Atlanta Wet and Dry Fight Roils City in Prohibition Clash
Atlanta faces a major showdown over prohibition led by Mayor James L. Key. A Fulton county grand jury urged repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as bootleggers thrive. John Manget claims police men protectors, prompting calls for rapid trials and Key recall as Bishop Cannon visits and Chief Beavers resigns.
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Atlanta
Dixie
James L. Key
France
John A. Manget
Ciry
Fulton County
Superior Court
Manger
James L. Beavers
Manget
Greater
Prohibition and Law Enforcement Club
Key
Georgia Anti-Saloon League
Charles O. Jones
James Cannon, Jr
All Atlanta
Beavers
Police Department
New Library Adds Wide Range of New Books
A classified list from Huron Public Library announces dozens of new titles across fiction and related works. Authors include Aldrich, Cather, Du Maurier, Oppenheim, Sabatini, Sinclair, Undset, Widdimer, and many others.
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Huron Public Lbrary
Aldrich
Ashbrook
Steven Kester
Baum
Martin
Bindless
Blake
Weir
Borden
Bradford
John Henry
Brush
Burt
Cather
Rock
Cournos
Lavisia
Christie
Rofts
Cronin
Deeping
de la Roche
Diver
du Maurier
Mrs. Fraser
Fauconnier
Ferber
Fisher
Gregg
Hannum
Hubermont
Jesse
Solange
Kaye Smith
Susan Spray
Kelly
Kilbourne
Lewis
Lewisohn
Lincoln
Macgowan
Marshall
Father Malachy
Maxwell
Millin
Ash
Mitchell
Norris
O'Connor
Ogden
Oliver
Oppenheim
Peter Crada
Pedler
Phillpotts
Poole
Destroyer
Raine
Rio Grande
Reynolds
Brothers
Roberts
Rolvaag
Rosman
Royde-Smith
Buck
Sabatini
Scaramouche the Kingmaker
Sinclair
Suckow
Undset
Id Orchid
Vance
Walpole
Judith Paris
Washington-Metcalfe
Santa Anna
Wentworth
Widdimer
Wiilsie
Reading List of Notable Works Across Disciplines
A catalog of book titles and authors spanning philosophy psychology religion sociology science art literature biography and history. Notable entries include Einstein works on living philosophy and growth, Galsworthy Loyalties, Sophocles King Oedipus, Rockne Autobiography, and Hulbert Forty-Niners.
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Daniel
Wodehouse
Oliver
Gaston
Aclitt
Morgan
Swift
Gesell
Murchison
Einstein
Others
Tagore
Mathews
Browne
Cunningham
Wiggam
Lorimer
Kohler
Mann
Europe
Wilson
Jeans
Hooton
Gilbert
Baynes
Blue Mountain Forest
Maxwell
Equatorial Africa
Dietul Arts
Langdon
Selbert
Graham
Auders Radismans
Wilder
Aldrich
Branch
McKim
Lillie
Witherspoon
Goldsmith
Carpenter
Robinson
Mathias
Cavett
Crothers
Golden
Abingdon
Stephens
Corkery
Synge
Galsworthy
Maugham
Sophocles
Soviet
Russia
Smallwood
Newfoundland
Chase
Mexico
Americas
Garland
Washington
Knute K. Rockne
Steffens
Hagedorn
Leonard Wood
Alexander
Hulbert
Four Cucumber Seeds Boost Hope Farm Income in Oklahoma
Simon Bouzidon, a Woods County farmer and former peddler, planted four Syrian cucumber seeds sent seven years ago. The seeds grew in fertile soil and by the second year yielded several bushels. He has sold crops at about 2.50 dollars per bushel, earning around 100 dollars monthly.
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Hopeton
Okla
Syria
Simon Bonzidon
Woods County
Bouzidon
Radicals back Laval policy amid party shifts on foreign policy
Paris dispatch notes a split in the radical socialist group as Edouard Herriot endorses four Laval aligned planks including Franco German understanding and disarmament with security guarantees. They favor expanding League of Nations powers and global production coordination, while opposition to Austro German customs union remains. The radicals hold 107 seats.
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Hudson Hawlee
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Laval
Edouard Herriot
Radical Party
France
Pacific Fairioum
Goetha
Voltaire
Hague
Herriot
Europe
United States
Italy
Germany
Hungary
League of Nations
Jumbo the Hereford Bull Aims for World Size Record
Odessa Tex August 1931 Jumbo the Hereford bull weighs 2600 pounds and spans 14 feet from nose to tail. Owner Gist plans to push him past two tons by Fort Worth Fat Stock Show next March aiming for a world size record. He says the goal is to see how big a bull he can raise as visitors flock to the farm. Taxes on gas reach 7 118 billion gallons in U S in first half of 1931.
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Odessa
Tex
Johr
Gist
Fort Worth
United States
Boys Garner Gold in Brazilian Slum Streets
Barefoot boys roam unpaved streets after heavy rain in Cuyaba Matto Grosso Brazil in search of placer gold. One foreign dentist profits by taking the gold from these youngsters as the city recalls its placer mining history. The Krupp munition works at Freimann is noted for producing the Big Bertha during World War I.
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Cuyaba
Matto Grosso
Brazil
Krupp Works
Munichh
Krupp Munition Works
Freimann
German Federal Railway Converts Rolling Stock Repair Work
The facility has been taken over by the German federal railway and converted to a peaceful task of repairing rolling stock. Local officials emphasize a shift from disruption to constructive repair work and increased maintenance capacity.
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German Federal Railway
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