Quick Work Saves Old Play House From Destruction
Fire at Americus 42 year old Dudley Opera House threatened to raze the building. Firemen saved the venue estimated at 500 dollars loss for owner W H C Dudley with no insurance on the structure. Merchants Mitchell Attyah John Monahan Jr P and T Market suffered water damage. Attyah insured 590 dollars Dudley to reopen by Christmas day.
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Dudley Opera House
Americus
W. H. C. Dudley
Mitchell Attyah
John Monahan, Jr
P. and T. Market
Opera House
Monahan
Attaah
P and T
Dudley
W. C. Jeter
City Electrician
Jeter
Georgia official refuses data on child labor rules
Atlanta December 1. Georgia Commissioner Hal M. Stanley declines to share further child labor law data with the National Child Labor Committee of New York and Miss Jean MacAlpine Heer. He cites a Herald Tribune article misstatements and accuses sub sisters of distorting facts to fund propaganda.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Commissioner of Commerce and Labor
Hal M. Stanley
Georgia
National Child Labor Committee of
New York City
Jean MacAlpine Heer
Stanley
Heer
New York Mherald- Tribune
Miss Heer
New York Herald-Tribune
Airship Pulls Up Plane In Flight At Scottsfield
In a historic test at Scottsfield Bellville Illinois Lt Frank McKee in a TC 3 dirigible and Lt Clyde Finter driving a Sperrt Messenger plane carried the airplane 1500 to 2000 feet. The plane caught on a hook and swung on a trapeze then released without incident. The test mimics future mother ships to carry planes long distances before dropping them for action.
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Associated Press
Bellville
Ill
Scottsfield
Frank McKee
Clyde Finter
McCooks Field
Langley Field
Norfolk
Coolidge Nominates McIntosh as Currency Collector
President Coolidge nominates Joseph W. McIntosh as Illinois deputy collector of currency to the Treasury, succeeding Henry V. Dawes who recently resigned the office.
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Washington
Coolidge
Joseph W. McIntosh
Illinois
Henry V. Dawes
Witnesses at Kid McCoy Trial Named in Court Row
Witnesses at Kid McCoy's trial include his sister Mrs. Jennie Thomas and Mrs. Perlstein in the top row. The bottom row lists Sam Stern and Parl Antebus, described as the kid's niece.
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Kid McCoy
Jennie Thomas
Perlstein
Sam Stern
Parl Antebus
Kid
Antebus
Norman Selby
Los Angeles
Don’t Forget the Poor and Needy Fund Appeal
A local appeal in Sumter County urges donations to the Empty Stocking Fund for Christmas relief. The note lists numerous small contributions totaling 91.54 from varied donors and groups, including First Baptist Philathea Class and Mrs. Elizabeth Persons, highlighting that funds are lagging with children contributing a large share.
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Sumter
Americus
Francis Holbrook
Petal Ors OM
Mildred Holbrook
Christine Holbrook
McGonone
Theron McLendon
General Election Hepp Wednesday In Americus
Tomorrow December 17 the general election for municipal officers nominated in the October primary will be held in Americus. Candidates include Mayor J E Poole Aldermen R E Allison W E Mitchell E Carswell. Police commissioners Loving and J F Monohan. Monohan seeks the post won by S L Hammond, defeated by four votes. Polls open 9 to 4 behind the fire department.
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Americus
J. E. Poole
R. E. Allison
W. E. Mitchell
Carswell
Loving
J. F. Monohan
Monohan
S. L. Hammond
Fire Department
Ashurst Moves To Override Postal Salaries Veto
In Washington on December 16 Senator Ashurst of Arizona moved to give immediate consideration of President Coolidge’s veto of the postal salaries bill. Senator Sterling of South Dakota objected. The motion, ordered by President pro tempore Cummins, failed 5 to 30 with Republicans voting to take up the bill and three Democrats opposed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ashurst
Arizona
Coolidge
Sterling
South Dakota
Senate
Cummins
Train parts from Gomper's funeral train break loose near Piedmont
A locomotive pulling the Sam Gompers funeral train detached on a seventeen mile grade near Piedmont West Virginia. The coaches rolled to a stop under their own brakes and the train resumed eastward without damage.
