Weevil Survey Indicates Small Damage To Date
Georgia counties report boll weevil conditions after July weather favoring development. Director J Phil Campbell urges farmers to monitor crops and apply calcium arsenate dust where signs appear. Dust is effective if rain does not wash it off within 24 hours, with 3 4 applications typical. County notes show varying damage and poisoning plans as weevil threat grows.
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Athens
Georgia
J. Phil Campbell
College of Agriculture
Atkins
Ben Hill
Political field and global tensions in brief review
Nine presidential hopefuls are listed including Coolidge Davis La Follette and Foster with others. Europe headlines note Hughes in Europe and Dawes plan issues while France seeks debt relief. Technicalities in a corruption case surface as Sinclair and Fall associates challenge indictments. Philippines troops seek equal pay, Spanish Morocco turmoil continues, and Brazil Brazil-wide unrest hints at a potential new southern state aligned with Santa Cruz de la Sierra joining southern Brazil.
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Robert M. Lafillette
Robert R. Pointer
People’s Progressive
G. 0
Nations
Frank Johns
Socialist Labor
Herman P. Faris
National Prohibition
William J. Wallace
Commonwealth
William Z. ‘Foster
Workers’ Party of America
Eugene V. Debes
Foster
Europe
Hughes
American Bar Association
Dawes
England
France
Germany
Herriot
America
Senate
Harry Sinclair
Dohenys
Albert B. Fall
Phillipines
Spanish Morocco
Spain
Brazil
Sao Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Hati
New York State
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Thomasville Bank Merger Completed
In Thomasville the Citizens Banking and Trust Company merges with the Bank of Thomasville, final details pending. The merged bank will keep the Bank of Thomasville name with its officers. Dr J T Culpepper becomes vice president and Coppeland and Park join the staff, while the rest of the officers are listed as: chairman, president, cashier and other key roles.
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Thomasville Bank
Thomasville
Citizens Banking & Trust Company
Bank of
J. T. Culpepper
Bank of Thomasville
Messrs
Copeland and Park
Bank of Thomasville Ight
Eetwood, Press
John Int
Wilt
British aviator Stuart MacLaren overdue at Paramashiru Island
Tokio reports Stuart MacLaren, British world flight pilot, is six hours overdue at Paramashiru Island in the Kuriles where he planned to land today. A Japanese destroyer has been sent to search for his aircraft.
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Tokio
Stuart MacLaren
Paramashiru Island
Kuriles
Paramashiru
Goulds Millions in Balacke court fights over marriage clause
Frank J Gould faces a legal battle over his father s will requiring trustees consent before marriage. His income from the Gould fortune is held up pending a full hearing. His wives include Florence Alcane, Edith Kelly, and Helen Ellie later Princess Iora of Albania, with prior divorces noted.
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New York
Frank J. Gould
Gould
Frank
Florence Alcane
Justice Platzek
James O’gorman
Florence
Henry C. Heynemann
Los Angeles
Gould’srevious
Edith Kelly
Paris
Helenelly
Lora
Albania
Tale of a Farmer’s Crawfish Labor Allegory
Uniontown Alabama July 16 Louis Richardson, a local farmer, claims his crawfish on the farm perform odd tasks. He says they pick strawberries, dig Irish potatoes, and later dig peanut crops when young and tender. He adds they also tend cotton and corn and even pick his peas.
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Uniontown
Ala
Louis Richardson
Here
Richardson
Conwell to address Sumter farmers in courthouse
J E Conwell, president of the Georgia Cotton Growers Association, speaks Thursday at 10 am in the Sumter courthouse. District director John Council will introduce him as he outlines cooperative marketing plans for Georgia cotton producers and other association initiatives. A large crowd is expected.
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Americas
Sumter County
J. E. Conwell
Registration Tops at University of Georgia Summer School
Athens July 16 Registration at the University of Georgia Summer School has surpassed last year’s pace with 1867 students registered and expectations to exceed 2000 before the nine week term ends. The student body shows fewer elementary courses and more college level participants, reflecting curriculum changes.
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Athens
University of Georgia Summer School
Missing Chicago real estate operator Harold Bradley
Relatives fear Harold Bradley a 38 year old Chicago real estate operator may have taken his own life after leaving for a Michigan sanitarium. authorities suspect inability to raise funds for an apartment house obligation led to his departure. His affairs are being examined.
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Harold Bradley
Chicago
Michigan
Tomato growers profit from first year crop in Sumter County
Sumter County tomato growers expect about 3000 dollars net from their first commercial crop. Sixty four acres near Americus produced two solid freight cars shipped to Boston and Chattanooga under the Sumtermatoes cooperative brand. The effort, led by George O Marshall with the Kiwanis club sponsorship, aims to build a stable local tomato trade amid varying returns from express shipments and small lot sales in Americus.
