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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1925
Page
3
reader letter complains newly laid sidewalks rise at edges across the square and create tripping hazards. author blames root growth under pavement and urges city action to dig and cut roots to restore level surfaces. stresses damage from vandalism and calls for authorities notice.
Continued from Page One Pinchot cites the anthracite dispute and urges proposals from operators and miners. He notes miners would accept a settlement if operators complied. He accuses operators of refusing to yield any part of their position, warning the industry faces public resentment and upheaval.
Twenty two crew members were landed at Quarantine in Tampa Bay at 6 PM after nine days adrift in the Gulf aboard the gravel barge Altamaha. They were rescued by the revenue cutter Tallapoosa and later supplied with provisions. Captain John Boedecker led the cutter’s response and the Neptune towed the barge to port.
A bill for a new Chicago post office, costing up to twelve million dollars, was introduced in the House by Representative Sal Brath of Illinois. The measure was announced from Washington, D C, on December 14.
The Associated Press reports that Meyer Lissner is considering retirement from the United States Shipping Board. Announcement came today at his brother’s home in Los Angeles California.
Memphis, Chicago and Atlanta visitors noted among town business and social calls. Local store promos advertise tires and tubes, pianos, imported cheeses, toys, and furniture with several out of town guests staying or passing through for meetings and hospital visits.
In Cordele Georgia on December 14 eight crew members from two Macon based freight trains were injured when southbound No 57 collided with northbound No 54 in foggy yards. Six went home after treatment at Cordele Hospital. two were seriously hurt.
Sheriffs deputies chased a daytime raid that chloroformed twenty five residents across five Bradley homes in Steubenville area. The bandits unlocked doors with skeleton keys and escaped with money and jewelry valued at 1300 dollars after ransacking each house.
The Post Office department notes the parcel post law was enacted during President Taft’s era and under Postmaster General Hitchcock. It was signed August 24, 1932, and put into operation January 1, 1933.
Princeton reports the National Student Federation continues despite one Southern delegate’s withdrawal after Mabel Halloway of Howard University was elected to the executive committee. The body named two reps from each of seven districts and plans a fall conference at the University of Michigan.
The body of Alfred Yarbrough, one of 52 miners killed in the Overton Mine No. 2 explosion, was recovered after four days of rescue work. One other body remains trapped under debris.
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