Georgia News Briefs Reflect Political Strife and Local Progress
The piece notes Georgia politics heating up with campaigns ahead and a call for direct action on strikes. It reports Thomaston voters approving a $20,000 bond for R. E. Lee Institute and discusses tax funding disparities among Georgia counties. It also covers cotton market prospects, coal supply worries, boll weevil control, cattle tick eradication, and backlash against dynamiters in dipping vats.
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South Georgia
Opportunity for Labor in Peach Hog and Chicken Industries
Opportunity column notes advantages of peach hog and chicken farming for white workers including men women and youths. It asserts these industries offer pleasure and profit and hints at limiting Black labor in the future.
State shifts may reduce black labor reliance
The Barnesville News-Gazette notes that dependence on black labor has declined and urges white residents to adapt to new conditions, signaling lower availability of negro labor as in the past.
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Barnesville News-Gazette
Taxpayers League cites Georgia tax flows and receipts
A Georgia Taxpayers League statement outlines county and state tax flows. It lists the ten counties that paid in net and compares per dollar payments to pensions and schools, plus the share of revenue to schools, pensions, and highways. It notes repeal of the tax equalization law would cut state receipts and county draws.
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Georgia Taxpayers League
Georgia
Port
Fulton
Chatham
Dougherty
Muscogee
Clarke
Richmond
Bibb
Barrow
Wilkinson
Baldwin
Butts
Fayette
Dooly
Troup
Poultry Boom Seen in Georgia Markets
The Hartwell Sun notes eight million dollars of eggs poultry and cattle shipped from Morristown Tennessee last year with demand outpacing supply at big markets. Georgia farmers find poultry more profitable than cotton, shipping by carload and trainload to New York Cincinnati Chicago and other northern cities. The same cooperative marketing could boost Georgia counties and expand the poultry industry with daily sales year round.
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Hartwell Sun
Morristowia
Tenn
New York
Cincinnati
Chicago
Georgia
Sandersville
Peach industry profits cited for Lamar county growers
The article urges Lamar county residents to enter peach farming noting A D Williams of Yatesville could earn 72000 this year and A D Murphy of Barnesville may gain 15000 to 25000 depending on yield. It argues peach growing is profitable with effort and investment despite occasional failures.
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Lamar County
A. D. Williams
Yatesville
A. D. Murphy
Barnesville
Middle Georgia
Governor Pardons Spark Lynching Backlash in Wayne County
The piece reports two Black men convicted of assaulting a white woman in Wayne County were sentenced to death but were respited by Governor Hardwick. While en route to Savannah for safekeeping, a mob seized them and lynched them. The editorial blames delay in punishment for lynching and urges courts and officials to enforce prompt, visible justice.
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Wayne County
Hardwick
Savannah
Winder News
Reading the County Paper Costs a Douglas Man
A Douglas County man rode fifteen miles to attend an important meeting only to find it the next day. He spent at least five dollars in time and travel, while the Sentinel had published the date but he was not a subscriber. He jokes that the loss would pay for the Sentinel five years.
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Sentinel
Douglas County Sentinel
Can Live Without Growing Any Cotton
Progress-Argus urges Butts county farmers to shift from cotton to Bermuda grass and burr clover for grazing haying and soil building. The editor emphasizes valuing adapted grasses and legumes to improve livestock, dairying, and progressive farming amid persistent May rains.
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Argus
Butts County
Burr clover seed for sale in Butts county area
A farmer reports saving about 100 bushels of burr clover seed from 15 acres of cotton and offers to help nearby Butts county growers start burr clover in exchange for access to land between now and September 1. He notes county agent Wiley has many inquiries and orders for burr clover seeds but cannot fulfill them. He contrasts Bermuda and burr clover as means to make a living beyond cotton.
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Butts County
Wiley
De Laval machine guarantees clean skimmed cream
A line praising the De Laval separator as a reliable device for producing consistently skimmed cream. It highlights its dependable performance over other separators.
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de Laval
Fascination and Turn to the Right at Jackson Theatre
Mae Murray stars in Fascination on Friday and Saturday July 28th and 29th with Turn to the Right on Friday and Saturday August 4th and 5th at Jackson Theatre Jackson Ga. Admission 15 and 39 cents Also coming Peacock Alley watch for dates
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Mae Murray
Jackson Theatre
Jackson
Winding Watches Better When Wound in Morning
Watchmakers claim 28 watches keep better time if wound in the morning because the mainspring remains taut all day and avoids vibration that occurs when wound at night.
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Worth County
Douglas County
Jackson Banking Co
Jackson, Georgia
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Newton Hardware Co
Jackson, Ga
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Clark
S. H. Thornton
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