Imperial Wizard Refuses Debate Gift to Old Organization
New York Oct 29 Mrs Beulah Edmondson Croker widow of Richard Croker former Tammany head denied at a National Democratic Club dinner that she offered to turn over the million dollar Croker estate to Tammany. She said she planned a gift to the organization carrying out Croker's wishes and to Democratic leaders rather than a direct transfer.
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New York
Beulah Edmondson Croker
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
National Democratic Club
Tammany
Orchestra Meeting Postponed to Friday in Americus
Alfred C. Gane the Rylander theater organist and community orchestra director announces the Tuesday meeting is moved to Friday night at the courthouse not the community club house. He says initial pieces will be familiar tunes and aims for a first class organization with local talent ready to begin creditable concerts within months.
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Alfred C. Gane
Rylander Theater
Court House
Americus
Gane
Moth
Nineteen Toombs Farmers Ship Carload of Potatoes
Nineteen Toombs county farmers co operated in filling a carload of sweet potatoes shipped to Florida. The car was saved by County Agent Garner and sold by the state bureau of markets for a good price. One farmer sold 108 dollars worth from one and one fourth acres, saving nearly a hundred bushels for home use. Nearly six hundred bushels were loaded. Potatoes show unusual quality this year and a second car is likely within ten days.
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Yons
Toombs
Florida
Garner
State Bureau of Markets
Tomatoes Help Baldwin Farmers Get Ready Cash
Baldwin county farmers diversifying move to cash crops as a carload of tomatoes ships for 2.50 per crate and hundreds more crates go by express. Under County Agent Swain's plan, forty cars of tomatoes were contracted from this point, two delivered with the rest due in two weeks.
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Milledgeville
Baldwin County
Express
Swain
Prohibition debacle spurs broad political clash in 1920s
In Washington dry leaders push enforcement changes amid blamed enforcement glitches. Governors from wet and dry states weigh federal role, while Pinchot urges President Coolidge to assume personal enforcement, amid calls for harsher penalties on buyers and bootleggers. Germany France crisis looms as Stresemann stops payments, Rheinland secessionist moves spread, central government teeters on possible armed action.
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Pinchot
Smith
New York
Ritchie
Maryland
Silver
New Jersey
Cox
Massachusetts
Morrison
North Carolina
Blaine
Wisconsin
Parker
Louisiana
Allen
Kansas
Hinkle
New Mexico
Rhineland
Germany
Berlin
Bavaria
Saxony
Phrase Fragments on Codes and Country’s Peril
A clipped reflection questions how to act first with individual and craft codes. It contrasts with the idea that today the danger lies not in sinners rising but in saints sitting down, signaling a moral critique without direct event details.
Pay Urged as Neal Ray Succeeds Neely on Highway Board
Early this morning telegrams poured to Governor Cliffwalker from Neal Ray supporters urging his appointment to fill the late State Highway Board member Robert C. Neely’s vacancy. Ray’s backers praise his county administration and stress the need for value from highway funds, while decrying politics in the department.
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Americas
Cliffwalker
Neal Ray
Ray
Robert C.neely
State Highway Board
Sumter County
Neeley
Sumter
Highway Department
Walker backs Georgia Tech Georgia game match on gridiron
Governor Walker urged Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia to resume athletics relations and meet on the gridiron this fall. He cited a Columbus Ledger editorial proposing a game for Lone Mountain Confederate Memorial and said the match would boost the cause.
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Atlanta
Georgia Tech
University of Georgia
Walker
Columbus Ledger
Lone Mountain Confederate Memorial
Banks Boost Toombs Farmers With Unified Program
Banks in Toombs County unite behind the cow hog and hen plan adding tobacco big stem Jersey potatoes and cotton. Georgia State Bank of Vidalia mailed 1000 copies of the Toombs County Farm Program developed by Vidalia Kiwanis and Lyons Booster club to help farmers establish a sound farming system for dependable cash returns and soil improvement. The Lyons banks distribute the program with statements while First National Bank of Vidalia supports it and implements it on their farms.
