Death of Herbert Clay Shakes Georgia Politics
Herbert Clay, president of the Georgia senate and Marietta lawyer, died suddenly at a downtown Atlanta hotel. The coroner’s jury ruled natural causes. Clay, active in state politics since 1921, had served in the senate and later the house. He leaves a widow, his mother, and brothers.
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Atlanta
Herbert Clay
Georgia Senate
Marietta
Cobb County
House of Representatives
Clay
U. S
British Admit Im injunction Signed By Has Pet 78 Break
In well informed quarters here it is declared that Britain will not challenge American authority to break consular seals and confiscate liquor once past the three mile limit. The London report notes British jurisdiction ends at sea for liquor at a port. A separate injunction restrains Ku Klux Klan Emperor Simmons from giving away secret rituals. A hearing is set for Saturday in Atlanta. New York Klan plans a parade with regalia despite Mayor Hylan. Over 1,000 candidates initiated at East Islip with an estimated 25,000 members present.
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Humphries
KU Klux Klan
London
Associated Press
Berengaria
New York
Atlanta
Emperor Simmons
Ku _ Klux Klan
Knight of
Caleb Ridley
J. O. Wood
Searchlight
Henry Norton
W. H. Lathrop, Jr
William Thompson
E. J. Jones
Thomas Knight
C. W. Besom
N. H. Moore
The
Knights of
Kamela
Hylan
King Kleagle Johnson
New York State
East Islip
Long Island
America
England
Russia
United States
Bolton Sermons Impress Bearers at Central Baptist
Great interest filled Thursday night services at Central Baptist as Dr. Bolton's sermons draw strong impressions. Visitors travel for the meetings while locals attend nightly. The theme focused on converting the unsaved to Christ. A rally urged urgent gospel invitation and persistent effort to reach all. Friday studied why prayers go unanswered and advised on proper prayer conditions. Tomorrow's 10 o clock sermon targets the young. Membership chances open after Friday service. Song services remain enjoyable and uplifting.
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Centr! Baptist Church
Bolton
Supreme Mission of the Church
Andrew
Simon Peter
Jesus
Randolph Tax Returns Show Big Falling Off
Randolph county tax records show a sharp decline in assessed values for 1923. Tax receiver Page reports total assessed value at 3,568,615, down from 3,671,745 in 1922, a decrease of 103,130. The drop is mainly due to lower corporate values and money returned.
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Cuthbert
Board of Tax Equalizers
Randolph County
Page
Vaughan Quartet Sings Here Sunday at Courthouse
Announcement by W N Stephens says the Vaughan Quartette will perform Sunday afternoon at the courthouse starting at 3 o clock. The free public concert features gospel songs and aims to draw a large crowd. The group recently returned to Georgia after Indiana recording sessions and radio work.
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W. N. Stephens
Vaughan
Americas
Georgia
Indiana
WOAN
Lawrenceburg
Tenn
Stephens
Two Rail Lines Here May Be Consolidated
A Savannah origin report claims the Interstate Commerce Commission plans to consolidate Illinois Central Seaboard Air Line Tennessee Central and Gulf and Ship Island into a single Illinois Central system. The move would erase the Central of Georgia identity and shift main offices to Chicago. Local Americus reaction was inconclusive.
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Seshard
Central
Savannah
Americus
Interstate Commerce Commission
Illinois Central
Seaboard Air Line
Tennessee Central
Gulf and Ship Island
Illinois Central System
Central of Georgia
Chicago
Ues Illinois Central
F B Trent Dies at 70 in Waycross Home
F B Trent aged 70 died Thursday in Waycross after a long illness. Born in Brooklyn and moving to Waycross at 27, he once ran a sawmill supply store and later represented a Jacksonville firm at his final illness. He was a close friend of the late W L Stanton.
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Waycross
F. B. Trent
W. L. Stanton
Mr. Trent
Brooklyn
N. Y
Trews
Jacksonville
Baptist Convention Set For Warwick Next Week
The Houston Baptist Sunday School Association will convene June 28 at the Warwick Baptist Church. A detailed and instructive program has been prepared, promising a meaningful gathering for attendees.
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S. S
MFET
Warwick
Houston B Banutist Sunday School Association
Warwick Bantist Churea
Moultrie Hopes for Place in South Georgia Circuit
Moultrie, June 22, reports say no berth for the city in the South Georgia semi pro league. Americus remains in, Colquitt is excluded for size, and if Quitman fields a team, Moultrie could join to raise entries from six to eight. Moultrie is ready. funding is pledged, awaiting league admission decisions.
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Moultrie
South Georgia
Americus
Colquitt
Quitman
Moultris
Public Service Commission to hear rate schedule criticisms
Atlanta June 22 Critics of the Georgia Public Service Commission rate schedules for major commodities will be heard at a hearing set for Tuesday July 24. The schedules cover cotton sugar cotton ties canned goods and manufactured iron items among others moving between Georgia points.
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Atlanta
Georgia Public Service Commission
Georgia
Tifton Lions Stage Free Show in Omega Auditorium
The Tifton Lions club presented a free show at Omega school auditorium at 8:30 pm featuring the Lions band vocal solos instrumental numbers and comedy skits. The tour previously drew large crowds in Ty Ty Brookfield and Chula and Omega is expected to turn out strong.
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Tifton
Tifton Lions Club
Omega
Tifton Lions
Lions
Ty Ty
Brookfield
Chula
Prohibition issue dominates 1924 campaign debate
Daily political scene focuses on dry wets clash as Hard ing era stance pressures party lines. Foreign ship liquor use sparks changes debated in Congress while governors and Chinese crisis lure international reaction. Both sides warn of broader consequences as policy tensions rise.
