Printer Wanted for Permanent Job at This Office
A call for an all round newspaver printer with regular habits to secure a permanent position. The notice quotes a sermon on hard work and suggests city progress relies on cooperation, not cliques. It notes a new Standard Life Insurance Company chartered in Atlanta by black entrepreneurs with a $300,600 capital and cites rising railroad earnings as a sign of prosperity for Macon News readers.
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Phillips Brooks
Atlanta
Cook
Standard Life Insureance Company
Tuskegee Institute
Ala
United States
Macon News
Christ
Kingdom of Heaven
Arabia
Ireland
Grianan Hileach
Donegal
Eileach
The Certainty of Pun ishment and Law Reform
The piece argues for harsher, certain punishments to deter crime. It urges ending mob justice by fixing lax law enforcement, making felonies of crimes against families with death for serious offenses, and treating gambling and liquor sales as felonies with imprisonment, to render crime unattractive.
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Hevsa Alk
Georgia Revenue Rise Despite Prohibition Year
The 1908 official state treasurer figures show Georgia tax revenues rose by over half a million dollars from 1907, despite losses from the new statewide prohibition. Disbursements exceeded revenues due to past due payments to schoolteachers being cleared, with expectations of higher future assessments and railroad growth. The piece also includes a biblical interpretation of the eye of the needle and notes on Irish fortress eyeholes.
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Atanta Journal
The Magle Fiat.
A New York woman tours her five room house noting the library music room den and packing storage areas. She explains sleeping eating and dressing arrangements in a humorous tour described by the New York Press.
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New York
New Yorker
New York Press
Law of Entails Opposes Public Policy in Freedom Era
The piece argues that entails are not banned by Allied nations but violate public policy and freedom. It notes English origins and shows how fortunes are preserved across generations, arguing that inherited wealth harms civilization and should be restricted. The Chicago Chronicle is cited on the issue.
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England
Ries
Dean
Chicago Chronicle
Wife complains of scholar husband in witty exchange
A Frenchwoman laments to her husband that he stays with his books too long and leaves her alone. She sighs that she would wear a book to have his company. He replies in French style that he would wish she were an almanac so he could change her once a year.
What One Little Boy Asked in Henry Burnin's Childrens Answers
A child asked six curious questions in a brief two minute exchange. Questions include Do kittens take off their fur at night and Why do oysters have tails. The piece reflects humorous child logic and the author’s conversational tone.
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Henry Burn
Santa Claus
Ainy
Lee
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