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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1939
Page
2
The page surveys international affairs from a looming royal visit to England to Latvia and Estonia signing a non aggression pact with Nazi Germany. Other items touch on budget debates, unemployment, and draft dodging returnees as readers are urged to consider vacation work for boys and wage hour changes.
Four women appeared in a risqué display at the New York World Fair drawing crowds. Sheriff arrested two as the others were found partially clothed with a string around their breasts and diapers around their hips.
Washington experts explain a double budget system to finance housing and public improvements without breaking regular budgets. Dr. Alvin Hansen cites the Federal Housing Authority and large projects like TVA Boulder Dam and Panama Canal as examples. The concept shifts debt into a separate capital budget while the regular budget covers interest and operating costs.
The Astor Roof welcomes a couple celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary as a crowd cheers. The piece also notes the odd origin of the song Hold Tight with multiple self-proclaimed composers and how song and dance men monetize Broadway work, along with commentary on debt noting self-liquidation and war debt.
Edward A. Ruff sought Jackie Boy the airedale after two days missing in Mayti Missouri. The dog reportedly hopped trains and visited a conductor’s home far away. Ruff now faces a new problem a hen that will lay only in his car parked near the hen house.
In Portland Oregon Mary Wilson urges passage of a city ordinance requiring milkmen to wear rubber soles and heels after repeated stomping on her yard.
In a steamy New York terrace scene four upper-class men at the Penguin Club improvise a risky social game. Tacks Adams leads a plan to date women named North South East West, with a $1000 forfeit if any pair fails to appear, promising risk, wit, and possible scandal.
A Thomasville Thomas County column repeats a partisan appeal by a local group, denouncing welfare spending and taxes while urging defense of Jeffersonian democracy. The unsigned note condemns Washington policies, calls for states’ rights, warns of bureaucratic growth, and argues workers and women hold substantial wealth.
The Supreme Court upholds the AAA after striking down federal limits on production and ruling marketing control fits interstate commerce. The piece argues the decision masks production control and forecasts federal aid to tobacco and cotton farmers, funded by taxpayers.
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Acting Fire Chief Patrick Boyne walked to the scene arriving before his firefighters. He was in the police building when the elevator pit fire started and fire crews had to drive a block to reach the location.
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