Labor to Probe Corporate Grants in AFL Effort
Atlantic City August 28 The executive council of the American Federation of Labor announces a full inquiry into corporate grants. The aim is to ensure fair treatment and equal rights for all citizens and to correct dangers and evils seen in current corporate influence. The union vows to expose misrepresentation and resist efforts to secure profits at the expense of the people.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Federation of Labor
Farm Motor Vehicle Census Is Reported
Georgia ranked third in the South and seventeenth nation wide for farm automobile reporting in the fourteenth census. National totals show 1,979,564 farms with automobiles and 2,146,512 total autos, plus 131,562 farms with motor trucks and 246,139 tractors on 1920 counts, with detailed state figures for Iowa Illinois Ohio Kansas Minnesota Nebraska California and others. Georgia reported 3145 motor trucks and 2,252 tractors in 1920, plus 31,231 rural telephones and 4,890 piped-water farms and 4,544 rural electrified or gas-lit homes.
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Constitution Bureau
Raleigh
Washington
Constitution
United States
Georgia
Buconsus
Union
Texas
Oklahoma
Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Kansas
Minnesota
North Dakota
California
Ilinois
Ohio
Indiana
Pennesylvania
New York
Zio
Illinois
India
Missouri
Wisconsin
Vermont
Massachusetts
Oregon
New England
Staten
Pennsylvania
Farm electrification totals by state report
The report lists more than 20,000 farms with electric light in seven states led by Pennsylvania with 30,669 and California with 30,519 followed by New York 23,273 and Indiana. The data shows widespread adoption across major agricultural areas.
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States
Pennsylvania
California
New York
Bybee
Indiana
Paris Hails German Credit Pact For Rebuilding
Paris reports the Loucheur Rathenau accord creating a seven billion mark German credit for French raw materials to reconstruct devastated provinces. The deal, praised for French initiative, allows draws until May 1926 and faces French manufacturer protests over privileged German access. Debates on delivery of machinery and coal follow future talks.
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I HY
Hudson Hawley
United Newe
Paris
Germany
France
England
Lloyd-George
I Ig
Temps
Journal
Des Debats
Liberte
Quet
Mathias Erzberger
la Liberte
Loucheur
Rathenan
Throwe
Votes for high tax rate urged by B R Holmes
The Holmes Institute speaker at Tabernacle Baptist church urged Atlanta residents to back a proposed tax increase to fund schools for the city’s growing number of children. He urged citizens of all colors to vote next Wednesday, saying funds would improve schools, police protection, and streets.
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Holmes Institute
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Atlanta
Board of Education
B R. Holmes
G. O. P. to Establish Headquarters in Atlanta
G O P leaders arrive in Atlanta for a two week stay signaling permanent Republican headquarters may be set in the city. The group formed in the Auditorium meeting and includes Charles Adamson treasurer Walter Johnson vice chair and Mrs W J Tilson as second vice chair. Mrs D C Cole named assistant secretary.
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T Thamasville
Reorganized
State Central Republican Committee
Atlanta
Republican Party
Georgia
Committee of
National Republican Committee
Charles Adamson
Cedartown
Walter Johnson
Columbus
W. J. Tilson
D. C . Cole
Marietta
Primitive Baptists
Playground Season Ends With Atlanta Birmingham Tie
Atlantans cheer supervisor Mrs Hatty Moore for a successful playground season. The two cities tied after a weekend of contests with Atlanta winning four baseball games and tennis while Birmingham led in volley and dodge ball. The Grant Park team claimed the baseball title after nine wins in Atlanta. Birmingham juniors had not lost in three years before Waterloo at Grant Park.
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Hatty Moore
Atlanta
Birmingham
Piedmont Park
Grant Park
Birmngham
Waterloo
Bécula Edwards
Kay
Dboys
Birmingah
Mra
Hetty Moore
T D Moore
A Reagin
Solid Train Load of Lumber Passes Through Atlanta
A solid trainload of lumber moved through Atlanta joint terminals as W L Shepherd Lumber Co. of Montgomery Alabama sent 24 cars of yellow pine timber over the West Point Route and Atlantic Coast Line to Baltimore New York and England. The service, backed by carriers, demonstrates southern industrial growth and may precede more such trains to eastern users.
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South
Atlanta
W. L. Shepherd Lumber Company
Montgomery
Ala
West Point
Georgia Railroad
Atlantic Coastine
Potomac
Baltimore
New York
England
Path
W. L Sheperd Lumber Company
Hery
Negroes to Hold Ax-Raise Rally Monday Evening
Citizens of the first ward will hold a mass meeting at 8 oclock Monday evening at the West Mitchell Street CM E church, corner of Tdmall and West Mitchell streets. Mayor Key and Prof W A Sutton will speak. Main topic: proposed tax increase.
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Flrat
Mitchell Street
Tdtnall
Mitchell Streets
Key
W A. Sutton
Reverend Francis Tappey Delivers Two Sermons at West End
Rev. Francis Tappey of Shelbyville Tenn preached to full houses at the West End Presbyterian Church in Atlanta during a Sunday visit en route from Montreal. If he accepts the pastorate, he would replace Dr. Robert Kirkpatrick who left for Anderson. Next Sunday Dr. Lynn R. Walker, former West End pastor, will preach at both services and lead the quarterly communion in the morning.
