Florida Spinisters Live With Corpses For 16 Years
Jacksonville Journal reports two elderly sisters have resided for over 16 years in pine woods 20 miles south of Jacksonville with three unburied bodies including their father and a servant. The crumbling Pinehurst Seminary site was visited. one sister Gertrude Anhorn, 74, was placed in a rest home, while Minnie Anhorn, 68, stays with the remains on the plantation guarded for years.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Jacksonville Journal
Pine Woods
Pinehurst Seminary
Wm. P. Bacheller
Newport
R. I
Racheller
Gertrude Anhorn
St. Augustine
Minnie Anhorn
New Trainees Arrive in Macon From New York
Two trains delivered 1,057 New York trainees to Macon on October 12. Eight hundred were assigned to the 7th Training Battalion at Camp Wheeler for basic infantry training and 257 were allotted to the Eighth Battalion nearby.
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Macon
New York
7Th
Camp Wheeler
Land Sale Under Whatley Estate In Taylor County
Taylor County Georgia public notice for sale of G. T. Whatley estate lands by administrator Thelmon Jarrell. Property is tract No.128 in the 15th Land District totaling about 202 12 acres, to be sold at public outcry at the Butler courthouse on November 4, 1941, within legal hours, cash terms. Publication details include local newspaper Butler Herald and official sworn statement by J. R. Lunsford, Taylor County Ordinary.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Thelmon Jarrell
G. T. Whatley
Butler
Towit
Taylor
Said
Said County
Butler Herald
C. E. Benns
Butler, Ga
Chas Benns Jr
C. E. Cox
O. BE. Cox
J. R. Lunsford
Moon Over Miami and Public Deb Shows At Dean Theatre
Week at Dean Theatre features Moon Over Miami from 20th Century Fox with Betty Grable and Carol Landis, Don Ameche, Robert Cummings, Greenwood and Haley in a tropical spectacle with eight songs and lavish color. Wednesday to Thursday presents Elsa Maxwell's Public Debt No 1 with George Murphy Brenda Joyce and starry supporting cast. Friday and Saturday show Virginia Weidler Robert Sterling in I'll Wait For You and Roy Rogers in Border Legions.
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Sun, & Mon
20Th Century Fox
Rio
Miami
Betty Grable
Carol Landis
Don Ameche
Robert Cummings
Charlotte Greenwood
Jack Haley
Elsa Maxwell
Dean
George Murphy
Brenda Joyce
Rooshian
Micha Auer
Charlie Ruggles
Ralph Bellamy
Maxie Rosenbloom
Macon Postmaster W A Pattillo Returns to Office
Friends of Macon Postmaster celebrate his recovery from facial paralysis and months of absence. Pattillo reports no pain, awakening after a good night’s sleep to find strength returning in his arm and him back at work.
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Macon
W. A. Pattillo
Frank Dupree Capture After Auto Crash Endangers Officers
Frank Dupree, 22, a South Carolinian with a life sentence for the murder of Atlanta salesman Eldridge Elder, was recaptured near Lawrenceville after a high speed chase. His car overturned three times, injuring him and confirming his identification in a liquor store hold up. The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed his conviction for fled not surrendered within the time limit.
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Atlanta
Frank Dupree
Ed i F. Elder
DeKalb County
Burt W. Reynolds
Lawrenceville
W. P. Grinstead
Dupree
Supreme Court
Coffee County Court Sees 71 Divorce Filings This Fall
Coffee county records show one of the state's largest lists of divorce cases with 71 couples seeking divorces, annulments, or alimony at the fall term of court.
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Coffee County
Sorrow Follows Death Of Hon C A Greer Oglethorpe Mayor
Dr. C A Greer 67 longtime Oglethorpe mayor and Macon county physician died Thursday night. A Georgia museum of service includes House member 1925 27 and state senator 1938. Survived by wife Saleah Simmons brother Judge R L Greer sister Susie Sutton and several nieces and nephews. Ministers Rev A W Quillian S A Doubit John Ziegler W W Whaley and Shearhouse of Quitman presided.
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Oglethorpe
House of Representatives
State Senate
Third District Medical Association
Saleah Simmons
Guyton
R. L. Greer
Susie Sutton
Eloise Rice
Athens
T. W. Hollis
Buena Vista
F. G Guerry
Montezuma
Corene Brooks
Albany
Jack Comer
Lake Wales
Fla
Mary Brooks
R. C. Collier Jr
A. W. Quillian
A Doubit
John Ziegler
W. W. Whaley
Shearhouse
Quitman
Massive Fall River Rubber Plant Destroyed in Fire
A large rubber plant in Fall River Massachusetts producing defense goods was destroyed by a Sunday fire. The blaze fed by thousands of tons of government owned crude rubber damaged five buildings and hurt three others. An official loss figure was not available but the Fall River Tribune News estimated damage at about 13 million dollars.
