Week in Georgia highlights deaths and civic notes
A long list of Georgia events includes obituaries for Mrs. J. M. Middlebrooke and Mr. Robert Thomas, leaders like Mrs. Lizzie W. Hines, and Mr. P. F. Roach. Thomaston stores plan half-holiday Tuesdays. Cotton producer signings top 25,000. Traffic, health, and public notices span Georgia communities from Atlanta to Baxley, with school tours, roadlandscape requests, and state agency actions shaping the week.
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Georgia
State Department of Public Health
Federal Emergency Relief Administration of Georgia
Gay B. Shepperson
Abbie R. Weaver
Yeomans Family Reunion Planned for Lyons Georgia
Lyons Ga April 29 Members of the Yeomans family in Georgia will hold a reunion at Lyons May 30 The family has long been prominent in state affairs and includes Attorney General M J Yeomans.
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Lyons
Yeomans
Georgia
M. J. Yeomans
Dalton Boy Killed By Train Near Dalton
Clayton Langley twelve, of Dalton, was killed by a passenger train Thursday while he and a younger brother played on the tracks. The boy was struck after running from behind a freight car on a siding into the train’s path.
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Dalton
Clayton Langley
Garden Circle Talbotton clubs plan first flower show
Talbotton Woman's Club sponsors a flower show at Straus Le Vert Memorial Hall on May 17. Mary Mathews chairs the event and will oversee arrangements. The exhibit will feature cut flowers and growing plants from Talbotton gardens.
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Talbotton
Garden Circle
James D. Howard Dies at Dearing
James D. Howard, longtime Milledgeville resident and prominent Georgia politician, died Saturday at his home in Dearing, Georgia. He lived in Milledgeville about 40 years, served Baldwin County in the legislature, was judge and solicitor of the county court, and held the Milledgeville post mastership for four years under President Wilson.
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John Milton
Appling County
Baxley
Mr. Milton
J. J. Thomaston
Carroll County Times
Carrolton
National Editorial Association
New Orleans
Milton L. Fleetwood
Georgia Press Association
Thomaston
Milledgeville
Jas. D. Howard
Georgia
Dearing
Georgia to let $1 million highway contracts
Atlanta April 29 The state highway board announced that about $1,000,000 in new highway and bridge construction contracts will be let on May 17. Projects not yet decided will be announced soon. The May 17 letting will exhaust this year's federal aid allotment with approvals expected for another letting in June.
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Atlanta
State Highway Board
Pat Hammond dies after heart attack in Atlanta park
Percy W. Hammond longtime managing editor of The Atlanta Constitution collapsed while playing tennis in Piedmont Park on Friday and died shortly after. He was 51 and had served on the Constitution staff for 24 years after rising from reporter to managing editor in 1929. Born in Philadelphia, Hammond graduated from Williams College.
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Atlanta
Percy W
Pat? Hammond
The
Atlanta Constitution
Piedmont Park
Mr. Hammond
Constitution
Philadephia
Hammond
Williams College
Pennsylvania
Collins Protests Discrimination in School Relief
Atlanta April 27. Georgia school superintendent Dr M D Collins protests federal aid discrimination in distressed schools. He says rural teachers white and colored go unpaid since Feb 1 and argues the April 19 deadline blocks eligibility, risking most rural negro and white teachers receiving aid. He compares Georgia unfavorably to Alabama and urges adjustment.
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Atlanta
Georgia
M. D. Collins
Washington
FERA
Gay B. Shepperson
Harry Hopkins
Collins
Alabama
Pithy Sentences In President Roosevelt's Sunday Night Address
Washington, April 29 Roosevelt uses a fireside chat style to frame improved mood and ongoing relief efforts. He highlights declining relief rolls, calls for public cooperation, and urges social security and transportation reforms as keys to broader recovery.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Toy whistle kills boy in LaGrange incident
In LaGrange Georgia on April 29 a four year old boy Sonny Boy Dobbins died after swallowing a tin whistle. Doctors attributed the death to the swallowed toy and noted the child was the son of Mr and Mrs Buddy Dobbins.
