Stanford to push tax repeal and textbook plan in session
Georgia lawmaker M H Stanford of Lowndes County outlines a push for repealing the tax equalization law, a state funded free or state owned text book bill, and bans on teaching evolution in tax supported schools. He also supports a state auditing reform requiring CPAs and directs tax and fee remittances to the state treasury.
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Georgia
Lowndes
Copeland
House
Senate
Stanford
General Assembly
Peeryman London Delega' Arising In Prison Meeting
Fragmentary report mentions Jones Peeryman London Delegates and Governor Clifford Welk involved in an election matter. References to prisoners in London and Georgia prison location, signaling a meeting attendance. Names include Mrs Norman Sharp, A. dl Popremil, and Colum bua Mryjtiver Run.
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Arte Moyd
Clifford Welk
Penyegent Geeri
Moses
Olpetel
Pweleon
Georgia
Norman Sharrt
A. dl Popremil
Cott
West
Ogden Chislom
Yorks Whyle
Columbua
Missing cow leads to beer barrels and death
A farm near Montezuma, a cow missing for days was found drowned in a small branch. Nearby, several barrels of beer were discovered, suggesting the cow drank too freely and was swept away by the stream.
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Montezuma
Fort Valley Lumber Co. Door Panels Offer Artful Glass Panels
An advertisement from Fort Valley Lumber Co. promotes artistic glass panel doors claiming they add tone and dignity absent in solid wood. The note invites interested customers to visit and view the new door designs at their Fort Valley, Go location.
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Fort Valley Lumber CO
Fort Valley
Central of Georgia Railway Expands with 1924 Investments
L A Downs, president, outlines vast 1924 upgrades by Central of Georgia Railway. Nearly 13 million dollars in five years, 4.25 million spent in 1924, including track relays, ballast renewals, 84 new industrial tracks, 24 passing tracks, eight miles of new line, concrete bridges, upgraded trestles, new service facilities, and major Birmingham to Columbus line improvements set to finish in 1925. Public credit support urged to sustain future transportation.
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L A. Downs
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Dowie
Central of Georgia
Central
Savannah
Columbus
Birmingham-Columbus
Downs
Summer Excursion Fares to Lakes and Seashore Resorts
The Central of Georgia Railway offers reduced round trip Summer Excursion tickets from May 15 to September 1, 1925, to lake, mountain, and seashore resorts across the United States and Canada and to Mexico City. Options include 69 day circle tours east, rail and water hotel packages, and mixed route itineraries via Savannah with steamship or all-rail returns. Comprehensive itineraries, schedules, and guides are available through agents, emphasizing comfort, sightseeing, and economical travel on The Right Way.
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Central of Georgia Railway
United States
Canada
Mexico City
Tyhee
Savarnnah’s Beach
South Atlantic
South- Eastern
Central of Georgia
Savannah
Sentral of Georgia Railway
Savaninah
Ocean Steamship Company of
Savateh
Merchants & Miners Transportation Company
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Wdl
Georgia
Four Drowned In Mississippi River Disaster At Memphis
A Civil Engineering convention trip ended in tragedy when the steamer Norman capsized sixteen miles below Memphis on the Mississippi River. Four are confirmed dead including Professor Walter G. Kirkpatrick and Major W. M. Gardiner, with fourteen still missing among the about fifty aboard. Survivors report no panic as the ship listed and sank at 5 10 p m. Bodies recovered include Kirkpatrick and Gardiner, with many names from Memphis and nearby states among the unaccounted.
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Memphis
Tenn
Norman
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Cow Island
Mid-South Association of Engineers
Tuntcn
Miss
Walter G. Kirkpatrick
University of Mississippi
J. F. Dorroh
Dean Dorroh
University of Mississippi Engineering Department
W. M. Gardiner
Professor Kirkpatrick
Major Gardiner
Jack Thoran
Will Moore
Tom Plunkett
Seamen oppose treasury bonus plan in letter to Coolidge
Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union of America, denounces Chairman O'Connor's proposal to pay a bonus to American seamen from the treasury. He argues wages are already only about 2 percent higher than foreign scales and claims the Seamen's Act has not been properly enforced.
