Eleven Bills Recommended by Legislation Committee
The Committee on Legislation recommends eleven bills for the coming General Assembly session. They include enabling counties and cities to adopt county unit plans, revising the tax system to tax untaxed property, constitutional amendment for bonds for schools and the University system, flat public school funding, repealing the 50-50 law, and state budget approval. Other measures raise borrowing power, set supervisor counts, expand the Barrett Rogers fund to 300000, extend teacher training funds, allow local funding for libraries and kindergartens, appropriate 15000 for adult illiteracy eradication, and provide maintenance funds for the University and branches aligned with youth needs.
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Committee On
General Assembly
State Department
Barrett Rogers
Final peach spray dates announced for 1925 season
The government and state laboratory at Fort Valley Ga announces final spray periods for Hiley, Toree's Belles, and Elberta peaches. Last week in May covers Hileys, June 11 17 for Elberta, and June 16 for Toree's Belles. Emphasizes thorough coverage with arsenate of lead and lime sulfur to control curculio and brown rot amid favorable prospects.
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Elbertas
Govt. & State Laboratory
Fort Valley
Learned blacksmith and polyglot reformer Elihu Burritt
The Kansas City Star notes Elihu Burritt, famed American reformer and linguist, began work as a blacksmith about 1827 and later mastered 18 languages and 22 dialects as he pursued his reformist and literary pursuits.
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Smith
Elihu Burritt
Wald
Thur le
Kansas City
Humanities Defined In Early Education And Culture
The humanities are branches of study including philosophy poetry and ancient classics. They aim to humanize man and cultivate cultured traits through engagement with literature and thought.
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Brammar
Riches From the Desert of Chile Nitrate Wealth
Chile owns vast saltpeter lands where annual rainfall barely reaches half an inch. The nitrate region employs about 60 000 people directly and many more indirectly, with nearly 200 million dollars invested across 170 plus operations. Every product of life here arrives from afar as the desert yields nothing edible or combustible. Water, once priceless, is piped from distant sources up to 200 miles away.
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Chile
Ita
Moral From a Youngster’s Joke Leads to Prompt Action
A Los Angeles attorney used his son’s joke to teach graduates at a grammar school that success requires decisive action. The boy asked if the father was a good mathematician and posed a riddle about frogs on a log, illustrating that the bullfrog only decided to jump but did not actually jump. The attorney urged graduates to act promptly on their decisions.
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Los Angeles
Primitive water clocks in Malay peninsula travel lore
Travelers report natives using a simple water clock that measures time with a bowl and a hole. Coconut shells on Malay junks serve as a mobile timing device away from port, while ancient Egyptians used water clocks and sand glasses.
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Malayan Peninsula
Jynyions
Had Origin in Quoits
The article traces quoits to an ancient Greek discus tradition and notes horse shoe games in Europe. It cites references in the Midlands from the early 15th century and William Tamson’s discussion in Toxophilus of 1545, mentioning the working classes using horseshoes when quoits were unavailable.
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Greece
Europe
Scotland
England
Midlands
Ascham
Clock hand positions chosen for painting names
The article explains clock hands are set to maximize space for long and short words, with the minute hand varying from 17 to 25 minutes after 8. It notes the longer name may be placed in a semi circle above the hands and debunks myths linking hand position to Lincoln's death hour.
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Lincoln
Not Really Profanity Origin of the word darn
A New York Herald Tribune note discusses the etymology of darn noting it derives from Shakespearean forms dearn and mern meaning terrible and darkened. It links tarnish as a cognate verb and traces the color shift as the word moved from strong to milder usage.
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New York Herald Tribune
Dog Plant Names Pique School Class Curiosity
In a classroom the teacher lists plants with the prefix dog and mentions dog rose and dog violet. An amused student blurts out Cullle towers miswl, revealing a humorous mishearing of dog tolls or dogwood possibilities as the lesson continues.
Baptists Denounce Evolution At Memphis Convention
Southern Baptist Convention reports broad progress in hospitals schools and missions across the South and abroad. The pact endorses cooperative program support and defense of biblical literalism against evolution while detailing gains in hospitals Sunday schools and church growth.
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Southern Convention
Memphis
Southern Baptist Convention
Tts
The
Hospital Commission
South
Relief and
Sunday School Board
Southern Baptist
Convention
Southern Baptists
What Good Does It Do You to Know Something
A sardonic wartime era ad pitch argues the public lacks literacy and intelligence. It lampoons draft boards and social norms, claiming adults resemble a 13 year old and mocks literacy tests as needless while praising popular demand.
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Curtain
Fragmented quote on progress and invention
A note on progress contrasts scientific and mechanical gains with moral development. It remarks that since the automobile’s invention, progress seems driven more by technical advances than by ethics, implying a shift in historical emphasis.
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Ohio State Journal
Early French Romance Aucassin and Nicolette
Critics regard the thirteenth century romance Aucassin and Nicolette as the finest French fiction of the Middle Ages. It blends verse and prose and is noted for its concise, abortive style.
Movin Actress Insists on Premiere After Edits
Luatige Bruiter of Berlin declares she spent eight days on the star and edited the film 200 times in the projection room before finally earning the chance to witness the premiere.
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Luatige Bruiter
Berlin
Central of Georgia Announces Summer Excur s to Resorts
The Central of Georgia Railway offers reduced round trip summer excursions to Lake Mountain Seashore Resorts nationwide and to Mexico City from May 15 to September 10 1925. 60 day circle tours cover rail and water travel with options via Savannah and ship or all rail. Plans include conventions and educational sight seeing tours with through train service to Savannah and onward steamship routes. Contact local Central of Georgia agents for schedules and rates.
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Central of Georgia Railway
Lake Mountain
United States
Canada
Mexico City
East
Savannah
South Atlantic
Southeastern
Central of Georgia
Ocean Steamship Company of
Merchants & Miners Transportation Company
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Central OF Georgia RY
Early Egyptian shaving tools and customs in Herodotus
Historical notes describe ancient Egyptians shaving continually and growing facial hair only in mourning. The barber, called the hay, used various instruments including a razor shaped like a small hatchet with a recurved handle and patru mente like knives.
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Herodotus
Where Two Rivers Meet In Khartoum
In Khartoum the White and Blue Niles converge. The White Nile carries greenish gray waters while the Blue Nile runs clear and blue, turning chocolate brown when floods bring alluvial load from Ite.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Government tests clocks to aid watchmakers' certificates
The article notes that apart from testing various timepieces by freezing and baking, the government disassembles watches to allow applicants for watchmakers' certificates to repair them.
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Commission of Southern Baptists
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Will Rocers
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Durham
Fifth Avent
New York City
Ruggiste
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
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