Lynch mob lashes out in Mississippi killing Black man
Sidney Townes, a Black man tied to the deaths of Jacob McMuhen and Mary Long, was seized by a 75‑member mob in Scooby, Miss. He suffered fatal blows amid chaos after Mrs. Long’s funeral. Townes allegedly pursued McMullen and Mrs. Long at the farm house. the scene followed the day’s tragic events.
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Scobrey
Miss
Sidney Townes
Jacob McMuhen
Mary Long
Will Frost
I. M. McMalen
Townes
Mrs. Long
McMullen
Smoke Screen Auto
Washington police puzzled by a car leaving a dense smoke cloud. William Plummer and George Kelly, both of Washington, fitted the vehicle with a smoke screen device capable of a 22 foot plume. Investigating if other cars carry similar equipment for evading pursuers or illegal activities.
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Washington
Air Division
Washington Police Force
William Plummer
George Kelly
Briton Directs Use of Stiletto for Posthumous Heart Stab
London reports Sir George Greenwood, leading the London Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial, directing his executors to plunge a stiletto into his heart after death to ensure death. He doubts modern death-certifying methods. Miss Emily Akes notes a well known Englishman.
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London
George Greenwood
London Society For the Prevention
George
Emily Akes
England
Prison Record a Key to Strange College Initiative
The article discusses a prison records program tied to a university effort to reform inmates. It notes donations, a convict who attended prison schooling for 82 years without learning to write, and claims that a six month course can ready a man for work. The plan envisions branches nationwide and 100,000 ex convicts aided with 90 percent success.
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Dudding
West Virginia
Convicts’ College Idea Spawns Stenography School
The speaker describes moving to Washington and making a national issue. He faced the difficulty of placing untrained men and women lacking business or mechanical training, proposing an ex convict college. Dr. T Marcellus Marshall becomes chancellor, starting a stenographers’ school. He plans to teach elementary subjects and trades, noting prison time hinders real trade learning.
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T. Marcellus Marshall
Marshall College
Ion
When is a cowhide more than a cowhide
Atlanta August 12. Georgia hides clean of ticks fetch a premium in the market. Dr. Peter F Bahnsen says dipping vats under state and federal programs reduced tick damage and increased value by about four cents a pound, about 1.68 extra per hide. Georgia yields about 150000 hides annually and an added yearly revenue around 252000 dollars.
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Atlanta
Peter F. Bahnsen
Georgia
Uncle Sam
Bahnsen
Georgia Tobacco
Highway Commission Term, Bond, and Salaries Defined
A proposed highway bill outlines a bond of 100000 dollars for faithful performance, governor power to suspend members with senate approval, and six year terms with staggered expirations. One member designated as chairman. six thousand dollar annual chair salary and five thousand four hundred dollars for other two members plus duties.
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Georgia
Highway Commission
Senate
Commission
State Highway Commission Plans Durable Paving Program
The commission shall appoint a State Highway Engineer paid up to 6000 dollars yearly and subject to discharge by the commission. He may claim actual traveling expenses. The commission must implement efficient plans for maintenance and construction of durable paving on primary state aid roads first, then secondary roads, aiming to prepare the entire system for heavy traffic. It shall submit a yearly report to the Governor thirty days before the General Assembly.
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Fulton County
State Highway Commission
General Assembly
State Highway Department
For Sale Cheap for Cash or Exchange in 1925 Ford
Classified notice from Americus Georgia by L L Joiner offering items for sale or trade. List includes a Beckwith piano, furniture, tools, Bible references, shotgun, chickens, sewing machine, glass jars, lamps, and a Singer machine. Location Donalson yards with contact Rt B 11 31.
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Beckwith
Rhode Island
Donalson Strain
Donalson Yards
Singer Sewing Machine
L. L. Joiner
Americus
Rt. B
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