Postmaster General Recommends Sweeping Post Office Reforms
Washington Feb 28 Postmaster General Work urged the president to end Senate and representative control of postmaster appointments and place selection solely in the post office department He also proposed dropping civil service examinations for postmaster candidates saying the department should run like a private business to place the right person in the right job
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Washington
Harding
Pest Office Department
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Trying Kentucktans on Murder Charge
Presentation of evidence began in Boyd circuit court in the case of William Barnett the first of nine Republican defendants in murder and conspiracy charges tied to the Clayhole battle in Breathitt County. The defense had moved for separate trials and a separate trial was granted. Four men were killed and seventeen wounded in the Clayhole fight on November 18, 1921.
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Catlettsburg
William Barnett
Clayhole Preciec
Breathit County
Boyd
Clayhole
President seeks U S membership in League Court
Washington February 28 Formal consideration of the Presidents proposal for American membership in the League of Nations court ended for this session. After a conference with the President, Senate committee chairman Lodge said it is unlikely the President will respond before March 4 to the committee's request for further data.
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Washington
International Court
League of Nations
Lodge
Senate Foreign Regulations Committee
Concrete Work on Church in Progress
Concrete foundations for the new First Methodist church are being poured using the city mixer. Supt. Rawlins pushes the project as crews of over twenty-five workers advance toward bricklaying once foundations harden. More labor will be added as work reaches the next stage.
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First Methodist
Rawlins
Lee Street Sewing Circle to Meet at Mrs Morris Home
The Lee street Sewing Circle of the Lee street Methodist church will meet Thursday afternoon at 3 o clock with Mrs Wade Morris at her College street apartment. All members urged to attend.
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Lee Street
Methodist Church
Wade Morris
College Street
Crossings in Americus May Gain Signal Lights
An Americus effort seeks electric block signals for public street crossings at Church and Spring and the Central depot. W A Winburn, Central of Georgia president, says the plan to install automatic signals from Fort Valley to Albany will not include road-crossing signals but the request will be reviewed and considered.
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Americus
W. A. Winburn
Central of Georgia Railway
Church and
Spring Streets
Central
Fort Valley
Albany
Winburn
Savannah
Central of Georgia
Fort
Kiwanis Club
Alb
L. A. Downs
Exile Cannot Break Spirit of Germanys Former Kaiser
In New York Reb 26 analysts say Wilhelm II remains glandularly unstable and capable of trouble if released from exile, with Pierce describing a thymus dominated, ego conscious type prone to delusion. The ex-kaiser would seek influence, flattery, and could revert to pre war power under buoying guidance.
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New York
Doorn
St. Helena
Napoleon
Frederick Pierce
Wilhelm II
Pierce
Presbyterian Woman’s Auxiliary to Study Missions
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church will hold an all day study session in the Sunday school annex starting at 9:30 a.m. A lunch will be served at noon. In the afternoon the group will finish the Mission Study book, chapter readings focusing on Sunrise in Artes Land and Mexico under Christian influence. All interested persons are invited to attend.
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The
Presbyterian Church
Artes Land
Mexico
Bishop Howden to speak at Calvary Church Sunday
The Rt. Rev. Frederick B. Howden bishop of New Mexico will preach at Calvary Church next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The missionary jurisdiction he oversees is about three times Georgia's size with one fifth its population. His work includes missions to Indians and oversight of St. John's Sanitarium for tubercular patients in Alber.
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Frederick B. Howden
New Mexico
Calvary Church
Howden
Georgia
St. John’s
Alber
Express Theft Cases Ended in Macon Court Order
The Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court verdict in a long running conspiracy case against American Railway Express employees. Sentences include one year and a day for G R Baker W G Mixon F J Morris W E Brunner Lee Dix O L Smith A F Johnson J O Hood King Hardy FE E Dunaway and fines for J N Smith E J Stovall Charlie Johnson. Ed Knox received four months in Bibb jail. The marshal will summon those under sentence soon.
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Macon
American Railway Express Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
United States District Court
Central of Georgia Railroad
Madon
Albany
G. R. Baker
W. G. Mixon
F. J. Morris
W. E. Brunner
Lee Dix
O. L. Smith
A. F. Johnson
J. O. Hood
King Hardy
FE. E. Dunaway
Ed Knox
Bibb County
J. N. Smith
E. J. Stovall
Pny
Charlie Johnson
United States Marshal
Harding Signs Bill for Britain's War Debt Funding
President Harding signed the British debt funding bill making it law. The time for payment of the war debt to America is extended to 62 years with interest from loan dates until December 15, 1922. After that date interest rates vary at 3 and 3 1/2 percent, with demand notes held by the U S Treasury at 3 and 5 percent.
