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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1925
Page
1
The Thomasville Times Enterprise column features a stream of satirical notes and social quips. It touches on politics taxes and local happenings with mused observations. It notes Florida’s lack of an income tax and critiques politicians while joking about the era’s social norms.
State figures show 93 percent of crashes from January to June resulted from carelessness. Of 9 131 accidents, 5 457 were charged to carelessness with speeding and other faults adding to the total. Safety rests with drivers as insurance cannot replace a life.
In Kansas City Club News the piece argues advertising controls many aspects of life and culture. It questions whether advertising pays or not and notes its pervasive reach in guiding choices and actions.
The article traces Georgia’s tobacco rise from a small 1910 effort in Decatur and Wayne counties to larger 1911 shipments from Jesup. It notes W. O. Robertson’s 1911 four acre yield averaging over 1,000 pounds per acre, selling in Timmonsville, SC for 16 cents a pound, and shows early Carolina connections plus 1918 tests by W A Johnson and Col W L Gignilliat in Pineora Effingham. It mentions a 1924 first Georgia tobacco warehouse sale on September 12 1924 and a donor-funded tobacco demonstrator in 1914.
The excerpt discusses electricity as a carrier of power, a child’s playful speech, a fire at a cigar factory producing smoke, and readers’ reactions to a bathing girl image in Sunday news sheets. It reflects light commentary on technology, humor, and media sensibilities.
Advertisement notes A B and A and Atlanta depart Thomasville at 7:30 p.m. reach New York at 9:15 a.m. next morning. Phone 200. L. S. Crosby, Commercial Agent.
Passenger train timings at Thomasville stations listed for Atlantic Coast Line and Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic. Arrivals and departures show times for Birmingham Atlanta Atlantic routes and local lines with notes on time standards and service days.
An essay argues matter and the human body are combinations of electricity with the body likened to a battery and disease to electrical faults. It envisions doctors treating patients with electrical therapy rather than pills, imagining a future where recharging the body restores youth and vigor.
In Mitchell county a broker expects to relocate 150 North Carolina families to tobacco lands near Camilla. A free bus linking North Carolina and Moultrie has located hundreds with only three failing to locate. Hats off to our enterprising neighbor as newcomers will fare well among such people.
The passage notes Hughes leaves office at the height of success while praising his ability and anti crime stance. It asserts the President always selects the next best nominee and mentions Kellogg as the unexpected choice the public would back.
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