Blanton & Company Petition for Charter Georgia Thomas County
Petition seeks incorporation of Blanton & Company in Thomas County for twenty years to operate abattoirs meat processing and related ventures with initial capital of 15000 dollars, option to increase to 50000, branch offices, loan power, and authority to purchase stocks and bonds. Filing confirms June 21 by Deputy Clerk Mamie Merrill. New Montreal terminal facilities for Canadian National Railways cost 50000000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Thomas County
Superior Court
Said County
J. W. Blanton
J. W. Horne
I. H. McCormick
J. D. Odom
Thomas
Thomasville
H. McCormick
H. H. Merry
I. Mamie Merrill
Blanton & Company
Turk
Montreal
Canadian National Railways
Two Gangsters Die in Kansas City Gun Battle
In Kansas City a midnight gunfight outside a fashionable hotel leaves two gangsters dead and a third wounded in the back. Ben Barretti alias Fred Roberts, 42, is killed. Arthur Hartman, about 34, fatally wounded. Kearns Pumpsey alias Kearns Humphrey is recovering from a back wound. Police report the quarrel began over a revolver after five men drank in a hotel room and left arguing.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Los Angeles
Ben Barretti
Fred. Roberts
Arthur Hartman
Kearns Pumpsey
Kearns Humphrey
Pumpsey
Barretti
Hartman
Will Open Grave In Effort To Solve Murder Mystery At Ocilla
Ocilla Georgia June 24 authorities planned to open a forgotten grave in Seneca South Carolina to obtain clues in a two year old Georgia murder case. The body inside was found in 1926 in the Sligh home ruins and buried as Sligh. detectives suspect the remains are Harry Loving of Huntington West Virginia. The case links an insurance claim of 50000 and a 1926 arson, with Sligh acquitted of burning his home but identified the robber as Loving.
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Ocilla
Seneca
S. C
South Georgia
Harry K. Sligh
Sligh
Harry Loving
Huntington
W. Va
California
Loving
Aubrey
James Hoover
Aubrey Hoover
Fitzgerald
Hoover
Daytona Beach
Fla
James
Freedom
Macon
Florida
Convent in Sault au Récollet Destroyed by Lightning
Montreal reports the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Sault au Récollet left in ruins after a lightning strike. Fire trapped the four story stone building, causing total loss of the structure and contents valued at about 1 million dollars. All occupants escaped, including 22 convalescent nuns, while four firemen were injured amid delayed response due to storm damage. The convent, run by the Sacred Heart Ladies, was a well known educational institution.
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Montreal
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Sault Au Recollet
Ladies of the Sacred Heart
Well Known Journalist Sullivan Dies in Augusta
William Lester Sullivan aged 48 co publisher and editor of the Waynesboro True Citizen died at a local hospital after a period of failing health. Funeral services will be held this afternoon in Waynesboro Georgia.
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Augusta
William Lester Sullivan
Waynesboro
Digestive Aromatics Sold With Mineral Water Ginger
An advertisement promotes Pure Digestive Aromatics with Shivar Mineral Water and Ginger. It claims relief when taken with meals and offers a first dozen free, urging customers to phone their grocer or druggist.
Powers Faces Strengthened Accusation in Insurance Plot
Macon reports Solicitor General Charles Garrett moves to add charges against Mrs. J. C. Powers in the James W. Parks murder case over a $14 000 life policy and an alleged $1 000 payoff promise. He also hints at linking her to Samuel B. Wright’s 1918 death and long-range plans for civil actions by Wright heirs.
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Macon
Charles Garrett
J. C. Powers
James W. Parks
Parks
Earl Manchester
Samuel B. Wright
Jones County
Powers
Wright
North Carolina
Schoenhár to attempt transcontinental non stop flight
Dubois Pennsylvania reports Lee Schoenhair west coast pilot supervising repairs after weather and an accident damaged his plane. He had been forced down by thunder storms and fog after a 14 hour 9 minute leg from Cleveland en route to Roosevelt Field New York, averaging 170 miles per hour.
