Poll tax row spurs Georgia women to register and vote
Larry Gantt notes a last Legis policy forcing white women past exemption age to pay a poll tax while urging all white women to register and vote. He cites widespread registration by Black Georgians and warns without white female registration political power could shift to the minority. He also discusses cotton mill strikes, market strain, and a broad call for economic normalcy amid uncertain cotton prices.
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J HL
Dorsey
Georgia
Negdt
Ceapen Actor Named Defendant in Statutory Crime Suit
Herbert Rawlinson, actor, is named as defendant in a $200,000 damages suit filed in Superior Court on Tuesday by Mrs. Ethel Clark of New York and her daughter Dorothy. They accuse Rawlinson of a statutory offense committed in 1920 against the 15 year old girl. Attorney J. K. Stickney says the suit was filed at Mrs. Clark's request. The claim centers on a recording of papers in the quit.
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Ceapen
Herbert Rawlinson
Mothar
New York
Los Angeles
Herbert Rawlinsot
Superior “Court
Cthel Clark
Dorothy Clark
Committee Opposes Scrapping Muscle Shoals Plant
Florence news reports the Senate Agriculture Committee will summon leading engineers to help solve the Muscle Shoals issue upon returning to Washington. The House Military Committee backs keeping the plants for fertilizer use and emergency needs, while a later line notes the delegation’s travel plans. A separate item notes Treasury cannot locate the $29 million war-profit refund allegedly sent by Ford.
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Florence
Ala
America
Senate Agriculture Committee
Washington
Norris
House Military Committee
Hull
House
House Committee
Congressional
Chattanooga
Mellon
Henry Ford
Ford
The
Treasury
Ae Chon
Funeral Services For Mrs Phillips Held Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Phillips aged 84 who died Tuesday at 11 30 a m at her son s Barnett Shoals home will be at Oconee cemetery Wednesday at 2 30 p m conducted by Rev Willie Sayv Pallbearers listed W and Thomas Puryear W K Eidson A B Towns B J Smith and R T Yarborough Bernstein Bros funeral directors in charge A native of South Carolina she lived in Clarke county for 60 years survived by three sons The police quote good man is hard to find not as hard as a bad one.
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Elizabeth Phillips
Barnett Shoals Road
Oconee Cemetery
Willie Sayv
W. and
Thomas Puryear
W. JK. Eidson
A. B. Towns
B. J. Smith
R. T. Yarborough
Bernstein Bros
Harding approves plan for federal reform school
President Harding endorsed converting army cantonments into vocational reformatories for first offense prisoners aged 18 to 30 held in federal prisons. Attorney General Daugherty said a bill will be drafted to empower the justice department to select these prisoners for reformatories to train them industrially and restore their usefulness as citizens.
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Washington
Harding
Daugherty
White House
Congress
Department of Justice
Democrats Claim Credit For Naval Limitation Pact
Democrats credited with the naval limitation treaty achievement after a Senate debate that yielded unanimous support and a Wednesday vote. Administrations leaders forecast quick approval of naval and submarine disarmament pacts, with some Democrats expressing disappointment that land and sea disarmament did not go further.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Father and Daughter Serve on Reno Murder Trial Jury
In Reno Nevada Mrs Nannie A Goodnight stands trial for assault with intent to kill Dr Charles H Goodnight a dentist, on the night of January 31. Jurors Ruth Atcheson and her father James Atcheson were accepted Monday to help decide the case. The article notes a proverb about laughter amid the surrounding report.
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Reno
Nev
Nannie A. Goodnight
Charles H. Goodnight
Ruth Atcheson
James Atcheson
Augusta ministers invited by police board amid vice concerns
In Augusta ga Vice and liquor conditions were the focus of a Friday meeting of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. Rev C C Jarrell and Rev E C Sheridan, both critics of local vice, attended by invitation and offered evidence while seeking cooperation to fix responsibility and improve moral conditions.
