29 Jun 1928
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1928
Page
1
A Thomasville Times-Enterprise column notes Al Smith secured momentum with Southern support amid debate over prohibition. It cites South Carolina and New Orleans figures, the presidential race, and party factions while reflecting on Houston and New York political coverage and looming Fourth of July events.
Claude G. Bowers, historian for the New York World, delivered a keynote praised as logical and thoughtful. The speech energized Democrats with critique of Republicans, avoided liquor issues, and drew mixed reactions from farm relief and wet factions.
The Houston Democratic convention nominated Alfred E. Smith of New York for president on the first ballot in an extraordinary triumph, despite clashes with party crosstown factions over prohibition. Smith’s personal leadership and wide popularity could carry him to victory, though his campaign hinges on his own force rather than party backing. Hog futures meanwhile weaken as the hog crop lags, with prices expected to fall toward 10 cents per pound by month’s end and remain near that range for months, though Thomas county hogs stay robust due to year round immunization and fattening.
County agent Pat Ward warns of an epidemic in border counties near Thomas with hogs dying from cholera. He urges inoculation and life long immunity from proper serum treatment, noting many farmers refuse vaccination risking large losses.
John Henry Mears and Captain Collyer boarded the steamship Olympic after a five am seaplane takeoff from the battery. They aim to circle the globe in about 23 days, using a Fairchild Folding Wind Monoplane aboard the Olympic for part of the journey. The current record is 28 days 14 hours 36 minutes set in 1926.
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