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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1921
Page
13
A Georgia public notice comments on the rising menace of whisky runners, recounting recent sheriff and deputy deaths and shootings. It urges stronger laws, more law enforcement personnel, and legislative action to curb bootlegging and restore order in the state. The piece also highlights optimistic local perspectives and reflects on community resilience.
A compact collage of local notes and verse. It reflects lively political mischief with a moving adjournment refrain by Jump Georsie and a home gardener champion, plus poems and quips from small-town papers.
Judge T. C. Hathcock of Atlanta Municipal Court urges a county wide fight against whisky smuggling and gang activity. He proposes stronger search and seizure laws and felony penalties for transporting whisky for sale, and calls for public funds to support Deputy Sheriff Yarbrough’s bereaved family. He questions law enforcement gaps and fears rising liquor violence in Fulton County in late July 1921.
The author urges Georgia to fund and reform the state sanitarium at Milledgeville, arguing that insane, deaf and mute, crippled, and mentally weak patients, including children and the elderly, deserve strong state support. It cites overcrowding, aging facilities, and a stagnant 1921 budget as reasons to grant a $2000000 maintenance boost and prevent further admissions.
Atlanta reader J Carroll Paynd argues against an unlimited state income tax replacing ad valorem taxes. He contends 58,900 Georgia taxpayers paid federal tax in 1919, suggesting a small core would bear state burdens while lawmakers could inflate budgets. He urges retaining ad valorem taxes and adding a limited income tax.
Local reminiscences lampoon a windstorm and a temperance editor change while a fire wagon purchase, a secret council session and a crowd at the fair grounds debate. Mentions Tallulah Fire, Finney wagon, Mr M J Cofer, Samuel Ogletree, a boy rescued from bricks, and Alabama street hall activities.
Col Wm E Simmons appeals to the legislature for fair play to the University of Georgia and its branch colleges. He argues against abolishing boards, notes historic governance, endowment funds like the Brown gift, and cautions that economy measures should not harm Georgia's higher education and alumni efforts.
New York July 26 early morning lineup at police headquarters describes detectives studying faces in a cache of mugshots. It portrays thieves with varying looks from bluebeard types to would be conmen and women, as they await judgment after the night’s events.
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