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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1913
Page
9
The notice lists monthly and weekly subscription prices for Atlanta and outside Atlanta. It states 55 cents per month or 12 cents per week in Atlanta, and 60 cents per month or 14 cents per week outside Atlanta. It also releases that the Constitution is not responsible for advance payments to out of town carriers dealers or agents.
The senate banking and currency committee reports three currency measures sharing core aims with different application modes. All factions agree on fundamentals, signaling a likely enactment soon. Each bill has merits and flaws but all promise relief for business now and in the future. The aim is a workable law before the new year to dispel financial doubt and spur nationwide prosperity.
Pressure mounts in Washington over President Watson’s plan to replace Judson Clements of Georgia on the interstate commerce commission. Supporters argue Clements’ experience informs national policy as Prouty departs, leaving the panel with limited direct expertise on railroad issues amid growing tensions.
President Wilson debated not reappointing 67 year old Judge Clements to clear path for Governor Glenn and ease Senate Overman’s re election. Despite possible fallout, Clements earns a rare non partisan tribute amid partisan apathy and jealousies.
A historic statement from cartoonist Lewis Gregg defends left side milking. He cites witnesses and argues cows yield on left as well as right, while opponents offer only tradition. The panel awaits rebuttal before final judgment.
Theodore Roosevelt’s South American tour drew strong public enthusiasm in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, signaling deeper trade links with the United States. The piece notes South American metropolises, growing Argentine industry, and Brazil’s early-stage potential, while linking Roosevelt’s visit to wider continental cooperation ahead of the Panama Canal. It even jabs at domestic politics and local issues, ending with a quirky quip on Atlanta purchasing agents.
Mrs Curfew dismisses agents selling a Potsdam dishwashing machine as a delusion while recounting a neighbor’s bad installment-buying experience. She and Mr Curfew clash with a visiting agent over scams, broken glass, and the soiled reputations of door to door sellers in a lively domestic tale.
A Georgia official recounts how Governor Charles J. Jenkins hid the great Georgia seal in Canada during radical reconstruction. The tale notes two postwar reconstruct events, Meade’s military governance, and Rufus Bullock’s 1868 inauguration, with Jenkins later turning over the executive seat to James M. Smith and receiving a legislative medal for his fidelity.
Each person has work in his own area to do well. Focusing on others’ business wastes time and energy. By directing effort to one’s own tasks, growth and promotion rise, while attention to peers hinders progress.
Henrietta Gravel presents a chapter on sugar noting its long history since the Saracens, its now recognized health value, and varied uses. She cites American consumption of about seventy pounds per person annually, contrasts with Turkey, and explains sugar cane processing from planting to molasses and sorghum, warning on adulteration and color versus sweetness.
The balloting tool, loaded or not, empowers citizens and shapes leaders from president to alderman. Fitch argues the ballot elevates even small citizens on election day, while inaction leads to abuse by officeholders and failed governance. The piece stresses intelligent use of the ballot and warns against neglect.
The Indianapolis News discusses evolving medical views on appendicitis and the medical role of the appendix, noting surgeries should be last resort and that the germ theory and antiseptics altered practice. It critiques the open air fad, stressing the need for warm, dry, pure air with sunlight rather than cold damp fresh air for conditions like tuberculosis.
Lewis (Gopher) GikEug of Atlanta argues that cows can be milked equally on the left or right, citing farmer Howell and Halstead and denouncing the right hand tradition as unfounded. He cites personal experience and asks for scientific proof before changing practice. November 21, 1913.
A humorous reminiscence on school grammar class methods and dairy farming tales. Charles A. Lamar mocks critics of a boy’s sentence about milking cows and recalls a grave inscription about a cow kick death, urging readers to dismiss narrow milking judgments.
Editor notes a humorous exchange about cow misdeal and which side to milk. A reader suggests consult the cow, leaning to the udder side, and recalls Lincoln about legs. The letter ends with a playful reference to Eve and the first cow.
The editor mocks the question of which sid the cow should be milked on naming Clarence W. Harrison. He claims a solution awaited by dairymen farmers and urban readers and jokes he has never milked a cow yet asserts milk is always drawn from the Outside.
A trove of old theories traces the Ark’s fate after Solomon’s Temple destruction. Some say taken to Babylonia, others hidden within the temple, or carried away by conquerors. Medieval rabbis and later writers debate its existence in the second temple, with modern tales of excavations debunked. The piece surveys biblical references and ancient traditions, noting the Ark’s symbolic protection and miracles associated with the cherubim.
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