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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1909
Page
5
A mosaic of remarks touches on prosperity preaching eccentricities Peary and travel bets a tariff deadlock and platform orators. It notes Spain's Moorish demand and Wright brothers space race while lampooning newspaper greed and politics. A Beaumont school trustee offers a gold medal for perfect English as girls abandon slang.
The tariff issue endures as Taft touts the Payne Aldrich bill while Republican and Democratic factions clash over its merits. Analysts warn a congress made tariff is a farce and urge independent rates set by a tariff commission to ensure broader national gains amid looming political shifts.
The Designer argues that municipal health funding yields high returns in public welfare and prosperity. It likens a sick town to a sick individual, urging voters to invest in health facilities now rather than face higher costs later. December polls shape Atlanta’s sanitary and equipment renewal.
Gifford Pinchot returns to Washington to urge Congress to investigate a water power monopoly and alleged abuse of public coal lands in the west, especially Alaska. He argues the issues demand early, thorough action to prevent monopolies and looting of public property, framing his case as a public service rather than windmill-girding rhetoric.
Treasury clarifies the 1910 penal code re enacting a law from forty seven years ago. It forbids using small checks as currency rather than merely prohibiting issuing them for small payments. The public misunderstanding arose from reports of new provisions affecting small checks and currency substitution.
The bank will keep operating at the same location to settle small accounts and balances. Local stories from Washington suggested monthly trips to city hall to pay water service with cash, but the sixty-cent check remains valid for the bill though not as fractional currency. No government authorization existed to circulate such currency.
A Collier's Weekly piece extols the virile booster culture of the western states and urges similar vigorous development in the South. It praises organized promotion efforts, notes regional wealth potential, and argues targeted advertising and publicity will accelerate southern growth toward manufacturing prominence.
Prison clemency appeals surge nationwide after Kansas governor pardons a poet inmate. A sample verse pleads doom in Hib Cite jail and urges brothers to shield kin rather than surrender them to punishment on the road. The fragmentary text reflects a plea against wrongful conviction and a call for mercy.
Dr. Frederick Van Eeden proposes a cooperative agricultural colony in North Carolina, modeled after Walden. The plan, backed by an advisory board of New York business and literary figures, would offer land, houses, seed, and implements with a two-tier stock system and first mortgage bonds to raise $1000000.
A monthly report from J M Gloor, Juvenile Probation Officer, notes nineteen youths dismissed from probation in October for ongoing improvement, bringing total dismissals this year to seventy five. The document details cases, actions, and the department's emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation.
Rev Dr Ogden argued the deity of Christ from the apostolic confession Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God. He warned that denying Christ’s divinity makes Unitarian views idolaters or sacrilegious and cited Bible records, witnesses, and the record of Christ’s teaching as proof.
Lord Broughton, famed for a volatile temper, recently hosted a dinner at Thackeray's home. After a fine Madeira flow, he urged guests to sample it. A sharp rebuke followed as he told a fellow guest, I am not your dear boy. I am not old, and your wine.
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