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Prancis Tappey
Shelbyville
Tenn
West End
Atlanta
Hunter
Tappey
Robert Kirkpatrick
First Presbyterian Church
Anderson
Lynn R. Walker
Judge Sibley Weighs Written Opinion on Dry Laws
Judge Sam Sibley, facing numerous habeas corpus cases and conflicts between old national prohibition laws and the Volstead act, announces he is preparing a written opinion on a clause of the old law.
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Sibley
Sam Sibley
Legal conflict over Volstead act and old revenue laws
Judge Sibley noted conflict with the Volstead act and that Section 4258 of the old revenue laws remains in force for possession and operation of a still capable of manufacturing spirits without registration. In habeas corpus cases eight have outcomes, two sustained and six remanded, and questions arise on sentencing under the old laws versus the harsher Volstead penalties.
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Sibley
Ashley Denies Vote to Remove Detective Chief
Ashley clarifies actions on police reform after Atlanta Civile Forum cited him as voting against removing Beavers and Poole. He cites city council minutes showing he voted for Poole's removal and notes a separate vote in a committee meeting where he opposed the detective chief.
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Atlanta Civile Forum
Claude Ashley
Fourth Ward
Beavers
Poole
Ashley
Constitution
Banco
Moon Reaffirms Candidacy in Second-Ward Race
Dr P B Moon declares he will stay in the city council race despite questions over not registering this year. His lawyers say the candidacy is irregular but legal, and he plans to continue campaigning to the finish, citing past precedents of unregistered candidates. Stinson Preaches at Revival in Decatur urging duty to God and self.
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Becayes
P. B. Moon
Richard Stinson
Pinchot Attacks Ford Offer On Water Power Plan
In a Washington dispatch Gifford Pinchot head of the National Conservation Association denounces Henry Ford's water power proposal as a public property of enormous value for inadequate compensation and unfair to the public He opposes the plan citing its indefinite private possession and the demand for vast horsepower as perpetual and unjustified. August 28.
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Usele Shoals
Gifford
National
Ford
Pinchot
Pubc
Ington
Henry
Two More Bodies Recovered From ZR-2 Dirigible Wreck
Hull England August 28 After another day of wrecking the Humber divers recovered two more bodies Lieutenant Commander Emory Coll and enlisted rigger A Pettit. Mrs Coll widow awaits word as thousands watch wrecking barges struggle with tangled wires and beams. About 39 tons of wreckage have been recovered.
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Hull
England
The
Humber
Emory Coll
Pettit
Sing Sing Convicts Forge Prison Checks To Raise $15000
Ossining August 24 convicts at Sing Sing forged blank prison checks and raised about 16000 by passing them through accomplices. Warden Lewis De Lawes said investigators are examining whether the forgery occurred inside the prison or via outside accomplices. Three convicts are in solitary confinement as the inquiry continues. Banks are expected to bear the loss this time.
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Ossining
Sing Sing
Rison
Lewis de Lawes
Annual Phi Chi Banquet Held at Peacock Cafe
About 100 members of the Phi Chi fraternity at Young Harris College attended the Saturday night banquet at the Peacock cafe. Alumni, ministers, and the 1921 debating team were honored as speakers included Colonel Ed Quillian, Paul Ellis, Dr J A Sharp, Rogers Winter, Jack Lance, and others. Toastmaster Charles Reid presided. reception and program committees were named.
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C Hi Chi
Young Harris College
Peacock Cafe
Charies Reid
Gainesville
Ed Quillian
Paul Ellis
Macon
J. A Sharp
Rogers Winter
Seventeen Held in Sheriff Murder in Georgia
Waycross Georgia August 28 Special Seventeen arrests reported in connection with the gruesome murder of Pierce County Sheriff John W Roberson who was shot by moonshiners in a swamp near Patterson. Sheriff Roberson buried Blackshear with hundreds present. Four men jailed Ware County plus eye-witness Roy Carter brother of Mage Carter held for safe keeping. Names Oscar John and Henry Aspinwall linked to the moonshine operation. Randall Thomas the horse thief and Florida convict detained in Chatham County Jail.
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Waycross
John W. Roberson
Pierce County
Hare
Roberson
Patterson
Blackshear
South Georgia
Superior Court
Ware County
Roy Carter
Mage Carter
Savannah
Oscar
John
Henry Aspinwall
Hart
Hoberson
Randall Thomas
Florida
Chatham County
Jali
Rome Train Wreck Death Toll Reaches Forties
August 28 near Magnano north of Rome a collision between passenger and freight trains killed about forty people and wounded more than one hundred as rescuers frantically worked amid wreckage and smoke.
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Rome
Magnano
New Strength and Energy For the Weak and Aged
An advertisement touts Nuxated Iron as a source of organic iron for stronger blood and renewed energy. It claims to revitalize nerves, increase vigor, and compares iron to spinach and apples. Sold by Jacobs' Pharmacy Company and other drug stores with substitutes discouraged.
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Vigorova
Getve Y
Eala
Jacobs’ Pharmacy Company
Alwave
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