Smoking ban for women proves Gotham flivver
New York police lifted a women smoking ban after learning the anti smoking ordinance was never passed by the board or signed by the mayor. Police ordered arrests of venue operators who allowed women to smoke, provoking furor and protests from flappers and supporters of women’s rights alike. Local figures including Mrs Olive Scott Gabriel and Miss Mary Wood commented on the issue and its enforceability.
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Enright
McGuinness
Board of Aldermen
Hylan
Daniel McCoy
Police Department
Broadway
Sonia
Greenwich Village
Olive Scott Gabriel
Nellie Beebe
Brooklyn
Mary Wood
State
Republican Women’s Association
Markets AmERICUS Spot Cotton Trade Report
Liverpool market opens quiet with a one quarter gain. Good Middling cotton at 16 3 4e with 1,000 bales sold. Receipts total 14,103 bales including 1,324 American. Futures show slight movement with various month quotes and the first gallant figure around 10.18 to 9.81 depending on contract.
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Americus
Liverpool
Kullys
Galissw
Ty Cobb Game Here To Be Big League Affair
Detroit Americans and Rochester Internationals prepare for a nine inning training game in Augusta as Ty Cobb Stallings edge toward a major league clash. Cobb Heilman and Merkle Archdeason star. Stallings seeks revenge with a strong pitching staff.
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Detroit Americans
Rochester Internationals
Augusta
Macon
Griffin
Detroit
Birmingham
Memphis
Indianapolis
Columbus
Cobb
Stallings
Troit
Harry Heisman
Rochester
Tred Merkle
Vy Cobo
Merkle
New York Giants
John McGraw
Maurice Archdeason
N. Y
George T. Stallings
Braves
Athletics
Detroit Tigers
Cobb and
Heilman
Organ for First Methodist Church Chruck
The First Methodist church has let a contract for an $8500 pipe organ. It will be a three manual instrument larger and more powerful than the current organ and than any church organ in Americas. Henry Pil cher Sons of Louisville will begin construction immediately and install by about September 1. During installation the church will be redecorated.
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First Methodist Church
Americas
Henry Pilcher Sons
Louisville
Nine Thousand Cotton Mills Strikers Gather in Seven Mills
Lawrence Mass March 28 The cotton mill strike grew stronger as workers stayed home. After canvassing seven mills affected about three fourths of the forces were absent, estimated at 9,000 people.
Threatened Lockout in England Averted
London March 28 The threatened lockout in Great Britain's engineering industry was at least temporarily averted as representatives of the engineering trades unions agreed to accede to the employers proposals as a basis for renewed negotiations.
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London
Associated Press
Great Britain
Evidence All In In Rickard Case Trial
March 28. Tex Rickard defense rests after witnesses contradict accusers Sarah Schoenfeld and Nellie Gasko. Rickard denies assault and misconduct claims, cites Alaska Nevada gold rush period, and cites marriage to Mrs Rickard in 1902. Rex Beach testifies to Rickard's character.
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Tex Rickard
Sarah Schoenfeld
Rickard
Sarah
Chum
Nellie Gasko
Rick
Amateur League Proposed in Waycross Georgia
Waycross Georgia March 28 a meeting is held to organize an amateur baseball league in Southwest Georgia with aim for Class D next season. Representatives from Valdosta Brunswick Douglas Homerville Jesup and Blackshear attend as an eight team circuit is planned to play two games weekly using only amateurs. Waycross has improved its ball park to host fast play across the state.
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Waycross
Georgia
Valdosta
Brunswick
Douglas
Homerville
Jesup
Blackshear
W E Taylor Travels to New York for Fashion Shop Purchases
W E Taylor of the Fashion Shop left for New York Saturday night and plans to return Saturday April 1. He aims to buy for the Golden Rule sale and secure plain dress models scarce this season. Purchases will be shipped Monday or Tuesday and arrive in Americus before Golden Rule sale day along with Easter models and other garments.
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W. E. Taylor
New York
Mr. Taylor
Americus
Aged Miller Seeks 17000 Verdict In Train Injury Case
City court handles the trial of J H Chambliss, an aged miller, against Central of Georgia railroad for 17000. Injury occurred in late 1919 when he was struck on a trestle near Wells Mill while crossing at the order of his employer to deter trespassers. Barristers from Wallis Fort for Chambliss and Yeomans Wilkerson for the railroad argue over liability as the case nears jury submission.
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J. H. Chambliss
Central of Georgia Railroad
Wallis & Fort
Chambliss
Yeomans and Wilkinson
Dawson
John Sheffield
Wells Mill
Mill Pond
Sheffield
Thome Grown English Peas Now on Market
English peas from John T. Wooten’s two mile from Americus truck farm appear in the curb market. The second picking this season follows a Christmas harvest with regular future supplies expected. Mrs Wooten’s homemade cakes draw Atlanta visitors, and the couple praise the curb market as vital for truck farming by connecting growers with customers.
