Rumors Fade On Mexico Withdrawal Demand Amid Outlook Of Cooperation
Washington May 24 officials hear no authoritative note from Carranza yet and remain optimistic a future message may outline a accord for joint American Mexican troop actions against bandits in northern Mexico. Unofficial reports flag a tense Mexican domestic scene and fear of repercussions if withdrawal is demanded again. Villa reportedly located near Nimbrera with small bands at Lazarca and San Bernardino. Funston’s coast artillery request reportedly refused by the War Department, prompting a militia reinforcement plan with three Texas units bound for the border towns of Brownsville and Eagle Pass.
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Associated Press
Washington
Carranza
Mexico
United States
Villa
Chiahuahua City
Funston
San Antonio
Gon
Border Guard
War Department
Department
Border Patrol
Texas
Brownsville
Eagle Pass
President Pound at Lawrenceville delivers graduation address
Special to the Banner Lawrenceville Ga May 24 President Jere M Pound of the State Normal School at Athens spoke to the Lawrenceville high school graduating class Friday evening He urged patrons to support teachers with funds and influence noting teachers mold future statesmen and deserve better pay Diplomas were awarded by Superintendent Van Fletcher to Hoyt Holt Cliff Webb Ronald Portecost Miss Vera Britt Billa Had Away Ola Garner Bernice Maddox Mary Lee McGee Corrine Smith Witte Cain Lizzie Freeman Lillie Robinson Mattie Juhan and Louise Rand
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Lawrenceville
Jere M. Pound
State Normal School
Athens
Lawrenceville High School
L. M. Brand
Pound
C. R. Ware
van Fletcher
Hoyt Holt
Cliff Webb
Ronald Portecost
Misses Vera Britt
Billa Had Away
Ola Garner
Bernice Maddox
Mary Lee McGee
Corrine ‘Smith
Witte ‘Cain
Lizzie’ Freeman
Lillie Robinson
Mattie Juhan
Louise Rand
Protests On Neutral Mail Sent To Britain And France
Washington May 24 Acting Secretary Polk of the state department handed identical notes to the British and French ambassadors renewing U S protest over British treatment of neutral mails on the high seas.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Polk
State Department
Naval committee explains 241 million naval appropriation
Washington reports the naval appropriations bill totaling 241 million dollars was submitted to the House by the naval committee. Republicans on the committee joined in a minority report criticizing the measure as inadequate and urging Congress to ensure a navy ranking second in the world. The bill funds next year’s building program for five large battle cruisers and will be considered in the House early next week with a likely final vote by week’s end. The panel said not funding dreadnaught battleships reflects urgency to balance the fleet with five battle cruisers as soon as possible.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Naval Committee
Congress
United States
Pig Club Progress Expands in Georgia Counties
Seventy two counties report pig club members totaling over 2500 boys with purebred pigs. Data by organizer Jas L Downing shows thirteen counties have ice plants for curing meat. sixteen counties plan to produce and sell meat. Banks in multiple counties assist by lending funds or pigs to boys.
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Pig Club
Georgia Pig Clubs
Jas. L. Downing
Pig Clubs
Emanuel
Liberty
Appling
Wayne
Pierce
Ware
Coffee
Berrien
Lowndes
Brooks
Thomas
Grady
Decatur
Carroll
Troup
Bibb
Stewart
Sumter
Tattnall
Hart
DeKalb
Fulton
Warey Coffee
Corn Club Prize Purebred Bulls Announcement
The American Short Horn Breeders Association offers a purebred short horn bull valued at 500 dollars to the winner in corn club work in Georgia. Secretary FW Hardin notified Georgia State College of Agriculture. The prize will interest about 10 000 members of Georgia boys corn clubs and should boost corn yields.