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LaGrange
Sonny Boy Dobbins
Buddy Dobbins
Factory To Open In South Georgia
Thomasville GA April 28 Announcement by E P Moore Kraft Cheese manager says a cheese factory will operate in Thomasville within 30 days. Equipment is en route and will be installed in two to three weeks. A fish representative will establish milk routes within 25 miles. Minimum milk supply sought is 10 000 pounds (1100 gallons) for opening.
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Thomasville
E. P. Moore
Southeastern
Kraft Cheese Corporation
Terrary
Plains mail carrier retires after eighty years of service
Walton Walters, a rural letter carrier in Plains, Georgia, completed his last route on Monday and bid farewell to patrons as he prepared for retirement the following day after 30 years of service and many friendships. Hora Harris of DeSoto named as his successor.
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Plains
Walton Walters
Postal Service
Walters
Hora Harris
DeSoto
Cotton tariffs and farmers voice in postwar policy
A speaker argues that cotton mills rely on tariff protection while farmers face market prices, recalling three cent cotton and government aid. He asserts processing taxes fall on consumers, not mills, and questions officials who urge protection while farmers struggle to get living prices. He emphasizes self-reliance and business experience over public office.
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Japan
United States
Georgia Democrats condemn Gov Talmadge over Roosevelt attack
Atlanta reports widespread backlash as several groups in Georgia denounce Governor Eugene Talmadge for calling President Roosevelt a radical. Warm Springs city groups, Augusta farmers, and others urge loyalty to the president and the recovery program. A former state representative asks Roosevelt to permit a Georgia Roosevelt for President Second Term Club.
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Talmadge
Roosevelt
Wary
Springs
Georgia
Woman
Chamber of Commerce
Warm Springs
Republican Party
Augusta
Eugene Talmadge
George Brown
State House of Representative
Atlanta Constitution
Convicts Escape from Cobb County Prison Camp
Vive convicts who escaped Sunday night from the Cobb county prison camp a mile from Marietta were still as large yesterday as police failed to trace their movements.
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Cobb County
Marietta
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Peoples Bank of Lyons
Robert Thomas
Lizzie W. Hines
P. F. Roach
North Georgia
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Thomaston Grocery
Georgi
R. Childs
State Allotment Board
F. W. Godwic
University of Georgia Forestry School
I. K. Carter
Belton
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Tifton
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Humphries Sheet Metal Works
Macon
Tennille
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Stockbridge
State Highway Department
Clarlton
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Washington, D. C
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Bowdon
C. E. Brantley
L. J. Martin
Hatley
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Charles Russell Clapp
Savannah
Eatonton
Clapp
Glynn County
Brunswick
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
American Public Health Association
Interstate Dommerce Commission
Georgia County and Peace Officers Association
Ansley Hotel
Howard McCutcheon
Ladies’ Entertainment Commit
Worth County
Pine Hill
Georgia Scholastic Press Association
Henry W. Grady School of Journalism
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Morris A. Baggett
Laurens County
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Americus High School
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Carttersville
Eugene W. Smith
Cartersville
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Murphy Holloway
Emory University
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Mercer University
Bill Maner
Georgia Tech
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University of Georgia
Allen Morris
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Medical Association of Georgia
Atlanta Biltmore Hotel
M. E. Dodd
Shreveportt
Southern Baptist Convention
University Chapel
Kerr Boyce Tupper
First Baptist Church
Richmond
Spright Dowell
Atlanta Journal
Sumter County
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Phillips Moore
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O. P. Gilbert
Christian Index
Geo. H. Firer
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State Department of Health
Tom Wisdom
Terrell County
Dawson
Wich
Robert Persons
Forsyth
Walter Sampson
Atlana
Ches
Otis Sanders
Yeomans Family Reunion
James D. Howard
Pat Hammond
Fear Head
South Georgia
Gov. Talmadge
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