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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1912
Page
4
A fragmented 1912 newspaper page contains a satirical notice section lampooning Roosevelt and other politicians. It pokes fun at campaigns, congress, and public figures with quips on Nobel Peace Prize chances, Easter hats, exploration heroes, and campaign fundraising. The piece reads as a light political humor column from the era.
A Georgia letter to the editor denounces a state committee plan to abolish minority representation in the county unit system. It recalls four years of protest led by Albert H. Cox Rufe Hutchens and Thomas E. Watson, warns that ten large counties could override 136 others, and urges Georgians to defend constitutional rights against the scheme.
The Constitution argues Oscar Underwood leads the tariff reform effort, facing protests from Louisiana sugar interests. The piece notes his pressure for broad revision, cites Henry County teachers backing his candidacy, and questions sectional loyalties as the democratic party weighs his presidency amidst tariff conflicts.
A fragmentary column blends political squibs with poems and songs about Dixie, spring, and campaigns. It references a judge confrontation, court criticisms, and a Georgia election climate, interlaced with rural imagery and dialect. The piece satirizes political rhetoric and social scenes, weaving humor with regional identity.
Boston March 13 President Taft will receive a ceremonial big stick in Boston next Monday. The cane carries an inscription and relics from history including wood from Napoleon’s tomb path Lexington sand Washington elm and Paul Revere bell tower plus a Lincoln penny. The gift from a Santem man awaits Mayor Fitzgerald’s office for presentation to the president.
Dr Oscar Dowling head of the state board of health yesterday inspected the city hall several fashionable clubs restaurants and candy factories in New Orleans almost all were given 48 hours to clean up or close up Dowling said conditions at the city hall did not reflect credit on the custodian and noted sanitary concerns at the Boston Plokwick Chowan Cpeikers and White Clubs
Washington Ga March 13 One of the good results from Wilkes county Boys Corn Clubs is that in the first two months only six carloads of western corn were shipped to Washington versus forty one carloads in the same period of 1911. Grist mills are busier turning Wilkes county corn into meal. Six hundred dollars was awarded to prize corn clubs last year and preparations are under way for more contestants and a larger purse this year. Local business men and farmers see wide interest and increased corn acreage as making prizes for corn culture a profitable agricultural investment in the county.
Indianapolis March 13 All the defendants indicted for violating federal statutes on transporting explosives must face one trial on October 1, per Judge A B Anderson after defense argued for separate trials The merged indictments cover fifty four men in 128 counts including 28 conspiracy charges and 100 direct violations with McManigal McNamara and Hockin Also forty six labor union officials implicated in a dynamiting campaign faced court with bonds continued.
Chicago March 13 Judge Carpenter denied a motion to discharge Edward Morris and Louis H Heyman, two defendants, in a Sherman law case. Government said Morris & Co of New Jersey handled the firm s fresh meat business, defense argued Morris & Co of Maine should be named. Edward Morris president and Louis H Heyman manager of the beef department.
New York reports millionaire hotel owner W E D Stokes who was targeted by revolvers in a prior attack will undergo surgery to remove one kidney and replace it with an animal kidney. His condition has been serious for a month after a trip to Bermuda. doctors say the operation offers his best chance of recovery.
Seattle health officials released twenty five dyed rats to map rodent movement through the city. Each rat carries a two dollar price tag and will be tracked from waterfront areas to residential hills as spring brings migration. Health Commissioner Crichton explains the study aims to trace population drift.
In Jersey City stockholders of the American Sugar Refining Company approved a pension plan for employees over 65 with a pension equal to one percent of annual income times years of service. Women retire at 60, and those with thirty years of service may retire regardless of age.
Sylvia Pankhurst arrives in New York from the west and plans to trim her lecture tour, fearing for her mother Emmeline Pankhurst's health in Holloway prison. She criticizes British policy and Premier Asquith, noting MPs and cabinet members back suffrage while conditions for prisoners worsen.
The piece compiles editorials from The Macon Telegraph Savannah News Columbus Ledger and other Georgia papers endorsing Oscar Underwood for the Democratic nomination. It argues southern unity, warns against Wilson, and praises Underwood as a experienced statesman leading tariff reform. It notes northern support for a southern candidate and the need for a strong, principled administration.
Ocean City Maryland March 13 Captain Bennett and six men were rescued by breeches buoy early today from the three masted schooner John W Hall of Wilmington Delaware. The vessel was stranded three miles south of Ocean City while bound from Wilmington NC to New York with a cargo of lumber and will be a total loss.
New York on March 13 Patrick A. Whitney commissioner of corrections orders a teacher of instrumental music be employed at Hart's Island city reformatory. An optional course of eighty instrumental lessons will be offered this spring, endorsed by aldermen.
Supreme court rules there is nothing unlawful about placing and storing beer in a cold storage facility. The decision in John W Bale v Atlanta Ice and Coal Co stems from a Rome Superior Court case challenging the company for allowing beer owners to keep beer at its storage plant.
In Mobile on March 13 Judge Semmes refused the application of Mrs. Mary Theresa Virginia Wasserleben for a change of venue in the trial for the killing of her husband Policeman Fréd Wasserleben. Wasserleben and her mother Magy T. Godau, also charged with the murder, will be arraigned at this term of court.
Americus Light Infantry was officially inspected this evening by Major F L Palmer of the state military department and Captain Americus Mitchel of the regular army. Commanded by Captain Charles P Davis, the company of forty three men displayed excellent form. The unit ranked twelfth last year in the state service and aims to raise its record on this inspection.
A. Maurice Low, Washington correspondent for The London Post, told Yale University students that the U.S. press sits at its lowest reader level. He urged schools to raise standards and argued that crime stories taint papers. He blamed comic supplements for fostering bad manners in children.
Washington reports the cattle embargo on Great Britain is lifted as of today after three months with no foot and mouth disease found in the British Isles. No European cattle are admitted and English authorities trace past epidemics to the continent, with sea gulls and automobile tires proposed as possible carriers.
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