m. at her father's home, Dr. J. G. Earnest, with Dr. Walker officiating. Hundreds attended, music by Mrs. Frank Pearson and Mrs. John Cooper, and tributes from Alma Society and Barclay mission noting memorial endowments in her name. Survived by husband Van Astor Batchelor, parents Dr. and Myra Earnest, one brother N. G. Earnest, and three sisters Mrs. S. Northen, Mrs. Joge whine Earnest Purse, and Mrs. John Hn.
Senate met at noon to take up final action on British and French arbitration treaties before adjournment of the legislative day. Poindexter failed to secure consideration of his Lawrence strike investigation resolution as clock and electric machinery tariffs drew protest. Recessed at 4:30 pm until 1:30 pm Wednesday. Taft and Leapp figures appeared in hearings and allotment probes, while sugar tariff revision and income tax measures moved toward reporting. Ways and means backed sugar tariff reform and an income tax bill, with a shipping trust investigation unanimously approved. Representatives urged government railroad construction in southeast Alaska, coal operations, and Panama rate measures as debates continued.
The Georgia state board of health urges immediate screening of homes to keep out flies and mosquitoes. Screening protects against malaria yellow fever typhoid and other diseases by blocking disease vectors at entry points and in hidden spaces.
In city court on Monday Dorsey Sellers a negro faced larceny charges after a white man paid 15.36 dollars for a half pint of colored water mistaken for corn whiskey. The alleged blinder tiger bottle was slipped into the victim's hip pocket and the pocketbook with 157 dollars vanished. Sellers received a 12 month sentence.
In city court on Monday a case of a half pint of whisky and a half dollar, bought by a white man from a black man, raised ownership questions. The detective took both items. the judge ruled the money belonged to the seller and ordered the fifty cents given to the seller.
In Chicago the government is expected to rest its case in the Sherman act trial of ten meat packers, after reading stipulated corporate statements from Armour & Co. The firm, incorporated in 1900 with a 20 million capital and a 70 million surplus, is part of the defense’s forthcoming motion for acquittal. In Moultrie Georgia a disastrous fire destroyed the Holmes Hartsfield Company wholesale warehouse, causing about 40 thousand dollars in losses with 24 thousand insured, threatening nearby homes amid high winds. The business faces immediate rebuilding and resumed operations once quarters are secured.
Schedule on the Gulf Line railroad from Camilla to Hawkinsville will ease Thomasville travel, linking with the Atlantic Gulf line between Thomsville and Albany, likely boosting patronage. Pavo seeks charter for Planters Bank as local business grows and needs a second bank in the area.
The first Purim ball in Thomasville Georgia is tonight at the Guards Armory. The Zion Society of the Jewish church hosts the event with proceeds supporting the society, the city hospital, and the Vashti home. Mayor MacIntyre attended by special invitation.
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