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FW. Hardin
American Short Horn Breeders_ Association
Georgia State College of Agriculture
Georgia
Boys’ Corn Clubs of
Preparedness Urged Ahead of the Pork Bill
Washington May 24. Sen Hastings of Wisconsin joined opposition to the rivers and harbors bill and moved to send it back to commerce committee. He urged laying aside meritorious items to focus congress on preparedness as Britain votes another 1.5 billion for warfare costs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sen. Hastings
Wisconsin
Commerce Committee
Congress
Building Starts on Clayton and Hull Site for Bell Co Offices
Grading has begun on a lot at Clayton and Hull bought by the Southern Bell Telephone Company two years ago. The new building will house the central exchange, commercial offices, the physical department and construction needs, and is described as a handsome multi story structure modeled after the company’s Rome building and others in Athens and larger cities.
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Clayton and
Hull Streets
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Central Exchange
Rome
Athens
Judge Hardeman to Hold Athens Court Next Week
Judge C. H. Brand of Atlanta reports that Judge Hardeman will hold court at Athens next week. Hardeman, judge of the Middle circuit, resides in Louisville. Brand is disqualified in one or two cases set for the upcoming special term.
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C. H. Brand
Atlanta
J. Crawford
Hardeman
Athens
Louisville
Brand
Highway Commission Meeting Discussed by Officials in Atlanta
Mr J M Hodgson of the county board and Prof C M Strahan head of the good roads department at the university will travel to Atlanta to attend a legislature called highway commission committee meeting. They will discuss the proposed measures under consideration for the state.
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J. M. Hodgson
Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues
C. M. Strahan
Good Roads
School of Engineering
The
University
Atlanta
Highway Commission
Another airman pays price of his position
Pensacola Florida May 24 Lieutenant James Vincent Rockwell a navy civil engineer training as aviator was killed when the navy plane he piloted dived into the gulf from about 150 feet The aircraft was badly damaged and officers said steering gear likely failed in the fatal crash
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Pensacola
Fla
James Vincent Rockwell
United States Navy
Gulf
Commission Decides for Railroads in Florida Citrus Case
Washington May 24 The Interstate Commerce Commission today dismissed the complaint of the Florida Citrus Exchange of Tampa ruling railroads need not furnish refrigerator cars regardless of citrus shipments final destination or traffic needs.
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Washington
Intérstate Commerce Commission
Todiy
Florida Citrus Exchange of
Tampa
Florida
Judge recommends doctor to treat man over lunacy charge
The Banner reports a black man arrested on lunacy concerns after a night of disturbing noises. Judge Orr, a former druggist, suspects Atlanta procuring drugs caused the trouble and urges a physician’s prescription rather than a county trial or Milledgeville institution, to avoid costly imprisonment.
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Orr
Howard
Atlanta
Milledgeville
Germans Retake Fort Douaumont Amid Verdun Battles
London May 24 heavy German infantry attacks restore the advance at Douaumont northeast of Verdun where the forts were contested. French hold near the approach to Douaumont and recaptured German trenches by Cumieres. Austrians press Italians from Lake Garda to Lugana Valley, while Italians retreat southeast of Trent. Sir Edward Grey says peace talks wait for a stage of war with strong Allied prospects. Rumor: Prince Von Buelow may visit the United States on a peace mission, not yet confirmed.
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Associated Press
London
Douaumont
Verdun
Asiago
Arsiero
Rome
Edward Grey
House of Commons
Bellow
Prince von Buelow
United States
von Buelow
William
Tabernacle Baptist Church calls Rev E H Jennings as pastor
The Tabernacle Baptist Church unanimously calls Rev E H Jennings to be its pastor succeeding Rev R E Neighbour who finishes next Sunday. Jennings has been under consideration, reared near Athens, past five years pastor of First Baptist Dothan Alabama, resigned April to evangelistic work, now home in Athens. He is in the city to confer with the deacons.
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Tabernacle Baptist Church
E. H. Jennings
R. E. Neighbour
Jennings
Board of Deacons
Athene
First Baptist Church of
Dothan
Ala
Sis
Athens
The
Tabernacle
Georgia Farmers Benefit From Rain’s Value
The steady rainfall in Georgia boosted crops as farmers counted in millions in potential gains. General Moisture at times scatters his treasures in the fields, illustrating the unpredictable bounty of weather on harvest prospects.
