Cunningham's All Southern Team Picks Georgia Auburn Vanderbilt
Coach Cunningham selects Auburn and Georgia players for most slots in his all Southern eleven from the Red and Black camp. He highlights Auburn center Pitts and guards Thigpen and Malone, ends Brown and de Graaff, and quarterback Paddock as top choices with several Georgia and Vanderbilt players also named. He ranks Auburn as champion with Georgia and Vanderbilt vying for second, followed by Tech and others in the order given.
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Cunningham
Atlanta Journal
Pitts
Auburn
Thigpen
Malone
Georgia
T. Brown
Vanderbilt
Henderson
N. Brown
van de Graaff
Alabama
McWhorter
Newell
Harris
Tech
Robinson
Louisiana State
Mississippi A
Sewanee
Clemson
Tennessee
Tulane
Florida
Citadel
Mercer
Origin of Thanksgiving Told by Miss Rutherford
Miss Rutherford speaks at the Harvest Home Festival tracing Thanksgiving from Nehemiah’s reading to Ezra, noting gifts of gold and garments and a people’s joy. She recounts Jamestown and Plymouth, Georgia's 1733 event, Frederica 1742, and Henry Laurens's 1777 proclamation, urging southern Christian gratitude and pride in regional wealth and resources.
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Miss Rutherford
Ezra
Athens
Jamestown
Virginia
Sir Thomas Gates
Jamestown Colony
Thomas Gates
America
Delaware
Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth Rock
Georgia
Oglethorpe
Savannah
Frederica
Bloody Maresh
Whitfield
Henry Laurens
South Carolina
Continental Corgress
Richard Henry Lee
England
Beatty
Florida
South
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf
Gulf of Mexico
California
Mexico
Alaska
Trockle
Mississippi
North Carolina
Blue Ridge
Stone Mountain
U.S
Panama
Harvest Home speech recalls Rev. J. C. Davis in Athens
Miss Rutherford honors the first Harvest Home Festival held thirty years ago in Emmanuel church, noting Rev. J. C. Davis as originator and advocate. She praises Athens generosity, mentions a $360 cash gift aiding wood coal and medicine purchases for the sick, urging ongoing support.
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Georgia
South
Goa
Athens
Miss Rutherford
J. C. Davis
Emmanuel Church
Clayton Street
Davis
Mexico and United States Deny Resumption of Talks
Mexico City officials and the national palace deny that new negotiations with the United States have begun despite the departure of foreign Minister Modeno for Vera Cruz and the return of John Lind, the president's representative, to Veracruz.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
National Palace
Mexico
United States
Modeno
Vera Cruz
John Lind
Pirates of the Canton River Tale From a 1913 Voyage
A narrator recalls a piracy encounter on the Canton river while traveling with an English friend and a cook named Ah Kum. After a guard boat demand for a bribe, night raiders board, a pistol misfires, and stinkpots drive the crew into the river. They escape, pursued but not harmed, seeking plunder.
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Canton
China
Orion
Frisco
Hongkong
Ah Kum
Rascal
Ah Kam
Pirates on the Yangtze River Recall Cold Night Escape
A survivor recounts fleeing a river piracy near Canton in frigid pajamas. Pirates, many posing as coolies, seized cargo after a siege on a Chinese passenger boat, while the crew and some passengers fought back. Ah Kum vanished with the loot and pirates. The narrator argues piracy remains active and urges readers to test the tale in China.
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Ah Kum
Canton
China
Short Story Writing Teacher Goes Solo
Briggs notes Hilpin avoided courses yet succeeds in short story writing Griggs counters with failure claims The twist: he now teaches short story writing as a business venture, self employed according to Life magazine.
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Briggs
Hilpin
Griggs
Alec a Strange Alaskan Tribe and Its Struggles
The piece surveys Alaska’s Aleut people, noting white dominance over land and resources, limited education value for natives, and a deteriorating future. It describes Aleut life on the western peninsula, the basket craft economy, and historic burial customs altered by Russian influence.
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Laska
Alaska
Nature
J. H. Romig
Christian Herald
Northland
Seal Islands
Unimak Pass
Kamchatka
Asia
Tarantula Alarm Hits Los Angeles Visitor in Canal Zone
Miss Irene Sturgis of Los Angeles, visiting the canal zone, woke with numbness in her arm to find a large tarantula on her skin. She swatted it away, fainted, and later learned locals avoid killing the venomous spider due to superstition.
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Los Angeles
Panama
Irene Sturgis
Canal Zone
Miss Sturgis
Colon
Miss
Generous Man and Farmer Marriage Appeals
Reeder notes farmers in Canada send out appeals for wives. Henny Beck asks if that is so and jokes that they can have his wife. The fragment reflects humorous dialogue about matchmaking and cross-border marriages.
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Reeder
Canada
Henny Beck
Night masque ball plans spark fashion debate
Conversation suggests Patrice asks if she will attend the masque ball and muses about going as Eve to save money, while considering patience and readiness for the event.
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Patrice
Night
Eve
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Texas
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Capitol
St. Paul
Minn
Seaman Knapp
Knapp School of Agriculture
Mildred Rutherford
Fenial
Canton River
Alec
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