Georgia to sell non taxable W and A rental warrants
The state plans to sell about two and a half million dollars of non taxable warrants drawn on Western and Atlantic Railroad income for five years. Secretary of State McBendon argues Supreme Court rulings prohibit federal taxation of state government instrumentalities. Banks likely to buy the issue, keeping financing local and demonstrating Georgia banking strength.
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Georgia
Western & Atlantic Railroad
McBendon
Supreme Court of the
United States
Supreme Court
New York
Causes For Increased Crimes In Postwar Era
A long, opinionated piece by William B Joyce listing twelve factors blamed for rising crime. It cites waning respect for law after war, new securities temptations, windfall profits, drafted criminals, high wartime wages, postwar relocation, investment booms, socialism as motive, weak accounting, careless hiring, display of wealth, and prohibition driving illicit liquor.
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Ty Ha
William B. Joyce
Surity Company
Shipping losses prompt calls to rethink U S investments
Chairman Lasker warns the United States Shipping Board suffered a 220 million dollar operating loss last year. The piece compares waste in shipping to a farmer culling an unproductive cow, arguing if operations cannot break even they must be sold at market value. The author urges reassessment of national shipping investments and price expectations.
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Lasker
U. S
Shipping Heart
United States
Simple community action beats costly equipment and clubs
The piece argues that communities overemphasize expensive infrastructure like country clubs churches and schools. It asserts simple methods and energetic people produce good results without heavy burdens, recalling a quote about sitting on a log with Williams College president Mark Hopkins.
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Mark Hopkins
Williams College
Powers of Cheka reduced as Soviet reform outlined
Independent reports and Bolshevik papers indicate Cheka powers are curtailed. The government plans to limit arrests without warrants, executions, and martial law, creating a supreme tribunal to review cases and transfer functions to new departments while preserving death sentences only under martial law or special circumstances.
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Peeval
Settys
Ose
Cheka
Russia
M.kryleyko
Sulior
Court of Appeals
Cueka
Bandits Kill Post Master At Border
Bandits shot and killed postmaster Pearson at Kus near the Arizona border in a raid that also looted a local store. Police and federal agents investigated the cross border attack tied to bandit activity in the border region.
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Associated Press
Arizona
Ibertus Friday
Iho Pearson
Kus
Debs Case May Be Taken Up Saturday
Washington The disposition of Eugene Debs imprisoned socialist leader may be taken up Saturday by President Harding, as stated officially at the Department of Justice on Friday. Attorney General Daugherty indicated the matter would be considered at the highest level.
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Associated Press
Ashington
Eugene Debs
Harding
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Eleven Sailors adrift on Pacific seven days
Eleven men from the steamer Canadian Importer have been adrift in the North Pacific for seven days after leaving in a small boat seeking help. A wireless note from a passing steamer’s captain said the men aimed to reach the Oregon shore, rowing 623 miles.
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Associated Pre
North Pacific
Oregon
Answers to Yester day's Kwiz
Answers to Yester day's Kwiz cover world capitals empires and figures. It lists Britain sactioned claims on Brazil New York area incorrect Nobel prize first, Caracalla death count Eiffel Tower height France coal iron Thorpe Daguerreotype New Orleans origins and more with a set of general knowledge questions.
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United Kingdom of
Great Britaan
Ireland
Kingdom of
England
Principality of Wales
Scotland
Kingdom of Ireland
Seine River
Paria
France
Rose H. Thorpe
Longfellow
New Orleans
Louisiana
Brown To Paris On Russ Relief Work
Walter L. Brown who negotiated the relief agreement for American aid in Russia has been authorized by the state department to attend the international conference on Russian relief in Paris. He will canvass the situation in relation to European relief efforts in Russia.
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Washington, D. C
Walter L. Brown
Russia
State Department
Paris
Athens Citizen Warns of Kidney Trouble Relief
An Athens resident endorses Dean's Kidney Pills claiming they cured her kidney ailments after other medicines failed. She describes severe dizziness and weakness before using the product bought at Smith & Hro.'s Drug Store. The ad urges others to try the 60 cent remedy, Foster Milton Co. Buffalo N Y.
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Athens
Ivon
F. J. Graham
Dougherty St
Dean
Smith & Hro
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfrs
Buffalo, N. Y
American Dead to Return on British Warship
The State Department on Friday night accepted Britain's offer to send the American remains recovered from the ZR-2 to the United States aboard a British warship. The move ensures the body will be returned home, marking a formal cross Atlantic repatriation arrangement.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
United States
Reward Offered for A. B. and A. Dynamiters Action
Crisp county commissioners post a combined reward of 1000 dollars for the arrest of alleged dynamiters who wrecked an Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic freight train at Muscle White near Cordele. A negro fireman was the only person hurt. Seventy cattle were killed.
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Cordele
Crisp County
Atlanta
Birmingham
Atlantic
Muscle White
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Athens Polishing Company
Nlleaton
Athens Panner
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Geraldine Farrar
Chicago
Norway
London
Rudyard Kipling
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the Herald of the Newspaper
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Athens Banner-Herald “Salesmanship Club
Eneeeeeereer
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Insurance Department
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Holman
Athens, Georgia
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