Georgia set to curb lynchings with new bills
A Georgia representative plans at the June session to push statutory and constitutional anti lynching acts modeled after South Carolina law. The measures would suspend officers who fail to protect prisoners and create avenues for prosecutions and penalties. A second proposal tackles judicial rotation in the superior court.
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Banner News Bureau
Atlanta
General Assembly
South Carolina
Georgia
Best Home Remedy for Bronchitis and Coughs Promoted
An ad-style notice touts Schiffmanns New Concentrated Expectorant sold at Warren J Smith & Bro Drug Store. It promises full refund if not satisfying, and explains a home mixture with sugar and water to create a pint of cough remedy for 50 cents.
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Warren J Smith & Bro
Schiffmann
Ady
Civics department outlines Dixie Highway beautification and health drives
The federation civics department plans a beautification effort for the Dixie Highway through Georgia and promotes Baby Week March 4 to 11 as part of a national health improvement drive. The department reports strong statewide cooperation and anticipates a state wide clean up week to follow.
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Federation
Civics
Dixie Highway
Georgia
Pitts
Easy and Practical Famed Dress Making Tips
Women of fashion show enthusiasm for smart skirts with hip yokes and side pockets on five gore designs. Instructions cover yardage 64 inch material, front and back gore placement, yoke variations, and cutting guides plus optional trims like fur, velvet folds, or braid.
Sale of Pottery Plant in Athens Georgia
Jerome Michael trustee in bankruptcy offers for cash sale at 11 am February 28 1916 in Athens Georgia the Athens Pottery Company plant including about three acres land buildings fixtures and machinery. Plant is in good condition with strong rail access and established business. Bid subject to referee confirmation. For viewing contact the undersigned.
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Georgia
Clarke County
Athens
Athens Pottery Company
Wilkerson &J
Georgia Railroad
Oconee
Baird Machine & Manufacturing Company
Jerome Michael
Aids and Abets Disease Trusts Sleep Ailments Relief
Doctor warns worry worsens insomnia and nervous distress aiding microbic diseases and draining vitality. A.H. Francis of Zenith Kansas reports back pain relief after using Foley Kidney Pills. Middle aged and older men and women seek these safe pills for sleep related bladder issues. H R Palmer & Sons. adv.
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A.H. Francis
Zenith
Kas
Foley
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Twelve Natives Among Athens Banquet Attendees
At the Athens Georgia chamber of commerce banquet in Georgian Tuesday night the question arose how many of the eighty five business and professional men were native born Athenians. John D. Moss surveyed the room and found only twelve natives. H. H. Linton and E. H. Dorsey were the two oldest native Athenians present.
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Athens-Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Athens
John D. Moss
H. H. Linton
E. H. Dorsey
For Sale Items and Sloan's Liniment Ad
For Sale three thousand bushels corn in the shack at one dollar per bushel two hundred tons Bermuda hay at seventeen fifty per ton one hundred bushels Cleveland Big Bell cotton seed at one fifty per bushel one hundred bushels Winfrey Prolific corn seed at two dollars per bushel terms cash on delivery at Greene county farm Griffeth Implement Co Athens Ga Sloan's Liniment advertised for rheumatism pain relief with a testimonial from H B Smith of San Francisco dated January 1915 and notice it is available at all druggists.
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Cleveland
Big Bell
Greene County
Griffeth Implement CO
Athens
Sloan
S. F
H. B. Smith
San Francisco
Cal
YWCA Film Night At Elite Tells Rescue Story
In Athens a Jubilee month event at the Elite theater on February 29 highlights a YWCA film showing about a young girl aided by the YWCA in a large city. The program also features summer camp scenes from Lake Geneva and other locations and includes a Marguerite Clark film Gretna Green with proceeds aiding the local YWCA.
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San Francisco
Exposition Grounds
Lake Geneva
United States
Athens Association
Marguerite Clark
Gretna Green
What Every Woman Should Know
A brief editorial note questions a woman's knowledge of Russian history and a man’s actions, referencing a Petrott Free Press piece in a fragmentary discussion.
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Petrott Free Press
Hie Wall. I dunnuh how come sah in Uncle Totter tale
A Kansas City Star fragment presents Uncle Totter in broken speech about modern mysteries and puzzling small type, capturing a humorous regional voice. The item reads as a humorous aside or vignette reflecting local color and wordplay.
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Totter
Kansas City Star
Death takes Thomas Lumpkin at Crawford plantation
News from Atlanta reports the death of Thomas Biggs Lumpkin 42 at the Crawford Georgia plantation of his brother Dan Lumpkin. Lumpkin, longtime Everett Ridley Ragan Company executive and later Lumpkin Dry Goods head, had retired two years earlier due to ill health and spent his final years at the family plantation in Elbert County. He is survived by his wife Judith Everett, his brother Dan, a sister Mrs. Johnson of Elberton, and brother-in-law George Everett who attended the funeral in Lexington Georgia.
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Atlanta
Crawford, Ga
Dan Lumpkin
Thomas Biggs Lumpkin
Everett-Ridley-Ragan Company
Lumpkin Dry Goods Company
Lexington
Prospector Finds 84 Ounce Nugget at Philbarn Field
A prospector uncovered a pure gold nugget weighing 84 ounces at the Philbarn gold field in western Australia. He also found a second nugget weighing 49 ounces at the same site.
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Philbarn
Western Australia
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