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Washington
Andrew Furuseth
International Seamen's Union of America
Coolidge
O'Connor
Furuseth
Women may serve as vestrymen in Philadelphia parish
The Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal convention voted to allow women to serve as vestry members in St. Simeon’s church Philadelphia after approving an amendment to its charter. The action covers the diocese of Pennsylvania including four surrounding counties. Socialists protest Hindenburg election in Berlin claim irregularities and seek nullification.
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Philadelphia
Protestant Episcopal Convention
Diocese of
Pennsylvania
St. Simeon’s Church
Hindenburg
Berlin
Socialist Party
Field Marshal
von Hindenburg
Wilhelm Marx
Delegates Freed to Vote Freely on Church Unification
Nashville delegates to the Methodist Episcopal Church South annual conference will go uninstructed on unification with the Methodist Church. Resolutions by the college of bishops say delegates may exercise freedom of choice and not be bound by instructions. They may disregard any guidance on votes.
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M. E
Handa
Nashville
Tenn
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Methodist Church
College of Bishops
Electric Shocks for Regulating Hearts
A static wave device shown at a London medical exhibition aims to regulate heart rhythm. The patient sits in an insulated chair while a revolving ball on a fixed rod discharges electricity through the body to slow or speed the heart to its proper rate, with shocks felt even from six inches away.
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Tia
Detroit News
London
First Swiss Watchmaker Emerges From Blacksmith Roots
The text recounts a blacksmith turning to watch design and repair in Switzerland. A young Daniel Blehnes repaired a failed watch in 1680 while an English traveler noted his skill. This experience spurred him to become the country’s first watchmaker and a pioneer of a major industry in Neuchatel, a district famed for producing more watches than other regions.
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Switzerland
Daniel Jean Blehnes
Neuchatel
When to Find Acorns in Oak Trees
Acorn production marks oaks as distinct from other trees. Oaks fall into white and black groups with various species such as white oak proper bur oak swamp white oak post oak and live oak. White oaks have rounded leaf lobes though post and live oaks have no lobes and light bark. Bur oak differs with corklike branches and all group trees mature acorns in a single year preventing old and new crops from appearing on the same tree.
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American Tree Association of
Wash Ing
Feudal Era Curfew Bell Ringing at Holy Trinity Tower
In Richmond Yorks England the eleventh century Holy Trinity church tower preserves the old curfew custom with two bells rung daily at six and eight o'clock and a Shrove Tuesday eleven o'clock service. A gathering bell signals funerals. Without restoration the ancient tower may be doomed.
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Holy Trinity Church
Richmond
Yorkshire
England
Mike Receives News of Brother Pat’s Death
A man named Mike in a potato patch reads a black edged envelope from the postman and learns his brother Pat has died. Mike says the handwriting confirms the loss, expressing deep upset as the postman conveys the grim news.
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Mike
Pat
Everybody's Magazine
Origins of silhouette name in art and fashion
The term silhouette traces to Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister famed for frugal measures in 1759. His economy restrictions reduced details, and outlines dominated paintings. The name was adopted for black and white outline portraits and endured.
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Silhouette
Etienne de Silhouette
Water Buffalo Value in China and Farm Use
The water buffalo is highly valued in China for field work and rice cultivation. It is believed to be stronger than the ox and capable of heavier loads, with females yielding milk of excellent quality suitable for ghee. Its hide is prized for strength and durability.
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China
India
Food and water at low ebb as rum fleet nears end
The U S coast guard readies for summer operations to break up the Tum fleet off New York. Rear Admiral Bilard seeks noticeable disintegration within a month as several rum ships reportedly depart or head for weaker blockade points. Supplies aboard the ships grow low while patrols rotate on a three day on and three day off cycle. Seventeen vessels are docked, with about thirty eight still at large along the Atlantic coast.
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Washington
Coast Guard
New York
Bilard
Rum
Contiguone
Stapleton
Staten
Atlantic Seaboard
Rumors of Debt Talks Between Washington and Paris Persist
Despite denials in Washington and Paris a renewed push toward debt settlement talks is believed to be underway. Secretary Kellogg is away and officials decline to confirm any dispatched note to Paris, maintaining a cautious stance on renewed discussions.
