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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1912
Page
17
Fragmented OCR text offers a collage of springtime political jibes and campaign allusions. Mentions Taft La Follette and North Dakota scenes, with jokes on hats, furs, and the Ananias Club, in a garbled, opinionated newspaper voice.
Richard D. Stinson urges an industrial education system for African Americans to provide real employment. He argues that higher education alone fails most negroes and warns that without practical training, the community faces ruin and social decline. He notes rural labor, domestic service, and farm work show severe inefficiency and calls for widespread industrial training.
A Nashville dispatch reports U S Attorney General Wickersham backing the reinstatement of his negro aide Lewis to the American Bar Association. Judge John Allison protests, criticizing the move as illegal and politically motivated. The piece decries cabinet officials using government heft for partisan gains.
Fragmented OCR notes recount a New York moment about Lora Tankerville sending her son to an American school and a village tinker with crusty manners. A pastor counsels neighborly love while the tinker jokes about a black eye and modesty in social scenes.
Fragmentary verse from a poem describing spring’s approach and awakening nature. Imagery includes frost melting, lakes waking, frogs stirring, and a southern wind signaling rebirth as April nears.
A satirical column attacks hungry mules in campaigns and mocks tariff talk. It criticizes candidates for neglecting voters and laments political hunger. The verse laments a wind ruined home and a banjo tune signaling spring as a survivor ritual. The piece ends with a rustic dialect quip about political longing and patience.
Lyerly Ga March 24 Special The grand jury finished a week long session at Summerville and issued a report noting the public highways are in very bad condition. They urge the board of roads and revenues to place convicts on county roads and hire a competent road engineer to survey main thoroughfares and estimate costs to improve roads potentially through bonds. The convicts are currently sent to Floyd County for road work.
In New York on March 24 readers learn that public obligation to education is stronger than ever, yet private and local initiatives need state and national guidance. President Henry M. Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reviews the foundation’s annual report and its expenditures.
Federal officials report a decade ending 1800 shows less important industries growing faster than major ones. Auto leads gains, with copper, tin, and sheet iron also rising. declines appear in coal and steel related sectors. Employment reaches 8.6 million. total product value over 18 trillion dollars, with 40.4 percent more wages since 1829 and 81.2 percent higher product value. Slaughtering and meat packing top gross output, followed by foundry and machine shop, lumber, iron and steel, and mill products.
Americus Georgia March 24 Special Professor Carter aged 75 died after a protracted illness native of Mecklenberg County Virginia came to Americus young man and taught at Farlow Mazente Female College and other local schools He served in the Sumter Light Guards during the Civil War funeral services led by Rev J W Brookes and Rev O B Chester with representation from Camp Sumter United Confederate Veterans and the Masonic order
Americus Georgia March 24 special The congressional race in the third district could be altered if Judge Z A Littlejohn decides to run His friends in fifteen counties urge him to announce He will be busy on the bench for six weeks then should finish and be expected to join Judge Charles Crisp and Hon John Te Mercer who have already announced their candidacies and are campaigning in the district
Atlanta’s 12th season of grand opera sees sales surpass prior records as season tickets close this Saturday March 30. Single-performance seats go on sale Monday April 1, with seven operas staged this year compared to five in 1910 and four in 1911, so many good seats remain for early buyers.
Robert Wynne, famed as The Fighting Marine, former U S Marine captain, died at his father’s home in Washington at 36. He served in Cuba the Philippines and China and earned congressional thanks and several medals before resigning after a dramatic court martial.
In Hopkinsville Kentucky March 24 a jury sentenced 19 year old Tom Slaughter to death for murdering Lee Jenkins during a quarrel over cheese in Edgeton store. Judge Wanberry was summoned from church to receive the verdict amid tense local mood as two African American allies of Slaughter were relocated by white campers.
In Key West on March 24, Yules Cochran shot and killed Florida and East Coast Railroad engineer E. Gibson. Cochran, later arrested, was described by police as intoxicated and had previously attempted to kill R. T. Cawthorn in a separate incident.