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LYONS
Toombs County
Georgia State Bank of
Vidalia
Vidalia Kiwanis
Lyons Booster Club
Banks
First National Bank of
St Stanislaus College May Be Rebuilt Soon
MACON October 29 General belief in Catholic circles across Georgia holds that St Stanislaus college in this city will be rebuilt soon. The new college is expected to be a house of studies serving postgraduate work rather than a novitiate or junior school as it did before. Fifteen landowners were fined in New York.
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Macon
Georgia
St. Sanislaus College
French expect quick reparations accord before weekend
Paris reports official circles expect final agreement with Britain on conditions for the committee of experts to review Germanys capacity to pay within a day or two. The reparations commission may proceed with arrangements before the weekend.
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Paris
Germany
French reparations stance unchanged by Poincare note
Official circles in Washington interpret Premier Poincare's remarks as a restatement that Versailles treaty rights cannot be abridged without treaty parties consent. The proposed expert commission limits are not seen as changing the fundamental situation.
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Washington
Poincare
Gillen Shot in Pistol Duel in New York Hotel
Thomas Gillen of Philadelphia was shot and seriously wounded in a pistol duel with Joseph F. McLean of Brooklyn at the Hotel Longwell early today. Police arrested McLean over Gillen's body. No motive given.
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New York
Thomas Gillen
Philadelphia
Dunel
Joseph F. McLean
Brooklyn
Hotel Longwell
McLean
Gillen
Miss Edith Nelson Seriously Ill In Americus Hospital
Miss Edith Nelson superintendent of the Americus and Sumter County hospital is gravely ill after a heart attack on Saturday. Her sister Mrs Lucas Davis of Boston has been summoned as doctors and nurses say she is in a coma with faint hopes of recovery.
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Edith Nelson
Americus and Sumter County Hospital
Lucas Davis
Miss Nelson
Boston
Mass
Americus
Funeral Services for Leslie Child Sunday
Leslie Child of October 29, died of blood poisoning after a two week illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 PM conducted by Rev. J. P. Daugherty, with burial at Mount Zion cemetery. Her Sunday school class sang her favorite song among touching exercises. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful.
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Leslie
Elizabeth Bass
C. C. Bass
J. P. Daugherty
Mount Zion Cemetery
Federal Agent Convicted For Padding Expense Account
J W Griffin former head of the federal prohibition enforcement group for the Southern District of Georgia was convicted in federal court on a fraud charge for padding his expense account by 440 over lodging charges at Albany He was fined 300 and sentenced to 30 days in jail
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Atanta
J. W Griffin
Hampton
Federal
Prohibition Enforcement Group
Southern District of Georgia
Albany
Kellogg as Ambassador to London Succeeds Harvey
Former Minnesota Senator Frank Kellogg is suggested by sources in Washington to succeed Colonel George Harvey as American ambassador to Great Britain. The choice signals Kellogg’s pro European participation stance during crucial postwar negotiations. Key issues include reparations and the 12 mile search and seizure proposal to curb liquor smugglers.
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Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Great Britain
Coolidge
George Harvey
London
Kellogg
Ei Sh
Harvey
Census Shows 10262 Bales Ginned To Date
There were 10,262 bales of cotton ginned in Sumter county from the 1923 crop prior to October 18, 1923. This contrasts with 19,888 bales ginned by October 18, 1922, according to census agent W P Persons.
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Sumter County
W.P. Persons
German Missionary Seized by Bandits in Shanghai
A dispatch from Shangshi says German missionary Strauss has been captured by bandits and is being held for ransom. Conditions in Hunan province are reported to be worsening rapidly as the situation unfolds.
