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Newspaper

Atlanta Constitution

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 31, 1902

Page

9

Notice to Subscribers and Postal Rates at Constitution

The Constitution announces a uniform annual rate of 25 dollars for six days and 7 dollars for combined daily and Sunday editions. Traveling reps include W A Overby and E F Gainn, with solicitors Hunt and Loving. City collectors are James T Carter and Claude A Virgin. Do not pay others. Postal rates for Canada and Mexico vary by page count.

W. A.overby McNelley BMW Pack T. H. Hunt, & & Loving James T. Carter Claude A. Virgin Constitution Publishing CO

Subscriptions Offered for Sun in Territory Outside Atlanta

Nichols & Holliday advertise subscriber rates for circulars including Sundays and holidays. One year or six months options available with proportional pricing. Advertising managers for all territory outside of Atlanta are noted at Constitution Building.

WAIL Eep-Serenseeeeen Bunday Bunny South Shore Wheely Nichols & Holliday Constitution Building Atlanta

Ignorance and Anarchy in a Grosvenor Speech

In Atlanta on May 31 1902 the piece criticizes Congressman Grosvenor Ohio for praising literacy as an anarchic trait and argues education aided colonial founders and constitutional ideals. It warns against restricting literacy and notes racial and colonial implications including Filipino readers and U S educational policy. It ends noting a separate note on Senator Mitchell Oregon proposing a Portland assay office and a banquet ruse to influence passage.

Grosvenor Ohio House of Representatives Europe America United States Atkinson Philippines Filpinos Buncombe Mitchell Oregon Portland Senate

Graft, wealth disparity and race relations in a reform era

The piece lampoons a graft scheme in Congress with a comic alert to state hogging and banquet halls. it reviews John Gilmer Speed on wealth concentration, noting one percent hold over half national wealth. It urges Roosevelt to veto a race relations commission and quotes a Georgia negro minister urging lawful equality and social order.

Mitchell Houses Congress Sueculius Georgia Houston County Joe Blackburn Old Kentucky Joe Bailey Beef Trust Michigan Senators Kalamazoo Commissariat John Gilmer Speed Ainslee United States Speed Roosevelt South Constitution Hev. L. A. Townsley Washington

Atlanta News Glows Amid Pelee Coverage Across Papers

A collage of headlines notes Atlanta’s rapid pace in reporting Mont Pelee eruptions with city officials tightening security. Various papers share reflections on riot risks, civic duty, and editorial commentary, while editors discuss Atlanta’s role in national alerts and the Martinique event coverage.

Milledgeville Mont Pelee Atlanta Augusta Athens Augusta Tribune Covington The Georgia Odd Fellows LaGrange Reporter AU the Stars Jackson Missi Atlanta Constitution Reenville Martinique Savannah Morning News St. Louis Corpus Christi Tex Pelee Savannah Press New Jarsey Savannah Seagirt Memphis Tenn Siont Pelee Martiniqua Atisata Mane

London Gossip on Kendal Scandal at Leicester Stage

Details of Mrs Kendal’s Leicester rower episode with an unsettled audience, concerted protests, and a costly legal action as the manager fights her claim of poor actor accommodations. Also notes on Three Little Maids at Apollo and Prince of Siam’s theater work, plus casting shifts in London establishments.

London Kendal Leicester Actess the Apollo America Edna May Holna May

Letters From The People Correction On Address To Rev Pringle

In Sandersville Ga on May 29 1902 a letter asks correction of a misaddressed salutation to Rev Pringle noting he never held that title. The writer recalls Parks narrow escape and a Goodwin’s Creek incident near Coweta County describing a shotgun accident at a Tangled spring picnic where a gun discharged.

Mr. Pringle BR. Pringle A Pringle Sandersville, Ga Parks Constitution Yeester Day Mr. Parks Acme Menos

Roosevelt Ends General Miles War Secretary Role

President Roosevelt issues an order removing General Miles from acting as secretary of war in the absence of Root and Sanger, severing ties between the war department and Army headquarters. The move, amid political maneuvering, signals Miles’s sidelining while reshaping succession and command structure at the top of the military.

Jos Washington Roosevelt Miles Root Sanger War Department Army Corbin Nto Secretary Root 8. B. M. Young General Young Army War College Young Annapolia Hrochambeau Army Headquarters Ward Steele House Payne Dalzell Indiana Néoews Wabash Ind Frederick Landis Logansport Oklahoma Charlie Landis Congress

Fragmentary note recalls a deadly chain of acts near saw mill

A letter from W H Griffin of Oxford Aln recounts a violent history involving Misa Suttles who escaped a pistol shot, dying a year later from another wound, and Mr Packs who survived a shotgun incident by his own hand only to die years later by the same weapon near the same place. He wonders if shadows of agents moved McDonald's saw mill location 46 miles away.

Misa Suttles Mr. Packs Drme McDonald’s Saw Mill W. H. Griff Oxford Aln

Knight in Kentucky at Decoration Day Services

The Danville Kentucky newspaper praises Hon Lucian Knight of Atlants for a majestic Decoration Day address in the Danville cemetery. The piece lauds his lofty sentiments bravery eloquence and pathos and notes a request for a published full copy in a future issue.

Knight Allence Green Hoe Grady

Oriental Croesus Tagore Named Maharajah of Eastern India

Sir Joteendra Tagore, a Maharajah in British India, cannot attend the London coronation. His nephew will represent him. Tagore is noted as one of the wealthiest magnates in eastern India and a generous patron of arts and philanthropy. His hospitality is famed in Calcutta and beyond.

Joteendra Tagore British India London Chronicle London Calcutta Tagore Bir Joteendro Tagore Castle Tagore Street British India Assocation Hereditty

When Lord Hagian Speaks

London Leader notes Lord Ragian’s post dinner habit of arranging nearby items on the table into an imagined trio of figures, provoking amusement among onlookers as he prepares to address the gathering.

Lord Hagian London Lord Ragian Nottie

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