City article urges enforcement of an ordinance requiring all telegraph and telephone poles in Atlanta to be painted and kept in repair. Officers should compel owners to comply within ten days or poles may be removed, to improve streets and public health amid a broader City Beautiful movement.
Georgia leaders view the future of the Western and Atlantic railroad as the state's biggest issue. Senator Slaton opposes sale, urges preemptive action before lease ends in 1919, and cites the railroad as a bond guarantor and income source for common schools. He named a business-minded committee to study the matter.
Athens Ga March 24 Special More complications have arisen in the affairs of the defunct Athens Trust and Banking Company. The night police found the front door of the building open last night and reported the matter to the receiver who is positive that he looked and fastened the door. There are eight different keys to the door distributed about among different parties in the city according to the receiver and he had not been able to collect them. There was nothing what ever disturbed by the intruder who entered the bank. All the papers had been double locked in the big vault and the combination has been changed by the receiver since he took step while all money has been deposited in another bank. Notes amounting to several hundred dollars said to have been deposited in the bank before it closed are advertised in the papers and the public warned not to trade them. They were not among the property transferred to the custody of Receiver Frank Lipscomb.
Hickman Kentucky March 24 8000 bags of sand on the levee and a patrol watching for leaks. a big leak was discovered last night about two miles below the town causing unease. The Mississippi River surface stood seven feet above ground behind the levee and rising about a foot and a half daily, though officials believed the breach was passing.
Washington March 23 By order of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson the cattle tick fever quarantine is lifted tomorrow for King and Pecos counties Texas portions of Howard and Terrell counties portions of Ripley Oregon Newton and McDonald counties Missouri Panola and Adams counties Mississippi Hart county Georgia Union Laurens Cherokee Spartanburg and Greenwood and portions of Abbeville York and Chester counties South Carolina Lawrence and Benton and portions of Hardeman Hamilton and Johnson counties Tennessee
Macon Ga March 24 Special That Qaear Underwood of Alabama will carry Bibb county without any trouble is indicated by the fact that over 700 persons have already put their names on petitions favoring the formation of an Underwood club. The friends of the Alabama congressman say that before another week passes fully twice that many names will be secured.
Secretary of State Knox closes his Caracas visit with a morning drive to the foreign minister General Manuel Matos residence and a luncheon with American minister Elliott Northcott at the legation. He plans to depart tomorrow morning for Puerto Cabello amid a whirl of farewell events.
Macon Georgia March 24 Special That many Macon girls are stage struck was shown when a man named Dr. Littledeer registered at a local hotel and ran an ad in the morning paper inviting girls to enter the theatrical profession. Several girls visited the hotel and one is said to have been engaged. Local W C T officers probe the scheme and whereabouts of the participants while Dr Littledeer is reported to have left Macon for Columbus.
Constantinople dispatch reports Adre Kepassis Effendi prince-governor of Samos was shot and killed today by a Greek assassin. The subsequent arrest follows a political crusade by the Hellenic party against his 1907 appointment by Turkey, marking a grave escalation in island unrest.
In Brunswick Georgia Rev HK Boykin conducted funeral services for George Harvey and Hector Velijanis buried on Jekyl Island after drowning while on duty at the Jekyl Island Club. Harvey, born in Forest Gate London, and Velijanis, a Smyrna native, were among club staff. Guests and employees attended the chapel services.
In Bilge County on the Louisville and Nashville line three men fought in a free-for-all at Taland. Maren 24 and Fulton and M C Halkem were fatally injured as Fulton was accidentally shot by Halkem, who was his friend.
Washington reports that the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography will convene September 23 28. The event, invited by the president and congress, marks the first U S meeting in sixty years of the organization dedicated to global hygienic methods and demography.
A fragmentary verse passage contemplates wraiths and dreams knocking at the door. It muses on past memories, a garden still and the struggle to interpret inner visions. Love lingers as a guiding breath amid shifting shadowy days.
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