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Shanghai
Shangshi
Strauss
Hunan
Klan Leader Evans Dodges Debate With Rabbi Glazer
Imperial Wizard Evans of the Ku Klux Klan refused a debate challenge from Rabbi Simon Glazer of New York. Glazer had urged Evans to address the status of Jews in the United States after an address in Dallas. Evans offered to split admission proceeds between the Red Cross and the Palestine Fund but said he cannot come down to Glazer.
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Atlanta
Evans
Ku Klux Klan
Simon Glazer
New York
Dallas
Texas
Red Cross
Palestine Fund
Ruhr situation stagnant as days pass in Ruhr and Rhine lands
At Duesseldorf on October 29 the Ruhr and Rhine land situation remained unchanged with no notable activity by separatists or unemployed. Although a general progressive outlook was expected to begin, no factory or mine closings were reported by midday.
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Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Rhineland
Dr Warnock Retained as Pastor of Church
Dr H D Warnock, pastor of the First Baptist church here for two years, was reelected to lead the church another year. Officers were elected and a reorganization held. Joseph Moore was chosen Sunday school superintendent and the board of deacons re elected for four years.
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Milledgeville
H. D. Warnock
First Baptist Church
Joseph Moore
Murdock to Answer Reader Questions At Times-Recorder
Readers must mail questions to Murdock The White Mahatma care of Times-Recorder Ask Murdock at the Rylander Theatre engagement to be answered via the newspaper. Questions may cover business health travel missing persons and general matters not personal. A Ladies Only matinee will exclude girls under sixteen for private inquiries.
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Times-Recorder
Forts
Murdock
Mahatma
Americus, Gc
Rylander Theater
The
Rylander
Saxony cabinet dismissed as German troops invade Dresden
German forces enter Dresden and arrest several communists while Saxony moves to replace its cabinet. A Reich government note orders dismissal of Saxony’s cabinet and General Von Mueller prohibits the assembly, blocking parliamentary immunity protections.
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London
Dresden
Diet
Communist Party
Berlin
Reich
Saxony
von Mueller
Reichwehr
Assembly of
Young Stribling to Tour NYC for Boxing Fights
Macon reporter W Le Young Stribling and his father Pa Stribling will depart for New York Tuesday to meet promoters about months of boxing engagements for the light heavyweight contender. They will visit Philadelphia afterward for further talks with leading promoters. A Boston promoter offered $3,000 for a ten round bout with Johnnie Wilson, which was declined after numerous prior offers following the draw with Mike McTigue.
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Macon
W. le
Boston
Young Stribling
Johnny Wilson
Styth
Mike Me Tigue
Earth tremors felt in Memphis and region on Sunday
Slight but distinct tremors were felt in Memphis and much of Arkansas and Mississippi at 11 14 am Sunday. Windows rattled, phones flooded with inquiries from Pine Bluff Tunica Tupelo and other towns. No major damage reported though Marked Tree Ark saw chimneys fall and bank windows break.
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Memphis. Tenn
Memphis
Arkansas
Mississippi
Pine Bluff
Ark
Tunica
Tupelo
Miss
Marked Tree
Minor Earth Tremors Felt in Memphis Arkansas and Mississippi
Washington October 29 Earth tremors were felt Sunday at Memphis, Arkansas, and Mississippi, recorded by the Georgetown University seismograph. Seismologist Father Tondorf said the tremors were very slight, beginning shortly after noon and lasting about a minute and a half.
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Washington
Memphis
Arkansas
Mississippi
Seismon
Georgetown University
Tondorf
Camilla Judge Relocates to Chicago for Residence
Judge A. S. Johnson, eight years Camilla resident, leaves for Chicago to reside. Former Newton city court judge for Baker County, he will practice law there with a real estate firm holding extensive Chicago-area properties. Johnson was dean of the Mitchell County bar in Cook County.
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Camilla
A. S. Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
Newto
Newton
Baker County
Hs Large Holdings
Cook
Mitcheell County
Coeae
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