Meigs News Highlights Local Social Visits and Travel
Meigs Georgia daily notes guests and travels from Milledgeville to Niagara Falls. Highlights include visits by Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Aultman and other families, trips to Jacksonville and Florida, and Marine Grady Benton’s return from overseas duty in California. Local relatives gather for weddings and radio plans in Tampa.
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Meigs
Mims C. Aulman
Milledgeville
E. M. Aultman
Will Kennington
W. C. Forehand
Brooks
Kennington
Port Saint Joe
Fra
Ronald Eline
Marcia
Joyce
Niagara Falls
Ray Miller
Gibbsland
W. F. LeFiles
Valdosta
Worling-Nussbaum
Anne Murdock
R. H. Murrah Jr
Near Pelham
EB. J. Carter
Duluth
Minn
Ernestine Singletary
Sadie Wilkes
Thomasville
Jacksonville
Fla
Nice
John Cato
Cato
Fred Jeiner
Freddie
Mary Elaine
Apopka
Josie Bridges
Ora Felker
Roy Swann
Genie Gay’ Swann
Forrest City
Ala
Donald Ward
Gardendale
Als
Lonnie Ward
Carolyn
Lydia Bridges
First Three Cars of Watermelons Leave Meigs
The first three cars of watermelons left Meigs on Tuesday June 24 for northern markets. The shipments are produced by farms operated by C. C. Griffin Jr J. W. Griffin and J. L Pilcher who are also the shippers. Griffin says shipping will continue for two weeks with daily output acceleration.
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MEIGS
C. C. Griffin, Jr
J. W. Griffin
J. L Pilcher
P Cc. C. Griffin
Waxey Gordon Dies in Alcatraz After Prohibition Era Feats
Waxey Gordon once led New York bootleg operations and a nationwide heroin ring earning billions. He died at 63 in Alcatraz after a heart attack at the federal prison hospital. Gordon faced a 25 year NY narcotics sentence and was to be shipped to trial on additional charges.
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San Francisco
Waxey Gordon
New York
Prohibition Breweries
Alcatraz
Irving Wexler
Gordon
Federal Prison Hospital
Mother Gray's Pin-Worm Tablets Advertised
It promotes Mother Gray's Pin-Worm Tablets to kill and clean out pin worms in children and the family. The ad asserts the tablets remove millions of intestinal pin worms and offer a safety claim alongside price and availability in doctors and hospitals.
Tyrone Power Leaves Fox After 16 Years
Hollywood star Tyrone Power departs 20th Century Fox ending a 16 year studio hold on his career. He will soon complete Mississippi Gambler and another 1953 project while embracing life outside studio control for the first time, praising a profits sharing deal that pays over time.
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Hollywood
Tyrone Power
20Th Century- Fox
Dawae
Mullvillpicyly Suvolcu
Fox
Marie Antoinette
Frank
Errol Flynn
Gregory Peck
Irene Dunne
James Stewart
Alan Ladd
Dea
Power
U S
Cairo High School 1932 graduates hold joyful reunion
About 35 members of the Cairo High class of 1932 gathered for a day of planned activities. The group began with a Coca Cola at the American Legion club house, shared luncheon at Citizens Cafe, toured the city, and ended with a formal dinner at the Legion clubhouse. John B. Herndon, longtime former superintendent, attended with wife and children.
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Cairo
American Legion Club
Citizens Cafe
The
Legion Clubhouse
John 8. Herndon
Herndon
Cave Spring
W. M. Tyson
Chiropractic Progress by Dr W L Stucky
An article promotes chiropractic as an advancing healing science led by Dr W L Stucky. It argues causes behind ailments must be addressed, not just symptoms, and urges readers to seek informed opinions from practitioners and those who recovered.
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W. L. Stucky
Seaman Awarded $65 000 Over Hippopotamus Bite
Seaman Robert H. Rawlins and the Africa Star incident led to a Federal Court jury verdict awarding $65 000 after a hippopotamus bite on his right arm while the animal was being brought from Africa to New York for Central Park Zoo. The case arose from an event last summer aboard the freighter Africa Star.
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Seaman
New York
Seaman Robert H. Rawlins
Africa
Central Park
Rawlins
Rites Held for Mrs. Willie Goodwin-Sealey at Calvary Church
Mrs. Willie Goodwin-Sealey of Brinson died June 23 and was buried Tuesday at Calvary Church near Bainbridge with Evans Funeral Home in charge. She was 79, wife of the late Dan Sealey, a Methodist, survived by children John A. Goodwin, Anniee Jaynes, Luther Goodwin, A D Goodwin, a step-daughter Irene Smith, plus 18 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
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Willie Goodwin-Sealey
Calvary Church
Donalsonville
Brinson
Bainbridge
Evans Funeral Home
L. A. Mock
G. A. Branch
B. D. Murkeson
G. B. Murkeson
L. D. Murkeson
Eddie Braswell
P. J. Cloud
John A. Goodwin
Greensboro
Fla
Anniee Jaynes
Ethelsville
Ala
Luther Goodwin
A. D. Goodwin
Irene Smith
Chattahoochee, Fla
Longtime Bainbridge solicitor general Mas ton E O Neal dies at home
Mas ton Emmett O Neal, 17 year old solicitor general of the Bainbridge City Court, died at his home after months of illness. He served over forty three years in that role and was re elected recently. A prominent South Georgia lawyer and church elder, he also served as Solicitor General Pro Tem during World War II. He attended the University of Georgia Law School and was active in Masonry Shriner and Odd Fellows. Survivors include his wife Bessie Matthews three sons a daughter a brother and three sisters.
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Bainbridge
Maston
Emmett O’neal
O'Neal
United States
South Georgia
Georgia
Florida
Albany
Presbyterian Church
Th University of Georgia Law School
Alpha Tau Ome
Phi Delta Phi Legal Peaternity
Scottish Rite
Knights Templar
Bessie Matthews
Thomaston
W. W. Plowden
Maston E. O'Neal, Jr
Allan M. O'Neal
Clarksville
Tenn
Birch D. O’neal
U. S. Foreign Service
Guatemala City
Lamar O’neal
Atlanta
Cora O'Neal
Verna O'Neal Watkins
Leuvella O'Neal
Rhee narrowly escapes assassination in Korea
In Pusan on the second anniversary of the Korean War President Syngman Rhee faced an assassination attempt when a man fired a pistol within five feet. The weapon misfired and the would be assailant Ryu Shi Tae, 62, a member of the Corps of Blood Justice was seized by police and bystanders and hurled off the speaker’s platform.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
U.S
John Muccio
Ryu Shi Tae
The
Corps of Blood Justice
Mitchell of Tampa Funeral Arrangements Announced
Mitchell of Tampa Florida is noted in a brief obituary fragment mentioning one child and nine grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by E. W. Cox Funeral Home.
Fire damages tobacco barns in Pavo district
A report notes multiple tobacco barns burned in the Pavo district over the past ten days. The latest fire damaged a barn at Parker Rt 2 Pavo, following an earlier blaze at Lewis Fort Rt 8 Pavo, for which loss had not been previously reported.
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Parker Rt
Pavo
Tung
Lewis Fort
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