Sumter County Fair Opens With Record Exhibits and Shows
The Sumter county fair opened at one o clock with a record number of exhibits from New Era Union High Huntington Thalean Concord and Andersonville districts. Home demonstration and girls canning clubs show large displays while poultry and live stock entries fill the tents with prize birds. Entertainment includes Littlejohns free acts daily and the Taylor Brothers aerial circus plus Capt Jash the European Firelighter.
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Sumter County
T. P. Litlejohn
Sumter
New Era
Union High
Huntington
Thalean
Concord
Andersonville
Americas High School
Agriculture School
Eck
Thefternoon
Littlejohn
Slac
Taylor Brothers
Jash
Weather Fair as Votes Pour In Across Nation
Large electorate votes under generally fair weather as Americans cast ballots in a three way presidential race? large House and Senate contests and numerous local offices. Early tallies show heavy turnout in Sumter County with 358 white men, 129 white women, and 20 negroes voting up to 2 PM.
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Times- Recorder
Sumter County
Americas
Washington
House of Representatives
Elberton Post Office Robbed and Safe Opened
Elberton post office was entered last night and the safe opened. Officials believe nothing of value was taken. Local authorities investigate the break in at the Elberton Georgia post office with few clues and no reported injuries.
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Elberton
Associated Press
Elberton, Ga
Elon
Ansley Retires From Active Mercantile Life After Years
Charles L. Ansley announces retirement after decades running a major local firm. The three story Jackson and Forsyth building, built in 1910 for his use, sold to C. M. Council of Planters Bank as an investment and will be rented after January 1. Ansley will sell stock in the building and has hired C. G. Anderson to run the Thursday sale.
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Charles L. Ansley
Jackson and
Forsyth Streets
Ansley
C. M. Council
Planters Bank
Council
C. G. Anderson
Minneapolis
Tires-Recorder
Twelve Die in British Train Wreck Near Lytham
Liverpool November 4 Twelve persons were killed and many injured when the Liverpool Express to Blackpool was wrecked this evening near Lytham.
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Liverpool
Blackpool
Lytham
Revolution Stirs in Brazil Navy Reported Mutiny
Reports from Brazil state revolutionary trouble erupted in the Brazilian navy. The battleship Sao Paulo is said to have rebelled and, with another ship from Rio de Janeiro harbor, has departed to an unknown destination.
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Buenos Aires
Associated Press
Brazil
Sao Paulo
Rio Janeiro
Georgia Man Drowns in Hillsborough River, Florida
Tampa reports C. T. Lane of Boston Georgia was drowned yesterday in the Hillsborough River at Sulphur Springs seven miles north of the city.
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Georgia
Florida
Associated Press
Tampa, Fla
C. T. Lane
Boston, Ga
Hillsborough River
Sulphur Springs
Here
Yeggm en blow safe and get 300 dollars
Burglars cracked the Texas Oil Co office safe in Savannah after rolling it about 300 yards overnight. They escaped with about $300. The break in was found when the office opened.
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Savannah
Texas Oil Company
Missing Aviators Arrive In Safety
Fears for the safety of two Decatur youths E R Brown and R J Freeman Jr who were lost Sunday in an air flight from Americus to Atlanta were relieved Monday noon when they landed at Candlerfield Hapeville after spending Sunday night in Griffin The boys were forced to land at Griffin due to darkness delaying their arrival as planned A search plane from Americus was sent out and the mystery deepened when one of the boys was found but the other remains missing
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Decatur
E. R. Brown
R. J. Freeman, Jr
Americus
Atlanta
Candlerfield
Hapeville
Griffin
Smallpox Epidemic Hits Dublin Georgia
Dublin reports a severe smallpox outbreak spreading from negro to white sections. Health officials Drastic efforts will vaccinate all public school children starting Tuesday. County Health Officer Ovid Cheek and City Sanitary Inspector J Wesley Wood lead precautions and disease containment using every available weapon.
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Dublin
Ovid Cheek
J. Wesley Wood
Negro Registration Ordered by Judge Tulsa Oklahoma
Federal Judge F E Kennamer issued a writ ordering the Okfuskee county registrar to register about 550 Negro voters and to allow them to vote as if they had registered before the statutory deadline. Earlier he granted a restraining order enfranchising roughly 1,100 voters, most of them Negro, in Carter county.
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Tulsa Okla
F. E. Kennamer
Okfuskee County
Kennamer
Ely
Carter County
Gowns Adorn Velvet Styles With Trimmed Drapery
The description notes red or purple gowns of rich velvet with trimmed drapery, described as extremely smart and fashionable in the period.
Battle Shift of Ku Klux Vortex Troops Guard
Niles Ohio reports the Ku Klux Klan conflict moving from the South to Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Tensions flare as nightly displays of crosses and circles draw wary neighbors into a divided town. Officials fear months of unrest despite possible troop presence to restore order.
