08 Feb 1939
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1939
Page
1
The article discusses a county liquor election in Thomas county and asks voters to register and cast ballots. It warns against personal campaigns, notes past alcohol use in informal settings, and addresses concerns about wealth concentration and citizenship in Germany while referencing broader political themes.
In a Georgia prison a condemned inmate awaiting electrocution claims a required tonsillectomy would improve comfort. The doctor declined surgery as unnecessary. The piece argues the issue reflects broader social attitudes toward punishment and reform.
Charleston Savannah seek a naval base while Brunswick aims to win and Jacksonville Risks losing. The Georgian Klan leader advertises openly as politics grow warmer with a focus on the future. Florida Field Trials claim exclusivity and stir desire even among non members.
A text argues the Nazi campaign against Jews grew from long standing Jewish economic power in Germany. It claims Hitler aimed to seize Jewish wealth and extend looting to Catholics, depicting wealth as a trigger for persecution and predicting resistance would trigger similar repressions.
Government raised cotton price from six to twelve cents at one time during the Roosevelt years. Now prices have nearly returned to six cents and the market has more cotton on hand than can be used.
A playful future note describes Walter Winchel detailing a stork visit and social items. It mentions a western newspaper owner who began publishing society news noting Mr and Mrs Charles Jones expect a baby.
Washington circles voice smouldering doubts about U S foreign policy as rumors persist that the administration may secretly aid France and England to counter totalitarian powers. A Senate military affairs committee debate hints at an unwritten alliance tied to upcoming airplane orders and armament programs.
The president said American plants could build French and British planes until needed, but stopped short of a formal alliance. Senators Nye Clark and others from the Dakotas and Missouri call for investigation as distrust grows over potential commitments beyond stated policy amid looming defense bills.
Daily reader letter from George Tucker railing at both the New York and San Francisco fairs. He mocks press agents and Grover Whalen, weighs fairs’ merits, Ford exhibits, and the pleasure and expense of fairgoing while noting public interest and travel costs.
NBC network day schedule for February 3 features a slate of shows across East and West feeds. Programs include Jack Armstrong, Little Orphan Annie, Amos ’n’ Andy, Eddie Hill Commentary, Kay Kyser Class, Tom Dorgey Orchestra, and Dorsey broadcasts with news, sports, and mystery plays interwoven.
A storyteller contrasts farm life with city ambition as a son leaves rural roots for New York. The father, wary of city ways, is offered champagne in the bachelor apartment, questions its danger, and jokes about five wires holding a cork as he imagines the wine erupting inside.
Mrs Raymond Porter accused her husband of throwing part of her wooden leg out the window when intoxicated. The court heard the episode described as true by the complainant. Porter was jailed to serve a sentence to work out a time.
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