Fair plans promise industrial show and auto exhibit
The board of fair planning focuses on converting four green buildings into usable facilities for the fair including an automobile show space and an industrial display. An estate building, merchants exhibit, flower and poultry show are also on the card as part of a gala event to attract visitors and advertise broadly. J A Carnaby has been hired to ensure all featured attractions are presented.
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Boar of Fair Aeg
J Atow
Flower and Poulihowig
Schedule of weekly home demonstration and clubs talks
IME AGENT SETS weekly schedule for the first week of a new winter program. Mrs. G Pruitt to tour surrounding communities, address women's and 4-H clubs, and arrange teaching for club members. Meetings listed across Taylor Webb Ardila Rehobeth Madrid and other areas with topics on school lunches organization and demonstrations. CHAMP STARTS QUEST NEW YORK AP Paul Runyan embarks on a 20 event golf tour with Louisville Open and Australian tournaments before rejoining Miami Biltmore staff. Typhus fever deaths noted as three million projected over five years plus lice transmission.
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G. Pruitt
Taylor
M. Luneford
T. Bryan
Minnie Kelly
Webb
Plains
T. W. Southerland
Madrid
Big Creek
J. K. Newton
A. D. Ibrey
H. Maddox
Ada New
Champ
QUEST
New York
Paul Ryan
White Plains
N. Y
Hal P
Runyan
Miami Biltmore
Coral Gables
Fila
Grova’s Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Malaria Relief
An advertisement touts Grova’s Tasteless Chill Tonic as a remedy for malaria symptoms including chills and fever. It claims to destroy blood infections and boost the blood with iron to fortify against further attacks, promising restoration to health after use.
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Wrevs
Grova
U. S. Comptroller Folded Into Treasury Operations
Treasury officials announce the Comptroller of the Currency office is being coordinated with other bureaus. Funds for closed banks will now flow through Treasury books and be paid directly. Change effective July 1 fits efficiency goals and Treasury oversight expands to personnel and legal work.
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Treasury
Comptroller of the Currency
Congress
Comptroller
J. F. T. O'Connor
Comptroller's Office
Morgenthau
Comptroller’s Bureau
Herman Oliphant
Internal Revenue and Customs Bureaus
The
Cotton ginning totals reach nearly five million bales
Washington reports 4,958,346 running bales ginned before October 1 from this year's crop totaling 4,958,346 with 87,186 round bales and 3,799 American-Egyptian. State figures include Alabama 507,909 and Texas 1,718,983 among others with last year comparisons.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Calfornia
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
Orth Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennesse
Texas
Virginia
Turks Fire On French Warships In Territorial Waters
Turkey protested to France charging violation of its territorial waters by two French destroyers fired on by Turkish coastal batteries in the Gulf of Smyrna. France returned fire. The incident prompted a formal protest through the French embassy but no fatalities were reported. The Cassard and Guepard then left the Gulf of Smyrna after a ten day cruise in Greek waters.
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Istanbul
Turkey
France
Gulf of Smyrna
Cassard
Tennessee rate board rules on TVA protest petitions
The Tennessee Railroad and Public Utilities Commission denied TVA counsel's motion to dismiss protests against the sale of privately owned electric properties to the TVA. The commission said constitutionality of the federal statute creating the TVA is not within its purview. Properties around Knoxville, owned by Tennessee Public Service Co., are to be sold to the TVA for 6 191 000 dollars.
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Nashville Tenn
State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Commission
Tennessee Public Service Company
Knoxville
Public Service Company
Mortgage Sale in Houston County Alabama
Default on the 1928 mortgage by H C Temples and wife Willie Temples led to transfer of the sale power to Richard and Thalheimer. On November 2 1934 they will sell at cash in front of the courthouse in Pothan Alabama the Hornsby property described as starting at the southwest corner on North College street and running 95 feet south then 150 feet east then 95 feet north then west to College street. Pettus Fuller & Lapsley Selma attorneys.
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H. C. Temples
Willie Temples
J. A. Fuller
Houston County
Alabama
Pothan
Carrie J. Strickland
J. E. Hornsby
College Street
M. D. Hornsby
North Street
Hornsby
Notice of Mortgage Sale in Dothan Alabama
State of Alabama Houston County mortgage notice by Robbie C. Baker and J Walter Baker. Alice Lee Hillard mortgagee will sell at public outcry on October 22 1934 at the courthouse front door in Dothan during legal hours to satisfy debt and foreclosure costs. Property: Lot No 4 in Block 1 fronting 58 8 on Alice Street, 172 feet deep, bounded by Alice Street R H Ramsey D C Carmichael and W W Baker. Attorny H R McClintock for Mortgages dated Sept 24 1334.
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Alabama
Houston County
Robbie C. Baker
J. Walter Baker
Dothan
Towit
Alice Street
R. H. Ramsey
D. C. Carmichael
W. W. Baker
Alice Lee Hillard
Freak Potato Grows Like Gopher in Local Patch
Local grocer J M Jones reports a freak sweet potato resembling a gopher or terrapin. The tuber formed at a gopher hole mouth and includes feet shell and tail with a head added after discovery. Cross pollination and rapid vine blooms turned the one third acre patch into a peculiar flowering garden of normal size tubers.
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J. M. Jones
Jones Grocery Atore
Jones
Drenching Rains Boost Alabama Farmers Across State
Drenching rains last week eased soil for winter legumes and small grains and boosted pastures. Heavy downstate rainfall reached 4 inches in Mobile and 4.17 in Montgomery, with Alabama's sugar cane and sorghum plots near long-term averages. County agents report harvest progress before the rains, while Ben Alvord notes Alabama's substantial 1933 sugar and syrup output and forecasts a higher final total this year.
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Auburn
Mobile
Montgomery
Alabama
Ben F. Alvord
Department of Agricultural Economics
Dale County
Rightist Cuban Labor Plans Own Strike
Havana October 9 reporters say Cuba faces a general strike threat after a prior walkout collapsed. The United Front labor group refused to cooperate with the National Confederation of Labor, which officials call a Communist effort. The Front plans a separate general strike free from Communist influence.
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Havana
Cuba
United Front
National Confederation of Labor
Confederation
Fragmentary Crop Yields Mentioned in Report
The record cites partial harvest figures including 60 percent cotton and 20 percent corn, with other notes indicating 60 to 80 percent ranges for hay and 50 percent levels for peanuts and harvests. Names Coonan and Henry appear in the fragmented text alongside these figures.
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Coonan
Henry
FERA Chief Sets Tax Rules for Alabama Relief Costs
Malcomb Miller, FERA representative in the South, says taxes are not sacred and Alabama will be asked to contribute to relief costs within its ability this winter. Thad Holt notes Alabama would be required to provide at least three million dollars yearly. Miller cites Washington as guiding the policy while Texas is singled out as the only Southern state currently contributing a fair share. The 1934 monthly relief contribution of one million dollars would rise by five hundred thousand in 1935.
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Birmingham
Ala
Malcomb Miller
FERA
South
Miller
Washington
Thad Holt
Alabama
Texas
Miler
Hungary invites actors to Budapest
The Hungarian minister of education plans to invite American actors to Budapest to participate in cultural exchanges and educational programs. The move signals a widening of international artistic collaboration and goodwill toward the United States.
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Budapest
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