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Harding
President Harding Arrives in Kansas City for 12 Hour Visit
President and Mrs. Harding with their party arrived in Kansas City at 10 am for a brief 12 hour stop on a cross country trip from St. Louis to the Pacific coast and Alaska. The visit includes an address by the president on the transportation problem tonight. The St. Louis stop featured his first prepared address on the World Court and passed without incident.
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Kansas City
Harding
Pacific Coast
Alaska
St. Louis
Coast Guard Cutter Bear Heads to Siberia Seizure Case
Tacoma based Iskum and three other American schooners seized by Soviet authorities near East Cape Siberia for alleged trading regulation violations. Gen J M Ashton, owner, confirms via telegram from Secretary of State Charles E Hughes.
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Tacoma
Wash
Coast Guard
Bear
Nome
East Cape
Siberia
Iskum
J. M. Ashton
Charles E. Hughes
Fulbright Talks of Georgia Tax System
Atlanta June 22 Henry J Fullbright state tax commissioner said Georgia s ad valorem tax system does not meet basic taxation principles He urged future legislature to fix defects arguing citizens should pay in line with benefits received and ability to pay and that uniform ad valorem fails for state revenues
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Atlannta
Georgia
Henry J. Fullbright
Farmers Fight Weevil With Poison in Tifton
Tifton, June 22. J F P Everett, visiting from Omega, reports cotton growers in the area are fighting the weevil for this year's crop. Nearly all farmers are poisoning the pests, many using poison for the first time.
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Tifton
J. FP. Everett
Omega
Playground pool offers morning swimming lessons
Playground pool, per chairman Ralston Cargill of the Playground commission, is open daily 5:30 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Many people are taking swimming lessons, with most learners in the morning hours.
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Ralston Cargill
The
Playground Commission
Boys Are Nation's Greatest Assets Told at Rotary
The Rotary International Convention in St. Louis heard Everett Hill outline the idea that boys are the nation’s future and Rotary’s supreme challenge. Frank D. Slutz and Eddie Guest spoke as Slutz urged training boys in service above self to foster world peace and public responsibility.
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ST. Louis
Rotary International
Everett Hill
International Boys Work Committee
Frank D. Slutz
Dayton
Ohio
Eddie Guest
Detroit
Slutz
Rotary
Stutz
Rotary School
Georgia Tops Nation in Five Year Forest Fire Toll
A Georgia state report shows more than twenty thousand forest fires in five years, the highest in the nation. Georgia led in total fires and area burned, ranking first in fires and third in damage, with Massachusetts second in fires and Louisiana leading in area burned.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Board of Forestry
Massachusetts
Louisiana
Florida
Minnesota
North Carolina
Peanut hogs beat Moultrie market for nine years
Peanut hogs here fetch better market prices than Western hogs from Chicago for the first time in the nine years since the local packing house began operations, signaling a shift in regional pork pricing.
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Chicago
Baltic with 6182 Bottles Off Board at New York
Treasury officials focused on the Berengaria as the Baltic slipped into quarantine with 6182 bottles of liquor under British seal for its next eastbound voyage in defiance of American dry laws. The Baltic reached quarantine as the Berengaria neared Sandy Hook and docked shortly after 11.
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New York
Treasury
Sandy Hook
Treasury officials seize Baltic liquor shipment on arrival
Treasury officials in Washington learned that the British steamer Baltic arrived at New York with a supply of liquor under seal. New York authorities were instructed to seize all such stores, asserting immediate authority to proceed.
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Washington
Treasury
New York
Baltic
Yearly Honor Roll for Furlow School Names Listed
Miss Sarah Cobb principal of Furlow Grammar School releases the yearly honor roll for the past session. Students across grades one to seven earn the distinction by meeting monthly honor roll or first honor requirements, with higher achievers receiving honor diplomas if nine times honored.
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Sarah Cobb
Furlow Grammar School
Gladys Adkins
Aileen Murray
Mary Hoge
Beatrice Parker
Frances Parker
Gus Harris
Katherine Dixon
Elizabethangford
Ada Bell Sejg
Ida Mae Tyson
Boswell
Wilma Castleberry
Annie Lucile Fay
Winifred Jackson
Lucy Poole
Mae Rose Sanders
Tom Heys
Clarence Niblack
Versa Dean Adkins
Amelia Jones
Oscar Bell
Bessie Bell
Margaret Harrell
Jack Bell
Frank Broadhurst
Louis Ross Elza Sheppard
Willis Shiver
Cornelia Ann Hill
Estha Jarvis
Elizabeth English
Ruby Horne
Miriam Player
J. W. Chambliss
Virginia Goodman
Christine Baker
Hazel Council
Elizabeth Broadhurst
Florence Dixon
Florrie Warren
Dorothy Witt
Thelma Guy Edith Carney
Robert English
Mildred LeMaster
Annie Turpin
Warren C. Speer
Yoland, Pierce
Louisa Cole
Charles Laney
Lois Adams
Rachel Carruthers
Norma Dunaway
Virginia Moreland
Charles Council
Loraine Weed
Eugenia Johnson
Murray Recaptured After Daring Escape
Waycross June 22 Louis Murray aged 52 was recaptured after escaping from City Court in 1921 following a liquor conviction. He was seized in Sanford Alabama and returned to Waycross by County Policeman O M Hiers and County Commissioner A W Woodward on Thursday.
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Waycross
Louis Murray
Sanford
Ala
O. M. Hiers
A. W. Woodward
Miss Emmie Glover Returns From North Carolina Attendant Role
Miss Emmie Glover arrived Friday home from North Carolina where she served as an attendant at the marriage of her sister Miss Minnie Glover.
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Emmie Glover
North Carolina
Miss Minnie Glover
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