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Atlanta urged to authorize 5 to 6 million bond issue
The finance committee urges Atlanta to authorize a bond issue of 5 to 6 million dollars for permanent public improvements including schools sanitation hospitals and police. Officials argue income cannot cover maintenance and essential projects, warning of delays if not acted now and noting private firms are borrowing to fund such work.
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Atlanta
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Canadian Pacific
We Will Begin Work on Atlanta Improvements When Funds Arrive
The statement notes readiness to start substantial public works in Atlanta and provide thousands of jobs as soon as money markets permit funding. It emphasizes upgrades and progress once financial conditions allow.
Relief for the Schools End of Double Sessions Near
The article argues double daily sessions in Atlanta public schools could have been prevented with prior budgeting. It notes the finance committee added forty three teachers and predicts full support in 1915 to ensure adequate schooling, urging relief for parents and children.
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Atlanta
The Artists at War and the Value of Life
A reflective stance on artists and the wartime duty they share with peasants, weighing Christian and metaphysical views. The piece argues that when war comes all lives have equal value, and even famed creators may answer the call and face danger. It questions whether artists should be protected or sacrificed for civilization.
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Europe
Maeterlinck
Slezak
Moujik
Arma
Tibet
London
Paris
Berlin
Belgium
Watterson on the War Pen Picture From The Courier Journal
Colonel Henry Watterson writes a somber war reflection from Europe describing slaughter global in tone. He urges prayers over the wreckage of cities from Ghent to Liege and Louvain, indicting war’s ruin and the folly of warriors while noting the smoke rising to heaven.
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Henry Watterson
Courier- Journal
Flanders
Louvain
Fragmented verse fragments from a Georgia piece
A garbled OCR style poem fragment references love and time with scattered lines about spring, winter, and a mislaid road. It mentions Georgia, Rivera of Darkness, and a man who kept singing in the log, with a final note that the Mars of this day beat him at his own game.
Lone Tree Mothers' club meeting and recipe exchange
The Travers Recorder reports the Lone Tree Mothers' club met at Mrs C M Buell's home after noon. Twelve ladies attended and two program recipes were exchanged for canning jelly making and putting up pickles. The note also mentions a grateful undertaker preparing a banquet for local doctors.
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Lone Tree Mothers’ Club
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Distress Cotton Orders Sought by Georgia Farmers
The Bank of Dawson and several Georgia lenders urge buyers and farmers to coordinate on distress cotton. Officials from Dawson, Villa Rica, Forsyth, and Cumming seek to store weigh and grade cotton, arrange high-value sales, and promote 10-cent cotton purchases as part of a statewide buy-a-bale effort. Local farmers discuss selling bales to ease economic strain.
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Forsyth
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Louis E. Wisdom
Cumming, Ga
Indifferent Children and The Advanced Daughter in Society
A critique of young women and their choices, warning against wasteful spending and idle living. It contrasts indifferent children, ambitious daughters, idle single women, and coquettish behavior, urging women to cultivate character, usefulness, and genuine strength over vanity and social games.
Peace Be Still Poem by C H McLendon
A devotional poem invoking divine peace on a day of prayer. The speaker appeals to God to calm wars and turmoil, asking for humility and guidance to do the will, citing the biblical "Peace, Be Still" and the need for universal harmony.
Hold a Bale Move Endorsed by Cotton Farmers
A LaGrange Georgia resident urges support for Mr F M Akers proposed "hold a bale" plan. He argues poor farmers should hold one bale of cotton for each full one horse farm they run to aid self help rather than relying on charity. W E Wilson signs the letter.
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Quitar
F M. Akers
W. E. Wilson
LaGrange, Ga
Purchases by Woman's Clubs in Sturgis Mail
Editor Constitution Sorosis 2 woman’s club of Sturgis Michigan vote today to buy a hat of cotton. Would it not be a good idea to suggest a purchase to other women’s clubs Mrs F W Wait Sturgis Michigan September 29 1914.
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Sorosis
Woman's Lab
Sturgis
Mich
F. W. Wait
Double Session Question Praised by Reader
Mrs Tomas H Northen of Atlanta Ga writes to commend The Constitution for its defense of public schools against double sessions and to wish continued success for the newspaper.
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Tomas H. Northen
Atlanta
This Dog a Born Poet
A club gathers after a day of shooting and shares dog stories. A silent member boasts of a dog that outsmarts others, recounting a humorous tale of a forget-me-not incident and a garden scene with a dog’s yearning look.
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Rhermingetonia Ledge
International gold pool plan frames postwar exports surge
The Holland Letter describes a vast wartime export push led by United States Steel and New York banks. Seventeen thousand tons of steel to Queensland signal a widening flow of American goods abroad. The piece details a proposed national gold pool, backed by major banks led by Forgan and Wiggin, to fund foreign obligations and stabilize money markets, aiming for resumed exports and normalcy.
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James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Queensland
Australia
England
Germany
Homestead Works
Pittsburg
Russia
Pacific
Chile
Great Britain
France
New York
New York City
Federal Reserve Board
United States
James Burwick Forgan
First National Bank of Chicago
Albert Heigein
Chase National Bank
Clearing House Committee of
Breadines
Forgan
Albert H. Wisem
Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Wiegin
Morgan
Ferzan
Chicago
Wigein
Federal Reserve District
Wiggin
Federal Reserve System
Central Reserve
St. Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
Reserve District of the United States
America
Hollanr
Fairy Music and Moonlit Fairyland Verse
A poetic fragment depicts fairy musicians playing seaweed harp beechnut violin moonbeam lute and river reed while Pan Syrinx and Oberon figure in a moonlit scene. A note from Grace Hazard Conkling appears with a playful Paris Mele Mele joke about repaying francs.
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Syrinx
Pan
Grace Hazard Conkling
Vaccination and ocean travel humor from old period copy
A humorous essay traces vaccination history and its societal impact, then transitions to a satirical look at first and second class ocean travel. It pokes at nursemaids, trunk habits, and travel pretensions, ending with quips on women’s beauty parlors and gendered assumptions.
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