Georgia Prison Farm Report Exposes Harsh Sanitation Failings
A state board of health investigation into Milledgeville state prison farm and reform school reveals extreme unsanitary conditions and water contamination threats to Milledgeville. The editorial calls for immediate legislative action and fiscal support to implement essential improvements to prevent further suffering and deaths.
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Georgia
Milledgeville
State Board of Health
State Farm and Reformatory
Hts
Citizenship ceremony and naturalization duties urged
The article argues that citizenship should be impressed with solemnity during naturalization, moving beyond routine court business. It cites federal judges in Minneapolis as a model, suggesting applicants be made to realize the serious obligations of citizenship.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis judges reform naturalization ceremony with solemn oath
Federal judges in Minneapolis plan a dignified naturalization ceremony replacing the standard two minute oath. American flags will adorn Mintgapolia courtrooms on naturalization day as the judge explains benefits and responsibilities of citizenship and the clerk leads the oath while all rise.
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Minneapolis
Mintgapolia
The Automobile Tax Fund and state road funding debate
Former State Senator G D Perry argues against the current distribution of more than 100000 from the motor vehicle license tax. He advocates a substantial, productive statewide plan, possibly via a state highway commission, to ensure counties receive real value and broader road improvement rather than local driblets.
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G. D. Perry
Madison
Georgia
State Highway Commission
Charlton
Superior Court
Chatham County
Perry
He Never Thought of Theft and the Heavens Above
A fragment from a rural newspaper poem recalls a man who fixes on stars and space rather than theft. He wanders among Milky Way constellations seeking Canopus and Orion, while the world moves on and he realizes too late the life he could have lived. An editor in Campbellsville prints reader requests and an obituary clipping note amid local notices.
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Atom
Allom
Pos
Campbellsville
News-Journal
Lebanon
Plumerville
Ark
Palm Beach
Adams (Ga
Enterprise
Hell
White Gulls and Weather Quips From A Georgian Paper
A collage of verse and prose items from Plumerville Arkansas and nearby Georgia readers. Includes lines about The White Gulls, poems on weather, a preacher’s postcard note, a satirical take on politics, and reflections on wartime life and daily troubles.
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason
A satirical verse questions the notion of a better world beyond, arguing that rewards in heaven cannot be measured by wealth. The speaker mocks heavenly gold, gates, and streets while contrasting them with earthly values and cities like Chicago and Des Moines.
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Chicago
Des
Moines
Yorkshire wagon builders win order for eight thousand wheels and axles
A Yorkshire firm of wagon builders received an order for 8302 pairs of wheels and axles. The vast material involved would stretch nearly nine and a belt miles if laid end to end, with total materials weighing about 61.31 tons.
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Yorkshire England
Stop Look and Listen urged for rail grade crossings
President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway urges motorists to stop look and listen before crossing railroad tracks to prevent grade crossing accidents. He notes sixty nine accidents in the Georgia Alabama North and South Carolina Virginia and Tennessee region in the just closed fiscal year, with twelve fatal injuries and many other injuries and automobile losses. He highlights deliberate risk taking by drivers racing trains and states railroad efforts to remove dangerous crossings, relocate lines, and fund safety projects totaling nearly four million dollars over the past year.
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Fairfax Harrison
Southern Railway Company
South
Mr. Harrison
Southern Railway
Georgia
Alabama
North
South Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
Harrison
New Bills in Both Houses Reported in Legislature
A flood of new measures surfaced in both chambers yesterday. Bills from Macon, Bibb, Dougherty, Emanuel, Tattnall, Chatham, and others seek city courts, school books, county governance, taxation, and confession rights, with several aiming at consolidating offices and standardizing fees. A separate list includes proposed constitutional conventions, railroad venue changes, and state printing reforms. Several resolutions request flood-control aid, free school books, and a tax-board convention.
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New Hills
Wants
Baldwin
Atkingon
Emanuel
James
Emanuel, Johnson, Laurens
Montgomery
Adrian
Iders
Tattnall
Crowder
Bacon
Clarke
McIntosh
Darien
Dorris
Douglas
Carroll
Catooga
Beall
Richimond
Messia
Edwards
Haralson
Moore
Hearn
Jeff Davis
Beck
Murray
Danis
Shuptrine
Chatham
Cobb
DeKalb
Campbell
Newton
Commeren
Sly Dorsett
Carrell
Keizer
Effingham
Hank
Cooper
Ware
County Freashrer
Str. Perkins
Habershams
Messrs. Swift and Wehlwender
Agee
Floyd
Board of Floyi County Commissioners
Wohhwender
Murscogee
Smith
Dade
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Foster
Morgan
Conte
Georgia
Turner
Worth
Sylvester
Messrs
Heck
Carrot and Smith
Reiser
Roykin Seventeenth
McCrory
Boards of Education
Carlton
Lloyds Insurance Agencies
Georia
Gilis
Montrame
Stythira
St. Paul
Minn
Dobbs
Thirty-cith
Atlanta
Augusta
Albany
Savannah
Macon
Rome
Columbus
Americus
Athens
Callahan
Eighth
Walker
Twentieth
United States Congress
Mississtop
State Board of Education
Ator Adams
Thirno
Lawrence
General Assembly
Senate
Committee On Public Printing
Bakes
Minter
Uartion
Abelish
Gillis
Trenton
Wmandel
Soperton
Adams
Commissioner of Public Printing
Wouge
Wheatley
Sheppard
Third District Agricultural School
State Automobile Tax debate letters Georgia 1938
Ex-Senator G. P. Perry argues for broader distribution of automobile tax funds to road improvements across the state. He contends the current law favors salaries and expenses, urges highway commission control, and urges fairness for farmers and motorists in all counties.
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Haiter
Carlton
Supreme Court
Savannah
Chatham County
Macon
Bibb County
Georgia
State Highway Commission
Laft Senate
G. PD. Perry
Indigon
Richest Street Car Conductor Henry Toburg Revealed
Henry Toburg, a street car conductor, is described as making a quarter of a million dollars. The article notes his wealth and shares advice he believes passengers and others should follow. The piece frames Toburg as a self-made financier in transit work.
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Henry Toburg
Future War Theory Emphasizes Air Power Over Sea or Subsurface
A Sunday Constitution science page argues future conflicts will be decided in the air rather than at sea or underwater, presenting a striking view from a writer on Science and Near-Science up to date. The piece highlights aerial dominance as the defining factor in forthcoming wars.
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Constitution
Charles Becker
New York
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Sunday Constitution
Dorothy Dolan
Gangon
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