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Augusta
Board of Civil Service Commissioners
St. John Methodist Church
E. C. Sheridan
Curtis Baptist Church
Ralph Willis
Jarrell
Sheri
Dan
Sheridan
Women and men debate superiority in San Francisco
In San Francisco a public dispute unfolds over Gertrude Atherton’s claim that women may be superior to men, countered by Mrs. W L George who argues equality and marriage as the best path for women. The lively exchange centers on intelligence, ideal partners, and the role of marriage for women.
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San Francisco
Calif
Gertrude Atherton
Mrs. George
Mrs
A Newspaper Principle In Print And In Purpose
The piece argues newspapers should not print items lacking news value or driven by personal or monetary motives. It defends editorial discretion, warns against overbearing charity as a rule, and asserts space is a scarce resource to be sold to relevant news content rather than advertising or private grievances.
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Ake
University of Georgia Spring Vacation Dates Set
Spring holidays at the University of Georgia will run April 13 to 17. Students must report back by midnight on the last day or face a fine. The schedule is final this year, delayed by Easter, with holidays later than in preceding years.
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Georgia
Athens
Demand for Checkoff System Sets Tone in Miner Talks
New York miners and operators opened wage contract talks with the unions pressing for a twenty percent wage increase and a one dollar per shift raise for day workers. A third condition links a checkoff system in all colleries to the strike settlement due April 1, with both sides warning the future of anthracite and bituminous industries hinges on these demands and a possible long work stoppage if no agreement is reached.
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New York
Atssue
United States
Rents Are So High Five Thousand Chicago Flats Vacant
Chicago faces a housing squeeze as 5,000 flats are vacant with 75 to 250 dollars monthly asks. M B Walsh of the Tenants League predicts the number will double by June 1. With warm weather, thousands may relocate to tent colonies in forest preserves surrounding the city. Last year about 10,000 families saved on rent by this practice.
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Chicago
M. B. Walsh
Tenants’ League
Rotary meeting to discuss Savannah convention report
Rotarians will gather for a weekly luncheon at the Georgia Notes at 2 p.m. to hear a detailed report on the state convention in Savannah. President Abu Nix attended and will summarize events and incidents while outlining the club’s plans for 1922 with a goal of 100 percent attendance.
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Savannah
Georgia Notes
Abu Nix
Rotary
Birth Bring Daerhine Necklaces Willed To Heir
Oakland California James C Blum Jr inherits two necklaces valued at 100000 after his wife bears a daughter. His mother Rosa Blum left the pieces to him when a daughter is born. Blum had sued after a son was born, arguing the will terms near fulfillment but court dismissed. The will set half the estate at 35 and the rest at 40, with the necklace as a condition.
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Oakland
Calif
James C. Blum, Jr
Rosa Blum
Blum
American woman killed in attack on General Tanaka in Shanghai
Mrs. W. J. Snyder of Brazil, Indiana, was shot dead in Shanghai while stepping off a ship. four others wounded when two Koreans opened fire on arriving former Japanese war minister General Tanaka. The attackers were arrested and confessed their aim was to kill Tanaka.
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China
W. J. Sny
Der
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Ind
Glicht Tanaka
Manila
Mia
Snyder
Tanaka
Attempt on life of Russian minister Milukoff shocks audience
An assassination attempt disrupted a Russian visiting official event. Professor Paul Milukoff, former foreign minister, survived as a guard and others were wounded in a volley fired by an assailant. A panic ensued with many injured in the rush for exits.
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Paul Milukoff
Associated Press
Serlin
Prade
Paul N. Milukoff
Rudsigne
Naboukoff
Prince Lyoft
Rus Inberlin
Milukoffs
Milnekoff
Rotary Bronze Tablet Placed On Grave Of Unknown Soldier
The International Association of Rotary Clubs placed a bronze tablet on the Unknown Soldier’s tomb in Arlington Cemetery. International President Crawford C. McCullough spoke on sacrifice, liberty, and justice, noting Rotary’s memorials in Paris and Westminster and praising global unity and peace under American leadership.
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America
Arlington
International Association of Rotary Clubs
Arlington Cemetery
Crawford C. McCullough
Canada
United States
Wilson
Parie
France
Internaional Rotary
International Rotary
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