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Associated Press
Piedmont
W. Va
Samual Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Here
Gompers Body Arrives and Lays In State in D C
Arrangements were announced for Samuel Gompers body to be received this afternoon and laid in state for six hours at the American Federation of Labor building in Washington. A funeral procession will move from Union Station to the federation building before the urn is taken to Sleepy Hollow New York. Public may view after Mrs Gompers and close family view the casket.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
Union Station
American Federation of Labor
Sleepy Hollow
New York
Federation
Confederate Vets Burned to Death in Mississippi Home Fire
In Beauvoir Mississippi two Confederate veterans died and two were badly burned when a fire swept the Jefferson Davis Soldiers Home dormitory early today. Twenty elderly residents slept as volunteers battled the blaze but could not reach them. heat prevented rescue. Earlier this month an outbreak of dysentery killed six inmates and hospitalized thirty six.
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Associated Press
Beauvoir, Miss
Jefferson Davis Soldiers Home
Mississippi
Lynch divorce granted in Paris on desertion grounds
Paris December 16 French courts recorded the divorce of Flora Carmilla Posey Lynch of Atlanta from Stephen Andrew Lynch. They wed in 1908 at Ashville New York. The decree cites desertion as the basis for dissolution.
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Paris
Lynch
Associated Press
Flora Carmilla Posey Lynch
Atlanta
Stephen Andrew Lynch
Ashville
N. Y
Americus set to witness sun eclipse in January
A total solar eclipse will be visible in Americus early January 24 with the sun’s disk fully shaded for about two hours. The central path passes near Buffalo and New Haven, truncated by weather in other areas, while the Hudson river region sees a broad shadow of about 110 miles.
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Americus
United States
Minnesota
Red Lake
Michigan
Canada
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Naval Observatory
Buffalo
N. Y
New Haven
Conn
Atlantic Ocean
British Isles
Hudson River
Albanian Rebels March on Capital Tirana
Albanian rebels push toward Tirana after capturing Kroja, a central town. Martial law is proclaimed in southern Albania as insurgent activity spreads, per Central News dispatches from Belgrade.
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London
Tirana
Kroja
Albania
Belgrade
Fourteen Girls Aboard Camaraderie Adrift on Union Lake
Seattle, Wash. Fourteen girls on the Camaraderie, once an ocean going ship, were carried adrift on storm tossed Union Lake waters last night. Rescue craft from nine government rui chasers joined the effort as the old vessel was located amid the gale. Police expect delays before all the girls can be rescued as the storm continues.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
Union
Fire in New York Tenement Kills Six Pers ons
Six persons are known to have perished in a brick tenement fire in New York City. Early today the bodies of the dead were recovered and authorities fear at least three more were seriously burned while the blaze drove many families into the streets.
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Associated Press
New York
Father and son held for murder in Franklin
Franklin Ga December 16 1916 George Knowles and his son Harrison were charged with the murder of Q O Heard after he was fatally wounded at a church seven miles north of Franklin Saturday night Heard died Monday at a LaGrange hospital.
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Franklin
George Knowles
Harrison
QO. J. Heard
Heard
LaGrange
Poison whiskey kills six in Gotham deaths shock city
New York dispatch reports six people died and several others were found unconscious after consuming poisoned whiskey during a pre holiday epidemic of Pelletee Honor cases. Hospitals note serious conditions and the event prompts police and health officials to investigate possible deliberate poisoning.
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New York
Belevuere
Asia
Post on Bequest Fatty General Washington Sting
Washington December 16. No comment has been made on the charge by A E Sartain former warden of the Atlanta penitentiary that he is a victim of star chamber proceedings. Extreme secrecy surrounds the charge and officials add to the mystery while Attorney General Stone withholds information.
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Associated Press
Washington
A. E. Sartain
Atlanta Penitentiary
Star Chamber
Stone
Atlanta
Grand jury to hear cleaning of Atlanta prison officials
In Atlanta on December 16 the grand jury convened as a cleansing of prison officials looms. Exwarden A E Surtain says he was ousted to “pay off scorers” and alleges a stay character inquiry into granting special privileges to bootleggers at the Atlanta federal prison. He will not name those cited and cites a resignation at the behest of the attorney general. District Attorney Clintg W Hager says no official report has reached his office and no penitentiary matter has been presented to the jury beyond routine items.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Federal Prison
Washington
Department of Justice
Theo
United States
Clintg W. Hager
Federal Penitentiary
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Mrs. Thomas
Wes Bees
Hepe
Mshurst
Gompers
Capital
NPS
Bandit Queen
Vivian McDonald
Houston
Tex
Ernie Shoquist
Shoquist
Vivian
Gotham
Little
Joe
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