Stone Mountain Memorial Coin Debate at Congress
A bill passed and signed authorizes minting half a million 54 cent Stone Mountain Memorial coins. Supporters argue repeal would waste resources and hurt national unity while respecting the memory of Southern heroes. Opponents warned repeal would dampen both regions and the Nation’s memorial effort.
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Gutzon Borglum
New York World
Stone Mountan Memorial Association
Congress
South
Valiant Sons
Griffin News
Stone Mountain Memorial
Stone Mountain
Extravagant Perfumes Trace Through Tibet and Trade
A fragment outlines musk trade from musk deer ban in Tibet, noting severe penalties for hunters, the global reach of perfumery, and early scent industries. It mentions ancient routes, caravan transport, and the spread of perfumery from Asia to Europe amid scarce water and evolving scents.
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Tibet
China
Orient
Ees
India
Africa
Georgia Topics From State Archives and Land Records
Georgia archives reveal details on enrollment at the Georgia School of Technology reaching 2,830 students, notes on a granite Confederate memorial near Stone Mountain with figures of Lee, Davis, and Jackson, and a drop of 1,000 feet from summit to base of the world’s largest rock. It cites General Joe Wheeler leading Alabama men in the Spanish American War, the Inglethorpe Light Infantry as the state’s first to die for the Confederacy, federal ownership of 159,979 acres of Georgia timberland with an average price of 4.98 per acre, entomology warning calcium arsenate as a boll weevil poison, and Savannah’s low illiteracy rate for its size.
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Georgia School of Technology
Southeast
Stone Mountain
Atlanta
Gutzon Borglum
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Joe Wheeler
Georgia
Alabama
Inglethorpe Light Infantry
Savannah
Archives and History Department
United States
State Board of Entomology
Bishop James Cannon to Speak in Waycross
Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church South will speak in Waycross on Sunday December 21. He arrives from Jacksonville Florida where he attended a meeting of divines. Cannon was elevated to bishop from the presidency of Emory and Henry College.
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Waycross
James Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Jacksonville
Florida
Cannon
Emory and Henry College
Whiskey and beer seized during raid in Chattanooga
United Press reports J Drury arrested after federal dry sleuths raided his bakery in a downtown district seizing 60 gallons of beer 40 gallons of whisky and two stills Mrs Drury arrested later at home charged with attempting to destroy evidence
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Chattanooga
Tenn
United Press
J. Drury
Bull presented to Billy Sunday at Nashville revival
Nashville Tenn December 19 Wood Incom a 16 month old prize winning Hereford bull was Thursday presented to Billy Sunday who is holding a revival meeting here by Luke Lea Jr local breeder The bull will be sent to Mr Sunday's ranch in Oregon to lead his herd there.
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Nashville
Tenn
Wood Incom
Billy Sunday
Luke Lea, Jr
Baby Stribling Enters Big City Go Class Debut
Atlanta dispatch notes the youngest Stribling, born Herbert, will debut as a main boat fighter on December 29 in Miami Florida. He may not be a top contender in Atlanta yet but gains traction in other towns.
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Atlanta
Stribling
Herbert
Atizta
Miami
Fla
Fort Worth oil operator dies in car overturn near Throckmorton
J. B. Schimmell aged 40 a prominent Fort Worth oil operator was instantly killed when his automobile overturned two miles south of Throckmorton Texas last night He was reportedly en route to Throckmorton from the oil fields
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Fort Worth
Texas
J. B. Schimmell
Throckmorton
Husband Sees Aged Wife Drowned In Georgia Creek
In Austell Georgia on December 19 J D Kimball tried to keep his wife 70 from a dangerous horse drawing their buggy across a swollen Salt Water creek bridge. The horse broke free backing the buggy into the water, drowning Mrs Kimball. By-stander Frank Aiken rescued the horse after a half hour struggle and recovered the woman's body. The aged husband watched in distress as his partner of many years perished.
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Austell
J. D. Kimball
Frank Aiken
Old Days in Americas Ten Years Ago Today
Brief collage of notes from The Times Recorder dated December 19 1914 includes children’s Christmas wishes to Santa Marion Young and visitors from Ander sonville Thelma and Lillie May Easterlin The cotton market quotes Good middling 6 3 4 to 7 cents Fifty Americas males leave for Europe to aid in combat near Kaiser ville Yser canal and the Blue Danube. Mules and horses shipped to LaBelle France Dr Jowers and S R Sims go to Webster for sport with gun and dog.