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Los Pneeleri
Savannah Men May Be Able To Discard Coats This Summer
In Savannah Georgia on June 24 women lead the charge for coatless summer freedoms. Mrs John S Hawks kin president of the Women's Federated Clubs proposes a vote and a coatless week to draw public attention to comfort and modern attire for men amid municipal concerns.
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Savannah
John S. Hawskins
Federated Clubs
Weather Forecast for Thomasville Georgia 1929
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with scattered thundershowers Tuesday. Temperature little changed. Observations note high humidity and low pressure dominant in Illinois and Rio Grande Valley, with showers in the east Gulf and Atlantic states and cooler conditions in the west. In Thomasville the outlook remains partly cloudy with showers on Tuesday.
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Thomasville
Illinois
Rio Grande Valley
Atlantic Coast
Central Plains
East Gulf and
Atlantic States
Oklahoma City
St. Paul
Cotton Belt
Mississippi River
Colorado
Hoover Returns to Washington After Blue Ridge Trip
President Hoover motored back to Washington after an early morning start from his fishing preserve in the Blue Ridge mountains.
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Hoover
Washington
Blue Ridge Mountains
Snook Pleads Not Guilty In Columbus Murder Arraignment
Dr James H Snook a dismissed Ohio State University professor and confessed killer of Theora Hix pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder indictment at arraignment in Columbus Ohio He was handcuffed to Albert C Gunning who also pleaded not guilty. The case includes narcotics questions from Snook about Miss Hix requesting drugs at OSU. President Hoover's return to Washington is noted in the same dispatch.
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Columbus
Ohio
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
John J. Chester, Jr
Robert P. Duncan
E.O. Ricketts
Snook
Albert C.gunning
Veterinary School of
Ohio State University
Miss Hix
William Ford
Congregational Singing and Missionary Program Schedule
The program lists an 11:20 congregational singing with Mrs. H. H. Parrish, an 11:30 sermon by Rev. J. J. Sizemore, a 12:30 lunch social hour, and an afternoon session beginning 1:30 with a devotional. Habakkuks message by Mrs. Sho Barra at 1:45, missionary program at 2:15 divided into evangelism Judge Roscoe Luke, W M U work with Mrs. C F Cater at 2:45, B Y P U work with J H Carswell at 3:10, and lay activities at 3:30.
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H. H. Parrish
J. J. Sizemore
Nmrs
Sho. Barra
Roscoe Luke
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Said Corporation
Mamie Merrill
YALE
Associated Press
Sweeden
Department of Commerce
James H. Brown
Interior Decorator
Thomasville Times-Enterprise
Shivar
Mrs. Powers
Garrett
James Parks
Schoenhair
U. S. Department OF Agriculture, Weather Bureau
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Tex
Montgomery
Ala
New Orleans
New York, N. Y
Omaha
Neb
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Salt Lake City
Uth
Saint Paul, Minn
San Antonio
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Cal
Santa Ae
Savana
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Wash. A
Tampa
Vicksburg
Miss
Washington, D. C
Wilmington
N. C
Williston
N D
Ohio University
White House
Mitchell
Nexas Street
Times-Enterprise Co
S. E. Hancock
Empire Furniture Store
Atlanta
Smith Avenue
E. Jackson
M- Beach
Aay
West
Jackson St
H. Feinberg
C. L. Thompson
Colton Avenue
Heald
Mercer Association
Dixie Baptist Church
R. L. Williams
Jackson Street
Rogers Store
Hansell Street
Bankers Insurance Co
W. L. Roberts
Jarvis B. Watkins & Co
Thomasville Ice & Mfg. Co
Hudson
Buick CO
A. C. Dickey
Beachton, Ga
Men’s Movement
B. W. Stone
Batistes
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