Mosquito Elimination Campaign In Americas Aids 195 Youths
195 boys and girls from Americas Grammar School aided in a mosquito elimination drive led by Miss Sarah P. Cobb. They inspected yards and streets, drained standing water, emptied containers, cleaned chicken coops, and educated residents on malaria prevention, reducing local mosquito hazards.
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Grammar School of Americas
Sarah P. Cobb
Furlow Grammar School
Today
Americas
Flames Threaten Gracefield Ontario Town
Ottawa June 2 The citizens of Gracefield in the Gatineau section appealed for help as flames surrounded the town within three hundred yards. Fire, driven by a strong wind, raged unchecked while the entire population fought to contain the blaze.
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Ottawa
Gracefield
Gatineau
Canadian Pacific Railway
Fanatical Moros Killed in Philippine Clash
Fifty three fanatical Moros including Akbara a self styled bulletproof prophet have been killed in a fight with the constabulary on the island of Pat a near Jolo. No details of the uprising have been received.
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Manilafi
Associated Press
Akbara
Pata
Jolo
Harrell to Attend Emory Class Reunion in Atlanta
Rev Luther Harrell will travel to Atlanta Monday for an Emory university class reunion. A member of the Class of 18 he is pastor of Lee Street Methodist church and many classmates are in ministerial service. He expects the reunion next week with pleasure.
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Luther Harrell
Atlanta
Emory University
Plentiful Shipments Of Tomato And Potato Plants From Tifton
June 2 report notes fourteen million plants slated for shipment this year. Twelve million tomato plants have already been sent, with an expected eight million more. Daily shipments from Tifton average one carload. Potato plant shipments will start after tomato plants are moved. Weather and growth boost the industry.
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Tifton
Pinchot condemns New York repeal and vows PA stand
Harrisburg June 2 Governor Pinchot denounced New York Governor Smith for repealing a prohibition enforcement act and pledged Pennsylvania will uphold the U S constitution and laws. He said the move will encourage bootleggers and red factions while strengthening national resolve to uphold federal law.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Smith
New York
New York State
Pincho
Pennsyyvania
United States
Twenty two girls exhibit handiwork at Thompson Consolidated
Friday afternoon at Thompson Consolidated school twenty two girl students in the domestic science class displayed numerous articles of handiwork to several hundred visitors. Miss Parkman assisted, with the display expanding throughout summer under county club work auspices. Certificates will be awarded at Americus county fair this fall. The class will continue bi monthly instruction on canning and preserving, while hats knitted in millinery class drew praise.
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Thompson Consolidated School
Americus
Time to spray Hileys last spray advised for peaches
The state lab at Ft Valley urges final Hiley spray for peach trees in coming days to combat curculio and brown rot. Use 4 pounds of arsenate or lime-sulphur per tree. if dusting, apply 80-5-15. Georgia Belle should not receive final spray before June 11 and Elberta before June 20.
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Ft .Valley
Georgia
Elbertas
Georgia Belles
Malaria Toll in Georgia Estimated at 1.75 Million Sick Days
State health figures show 1922 malaria deaths in Georgia at 584 with 233,600 cases statewide. Southern Georgia bore most burden, while experts from the U S Public Health Service estimate 3000 sick days per death and $1,635,200 annual expense for treatment and care statewide.
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Orsia
Georgia
H. R. Carter
United States Public Health Service
Main Line Railroad Cut by Malcontents
Duesseeldorf June 2 The main line of railroad used by the French for coal and coke transport in the occupied Ruhr district was cut early today by bombs. Both tracks were torn up over a considerable distance and traffic disrupted. A coal train derailment followed damaged tracks and two other cases saw engines derailed when bombs exploded on impact. Sabotage occurred in wooded areas as in recent cases. The French ordered trees cleared to 200 meters from the right of way in affected districts.