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Times Recorder
Santa
Marion Young
Jennie Harrison
Georgia Normal
Athens
B. F. Easterlin
Thelma
Lillie May Easterlin
Andersonville
Americas
Europe
Kaiserville
Yser Canal
Blue Danube
New Orleans
LaBelle France
Local weddings and farm notes prompt readers in Americas
Twenty years age today no paper published marks a light note while thirty years ago today 19 1894 is recalled. At 2 30 this afternoon at Mrs S B Benton’s Rees Park home Miss Lucile Marie Benton and Mr James W Goodman will wed. Benton is praised for popularity and intellect while Goodman a bookkeeper at Schloss Iron Works near Birmingham is deemed worthy. A half carload of long staple cotton bales shipped from South Georgia via Americus to the north is noted. Mustang ponies continue to sell strongly in Americas this season. Brocaded horselet bids fail to replace the mule in affection.
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S. B. Benton
Rees Park
Lucile Marie Benton
James W. Goodman
Miss Benton
Aimericus
Goodman
Schloss
Birmingham
South
Sea Island
Americus
Americas
McAdoo Secures Patent On Vacuum Bottle
William G. McAdoo former secretary of the treasury and railroad director general has received a patent for an improved vacuum bottle. The idea came during western camping and features detachable handles on the bottle cups and extra cup receptacles, conceived while convalescing at Johns Hopkins hospital.
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Baltimore
United Press
William G. McAdoo
Formtre
the Treasury
McAddo
West
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Heat records, flights, thefts and prison walls from old notes
A collage of 1930s style items notes Death Valley as once hottest, 136 in Azizia and 124 in 1915, suggests future weather control via cheap airplanes. It mentions stolen securities by messengers, employer scrutiny for honesty, and a Maryland Prison anecdote about escape and the honor system as a possible wall.
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Death Valley
California
Azizia
North Africa
Fish Bay
Canada
Africa
Maryland Penitentiary
Sweezey
Letters to Santa Claus from two young sisters and a boy
A collection of Christmas requests from Harriet and Charlene Burke aged four and five asking Santa for dolls doll beds Victrola and other toys plus a contribution to the Empty Stocking Fund. A third grade boy named Jack Worthy requests toys fire works candy a cap pistol and boxes of 22 blanks for his brother. The note ends with a twin greeting.
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Santa Claus
Harriet and
Charlene Burke
Santa
Jack Worthy
Santa Clause
Finis Lee
P. S
JomSSims SS Doubled Thoughts on Modern Life
A jumble of wry maxims and social observations from 1924 reflecting optimism delay aging and the gender role jokes about dances radios and time as the future. It compiles aphorisms on success marriage youth and progress with a playful dated tone.
Christmas Wish List From Little Hands
A collection of child letters to Santa requests toys including a red wagon train and track, dolls, rocking chair, blocks, a stove, a piano and toy carriages. They also ask for fruit nuts candy and stat ionery plus donations to the Empty Stocking Fund. Signatures include Dorothy Carolyn Marjorie Howe Elizabeth Moore Mary Murran Sellers and Cleveland Sellers.
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Dorothy
Cleveland
Clinton Harbuck
Santa Claus
Carolyn
Marjorie Howe
Santa
Elizabeth Moore
Cleveland Sellers
Mary Murran Sellers
Dear Santa I Want an Indian Suit A Wheel and More
A list of requests appears in a holiday note naming an Indian suit a wheel and a wash tub along with medicine. The tone is simple and direct reflecting a child's wish to Santa Claus.
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Santa
Santa letters from hopeful children brighten Christmas
Children appeal to Santa for toys and treats, naming items like wheel toy guns trains and cowboy costumes. They note good schoolwork and kindness from teachers, and each sends 10 cents to the Empty Stocking Fund.
Negro Detective Fires Bomb and Shoots to End Fire Siege
Omaha dispatch says Detective Harry Buford, a black officer, used a bomb and shotgun to breach a burning building where fugitive Frank Myler had barricaded himself. Buford wounded Chief Ben Danbaum and another officer, then killed Myler as the siege ended.
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Omaha
Harry Buford
Frank Myler
Ben Danbaum
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