WANTED P E S IDENTIFIED IN MULTIPLE COTTAGE AVENUE GUNFIRE HEISTS
Police identify Prue Vinson alias Blacoms Harris and Fred Howard as men linked to several robberies on Cotton Avenue and nearby areas. Witnesses recognize them from photos sent by the local bureau, with investigators linking the duo to holds ups at stores and a grocery as wallets and watches are recovered.
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Prue Vinson
Blacoms Y Harriss
Fred Howard
Gainess Houses
Ater
Atlan Lowe
Marietta Street
Hevpo
Mpany
Atlanta
Glain
Vinson
Thomas
Wright Hat
Pace B. Ts
Watkins
Lupo
Lowes
Macon
Vingon
MacCommon
Vinon
Mabel
Harvey
Harris
Vinief
Saeedne
Ares
Haris
Sn Department
Andit
Former Congressman W. C. Adamson Dies in New York
Former U. S. Representative W. C. Adamson of New Jersey dies in New York at 84 after a bout with pneumonia. He had served in Congress and earlier led the Carroll Hospital board, with survivors including Estelle Bay, Mrs. Adamson, and three sons Reese, George, and Camillen.
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N. Formoy
New York
Adamson
W. C. Adams
Rheumonia
Presbyterian
Carroll Hospital
Adamson Estelle Bayhree Sons
Reese
Georgia Egg Laying Contest Shows Big Profit Potential
The 1928 Georgia National Egg Laying Contest ended November 1 with 1 020 hens laying 209 923 eggs. A White Leghorn owned by Charles A Shepard of Winterville led with 389 eggs in 365 days, while the average Georgia hen produced 54 eggs. At $5.19 per hen in sales, profit above feed costs averaged $2.19 per hen, highlighting breed choice feeding and management as keys to profitability.
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Ancona
Plymouth Rock
Rhode Island
Wyandotte
Georgia State College of Agriculture
Chas. A. Shepard
Winterville
United States
Georgia
Asume
Charles A. Shepard
Shepard
Tex Rickard Dies in Miami Promoter Behind Boxing Greats
Miami Beach Florida January 6 death Sunday claimed G L Tex Rickard New York sports promoter. He died at 8 57 am after an appendix operation New Year's night. At his bedside were Mrs Rickard Jack Dempsey Mr and Mrs Walter Field Dr E H Adkins and two nurses. Rickard came to Miami Beach to supervise a greyhound track opening and arrange a heavyweight bout between Young Stribling and Jack Sharkey. He had been ill since Tuesday and underwent surgery, with a temporary improvement followed by relapse and septic infection. He told Dempsey on Saturday I ve got this licked.
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Miami Beach
Fla
G. L
Tex) Rickard
New York
Rickard
Jack Dempsey
Walter Field
E. H Adkins
Madison Square Garden Corporation
Young Stribling
Jack Sharkey
Jack
Bandit suspects confess during Atlanta hold ups
Macon Ga Jan 7 two bandit suspects in county jail confessed Sunday to a series of daring hold ups in Atlanta during the last three weeks. They remained silent on the slugging and attempted robbery of Louis Avruin a Cotton avenue jeweler in his store last Wednesday.
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Macon
Atlanta
Louis Avruin
Cotton Avenue Jeweler
Rhodes promoted to assistant general passenger agent
Charles B. Rhodes, division passenger agent for the Southern Railway in Macon, is promoted to assistant general passenger agent at Birmingham, Alabama, with duties west of Macon. He will assume the post January 16 and relocate as arrangements permit, ending 27 years in Macon. G. R. Pettit of Knoxville will become district passenger agent for the Macon area, also January 16.
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Macon
Charles B. Rhodes
Southern Railway System
Birmingham
Ala
Washington
Rhodes
Mr. Rhodes
Georgia, Southern and Florida Railroad
Georgia, Southern and Florida
Joe Wheeler
Kiwanis Club
Elks Club
Macon Chamber of Commerce
G. R. Pettit
Knoxville
Rail Comfort and Safety Emphasized by Central of Georgia
President John J. Pelley touts winter reliability and comfort of rail travel with steam heated cars. He notes about 98 percent of trains run on time and highlights rail safety, stating roughly ten million passengers per fatality nationwide, with Central of Georgia reporting no passenger fatalities for over six years and eighteen million passengers since. He contrasts rail safety with rising highway deaths, citing 1927 rail fatalities at 82 vs highways with 22,485.
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John J. Pelley
Central of Georgia
Mr. Pelley
Pelley
Peanut Production Emphasized At Huston Luncheon
Columbus reports a luncheon at the Ralston hotel where Tom Huston of the Huston Peanut company outlined peanut farming’s potential in middle western Georgia. Fred Woloben discussed soil needs and fertilizer, noting 24 counties under study across Alabama and Georgia, with the company paying 85 dollars per ton and buying entire crops.
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Columbus
Georgia
Tom Huston
Huston Company
Huston
Woloben
Tallapoosa
Chambers, Lee
Macon Russell
Blalock and
Barbour
Alabama
Troup, Meriwether
Upson Harris
Talbot, Taylor, Crawford
Muscogee
Chattahoochee
Macon
Schley, Marion
Stewart Webster
Sumter
Quitman
Peach Counties
Tax Receiver's Rounds for 1929 in Taylor County Georgia
Tax Receiver C C Cooper lists rounds for 1929 with dates and times at Rupert Charing Mauk Howard Wesley Gaultney's Store Old Dugger Fickling Mill Jessie Byrd's Reynolds Potterville Norwich Mrs Mattie Riley's W A Jarrell W F Gray Southland and notes court weeks from Feb 1 to May 1. He asks residents to file tax returns and have papers ready for the Tax Assessors by May 1 1929.
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Rupert
Charing
Mauk
M. Howard
Wesley
Gaultney’s
Old Dugger
Fickling Mill
Jessie Byrd
Reynolds
Potterville
Norwich
Mrs. Mattie Riley
Old Carsonville
W. A. Jarrell
W. F. Gray
McCants Mill
Southland
Court House
C, C, Cooper
Taylor County
Georgia
Orphans 10 Send Car of Supplies to Georgia Home
At the Columbus Baptist association Bethel church session it was decided to ship a car of groceries and farm supplies to the Georgia Baptist Orphans Home in Hapeville Ga. A committee led by J W Jordan set January 24 as the shipping date with stops at Box Springs and Junction City. Churches should crate and deliver their contributions by January 28 to load the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Columbus Baptist Association
Bethel Church
Geofia Baptist Organs
Hapeville Ga
J. W. Jordan
Talbotton
J. O Binns
Delayed School Funds Spark Early 1929 Financing Questions
Atlanta January 4 The state faces a $3,000,000 1928 school debt still unsettled as officials seek timing for the first 1929 appropriation allotment. Interest rate norms for a new $3,000,000 loan and the impact on pension payments in early 1929 are debated amid southward treasury constraints.
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Atlanta
M. L. Duggan
Educational Department
Educational Fund
Educational Department of the State
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D Maconeas
Chattanooga
Trig
Idsati- Mation
Ormer
W. C. Apalison
Southwest Georgia
W. A. Dunlap
Tex' Rickard
Miami
MR. C. B. Rhodes
Sou
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