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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1929
Page
1
A collage of weather talk and editorial quips reflects on hot June days. Items mention watermelons, a jail term for Mr. Sinclair, Florida legislature, and questions about farm policy, gas prices, and state budget cuts.
The article notes growing building and loan associations in Thomasville and elsewhere under Georgia law. It highlights fair valuations and useful loan terms that let property owners become paid up possessors of unencumbered property. Local citizens praise the associations as trusted aids to future building programs.
The American Prison Congress heard Brig. Gen. Hughes describe Canada’s program that treats prisons as schools of good citizenship. Inmates receive education and useful work, even building bricks, under university oversight, reducing reoffending and aiding reentry into normal life.
A Georgia figure in the malaria belt asserted a water supply cured malaria, while another noted water changes as a remedy. Experts affirm malaria spreads only via mosquito bite or infected blood, not through clean drinking water, and note Georgia malaria concentrates in the limestone belt near Augusta.
The Augusta section calls for continued mosquito and malaria prevention campaigns noting that mosquitoes travel limited distances. Georgia and local items touch on tax issues and public works funding, Prohibition debates, and social observations from Augusta Chronicle and Thomasville/Kiwantans notes.
The Weather Bureau reports showers likely tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Observations show high humidity and unsettled conditions moving from the Lake region to the Gulf coast, rainfall over parts of the East with 0.21 to 2.88 inches in various stations, and Thomasville expecting continued showers through Wednesday.
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