Duke kin raise Polish orphans while Germans flee
The Duke family prospers in North Carolina as relatives in the West face hardship. Buck Duke suggests placing the Barton girls in an orphan home, but Grandma Simpson vows to raise and educate them locally. Meanwhile, 20,000 Germans flee Poland after a plebiscite, crowding Bilis Island near the German border awaiting inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke
North Carolina
Barton
Buck Duke
Grandma Simpson
Poland
Germany
Oil inspector bill passed by lower house in Georgia
In Atlanta on August 19 the Georgia House approved by 123 to 57 a bill replacing the gravity test with a distillation test for gasoline and limiting oil inspectors to six. The measure, long fought by the Agricultural Department, now faces Senate hurdles but could carry moral weight regardless of final passage.
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Atlanta
House of Representatives
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Department
Senate
House
Macon Telegraph
Messrs
Alexander
Anderson
Andrews
Bandy
Barnard
Bartlett
Beck
Bell
Blease
Bloodworth
Brannen
Brunson
Camp
Clayton
Childs
Clark
Cooper
Daniel
Davis
Dekalb
Thomas
Dorris
Dorsey
Doyal
Duncan
England
Evans
Fletcher
Ficklen
Folks
Gilien
Grant
Greer
Griffin
Twiggs
Wilkes
Guiliebeau
Hall
Harrison
Henderson
Carroll
Hillhouse
Hooper
Howard
Chattahoochee
Long
Hulme
Humphrey
Hyman
Jackson
James
Johnson
Camden
Jones
Cook
Ketcham
King
Lanier
Lawton
Layton
Lee
Clinch
Screven
Lewis
Colquitt
Logan
Lumpkin
Lyons
McCluney
McClure
McCrory
McKymurray
McEloy
McKay
Mallard
Malone
Mann
Martin
Matthews
Miller
Milner
Milton
Montgomery
Murrah
New
Newton
Norman
Oliver
Owen
Parker
Parrish
Paschal
Pate
Peacock
Peterson
Quarterman
Rawls
Ricketson
Roberts
Rountree
Russell
Short
Smith
Grady
Madison
Stanford
Stark
Steed
Stone
Walton
Stovall
Strickland
Pierce
Swint
Taylor
Tippins
Tucker
Tyson
Vaughn
Weaver
Webb
Weeks
West Wheel
First U S trolley car pilot recalls 1888 debut
Richmond native Walter B. Eubank, the motorman who operated the first U S trolley on Main Street in 1888, recalls the world shifting as the copper wire overhead and a single track street car arrived. He worries buses will end the era though proud of the device.
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Richmond
Main Street
America
Walter B. Eubank
Toonerville
Eubank
Walter E. Eubank
Passage of Bill Sparks Roll Call With Wide Partisan Split
Lawmakers listed voting for passage include Er and Whelchel Whitehead White Wilhoit Wilkin Williams Harris Wimberly Winship Wood Zellars. Those voting against passage include Baker Barrett Boswell Bower Bussey Camp Cobb Camp Coweta Chappell Davis Floyd Dekel Denmark Dubose Dykes Gill Grice Griffin Decatur Griner Greenstein Gullatt Hamby Hamilton Hancock Harris Henderson Irwin Hopkins Johnson Appling Johnson Bacon Jones Meriwether Kelley Kempton Kent Levie Lewis Hancock Lindsay Loyd McWhorter Maddox Palmour Peek Peterson Tift Pilcher Rampley Rice Riley Rivers Ross Rosser Smith Meriwether Smith Talbot Spencer Strickland Brant.
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Whelchel
Whitehead
White
Wilhoit
Wilkin
Williams
Harris
Wimberly
Winship
Wood
Spalding
Zellars
Baker
Barrett
Boswell
Bower
Bussey
Camp
Cobb
Coweta
Chappell
Davis
Floyd
Dekel Denmark
Dubose
Gill
Grice
Griffin
Decatur
Griner
Greenstein
Gullatt
Hamby
Hamilton
Hancock
Henderson
Irwin
Hopkins
Johnson
Appling
Bacon
Jones
Meriwether
Kelley
Kempton
Kent
Levie
Lewis
Lindsay
Loyd
McWhorter
Maddox
Palmour
Peek
Peterson
Tift
Pilcher
Rampley
Rice
Riley
Rivers
Ross
Rosser
Smith
Talbot
Spencer
Strickland
Brant
Walton and Fulton figures linked in terse record
A brief, clipped passage lists individuals including ley, Talmadge, Trippe, Turner, Westbrook, Williams of Walton, and Wood of Fulton followed by a dash and the number 57, suggesting a ledger or index snippet inside a historical newspaper page.
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Ley, Talmadge
Trippe
Turner
Westbrook
Williams of
Walton
Wood of
Fulton
Walker pushes plan for constitutional convention in Georgia
Governor Clifford Walker released a letter to Senator Ira Carlisle supporting a constitutional convention in early 1926 to secure tax reform. He argued that without a convention, reform would be delayed six years, with two years to the next legislature and two more to ratify any measures from 1927. He claimed a convention would be cheaper and more satisfactory than an extra legislative session.
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Atlanta
Clifford Walker
Ira Carlisle
Cinderella comes true for Texas orphans thanks to Duke fortune
In Wellington a Texas plains tale unfolds as two orphan sisters, Essie and Jessie Barton, learn they are related to Buck Duke of the Duke tobacco fortune. He sends initial grants of 10000 to two cousins and 1000 to their caregiver, with more promised, turning a desperate life toward wealth and relief. The story traces distant kinship to Washington Duke and a family migration west.
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Wellington
Vex
Vexas Panhandle
Cinderella
Essie Lee Barton
Jessie Barton
North Carolina
Buck Duke
Washington Duke
J. B. Duke
Buck
Texas Plains
Grandma Simpson
Duke
R. W
James Duke
Sally Barton
West
Barton
Texas
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Bilis Island
Brown
First Trolley
U.S
The
Americus Welding Company
Walker
Carlisle
Dead Sea
Spring Street
Dela Vale
F. G. Beavers
Schley-Stewart
R. L. Stapleton
Weston, Ga
W. H. Cobb
Americas
Jno
W. Shiver
Jefferson St
J. H. Cameron
W. T. McMath
Western Metal Co
Bloomington
Tll
C. Street
Boston
Mass
Broadhurst
Lamar St
Colbert
Freeman's Bicycle Shop
N. Jackson St
Atlanta Trust Co
R. L. Maynard
P. B. Williford
the Americas Business College
Lillian Braswell
Merritt Blag
Cotton Avenue
Bolton Brothers
Ee cm
Barker Gro. ‘Co
Toseph
Atlanta-Southern Tental College
Dental College
Coral Gables
Neon Buchanan
Curlee
Times-Recorder
lLig
JA Cinderees
Develo
Institute of Industrial Research
Rex
R. C. Ellis
G. C. Webb
Americus
Georgia
Empire Loan & Trust Company
Americus, Georgia
Jackson and
Forsyth Streets
Barker Grocery
Mize Corner
Harris Grocery
CROWN
Kentucky
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