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The notice details advance payment terms for daily and Sunday editions in Atlanta and outside, with rates for six or three months. Distribution points include the Constitution Building and Hibbe Building, with a Washington Bureau staff in New York. Subscriptions may be canceled by notifying the managing agent. traveling reps are listed and readers urged not to pay others.
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Atlanta
U. R
Broadway
Times Building
C. H. Donselly
W. H. Overbey
DP. I. Crowley
D. Roates
W. F. Stokes
Negro education call for industrial system urged by Stinson
Richard D. Stinson of Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute urged a practical education plan for the negro aimed at full employment. He warned that without industrial training many will face ruin, while higher education reaches only a small fraction. He criticized perfunctory schooling and called for rapid adoption of industrial education to fit the south’s modern economy.
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Richard ‘D. Stinson
Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute
South
Stinson
Atlanta
Wickersham Battles Judge Over Lewis Reinstatement
The attorney general's push to reinstate Lewis to the American Bar Association clashes with Judge John Allison in Tennessee. Allison rebukes Wickersham for pressuring the body amid race and social equality concerns, alleging improper attempts to gain political capital during an election year.
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United States
Nashville
Tenn
Lewis
Legal Department
John Allison
Tennessee
Wickersham
American Bar Association
Allison
Modesty in High Order Tales from Lord Tankerville
A fragmented excerpt recalls Lord Tankerville comment on English youths in America. It parodies modesty as a quaint trait in a village tinker and contrasts gentle restraint with blunt bluntness. A lawyer-like quip questions whether true modesty exists.
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Tankerville
Rickiayer
The Song of the South Wind
A fragmented poem invites the reader to awaken spring through vivid images of hills, bells, and budding trees. The speaker urges listening to the awakening world as spring arrives, urging nature and creatures to respond with song and movement.
Ingratitude of Candidates and Rural Rhyme Fragment
A satirical piece warns of hungry mules in the settlement braying for hay as candidates campaign, arguing voters won’t be swayed without genuine pity for the people. It blends verse about a March wind wrecking a home with a minstrel’s banjo and a rural dialect aside on political folly.
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Adams Enterprise
Loos
Roads Declared in Bad Shape in Chattooga County Grand Jury
Chattooga County grand jury reports roads in very bad condition and urges the board of roads and revenues to use convicts on local roads. It also calls for a competent road engineer to survey main thoroughfares and estimate costs to reach first class condition, to inform bond decisions.
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Lyerly
Grand Jury
Summerville
Board of Roads and Revenues
Chattooga County
Floyd County
Public Obligation to Cause of Education
New York on March 24 reports the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching notes growing public obligation to education. President Henry Pritchett says private and local initiative need state and national guidance. The hay shee ment report highlights this conclusion.
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New York
Henry 9. Pritchett
Carnegie ‘ Foundation
Peaching
Tendency to diversif y in manufacturing noted by officials
A federal study of U S manufacturing over a ten year span ending in 1909 shows the automobile industry leading growth percent, with large gains also in copper tin and sheet iron. Iron and steel and sugar related sectors show wage declines while overall wage earners rise 40.4 percent and product value climbs 81.2 percent. Slaughtering and meat packing rank first in gross product, followed by foundry and machine shop products, lumber and timber, iron and steel works, and flour and grist mills.
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United States
Census Bureau
Professor Carter Dies in Americus at 75
Americus Ga March 24 Professor J H Carter longtime resident and educator dies after long illness aged 75 Born in Mechtenberg County Va he moved to Americus as a youth and taught at Furlow Masonic Female College and other local schools Funeral services held this afternoon led by Rev J W Stokes and Dr O B Chester with Confederate veterans and Masonic Order in attendance
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Americus
J. H. Carter
Carter
Mech-tenberg County
Sumter
Furlow Masonic Female College
J. W. Stokes
Presbyterian Church
O. B. Chester
First Methodist Church
Camp Sumer No
United Confederate Veterans
Masonic Order
Judge Littlejohn May Enter Race in Third District
Americas Ga March 24 Special The congressional race in the third district may see Judge F A Littlejohn of the southwestern judicial circuit join. Strong friends in each of the fifteen counties urge his candidacy and expect an announcement after he finishes bench duties in six weeks, joining rivals Judge Charles Crisp and Hon John R Mercer who have already declared.
