Farmers Urged to Hold Cotton for Fair Price
Douglas Ga Sept 15 1915 to Georgia Farmers Union members urging a mass meeting in Atlanta Sept 21 at the state capitol. The letter argues 1915 cotton prices are unfair and calls for farmers to hold the 1916 crop for a minimum price of 12 1 2 cents per pound with warehousing loans to cover obligations. J J Brown states the need to price products to ensure farmer profit and warns against speculative misinformation.
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Douglas
Georgia
Farmers’ Union
Atlanta
State Capitol
Cotton Belt
South
J. J. Brown
Trusted St. James editor praises Foley's Honey and Tar
St. James News writer St. R. R. Wentworth reports a severe lung cold and feared pneumonia. He credits Foley's Honey and Tar with immediate relief and recommends the cough and lung medicine to hay fever and asthma sufferers nationwide.
Peking Sees Japan China Conferees on South Manchuria Pact
Hioki Japanese minister meets with foreign office officials in daily talks on Chino-Japanese treaties. Parties agreed May 25 to suspend sections 2 through 5 of Group 2 for three months to prep for policy in South Manchuria. Text outlines land leases residence and business rights under Chinese police and tax rules. Chinese papers doubt other powers will accept the terms.
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Associated Press
Peking
Hioki
Foreign Office
Japan
China
South Manchuria
Far East
Inner Mongolia
Peking Daily Gazette
Inner
Mongolia
Shantung Province
Germany
Shantung
Manchuria
Eukien
Commerce well represented in the colleges
Commerce is well represented in Georgia colleges this year with several students returning to continue studies at Shorter Lucy Cobb and Gordon Institute. Others depart for Rome Milledgeville Athens Barnesville and Atlanta to join Emory University Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia.
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Commerce
Zelma Stark
Francine Hardman
Wilda Hardman
Shorter
Mary Nix
Rome
Melisse Hood
Lucy Cobb
Kathleen Sharp
Buttrell Webb
Irma Little
Ruth Whiteheag
Milledgeville
Walton Smith
Harry Burns
Norman
Preston Harden
Noel
Bright McConnell
University of Georgia
Athens
Hope Stark
Wilmer Pittman
Gordon Institute
Barnesville
Henry Read
Emory College
Keff Barrett
Georgia Tech
Atlanta
Compulsory Education Movement Urges Extra Session Action
Banner reports Atlanta observers urge Governor Harris to include compulsory education in the extra legislative session. The piece notes Georgia lags behind Florida and Alabama, calls for a basic requirement for children aged 8 to 14 to attend school three to four months yearly, and empowers boards of education to enforce it with potential prosecution stoppable by school placement.
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Banner
Atlanta
Harris
General Assembly
Union
Georgia
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Full Blooded Indian on the War Path in Atlanta
Special to the Banner reports Washaka Unginas nook a ful blooded Cherokee man intoxicated with fire water roamed Decatur Street in Atlanta Sept 17 vowing to travel to Oklahoma while slaying pale and black faces he wrecked a restaurant but caused no deaths or injuries police captured him after the disturbance Oklahoma suggested by the recorder as a destination
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Atlanta
Decatur Street
Washaka Unginasnook
Oklahoma
Recorder
Sloan's Liniment touted as emergency antiseptic
An advertisement urges use of Sloan's Liniment to stop infection and kill germs. It claims single applications relieve pain, neutralize infection, and aid healing by improving blood flow, recommending 25c, 50c, and $1.00 sizes with the latter containing six times the area.
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Sloan
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Military Bank of the Woodmen of the World
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