Fair Committee Plans Athens Exposition of Agriculture and Industry
A 10 member executive group plans a Clarke County Fair featuring agricultural and manufactured products, livestock, and school exhibits from Athens area institutions. Amusement and racing elements will be organized by the Athens Women's Club, with proceeds aiding local development. A suitable exhibition site is to be chosen at a later meeting.
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Clarke County
Weper
Mammoth Farm Bureau
Tuckston
Chamber of Commerce
Athens
University
State Normal School
Lucy Cobb Institute
Athens Women's Club
John A. Darwin
EB. W. Carroll
A Rhodes
W. G. Griffeth
Howard Scott
Hugh White
Woman's Club
M. Selling
J. M. Pound
Lucy Bi Institute
Miax
Mildred Ruther
City Board of Education
G. G
Captain T
Andrew G .Erwin
A. EF. Davison
Athens Eire
Insurance Association
T. L
Allo Association
F. J. Lawler
Ath Mitchell
Bakers Association
J Warren Smith
Ellis Lodge
Arthur Flauin
Press
Dan H. Magiff
County
Jones Purcell
Annie Mae Wood
World Series July Complete Trial To Begin Monday
The jury to decide guilt or innocence of Chicago White Sox players and others tied to the 1919 World Series fix was sworn in amid cheering spectators. Opening statements by the state will occur Monday after defense moves to dismiss certain counts. Also noted is the visit of Mrs. Dave Paddock and her young son to Lakemont as guests of Mrs. Ruth ib.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago White Sox
Australian ballot bill passes in senate amid debate
Senator Jones wins 29 to 1 on the Australian ballot bill after long debate. The measure, with an amendment delaying operation until two successive grand juries recommend, creates a private booth secret ballot with dual stubs and official forms, assisted voting for disabled or blind voters, and penalties for breaches of secrecy.
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Atlanta
Senate
Jones
Augusta
Naval office here closed to recruits in post storm area
The local naval office is closed to new recruits after a telegraphic order. Chief Snider says the service will soon reopen to all branches. Eighty men have passed physicals and await reopening. Four locals, including Clifford Nash and Hugh Niblack, joined, with Niblack entering hospital and later regular service. The Plains area reports severe crop damage from the storm, with downed telegraphs and phones and roads torn up, but Americus aides work on repairs.
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Naval Office
Snider
Hetr
Athens
Navy
PF. G. Dibson
Clifford Nash
Roberts
Jefferson
Hugh M. Niblack
Hosehton
Niblack
Aid
Americus. Ga
Plains
Americas
Memorial rites for Judge Peter Conley Pritchard set
Asheville honors late Judge Peter C Pritchard with a memorial in the U S Circuit Court Fourth Circuit to be held in the federal building courtroom on Wednesday July 20 Ex Governor Locke Craig General Theo F Davidson and Attorney George will deliver addresses with responses from court members
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Asheville
N. C
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Fourth Circuit
Peter Conley Pritchard
Federal Building
Locke Craig
North Carolina
Theo. F. Davidson
George Others
Summer capital transfer to Asheville announced for fall
A summer capital for North Carolina will move to Asheville next Monday and governmental matters will be handled from the city until September, per an announcement from Governor Morrilton.
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Asheville
N. C
North Carolina
Morrilton. E
Mrs Stokes Wins In Bitter Divorce Battle For Custody
New York a long running two year divorce case centering on Mrs Helen Stokes and her millionaire husband Dr. William Stokes ends with claims of surrender and custody for their children. The court fight features co-respondents, diary entries, and a proposed settlement granting maternal custody and a share of the Stokes fortune.
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New York
Helen Roward Stokes
W KD
Stokes
Stillman
Mia
Domeatic
Helen Marie Stokes
Myles A. Walsh
Littleton
Helen Elwood
Denver
Ben Lindsay
Conditions In Ukraine Reported From Kiev City
Reports from Kiev describe worsening conditions with population dropping from about 700000 to 100000. Bolshevik authorities are said to be back in control though insurrectionary influence has appeared. Peasants organize anti Bolshevik groups to protect farms as few stores, including Norist's, remain open.
