Riots Grip Chicago as White-Negro Clashes Spread
Chicago sees renewed rioting with twenty four dead and hundreds injured as clashes erupt in the south side Negro belt and other districts. Police rush thousands of officers, corps of troops held ready, while a dead black man is found burned and stabbed in the west side. Provident Hospital stormed by a white mob. rifle squad dispatched to the scene.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Negro Belt
Groes
West Side
Provident Hospital
Detective Bureau
There’s a Reason Why Men Reenlist Says Serg Fisher
Read at the U S Army Recruiting Station. About 60 000 reenlistments out of 80 000 volunteer enrollments since late February prove the army offers what civilians cannot. Sergeant Fisher notes young men can join the university in Khaki and earn while they learn. The piece includes a humorous verse about Private Stork reflecting wartime loyalty and returning to service.
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U. S. Army
Shackleford
Fisher
Sam
Stork
Belleau Woods
Argonne Forest
$9,000 Given To University and Normal School
Atlanta July 29 Hope was abandoned for college appropriations this year as the appropriations committee accepted the subcommits report detailing limited allocations for Georgia institutions. Funds include $25,000 for Savannah Industrial School, $10,000 for Albany Negro Normal School, and amounts for several agricultural colleges, the tuberculosis sanitarium, land purchases, and sewer improvements.
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Atlanta
Appropriations Committee
Industrial School
Savannah
Negro Normal School
Albany
Agricultural College
District Agricultural College
University of Georgia Proper
Tuberculosis Sanitarium
G. M
Normal College
Athens
University of Georgia
Legal Advertising Rates May So On Georgia Hike
Georgia newspapers praise Attorney General Clifford M Walker for a bill to raise legal advertising fees. With Forsyth county representative McDaniel, the measure aims to pass with legislative support. Publishers cite surging costs for print paper, machinery, repairs, utilities, and postage, warning of bankruptcy or price increases.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Clifford M. Walker
McDaniel
Forsyth County
Georgia Governor May Get New Home
Real estate men weigh a five year lease for the governor's mansion site at 25 000 dollars to satisfy a resolution by Representative Base of Floyd county. They note longer terms could yield more revenue given the site in a growing business district, but the five year term may not justify a new building within that period. The bill has just been introduced.
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Atlanta
Governor's Mansion
Floyd County
Miss Bertha Yocum Joins Lucy Cobb Faculty
New faculty member Miss Bertha Yocum succeeds Miss Niemann, who will tour next year. Yocum comes with top testimonials as musician and cultured lady, praised by Vienna fellow students for mastering the Leschetizky Method in technique and interpretation and for artistic, individualized playing.
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Bertha Yocum
Lucy Cobb
Miss Niemann
Miss Yocum
Vienna
En Bertha Yocum
Leschetizy
Misa Yum
Leschetizky
Georgia Highway Laws Debated in House Over Three Member Board
Atlanta July 29 Georgia lawmakers clash over a proposed highway department to be run by three gubernatorial appointees. A rival plan would create a 12 member commission with one member from each congressional district. The vote was tight with amendments and a push to reconsider. Also approved Lanier County creation replacing Clinch Lowndes and Berrien. Banks Lake noted as major feature and fishery. A resolution seeks veteran four six months unemployment aid for soldiers.
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Atlanta
Georgia
House of Representatives
House
Wich
Rogers
Elbert
Perryman
Davis
Oglethorpe
Board of Three
Representative Perryman
Highway Commission
Highway Action
Wohlwender
Muscogee
Messrs. Williams
Bulloch
Knight
Berrian
Haynie
Mesars. Palmer
J. Y. Smith
Fulton
Mr. Davis
Lanier County
Senate
Bowden
Lanier
Clinch
Lowndes
Berrien
Lankford
Anderson
Brutal Treatment of Yankee Prisoners Up in Paris Camps
Witnesses before a congressional subcommittee detailed brutal conditions in French prison camps holding American soldiers. Key officials named included Brig. Gen. W. W. Harts, Maj. Gen. Frederick Smith Strong, Cols. Edgar Grimstead and J. S. Maul. Col. T. W. Donaldson faulted Harts for conditions, while Lieut. F. H. Smith testified to severe abuses in Farm No. 2 and spoke of impending death as he urged truth.
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Associated Press
New York
France
Congressional
W. W. Harts
Paris
Frederick Smith Strong
Fortieth
Edgar Grimstead
Harts
F. H
Smith
Farm No. 2
Wilson Resumes Talks With G O P Senators On Pact
Washington July 29 The President will resume conference with Republican senators on the peace treaty tomorrow. Senators Dillingham Harding Fernald and Lenroot are invited for tomorrow and New Watson and Keyes for Thursday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dillingham
Harding
Fernald
Lenroot
New
Watson
Keyes
Georgia Pays Honor To Remarkable Man
Atlanta memorial tablet of Georgia marble was presented to the State in tribute to the late Col. John P. Fort whose life included soldiering scholarship and benefaction. The inscription reads John P Fort Soldier Scholar Benefactor. The ceremony sets a precedent by honoring a public-spirited man not in public life.
