State House Debates Bonds and Sun Time Adoption
Georgia legislature items include a plan to issue highway bonds and devote half of state revenue to common schools. Other measures raise lawmakers’ pay, invite President Wilson to speak, and propose adopting sun time. Debates cover motor vehicle fees, liquor transport as felony, voter registration reforms, and auto theft prevention through county sheriff registration cards.
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Atlanta
House
Senate
Holder
Lindsey
DeKalb
Committee On Labor and Labor Statistics
Judge McCall
Brooks County
Woodrow Wilman
General Assembly
Samuel Gompera
American Federation of Labor
Barnes
Bibb County
Tate
Suffrage clash and dog control prominent in Georgia politics
Georgia House faces woman suffrage showdown as Rep J B Jackson vows to smoke out supporters and push a record. Meanwhile dog control gains drive after reports of $24,000 in sheep losses to worthless dogs, with licensing planned to fund enforcement and a tax reform bill slated for hearings.
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Georgia
Charles Emory Smith
Candler County
Allen Jones
Smith
Jones
Senator Clements
Irwin County
Ocilla
German Delegations Will Be Dissolved
Brussels reports the former German Crown Prince escaped from Wieringen. Britain and allies pressure Holland to prevent departure of the German emperor. Berlin confirms dissolution of peace delegation. Lloyd George returns to Commons to present the German treaty and possible implementing bill.
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Holland
Associated Press
Brussels
Frederick William
Wieringen
Amsterdam
Sioor
Kaiser
London
Harmsworth
House of Commons
Berlin
Versailles
Armistice Commission
Spa
Hermann Moeller
Dr. Hell
Athens Korean party en route home to Athens
Mrs Paul Crane and two children, widow of Rev Paul Crane slain after Korea uprising, sail aboard the S Empress from Avia with Athens companions on furlough. They expected to reunite in Athens with Rowland family, then return to Marmouth Cave and Chicago with plans tied to peace delegation. Georgia Senate resolutions praise Wilson era aims and call for ratification of the peace treaty.
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Paul
Crane
Korea
Athens
Avia
Preston
Vancouver
British Columbia
Missex
Elizabeth
Alice Rowland
Chattanooga
Mr. C. A. Rowland
Marmouth Cave
Columbia
Ohio
Chicago
Woodrow Willson
United States
Senate of Georgia
House
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Georgia
Unitedates
Definite Stand Taken by Palmer
Washington June 30 The Department of Justice will take no action pending decision in the present litigation against persons manufacturing or selling beer and wines containing two and three quarters per cent or less alcoholic content Attorney General announced tonight.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Judiciary committee says intoxication percentage is fact not law
The committee reports that determining alcohol percentage causing intoxication is a question of fact, not law, and thus falls within Congress power. It argues no court may set a legal standard for intoxication, contending the issue is legislative rather than judicial.
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Washington
Judiciary Committee
House
Congress
Sugar Shortage To Be Probed By FTC Inquiry
Washington reports the federal trade commission will begin an investigation into the causes of the present sugar shortage and assess if current retail and wholesale prices are reasonable. Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts introduced the resolution. Athens merchants warn of continued sugar scarcity and price hikes, noting consumers faced higher costs but some could stock up via wholesalers after earlier notices.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Banner
Athens
Dr. Bogen
Warsaw
American Relief Administration
City Court Judge May Be Elected
A county election may decide if Clarke County city court judge will be chosen by voters instead of governor appointment. A petition circulates among representatives to seek legislative action in the current session amending the act. Governor Dorsey had announced appointing Col. T. F. Green to succeed Judge Henry West when West's term ends in September.
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Clarke County
Dorsey
Col
T. F. Green
Henry 8. West
Athens Man With All-Georgia Unit Enroute To Atlanta
E Weaver Bridges of Athens a member of the All-Georgia outfit of the AEF recently arrived in New York with his unit and will be mustered out of the service at Gordon soon according to advices received here.
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E. Weaver Bridges
Athens
All-Georgia
New York
Ci Gordon
Milk Stations Aid Starving Warsaw Children
Reporter Jacob Billikopf describes dire poverty in Jewish Warsaw with rickets and chronic hunger. Ten milk stations run by the Joint Distribution Committee serve about 16,000 children daily, with plans for fifty stations reaching over 60,000 kids as American milk from Nathan Straus methods aids relief.
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Jacob Billikopf
U. S. Jewish Relief Committee
Warsaw
Krochmalna
Krochmanna
Krochmanna Street
Nathan Strang
Jerusalem
Joint Distribution Committee
Boris Bogen
Bogen
Nathan Straus
Poland
America
Memorial resolutions on death of Miss Mary L Christy
Resolutions of sympathy from Mt Moriah Sunday School Athens Ga for Miss Mary L Christy who died in Balsam North Carolina June 6 1919 aged 71. She lived in Athens as a devoted church and Sunday School worker and was active in Evans Lodge No 76 I O G T and temperance groups. The document asks for a page in the Sunday School book and for copies to be sent to the family Carolina Christian Advocate and an Athens newspaper.
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Mary L. Christy
Balsam
N. C
Athens
Christy
Mt. Moriah M
Edity
Mary
Evans Lodge No
Independent Order of Good Templars
Mt Moriah
Carolina Christian Advocate
State School for Feeble Minded Is to Be Made Issue
Governor Dorsey backs legislative action to provision for feeble minded Georgia children after federal survey. Federal report notes 85 cases of feeble minded delinquents under 21, urges institutional care and early prevention, with economic and social arguments for state support. Commission findings warn of future crime and poverty from untreated cases in schools and jails.
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Avanta
Georgia
Hugh M. Dorsey
Children’s Bureau
United States Department of Labor
Washington
V. V. Anderson
Georgia Commission
Federal Children’s Bureau
George S Commission
Dorsey
Fulton County Reformatory For
State Reformatory For
Hoya
Milledgeville
Fulton County Reformatory
Georgia Training School For
Lame Back Relieved by Lotion and Massage Instruction
A historical notice instructs applying Chamberlain's ointment twice daily with massage of the back muscles. It emphasizes thorough rubbing over the seat of the palm at each application for relief.
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House of Representatives
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McCall and Brooks
Johns
Barrow
Middlebrooke
Early County
Blakely
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Jones County
Tie
South Georgia
Susan B. Anthony
House Constitutional Amendments Committee
Arnold
Clay
Senate Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Carswell
Agricultural Committee No. 2
Commissioner of Agriculture
Tattnal
W. J. McNaughton
McNaughton
Milledgev le
Flanders
Emanuel County
Dorris and
Duncan
Ie Committee
Germany
Ben
Prince
Wieringen Island
Lloyd Georgia
Lloyd George
Permier
Downing Street
Paria
Palmer
Memiorial
W. B. Farwell
Robt. J. Bryson
J. K. Kenney
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