Neutrality Decrees Promised By President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt signs proclamations invoking the neutrality act and applying to the canal, aiming to curb arms shipments and restrict Americans aboard belligerent ships. He pledges immediate steps to strengthen neutrality, bolster defenses, and limit propaganda while reaffirming impartial neutrality with room for free opinion. Southern cotton markets brace for price shifts amid European war and government loan policies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
America
Panama Canal
Hull
United States
Congress
Mortgage papers burned by church in retirement ceremony
Americus reports Lee Street Methodist church burned mortgage papers in a morning ceremony to celebrate the retirement of a long standing debt tied to paving Lee Street and church and parsonage properties. Officials received the cancelled note and mortgage papers a few days earlier as part of the celebration.
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Americus
Lee
Lee Street
Downright Facts Quietly Shape Everyday Life
Local readers are urged to note plain statements and confirmed details. The text emphasizes plain truth over embellishment and highlights the value of straightforward information in daily decisions.
Buena Visita Bank Marks 50 Years of Service
Buena Vista Georgia September 1 1939 the Buena Vista Loan and Savings Bank celebrates 50 years of continuous operation since its 1889 charter. The bank opened in Lowe’s store, expanded capital, remodeled with a white marble front, and reported 143 547 60 in cash dividends to stockholders over its half century. Current officers include W C Wooten president A C Duncan vice president and D W Duncan cashier.
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Buena Vista
Buena Vista Loan and Savings Bank
Marion County
Buena, Vista
G. M. Butt
M. Hair
J. M. Lowe
T. W. Harvey
F. H. Buchanan
W. M Williams
T B Lumpkin
R. E. Clements
C. H. McCall
E. W. Miller
I.L. Rogers
J. M
J. T. Walton
Sc. M. Butt
Joe J. Durham
C. Horace McCall
Ss. N. Rushin
I. G. Nelson
B. T. Mathis
S. Waxelbaum
J. W Wheatley
State Banking Department
Stae
W. C. Wooten
A. C. Duncan
D. W. Duncan
B. H Fouche
J. M. Lowe, Jr
Commuted death sentence for Oglethorpe man
Atlanta Aug 30 Gov Rivers commuted the death sentence of A E Allen for killing his mother to life imprisonment. The order cites jurors, family, and civic leaders in Macon county as urging clemency and notes the parole board recommended mercy after a conviction for fatally beating his mother who refused to give him her old age pension check.
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Atlanta
A. E. Allen
Oglethorpe
Executive Department
Rivers
Allen
Prison and Parole Board
Macon County
Weekend death toll tops 216 across U S traffic and other causes
The Associated Press reports that over the long week end at least 216 people died in the United States and Europe. In the U S 140 deaths were from traffic accidents, 36 by drowning, 40 by shooting or other causes, with Illinois recording 24 fatalities and Georgia just two weekend deaths noted.
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Associated Press
United States
Europe
Mlinois
Georgia
Hezekiah’s Revival and Passover Renewal in Judah
The text portrays Hezekiah leading a broad revival rooted in repentance and purification. It recalls the Passover observed with reverence, despite non ceremonial cleansing by some, and emphasizes sacrifice, forgiveness, and God’s protection. Hezekiah’s reign is depicted as prosperous with renewed religious life and divine favor.
Youth hunted in 1936 hit and run killing gives up
Homer Ga Sept 2 Sheriff Far ris Brewer said J A Davis Jr aged about 22 who had been sought by Banks county authorities for nearly three years in connection with a highway fatality gave himself up Saturday morning He was sitting on the jail steps when he arrived and told the sheriff he had been sitting there since midnight. Davis had been indicted for murder in the death of Lewis Turpin killed by a hit run motorist on the Homer Cornelia road in October 1986
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Homer
Farris
Brewer
J. A. Davis, Jr
Banks
Davis
iLewis
Turpin
Homer Cornelia
Tallmadge Urges Neutral America In Labor Day Address
Milledgeville Georgia September 4 Former Governor Eugene Tallmadge calls America to stay out of the European war in a Labor Day rally address. He says capital and labor demand neutrality and vows against being drawn into a world war by profiteers. Speakers criticize the present governor and advocate impeachment and lawful governance.
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Eugene Talmadge
America
Milledgeville, Ga
Eugene Talladge
Europe
Talmadge
Milledgeville
Veterans’ Club of
H. B. Edwards
Lowndes County
Randall Evans
McDuffie
Edwards
General Assembly
Lowndes Mountain
General Assembly of Georgia
Roosevelt vows US neutrality amid European conflict
President Roosevelt told a national radio audience that as long as possible the United States would keep peace and remain a neutral nation. He noted that a formal proclamation of neutrality was being prepared in line with international law and the Neutrality Act, even as he spoke from the Oval Room at the White House.
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Washington
America
Europe
Roosevelt
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Oval Room
White House
Macon Shooting After Family Dispute Over War
Edgar Reeves, 34, was shot in a Macon home following an argument with his uncle Lee Reed over the European war. Reeves was in fair condition at the local hospital with shotgun wounds to his right side and arm. Reed is jailed on a warrant charging assault with intent to murder, claiming Reeves had first threatened him with a hunting knife. Both men admitted liquor had been consumed before the dispute. The warrant, sworn by Reeves' mother, set bail at $000.
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Macon
Edgar Reeves
Reeves
Lee Reed
Bibb
United States
England
France
America
Reed
Laura Reeves
President Vows to Strengthen Neutrality Policy
The President asserted that invocation of the Neutrality Act will shape arms operations and impose an embargo against belligerents. He expressed trust that in the days to come our neutrality can be made a true neutrality.
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Linters
R Spielberger
Cotton, Advisory Bureau
T. M.forbés
Cotton
Manufacturers Association of Georgia
Buena Visita Bank
Kidron
Hezekiah
God
Calvary
Jehovah
U. S
Christian Science Monitor
Monitor
The
Christian Science ‘Publishing Society
Norway Street
Boston
Massachusetts
Christian Science, Monitor
Warind
Lockhart
L. L. Lockhart
Butler
Morgan McCants
Payne’s
Butler, Georgia
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