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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1929
Page
3
Advertisements claim Ironized Yeast with vegetable iron and yeast quickly adds pounds and improves complexions. The spot touts half the time of separate iron and yeast, safe pleasant tasting tablets, and a full sized treatment with money back guarantee if not delighted.
Seventy five thousand Shriners gather in Los Angeles for their fifty fifth annual convention. Walter S. Sugden of Wheeling West Virginia won the contested post of outer guard at yesterday's conference. The agenda includes the installation of 13 officers at high noon and selection of the 1930 convention.
Chicago reports Miss Barbara Cole 28 a show girl leaps from a North State Street apartment to her death after writing I love Ed Page on her diary flyleaf. A moment earlier she told a switchboard operator I am going to jump. Edwin Page a broker at 1209 Astor Street says he knew her and had spoken to her days earlier about growing distant.
Citizens and Southern National Bank agreed to take over the Bank of Valdosta which withdraws from Valdosta’s banking field. The deal covers liquidating assets and paying depositors, with checks honored and affairs wound up promptly. Bank liabilities totaled about 700000 with deposits around 485000.
Ten thousand Shriners marched before thousands as a grand parade. The night show featured about 40 floats lit by 14 billion candle power and included numerous famous film stars. The event, costing an estimated 250000 dollars, was presented to the Shriners by film magnates.
Memphis Tennessee June 6 delegates at the Southern Tariff Conference today resumed effort for tariff protection of long staple cotton and cotton seed oil products. They planned a conference in Washington to present views to the Senate finance committee reviewing the House tariff bill. Resolutions urged high tariffs on long staple cotton imports and opposed duty free status for Philippine coconut oil. They complained the House bill left long staple cotton on the free list and favored a national policy protecting all regions and crises alike.
In St. Paul Minnesota a detective raid led to a dramatic escape when Mrs. Ethel Brown 26 leaped from a second story window and was severely injured. Police sought another suspect. the woman jumped to avoid the officers.
An old advertisement promotes Moone's Emerald Oil from Inman Drug Co for varicose veins. It advises applying night and morning, rubbing upward toward the heart, and wearing a bandage until veins shrink to normal size. The oil is described as a clean, powerful penetrating remedy for healthy healing.
The Hoover national commission on law observance and enforcement moves to larger quarters in a nine room office suite near the justice department. It plans an exhaustive study of crime causes drawing on government data and has access to the attorney general records. Prohibition is a priority but not the sole focus as narcotics sale murders robberies and big criminal groups are also to be investigated.
The London Daily Express reports American playwright Eugene O Neill is seriously ill with tuberculosis in Switzerland and cannot attend the London premiere of Welded. Earlier rumors of Shanghai illness were denied by his lawyer Harry Weinberger. he had traveled from Shanghai to Manila seeking rest.
Grace Abbott of the Children's Bureau plans a nationwide, first hand study of reformatories on delinquent boys. She seeks objective, measurable results to determine if reformatories worsen or improve boys’ futures in business and life, aiming for a scientific, non sentimental approach.
Los Angeles plans annual pre Olympic marathon races as a build up to the 1932 Games with the first event on June 15 covering 26 miles 385 yards. Races supervised by the Southern Pacific association of the amateur athletic union require entrants to be certified amateur athletes over 18.
In Macon, a car driving near Tarversville left the road and plunged into a creek. A mother Mrs C D Alley and her children Charles and Virginia, all eight, were pinned beneath the submerged vehicle and drowned. Nine others escaped with minor injuries.
State wildlife officials plan to release 4,250,000 game fish into North Carolina streams during the current year. The program aims to bolster fishing opportunities and support local ecosystems.
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