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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1915
Page
5
The Constitution outlines bond election postponement in Atlanta citing registration flaws and civic urgency. It also analyzes Carranza’s provisional government prospects in Mexico and the threats from Villa, urging firm leadership and continued support for pacification and reform.
Analysis credits General Carranza with strong military backing and adept diplomacy. His 150000-strong army and control of Mexico City have shifted U S and Latin American views toward recognizing his government as the practical solution to the Mexican problem amid tense relations and ongoing negotiations.
A special to The Constitution from Columbus traces a rural revival of dances and fiddling, where farmers host social gatherings with old time quadrilles and the balance act. Townsfolk join the lively merriment, coats shed in the heat, as music and dance bridge country and city life. The piece also comments on global affairs and the era’s school year momentum.
A fragmentary poetic meditation contrasts heat and drought with harvest imagery in Georgia. It Muses on lifelike plenty, longing for peace, and a vision of nature and love beyond dusty towns. References to a Georgia philosopher and a vision of woo appear amid hopeful leaves and blue skies.
A fragmented text compiles vocal snippets from Arkansas columns and editorials. It recalls Olo Harper on forgetting past faults, mentions regional personalities, and parodies public discourse about prosperity, politics, and local commerce with scattered phrases about cotton prices, editors, and a book offer from Ox Gaffin.
The fragmentary OCR shows names of Georgia judges and lawyers and references to appellate court actions and a Putnam superior court, with unclear case roles and parties. The readable items include Judge Gein Borkin, Robison, Morgan Stite, Judge 4 Willlin, and JF Bottle among solicitors, plus Boslin & Jayhin Waymand Hob nson for plantur ime.
The city executive committee announced polling places and officials for the city primary on September 30 across sixteen precincts in ten wards. Atlanta will be lit by 3 440 electric lights including 2009 arcs and 1 020 incandescents with White Way lights last noted at 830 Yehto Inst.
City council adopted an ordinance requiring each person assisting a peddler of country produce to pay an annual license of 25 dollars, with four helpers per peddler also taxed. licenses for wagons already existed. The measure targets licensing scope for peddler support staff.
A garbled verse fragment presents a rustic lyric about waiting and singing. It mentions a banjo and chorus, a singer, and distant trumpets calling to a beautiful shore, with disjointed lines implying longing and time passing.
The Chicago Herald extols the Dixie Highway as a unifying modern road network linking the South with the national system. It invokes hospitality and national unity, touts southern culture, and lists famed stops from Louisville to Memphis, Atlanta, Charleston, and Jacksonville, urging broader support and continued construction of the route.
The Dixie Highway Association confirms the Western Division in Florida by board action pending the October meeting. The route runs from Tallahassee southeast to Lamont, Trenton, Newberry, Gainesville, Ocala, Orland o, Kissimmee, Bartow, Arcadia, and Okeechobee, as recommended by the Florida Central Highway Association.
The article describes the routing of the Western Division of the Dixie Highway through central Florida from Gainesville to Manatee and Tampa area, with feeder roads via Alachua High Springs Lake City White Springs Jasper Bartow Lakeland Clermont and Kissimmee, and notes support by the Central Florida Highway Association and bonds secured for construction. It highlights state planners intent to connect major cities and tourist points, with focus on a permanent construction standard and feeder links to promote northern winter tourism.
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