Local Tragedy: Paul Landers Killed in Auto Crash
Paul Landers aged 3 of Marion Illinois died this afternoon near Andersonville in an automobile accident. The car carrying his mother father and two sisters rolled down a hill after brakes failed while the boy stood on top to inspect a broken universal joint. The youth was killed instantly. The Landers were traveling from Marion to Florida.
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Paul Landers
Marion
Andersonville
Landers
Florida
Ill
Real estate firm announces Florida tour to market Sumter lands
Americas Realty Company charters this month to tour Florida seeking clients for Sumter County farm lands. Representative to report in Americus December 1 and begin active showing and sales. Prominent Americus backers include S. R. Heys Edgar Shipp Lee Hudson and Stephen Pace who will push local interests.
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The
Americas Realty Company
Superior Court
Florida
Sumter County
Florida Real Estate Agenciees
Americus
Americus Realty Company
S. R. Heys
Edgar Shipp
Lee Hudson
Stephen Pace
Plains High Defeats Union High In Season Opener
Plains High school defeated Union High from Leslie 19 to 14 at Aggie court in the season opener. Plains showed surprise strength, rebounding from past losses to Leslie's team. Officials were Referee Drew and Umpire Howell. Next game is against Roberta in Roberta on Friday, November 27.
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Plains High School
Union High
Leslie
Aggie Court
Plains
Shrdluucks
Drew
Howell
Roberta
Debt Commission Rejects Romanian Funding Proposal
Washington Nov 21 The American debt commission has declined to accept the first formal offer for funding Romania debt to the United States and today submitted a counter proposal to the Romanian Commission.
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Washingtoon
American Debt Commission
United States
Rumanian Commission
Sawmill Boiler Explosion Fatal Injuries Near Richland
In Richland Georgia a boiler at a Renfroe area sawmill owned by C. V. Stephens exploded, fatally injuring a Black fireman and injuring one or two other Black workers. Stephens escaped unhurt.
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Richland, Ga
C. V. Stephens
Renfroe
Mr. Stephens
Presidential Suite at Hotel Sherman to Host Coolidge
The private residence above Hotel Sherman in Chicago will be President Coolidge’s home when he visits December 7 to address the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. It features four large bedrooms a spacious living room with an open fireplace a dining room a kitchen and a yard with shrubs. The suite sits 300 feet above the street and was built by the hotel to accommodate distinguished guests.
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Hotel Sherman
Chicago
President Coolidge
American Farm Bureau Federation
Georgia Still Has Building Program Going
Georgia reports October building and engineering contracts totaling 3 366 500 by F W Dodge Corp up 1 percent from September and down 77 percent from a year earlier. Public works and utilities led with 1 061 700. Atlanta accounted for 1 453 300, up 37 percent from September. Over ten months total new construction reached 60 881 400 statewide with Atlanta at 31 284 300.
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Georgia
F. W. Dodge Corporation
Atlanta
Stone Mountain Memorial endorsed by Stewart-Webster UDC
Stewart Webster County chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richland endorsed the Stone Mountain Memorial administration at its monthly meeting. President Mrs. Edgar Kimbrough. resolutions by Mrs. Bob West opposed Georgia division action and urged selling the coin balance, urging support for the governor and tribute to Confederate veterans. Resolution passage was five to one. chapter membership exceeds fifty. The piece closes with social commentary about crowds and social ladder remarks.
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Richland
Stewart-Webster County
Stone Mountain Memorial Administration
Edgar Kimbrough
Weston
Bob West
Georgia
Stone Mountain Memorial Association
Coolidge
Mellon
Congress
School and Food Show a Success
The Council of Safety Chapter of the D A R closed a cooking school and Pure Food Show with an average of 300 women daily attending. Mrs Elizabeth Stanfield of Atlanta instructed the cooking classes, with booths and free samples from Rogers store Black Cracker Company Morning Joy Moreland Jones A P Tea Co White Way Market and others featuring crackers hot chocolate hot dogs tea rolls and cakes and various food products for Americus Sumter county and nearby communities.
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Council of Safety
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Elizabeth Stanfield
Atlanta
Americus
Sumter County
Hot Dogs A. & P. Tea Co
Model Bread Co
Chero Cola Co
Howard Mayonaise Co
Americus Hatchery Feed Store
First Baptist Wins Regional B Y P U Banner
Delegates from Cordelo conclude the B Y P U convention and present the regional banner to the Junior B Y P A of First Baptist Church for the best half year showing in the Southwestern region. Attending from First Baptist were Rev and Mrs Joe M Branch Miss Kathryn Sanborn Mr and Mrs T F Gatewood Miss Gladys Tye Miss Gladys Gatewood Miss Josey Ivey and Tom Gatewood.
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Cordelo
First Baptist Church
Joe M. Branch
Kathryn Sanborn
Sumter Veterans May Get Pensions Now
Confederate Veterans may receive forty dollars of their pension next Tuesday, per W. M. Harper acting ordinary for Sumter County. Veterans may call at the Ordinary's office after Tuesday to collect this payment. timing for other pension payments remains unspecified.
