World's Largest Man Of War Commissioned in New York
The Tennessee, the largest battleship afloat, is commissioned at the Brooklyn navy yard. Built at $20,000,000, she measures 625 feet long, 98 feet abeam, and 32,500 tons displacement. Her design includes a fighting brain in the forward mast, electric speed control, and a decked crew club and library. Commissioning begins with a planned August 1 cruise to Guantanamo, Cuba, and a Tennesseean crew of 631 in place.
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New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Jutland
United States Navy
Tennessee
Guantanamo
Cuba
Jasper County Posts Population Dip in Census Figures
Census figures released Saturday show Jasper County with 16 362 residents, down from 16 552 in 1910, a drop of 190 people or 1 1 percent. Officials expect the sixth district totals soon.
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Jasper County
Sixth Congressional District
Women Health Ad Promises Relief From Worry and Weakness
In a Columbus Georgia advertisement Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is pitched as benefiting a woman's whole system. The text cites a testimonial from Mrs. Vivian Mian Goins about relief from weakness, back pain, and fatigue, urging readers to seek product use through druggists in tablet or liquid form.
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Dr. Pierce
Columbus
Pierce
Vivian Mian Goins
28Th St
Calcium Arsenate Potent Control For Boll Weevil
Historical guidance shows calcium arsenate identified as the only effective poison to kill boll weevils by contaminating water sources the pest drinks. It emphasizes using a designated powder gun to apply the very fine powder evenly on every leaf and warns against mixing with lime or other carriers.
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Department of Agriculture
Kimbell and Kinard
B. R. Coad
Mr. Coad
Y M C A Funds 3600 For Ex Servicemen Agriculture Training
The Y M C A provides 3600 in scholarships for ex service men who attended Georgia district agricultural schools and now seek admission to the Georgia State College of Agriculture. Twenty four awards of 150 each go to men with clean war records to study scientific and practical agriculture. Applications go through school principals to the state Y M C A board for approval. The college opens September 15 with record attendance anticipated and 1037 students registered overall, 529 in long courses.
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Georgia
Georgia State College of Agriculture
Andrew M. Soule
College of Agriculture
World record $30,000 Holstein cow price set in Minnesota sale
A world record price of 30000 was paid today at the Minnesota Holstein-Fresian sale in St Paul for a Holstein cow. The previous record stood at 18400.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Senate panel urges actions against paper makers to curb prices
A Senate committee on the paper shortage urges the Justice Department to file Sherman and Clayton act cases against newsprint manufacturers. It calls prices excessive, proposes a federal newsprint board, changes to the Lever Act, a Sunday edition tax, funding for substitutes, a parcel post rate, and a government mill to meet federal needs with surpluses sold to small buyers.
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Washington
Senate
Department of Justice Institute
Federal
Historic desk from Georgia's war governor offered to museum
The desk used by Joseph E. Brown during his era as war governor has been offered to the Georgia state museum. It is in the possession of Ollie Wingate of Atlanta and described as of great historic value.
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Georgia
Joseph E. Brown
Ollie Wingate
Atlanta
State Museum
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G. H. Kimbell
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Kimbell & Kinard
Jackson, Ga
Capital City Dry Cleaning & Dye Works
South
Georgia Museum
RED Cross
Ss. H. Thornton
Jackson, Georgia
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