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Duesseldorf
Associated Press
Ruhr
Mother and four cremated in home fire near Oxtter Ontario
Excerpt report from Exter Ontario on June 2 details a fatal house fire at Sod om. Mrs Silas Stanlake, four young children and her brother died. Stanlake saved his adopted daughter and oldest son by dropping them from a window but could not reach his wife and other children. He escaped severely burned.
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Exter
Ontario
Silas Stanlake
Stanlake
Sodom
Police Pour Out Moonshine At Valdosta After-Deal Booze Pour
June 2 report details Chief Ken dal leading a booze pouring at police headquarters. More than fifty containers of moonshine were emptied into a sewer opening, shocking any sects reported to inhabit the system.
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Valdosta
Police Kendal
Miss Virginia Perry Returns Home for Summer Vacation
Miss Virginia Perry, enrolled in special courses at the Georgia State College for Women Milledgeville this year, returned to her home at 2 o clock this afternoon to spend the summer vacation with her mother. She will return to college next season.
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Virginia Perry
Georgia State College For Women
Milledgeville
Bi Altenerry
Miss Perry
Unearth Royalist Plot Put Against French Republic
Paris reports sensational evidence of a monarchist plot to overthrow the republic. Interior Minister Maunory announces proof that royalist groups spread nationwide aimed at placing Louis Philippe Robert, Duke d Orleans, as Phillip VIII on the throne abandoned in 1871. The Bourbon claimant is in exile in Belgium.
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Paris
Louis Phillip Robert
Duce d
Orleans
Phillip VIII
Napoleon III
Bourbon
Belgium
Northwestern Mutual agents meet in Americus
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance representatives gathered in Americus Friday at the invitation of district manager Hamilton Yancey. A morning business session and 2 pm luncheon at the Tea Room featured addresses, songs by Miss Melva Clark, and music by the Tutankhamen orchestra. Yancey praised the company and spoke of aiming to build a large district agency in this strong insurance region. Continued on Page Five.
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Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Americas
Hamilton Yancey, Jr
Mr. Yancey
Luther E. Allen
Atlanta
Thos. Milner
Albany
J. L. Wooten
Americus
J. C. Foster
Fort Gaines
B. S. Hays
Shellman
J. P. Champion
Ben Simon
C. B. Tyler
James Davenport, Jr
J. A. Hartzog
Frank Stapleton
J. T. Stokes
W. S. Prather
Lawson Stapleton
W. H., C. Dudley
Melva Clark
LaVerne Thomas
Henry Everett
Lovelace Eve
The
Times- Recorder
Tutankhamen Orchestra
Yancey
Northwestern Mutual
Possibl
Suchow Bandits Release Four More Foreign Captives
Four more foreign captives held by Suchow bandits were freed unconditionally, including one American, two British subjects, and one Mexican citizen. They arrived at the Tsaochung relief camp. Prospects are favorable for promptly releasing eight additional foreigners imprisoned on the Paotzuku mountains.
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Tientsin
Associated Press
Tsaochung
Paotzuku
Club girls to camp at Myrtle Springs in June
Fifty Sumter county girls from community canning clubs, led by Miss Bonnie Parkman, will spend five days at Myrtle Springs this month. Parkman will supervise. camp attendees will be advanced canning club girls chosen under later announced rules. The plan blends instruction with recreation, aiming for substantial benefits.
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Sumter County
Bonnie Parkman
Myrtle Springs
Americas High seniors host Monday class day program
The senior class of Americas High School will present a 10 o'clock Monday morning program in the high school auditorium. Edwin Gammage presides as class president with acts including a Bombay mind reader, class oration by G R Ellis Jr, class poem by Alice Westbrook, and valedictory by Ira Gatewood and Mary Earle Allen. Admission is free and doors open at 10 sharp for what promises to be a lively event.
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John West Sheffield
the Americas High School
Datireys
Edwin Gammage
Bombay
India
G. R. Ellis
Ellis
Alice Westbrook
Toby Easterlin
Ira Gatewood
Mary Earle Allen
City Tax Books Close Amid Delinquent Returns
City Clerk Shaver worked into the night as the tax books closed June 2. Property owners who failed to report holdings face a double tax. The eleventh hour rush continued this morning as officials processed late returns.
