Governor Walker Commission Recommends Income Tax Plan
Governor Walker presents a special tax commission report urging a state income tax, property classification, and ad valorem tax cuts. Creation of a state budget system, auditing department, and revenues commissioner are urged, with a target to reduce local taxation and cut state real estate taxes from five to four mills, potentially eliminating them if other revenues are found. The message notes it is not his final report and acknowledges senate opposition.
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Atlanta
Senate
Walker
Special Tax Commission
Special Commission
Com
Tree Surgeon John Davey Dies in Akron Home
John Davey aged 78, renowned as the father of tree surgery in the United States, died early today at his Akron residence. The Akron native built a national practice and influenced modern arboriculture as he passed away at home.
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Akron
Ohio
John Davey
United States
Final Rehearsal Tonight for Minstrel Show at High School
The American Legion minstrel The Land of Flowers, Mirth and Melody has its last dress rehearsal tonight at 7:30 PM in the high school auditorium. Commander Robert C. Lane reports all is ready for tomorrow’s show with curtain at 8. Featured acts include Little Kendall Beavers songs and vocal solos by Dorothy Cass and Freddie Saunders. complete program to be in Friday’s paper.
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American Legion
Robert C. Lane
Tommorow
Mr. Lane
Little Kendall Beavers
Dorothy Cass
Freddie Saunders
German magnate faces large concession collapse in Turkey
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constantinople quotes Chester concession talks offered by Colonel Clayton Kennedy for the Ottoman American Development Co to Hugo Stinnes. Negotiations collapsed as Stinnes preferred direct dealings with the Turkish government after the American option expires November 15.
Savannah tax return rises about four thousand dollars
Savannah, Nov. 8. The city of Savannah will be nearly four thousand dollars better off in the amount of taxes received this year, the total property of the various public utilities returned this year being nearly $12,000,000.
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Savannah
Cotton Ginnings Above Seven Million Bales Report
Census Bureau reports this year’s cotton ginned before November 1 totals 7,544,587 running bales, down from 8,139,215 a year ago and 6,464,354 in 1921. Georgia accounted for 490,142 bales in the period.
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Georgia
Census Bureau
Washington
Democrats win in Kentucky election report
Democrats won gubernatorial contests in Kentucky Maryland and Mississippi while Vermont re-elected Republican Porter Dale defeating Park Pollard. House races ended with four Democrats and three Republicans, one upset by Former Representative Fairchild in New York's 24th district after Ganly's death.
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Washington
Kentucky
Maryland
Mississippi
Vermont
Porter H. Dale
Park Ki. Pollard
President Coolidge
Fairchild
J. Vincent Ganly
New York
Seizure Ordered in North Carolina Liquor Smuggling
Prohibition Director A B Coltrane ordered the seizure of two stranded liquor ships off the North Carolina coast. One cargo boat wrecked near Bogue Inlet contained 31 barrels and 261 cases of liquor. five crew were arrested. A yacht loaded with liquor began unloading to Beaufort residents, prompting Coltrane to instruct authorities to halt sales and detain all aboard.
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Salisbury
N. C
North Carolina
A. B. Coltrane
Bogue Inlet
Beaufort
Coltrane
B. G C. Sharpe
Houser
Townesend
BeaMort
Thomas
Prohibition
American beauty may soon be wife of prince
Engagement expected between Prince Viggo of Denmark and Miss Eleanor Margaret Green of New York. Green recently visited Copenhagen as a guest of the American minister and his wife, sparking talk of a royal union.
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Prince
Copenhagen
Viggo
Denmark
Elexandra
England
Eleanor Margaret Green
New York
Sumter Men Urged to Endure for Cotton Prosperity
A Sumter County appeal urges men and women to endure hardship as farmers plan a bumper cotton crop amid malaria and Bell Weevil threats. The piece argues renewed vigor, proper farming costs, and physical fitness are vital to defeat pests and disease and secure a prosperous season.
Drive malaria from Sumter by 40 bales of cotton price
A call to Sumter County residents to urge their five county commissioners to allocate funds to eliminate malaria. The ad frames the malaria issue as a civic duty and asks voters to act quickly, stressing that officials are in office to do the people’s will.
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Sumter
Sumter County
Bavarian Regulars to March on Berlin
Munich telegram reports Bavarian regulars have decided to march on Berlin tomorrow per Berlin Exchange Telegraph correspondent.
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London
Berlin
The
Exchange Telegraph
Munich
Motion Overruled to Disqualify Judge in Morehouse Trials
Bastrop La November 8 Judge Odom overruled a defense motion seeking his disqualification in Morehouse misdemeanor trials. The defense announced plans to seek a writ of prohibition and certiorari from the Supreme Court alleging bias and prejudice in the court.
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Bastrop
Episcopal Council Meets In Savannah
The executive council of the Episcopal diocese of Georgia met at Christ church in Savannah on November 8 to plan church activity for the coming months. Departmental conferences followed, with Bishop F. F. Reese presiding and officers including J. Moultrie Lee treasurer and Rev. John Moore Walker secretary.
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Savannah
Episcopal Diocese of
D Watson Winn
St. Simon Island
J. R. Anderson
D. T. McIntosh
W. W. Williams
F. D. Aiken
Brunswick
B. C
Balfour
Thomasville
N. A. Teague
Augusta
Where do liars go says a preacher in quip
A preacher asks where liars go and hints readers may be told to go there as a stern moral cue. The remark frames dishonesty as a social reproach and suggests a moral consequence for falsehood.
Engineers Strike on Virginian Railway Roanoke
Engineers and firemen on the Virginian railway walked out this morning in protest against the discharge of several of their number about a month ago. General Manager Birchfield asserted he had sufficient men to move all trains.