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W. M. Harper
Sumter County
Cotton figures announced show decrease in production
Washington November 21 The Department of Agriculture announced today that total cotton production this year will likely amount to 15 298 000 bales, down from last year's forecast of 15 000 386. State figures list Georgia with 158 yield and 1 150 000 dollars, South Carolina 155 and 865 000 dollars, and Tennessee at 480 000 bales.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Georgia
South Carolina
Tennessee
Cotton crop ginned to date tops last year by Census Bureau
Washington reports that the 1924 cotton crop ginned before November 14 totals 12,249,935 bales, compared with 11,162,236 bales by the same date in 1923, per the Census Bureau announcement.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Booster Club of Richland Holds Thanksgiving Meeting
The Richland Booster Club hosted a goodwill November gathering with out of town speakers. Guests included Hunter Bell city editor of the Atlanta Journal, T F Carter ex mayor of Richland, W T Halliday Stewart County schools superintendent, Cleveland Reese of Preston and others.
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Richland
Hunter Bell
The
Atlanta Journal
South West
Georgia
T. F. Carter
W. T. Halliday
Lumpkin
Stewart County
Cleveland Reese
Preston
Webster County
Tick quarantines lifted in southern counties and NC free
The Department of Agriculture issued an order effective December 10 lifting cattle tick quarantine in several southern counties. North Carolina is released from quarantine, leaving six states free from disease: Georgia, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, California. The notice ends with an odd caution about fur-bearing animals and razors.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Carolina
Georgia
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Calfornia
New Honorary Officers Named Friday in Hot Springs
Three women were named honorary presidents general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the Friday session of the annual convention in Hot Springs Arkansas. Ballots had been cast Thursday and a fourth candidate failed to reach the required majority prompting a run off among five others. Remarks by Mrs. R H Chesley noted withdrawals of invitations from Memphis Seattle and Macon for the 1926 convention in favor of Richmond Virginia.
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Hot Springs
Ark
A. C. Fordney Smith
Little Rock
W. D. Mason
Philadelphia
Peter Youree
Shrieveport
United Daughters’ of the Confederacy
R. H. Chesley
Cambridge
Mass
Memphis Tenn
Seattle
Wash
Macon
Richmond
Chesley
Advocates Return of Whip for Convicts in Georgia
Atlanta November 21 strong advocacy among Georgia prison camp wardens for restoring corporal punishment to enforce chain gang rules. Wardens seek brutal methods to appear before legislative committees while E L Rainey of the Georgia Prison Commission notes flogging was abolished by the legislature and agitation continues to repeal the statute.
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Atlanta
Georgia
E L. Rainey
Georgia Prison Commission
Beauty Contest Fraud Allegations Shocks Atlantic City
New York Evening Graphic accuses Fay Lamphier of being winner before the 1925 beauty contest, prompting resignations by Atlantic City officials. affidavits from participants claim guilt and newspapers nationwide demand a full investigation. Graphic says it will expose officials and push for penitentiary prosecutions.
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New York
Fay Lamphier
New York Evening Graphic
Atlantic City
Graphic
After a football game most expert dopesters are ex-experts
A compact take notes that after a football game many so called experts lose their edge, with former pundits now sidelined as new opinions emerge and reputations shift in sports commentary.
Untitled note about door response and bill collectors
A terse observation about living so openly that one can answer the door without worrying it is a bill collector. The remark hints at a lifestyle of transparency or financial ease.
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Bill
Ludendorff Attacks Hindenburg Over Locarno Ties
Berlin reports General Erich Ludendorff attacking his wartime chief President Hindenburg for backing the Locarno treaties. The Reichstag Socialists plan to vote with the government to accept the pact, making it likely a representative will go to London for the formal signing.
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Berlin
Erich Ludendorff
von Hindenburg
Reichstag
London
Mrs Wood Gets Her Divorce in 20 Minutes
In Wilmington on November 21, Katherine Thompson Wood obtained a divorce from Osborne C. Wood on statutory grounds after a 20 minute hearing. She named her marriage date as April 2, 1822 and testified to two years in the Philippines with him, Europe and Asia travel, then separation in Paris in June 1924, returning to her parents in Wilmington. Her father testified he has supported the daughter and children since. Wood did not contest the divorce but had counsel.
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Wilmington
Del
Katherine Thompson Wood
Henry B. Thompson
Osborne C. Wood
Wood
Philippine Islands
JUDGE CRISP SPEAKS ON TAX QUESTION
Hon. C. R. Crisp of Americus returned from Washington after sessions with the Ways and Means Committee and the Debt Funding Commission. He told Times-Recorder readers that the tax reduction for next year would total 308 million dollars, about 18 million more than the Treasury's 290 million recommendation.
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C. R. Crisp
Congress
Georgia
Americus
Washington
Ways and Means
Debt Funding Commission
The
Times-Recorder
House
Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew
Death of Dowager Queen Alexandra Shocks Britain
England mourns as Dowager Queen Alexandra dies at Sandringham Palace. Private family services were held with Rev Dr Grant officiating. Flags at half mast and black drapery mark the nation’s grief as London rings with St Paul’s bell.
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England
St. Paul
Queen Alexandra
London
Aleandra
St. Paul’s
Great Britain
Sandringham Palace
The Thrills of Life and Music in The Times-Recorder
The piece reflects on life’s moments and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin as a powerful personal symbol. It notes the influence of Wagner’s music beyond the theater and mentions The Times-Recorder distributing a book of over four hundred songs for readers, with details to follow.
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Times-Recorder
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