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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1915
Page
13
Advertisement rates for the Constitution in Atlanta and outside areas are listed with weekly and monthly prices, plus distribution notes. A report from Albany Ga Herald cites improved business, rising cotton, and note payments as proof of prosperity, noting optimism despite earlier pessimism.
The Pensacola News cites Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas as the main sources of a $1,000,000 live stock windfall, noting a shift from scarce stock farms a decade ago to widespread, future-oriented farming. It highlights Union County South Carolina as an exemplar where hay and corn needs are met locally, signaling a regional stock-raising boom.
The United States weighs a strong protest over Armenian Christian massacres by Mohammedan forces. Turkiye’s government has been told public sentiment could strain Turkey US ties, though Ankara seeks no domestic interference. A past incident with Turkish minister Rustem Bey is recalled as context.
A Turkish minister’s remarks about savagery in Turkey and Turkish interests in the United States provoke a debate. The piece argues Turkish arrogance, Western indifference to abuses at home, and predicts little US protest will change policy. It calls for denunciation and hopes barbarians will be driven from Europe.
The United States proposes a ten year program to stabilize Haiti by developing agriculture and industry, reducing debt, and establishing a sound government under Rear Admiral Caperton. Haiti’s independence will be maintained and no territory ceded, with aim to end disorder and uplift living standards for Haitians.
A Georgia tale echoes a dream of music with lines about lost days and enduring love as a man envisions life beyond. Chicago News reports a miser story where Thorpe’s brother leaves a legacy requiring a hundred dollar tombstone, but the miser trims the inscription to the absurdly short “Thorpes Corpses a.”
An OCR fragment from The Macon News and other papers features mockery of a temperance lecture by a Mountain Patriarch, scattered lines about faith, speech, and community life. It includes jumbled phrases on Providence, a note about an up-to-date poet for The Tifton Gazette, and a brief cheeky ad urging advertising for reach and influence.
James H. Blount argues in a 1915 speech that Britain has made cotton contraband, undermining neutral rights. He traces the shift from the 1909 Declaration of London, which protected neutral cotton, to recent British orders that blockade cotton to Germany and Austria-Hungary. He cites British policy, economic warfare aims, and U.S. concerns, warning that unpreparedness risks rights and trade.
Dr Evans outlines the harms of fee splitting, signs of fee splitters, and remedies. He urges public education and independent patient choice, listing medical directories and state boards as tools, and calls for informed scrutiny of operators, hospitals, and surgeons. The goal is empowering patients to decide who operates and how much to pay.
Verse by Mary Johnson Blackburn recalls walking a gate path to Riley famed lane and field memories. It praises his poems and artistry as a fatherly muse, invoking Mother and the joy of childhood through nostalgic imagery and musical lines.
A speech advocates sharpening military and naval readiness to curb German aggression and press England to remove cotton restrictions. It urges costly actions to restore respect, suggesting the president strengthen armed forces and rebuff insults, echoing President Washington on national resolve.
The state railroad commission granted permission to end passenger service on trains 29 and 40 between Cornelia and Franklin North Carolina. HW Miller of Atlanta, vice president of the Tallulah Falls Railway, represented the company. A second petition will be heard October 26. A. Jones elected president of Georgia barber examiners board for 1934.
In Georgia, a long debate over creating county commissioners of agriculture recedes. The author praises demonstration work begun eight to nine years ago by Gentry and Knipp, noting seventy county agents and forty canning club agents. He argues for funding and support for the existing demonstration system under the State College of Agriculture and opposes new offices unless tied to this work.
A nostalgic birthday poem celebrates Walt Mason with references to James Whitcomb Riley Booth Tarkington and Abe and Abe among others. The verse imagines a grand banquet and distant guests, honoring the poet’s life and work while lamenting the inability to attend.
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