Georgia Farm Banquet Opens Tobacco Land Revival
A large gathering is planned at the Scratchins place in Lee county near Smithville for a barbecue and speeches by prominent Georgians. Atlanta Trust company will host, celebrating 3500 acres opened to tobacco cultivation with speakers including A M Soule, J J Brown, Eugene Black, John Slater, and W G Martin. Toastmaster Col W W Dykes will preside as locals tour improved Lee and Sumter land created since February.
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Georgia
Lovelace
Sahan
Atlanta Trust Company
Scratchins Place
Lee County
Smithville
Trust Company
Magnificent Grove
A. M. Soule
State College of Agriculture
J. J. Brown
Eugene Black
John Slater
Douglas
W. G. Martin
Leesburg
Col
W. W. Dykes
Americus
Dixie Highway
Lee
Sumterland
Scratchins
North Carolina
Scott’s Second Gallow’s Shadow in Chicago
Russell Scott, once a Canadian financier, stood under the gallows in Chicago after a week’s reprieve. He hopes for salvation through his brother Robert, who signed a Detroit telegram claiming he is the real killer. State officials promise a double execution if Robert is found or new evidence emerges.
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Chicago
Russell Scott
Scott
Holder
Governor Small
Detroit
Russell
Robert
State Attorney’s
Robert Scott
Small
State officers told to cease lobbying in Senate action
Atlanta July 23 Heads of state departments and ompt cyes of the state will be instructed to cease lobbying for any purpose whatever and to remain in their offices at their respective duties during the times for which they are paid by the state under a resolution introduced today by Senator Hutch eson 39 and unanimously adopted by the Senate.
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Atlanta
Hutcheson
Senate
Prejudice Against Two Dollar Bill Worries Government
Washington July 23 Money's money. Federal reserve bank representatives told Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey that his push to popularize $2 bills will likely fail. They recalled his unsuccessful effort to reintroduce silver certificates. Dewey argued that though there is logic, some people dislike $2 notes. Bankers retorted that prejudice is as foolish as fear of Friday the 13th. They promised to try, noting the high demand for currency. The bureau of engraving and printing cannot keep up with demand and may work overtime.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Bank
Dewey
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Kentucky Editor Arrested For Criticizing City's Mayor
Bruce J. Susong, managing editor of the Kentucky Post, was arrested on a charge tied to a new gossip law after his paper reported that Covington faced a $50,000 shortfall following June tax receipts. Mayor Daniel A. O Donov an and City Auditor Griffin Murphy alleged the article was false and malicious, claiming it could impair the city's credit. The case follows ongoing editor-city clashes and wider press freedom debates.
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Covington
Kentucky
Bruce J. Susong
Kentucky Post
Susong
Daniel A. O’donovan
O’donovan
Griffin Murphy
Scripps-Howard
Post
O'Donovan
Finance Department
Newport
Sumter County Seeks Third Georgia Cotton Bale
A Sumter County race to produce the state’s third Georgia bale of 1925 cotton unfolds with ginning today or tomorrow. Two farmers push to harvest first, while Georgia’s first two bales sold for 43 and 50 1/8 cents per pound in Savannah and Macon. George Martin marketed the second bale near Eastman. auctioneer E. A. Cutts oversaw Savannah sales. If industry chatter proves true, Sumter may deliver Georgia’s third bale by Friday.
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Sumter
Americus
Times-Recorder
Theevannah Cotton Exchange
Georgia
Macon
George Martin
Eastman
Savannah
Butler, Stevens and Bell
Butler, Stevens and Co
E. A
Many to Visit Pool Friday This Year
Indications point to several hundred people using the special bathing rates offered by the Playground Association on Friday. Adults 15 cents and children 10 cents with aims to attract those who have not yet swum this year. President J T Warren hopes first dip will convert them into regular patrons. Additional bathing suits will be rented and extra lifeguards deployed to supervise the anticipated crowd of children.
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Playground Association
J. T. Warren
Mr. Warren
Gasoline Tax Take Reaches New High for Quarter
ATLANTA July 23 collections under the three cent per gallon gasoline tax totaled 991 943 27 for the second quarter of 1925, the largest amount to date. Compared with 532 425 49 a year earlier, and 1 838 803 80 for the first months of 1925, with possible gains from incoming company checks pushing the total over a million dollars. The tax revenue is divided into three equal parts for the State Highway Department, W A rental warrants rediscounting, and counties for road work.
