27 Dec 1928
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1928
Page
1
Daily column snippets touch on Coolidge Georgia travel, flu toll, taxes, and bustling social notes. The humor and political chatter mix with short items about Georgia—Athens football, Coast Line reports, and national finance—reflecting a 1920s small town newspaper voice.
A column reflects on workers not doing their jobs, praising conscientious effort and warning against halfhearted labor. It touches on Mrs. Casey Jones suing a film company, the Casey Jones legend, and cultural notes about Savannah, Utah, and the Waldorf-Astoria, with a satirical, editorial voice.
Local observers condemn pre Christmas revelry by a group of young men on public streets. The piece questions drinking in public, urges enforcement and notes impact on visiting college crowds while defending reasonable celebration. It warns of possible harm and town scandal from rumor origins.
The article discusses how constant worry and harassment push people to a breaking point and notes Eugene O'Neill's attempt to flee to Shanghai only to find snooping and gossip everywhere, with editors arguing gossip is a global vice. A quoted incident about a lady spreading a lie illustrates pervasive rumor.
Beattie-Moritz Thomsen, who employs 7,000, has returned gifts costing over 1 and urged savings to support families. Each return includes a thrift sermonette. Other items note Bronx auto dumping, a St. Louis bar incident with prohibition agents, and Bermuda doctors barred from using cars by one vote.
A dense listing of afternoon and evening radio schedules by time and frequency across multiple stations including WEAF WJZ WPG WBAL KDKA and more. Entries detail program names hosts and orchestras with regional station call letters and dial positions.
General Girod proposes relocating civil aviation to a new two mile by one and a half mile site east of Le Bourget across Flanders road. The plan includes concrete runways, hangars, hotels and a subway link to Place de l Opera, leaving the current field to military use.
The department of public education adopts night schools to reduce illiteracy among peasants in rural districts. More than 50,000 adults are enrolled across Mexico.
In Washington General Lord, budget director, faces opposition from Senator Wheeler who argues against a $2,000 raise to $12,000 a year. Senators Warren and Smoot defend Lord as overworked, while the debate mirrors a broader clash over government salaries and fiscal restraint.
Ottawa reports that the Canadian Topographical Survey completed aerial surveys this year covering 53 000 square miles. The work by the Department of Interior with the Royal Canadian Air Force included photographing 22 000 square miles from aircraft for map making and 31 000 square miles of oblique photography. Projects also included geological mapping water power investigation and timber resource determinations. Vertical photography provides detail while oblique methods suit maps at four miles to the inch.
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