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Washington
Harding
Great Britain
America
U. S. Treasury Department
Charles D Hawkins Dies in South Carolina
Charles D Hawkins aged 35 died at the government hospital in Greenville South Carolina at 6 20 p m Tuesday after years of illness The body will be brought to Americus on the Central of Georgia at 5 14 a m Thursday and burial will be in the Americus area He is survived by three sisters Miss Sallie Hawkins Mrs R S Benjamin of Nicholls Ga and Mrs C C Carter of Quitman and one brother Jesse Hawkins of Americus He was born and reared in Americus and was a World War veteran gassed on the front He belonged to the John D Mathis Post American Legion and his death is deeply mourned locally.
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Charles D. Hawkins
Government Hospital
Greenville
S. C
Americus
Central of Georgia
Americus Undertaking Company
Sallie Hawkins
R. S. Benjamin
Nicholls
C. C. Carter
Quitman
Jesse Hawkins
Mr. Hawkins
C. J. Hawkins
South Carolina Government Hospital
France
John D. Mathis
American Legion
Building boom fuels activity in Americus area homes and mills
Building and remodeling surge in Americus as contractor John W. Shiver handles five contracts, expands mill capacity, and buys a 2 ton Graham truck. Projects include J. P. Chapman building remodeling for R. A. Dry Goods, new front and interiors built with Shiver’s crew in Americus plant. Also bungalow homes and two farmhouses near Guerry's Bridge, Lee and Finn streets remodeling, plus upcoming hospital and galow homes.
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Americas
John W. Shiver
Shiver
Jones Motor Company
J. P. Chapman
Forsyth Street
R. & A. Dry Goods Company
Shiver’s
Americus
Shiver E
R. EB. Cate
Friendship Road
George Oliver
Lee and
Finnn Streets
Jesse Faust Place Sold to G M James
A real estate deal closed Tuesday transferring the 176 acre farm in the 17th district on the Plains and Smithville roads near the Lee county line to G M James of North Carolina who will reside there. W D Rice previously bought it from Faust. The farm lies about 10 miles from Americus and 5 miles from Plains with no price disclosed.
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Jesse Faust
G. M. James
Sumter County
W. D. Rice
Faust
Plains
Smithville
Lee County
Americus
German nationalist agitator arrested in Essen
Prince Friederich Wilhelm Van Lippe, a noted German nationalist leader, was seized by French authorities in Essen. He is accused of inciting sabotage among German workers and opposing the occupation by Franco Belgian troops, described as one of Germany’s most dangerous agitators. Authorities planned more arrests.
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Essen
Asociated Press
Friederich Wilhelm van Lippe
Garded Ag
Germany
Udhidon
Harding designates 36000 square miles as Arctic naval oil reserve
President Harding issues an executive order creating a vast Arctic naval fuel reserve in northwest Alaska covering about 35 000 square miles. Secretary Fall notes uncertain production but cites extensive private interest. area lies within the Arctic Circle and borders the Arctic Ocean. Public survey and infrastructure plans may include storage tanks or pipelines to Fort Hamlin or Fairbanks.
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Washington
Alaska
Harding
Fall
Interior Department
Navy
Icey Cape
Cane Barrow
Arctic Ocean
Endicott Range
Colville River
Arctic Circle
Wyoming
California
Fort Hamlin
Yukon
Fairbanks
Nominations by President Include Towner for Porto Rico
President nominates Horace M. Towner of Iowa for governor of Porto Rico to succeed E Mont Reily and Dwight Davis of Missouri as assistant secretary of war. J M Wainwright becomes a War Finance director, and Frank Mondell is named as the new floor leader in the House.
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Washington
Horace M. Towner
Iowa
House Representatives
Porto Rico
E. Mont Reily
Dwight Davis
Missouri
J. M. Wainwright
Congress
Frank Mondell
House
Davis
War Finance Corporation
Annie MacSwiney Released From Kilmainham Prison
Dublin February 28. Miss Annie MacSwiney was released from Kilmainham prison this afternoon after her fifteenth day of hunger strike.
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Annie Macswiney
Dublin
Associates Ed Press
Kilmainham
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LEE Street Sewing Circle
Central Railway
Hortense Saunders
NEA Service
Presbyterian
Calvary
Will
Atlanta
Haring
Carolina
Lamar Street
Shiver Has
Prince Frederich van Lippe
Hfldas
Alaskan
Naval Fuel Oil Basin
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