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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1909
Page
11
The Constitution newspaper notes Clark Howell as editor and Roby Robinson as business manager in its daily publication Saturday coverage.
The Constitution argues that southern states lose population to the West due to railroads and Western schemes. It urges civic groups and railways to reverse the drain, highlight southern advantages, and keep workers home with targeted campaigns and better regional cooperation.
The Savannah bound cargo of 22,725 500 pound bales of cotton, the largest from the port and likely the largest from any U.S. port, valued at about 1.34 million dollars, is shipped aboard the Indian of the Leland line to Bremen. The piece argues the South must prove its cotton's power by reducing dependence on external supplies and boosting domestic production to feed Europe and the world. It warns that much of the value will go to the West and East for foodstuffs, urging Americans to leverage cotton assets and expand local farming to maximize national and regional gains.
An observant note argues farmers now have money from high cotton prices and improving rail and rural delivery. It recommends marketing to rural southerners via Tri Weekly Constitution and its 350000 homes weekly, reaching 1.75 million readers, as the best small-town sale route.
The Mississippi voyage for the Taft expedition carried nine poker tables for the congressional delegation, challenging the notion that the riverboats were run with ample hospitality. The article notes the sparse provision aboard the craft and questions the adequacy of entertainment for the traveling lawmakers.
Fragmented verses mix songs and sketches about money’s lure and hope, Georgia optimism, and a grim vignette of a washroom tuberculosis treatment scene. The text blends poems about fortune with a sobering hospital ritual, ending with a grand, uncertain note about life and glory.
A letter from Richard H Edmonds urges reducing emigration and welcoming the right kind of immigration to protect southern energy and brainpower. A B and A Railroad official promotes development of the territory, Georgia Development Company, and home-seeker excursions to attract settlers to south Georgia and the broader southeast region.
Southern states superintendent visiting Menomonie and Winneconne shows rural Wisconsin county agricultural schools blending eight grade standards with farm courses. Schools like Menomonie boast 700 graduates mostly in agriculture, with programs in agronomy, horticulture, animal husbandry, and domestic science. Advocates say such schools lift farming, raise output, and rejuvenate rural life, urging expansion in the South.
In a peace court hearing four Chinese men bound over to the state court on a lottery operating charge. Names resemble Lee Sing Chee To Gling Goonk Lum How and Lee. Officers Anderson and Watson arrested them after George Hong reported gambling losses. He said drawings occurred at the Chinese foas house on East Hunter street with prizes from $1 to thousands.
Officers arrested chestnut vendors after they refused to move from near Marietta Street and the viaduct Peachtree. The group, named as Peter Econamou A R Scoble A Scoble DB Takianos and Zebulon Capenamos, were sent to headquarters as required by law.
Oyster Bay neighbors note Theodore Roosevelt is 51 today in birthday books. A magazine article quotes him describing himself as an elderly gentleman who yarled past includes rheumatism.
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