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Statewide clean up urged to curb deadly diseases
Georgia health authorities call for a state wide campaign to reduce typhoid and malaria by eliminating breeding grounds for flies and mosquitoes. The appeal urges screening, removal of garbage and stagnant water in towns and rural areas alike to lower death rates and sickness for 1912.
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Georgia
State Board
Health Board
Year-Round Open Highway Advocated in Georgia
A Thomasville dispatch notes that year round, durable sand clay roads through Thomas county keep rural areas connected to civilization and reduce maintenance costs. The piece argues roads should stay passable in snow and sleet, not just summer, and compares highways to year round rail lines in reliability and value.
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Thomas County
Georgia
America
Speechless Banquets Honor Chinese Republic Celebrated
The Hip Sing Tong in New York held a banquet for the Chinese republic's proclamation with eighty eight courses and a stroll between blocks, ending with a concise program of music instead of lengthy oratory. The piece notes Americans could learn from a speechless event that sidesteps pomp and promotes conviviality.
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New York
Confucius
Sing Tong
Ghostly Ballads and Local Voices From Hap piness era
The piece compiles dialect poetry and a local authority quote about aging fiddle players and dancing sons. It blends rustic verse about weather, nature, and the sun with a vignette of Hap pinesa in a road scene and a march-era lion figure. It ends with a short stanza about a sable philosopher and Frank L Stanton.
Hyacinths in Spring Memory by Augusta Wall
Poetic verses celebrate hyacinths as early spring bloooms filling the garden with dewy fragrance. The speaker recalls childhood memories in a mother’s garden, noting bees, robins, violets, jasmines, and colors like white, amethyst, and tourmaline. A reflective tribute to fragrant blossoms and enduring tenderness.
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Fraggrance
Augusta Wall
Thirty Thomasville boys enter for corn prize contest
Thirty members of the Boys' Corn Club of Thomas County enter the state prize contest for best corn yield per acre. They have started work on their crops with high hopes, after noting strong past records in Thomas County. Cunningham, representing several counties, has been in the area during the week to assist and observe.
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Boys’ Corn Club
Thomas County
Cunningham
Tyonven
Tate
Sermon on Discipleship and Carrying the Cross
Dr. Walker expounded on Mark Chapter 8 verse 32 and the three burdens of life. He urged denying self and taking up one’s cross daily, noting each person bears different trials that can aid others when carried with faith. The congregation filled the church as Mrs. Wingfield and Mrs. Cooper offered a musical rendition of Psalm 23.
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T. H. Wingfield
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Elihu Lanford Dies Suddenly at 84 in Georgia
Elihu P Lanford father of Atlanta Chief of Detectives M Lanford died after a brief illness from paralysis at age 84. Born in South Carolina he moved to Georgia as a child and served in the Forty eighth Georgia Volunteers during the Civil War. Funeral set for Monday at 4 pm from daughter Mrs T A Johnsons home near Clarkston. He is survived by three sons and one daughter with a large family. Ocilla Ga March 10 Special. J A J Henderson May Enter Race for Congress Following Brantleys Retirement, Friends urge him to announce. Henderson considering a run with petitions circulating. no definite statement yet.
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M. Lanford
Atlanta
T. A. Johnson
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Sanford
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Ocilla
William G. Brantley
J. A. J. Henderson
Henderson
Easter Egg Hunt Committee Plans Big Atlanta Event
The park commission appointed Easter egg hunt committee including Commissioners Puckett Bond Burnett and Gordon Hurtel of The Constitution. They will meet this week to set bids for 200000 eggs and arrange moving pictures with William Oldknow. $500 needed, $300 subscribed. subscriptions from The Constitution $50 park commission $100 Georgia Railway and Electric $160 The Atlanta Journal $66. Hunt in Grant Park north end on April 15 at 3 pm with prizes on some eggs. expected turnout around 25000 children.
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LINE ACROSS JACKSON BEING CONSIDERED
Athens March 10 Special that Seaboard Air Line weighs a short line from Commerce on the Southern across Jackson county to Jefferson and toward Winder tapping its main. the route would cut through a cotton belt and pass the national automobile highway. Georgia Power plans electric lines into Commerce and Tallulah and may extend to Athens, boosting lights and power.
