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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
9
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index highlights strong industrial growth in 1906 with 222 Alabama new corporations and 237 in Georgia. Total minimum capital stock reaches $10.68 million for Alabama and $10.78 million for Georgia, excluding banks and railroads, plus other construction totals.
A Pittsburg paper claims Senator Bailey bought the horse Miss Edgar, a line of moral panic in the Smokey City. The note reframes as a race horse purchase, linking politics and sport in a pointed scandal vignette.
The Georgian urges citizens to donate immediately to secure two adjacent lots for the School of Technology in Atlanta. It praises Tech’s growth, regional value, and annual payroll impact, calling on readers to contribute four thousand dollars now to support essential expansion before next Tuesday noon.
A verbose editorial urges state and interstate railway commissions to present authentic causes and remedies for freight and passenger transportation problems. It cites coal shortages in the Northwest, car shortages, and uncertain railroad efficiency, calling for unified, nonhostile investigation to unite business interests in finding solutions.
The Georgian urges impartial support for both granite and marble in Atlanta's forthcoming post office. It notes DeKalb granite and Pickens marble as premier Georgia resources and asks Senators Bacon and Clay along with Congressman Livingston to ensure the state supplies the building's walls and finishings. It highlights Georgia’s past use of these stones in public and private projects.
The Washington Herald weighs political talk involving Roosevelt Carnegie and Bailey prospects while debating Japan’s position and possible immigration treaty. References to governors Sayers Campbell Mills Burleson Burgess and political observers appear amid holiday reflections and public notices from 1907.
A compact summary of disasters, fires, explosions, floods, quakes, and shipwrecks across 1906. Highlights include mine blasts in Colorado and Canada, a deadly fire in a Chicago hotel, a Pacific coast steamer collision, deadly earthquakes in Italy and Sicily, and numerous drownings and casualties around the world. Names of places and events anchor the year in global tragedies and notable incidents.
A 1906 verse from Ella Wheeler Wilcox in The Spur questions joy and meaning by probing a rock, wine, a slave, a plutocrat, a forest, the waves, and a statue. The recurring answer is that contentment or discontent drives growth, with an angel noting progress comes through discontent.
Grantland Rice laments taking up tobacco and smoking a new cigar held as a Christmas gift. He describes wife chosen Havanas, the Bulldog Special band, harsh smoke, and a comic inner battle between affection and irritation as he struggles to finish the cigarette.
A Philadelphia magistrate jokes about the North Pole as a dig at Senator Foraker amid a stalled Brownsville affair, signaling a political clash and anticipated confrontation once the dispute is resolved.
Fragmentary OCR notes list a mix of historic personages and places. Names such as Whitefield, Calvinists, Rowland Stephenson, and General Sherman appear alongside references to Parliament, a theater, Langned, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. The text is garbled and inconsistent about dates and contexts.
The poem evokes seasonal imagery from spring to winter, linking nature’s cycles to memories of distant lands. An article on Southern property values follows, presenting a 1900 and 1904 census table showing substantial increases in true value of property across Alabama and Tennessee, totaling about 15.6 billion dollars.
Senators Augustus Bacon and A. 8. Clay reside in Washington with listed addresses at Oregon Avenue and the Normandie respectively. Congressmen W. C. Adamson and c. L. Bartlett occupy the Oxford and the Shoreham while Thomas M. Bell and W. W. Brantley are linked to the Iroquois and Chapin. Other members including W. Hardwick, W. M. Howard, Gordon Lee, EB. B. Lewis, Joe Overstreet, Livingston, J. M. Griggs are tied to the Shoreham Metropolis Bancroft or Metropolitan addresses.
New York society circles buzz over Pauline Morton’s upcoming wedding to J Hop king Smith with Washington belles Mathilde Townsend and Katherine Elkin in attendance. Mrs Roosevelt remains a favorite, while Mrs Suyvesant Fish hosted a dinner for guests including Mrs M W Wilson and Lady Stafford.
scattered OCR reveals a local Kodak business story mentioning Hodak Ks and Brownie Kodak boxes. The fragment hints at camera supplies and consumer demand, noting long-standing Kodak presence and a claim of meeting many customer wants.
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