County Finances In Splendid Shape Declares Tax Cut
The Board of County Commissioners in regular session reduced the county tax rate by one half mill to 12 mills for next year, citing improved finances, current tax payments, and gas tax support. They note prior years’ borrowing and highlight road work funded by gas tax, with receipts shown for the year and planned bond payments.
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Board of County Commissioners
Neal A. Ray
Brown Small
Ray
Brown
Small
Sumter
Oliver
La Follette and Coolidge break silence in campaign
President Coolidge to greet a labor delegation at the White House and deliver address as La Follette and Coolidge enter a new phase of the campaign. Davis labels isolationists blind readers of the blind amid calls for security against war and equal opportunity.
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White House
Wheeling
W. Va
America
John W. Davis
Qghio Valley Trades and Labor Assembly
Washington
Pres
Dawes Plans Quiet Labor Day At Home In Evanston
Charles G. Dawes Republican vice presidential nominee will spend a quiet Labor Day at his Evanston home, with no public appearances or events scheduled. The day is described as low key as he rests ahead of the campaign.
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Dawes
Evanston
Charles G. Dawes
Davis Returns to West Virginia Campaign Stop
John W. Davis is back in his home state delivering his fourth presidential campaign address. He left New York on Sunday to launch the first major battle of his bid, arriving today to energize supporters in West Virginia.
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Davis
Wheeling
W. Va
John W. Davis
New York
Chinese aided by American food
Seattle dispatch reports rising living standards in China due to a rapid steamship service from Seattle carrying fresh vegetables fruits and refrigerated meats. Manager T F Townsend notes Pacific Northwest produce and California citrus reach Chinese markets year round via ships arriving every ten days, boosting availability in Chile.
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Seattle
Wash
China
T F. Townsend
Trans- Pacific Steamship Company
Pacific Northwest
California
Mr. Townsend
Chile
Committees Named For Standard Training School
Announcement authorized for appointment of committees to prepare for the Standard Training School session to be held September 22 at last Methodist church. under the auspices of the Sunday School Boards of the South Georgia and Southern Methodist church. Committees named meet Wednesday after prayer at First Methodist church Cordele Americus districts. Committees include Homes Entertainment Supper Publicity Attendance with names of local organizers and aims to enroll as many students as possible.
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Methodist
South Georgia Methodist Conference
General Sunday School Board
Southern Methodist Church
Americas
Cordele
Wesleyan College
Macon
Cordelo
Americus
John M. Cutler
First Methodist Church
Evan Mathis, Jr
L. F. Grubbs
A. J. Bell
Heys McMath
J. M. Goolsby
H. B. Mashburn
R. L. McMath
C. S. Glover
S. R. Heys
B. B. Mashburn
H. E. Allen
Annie Ansley
Annie Walker
Clara Roebuck
Joe M. Bryan
Dawes Plan Enters Operative Stage Through Proclamation
Paris reports the Reparations Commission declares the Dawes plan in operation. Owen D Young, agent for reparations, says 20 million gold marks will be due on Tuesday and first of 83 million for September. Germany and Allies to provide September Ruhr proceeds. total 83 million to Young in September.
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Paris
London
Germany
Owen D. Young
New York
Mr. Young
Berlin
Belgia
Ruhr
Bulgaria's king Cultivates Own Garden Plot
In Bulgaria the king tends his own garden plot, a move seen as superior to involvement in international plots. The line contrasts domestic stewardship with foreign affairs, framing the monarch’s personal farming as preferable to overseas agendas.
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Bulgaria
La Follette Attacks Parties in National Broadcast
Independent presidential candidate Senator Robert M LaFollette denounces both Republicans and Democrats as failing to curb monopoly influence. He says the campaign targets the monopoly system as a major present day government evil and appeals to voters to support his bid.
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Washington
Sen
Robert M. LaFollette
la Follette
Coolidge backs continuing policy for wage earners
President Coolidge told labor representatives that government should persist with a policy that has made American wage earners live better than ever. He urged further efforts to provide healthful surroundings, education, and fair employment conditions with fair wages to sustain stable business prosperity and religious worship.
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Washington
Coolidge
Motta Elected President of Assembly in Geneva
Dr. Guisppe Motta, former president of Switzerland, was today elected president of the fifth Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. The decision was announced on September 1 and marks Motta's rise to a top leadership role in the international body.
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Guisppe Motta
Geneva
Switzerland
Fifth Assembly
The
League of ‘Natoins
Wheeler Opens Campaign on Economic Cleavage in Boston
Senator Wheeler declared a new political cleavage based on economic lines during a Boston Common speech launching his presidential bid. He attacked President Coolidge and General Dawes as uncaring to labor and called John W. Davis a man who would out Coolidge as the servant of Wall Street, appealing to the labor vote with a national platform.
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Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
Wheeler
Boston Common
Coolidge
General Dawes
John W. Davis
Coolidge Coolidge
Wall Street
Northern capital buys vast Florida land holdings
Tallahassee reports northern investors controlling hundreds of millions in Florida land near the capital. Prominent holders include George F. Baker, Harry Payne Whitney, Percy Chubb, Carl Fleischman, Anis Fleischman, George A. Foote, A. B. Lapsky, Louis Thompson, the Tennant Ronalds estate, and social figure Frances Griscom. The properties span 10 000 acre estates along key routes and include game preserves and winter homes.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Leon County
Florida
George F. Baker
The
National City Bank
New York
Harry Payne Whitney
Percy Chubb
Carl Fleischman
Anis Fleischman
George A. Foote
Montclair
N. J
A. B. Lapsky
Griscom Estate
Dixie Highway
Meridian Road
Locust Plague Spurs New Local Industry in Bocholt
In Bocholt Germany September 1 a locust plague sparked a small industry as women and boys gathered billions of insects from Holland. The oil pressed from the locust bodies sells for about a quarter of a cent per pound and is touted for winter flying since it resists freezing. The remaining refuse is turned into fertilizer.
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Bocholt
Germany
Holland
Herrin Labor Day calm after deadly clash with klan
Herrin Illinois set for Labor Day as fear of new violence lingers after Saturday street battle left six dead and a deputy sheriff wounded. Sheriff George Gallingan arrested on murder charges. bail posted by prominent locals. National guard helped keep peace.
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Marion
Ills
Gallinggan
Williamson County
McGowan
Herrin
Bud) Allison
Herman Phemister
Baliff
National Guard
Carbondale
Ku Klux Klan
DST
Attila’s Grave to be Excavated in Szentes Soon
Szentes Hungary September first Attila the Hun leader’s grave is due for excavation soon per Dr Csallany director of the local museum He has overseen scientific digs near Dongt since 1900 with the project nearing work start at the site.
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Szentes
Hungary
Attila
Csallany
Dongt
Seismograph Locates Underground Coal and Oil Sources
Dr Mintrop of Bochum claims an improved seismograph can locate coal and oil underground by registering detonations. Dutch papers report a successful test in Holland. Mintrop is traveling in the United States.
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Bochum
Mintrop
Holland
Minthrop
United States
Alaska to gain another railroad line from Hyder
Juneau dispatch reports that the Terminal Railway and Power Company of Hyder Alaska filed articles of incorporation to build a standard gauge railroad from Hyder to Salmon River Valley near the Alaska Canada boundary, a 12 mile main line with a two mile branch to the Texas Creek mines, signaling new railway activity in the territory.
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Juneau
Alaska
Terminal Railway and Power Company
Hyder
Salmon River
Alaska-Canada Boundary Line
Texas Creek
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Labor
West Virginia
ARBOR
South Georgia Conference and Board
Reparations Commission
Appeals For Labor
Atilla
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