Snow and rain sweep West Texas as letter reports 10 inches in ten days
A letter from A F Robinson of Alpine Texas describes ten days of rainfall from San Antonio to Flaso and a few snowflakes amid a cold wave. He notes residents wearing overcoats, fires in homes, and a record crop for Sumter County, praises his father A Robinson as a longtime Sumter farmer, and hopes the report cools heat in Americus Georgia.
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Sumter County
Georgia
Texas
A. F. Robinson
A. Robinson
Sumer County
Alpine
Robinson
Americus
Times Recorder
Sumter
West Texas
San Antonio
Flaso
Baptist Young People to Meet at Bethel Church
Final arrangements are made for the B Y F U convention of the Friendship association at Bethel church on Wednesday August 19 with about 150 delegates expected from 33 churches. The program includes devotions, addresses, discussions on B Y P U topics, orchestra music, committee reports, and open discussion leading to adjournment for dinner.
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J. S. Winn
Pleasant Hill
W. B. Brown
J. M
Bethel
Hoke Shirley
Dot Ellingson Hopes for Freedom After Insanity Ruling
In a dramatic case a young woman nicknamed a jazz girl and matricide named Dot Ellingson faces trial anew after being found insane and later declared sane by state doctors. Her defense, built on a history of defiance and talent, seeks freedom despite strong opposition.
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Page One
Dorothy
State Insane Asylum
San Francisco
Golden Rule strike in Hen ryetta coal fields with daily prayer
In Henryetta Oklahoma union miners conduct a peaceful strike using hymns prayers and star spangled banners at mine entrances. Union pickets number 500 to 1000 while state militia stands by. Despite wage cut pressure five mines employ non union workers and strikers vow to continue into fall.
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Henryetta
Okla
Aos
United Mine Workers
Can Dorothy Go Free In A Jazz Mad Girl Case
A fragmentary legal reflection questions whether a girl named Dorothy, once famous as a flapper in a jazz era case, can be freed on grounds she acted without responsibility while different in appearance and temper now. The piece contemplates law and memory, and hopes for a chance to live quietly in a cottage with a front parlor.
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Dorothy
Prayerful Leaders Invoke Safety at Mines
In the afternoons the leaders gather at the mines, raise their hands and heads, and recite a plea. Oh Lord, We would not have any harm come to these men, expressing a solemn wish for protection over the workers.
Local Social Notes From Macon Visit Guests
Personal Miss Myrtle Cribb and Mr Murray Cribb motored to Macon for the day. Miss Eva Cooper of Jacksonville is the guest of her sister Mrs J R Snipes. Little Miss Bernice Melton, guest of Mrs F C Cribb, has returned to Macon. Miss Mary Corish and Miss Gertrude James have been guests of Mrs Kirkland Sutlive.
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Myrtle Cribb
Mr. Murray Cribb
Macon
Eva Cooper
Jacksonville
J. R. Snipes
Bernice Melton
F.C. Cribb
Mary Corish
Gertrude James
Kirkland
Three Die in Lee Street Road Shooting
Deputy Chappell testified at the Caiaway-Woodard hearing about a shooting three miles from the city on Lee street road. He said local residents believed the shot intended for Jim Drummond hit his wife Mary Drummond, who intervened in a dispute with Nixon and received the fatal injuries.
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Lee Street Road
Chappell
Howard Place
Mary Drummond
Nixon
Jim Drummond
Mary
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Pan
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Ols Bigto
Elon Institute of Industrial Research
Rea
U.S. Mary
California
Honolulu
San Diego
Calif
John Smith
Jim Jones
Asa Pittman
Jas Johnson
Savannah
N. R. Harris
E. Forsyth Street
Thos. L. Bell, Inc
T. L. Durham
Farmers Cotton Oil CO
Alex Woodard
Albany
Hotel Gordon
Times-Recorder
Madam Shopper
Times- Recorder
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