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Georgia
Winder to Have Big Chautauqua
Winder Georgia prepares for a three day chautauqua June 6 through 8 with Radcliffe of Washington presenting a packed program. Col Geo A Gearhart delivers lectures on Civic Righteousness and The Coming Man while Durano and Eugene Lockhart entertain. Agricultural Day features a Farmers Institute and poetry and magic acts. Town Boosters Day includes cooperative addresses by local and state speakers and a grand Tyrolean Alpine Yodlers concert closes the event.
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Winder
Radcliffe
Washington
United States
Columbia Concert Company
Col
Geo. A. Gearhart
Farmers’ Institute
Eugene Lockhart
America
Durano
Durano & Company
Mazic
Uncle Cam
William Rader
Chautauqua
Jenkins declines appointment as Oc mulgee solicitor
Atlanta May 24 Attorney W F Jenkins of Eatonton Ga declines the tender of the place of solicitor of the Ocmulgee judicial district to fill the vacancy created by Joseph B E Price's resignation. The governor had offered the post and Jenkins asked time to decide. Several candidates are named including Doyle Campbell George Carswell Roy Stubbs with Eatonton favored.
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Atlanta
W. F. Jenkins
Eatonton
Harris
Ocmulgee Judicial Credit
Joseph BE. Price
Milledgeville
Pottle
Harrid
Jenkins
Mr. Pottle
Doyle Campbell
Monticello
George Carswell
Irwinton
Roy Stubbs
E. H. George
Madison
Homer Johnson
Grays
John A. Sibley
Percy Middlebrooks
Mad’ison
and &. H. Lewis
Sparta
American Student Arrested in Irish Revolt T
London authorities report John J Kilgallon a Farrockaway New York seventeen year old student of Stednas College Dublin was seized as the revolt began and charged with bearing arms He is imprisoned at Stafford England The American embassy at Kilgallon s parents request prompted disclosure of these facts He is said to have been part of the Stedna cadet corps on a practice march ending at Liberty Hall when the fighting started
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Associated Press
London
John J. Kilgalion
Farrockaway
N. Y
Stednas College
Dublin
Kilgallon
Stafford
England
United
Stedna
Liberty Hall
Center of the Irish World is Town at British Front in France
A May report from France describes a town at the British front as the Irish division’s center of activity. Irish officers and men, billeted in local shops, reflect discipline and grit, with officers noting Irishmen’ front line valor and efforts to keep Irish troops unified under one command amid trench warfare and routine admonitions against drinking.
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British Front
France
Associated Press
Sinn
Mayo
Kilkenny
Clare
Cork
Waterford
St. Patrick's Day
Waite Murder Case: State Restes in Waite Case
New York May 24 The state rested in its case in the trial of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite for the murder of his father in law John B Peck. Margaret Horton testified supporting Waite mental illness defense noting his dual personality and the little man from Egypt while cross examining.
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Associated Press
New York
Arthur Warren Waite
John B. Peck
Margaret Horton
Waite
Walte
Egypt
American author dies in Tokyo during stay for book work
May 34 Miss M. M. Norton, an American writer from Connecticut and Manila, died here after a lingering illness. She arrived from Manila to gather material for a new book. Funeral services were held at Christ Church in Yokohama.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Miss. M. M. Norton
Connecticut
Manila
Christchurch
Yokahoma
Life at a Grave by Charles W. Hubner
A reflective verse fragment shows the speaker sharing a moment by a grave. Life laments the death of a beloved and questions the nature of existence and beauty, ultimately guiding the narrator to look upward toward the sky.
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Charles W. Hubner
Lotteries Prohibition Across States in 1830s
A brief note on anti lottery laws in the United States, highlighting New York and Massachusetts prohibitions in 1833 and similar bans spreading to other states over the following two decades. The fragment ends abruptly.
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United States
New York
Massachusetts
Tye
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