Miss Verna Mathis Rites Held in Central Baptist Church
Miss Verna Mathis 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs J B Mathis Americus and Charleston died in Charleston after months of illness. Her remains arrive in Americus this afternoon to the home of her uncle J E Poole. Funeral Sunday at 2 30 from Central Baptist Church with Rev Hoke Shirley officiating. Interment Oak Grove Cemetery. Survivors include her parents a sister Mrs Harry Smeade of Charleston two brothers Ernest and J B Jr of Charleston a grandmother Mrs J H Poole of Americus four uncles J E J S 03 and T C Poole of Americus and an aunt Mrs ER W Hutchinson of Perry Florida.
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Verna Mathis
J. B. Mathis
Charleston
S. C
Americus
Seaboard
J. E. Poole
College Street
Central Baptist Church
Oak Grove Cemetery
Mathis
Harry Smeade
Ernest
J. Hi. Poole
J. E
T. C. Poole
ER. W. Hutchinson
Perry
Fla
Record Heat Sweeps Atlanta Birmingham Nashville
Record heat hit multiple southern cities on Friday with Atlanta reaching 100.5 degrees, beating the prior September high by 2.5 degrees. Birmingham logged 105 at 2:35 p.m., topping the old 104-degree record from 1901, while Nashville reported 101 degrees at 2 p.m., five tenths higher than the day before.
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Birmingham
Ala
Nashville
Mercury
New Record High Temperatures Reported in Chattanooga and Savannah
Chattanooga marked a record heat of 101.2 degrees at 2 PM on Friday, surpassing the 1871 high of 101. Savannah followed with a September heat record of 102 degrees at 2:50 PM, as reported by the weather observer.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
United States Bureau
Savannah
The
Weather Observer
Treasury creates border enforcement unit at Detroit center
Washington reports the treasury authorized Collector Ferguson at Detroit to form a new enforcement unit to police about 100 miles of the northern border with Detroit as the hub in the crackdown on liquor smuggling from Canada.
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Washinton
The
Treasury
Canada
Ferguson
Detroit
Hindenburg Longs for Home and Quiet Routine
The article portrays Field Marshal von Hindenburg living a simple, disciplined life in Berlin. He starts at 7:30, writes in the forenoon, naps two hours after lunch, receives dignitaries in the afternoon, and avoids late nights, theaters, or opera. He knows little French, favors Barres and Hugo, and values his family coat of arms gift from World War I.
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France
Maurice Barres
Victor Hugo
German literary tastes and political shifts in Reich era
The passage notes a man who dislikes reading in his own language preferring Madame Yourthe Mahler. It praises Wassermann as a great German novelist despite Jewish origin. It mentions Fritz von Unruh, a German officer turned republic advocate, opposed to Prussianism and pro-peace with France, denounced by the president as a de Germanized German.
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Madame Yourthe Mahler
Jacob Wessermann
Junker
Wassermann
Aweak Pru
France
German Republic
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