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Americas
Third
A. Littlejohn
Southwestern Judicial Circuit
Littlejohn
Charles Crisp
John R. Mercer
Season ticket sale ends this week for Atlanta opera
Atlanta offers seven operas this year up from five and four in prior seasons. Season tickets, already in high demand with record receipts, close this Saturday March 30. Single tickets go on sale Monday April for separate performances. Many good seats remain available if chosen this week.
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Atlanta
The Fighting Marine Over the Great Divide
Washington report on Robert F. Wynne known as The Fighting Marine. Former U S Marine captain dies at 36 from tuberculosis contracted in China after service in Cuba the Philippines and China. He earned congressional thanks and medals before resigning after a notable court martial.
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Washington
Robert F. Wynne
United States Marine Corps
Fighting Marine
Robert J. Wynne
Wynne
China
Boxars
Roosevelt
Death sentence for Slaughter in Edgeton murder
Hopkinsville Ky March 24 The death penalty was imposed by a jury on Tom Slaughter 18 for murdering Lee Jenkins during a quarrel over a dime cheese purchase in Jenkins store at Edgeton Ky The jury was sent out last night and Judge Hanterry was called from church to receive the verdict The conviction has renewed local tension with two Negroes active in Slaughter's defense removed by whitecaps.
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Hopkinsville
Tom Slaughter
Lee Jenkins
Jenkins
Edgeton
Hanterry
Slaughter
Yules Cochran kills engineer E E Gibson
Yules Cochran accused after a Florida East Coast railroad worker, E E Gibson, is killed. Police say Cochran, arrested earlier in the day, was intoxicated when the fatal incident occurred near Jacksonville. Local officials report investigation underway and no further details released.
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Yules Cochran
Key
Fla
Florida
Coast Railroad
Cochran
Jeter Waa
Gibson
Unpainted Poles Spark Atlanta City Beauty Debate
Citizens urge enforcement of city ordinance 2486 requiring painting of telegraph and telephone poles. Atlanta police and construction chiefs urged to act after ten days' notice. unpainted poles mar streets, invite vermin, and hinder the city’s cleanliness and beauty efforts.
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Atlanta
Police Department
Hoetier
Atlante
Future of W. and A. Railroad Is State's Biggest Problem
Hon. John M. Slaton president of the senate calls the Western and Atlantic railroad Georgia's foremost issue. He opposes sale, urges protective steps before the 1919 lease ends, and notes the road as a bond and school income safeguard. He also outlines pardons process and recounts death sentence clemency actions during his governorship.
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W. & A. Railroad
Georgia
John M. Slaton
Senate
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Slaton
State Road
Doors of Athens Trust Found Open by Officer
Athens Ga March 24 Special More complications in the defunct Athens Trust and Banking Company. The night police found the front door open and notified the receiver who says he locked it. Eight different keys are spread among city parties and he cannot collect them. Nothing else was disturbed. Papers were double locked in the bank vault and the combination changed by the receiver. Money was deposited in another bank. Notes amounting to several hundred dollars advertised in papers warned against trading them. They were not part of the property transferred to Receiver Frank Lipacomb.
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Athens
Athens Trust and Banking Company
Polce
Frank Lipacomb
Levee Leak Alert Near Hickman Mississippi
Hickman Kentucky March 24 with 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 residents feel uneasy though the river surface stood seven feet above ground behind the levee and rising at a rate of about 18 inches daily the crest is believed to be passing.
