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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1925
Page
4
Atlanta, Ga. reports a new season of women’s coats inspired by tropics and exotic travel. Designers blend Orient and Occident themes with desert sunsets Algerian titles and Scottish tartan plaids.
Iso Atlanta December 17 Harri0 Robertson football coach at Oglethorpe and former Syracuse star has been named director of physical education. He will return January 4 to assume duties as Thornwell Jacobs announces a mass athletic campaign designed for nonparticipants.
The document recalls Governor Edward Telfair issuing a December proclamation offering a reward for runaway enslaved men tied to militia clashes in Chatham and Elham counties. It also recounts Susan Eberhart as the first white woman executed in Georgia in 1873 for conspiracy to murder, amid petitions and delays before Milton Smith’s successor authorized the death penalty by hanging near Preston.
In Kenosha Wisconsin a 23 year old Nash plant worker Pietro Bendelli is charged in a plot to extort 10000 from Charles W Nash head of Nash Motor Company. Three letters demanded the money and a box with a note was left at a fence post. Bendelli pleaded not guilty and faces trial December 24. Police kept the woman’s name secret though her letters were given to a handwriting expert.
In San Francisco the Palace of the Legion of Honor completed a year ago becomes a major art center for state residents and visitors. It sits high above the city with a panorama of the bay and hills, inspiring works by noted artists whose paintings hang in the palace.
Moscow reports the arrest of 15 former czarist executioners charged with strangling at least 500 revolutionists. They allegedly received 10 to 50 dollars per execution, with priest Rosanoff earning 160 dollars per prayer. Executions were said to occur in a private cellar with a chair and a short rope, bodies transported to a nearby cemetery.
A series of one hundred sixty farmers meetings will be held across Georgia from January 11 to 16 under Dr. Andrew M. Soule. These sessions precede the Georgia general meeting in late January and aim to address farm problems and craft a balanced 1926 farming program with participation from twenty-two speaker groups and all state agricultural agencies.
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