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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1912
Page
47
A concise civic note praising a business for its customer service and public confidence. The statement emphasizes accommodation, accuracy, and appreciation as core values supported by public trust. It reads like an endorsement from a local business front, highlighting customer goodwill and ongoing service.
From a Meriwether county rural teachers' institute the editor praises county official W. Howell and Willie H. Johnson for improving negro education. He cites census data showing white farmers outrun in crops, urges better methods to raise food crops, reduce losses, and boost state prosperity while noting some successful black farmers. He questions current farming plans and stresses self-protection by white farmers.
Dr B L Worsham announces an upcoming bulletin warning Georgia planters about the boll weevil. The note says a press bulletin will describe guarding against the pest as it nears the state, with experiments on cotton varieties to resist weevil damage and plant diseases. The piece notes the Georgia planter’s reliance on cotton, seed, and the growing cotton oil industry.
A speech urges Negro teachers preachers and farmers to lead in improving farming in Georgia. It stresses increasing earnings and reliability of rural Black workers, cites Meriwether County fertilizer spending, and recounts Clark University corn trials showing inefficiencies and potential yields.
James B. Morrow profiles Senator Bankhead recalling Civil War heroics at Chickamauga Shiloh and Peach Tree and his later rise in Alabama politics. He praises Bankhead's leadership in mobilizing Oscar Underwood's 1912 campaign, highlights personal courage, family honor, and Bankhead's view of democracy's asset in leadership.
A yard overloaded with shingles offers steep prices for buyers to take only a few bundles or a full carload. Two rail cars await unloading for immediate delivery, with limited time quotes available for local customers.
Senator Bankhead argues that geography by Mr and Wood is unfavorable to shig candidacy. He says hundreds of thousands of voters want to prove by their suffrage that sectional lines are irrelevant and that Americans fight for a single nation and flag from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian boundary. He cites naval heroes Worth Bagley Vic tor Blue and Old Tae Wheeler to illustrate unity across states and dismisses regional divides.
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