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KU Klux Vortex
Niles
NEA Service
Ku Klux Klan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Ginia
Kommough
Woodruff’s Condition Described as “Not So Good”
Athens Nov. 4 The condition of Harry Woodruff brother of University of Georgia coach George Woodruff and a Columbus businessman was reported this morning as not so good. Physicians at the hospital hold out practically no hope for the former Georgia Athletic Star.
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Woodruff
Associated Preas
Athens
Harry Woodruff
George Woodruff
University of Georgia
Columbus
Hopsital
Georgia Athletic
Valdosta Votes 270000 Bond Issue For City Projects
Valdosta voters approve a $270,000 municipal bond issue with funds for fire department equipment at $15,000, school equipment at $10,000, sewer extension $30,000, water works $65,000, and paving $150,000, after a lightly opposed prior defeat.
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Valdosta
Radio Operators asked to clear air for returns
Hartford Conn Nov 4 All amateur radio telegraph operators nationwide are asked to maintain absolute silence from 6 p m Tuesday to 6 a m Wednesday to avoid interference with election returns broadcasting. The request was issued by the American Radio Relay League here.
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Hartfford
Conn
American Radio Relay League
Harding's Conditionally Worse As Mrs Harding's Health Worsens
In Marion Ohio on November 4 physicians monitor Mrs Florence King Harding wife of the late President Warren G Harding after a sudden illness at Sawyer Sanitarium. Doctors say the illness is a recurrence of kidney trouble that nearly killed her during her White House years.
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Marion
Ohio
Florence King Harding
Warren Harding
Sawyer Sanitarium
White House
MacDonald Cabinet Resigns as King Accepts Step Down
London by AP dispatch reports Ramsay MacDonald’s cabinet, Britain’s first Labour government, formally resigning. King George VI accepted the resignation, ending the administration.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
George
One Killed in Chicago Election Fight
One man was killed and another fatally wounded in a revolver fight near a polling place in Chicago early this day. Police reports say the shooting was connected with factional trouble within the Teamsters union.
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Chicago
Teamsters’ Union
Missionary Speaker at First Methodist Tonight
T. E. Reeve of Cochran Georgia, a missionary from the African field, lectures at First Methodist Church tonight at 7 under the Epworth League. He tours the South sharing African life and customs and will discuss his writings including In Wembo-Niamba Land. Admission is free.
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T. E. Reeve
Cochran, Ga
First Methodist Church
Epworth League
Mr. Reeve
South
South Georgia
Columbus
Wembo-Niamba
Epworth Leaguers
Reeve
Leased Wire Election News At Times Recorder Tonight
Leased wires will bring latest election news to the Times Recorder office with updates issued as received. The bulletins will be announced to friends at the Rylander Theatre every few minutes in a continuous stream.
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Rylander Theatre
Georgia 1916 vote totals show Roosevelt progressives led state
Atlanta reports 1916 Georgia presidential tallies with Democratic Roosevelts 19 246 Progressive votes statewide and 117 405 for the Democrats. Fulton County led party totals with 3 945 Democratic votes and 1 040 Progressive votes, while Georgia Socialist counts were led by Fulton with 124.
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Georgia
Theodore Roosevelt
Poling
la Follette
Roosevelt
Fulton County
Chatham
McIntosh County
Fulton
Union County
Crawford
Quitman
Schley
Spaulding
Haralson
Polk
Whitfield
Gilmer
Calhoun
Decatur County
Muscogee County
Paldwin
Charlton
Chattooga
Crisp
Glynn
Houston
Grinnett
Feng Yu-hsiang Cavalry Seizes Lientsin City
General Feng Yu-hsiang or the Christian General leads cavalry into Lientsin, gaining control of the city after quiet resistance. Troops occupy central and east stations, disarming trains from Wu Pei Fu forces and removing a Peking government commander.
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Lientsin
Associated Press
Feng Yu Hsiang
Peking
Feng
Wu Pei Fu
Georgia Women Voting Boosts Election Turnout
ATLANTA reports from many sections of the state indicate Georgia citizens are voting with unusual interest in the national election. Weather is fair and party appeals urge every citizen to cast a ballot. A large number of women are voting as discussions focus on constitutional amendments including Peach County creation and biennial legislative sessions and tax exemptions for certain industries.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Peach County
Tennessee voters cast ballots in presidential and state contests
Nashville voters went to the polls to decide the presidential race, elect a U S senator, choose a governor, railroad commissioners, and congressional and legislative contests. They also weigh the proposed state constitutional convention.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
United States
United State
Last Survivor of Light Brigade Casts Vote at Bedside
Ellis Cutting, believed the final survivor of the Light Brigade, voted from his Cedar Rapids bed for Coolidge and Dawes. Dying from paralysis, physicians said he likely would not witness the result. An absentee ballot was delivered to his bedside.
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Cedar Rapids
Ellis Cutting
Immorta Light Brigade
Coolidge
Dawes
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