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Fall River
Mass
Firestone Rubber Company
D&Mé
Fall River Tribune-News
Benning families secure new homes in Leesburg area
Leesburg Georgia October 13 officials of the Farm Security Administration announced options have been secured on more than 2000 acres for families moving from Fort Benning to settle nearby about 30 families whose land was acquired by the government are expected to settle here
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Leesburg
Ft. Benning
FSA
Two Men Escape Burning Car Crash in Woodbury
Woodbury Georgia October 13 Leonard Wallace of Manchester and Buck Taylor of Woodbury owed their lives today to a series of kicks that shattered the windshield after their car turned over in a ditch trapping them inside. They escaped before flames reached them.
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Woodbury
Leonard Wallace
Manchester
Buck Taylor
Power curtailment may start November 3
Southeastern public service commissioners and power company officials agreed to a Federal Power Commission proposal for a curtailment program starting Nov 3 unless rain or pooling operations ease the water shortage. Nine state commissioners met with FPC Chairman Leland Olds to assess worsening shortages that threaten defense industries in the Southeast without relief.
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Atlanta
Southeastern Public Service
Power Company
Federal Power Commission
Leland Olds
National Defense Industries
Ben T. Huiet to Run Again for Labor Commissioner
Atlanta’s Ben T. Huiet announced he would seek re-election for the four year term in 1942 despite being charged by the U S Civil Service Commission with violating the Hatch Act for allegedly interfering in the November 1940 election. He urged voters to support him now.
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Atlanta
Ben T. Huiet
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington
Four Die In Two Car Wrecks Near Columbus Saturday Night
Four persons died and five were injured in two crashes within two miles on the Columbus Macon road late Saturday night and early Sunday. Victims include Henry Davis 37 Hogansville James Davis LaGrange and Vera Trotter 30 of Thomaston. Eugene Woods 19 of Ashburn died after his car left the Macon road and rolled. companions Floyd Taylor and Rupert Hamlet were lightly hurt. Two hitchhikers from the Davis car Pvt Harvey Harper and Pvt W F Jones sustained multiple injuries. both survived.
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Columbus
Columbus-Macon
Kendall Creek Bridge
Macon
Henry Lewis Davis
Hogansville
James Davis
LaGrange
Vera Trotter
Thomaston
Dora Brooks
Thomaton
Ft. Benning
Eugene Woods
Co. M
8Th Infantry
Fort Hospital
Eva Woods
Ashburn
Floyd Taylor
Rupert Hamlet
Davis
Harvey Harper
W. F. Jones
82Nd Reconnaissance Battalion
Taylor
Hamlet
Columbus Hospital
Harry Davis
Carrie Lou Birdsong a Talbot County Woman Dies at 52
Mrs. Carrie Lou Birdsong Davis of Talbotton Georgia 52 prominent Talbot county woman and church worker died at her home in Prattsburg after a brief illness. She is survived by husband Clarence Davis a daughter Mrs. Louis Mathew two grandchildren Edward and Ann Mathews six brothers Ed Birdsong Atlanta Chas Birdsong Birmingham Lam Birdsong Falbot county J C Herbert Birdsong Housington Kan and B H B Birdsong Woodland four sisters Mrs H B Kendricks Mrs Frank Greer Mrs Arthur Davis Columbus and Mrs Saraly Todd Murphy New York Funeral services Saturday afternoon at 4 o clock at Corinth Methodist church in Talbot county.
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Talbotton
Charrie Lou Birdsong Davis
Talbot County
Prattsburg
Clarence Davis
Louis
Mathew
Edward
Ann Mathews
Thomaston
Ed Birdsong
Atlanta
Chas
Birdsong
Birmingham
Lam Birdsong
Falbot County
J. C
Herbert Birds
Dan Kleckley Dies Prominent Oglethorpe Merchant
Dan Kleckley 63 merchant and member of the Oglethorpe board of aldermen died Thursday at his home after years of ill health. Funeral services were held at the graveside in Oglethorpe Cemetery Friday with burial in the same cemetery after the earlier retirement from active business about a year ago.
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Oglethorpe
Dan Kleckley
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America
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G-E
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Army
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General Electric Company
Schenectady, N. Y
Administrator's Sale
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C. A. Greer
Massachusetts
Benning
Carrie Lou Birdsong
W. Gordon Sr
Thomaston, Ga
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