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Atlanta
William B. Harrison
Wright
Harrison
State Highway Department
Southern publishers protest postal rate hike in Atlanta hearing
July 22 in Atlanta a joint congressional postal committee opened a hearing on existing rates. Colonel Robert E. Ewing of New Orleans chaired a Southern Newspaper Publishers Association committee that urged reducing second class postal rates. Southern publishers offered oral testimony.
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Atlanta
Congressional Postal Committee
Robert E. Ewing
New Orleans
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Congress
Tybee Road Toll Highway Petition in Savannah
A petition circulates to have the Tybee road enter Savannah made a toll highway. Signed by leading citizens near the highway, no action yet announced by the State Highway Board. Tolls were to be used for surfacing the road.
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Savannah
State Highway Board
Protection of paying urged against parking violators
City Engineer Walker joined with the police to crack down on automobile owners in the business district who park cars leaking gasoline or oil that defaces new asphalt pavement. Fines have been paid but enforcement continues, as ongoing dripping damages the surface and could require dedicated repair crews.
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Walker
Four Killed by Lightning Strikes Across New York Area
A lightning outbreak in Metropolitan New York and South New Jersey killed four people including a Brooklyn teen trying to dislodge a kite, a woman at a sewing machine, a laborer seeking shelter under a tree, and a soldier on duty at Fort Slocum. Crop damage from sewer rain storms hit tobacco hay and grain across New England and upstate New York. Mail planes now cover the Berlin to London route in under six hours.
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New York
New Jersey
New England
Brooklyn
Fort Slocum
Georgia Cotton Prospects Lifted by USDA Report
A USDA forecast shows this season’s cotton crop reduced by 751,000 bales from three weeks prior but still large, with Georgia rated 74 percent in condition and 126 pounds per acre. Tennessee shows 79 percent condition and 178 pounds per acre. The decline nationwide earlier in July is expected to push cotton prices higher.
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Sumter County
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Tennessee
Pittsburg Cops Quell Race Riot
Pittsburg police responded to a race riot in an outlying city section after an argument over a boys ball game escalated. About 200 participants used bricks and stones. 500 fought as officers arrived with riot guns. Two officers were injured, a suspect captured, four arrests made.
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Pittsburg
Edward Dunn
Herbert Rice
Morgan Palmer Dies Defending Property in China
Morgan Palmer an American was killed by bandits at his Sungari river ranch near Harbin on July 20 while defending his property. Dr. Howard an eye specialist with the Rockefeller Foundation hospital was captured. The group visiting Palmer's ranch including his mother wife child and an American trader Baldwin are reported safe for the present though their whereabouts are unknown.
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Peking
Morgan Palmer
Sungari River
Harbin
Howard
Rockefeller Foundation
Kingan
Palmer
James
Baldwin
Kalgan
Chili
Police Clean‑Up Drive Warns Merchants on Trash Sweep
Chief Bragg orders patrolmen in the business district to warn merchants against sweeping trash from stores onto streets for Sunday disposal. City trash wagons will remove it on Monday if ignored, with potential hearings for violators. Tourists arriving Sunday heightens concern over litter.
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Bragg
Recorder Fort
Brage
Two New Deacons for Friendship Church
Claude Daniel and Tom Wells will be ordained as deacons in Friendship Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 3 oclock. Rev Winn extends invitation to the public to attend the social services, per a telegram to Times Recorder from Pastor J Winn.
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Claude Daniel
Tom Wells
Friendship Baptist Church
Times- Recorder
J. §. Winn
Friendship Church
Rev. Winn
Measure Would Provide for the Registration Of Automobiles
Atlanta July 23 AP One of the most far reaching pieces of legislation before the 1925 Georgia general assembly is Senator Carl N Guess’s bill to provide for issuance and registration of motor vehicles in the state. If enacted in its present form the law would let an owner pay by post office money order and use that receipt as a temporary license until the license tag arrives from Atlanta. The state automobile department would issue a license tag and a registration certificate, the latter bearing a ring for the county officer’s signature to record papers locally. The owner must then have the certificate recorded by the county officer. Continued on page three.
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Atlanta
General Assembly of Georgia
Carl N. Guess
State Automobile Department
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Atlanta Trust CO
Bruce I Susong
Tybee Road
New England States
Berlin
London
Dr. Howard
Rockefeller Institute
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