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Hickman
Cattle Quarantine Lifted by Wilson Across Multiple States
Washington March 23 By order of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson the cattle tick fever quarantine will be lifted tomorrow in King and Pecos counties Texas as well as portions of Howard and Terrell counties and parts of Ripley Oregon. Also released are Panola and Atlama in Missouri Mississippi counties Hart in Georgia Union Laurens Cherokee Spartanburg and Greenwood and portions of Abbeville York and Chester in South Carolina Lawrence Benton and parts of Hardeman Hamilton and Polk in Tennessee.
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Wilson
King and Pecos
Texas
Howard
Terrell
Ripley
Oregon
Newton and
McDowall Countie
Missouri
Panola
Atlama
Mississippi
Hart County
Union
Laurens
Cherokee
Spartanburg
Greenwood
Abbeville
York and Chester
South Carolina
Lawrence
Benton
Hardeman
Hamilton and
Polk
Tennessee
Bibb County backs Underwood with 700 signatures
Macon Ga March 24 Special That Oscar Underwood of Alabama will carry Bibb county without trouble, as over 700 persons have signed petitions in favor of the Underwood club. Friends say that before next week passes, twice that many names will be secured.
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Macon
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
Bibb County
Underwood
Friends of the
Passas
Knox Leaves Caracas on Final Day of Visit
Caracas reports the final day of the American secretary of state Mr Knox and his party in the Venezuelan capital marked by a luncheon with Foreign Minister General Manuel Matos and a meeting with American Minister Elliott Northcott. Special races were held at the Hippodrome before departure.
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Knox
Caracas
Atate
Puerto Cabello
Manuel Matos
Elliott .Northcott
Legation
Many Macon Girls Attracted To Stage Life Ad
Macon Georgia March 24 Special. A man calling himself Dr Littledeer posted an ad in a local paper seeking girls to enter the theatrical profession. Several responded and one was engaged. Police and W C T U officials are investigating the matter and what becomes of the girls drawn by the advertisement. The man reportedly left Macon for Columbus.
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Macon
Littledeer
Sirla
Dr. Littledeer
Columbus
Governor of Samos Murdered by Greek Governor
Constantinople reports the prince governor Adre Kepassis Effend!, ruler of Samos since 1907, was shot and killed today by a Greek assassin amid a political feud with the Hellenic party. The attacker was arrested as authorities investigate the motive.
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Constantinople
Adre Kepassis Effend
Samos
Turkey
Two Drowned Waiters Buried on Jekyl Island
Brunswick Ga March 24 Special Rev RE FE Borkin of Brunswick conducted the funeral services for George Harvey and Hector Delijanis buried on Jekyl Island yesterday. Both men were waiters at the Ickyl Island Club and were drowned while in surf watching on Thursday. Harvey, born in Forest Gate London, and Delijanis a Smyrna native. Guests and club employees attended the services in the chapel.
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Brunswick
RE. FE. Borkin
George Harvey
Hector Delijanis
Jekyl Island
Harvey
Delijanis
Ickyl Island Club
Surf
Forrest Gate
London
Smyrna
Two Fatally Injured in Inland Fight Near Birmingham
In Inland Blount county Alabama three men engaged in a gunfight after a free-for-all dispute. C. O. Fulton and M. C. Haskem were driven to Birmingham that night fatally injured. Fulton was accidentally shot by his friend Hal kem during the clash.
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Birmingham
Ala
Fulton
M. C. Haskem
Inland
Louisvill S and Nashville
Blouns County
Halkem
Congress on Hygiene Meets in United States
Congress on Hygiene and Demography in Washington promises world standardization of hygienic methods. The international body meets September 23 28 at the invitation of the president and congress, a first for the United States in its sixty year history.
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Washington
United States
The Shadowy Days and Dreaming Memories
Fragmentary verse speaks of wraiths and dreams at night and a wish to interpret hidden feelings. Names appear as oblique references and the speaker contemplates past light and present shadows in a poetic, dreamlike cadence. The text evokes longing, memory, and elusive meaning.
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