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Jackson County
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Winder
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Prominent Gothamites Visit Thomasville Guests Include Annie Russell
Thomasville Ga March 10 Special among well known people visiting are Annie Russell the actress and her husband Oswald Yorke at Pebble Hill the winter home of Mrs R L Ireland Also English actor of prominence is said to be arranging a Shaw play for a return visit to New York Mrs Edward R Hewitt president of the Women’s Municipal League of New York is also in town staying with Mrs Gandace Wheeler of New York
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Thomesville
Annie Russell
Oswald Yorke
R. L. Ireland
New York
Edward R. Hewitt
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Hoyt
Dr Bixler Preaches at Central Church
Rev. J W Bixter of New London Conn preached at Central Congregational Church on Christianity as the salt of life citing Mark nine fifty. He urged salt as purifying preserving and adding zest to life and noted upcoming services with Rev George Loring Hanscom to assume duties next Sunday.
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J. W. Bixter
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Bixler
George Loring Hanscom
Paralyzed 64 year old man found near death after wander
Charles Yard aged 64 from 29 Connally street wandered away Thursday morning. Found near the Georgia railroad fertilizer factory Sunday in a rain soaked, exhausted state. He was revived by doctors. His son noted this was not his first such disappearance.
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Passenger men meet in Atlanta Tuesday
Some seventy five to one hundred railroad passenger officials from across the south, including most major lines south of Washington and St. Louis, will attend the Southeastern Passenger Association quarterly meeting in Atlanta. Joseph Richardson of the city serves as secretary. The Georgian Terrace hosts the session. The group will arrange summer rates to mountain resorts in North Carolina and Tennessee and to popular ocean beaches, with rates set to take effect in May.
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Georgian Terrace
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Spalding Road Association Moves to Organize Local Unit
A meeting at city hall yesterday launched efforts to organize the Spalding Good Roads Association. The group plans a kickoff next Saturday, aiming to recruit a large, enthusiastic membership and pursue better public highways in the community.
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Clean-Up Week for Atlantas
Atlanta launches a city wide cleanup drive with sanitary inspectors patrolling backyards and enforcing cleanliness laws. Chief Jentzen vows prosecutions for dirty yards and absent garbage or manure bins while street repairs begin as weather permits, aiming to finish by April 1 with no dirty streets or unsanitary backyards remaining.
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Twenty five candidates run for Pike county offices
Barnesville Ga March 10 Special The entry period for the Pike county democratic primary on March 26 is closed with 25 candidates for various offices. Incumbents include J W Means for ordinary W S Slade for clerk of superior court and J F Lifey for tax collector. Tax receiver J W Pressley faces J T Tyus and H W Reynolds. Coroner W A Whatley is opposed by J E Smith. G A Matthews seeks surveyor. Several candidates vie for three county commissioner seats in a lively, hard to predict race.
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Barnesville
Pike County
J. W. Means
FR. C. Mathews
OF. Barrett
R. A. Martin
J. T. Ballard
BP. P. Blake
S. C. Miller
Sacrifice Focus of Rev Charles Inwood Sermon
Nev Charles Inwood delegate to the Tabernacle Bible conference and Keswick representative preached at North Avenue Presbyterian on sacrifice. He said sacrifice means more to the person than to others and highlighted giving up a quiet pastorate for global missionary work, noting nine trips to China and South Africa in the past year and more travel ahead.
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Charles Inwood
Tabernacle Bible Conference
Keswick
England
North Avenue
Inwood
China
South Africa
London
Georgian Terrace figures meet in city on hotel plans
Joseph Gatins Sr. of New York builder of the Georgian Terrace and C A Wood, president of a hotel syndicate, have been in the city on business. Gatins came from Hot Springs, Wood from Boston. The Georgian Terrace has leased hotel grounds at Lake Toxaway NC for expanded operations this summer. Wood left for Augusta to visit the Hampton Terrace.
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Joseph Gating, Sr
New York
Georgian Terrace
C. A. Wood
Mr. Gatins
Hot Springs
Ark
Mr. Wood
Boston
Lake Toxaway
N. C
Mayor's Auto Veto Heads to Council Today
The council will review an auto and vehicle stop ordinance rejected by Mayor Winn. Adopted 18 to 9 at the last meeting, some supporters say they backed it for promises but now seek to veto. An override effort may form but appears unlikely.
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Jess
Baxter Succeeds Duke in Griffin News
Griffin Georgia editors announce J. He Baxter succeeds Robert I. Dyes as manager and editor of the Griffin News after many years. Baxter assumes duties with the paper, continuing its publication and leadership transition.
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