The Big Drive and Education in the South
The piece argues the Allied western offensive has begun with uncertain prospects and emphasizes the need for decisive action to end the war. It urges English leadership and French support, notes Russian advances, and highlights the importance of education and Latin American student recruitment to strengthen American influence and future peace. It calls Atlanta and Bishop Candler to push for robust Southern educational institutions and cross-border cooperation.
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Austria
Germany
England
France
Kitchener
Belgium
Candler
Times
Education and Latin America in Wartime Relations
Bishop Warren A Candler discusses the educational cur rent and wartime shifts in the world, urging thoughtful action on future U S relations with Latin American nations. He calls for leadership in their educational development alongside trade, emphasizing aligned thinking and shared goals amid global unrest.
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Latin-America
Warren A. Candler
Qur
German toy shipment brings wartime tears to New Orleans
A Dutch steamship cargo arriving in New Orleans from Rotterdam carries many German made toys, the first Christmas toys Germany sent to an American port this year. The piece notes the toys were crafted in war shaded homes by mothers with sons at the front, weaving a narrative of grief and resilience as children anticipate holiday joy amidst despair. It also references war talk about Kitchener and Russian demands, tinging the seasonal gift with broader geopolitical echoes.
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New Orleans
Rotterdam
Germany
Mpingjack
Santa Claus
Autumn Winds and Dream Fairs Sparkling On Hills
The Adams Enterprise notes autumn’s approach with playful speech of sunlit slopes and dancing fairies beneath a golden moon. A quirky citizen boasts seeing seven new stars, comets, and elephants, while moonshine tales loom as larger than lightning.
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Adams Enterprise
Earth
Jeapfrog
Nature and labor in verse and verseful rants from Pittsburg Dispatch
A mixed item from the Pittsburg Dispatch blends a verse about nature and love with satirical musings on home life and politics. It includes a biblical style poem about creation and affection, snippets about a congressman vacationing in Washington, and streetwise quips on money and a dour district, all voiced in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper cadence.
Gasoline price contrast sparks call for facts in Hartwell
A reader from Hartwell Georgia on September 27 1916 criticizes the local 18 cent retail gasoline price while noting Atlanta markets offer 10 to 12 cents. The writer urges transparency and demands clear facts about pricing.
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Baster
Atlanta
Clares Hartwell, Ga
South urged to build strong southern universities for Latin students
A Atlantic dispatch argues Latin American and other foreign students increasingly choose the United States for study due to war disrupted Europe. It notes Emory University already hosts foreign students in theology medicine and liberal arts, with potential to expand. The piece calls southern business leaders to create top institutions in Atlanta to attract regional scholars and boost the South.
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New York
Associated Press
Europe
United States
Braail
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
South America
Mexico
Latin-America
Latin America
South
Atlanta
Emory University
China
Japan
Korea
Cuba
Porto Rico
Spain
Warren
Canpler
Ivy Street Neglect Sparks Atlanta Editorial Call
In a Sunday Constitution editorial “A Bigger and Better City” editor W A Callaway cites Ivy Street as proof the city neglects vital infrastructure. He notes Belgian block paving would quickly fix a grade-damaged street paralleling Peachtree, urging city action to relieve congestion and protect property values.
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Constitution
Atlanta
Forrest Avenue
Busines
Peachtree
South
W. A. Callaway
Fulton Finance Co
Partridge Protection Suggested to Fight Boll Weevil
Andrews urges Georgia legislators to amend game laws to ban killing all birds for three years to protect insect eaters like partridges and quail. He argues birds harm the boll weevil threat and laments dove hunting, asking newspapers to publish his view for the upcoming session.
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Baitor
Harris
Georgia
kiNea
Rural Credit Legislation Urged By Howard
The Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Banking held a smoker in the Chamber of Commerce building. Hon. William Schley Howard spoke on rural credits and explained the need for a dedicated credit system for farmers, contrasting European and American conditions and urging a nonpolitical, secure farming credit framework to reduce costs and failures among farmers.
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Atlanta
American Institute of Banking
Chamber of Commerce
William Schley Howard
Robert 5 Parker
Howard
Bowerd
Congress
Taft
United States
Rue Ag
George
Joint Committee ‘On Banking and Currency
Ohio
Potomac Rivers
Union
South
Europe
Frederick the Great
Eulope
America
Ita
New York
Jitney Bus Operators Criticize Gasoline Prices in Atlanta
Jitney Bus Club urges investigation into rising gasoline costs they blame on a frame up by price dictators. Atlanta drivers say politicians and railroad commissions push costly regulations, threatening 100 jitney buses and service to residents.
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Balter
Atlanta
Peice
Atlanita
Georgia Railroad Commission
J. D. Price
Pearce
Atlanta Ditney Bus Club
Iceland A Curious North Atlantic Outpost of Vikings and Althing
George Fitch profiles Iceland as a remote Atlantic island about 250 miles east of Greenland and 6,000 miles from Norway, noting its 18,999 inhabitants, lack of farming, reliance on sheep and fishing, and the Althing governing self rule. He calls for a commission to Iceland to study its people and institutions.
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Iceland
Atlantic Ocean
Greenand
Norway
North America
Teeland
Denmark
Tceland
Eiderdown
Moss
Europe
United States
Georgia Gasoline Overcharge Critique Letter 1916
Smith denounces higher gasoline prices in Georgia compared with Chicago and the west, estimating 12 million gallons used annually by about 25 000 autos and an overcharge of over 700 000 dollars per year. He argues the tax falls on each car’s yearly fuel cost.
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Chicago
Georgia
On the Coast of Maine by Arthur Unman
A fragmentary poem depicts a barren Maine coast with wild waves and white foam rolling ashore. It conveys a lonesome, stormy seascape as the sea surges and sprays cover the sands in pale plumes. The piece ends with a signature-like line and illegible trailing text.
The Flight of the Soul and Its Great Change
Poetic meditation on the soul's release from earthly bonds and ascent to a heavenly realm. The verse celebrates a beloved figure’s suffering and faith, her ultimate liberation, and joyous ascent to the Land of Light beyond stars.
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Tran L
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Good Old
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Maine
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