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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1932
Page
1
A fragmented 1930s era page notes varied items from political quips to social commentaries. Items reference Capone and Lindbergh looms, Hoover vetoes, tax talks, and unemployment relief, mixed with jokes on Ford and churchgoing. The prose captures a period tone and public concerns of taxes, prohibition, and economy.
A Savannah Morning News summary notes a meeting forming a Tax League to stimulate government economy. It endorses salary or fee bases for officers, warns about genuine burdens versus frivolous complaints, and highlights public publicity as a bonus for local initiatives.
Georgia Kiwanis members, over two thousand strong from good families, plan to urge wearing cotton suits when they meet in May. The aim is to spotlight cotton usage and boost public interest, indirectly supporting the cotton industry without affecting manufacturing or employment.
The Times Enterprise notes Thomasville can merge needs by converting a planned Rose Show building into a hangar for aviation. The idea would reuse space to protect planes at times, while providing a new venue for the Rose Show as it grows nationally.
In Congress two ex tariff commission members, Costigan of Colorado and Lewis of Maryland, both appointed by the same president in 1917, reassert themselves in the present house and senate as progressive Democrats. Costigan is steady and deliberate while Lewis, a former coal miner, is vocal and prone to dramatic exchanges during estate tax debate.
In Abbeville Georgia G Q Rutland is to be sentenced 5 to 10 years after a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in the March killing of Cecil Faircloth in Seville. Judge A S Rutland pronounces the sentence. The case follows the March 12 death. Meanwhile in Atlanta Miss Ella May Thornton state librarian will travel to Chattanooga to receive a portrait of Francis Robert Goulding gifted to Georgia by his son Captain B L Goulding for display in the state library. In Macon the Georgia Chiropractic Association holds its semiannual convention with professional papers presented by members and guests.
Eastern time Arrive From Leave For list of trains with Southland and Bythigdad routes. Includes times for Montgomery Jax Savh New York Savannah connections and through sleepers to Montgomery Birmingham Atlanta Cincinnati Cleveland. Contact agent Green for details.
Methodist Church led by Pastor Sius Johnson at 429 North Broad Street hosts 11 15 a m sermon by Rev Os good F Cook on Fault finders and no evening service due to revival at First Baptist. First Baptist Church under Pastor Callaway offers Sunday School at 10 a m with Evelyn Lewis as Educational Secretary and M H Goodwin as superintendent. Sermon at 11 10 a m titled Lovest Thou Me, and 7 p m services on Sowing and Reaping with L S Crosby and L D Ferguson directing the B Y U. Wednesday prayer at 4 p m.
Rev McDowell Richards leads Sunday with 10 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Morning Worship and sermon The Reality of Sin followed by Communion. 2:30 p.m. Junior Young People Society 7 p.m. Young People Vesper Service 8 p.m. Evening Worship sermon topic Guilty Innocence. Wednesday 7 p.m. midweek prayer service.
Rev Robb White rector announces services at 10 a m church school 11 a m Holy Communion 6 p m Y P 8 L The Woman's Auxiliary meets Monday at 4 at Mrs W L Ball's home.
Rev Thomas A Brennan pastor of St Augustine Catholic announces mass on the first and third Sunday at 8 o clock and on the fifth Sunday at 11 o clock. Sunday School is at 2:00 pm and sermon and benediction at 5:00 pm. Sunday School meets every Sunday morning.
Primitive Baptist Church held Bible Class every Sunday at 10 a.m. Preaching every fourth Sunday, Friday night and Saturday before. Services Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Sunday 11:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. Public invited to fall services.
Services Sunday at 11 30 a m in the church edifice Pawson and Washington Streets with subject Unreality. Sunday School at 1 30 p m. Reading room open on weekdays for Bible reading and study. Wednesday testimony meeting at 8 00 p m. Public invited to attend and visit the reading room.
Bruce B. Hall pastors the Church of the Nazarene with 10 a.m. Sunday School led by J. R. Vans, 11 a.m. Morning Worship including Communion, 4:30 p.m. Junior N. Y. P. M., 7 p.m. Young People's Service, 8 p.m. Evening Evangelistic Service on "Where Art Thou." 8 p.m. Wednesday mid week activities.
Streatham church updated its choir loft so choristers face the audience, addressing boredom with facing the congregation. Morgantown lamb born with a single eye in the forehead appears to be an April Fool’s joke by nature. Lake George two men escape jail robbing two stores, then return to custody due to deep snow, concealing loot in their cell.
Weather report from the U S Department of Agriculture Bureau dated April 2 1932 for Thomasville Georgia notes partly cloudy conditions tonight and Sunday with warmer temperatures. It records 8 a m observations 60 percent humidity and light frost in Georgia the prior morning and predicts continued fair weather with slowly rising temperatures over the next two days.
Denver officials report three men George W. Reed Arthur M. Taylor and Joe Pannell were sentenced to prison for the January kidnapping of Benjamin P. Bower held five days in a shack with a $50 000 ransom demanded Bower was released amid fear of treachery and fingerprints on a water glass tied a gang member to the crime.
Washington reports continued improvement in Senator Harris of Georgia. He remains in serious condition with an intestinal illness after a bladder operation, with a further escape attempt referenced as snow melts. Albany notes Mortimer Cole's sixty year tenure at Mechanics and Farmers Bank as he marks sixty one years with overtime.
Atlanta April 2 The payment of April pensions of 30 to Georgia Confederate veterans will be delayed until next week The delay is due to a short collection from the cigar and cigarette tax which funds pensions Pensions total 1367 a year
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