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Atlanta
Georgia
John P. Fort
The Singing Tree by Clinton Scollard
A pastoral poem where a stately tree at pasture hosts a cycle of seasonal music. The speaker hears auroras, birds, winds, streams and bees as the tree breathes in spring, summer, autumn, and winter, embodying the constant music of nature. The poem ends with a personal vow of love for the Singing Tree.
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Clinton Scollard
Big farm meet draws a thousand at Georgia college
About 1000 county farm agents farmers and wives are expected to attend a big meeting at the Georgia State College of Agriculture from August 4 to 10. Special courses for club boys and girls start August 1, later focusing on corn potatoes calves pigs and chickens with instruction in canning and preserving fruits and vegetables. A highlight will be the sale of forty pure bred hogs on August 7.
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Georgia State College of Agriculture
Georgia Breeders Plan Big Meeting Here on August 8
The Georgia Breeders Association announces a meeting at the Georgia State College of Agriculture. Presiding will be H. A. Petty of Dawson with discussions on producing and marketing cotton, need for organization to market cotton, length of lint, and selection of cotton futures. Other topics cover small grain, peanut seed, tobacco outlook, and grasses adapted to Georgia with speakers from Athens and Statesboro.
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Georgia
Georgia Breeders’ Association
Georgia State College of Agriculture
H. A. Petty
Dawson, Ga
J. W. Williams
Statesboro
R. C. Neely
Waynesboro
Loy E. Rast
M. W. H. Collins
Mia
R. R. Childs
Athens
Dawson
E. C. Westbrook
Paul Tabor
Athens, Ga
Story of Nation’s Heart to be Shown in Athens Soon
One hundred and one lantern slides illustrating the American Red Cross lecture since 1917 may come to Athens, available through the Southern division bureau in Atlanta. The slides cost only transportation and show the Red Cross deeds from war relief to homefront aid, including scenes of units meeting returning soldiers aboard the Leviathan and other wartime moments.
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American Red Cross
Athens
Red Cross
Bureau of Pictures
The
Atlanta
America
Flanders Fields
Italy
England
Leviathan
Athens Sees Building Boom With $33 700 in Permits This Month
City Engineer Burnett reports a rapid rise in construction in Athens with $33 700 spent this month, over $15 000 more than June. Permits include Edgar Rhodes four room house 2500 Abe Joel residence 17000 Daisy Hawkins house addition 5000 W B Burney six room house 2500 Smith and Green Washington street garage 2700 T J Epps rebuilt burned house 2000 Armstrong and Dobbs enlarge warehouse 1000.
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Athens
Burnett
Hhe
Edgar Rhodes
Abe Joel
Daisy Hawkins
W. B. Burney
Smith & Green
Washington Street
T. J. Epps
Armstrong and Dobbs
Wilson Plans Atlanta Speak on League Tour
President Wilson is expected to include Atlanta on his national speaking tour for the League of Nations. He aims to begin in August and has been urged by Georgia lawmakers and business leaders to visit the city. The Georgia legislature recently invited him to speak in Atlanta during the tour.
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Atlanta
Wilson
League of Nations
Washington
Will D. Upshaw
Fifth
Georgia
Upshaw
Georgia Legitslature
Chamber of Commerce
Amnesty Plan Shaped With Espionage Violators
Clarence Darrow, visiting Eugene V. Debs in a federal penitentiary, develops a plan for general amnesty for those convicted under the Espionage Act during World War I. Debs, a socialist leader and former presidential candidate, is portrayed as the cult’s brains while Darrow sits as a radical ally.
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Atlanta
Clarence Darrow
Eugene V. Debs
Federal
Chicago
Debs
America
Darrow
Morrow, Heywood and Pettibone
Steinberg
Idaho
Why My Hair Turns Gray Says One Wit
In a playful verse, a speaker notes his hair whitening with age while invoking a mock accusation of vanity. Another observer dismisses such chatter as common, choosing instead to cheerfully admit the simple truth that individual hairs decided to turn white.
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Tim
Tom
Kaeser Geek Removed For a Lame Back Apply Chamber
A terse report notes an unusual removal of a technician named Kaeser Geek amid a back therapy routine. The event involves a clinic or chamber applying massages to the upper seat area, with a focus on muscle relaxation and thorough treatment.
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Kaeser
Pein
Coal Shortage Alarm Prompts Call for Congressional Action
A broad appeal warns of a coal shortage amid alleged production and price manipulation. It urges Congress to investigate miners hours, regulate coal and food prices, and pass emergency measures to curb profiteering and ease the high cost of living.
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South
Congress
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