Minister urges hospital annex for Sumter colored community
In a Calvary Episcopal sermon Rev. James B Lawrence urged Sumter County to build a hospital annex for colored residents. He argued Christlike charity, stated common sense favors the project, and suggested forming a committee to raise funds while noting logistics can be settled later. He recalled Jesus aiding a gentile, urging equal sympathy and action.
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Calvary Episcopal Church
James B Lawrence
Sumter County
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christ
City Hospital
Fes
Saad
Idaro
Bilan
Pecan Station Site Chosen in Lee County Georgia
The Bureau of Plant Industry selects Philema in Lee County near Albany as the pecan experiment station site. Pioneer donor P. J. Brown provides fences, wells, housing, and tool shelter with railroad and highway access. The parcel hosts bearing pecan trees for grafting and variety testing, available indefinitely with no rent and option for thirty more acres.
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Washington
Bureau of Plant Industry
William J. Harris
Georgia
Philema
Lee County
Albany
P. J. Brown
Street Car Strike Clashes with Troops in Buffalo
In Buffalo on July 24 a man with a broken arm and another with a fractured skull were hospitalized after clashes between striking trolley workers and state troopers guarding the lines. The railway ran a limited number of cars on all lines today as tensions persisted from the July 2 walkout.
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Buffalo
Souther A Action Set for Aug. 29
The War Department through the director of sales announces a public auction on August 29 in Americus Georgia to dispose of air service supplies.
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Air Service
Washington
War Department
Director of Sales
Americus
Tolleson Named Science Teacher at Americas High
Tolleson of Sylvester has been secured by the board of education as science teacher for Americas High School for the coming year. He brings considerable experience and a fine teaching reputation, having previously taught in McDonough schools. He and his wife with four children plan to move here soon. Mary Rose Brown declined to accept as physical director, choosing to return to Biloxi, Miss, next year after a successful term there.
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O. O. Tolleson
Sylvester
Board of Education
the Americas
McDonough
Mary Rose Brown
L. W. Brown
Holden
Biloxi
Sun Yat Sen Claims Victory Near Canton
Sun Yat Sen deposed president of the South China government says his forces captured several hundred Chen Chiang Ming troops sixty miles north of Canton. At Sun Yat Sen's headquarters the engagement was described as unim portant.
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Canton
Associated Press
Sun Yat Sen
South China
Chen Chiang Ming
Then
Mine Pumpmen Quit in Protest in Bellaire Ohio
Bellaire Ohio July 24 pumpmen and fanmen idle in coal mines in the district left their posts in a protest against state troops being brought in. About 175 mines operate in the area. Scranton July 24 five city mayors and mining union district presidents meet to discuss a plan to settle the anthracite wage dispute. Mayor Durkan of Scranton said prospects for a quick settlement look bright.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Scranton
Miners Union
Durkan
Opera Operators Back Administration Plan In Strike Emergency
Operators from six states meet with Secretary Hoover and endorse the plan to maintain prices and ensure fuel distribution during the strike emergency. Attorney General opinion from Daugherty approves the legal phases while the conference continues.
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Washington
Hoover
Department of Justice
Daugherty
Joe Hill Hall Dies at Macon Home at 70
Joe Hill Hall, 70, long time Bibb county representative and noted watchdog of the treasury for economy, died Saturday after a brief illness in Macon. Born in Knoxville in 1852, he was a longtime attorney and former counsel for the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway, active in state and local politics.
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Macon
Joe Hill Hall
Georgia
Bibb County
the Treasury
Hall
Knoxille
Georgia Southern and
Florida Railroad
Third District Masons Plan Big Americus Convention
The twenty second annual session of the Third Masonic district convention will be held in Americus August 1 and 2. The event, billed as the biggest Masonry occasion in Sumter county, includes public sessions at Rylander theater, numerous speakers, entertainment, and a Master Mason degree conferral by the Americas degree team with sessions continuing at the Masonic hall and Planters Bank building.
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Sumter County
Rylander Theater
Americus
Guyton Fisher
Georgia
Knights Templar
America
E. J. Witt
H. W. Taylor
Scribe Grand Chapter
Georgia Royal Arch Masons
Susie Stallings
N. H. Ballard
Planters Bank
Americus Lodge No
M. B. Council Lodge
J. R. Statham
W. M
J. T. Bowdoin
Grand Lodge of Georgia
J. M. Prance
Grand Lodge Educational Loan Fund
Frank H. Baker
F. O. Miller
Masonic
James Clements
Orphans Home Committee
Guy Thurman
Grand Lodge
Board of Custodians
J. E. Mathis
Americas
Dan Chappell
Masonic Hall
J. E. Sheppard
L. McDaniel
S. W
Fow
Te Witt
I. D
Murray Dunn
J. D
Talmadge Crabb
C. M. Bradley
Irish rebels flee to mountains amid govt pursuit
Unconfirmed London reports said Irish irregulars were retreating into the Saltee and Knockmealdown mountains pursued by Free State troops. The irregulars were said to have burned barracks at Clonmel and Tipperary as they attempted to concentrate for resistance.