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Warsaw
Kiev
Ukraine
Russia
Warnin
Norist
Rome Considered Homes On Rooftops In City Plan
Italian engineers propose building light three to four story houses on flat Rome rooftops to solve housing shortages. They seek American capital and material from the United States, with Henry Colt MacClean introducing the idea to U S business interests. Others in Rome and Birmingham eye related construction ventures. Bum Day in Athens reports the Georgia football captain resting with Coca Cola in Birmingham and poised for fall season. German miners wear galvanized iron boots and Palestinian women craft clay stoves.
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Rome
Henry Colt MacClean
United States
America
MacClean
Athens
Bum
University of Georgia
Inge
Coca Cola Company
Birmingham
Alabama
Bull Dogs
Fine system of roads under construction in eighth district
A thorough summary of road development in the Eighth district under the state highway department led by District Engineer R T Goodwyn. It notes 116.7 miles supervised, 96.6 miles taken over, with 7.6 miles in Clarke County and 3.8 miles Mitch-ell’s bridge road. five concrete roads, four bituminous macadam, 89.3 miles top soil, and 19.2 miles concrete total. The article praises the department’s control of planning, contracting, and funding and highlights the new Eighth District Good Roads association led by J M Hodgson to unify county roads and improve travel.
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State Department
State Highway Department
Clarke County
R.T. Goodwyn
Clarte County
Wil’ Bridge
Department For
Lexington Row
Highway Department
Mitchell's Bridge
Eighth District Good Roads Association
J. M. Hodgson
Athena
Tin
Goodwyn
Plenty of Cash In Austria Amid Vienna Auction Fever
The sale of rare furnishings from Klexsheim palace, Archduke Ludwig Victor’s Vienna residence, drew bidders from France, England, and America. native Viennese buyers pushed prices into millions as Gobelins sold for 1 to 1.5 million crowns each. About 30,000 attended the Vienna derby, and betting machines receipts reached 4.5 million crowns.
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Vienna
Austrba
Klexsheim Palace
Ludwig Victor
France
England
America
People of Stone Age Habits Found on Rennell Island
Dr Northcote Deck notes a tiny population on Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands living Stone Age life. About 500 inhabitants, limited by isolation, use stone and wood tools, prefer home made articles over iron, and rely on log beating for music. They hunt with bone-tipped spears and use cave deposits as currency.
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London
Rennell
Solomon Group
Melanesia
Northcote Deck
Deck
Workmen Turn Laugh On Official Over Bread Distribution Caches
Vienna reports a British officer seized brass bread tags during a second search of a cooperative bakery. A subsequent raid on Novotny, a high official in the Front Associations, yielded five machine guns rifles a stock of hand grenades and ammunition.
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Vienna
Altier Military Control Commission
Ftret
Novotny
County Superintendent Missing as Warrant Sought
Orangeburg sheriff pursued Claude J. Haat county superintendent of education after a warrant was sworn by a relative of a sixteen year old pupil alleging mistreatment. Haat vanished Thursday, while the accused victim was reportedly beaten and warned to leave the state within three days or face death.
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Orangeburg
D. C
Claude J. Haat
Relatvea
Whit Abe
Seasion
Must
Victm
Philippines Export Growth and Philippine Opportunities
London report cites Fidel A. Reyes noting unprecedented 20 year economic progress in the Philippines. He highlights rising imports and exports from 1,217,079 in 1831 to 500,162,138 in 1920, agricultural advances, rural credit societies, and new industrial prospects including sugar refining and canning. He credits US administration for modernization and education, and sees Philippines as a strategic distributive hub for Asia.
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London
Fidel A. Reyes
Bureau of Commerce and Industry of the
Philippine Islands
Reyes
Mr. Reyes
Farthers Bf
Philippine Legislatere
Philippines
China
Siberia
United States
Sehantda
Tolstoy Estate in Copenhagen Under Care of Alexandra Tolstoy
Dispatches report Tolstoy's Danish estate Yasnaje Pollana seized by Bolsheviks and nationalized. Alexandra Tolstoy, the author's daughter, will care for the property, but it will not be restored to her as owner.
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Tolstoy
Poland to Establish Agricultural Bank
Warsaw reports Poland plans an agricultural bank to grant long term credits to farmers. A working capital of about 8,000,000,000 marks is planned to support the lending program and farm development.
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Poland
Warsaw
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Tamaulipas
Luis Potost
Daniel Martinez Herrera
Mejandro Choa
Horutio Munoz
Estrada
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Andrew McMaster
Montreall
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Jimmie
Helen
TET
W. E. DO. Stokes
Palestine
Eighth Dist
Austria
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