Local Notices Highlight Visitors and Music Shop Ads
A rural notice page lists visitors returning from Tampa and Savannah, a sale for Seaconed Steve Wood, and phone numbers for Norris Candy Agency and Cocroft Music Company. It notes Cecroft Music Company ads for Victrolas and new phonographs, plus local families welcoming a newborn Winnie d Jane and a Navy midshipman at Annapolis. Elizabeth Britton departs for Banner Elk to direct a Beach Slaven Camp with Sophronia Mitchell joining as athletic director.
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Elizabeth Britton
Banner Elk
N. C
Beach Slaven Camp
Saphronia Mitchell
Britton
Sanford Hyams Elected Civitan President In Nashville
Sanford Hyams of San Francisco was elected president of Civitan International in Nashville Tennessee. Detroit was chosen as the site for the 1928 Civitan convention at the final session of the convention.
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Nashville
Tenn
Sanford Hyams
San Francisco
Civitan International
Detroit
Colorado tops nation in sugar beet production
Denver notes Colorado shifts from mining to agriculture as the state leads the country in sugar beet output, reflecting a broader postwar diversification of its economy.
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Denver
Colorado
Georgia Legislature Opens Lively Session with Gag Rule Fight
Georgia lawmakers convene a brisk session with many bills in both houses. The House debates a gag rule as Rep Zellars Mc Clure Pitcher back a state insurance commission and banking regulation bill. Senate pressures investigation of the public service commission and adjourns to continue tomorrow.
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Georgia
Atlanta
House of Representatives
Zellars
Hart County
McClure
Stephens
Pitcher
Richmond
State Budget Commission
Senate
Myrick
First
Superintendent of Banking
Superintendent
House
Rules Committee
Wilhoit
Warren
Davis
Dekalb
John S. Kelly
State Public Service Commission
Commission
Boykin
Humphrey
Emanuel
Doyal
Floyd
Stark
Whitfield
Neill
Muskogee
Short
Baker
Miloyd County
Transpacific Flight Ends as Army Fliers Land in Hawaii
Army airmen Maitland and Hegenberger complete a 2400 mile trans oceanic flight from San Francisco to Hawaii in 25 hours 430 minutes. They are greeted by high army navy and civilian authorities after a dramatic landing amid cheers and salute guns.
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Golden Gate
Pacific
Hawaii
California
Sonoma
Maitland
President Pierce
Honolulu
Oakland
Calif
Sonomi
Californian
Hegenberger
Navy
San Francisco Bay
America
John Rodgers
Hope
Air corps reports trans Atlantic aviators land in Honolulu
Washington reports that Army air corps headquarters received word that the trans Atlantic aviators had landed at Honolulu just before 11 o clock eastern time. The claim drew quick interest but officials doubted its source and authorities had not confirmed. The naval office had no information confirming the landing.
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Washington, D. C
Army Air Corps
Honolulu
Air Corps
Naval Communications Office
War Department
Corps
Sail
Davison
Army Air Activities
Army Air Corps Confident Flight Would Succeed
Washington reports the air corps believed the trans Pacific flight by Maitland Hegenberger had landed in Honolulu on June 29 based on an erroneous sighting. Officials later confirmed no sighting had occurred and the hop from San Francisco to Hawaii had not yet happened.
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ARMY
AIR Corps
Washington, D. C
Army Air‘corps
trans-Pacific
Corps
Maitland- Hegenberger
Honolulu
Washington
Hawaii
Miers
San Francisco
Associated Press
Maitland-Hegenberger
Silent Progress of Army Zonoplane Headed Toward Hawaii
The giant army zonoplane, flying from Oakland to Honolulu with pilots Lt. Lester J. Maitland and Lt. Albert Hegenberger, was cloaked in silence as it neared Oahu. Reports from Honolulu and Portland indicated all was well with the two-man crew as they approached Wheeler Field, about 80 miles from Honolulu, with mid-morning expectations of reaching the eastern shore of Oahu within 24 hours of takeoff.
