Taft and Poltical Fences Highlight May 22 1908 News
Atlanta May 22 1908 State primary register last opportunities Big taft delegates quest Peary north pole reward Manifold political fences and satire from The Constitution New York coverage by Sart correspondent Broad street and Twenty ninth street references Mar cities ads and travel reps listed.
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Maxton
Cebane
Atlante
Oia
Nichols
Holliday
Atimpta
Warhington
Fifteenth Street
Joan Corelgan
Charse
New York
Visi
Broadway
Madison Square Notich
Blackburn
CS Moore
Atekinson
Cvpreet
H. Domnelle Ong
Commutotion Portisberg CO
Slander as Treason to the People and Public Confidence
A lengthy 1903 speech excerpt condemns attacks on public figures as treason to the people. It cites John Sharp Williams and Theodore Roosevelt warning against unfounded corruption charges. The piece argues that slander harms governance by eroding trust, harming business, and weakening state and national institutions.
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National
House of Representatives
House
John Sharp Wiliams
Mississippi
Piedmont Driving Club
Atlanta
Roosevelt
National Congress
Georgia
Theodore Roosevelt
Thie
What’s the Matter With Atlanta
Cedartown Georgia with 343 registered voters calls an election to authorize municipal bonds up to 30000 for sewerage extension and street improvements. The piece urges Atlanta business leaders to educate the public and act now to improve health, economy, and progress before the next census.
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Cedartown
Memphis
Nashville
Jacksonville
Birmingham
Columbus
Athens
Dublin
Atlanta
Gate City
South
Council
Chamber OF Commerce
Real Need of Currency Legislation
Washington rumors claim all efforts to pass currency legislation are halted, unsettling business interests. Congress has met since December with little progress, prompting calls for decisive action to restore monetary stability and confidence, criticizing excessive delay and insufficient recourse for future stringencies.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Just From Georgia Weather Ballad Verse
A fragmentary verse depicts looming storm caution and anxious refrain. Georgia setting implied with weather imagery and warnings, conveying fear and anticipation of trouble arriving with lightning and wind. The snippet reads like a regional meditation on storms and fate with refrain urging worry.
Letters From EHOPLE and Poems on Moonlit Nights
Reader excerpts from a 1908 issue include verse about the moon and bedtime fairies, rustic dialect pieces, and a newspaper letter criticizing Hoke Smith and Georgia politics. The page also presents a citizen’s commentary on Atlanta leaders in 1885 and a 1908 stance by Lucius Middlebrooke urging Bryan support.
Export and Import Trade Order From Interstate Commerce
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued an executive order on export and import traffic between U.S. points and foreign countries. Under Commission No. 127, Cosmopolitan Shipping Co v Hamburg American, carriers must publish rates to ports and inland connections, and Tariffs should clearly state inland fare when tariffs list export and import rates to ocean carriers.
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Commission
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Cosmopolitan Shipping Company
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Southern states reject New York cotton exchange reliance
The piece argues that Georgia and southern states can obtain market quotations from local boards, deeming NY Cotton Exchange quotes biased and punitive. It claims minimal impact on southern business, asserts real-value sources exist beyond New York, and states the South is ready to sever ties with the exchange to improve local trade.
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Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade
Georgia
New York Cotton Exchange
Bod
Remarkable Religious Revival Converts Hundreds in Tifton
In Tifton Georgia May 2 a sweeping revival in the Methodist church led by Rev T M Christian has drawn vast crowds. The city suspended business as hundreds profess conversion and about two hundred join the church amid strong political figures seeking faith. The union meetings flood the town with enthusiasm and the church cannot hold the attendees.
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Tifton
South Georgia
T. M. Christian
Quitman
Methodist Church
Ten Million Dollar Mortgage Ties Tide Water Plans
The Birmingham and Gulf Navigation Company mortgaged ten million dollars to Carnegie Trust Company signaling the first real step in Tidewater Development Company plans. T. N. Moore of Montgomery will be general manager as work proceeds toward a deep sea terminal at Dauphin Island, with an option secured for seventy thousand dollars.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Birmingham and Gulf Navigation Company
Carnegie Trust Company of New York
Tidewater Development Company
T. N Moore
Montgomery
Dauphin Island
Wholesale jail delivery ends with escape and murder charge
In Hinesville Georgia a mass jail break breached a wall releasing inmates with a hole large enough for escape. Found inside were a file and cap tools for cutting bars. One escapee, a Black man who murdered a Black man at Ludowici recently, faces murder charges.
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Omest
Wana Nesro
Hinesville
Ludowici
Farmer Cavender Dies by Self Inflicted Shotgun Wound
James Cavender of Geddiatown about 20 miles south of Blairsville Georgia killed himself at home yesterday with a shotgun in what is described as temporary insanity. A well to do farmer and respected Union County resident aged about fifty five leaves a wife and several children. This is said to be the first death by own action in Union County history.
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Blairsville
Sumy
James Cavender
Geddiatown
Union County
Cavender
Sale of Easter chicks leads to cruelty conviction
New York May 21 Gaston Falvre is convicted due to SPCA actions for selling Easter chicks last season in violation of penal code that makes acts tending to cruelty to animals a misdemeanor. This is the first time selling chicks has been construed under this statute.
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New York
Gaston Falvre
Society For the Prevention of
Gubernatorial Campaign Notes and Georgia Race Debates
A fragmented critique discusses Joe Brown and Hoke Smith campaigns in Georgia. It questions disfranchisement effects, negro voting, and populist power, citing Cedartown speeches, Brooks county materials, and editorials from The Atlanta Journal. The piece argues about political leverage and voter influence shaping the June 4 primary.
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Hoke Smith
Atlanta
Augusta
Jos Brown
Cedartown
Senas
Brooks County
Over 100 Applicants For Library School
The examination for admission to the Library Training School will be held Friday June 12 at 9 am in the Carnegie Library building. The school is limited to ten students. over one hundred applicants have been received. Entrance is by competitive exam. top ten averages admitted. The June test determines the 1909 class starting September 1908. Graduates have pursued library work nationwide, including Yale University Library and Library of Congress. More than a hundred applicants indicates southern women seek this field. For information contact Miss Jule F Rankin, director, Carnegie Library of Atlanta.
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Carnegie Library Fone
Library Training School
Brary
Lbrary School
Yale University
Library of Congress
Texas
Jule F. Rankin
Carengie Lbrary
Atlante
Three Youths Sent to City Chain Gang for Idleness
Three white youths Milard Stevens Jit Gann Henry V Vanadore and Adolph Mitchell were sent to the city chain gang for two weeks by Recorder Brosses after police arrested them on charges of idling and loitering. Stevens had previous minor punishment and a leg injury. the others spent time loafing and playing baseball, with Vanador’s mother needing neighbors’ aid. The recorder declared two weeks of hard labor the only remaining option.
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Recorder Brosses
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Jit Gann
Henry V Vanadore
Adolph Mitchell
Stevens
Vanadores
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