Drift and the danger of idle life in church and youth
The text warns that drifters and saunterers drift with the crowd, never striving, often failing to realize their potential. It contrasts active, determined living with impulsive wandering, urging youth to resist complacency and seek purposeful, duty-filled Christian action rather than idle roaming.
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Coleridge
Sam
Fife
Tergrates
Sainte Terre
Europe
Wid
The Sands of Time Move Through Life’s Stages
An essay uses the hour glass as a metaphor for aging from childhood to old age. It notes parental guidance shapes character, memories of a mother's love endure, and faith offers resurrection. The piece ends with the sands running out and the spirit returning to God.
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Wommnhood
Gisdly
Arcadia
Americus Sells Souther Field to Sumter County
Souther Field near Americus, a wartime aviation training site, is sold to Sumter County for 17500. The airport will operate as a community enterprise, with repairs planned to hangars and buildings. The aviation depot adjoining the field may host future industries. Col Charles Lindbergh trained here and bought his first plane in 1926.
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Americus
Souther Flying Field
Sumter County
War Department
Washington
Aviation General Supply Depot
Georgia
Aviation
Souther Field
Charles Lindebergh
Lindbergh
Atlantic
New York
Paris
Bibb legislator denounces bond campaign letter
Bibb County representative L. T. Pat Gillen faults bond movement leaders for not knowing contents of a letter from A. W. McKeand, campaign manager for bonds. Gillen supports highway bonds, opposes a 6-cent gas tax, and cites past pay as you go failures while urging an adequate road system for Georgia.
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Macon
L. T. Pat Gillen
Bibb County
A. W. McKeand
Lor. Gillen
J. E. Whitley
LaGrange
Georgia
McKeand
Central of Georgia Offers Soil Redintegration Test Plots
The Central of Georgia Railway funds half the cost of operating a five year soil redintegration test plot in Taylor County and 79 counties to prove winter legumes as green manure. J F Jackson notes large increases in winter legume seed sowing and urges farmers to contract for test plots with the railroad paying part of the cost.
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Central of Georgia Railway
A. E. Clift
Agricultural Department
Taylor County
Central of Georgia
J. F. Jackson
Georgia
Central of Georgia Agricultural
Gen. Ag
Central of Ga. Ry
Savannah Ga
Thompson Woman Seeks Damages Over Husband Death In Georgia
Mrs. Eula Mae Thompson now serving life for murder in Milledgeville sues four Tennessee officers in Chattanooga federal court seeking 50000 damages for alleged illegal electrocution of Clifford Thompson. She alleges kidnapping and removal without extradition papers and notes husband unaware of the killing.
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Chattaooga
Tenn
Eula Mae Thompson
Milledgeville
Clifford Thompson
United States District Court
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Georgia
Thompson
James Butler
Thomas Fuller
Bill Grubbs
Beeler Jenkins
Atlanta
James Moss
Coleman Osborne
Chatsworth
Thompsons
Murray County
Moss
Osborne
Three Die When Auto Plunges Near Jesup
Three people die when a Garrett car carrying Mr. and Mrs. W. G Garrett and their infant daughter leaves Goose Creek bridge on Lane bridge road near Jesup. Bystanders Fleming Reddish H A Gates and J L Hendry assist but cannot save the victims.
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Jesup
Lane Bridge Road
W. G Garrett
Goose Creek Bridge
Fleming Reddish
H. A. Gates
J. L. Hendry
Garrett
Nobody's Business by Gee McGee
A humorous column on shopping habits, credit, and cars. The writer contrasts spending patterns, mail order temptations, and installment buying with the rise of rides and gas buggies. He jokes about women shopping trips, samples, and the lure of credit while noting changes in consumer behavior and local town life.
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Ree
Georgia Peach Crop Worth Nearly Five Million Dollars
Macon Georgia July 14 Georgia peach growers gauge this season's crop at four to five million dollars with 4095 cars shipped by early July and remaining harvest to finish by July 27. The Georgia Peach Growers Exchange reports the 5000 car sight but notes last year's larger crop. Bewley says growers will receive similar total payments to last year though some farmers had no fruit at all and wealth is unevenly distributed.
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Macon
Georgia
W. C. Bewley
Georgia Peach Growers’ Exchange
Bewley
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Masonic
Ares
Association of Friends
Mwe
Hart & Bro
Orticians
Macon, Ga
Bibb
Central RY
Agric’s. Dept
Taylor CO. Farmers
By Gee McGee
Punksville
Philadelphia
Boston
Baltimore
Trav
Frogus
John W. Blount
Savannah
Georgia Central
Georgia Railway
Portland
Maine
Halifax
el Experts
Nee Ne Welts
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