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Sumter County
Boston
Mass
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sumtermatoes
George O. Marshall
George O Marshall
Kiwanis Club
Americus
Americas
Funeral for Emmett Howard Draws Many Friends
Many friends attended the funeral of Emmett Howard from the Mayo street residence at 10 this morning. Rev. John M. Cutler of First Methodist church conducted the service and Oak Grove cemetery received the interment. Floral offerings testified to the high esteem for the Howard family, as two sons and two daughters endure the community’s condolences.
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Emmett Howard
Mayo Street
John M. Cutler
First Methodist Church
Howard
Oak Grove Cemetery
Tne
Ean
Free peaches offered from Rylander packing shed
Walter Rylander invites Americus residents to pick as many Georgia Belles as they want from his orchard packing shed. Bring your own containers. no entry to orchards. About 25,000 trees heavy with fruit. Elberta variety to follow soon.
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Walter Rylander
Americus
Rylander
Georgia
Court of Appeals affirms big verdict in Michigan case
Columbus July 16 United States circuit court appeals affirmed the southern district court in granting John Hansel and wife of Grand Rapids a verdict for 20000 dollars against Benjamin Purnell king of the House of David.
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Columbus
United States Circuit Court Appeals Today
Southern District Court of Michigan
John Hansel
Grand Rapids
Benjamin Purnell
King
Mohammedans and Hindus in Riot in Delhi
Six people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a riot between Mohammedans and Hindus in Delhi. The clash followed agitation over Mohammedans carrying cows for sacrifice through Hindu areas, provoking communal tensions and clashes yesterday.
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India
Delhi
Associated Press
Veterans Thank Friends For Trip To Memphis Reunion
Americas Confederate Veterans from Camp Sumter No. 642 express deep thanks for courtesies extended during their 34th annual reunion in Memphis Tennessee. Resolutions praise the ladies citizens daughters of confederacy sons of veterans Boy Scouts and the Times Recorder and railroads for hospitality. A copy of the resolutions will be published and filed for record.
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Camp
Sumter
Memphis
Tennessee
Daughters of Confederacy
Sons of Veterans
Times-Recorder
Camp Sumter
Americus Party Attends Albany Meeting On Dixie Highway
Americus leaders J. E. Poole James Lott Charles Wheatley J. W. Hightower and H. P. Everett returned from Albany where the Chamber of Commerce hosted a session on promoting tourism along the Western Dixie Highway through Peach County Andersonville Americus Albany and Thomasville. The plan includes a scout car tour maps and arrow signs with a projected cost near $1000 and formation of a Western Dixie Highway Association to foster good roads and tourist traffic.
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J. E. Poole
James Lott
Charles Wheatley
J. W. Hightower
H. P. Everett
Albany
R. E. L. Neil
Albany Chamber of Commerce
the Americas
Sumter
Peach Section
Andersonville
Americus
Thomasville
Albany ‘Chamber of Commerce
Florida
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Nashville
Louisville
Indianapolis
Chicago
Detroit
Fort Valley
Marshallville
Montezuma
Western Dixie Highway Association
Police chase slayer of murdered boy on Staten Island
Police on Staten Island pursue a killer after 8 year old Francis McDonald, son of a policeman, was found murdered in a rough grave site near his home. The boy's suspenders were knotted about his throat and clothes torn, a neighbor saw a man about 50 heading toward the woods shortly before.
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New York
Staten Island
Francis McDonald
Allies Press Need for American Cooperation at Dawes Conference
London July 16 American ambassador Kellogg and Col Logan attended as observers at the inter allied reparations conference opening with Prime Minister MacDonald and French premier Heriot. Kellogg and Logan signaled U S willingness to aid Dawes plan to stabilize Europe.
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London
Germany
England
Ramsay MacDonald
Leonard Heriot
Frank B. Kellogg
Great Britain
Col
James A. Logan
Reparations Commission
MacDonald
United States
Kelley
Americus Lodge to Have Called Meeting
Americus Lodge No. 13 F and A M will meet Thursday night at 6 o clock to confer the Master’s Degree on several candidates. The initiation will be led by the degree teams of both lodges and likely the Masonic degree will be conferred. Event Magonie Temples announced. Georgia night Thursday storms.
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Americus Lodge
No. 13
A. M
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Charles P. Stewart
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis
McLaren
Conwell
Farmers OF
American Cotton Association
E. Howell
Oem
Court OF Appeals
Seach
Kellogg
Col. Logan
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