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London
Associated Press
Saltee
Knockmealdown
Free State
Clonmel
Tipperary
Henry Allen White and War on Free Speech in Kansas
William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette, posts a sympathy sign for rail strikers alleging Kansas industrial law suppresses free speech. Governor Henry J. Allen orders White’s arrest, but both insist the move won’t harm their friendship or be a test of state authority.
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William Allen White
Kansas
Emporia Gazette
Henry J. Allen
White
Negro Lynchings Reported Near Moultrie Georgia
The bullet riddled body of Will Anderson, a Black man charged with attempting an assault on a 15 year old white girl, was found on the road near Reedy Creek church after being seized in Moultrie and driven toward the crime scene. He is said to have confessed.
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Ellenton
Will Anderson
Reedy Creek Church
Anderson
Moultrie
Indictments in Theater Disaster Are Dismissed
Washington July 24 Justice Siddens dismissed indictments against five persons tied to the Knickerbocker theater disaster in which 97 people died last winter.
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Washington
Justice Siddens
Cotton Market Guest Arrives for Miss Wheatley
Miss Elizabeth Reynolds of Meridian Mississippi will arrive Wednesday to stay with Miss Isabelle Wheatley at her home on South Lee Street, marking a social visit in the local cotton market community.
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Elizabeth Reynolds
Meridian
Isabelle Wheatley
South Lee Street
Chief of 16,000 Employes for Negotiations
Chicago July 24 Ten thousand railroad station agents will not strike, says W J Noone, president, after talks with W L McMenimen. He will instruct men to stay at work and have committees confer with road management on all issues. Baltimore parley with striking shopmen proceeds with little incident.
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Chicago
Associated Press
W. J. Noone
W. L. McMenimen
Railroad Labor Board
Hooper
Labor Board
Baltimore and
Ohio
Baltimore
B. M. Jewell
Leslie at Rochelle takes 30 of 5 games
Leslie defeated Rochelle 6 to 2 on Rochelle diamond. Leslie hitters collected 11 hits off Ryals while Rochelle managed few off Johnnie Waller. Leslie won 3 of 5 games from Rochelle. Batteries Leslie Waller Bass Rochelle Ryals Shanley.
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Leslie
Rochelle
Leslie Boys
Ryals
Rochelle Boys
Johnnie Waller
Waller
I’. H. Hines
Bass
Johnson
Sumerford
R. H. E. Leslie
Shanley
Wounded deputy sues 14 of Mo8 for $26,000
Macon July 24 John T Stanley Irwinton deputy sheriff Wilkinson county wounded in May 22 jail defense suit filed in U S court for $20,000 against fourteen Wilkinson county men alleged mob members. Attorneys Sibley Sibley Milledgeville Wall Grice Bloch Macon describe twenty minute fight and surrender of detainee Jim Denson cut foot and exhaustion.
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Macon
John T. Stanley
Irwinton
Wilkinson County
Jim Denson
United States
John Wright
Clinton Loyd
Otis Freeman
Thomas H. Bridwell
George Duncan
Alec S. Boone
Walter Dean
John Barge
Clarence Chambers
Grady Sanders
J. Brown
Thomas Bridwell
Sibley & Sibley
Milledgeville
Wall, Grice & Bloch
Stanley
Denson
Ellis of Americus Shakes Hands With President Harding
Theodore Tiller reports from Washington that J. Lewis Ellis a prominent attorney of Americus Ga was in the capital Saturday as guest of Cranston Williams secretary to Senator Harris He visited York Atlantic City and Philadelphia on a business and pleasure trip and called at the White House where he shook hands with President Harding.
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Theodore Tiller
Atlanta Journal
Washington
Journal Sunday
J. Lewis Ellis
Americus
Cranston Williams
Harris
York
Atlantic City
Philade
Ellis
Harding
Second Obenchain trial nears jury in Kennedy murder case
In Los Angeles arguments to the jury opened today in the second trial of Mrs. Madalyane Obenchain for the murder of her sweetheart J Bolton Kennedy, a broker. The proceedings mark the second jury deliberation in the long case.
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Los Angeles
Madalyane Obenchain
J. Bolton Kennedy
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