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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1931
Page
2
The page blends local notices and humor as it notes Baseball Friday and compares water plant spending in Valdosta and Thomasville. It includes weather chatter about rain benefiting crops, remarks on divorce ease, education diplomas, and a stray line about watermelon season ahead.
A Thomas County deputy sheriff was fatally shot at a home north of Boston while executing a warrant. The shooter remains unknown with reports suggesting one of three women acted, though identities are disputed. Investigators seek truth, while editorials touch on law, education funding, and local affairs.
The piece argues against raising the gas tax, contending that it would be used for debts or education rather than highways. It warns such a move could harm road funding and questions current highway financing needs, urging funds stay with roads.
The article sketches Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state and top Hoover advisor, as a sober, serious official rather than a habitual wit, noting his measured public remarks and restrained humor in a period of wartime and diplomacy.
The secretary of state introduced Ambassador Claudel of France at a Washington Bar Association event. He presented Sevres porcelain valued at 2500 dollars to the American bar, linking the gift to a 1924 European lawyers’ tour. Stimson teased the lawyers with jokes about British locusts and silk hats.
Treasury receipts for June 8 totaled 8 477 364 80 with expenditures 26 260 645 00 and a balance of 50 360 811 42. Customs receipts for the month to June 8 reached 7 826 141 56.
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