Proposals and Reckoning As Congress Reassembles
The Sixty reconvened amid a long session debating funding and war measures for 1918. Bills on legislative, judicial, and district needs face early action, with a projected deficit and anticipated revenue legislation. Debate centers on suffrage, constitutional proposals, and military service policies as committees prepare spending measures for the new session.
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Germany
Hungary
Turkey
Gross
War Appropriations and Draft Law Debates Ahead
The committee to control war appropriations is under scrutiny as lawmakers seek to curb excess while funding war needs. Opposition figures led by Senator La Follette face renewed agitation with possible dramatic developments this session. Senator Hardwick and LaFollette push to repeal the draft law as Sherman and La Follette resolutions await Senate Foreign Relations action. President Wilson may send numerous recess appointments and unreconfirmed nominees to the Senate soon.
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LaFollette
Hardwick
Georgia
LaFolletti
Sherman
Tilmoos
Senate Foreign Relations
Wilson
Senate
Lynch Mob Executes Black Suspect in Dyersburg
Reported from Nashville says Ligon Scott a Black man accused of harming a white woman in Dyer County on November 22 was seized by a mob in Dyersburg. He was captured while en route to the county seat and burned at a vacant lot near the public square as onlookers observed an orderly execution before dispersing.
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House
Cant
Lufkin
Senate
Lendar
Clarl
Nashville
Tenn
Ligon Scott
Dyer County
Dyersburg
Scott
Jackson
Must Enlist Soon in Navy Under New 1917 Rules
The article notes Selective Service Regulations effective noon December 15, 1917. After that date no registered man may join the U S Navy without a certificate showing his class and order number is within the local board quota. Navy Recruiting Officer A M Ferilla urges enlistment before noon December 15, 1917 for Americus and Sumter County men.
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Selective Service
U. S. Navy
Americus
Sumter County
Davy
A. M. Ferilla
Navy
Farm for Sale 355 Acres with Six Rooms Dwelling
For sale a 355 acre farm with 6 mules 409 bushels of corn two wagons for hogs fodder hay cotton seed and plantation tools at 40 dollars per acre. One half cash and balance in five equal payments at 6 7 percent interest. Includes a splendid six room dwelling outbuildings on a graded road near Americus Buena Vista Friendship Plains Concord church and two good schools. Oliver McDonald Co Plains Ga. 27 it.
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Americus
Buena Vista
Friendship
Plains
Concord Church
Oliver-McDonald Co
Plaine
Convicted Man Bohannon Dies by Poison in Cell
In Valdosta Georgia the county coroner reports John J Bohannon died last night in the Lowndes jail from poison self administered amid personal crisis. Bohannon had been sentenced to six years for bigamy after marrying Mrs George Miley in Berlin near Valdosta.
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Valdosta
John
Bohannon
Lowndes County
George Miley
Berlin
Registration Notice for Americus City Election 1917
Registration book for the general election in Americus Georgia on December 12 1917 is now open. Taxes including the 1917 ad valorem must be paid before eligibility to register. E J Eldridge clerk and treasurer. Also an unrelated medical advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Medicine promises cure and offers a reward for failure.
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City of Americas
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Motor Truck Service Moves Wheat and Corn to Americus Mill
The narrator reports operating a motor truck service to transport wheat and corn to a mill in Americus and return flour and meal after grinding. The arrangement covers both upstream grain delivery and downstream flour and meal shipment.
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Americus
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J.T. Warren
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N. M. Undley
Planters Seed
Claude Mauk & CO
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