LaGrange Chamber Maps Plan At Panama Route Midpoint
The LaGrange chamber of commerce plans a banquet on November 6 to promote developing a sixty city radius around LaGrange as a strategic halfway point between the east and the isthmus of Panama. Georgia and Alabama governors and state chamber officials are expected to attend. The tract sits on a rich southern corridor likely to gain from canal traffic, boosting agricultural and business prospects.
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Chamber of Commerce of
LaGrange
Panama
Georgia
Alabama
Georgia State Chamber of Commerce
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Educating for Life and the Future of American Education
A Grand Rapids conference on vocational guidance notes a shift in American schooling toward life ready education. Delegates agree on ends over methods, stressing democratized opportunity, practical training, and balanced academic and vocational components to create a critique proof, universally useful system.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Germany
He's Our Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Abroad
The article remarks that Theodore Roosevelt is a national and international institution, perceived as the nation’s property when he travels abroad, underscoring his enduring public stature and impact beyond domestic borders.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Kaiser's South American Journey Stuns Nations and Fans Debate
The piece portrays a famed colonel whose global tour, from Africa to Europe and now South America, draws universal acclaim. It notes his magnetic personality, recent political impact at home, and upcoming yearlong flora and fauna expedition amid lecture tours and colonial discourse. Public interest centers on how his travels influence U.S. politics and party dynamics.
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Europe
Isis
England
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Republican Party
The Wisdom Of Taft As A Corrective To Party Criticism
Former President Taft offers a corrective view on criticism of administrations by party congressmen. He stresses republican and democrat cooperation for the nation’s success and warns that failure of a program will bring accountability to the party leader. Taft praises nonpartisan patriotism and urges country above party in all matters from tariff to national defense.
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Congress
Wilson
Taft
United States
Wilson pressed to act on Mexico after elections
Washington correspondents warn the president cannot delay decisive action after today’s elections. They cite motives of good faith, pacification, and currency legislation as reasons for a soon move amid Mexico’s escalating bloodshed. The piece ends by noting Sulzer’s offer to deliver 100 lectures at $1,000 each as a quip.
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Washington
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
Mexico
Sulzer
Just From Georgia By FRANK L. STANTON
A miscellany of rustic verse and humorous prose pieces explores winter thanks and homey life. It blends dialect humor, seasonal reflections, and brief satirical snippets about politics, journalism, and the Meat Trust. The tone echoes a small town weekly with folkish charm and wry commentary.
Debt, Defiance, and a Debtor's Game in Modern Life
A dialogue between Mrs Jiggers and a star boarder catalogs bohemian philosophy, debt defiance, and sly street theatre. Gripsaw the lawyer pursues a debtor, while the narrator riffs on trouble as necessary spice, turning financial pressure into a social showdown and a lively moral comedy.
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Todhunter
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Mia Jiggers
There, Said the Stern Father I Gave You a Fixed Income
A short tale from The Croycet and Plain B Dealer depicts a stern father granting his son a fixed income of 5000 dollars a year. The son questions fairness as tax implications arise, prompting the father to erupt, tearing up his checkbook in protest.
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Croycet
Popped on the stalk in Murray county farm tale
Mont Robarts of Hally reports a farmer in Murray county popped corn on the stalk. Two ears of popcorn are shown in The Chatsworth Times office, produced by a hot season that caused the corn to pop before harvest.
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Murray County
Mont Robarts
Hally
Times Office
The Rose Unfading Poem Fragment
A reflective poem by Arthur W. Pearce in the New York Sun speaks of autumn entering a garden. Desolate scenes of withered roses and rustling leaves contrast with the enduring idea that love’s rose remains alive within the heart despite seasonal decline.
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Arthur W. Pearce
New York Sun
Emperor William’s withered left arm and earache mysteries
The article explains Emperor William of Germany has a four inch shorter deformed left arm with rudimentary fingers and a limp hand used for reins and piano. It notes theories of birth or physician error, plus an enduring earache that worsens in cold weather and may fuel irritability and sleepless nights. The piece blends personal adversity with rumored impacts on temperament and state conduct.
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William
Germany
Markeman
Trappings and Poetic Yearnings by George Matthew Adams
A compact prose meditation on shedding worthless trappings to boost efficiency, paired with excerpts of lyrical poems declaring deep personal devotion to a beloved, framed by Willard Huntington Wright's Smart Set quote and a sentimental ode to months of the year.
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Willard Huntington Wright
Politeness by George Fitch from The Constitution 1913
A compact essay on politeness as the social lubricant and art of expressing true feeling. Fitch argues politeness eases interaction yet warns against overuse, noting it can distance genuine emotion and even lead to danger when misapplied in social life.
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America
Help for Four Families. French law grants child allowances
The French parliament approves a law giving official aid to families with more than three children and insufficient means. Each child under 13 after the third child receives a fixed annual allowance set by local councils, not less than $1158 per year and not more than $17.37 per child, paid monthly in advance. The aid is nontransferable and protected from distraint.
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General Council
Ministry the Interior
New Fire Fighting Method Demonstrated Nearby Patch
The Fitzgerald Leader notes the fire department responded just after noon to a prairie fire raging in a patch of woods across the south drive. No damage occurred to surrounding property.
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Fitzgerald
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