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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1908
Page
11
A stream of colorful political gossip touches figures like Taft, Bryan, Hughes, Fairbanks, and Taft’s potential allies. Reports tease Indiana settlements, ministerial conduct, and the photogenic glare of candidates. Local quips praise or lampoon governors, editors, and public figures while jokes about cigars, peace temples, and a mayor’s free advertising greet readers.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce vows to attract five large gatherings including the Southern Baptist Convention and the American Cotton Manufacturers Association. It touts Atlanta’s proven convention success, its soon ready auditorium, and the city’s rising status as a national convention leader with a reputation from coast to coast.
The Constitution defends Judge Turner and the state prison commission in Georgia. It argues the reform school must be separate from the penal system and that juvenile justice requires age and grade distinctions. It urges placing the reformatory under a different management to avoid creating criminals.
A provocative, era-like call urges KD-Builders to bid on Georgia contracts across railroads factories and trade. It promises vast opportunities, argues for sanity justice and conservatism, and warns that uncertaintly will drive builders elsewhere. It frames state uplift through employment, higher cotton prices, and rising land values while urging reputable intentions.
The piece argues mosquito and fly control near Forts Hil and Washington and in Atlanta can cut malaria and typhoid risks. It notes malaria fall after extermination efforts and cites Milwaukee with typhoid linked to a church festival. It claims 10000 Atlanta homes lack sewerage and urges urban sanitation to prevent disease spread.
A fragmented lyric and travelogue style poem duets with hymnlike passages about life’s trials. It weaves a narrator’s weary view of the “old life-circus” with prayers and moral reflections on trust in God, resilience, and hopeful guidance through trouble. Strong imagery and nameless voices frame a rural, early 20th century cadence.
A Georgia editor responds to misreports of prison conditions and race mixing and then letters praise suppressing concealed pistols. Authors urge firearm abolition, noting past era conflicts, rail magnates, and political figures. An old war poem by Henry N Jackson closes the page.
The Augusta Chronicle reprints a Georgia battle over Governor Hoke Smith with strong warnings against his alleged hypocrisy and political flip flops. It mocks Smith as a cuttlefish and links his shifts to Roosevelt era schemes and the Ananias Club. Readers are urged to rebuke Smith and defend Georgia’s progress and conservatism.
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