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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
1
A compact front of the Thomasville Enterprise page presents a string of editorial remarks and social commentary. Items mention the Hospital Corporation, road issues, newspaper woes, civic cleanliness, farm conditions, petting parties, car payments, Atlanta baseball fans, Minnesota welcome for the President, and cultural notes about Abie’s Irish Rose. multiple short opinions and quips reflect local editorial voice.
The piece credits Thomasville with starting Thursday afternoon closing and notes the movement spread across the South. It praises the practice as pleasant and profitable for merchants and urges openness to modern improvements while warning of looming global tensions over China. Other items mention the University of Miami start with a fifteen million endowment and a brewing China dispute.
The Times Enterprise urges a broad showing of support for the Archbold Memorial Hospital project in Thomasville. A new membership drive offers five dollar and one hundred dollar life options to fund indigent care based on donor generosity. The paper calls for a thousand memberships and timely responses before July to honor a benefactor’s gift while Florida's university expansion and Chamber of Commerce efforts also appear in the regional context.
The article describes dangerous unrest in China sparked by strikes in Shanghai. It notes conservative Washington’s alarm over a potential disruption of order and the possibility of a foreign protectorate. It mentions factions, external influence from the Soviet Union and Japan, and uncertainty over the outcome.
Market news from Chicago reports Georgia watermelons selling at 950 dollars per carload with an average of around twenty six pounds. Retail prices around 1.50 each, sliced portions may fetch up to five dollars. Early melons dominate price while later Georgia melons drop to about twenty five cents. Nine states report early harvests this year with 105000 acres vs 136000 in 1924 and 126000 in 1923. Georgia Texas Florida lead production.
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