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Americus
John T. Wooten
No Need of Old Syrian Lexicon Says Inventor
Hudson Maxim extols The New Universities Dictionary distributed by the paper. He claims it offers a complete education for readers and will polish speech and refine knowledge. The 22 supplementary volumes provide specialized information with color duotone illustrations of inventions and discoveries.
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Robert Ingersoll
Hudson Maxim
Nybody
Cordele Men to Attend State Sunday School Convention
The men’s class of the Baptist Sunday school will send nearly three hundred men to the state Sunday school convention in Macon next Thursday. The trip, in automobiles, honors their teacher and convention president W. L. Robuck.
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Cordele
Ron
The
Baptist Sunday School
Macon
W. L. Robuck
Congressional party sees nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals
U S senate agriculture and house military affairs committees toured nitrate plants No 1 and No 2 in Muscle Shoals Alabama on March 28. The visiting members were hosted at breakfast by the Sheffield Rotary club. Representative Hull warned much of the current work on private bids for the government property may have to be redone.
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Sheffield
Ala
U. S. Senate Agriculture and House
Muscle Shoals
Sheffield Rotary Club
House
Hull
Butler Is Winner Of Writ Club Butler Is Winner Of Writ
New York March 28 Federal Judge Knox ruled in habeas corpus that August Probst, once butler at the Rolling Rock club near Pittsburg, was illegally ordered deported for alleged love with Miss Virginia Craigie McKay. Probst was held for further deportation proceedings.
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New York
Probst
Rolling Rock Club
Pittsburg
Virginia Craigie McKay
Knox
Half Old Vets to Get Pensions in Georgia
In Atlanta on March 28 Capt. W. J. Speer state treasurer said about half of Georgia’s Confederate veterans will receive pensions before the June legislative session. Payment dates depend on the pension commissioner and a nationwide pace, with counties split for full payment to half and longer waits for others. Fulton County veterans were among the last paid last year and are expected to be among the first this year.
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Atlanta
Georgia
W. J. Speer
W. Lindsey
Capt. Speer
Speer
Fulton County
Rediscount rate cut raises farmer optimism in Georgia
Atlanta March 28 The reduced rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta from 5 1/2 to 4 1/2 percent boosts farmer confidence for spring planting. Governor M B Welborn says the move helps banks provide credit during planting and harvesting. Central Georgia farmers, hit by boll weevil and low prices, show renewed enthusiasm as the season approaches.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
M. B. Welborn
Federal Reserve Bank
Welborn
Georgia
Sit
Earthquake Recorded Near Washington From Distant Source
A moderate earthquake was logged on Georgetown University seismographs from 11 to 12 o clock last night. The event was estimated to originate about 4000 miles away from Washington.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Monticello Man Visits Daughter on Church Street
M. J. McElhenny of Monticello is spending several days this week with his daughter Mrs. R. L. Edwards at her Church street home.
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M. J. McElhenny
Monticello
R. L. Edwards
Church Street
Pay Increases Chief Issue In Coming Strike
New York march 28 after a week of preliminary skirmishing the anthracite miners and operators sub committee on wage contract negotiations prepared to attack the chief points at issue the unions demand of a 20 percent wage increase and a raise of 1 per shift for day workers upon Operators acceptance with a third stipulation that the check off system be established in all collieries depends on early settlement of the strike set for April 1 it is the feeling at union headquarters here.
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New York
Poems For State Song Draws Entries From Georgia
Miss Ella Polk of Americus leads the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs contest seeking poems for a state song. Entries close April 1 with judges needing a large pool to select a winning piece later set to music. Polk reports strong response and notes a Nashville conference with 800 school music supervisors and demonstrations including a class of blind pupils writing music on slates.
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Georgia Federation of Woman's Clubs
Ella Polk
Americus
Ishe
Miss Polk
Nashville
Reichstag Rejects New German Tax Demand in 60 Billion Mark Demand
March 28 Berlin. Chancellor Wirth told the reichstag that the Allied reparations commission's demand for a further tax levy of sixty billion marks, sent to Germany last week, is absolutely impossible.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Wirth
Reichstag
Memorial Gymnasium for 2d Ags Tifton Georgia
Architect plans a Tift memorial gymnasium at the Second District A. and M. school in Tifton. The building, costing 10000 to 15000 dollars, honors the late H. H. Tift and will be erected by students graduates alumni and friends. The architect met with faculty to review the site and hopes completion by fall term.
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Aggies
Tifton
Tift
H. H. Tift
Tifton Aggies Open Season Against G. M. C. Wednesday
Tifton March 28 The Tifton Aggies anticipate their first 1922 baseball game against Georgia Military College on Wednesday afternoon at home. All nine home games will be at the Tifton athletic field to boost attendance. The Aggies, facing their strongest foe this season, are determined to deliver a strong showing.
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Tifton
Tifton Aggies
Georgia Military College
Aggies
Sporting arms banned by Allied Commission order
Berlin March 28 The Allied Commission of Control orders Germany to halt the manufacture of sporting arms to prevent a swift shift to war material production. The decision aims to curb potential rearmament risks and stabilize postwar demilitarization efforts.
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Berlin
Allied Commission of Control
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