The Devil Was Sick The Cotton Exchange Issue
A column debates the New York Cotton Exchange move to change its grading system. It argues the timing aims to preempt Congress and warns that abolition would hurt traders, mill owners, and farmers who rely on hedging and fair contracts. It stresses exchanges deserve fair rules, not annihilation.
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Senate
Smith
South Carolina
New York Cotton Exchange
Congress
New Orleans
Wilsons stance on Mexico crisis and future leadership
The article outlines President Wilsons firm policy toward Mexico, insisting on recognition only of leaders acceptable to all factions and free from arbitrary force. It discusses the possibility of a commission to Mexico and the challenge of shaping public opinion in an illiterate electorate. It notes a few potential leaders who might meet criteria, while signaling the overall uncertainty of the plan.
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Wilson
Mecan
Mexico
Huerta
Carranza
Diaz
Federal Road Measure Promises Georgia Highway Funds
President Wilson signals support for the Shackleford road bill, forecasting federal aid to states for construction and maintenance. Georgia could receive about 700 000 dollars, with convict labor debated and a bona fide highway commission to be established by June. Congress faces tariff, currency, and roads decisions shaping a major administrative push.
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Wilson
Congress
Georgia
Senate
Real Patriotism and the Mexican Crisis
The senate shows patriotism as Senator Lodge defends the administration on Mexican refugees interned south of the border. The piece notes a decline in bitter partisanship and tries to portray fewer efforts by newspapers to embarrass the administration, signaling a hopeful shift in national unity amid crisis.
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Senate
Lodge
Massachusetts
Rio Grande
House
Congress
Waking Business in National Politics
An editorial notes the Boston chamber of commerce proposal to regulate stock exchanges as a model of business influence in government. It argues legislators need informed business input, not lobbyists, to avoid demagoguery, and envisions closer business legislative cooperation amid ongoing political tensions.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Dance Song And Editorial Satire From The Banner Tribune
A collage of lyric lines about dancing from green earth to the moon and a satirical Barner Tribune editorial seeking a versatile editor. The text blends whimsical music imagery with a bleak jab at political openness, all in a retro newspaper voice.
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The
Barner Tribune
Disturbing Noses and a Spring Weather Chorus
A fragment from a Daily Texe page blends slang and marches of suffrage voices with weather whimsy. The old lady at suffrage meetings and playful dialect verse hint at social change, fashion, and Dixie imagery as temperatures rise and talk turns to spring and parade dress.
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Bilville
Morbidity and Morality by George Matthew Adams
Morbidity is a contagious disease of thought with no universal quarantine. Each person bears responsibility for its extermination through action and service. Brooding and inaction breed harm, while doing good works shapes character and heals the social atmosphere.
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Manis
Disraeli Trial in King’s Bench of 1887 Histories
The piece recounts Benjamin Disraeli’s 1887 trial in the court of king’s bench as part of a political storm over a disputed election. It notes his age, rise to Maidstone MP, the alleged bribery report, and his formal apology. The judges deem the apology satisfactory and the case ends without further punishment.
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King's Bench
Queen Victoria
Benjamin Disraeli
D'Israeli
Maidstone
Disraeli
Wyndham Lewis
Ths
John Minet Fedor
Austin
London
Bruce
Court of King’s Bench
M. P
O'Connell
Lyndhurst
Lord Denham
Campbell
Pollock
Wollett
Times
Hauling Materials in Motor Tracks
From The Engineering Record this piece notes motor trucks of 3 to 5 ton capacity rising in popularity for hauling road materials where roads are adequate. Trailers boost capacity though they slow speed. traction engines pull wagon trains with years of use. Economic comparison with traction engines lacks decisive data. factors include multiuse, winter viability, road damage, and maneuverability. Some contractors run two shifts, about 18 hours daily, to lower interest per ton mile with typical pricing around 15 cents per ton mile on rough roads.
Georgia State Political Grind Reports Early April 4 Meeting
The state executive committee sets its meeting for Saturday April 4 with Governor Slaton informed and no preference shown. The plan includes possible resignation of Senator W S West as vice chairman and a reshaping of pending offices terms. Hardwick launches a broad campaign using 200000 pamphlets while absent from Washington. Absence of talk at the Capitol marks the scene as jockeying eyes on Slaton.
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Slaton
William J. Hacks
W. S. West
Hardwick Duggins
Senate
Washington
Thomas W. Hardwick
United States Senate
Congress
Frank
Government Printing Office
Hardwick
Home Market Club
Boston
Etump
Capitol
State Capitol
Statehouse
J. Gordon Jones
Cordele
The Spellbinders and a Speech Dilemma at Home
Mrs Curfew confronts a salesman peddling a rhetoric book while describing her husband, a fair man in private life, who cannot speak well in public. The scene mocks self styled spellbinders and notes the public thirst for genuine speaking skill over flashy oratory.
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Doodlepieler
Demosthenes
J.hamilton Lewis
Cicero
Bryan
Daniel Webster
Hardy Re-elected Chairman of Pike County Democratic Party
Barnesville and Zebulon chapters organize for two-year terms as H B Hardy is re chosen chairman and W M Jordan re elected secretary. Meanwhile Washington County politics heat up with eight candidates vying for seven offices in the August primary and judges’ races shaping up with Judge B T Rawlings not seeking re election.
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Monroe
Walton County
Democratic Executive Committee
Orrin Roberts
Ernest Camp
Floyd County
Rome
North Georgia
W. G. Duoedge
D. O. Bears
Joseph Watts
Burl Salmon
Lunehoe
HO Barron
G. W. Smith
J. M. Davis
Henry Watts
John Bobo
Leonard Vandiver
J. Tom Jenkins
Zack Salmon
T. Hendricks
Hat D. W Simmons
T. U. Owens
Yodd
John M
Sandersville
Andersville
B. T. Rawlings
Middle Judicial Circuit
A. Willis Evans
B DD Evans
Supreme Court
Atlanta
Washington County
Vans
Hardwick
R. Eve
Augusta
J. J. Harris
Taylor
Roth
Promoting Farm Development by Shore Line Electric Railway
R W Perkins president of the Shore Line Electric railway Norwich Conn announces a county wide farm development campaign. The state offers 1000 for agricultural development if locals raise funds to cover expenses of a demonstrator. The railway pledges 500 annually plus 500 matching, to support a farmers organization likely to be called the New London County Farm Bureau. Plans include converting an old New London factory into a communal freight terminal and housing for an electric railway express station to handle farm produce, with rail connections to steam lines.
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Electric Railway Journal
R. W. Perkins
Shora Line Electric Railway
Norwich
Conn
New London County
Shore Line Electric Railway
Edtric Rt
New London
Perking
London County Farm Bureau
Steam Railronds
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