Plans for large Atlanta air base to serve Cuba
Atlanta plans a vast aviation complex under Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr to link a western and southern network and Cuba. Eleven thousand acres near Atlanta are under option as airfields and fleets are readied by Christmas with a multistage, multi‑million dollar program. Vanderbilt says the project aims to make Atlanta the nation’s third largest air base and to begin freight and mail service within months, with passenger service not expected yet.
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Cuba
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Vanderbilt
Detroit
California
United States
New Orleans
Florida
van Ve O
Muscle Shoals Dream Is Real
Flovenes Alabama August 29 harnessing Muscle Shoals becomes real with power fed from a turbine unit into a regional inter connected system across several Southern States. The first concrete result of a $51 million Federal program marks the start of a new electrical age in the Tennessee Valley as Wilson dam and adjacent plant near completion. About 2,221 workers remain on the reservation this week after a gradual reduction from 5,000 since work began nearly seven years ago. Expected turnover of a finished job is June 1 next year.
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Flovenes
Ala
Tennessee Valley
Wilson Dam
Purification Health Ad Promises System Cleanse
An old advertisement urges health through Calotahs purifying the body. It quotes a physician on purification as Nature’s foundation of health and recommends a thorough course taken weekly for several weeks. The ad touts Calotahs as purifiers, sold in a family pack with a price of 94, at any drug store.
Adams Manufacturing Plant Burns in Macon
Macon August 30. The Adams Manufacturing Company plant producing overalls and duck trousers was destroyed by fire Sunday night. The two story 220 by 110 foot building left only walls, with losses around 200000. 150 workers were employed, 125 machines and modern electric equipment were in operation. Fire started in the manufacturing dept with two cutters at work. water could not halt the blaze. No injuries. D D Adams president pledges reestablishment within three months.
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Macon
Adams Manufacturing Company
D. D. Adams
Suitor Shoots Girl's Brother in Georgia Prom Night
Washington Ga Aug 30 Barney E Lunceford 30 died after being shot by Robert Boatwright 26 at a Rayle prom party near his home. Lunceford had warned his sister Alliene Lunceford 18 against Boatwright, who had been courting her. Boatwright fired four shots at Lunceford, three hitting him as the pair were stopping to leave the automobile in front of the Lunceford residence.
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Barney E. Lunceford
Robert Boatwright
Joe Lunceford
Rayle
Wshington
Boatwright
Lunceford
Alliene Lunceford
Miss Lunceford
Barney Lunceford
Ladly
Paving Plans Discussed at Montezuma Kiwanis Meeting
Delegations from Macon County Kiwanis Clubs and county officials met in Montezuma on Thursday night to push paving 31 miles of the Dixie Highway from the Sumter line to the Peach line. Speakers from multiple towns urged the project with hopes for rapid progress aided by federal and state funds. A resolution asked the county board to call an election to issue bonds and accelerate aid applications.
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Montezuma
Macon County
Kiwanis Clubs
W H. McKenzie
Montezuma Kiwanis Club
John G. Guerry
J F Hays
G C Robinson
Miami
Fla
Chas
Wheatley
Sumter County
Mr. Flint
Atlanta
State Higway Department
J. W.frederick
Marshallville
C A Greer
Oglethorpe
Book Bar
Georgia
Board of County Commissioners
Sumter
Peach County
Trimmers and the power shift in late medieval England
The Trimmers name in England referred to George Savile, first minister of Malliiax, and his political follower who, between 186 and 1490, held power between the Whigh and the Tortes.
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England
George Savile
Two Jones County Officers Slain in Georgia
Gray Ga August 28 a Jones county tragedy unfolds as Floyd Malone deputy and Frank Tucker are shot. A coroner and jury investigate near Choate mill pond while Macon arrests in a wider murder case loom.
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Jones County
Gray
Floyd
Malone County
Frank Tucker
E T Dumas
Middlebrooks
Bullington
Choate's Mill Pond
Hanis
Macon
Learly
Malone Annd Tucker
Malone
Bibb County
Floyd Malone
New Capital Highway Links Atlanta To Tallahassee
Thomaston Georgia August details the Capital Highway connecting Atlanta to Thomasville via Jonesboro Griffin Zebulon Thomaston Butler Ellaville Americus Albany and Tallahassee. Upson County Commissioners approve the name and urge neighboring counties to follow. The route follows state No 3 and reduces Atlanta to Tallahassee distance by about 40 miles.
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Thomaston
Atlanta
Thomasville
Florida
Jonesboro
Griffin
Zebulon
Butler
Ellaville
Americus
Albany
Tallahassee
Upson
Pebble Industry Declines Along Pacific Coast Mills
The old pebble picking industry along the Pacific coast wanes as science fails to produce steel balls used in grinding mills. The demand for pebbles collapses, leaving the pebble pickers in hardship.
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Pacific Coast
Cold in the Head and Halls Catarrh Remedy Ad
A vintage advertisement explains cold symptoms as acute nasal catarrh in a run down condition. It promotes Halls Catarrh Medicine a two part treatment with an ointment for local use and a ton ic that acts through the bloodstream on mucous surfaces to relieve symptoms. By W. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio over 40 years of service.
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W. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
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