Weevil Demostration Tour from Georgia Officials
J Phil Campbell and G W Firor of the Georgia State College of Agriculture plan a ten day inspection trip into boll weevil ravaged regions. Accompanied by Commissioner Price Assistant Commissioner Hughes and State Entomologist Worsham, about forty Georgia farm demonstrators will visit Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama to study control efforts. The group will start from New Orleans after gathering at the St Charles hotel and will not meet in Montgomery as originally planned.
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J. Phil Campbell
G. W. Firor
State College of Agriculture
Price
Hughes
Worsham
Avlanta
Convicts to Receive Pay for Labor in Ohio Penitentiary
Special to the Banner from Columbus Ohio reports new labor laws take effect today at the Ohio penitentiary. Convicts or their dependents will receive pay for labor performed, marking a shift in inmate compensation and oversight under the new statute.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association Meets in Hartwell
The Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association will hold its mid summer session in Hartwell on Tuesday September 9 1983 with a full program led by C W Parker Elberton and Milton P Jarnegan Athens featuring talks by J D Price U S Agriculture Commissioner E M Nighbert US Bureau of Animal Industry F Hunnicutt Southern Cutter and J W Hart among others. The program emphasizes tick eradication financial benefits stock feeding silos and beef cattle markets and invites Hart and nearby farmers to attend.
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Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association
Hartwell
Wedne
State College of Agriculture
Georgia Breeders’ Association
Georgia State Horticultural Society
C. W. Parker
Elberton
Athens
Milton P. Jarnegan
Georgia Dairy and Liv Stock Association
A. J McMullan
C. Www Parker
J. D. Price
State of Georgia
Ay'’S
Milton P. Jarpagin
E. M. Nighbert
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Peter F. Bahnsen
Atlanta
F. Hunnicutt
Southern
J. W. Hart
Georgia
Hart
South
Negro Preacher Sues a Bishop in Jackson Case
In Jackson Mississippi on September 2 a hearing opened in a $10,000 damages suit filed by an unfrocked Negro preacher against a bishop. The action centers on a religious dispute and alleges harm. A special Banner report notes the proceeding and the parties involved.
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Jackson, Miss
Controversy Grows Over Bishop Thirkield Meeting
Report notes significant local sentiment against a black preacher and authorities monitoring developments. It mentions Bishop Thirkield dismissing the preacher after an investigation into charges and hints at critique of Attorney General McReynolds amid swirling rumors of influence.
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Thirkield
McReynolds
Tax rate lowered by Clarke County commissioners in 1913
Clarke County commissioners cut the total tax levy by fifteen percent with the state rate fixed at five mills and county rate at four dollars and twenty five cents per thousand. They also retired a thousand dollar road-improvement bond early and approved damages payment of 970.25 to Dr. S J Cartledge amid strong praise for officials Holman Hodgson and Pittard.
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Wedney
Georgia
Cartledge
J. Cartledge
Holman
Hodgson
Pittard
Clarke County
Sday
Terest
Clarke
Sfaire
Linton
J. H. Dorsey
Athens youths face court for systematic burglaries
Five boys aged ten to fifteen to be tried before Judge West as authorities weigh remanding them to the state reform school. Police report a two year spree of petty larceny to grand burglary, including break ins at a ticket window, a friend’s home, a Zionist chapter house, a university dormitory, and the new courthouse, with tools, jewelry, tickets, and household items stolen. The case ties into broader tensions from Balkan conflicts and Palestine land sales.
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West
Sanford Field
Zionists OF World Hold Congress
Iday
R. L. Moss
Lnds
Prince and Lyndon Avenues
Candler Hall
Kidney Pills Promote Relief for Wilams Wife
Hiltons Georgia resident Tom Willams reports his wife endured chronic kidney disease for years, consulted multiple doctors, and finally found relief after using Foley Kidney Pills, claiming she is cured and free of kidney troubles.
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Hiltons, Ga
Tom Willams
Foley
J. A. Wallace
Redan, Ga
Change Opens Today at Athens Cotton Exchange
For Sale by H. R. Palmer and Sons the newly organized Athens Cotton Exchange opens today after a wire connection delay. The market will offer full service from 10 am to 3:55 pm with quotations on cotton, cotton seed, and Chicago grain. About fifty members, including buyers, factors, and brokers, will participate, led by President Griffith and Secretary Kilpatrick. The exchange operates upstairs at Broad and Thomas, near the old building, with a new operator from Birmingham and plans to wire reports to out-of-town members.
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Cotton Exchange
New York
Liverpool
New Orleans
Chicago
Exchange
Griffith
B. Griffith
Athens Cotton Exchange
Kilpatrick
P. G. White
Birmingham
Weil
Exchange Organization
Athens
Watermelon Twin-Pair Imagery Appears in Odd Verse
A fragmentary passage features surreal imagery of watermelons smiling on the vine and coming in twin pairs. The lines mix quirky phrases with references to men and a sense of eating, leaving interpretation open. The text resembles a stray quip or experimental prose snippet.
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Western Electric Company
P.O
Western Electric Rural Telephones
Atlanta, GA
Richmond
Savannah
Weevilers
Vienna
International Congress of Zionists
United States
Far East
Palestine
McNaughton
John R. Cooper
Rawlings Boys
Dni and
H. R. Palmer. & Sons
Atermeloni
Toomnarte
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