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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1931
Page
2
A mix of notices and light features outlines readers’ curiosities and commentary. Remnants reference the Harding Memorial, college attendance, peanut production and broadcasting trends amid a Georgia newspaper page.
The city faces an imminent reorganization as officials warn against tax increases while considering utility rate changes. An acting mayor cites living costs, salary levels, and efficiency to justify reforms aimed at trimming waste without raising taxes, with water rates potentially needing adjustment.
Al Capone pleads guilty to beating the government on income taxes and conspiring to break Prohibition. The article notes charges against his henchmen and discusses potential incarceration, plus a long digression on daisies, hospitals, and a Georgia bridge dedication along the Altamaha and Oglethorpe Highway.
The John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital corporation reports easier membership recruitment this year with nearly two hundred rejoined after letters were sent. The drive seeks two hundred fifty total with at least fifty new members, aided by Sunday school classes donating funds to join.
The article notes a bridge completion and highway dedication in South Georgia as a historic milestone. Twelve years ago comparison shows changes, with the barrier section of the Altamaha river removed and the carrier part retained. Representatives are to attend the dedication.
The piece jokes about eight hours of sun prompting a home cleanup before meeting a date in a car. It then mocks a graduates outlook on education and excitement, mentions a powerful lamp lighting planes from several cities, and ends with a physician claiming a fly spreads hay fever and calling for extermination.
The newest method of campaigning uses air travel to speed outreach. The average politician can deliver five speeches per day, up from three, expanding daily campaigning reach.
A newspaper voice argues that digging the Cross-Georgia-Florida canal could employ laborers eager for work and questions whether Abraham Lincoln’s era mood should be left untreated.
The motor ship Bermuda, operating between Hamilton Bermuda and New York, sank at her pier after a fire torn through the elevator shaft and aft sections. Four men were badly burned. no passengers were aboard. Luggage was saved and stranded tourists are housed at a line hotel awaiting return on another vessel next week.
The Bermuda liner, commissioned in 1928 and 529 feet long, sank at its Hamilton pier after a fire. The vessel valued at 7 million will have passengers returned to New York aboard the Veendam, leased from the Holland America line, which will sail for Bermuda next Wednesday. Officials say 300 extra passengers will not overcrowd the ship as tourism to the island remains light.
James L. Key of Atlanta Georgia returned with American mayors from a France tour and said the Eighteenth Amendment was not foisted on America. It was passed gladly and enthusiastically in the view of the statement.
The statement notes wartime actions should be proposed to the people in peace time as a fair and clear measure. It argues such a proposal has not been submitted in peacetime and should be presented for public consideration.
Direct service to Siam via Nanking and Shanghai's International Wireless Station inaugurated. The new radio link connects China with Siam, expanding international wireless communications.
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