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Indultrie
Shaver
Publicity flap at Republican HQ over Rhine army cost claim
Charles P. Stewart notes that Republican National Headquarters issued a strong charge that England and European allies would bilk the United States on Rhine army costs. The statement was quickly withdrawn at the State Department’s request, prompting questions about its intent and timing in relation to Harding’s world court policy.
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Charles P. Stewart
England
United States
Washington
State Department
Harding
WANTED TO QUIT AS PARIS GOVERNMENT CRISIS TURNS TO RESIGNATION
French Premier Poincare sought to resign after the Senate declined to prosecute Deputy Cachin and other Communists on sedition charges tied to Rhur activity. Rioting and looting in Germany, conscripts called in Belgium, and Baldwin named English premier mark a turbulent international scene. Turks threaten force if Greece does not pay claims. Lausanne talks seek an end to a possible wider war. Bandits hold foreigners in Shanghai-Peking region as foreign powers pressure Peking. Treasury finds a workaround after Supreme Court limits foreign ships bringing liquor into U S ports.
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Cachin
Paris
Rhur
Poincare
France
Miller
Germany
Belgium
Shanghai-Peking
Peking
Two Alleged Liquor Runners Shot by Madison Officer
Madison June 2 Two alleged liquor runners shot and killed by a prohibition officer near here last night were identified today as Jett Smith 85 and his nephew J B Smith 20 of Athens Identification made by relatives and their bodies will be taken to Athens today.
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Madison
Here
Jett Smith
J. B. Smith
Athens
Nine Hogs Sold At Leslie Pens Friday
Seven farmers in a county cooperative sale at Leslie Friday sold 85 head of hogs for 1000 dollars. George M arshall, county farm demonstration agent, announced. Sale described as one of the smallest in the county. Hogs represented leftover stock from farmers. Prices: No 1 grade hogs eight cents. Chicago market quoted seven dollars twenty cents for the same quality.
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Leslie
George O. Marshall
Chicago
Farmers Plan To Ship Vegetables By Cooperative Truck
Valdosta June 2 A new plan installed by Lowndes county Truck Farmers helps farmers ship vegetables to Eastern and Northern markets. Farmers pool loads to fill a whole car, aided by A H Wale director general of the Cooperative Marketing Association of America. Wale assists grading to obtain best prices for each grower.
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Valdosta
Lowndes County
Georgia
Florida
A. H. Wale
Co-operative Marketing Association of America
Wale
Mr. Wale
New Moultrie Pastor Begins Duties Sunday
MOULTRIE June 2 Revil A D Wauchope new pastor of the First Presbyterian church will reach Moultrie this week and take up his work Sunday morning The exact arrival day was not announced due to his duties as evangelist for the Synod of Georgia.
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Moultrie
A. D. Wauchope
First Presbyterian Church
Mr. Wauchope
Synod of Georgia
A J Williams Named Manager at Nash Rogers Store
A J Williams, formerly in Americus market business, has accepted the position of manager at the Nash market on Forsyth street in Rogers, and began duties June 1. He is well known in Americus for courtesy and obliging manner.
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A. J. Williams
New Rogers
Rogers Forsyth Street
Mr. Williams
Americus
Prohibition Debts Divide Over Paying League Funds
Washington dispatches note Anti Saloon League trouble over debts from failed efforts to raise 25 million dollars to enforce prohibition. The argument centers on who should pay. The Chicago Daily News reports liquor has become the country’s biggest single business.
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High Seas
Washington
Chicago Daily News
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Harrell
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Gov.pinchot
Pennsylvania
Thompso
Parkman
Augusta
Umbus
State Board of Health
Northwestern
Big Insurance Company
Myrtle
Stanley Baldwin
Lord Curzon
Baldwin
Andrew Bonar Law
Turkey
Greece
Lau-sanne
Treasury Department
Supreme Court
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