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San Francisco
Golden Gate
Hawaii
Pacific
Honolulu
Hinolulu
Portland
Ore
Lester J. Maitland
Albert
Hegenberger
Oahu Island
Oakland
Wheeler Field
Scoffield Bar
Sheriff Bonds Questioned in Thomas County Grand Jury
The April grand jury urged the County Commissioners to dismiss the auditor for undisclosed reasons while noting missing income from bond forfeitures in Thomasville City Court. The board sent Rountree and Johnson to probe, but they found the auditor had served faithfully. The panel also pressed Sheriff Gordon Davis over cash bonds, with Davis denying knowledge and offering to account if any sums were due.
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Ben Kincaid
Grand Jury
Thomasville
Rountree
Johnson
Holland
Tie
Gordon Davia
Crews Named General Superintendent Five S. A. L. Lines
Norfolk notice says J. S. Crews is appointed general superintendent of five short lines under Sea board Air Line Railway. Lines include Tavares and Gulf Railroad Cheraw and Macon. Charlotte Monroe and Columbia Railroad Cheraw and Macon. Chesterfield and Lancaster Railroad Cheraw and Macon. Savannah and Statesboro Railway Statesboro and Macon. Raleigh and Charleston Railroad Marion and Macon. Savannah and Statesboro Railroad post abolished. D. C. Smith named superintendent there.
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Norfolk, Va
M. H Cahill
Seaboard Air Line Railway
J. S. Crews
Tavares and Gulf Railroad
Tavares
Florida
Macon
Charlotte, Monroe and Columbia Railroad
Cheraw
S. C
Chesterfield and
Lancaster Railroad
Savannah and
Statesboro
Raleigh and Charleston Railroad
Marion
D. C. Smith
Maitland and Hegenberger Missing After Flight Attempt
In San Francisco and at Pala on Oahu Island radio beacons strained to track Maitland and Hegenberger, 2400 miles across water, as their parents in Burlingame stayed awake all night awaiting news of the daring flight and hoped the Fokker would succeed if possible.
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San Francisco
Pala
Oahu Island
Maitland
Hegenberger
J. W. Maitland
Burlingame
Plane sighting 140 miles from Honolulu reported
The Examiner's Honolulu correspondent says an army monoplane was sighted 140 miles from its Honolulu destination and expected to land at 5 15 a m Pacific time. Navy radio in San Francisco reports no late word on the army Fokker but expects arrival very soon.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Cal
The
Examiner
Navy
Army
Hawaii
Fokker
Message From Sierra Reports Missing Army Fokker
Federal Telegraph in San Francisco says Sierra reported 40 miles from Honolulu at 8:15 am Pacific time that the army Fokker had not been heard from since communications with the steamer Cleveland at 7:35 pm yesterday. The arrival at Honolulu was at 6:22 this morning.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Cal
Federal Telegraph Company
Sierra
Army Fokker
Cleveland
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Norris Candy Agency
Montgomery's Pharmacy
George Neel
Tampa
Steve Wood
L. W. Burt
Frank Wilkinson
Blue Ridge Mountains
Cocroft Music Company
Elizabeth Glenn
Nashville, Tenn
Lovetreet
Baxter
Arthur Clark
James Evans
Savannah
Tydee
Cecroft Music Company
Robb White III
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Maryland
Howard Thompson
C. H. Lambert
W. C .Lambert
Winnifred Jane
Civitans
Kahn Mfg. Coo
Mobile, Ala
I A Pe
Pittman Company
South Broad St
S. A. L. Short Lines
TERRO
Senoret Chemical CO
ST. Louis
U.S. A
Thomas
Broad Street
Thomasvilla
Purina
Purina Hen Civ
Enagfrmanns
Golden Bros. Co
Thomasville, Ga
Manry Iron Works
North Broad
Ladies of
Mae
Tallahassee, Fla
Sobacco
Thomas County Tobacco Warehouse Co
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