Government's Help in Cotton Relief
Article summarizing John K Ottley of Fourth National Bank of Atlanta on federal reserve actions and treasury policy affecting the cotton belt. It urged Congress to pass remedial legislation, promote warehouse financing for farmers, and accelerate federal reserve bank implementation to aid the South.
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John K Ottley
Fourth National Bank of Atlanta
South
Ottley
Federal Reserve Bank
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Cotton Belt
Congress
Micrchanta
Expert advocate urges warehouses for cotton crop handling
C W Olson, a southern manager for United States Fidelity and Guaranty, gives a decisive statement on the value of government funded warehouses to manage the youth’s cotton crop. His authoritative stance comes amid current discussions on the cotton industry.
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C. W Olson
United States Fidelity and Gnnarmnoty Company
Olson
Federal warehousing urged to ease cotton crisis in the South
The piece argues for federal supervised cotton warehousing to stabilize credit and efficiency. It cites Oscar Underwood's telegram to the Alabama Merchants' convention about establishing federal facilities or supervising storage. A centralized, government backed system could relieve ongoing shortages and prevent future crises.
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Oscar Underwood
Alabama Merchants’ Convention
Olson
Editorial Backing Senator Smith Garners Georgia Support
A Georgia T P A letter praises The Constitution for its fair editorial backing of Senator Hoke Smith. It defends relief for the cotton industry and federal aid demands, mocks rival critics, and notes Smith’s determined push for relief legislation to sustain farmers and credit in Georgia.
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Hoke Smith
Smith
Georgia
K Smith
Simlin
Senator Smith
Senate
Heroism in Belgrade and Balkan Fronts
The Belgrade defense draws women into combat as Austrian forces press the Serbian capital. The piece links Balkan heroism to wider WWI strains, noting German and Austrian stakes, self preservation, and racist tensions. The Czar vows to go to Berlin with Russia potentially staying long enough to learn. President Wilson praises congressional wisdom.
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France
Austria
Russia
Belgrade
Servia
Balkan
Europe
Germany
Here in the Light War and Peace Echo in Georgia Home
Words From the Wayside Says the Philosopher of The Dalton Citizen note war doubt and devotion. The Dalton Citizen reflects on religion and patriotism, urging peace with God and homeland ardor amid postwar sentiment. An aside jokes about a Dublin Georgia man seeking the elephant’s lost tower lip and aging labor humor.
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Dalton Citizen
Dublin
Wild mixtures of verse and small town notices
A fragmented page features humorous doggerel about neutrality and drinking customs, a brief note from The Pea Ridge Weekly about a chicken swallowing a ring, a stock line from a poetry piece about rising to the heights, and a social item from The Crowley Chronicle noting Miss Latsie Smith visiting Ass Garnett Williams with a light barbed wire fence quip.
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Pea Ridge Weekly
Misa Lena Patton
Lala
Crowley Chronicle
Latsie Smith
Ass Garnett Williams
America and China Friendship Through History
Sherwood Eddy argues in Worlds Work that the United States has long been China’s best friend. From 1801 and Anson Burlingame’s era to 1901 and the Boxer upheaval, America supported open trade, protested unequal indemnities, and helped maintain peace between Russia and Japan. China seeks a peaceful trading partner in America, a model republic for its own governance.
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America
China
Sherwood Eddy
New Republic
Americas
Anson Burlingame
John Bay
Roosevelt
Russia
Japan
Manchura
Pacific
Government Aid Progress and War Measures Highlight Cotton Crisis
Ottley details wartime economic strains as cotton prices fall and foreign demand dries up. He notes the War Risk Insurance Act enabling cheaper insurance for Atlantic trade, U S ship registrations, and new currency provisions under Aldrich-Vreeland to aid cotton financing. Banks in Georgia report growing circulation and warehouse receipt plans to back cotton loans and bolster southern credit during the emergency.
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New York Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
United States
Witson
Prinecial
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdney
Hbstary
Treasury Department
Aldried-Vreeland
National Currency Associationa
Georgia
Chattspoogs
Hmit
National Currency Association of Georgia
Gevantean
National Currency Asseciation of Georgia
Atlanta
Government Bureau of Printing
Washington
North
Holland Letter on US finance and war debt effects
The Holland Letter argues that mixed views exist on US recovery and that tight money will persist into year end. It notes Britain France and Holland investing abroad, US banks cash hoards, and swift cooperation between Treasury Secretary McAdoo and Congress in expanding emergency currency to stabilize the money market and finance war debts. It predicts strengthened US industry only if foreign demand and funding align with ongoing restraint.
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Shane
Great Britain
England
France
Russia
Unite States
New York City
Thenty Financial
Holland
Vimar
United States
New York
Vanderlip
Washington
Treasury Department
Bank of England
London
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Congress
McAdoos
Oy Lloyd Georges
Atlantic
The Richest Railroad in the World
Discussion notes the Sao Paulo railway in Brazil as an unusually profitable system earning over 109000 dollars per mile last year while costing more than 200000 dollars per mile to build. It is cited as possibly the most lucrative railroad in the world by volume per mile, surpassing notable lines in the United States and Panama in earnings per mile.
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United States
Gus Bunday
Carri
Atlanta
Bobbvsy
I Guteide
Washington
Stree
John Corrigan
Eeee the Constitution
New York City
Broadway
Forty Second Street
Times Building
Thirty-eighth Street
Twenty Ninth Steel
Ee Ae
Tha
Constitution
United Fruit Company
Merchant Marine
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Fittsboro
Lake Ere
Panama Railroad
Plan to Cut Cotton Acreage in 1910 to Aid Prices
A farmer should extend obligations with current buyers and secure additional Eima within reason using warehouse receipts. Publicly signal a substantial acreage reduction for 1910 to boost present and future prices. Immediate action raises cotton value now, helps protect produce, and shows financiers the farmer is taking decisive steps to meet the situation. Alsg tf will enhance cotton as collateral, Atlanta Ga.
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Ortner
Atlanta, Ga
Bonding Expert Stresses The Value of Federal Chain of Warehouses
A wrote piece by ¢. W. Olson argues for a national warehouse system under federal regulation to stabilize cotton marketing. He contends uniform grading, safeguards, and fiscal backing via taxes and bank support would empower producers, curb middlemen, and bolster credit with warehouse receipts as collateral. He warns against private warehouses and urges swift federal action despite political doubts. The article blends wartime context with economic reform, predicting cotton will rise after the conflict and favoring pro producer policy.
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Olson
Europe
W. Olson
United States Fidelity and Gafrney
Harope
Almot
Federal Department of Agriculture
Racehouses
Eanentia
Congress
Uncle Sam
Exigenes
Federal Treasury
Salacense
National Bank
Belgium
Washington
Solomons
Treasury Department
Fidelity
Austria
An Eye to Business by Lippincott 4
A young suburban doctor, with a modest practice, sits in his study on a lazy early summer afternoon The Toan servant warns of peach stealing days The doctor contemplates then refuses to act, saying No.
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Rom Lippincott
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