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Roanoke
Virginian Railway
Birchfield
General Wells Succeeds Gordon at Fort Benning
Brigadier General Briant H. Wells assumed command at Fort Benning and the U S Infantry school today, succeeding General Walter H. Gordon who had led the post for the past three years, the army said in Columbus.
Liquor venders feud claims Chicago pool hall owner
Michael Izzo a 45 year old pool room owner and former political leader was shot dead as he bent over his car tire. Police tied the killing to a liquor vendor feud that has already killed three others in recent weeks.
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Chicago
Michael Izzo
Galbraith Memorial to Be Unveiled in Cincinnati
National and allied officials along with hundreds of Legionnaires will attend the dedication of the Galbraith Memorial in Eden Park Cincinnati on Saturday November 10. Colonel Fred W Galbraith Jr longtime national commander of the American Legion died in an automobile crash. The monument overlooks the river and the Kentucky shore.
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Cincinnati
Associated Press
Galbraith
Fred W. Galbraith
American Legion
Eden Park
Kentucky
Banker's plea for malaria elimination in Sumter county
Bank of Commerce president lank Sheffield urged costly malaria eradication, calling it the top issue ahead of roads. Dr Emmett Anderson and Prof J E Mathis cited Panama's canal era gains from disease control, urging a funded county health department, schoolchild exams, vaccination, and a nurse for prevention of malaria, hookworm, smallpox, and venereal diseases.
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Lank Sheffield
Bank of Commerce
Rotary Club
Sumter
J. E. Mathis
Panama
Panama Canal
Emmett Anderson
Gorgas
United States
Anderson
Sumter County
Dutch Allies Seek to Bar Exiled Prince from Leaving
Paris Nov 8 Allied council of ambassadors urged the Netherlands not to permit Former Crown Prince Frederick William to exit Dutch soil where he has lived in exile since the war and asked Germany not to admit him, as he is sought on war crimes charges by allied governments.
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Paris
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Frederick William
Germany
Heated bond fight ends in Waycross election
Waycross voters faced a high turnout as polls closed on the second school bond and mileage increase election. Both sides mounted final appeals with expected one of the heaviest voter turnouts in the city’s poll history.
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Waycross
World tension stirs talks on Germany reparations and Turkish republic
Washington signals a withdrawal from German war damages talks as France presses for a perpetual debt and aims to weaken Germany. Angora votes to establish a Turkish republic under Kemal Pasha while Europe debates borders and royalist plots. England backs extending the three mile limit if liquor can be carried to American ports, prompting a new treaty battle with Anti-Saloon League, constitutionalists, and shipowners.
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England
Senate
Anti-Saloon League
Sticklers
Rotary 10 Observe HTS Ladies Night
The Rotary club will celebrate ladies night Thursday November 15 with dinner in the Windsor hotel at 7 p m John Sheffield president announced Wednesday The club wives of the RenA are to lead the evening and committee members include Mrs C H Burke Mrs Grubbs Mrs Lovelace Eve oe Waiter Rylander and Mrs W
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Rotary Club
Windsor Hotel
John Sheffield
Rena
C. H. Burke
Grubbs
Jonson accuses Evans clan faction plotting murder
Atlanta reports Emperor Simmons of the Ku Klux Klan challenges Imperial Wizard Evans to reveal facts about the shooting of Captain William Cobain by Klan agent Phil Cox. Fred B. Johnston, who sought peace warrants, returned from Birmingham claiming a plot to kill Simmons with four would-be murderers.
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Atlanta
Associated Press
Emperor Simmons
The
Klux Klan
Birmingham
Evans
William 8. Cobaim
Phil K. Cox
Fred B. Johnston
Partise
Simmons
Johnston
Fox
New peace warrants to be sworn against Klan leaders
Dr. Fred B. Johnston announced in Birmingham that peace warrants will be sworn out against Bi. K. Ramsey imperial kligraff Brown Harwood imperial klazik and T J McKinnon head of investigation for the Ku Klux Klan upon his return to Atlanta. He cited Judge Hathcocks dismissal as letting the men go and said new warrants would be issued after his return. Mrs. L. E Simmons of Vincent Ala suffers a fractured arm and is cared for in a local infirmary as Emperor W J Simmons’ chief of staff Dr Johnston travels. Evangis case pending remains unresolved.
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Birmingham
Bi. K. Ramsey
Imperial Kligraff
Brown Harwood
Imperial Klazik
Grand Dragons
T.J. McKinnon
Department of Investigation
Ku Klux Klan
Fred B. Johnston
Atlanta
Johnson
W. J Simmons
Simmons
L. E Simmons
Vincent
Ala
T. O. Hathcocks
Evang
France warns Berlin against dictatorial government in Germany
Paris dispatch states that the French government, via its ambassador in Berlin, informs Germany it will not tolerate the establishment of a dictatorial government in Germany. The note underscores Paris stance amid a tense political climate.
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Berlin
France
Germany
Paris
Tenant farmer ends life after tragedy in Smithfield
A. E. Flowers, a tenant farmer near Smithfield North Carolina, yesterday shot and killed his wife and slightly wounded Earl Stephenson before killing himself with a pistol. The couple had been separated for a long time, and news reached the sheriff's office early today.
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Smithfield
N. C
A. E. Flowers
Earl Stephenson
Sheriff’s Office
Flowers
Troup I Boy Scouts Reorganizing at City Hall
A Friday night 7 pm meeting at city hall will reorganize Troup I with Bradley Hogg serving as Scout Master. The note hints at political oddities and mentions divorce, Germany, and fragmented phrases amidst the readable content.
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Troup I
City Hall
Bradley Hogg
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