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Washington
Paris
Kellogg
State Department
8 Daughters Married in Triple Affair in Huntsville
A series of three weddings united the White sisters of Gilkley. Tommie White aged 24 married John H Gurly, Josie White aged 21 married Fate Miller, and Janie White wed Alvey Woods. Probate Judge Thomas W Jones officiated all three licenses issued together.
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Huntsville
Ala
Gilkley
Tommie White
John H. Gurly
Josie White
Fate Miller
Janie White
Alvey Woods
Thomas W. Jones
Countess Kerinon Convicted in Paris Prison Case
Countess Kerinon, an Algerian dancer who wed the French count during his Africa service in 1908, has been found guilty of murdering her husband in Saint Brieuc, France. The trial concludes a dramatic span involving a noble title and a dramatic death.
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Kerinon
Saint- Brieuc
France
de Kerinon
Africa
Massey Death Ends Wartime Premiership Era in New Zealand
William Ferguson Massey premier of New Zealand has died. He led the Dominion government since 1912, surviving war and postwar shifts that toppled other elder leaders. A fervent Imperialist, Massey was born 69 in Limavady near Londonderry Ireland to a family of long-time tillers of the soil.
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New Zealand
Wellington
William Ferguson Massey
Massey
Premmier
Limavady
Londonderry
Ireland
Woman plans assassination plot against President Calles
Twenty year old Maria Luisa Jauregi, now in a sanitarium, was found to have plotted to kill President Calles in Mexico City. A physician said her odd behavior and long contemplation of the plan pointed to mental unbalance and she was placed under treatment.
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Nips
Pres. Calles
Mexico _City
Maria Luisa Jauregi
President Calles
Marla
Church Authority Splits Across National Orthodox Lines
A Cleveland Plain Dealer analysis notes the Orthodox world is divided by national lines with each church led by its own primates. It cites Constantinople as the leading see, while other patriarchates like Alexandria Antioch and Jerusalem hold prestige. Soviet Russia, once with a state church since 1721, now disestablished and properties appropriated under anti religious policy, yet freedom of worship remains in law.
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Constantinople
Alexandria
Antioch
Jerusalem
Russia
Soviet Russia
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Moravian School in Far North Labrador
In the icebound Labrador coast town of Makkovik a Moravian church boarding school, run by two Englishwomen, serves Eskimo and white children. A mission steamer yearly brings supplies and children, who stay through the winter when travel is impossible. The school offers education and recreation with a gramophone, piano, lantern slides, and a fine library.
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Makkovik
Labrador
Aime
Moravian Church
Service And Duties Of The United States Coast Guard
The United States coast guard service was created by an act of compress of January 28 1915 by combining the revenue cutter service and the life saving service. Its duties include aiding vessels in distress protecting life and property removing wrecks extending medical aid to American deep sea fisheries enforcing anchorage and navigation laws aiding in war or when directed by the President and enforcing quarantine and neutrality. It also covers suppressing mutinies, protecting game and other fisheries in Alaska and operating as an international patrol off Newfoundland.
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United States Coast Guard Service
Revenue-Cutter Service
Alaaka
Newfoundland
Insecta and Scientisis Study Island Life Links
Insecta and Scientisis mark a study of animal and insect life to trace earth changes. They note that relations between regional insects reveal island connections once above sea. In Jumalca they explore ancient land now submerged, suggesting the isle’s fauna links to Haiti or Cuba via an extinct land bridge.
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Scientisis
Jumalca
Haiti
Cuba
Feamily Herald
Gas From Flower Gardens Spurs Pittsburgh Gas Boom
The rise of natural gas development around Pittsburgh is attributed largely to George Westinghouse. He persuaded his wife to permit sinking a shaft in a flower garden, producing a geyser after about 1,800 feet. He devised a piping system to prevent leakage and reduce pressure with progressively larger pipes, enabling safe distribution to customers.
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Pittsburgh
George Westinghouse
Airbrake
Westinghouse
Earliest Greek Letters Debate Shifts to Phalaris Claim
The long held belief that Phalaris letters were the earliest extant Greek epistles is challenged by Richard Bentley's 1699 Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris. He showed the letters are of late origin, dating to about the second century A D. Among early genuine Greek letters are nine by Isocrates.
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Phalaria
Richard Bentley
Phalaris
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Dea
Vogue
NAVY
N. Y. City
Atlantic
Church Authority
Far North
Insecta and
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