05 Aug 1930
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1930
Page
1
A Thomasville Times-Enterprise page mixes local readers’ questions and comments with social observations. Items reference gas plants, rye bread, tax puzzles, crime reports, and a blend of quotes from public figures, newspaper trivia, and humorous asides.
An Augusta Chronicle editorial urges Georgia to apply organized pricing and grading to tobacco and other crops. It argues for mandatory grading, auction sales through cooperatives, and reliable marketing to ensure growers receive fair prices, noting bankers and warehousemen as stakeholders and praising consistent advertising.
The editor endorses the candidate with the best plan to pay state debts and keep finances current. Carswell proposes crediting auto tag revenue to deficiency appropriations, funding teachers, back school money, veterans pensions, and other items while avoiding raises for state officers. It warns diverting road funds would delay highways and urges economical fixes despite doubts about Carswell’s alignment with the Hardman faction. Bobby Jones may visit Stribling in Thomasville with Bitsy Grant possibly attending.
Fox Films urged subsidiaries and customers to spend more on newspaper advertising as a vindication of business judgment. The piece notes a half year of low mood, praising firms that invest in ads and warning against retrenchment as a fatal mistake. The newspaper advertising boom is described as the dominant force in advertising.
Dunbar Pennsyl Aug 5 Tony Goldbergena sought safe deposit options for his $297 saving. He withdrew from Connellsville bank amid bust rumors, hid funds in a mattress and a tree before lightning struck the tree, then finally deposited in a Vanderbilt bank which soon closed.
Washington Daybook notes Senator Roscoe Copeland's Michigan roots and a conversation about his son becoming a U S senator from New York. It also jokes about Utah Senator Reed Smoot's many relatives named Alice and mentions Ernest Lee Jahncke curtailing cigars to press crews after initial hospitality.
A new hard surfaced highway from Toledo to Fort Wayne is to be called the Anthony Wayne Memorial Trail in honor of the Revolutionary War hero Mad Anthony Wayne.
Columbus Ga August 5 federal prohibition agent Johnson Jr. was indicted for murder in the slaying of Ray Rodgers 20 and was expected to surrender in Columbus after informing Sheriff Layfield by phone he would return today Rodgers death he says was accidental in a struggle when he accosted the youth delivering liquor to an undercover man the murder warrant was dismissed at a preliminary hearing but Johnson was indicted yesterday by the county grand jury.
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