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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1925
Page
3
On a peninsula where Broad and Savannah Rivers join, at Elbert County's far southeast corner, stood a once important town that led Georgia’s tobacco trade before planters abandoned it, known as old Petersburg per Lucian Lamar Knight in Georgia Landmarks.
Atlanta Ga March 23 Following a communication from Mrs Minnie E Boggs of Columbus Va and an ensuing probe the Governor issued a proclamation offering 300 for capture and conviction of Hunt Patton charged with the murder of Royal Hubbard Boggs in Pike county on March 21 1924 Mrs Boggs says Patton indicted by the grand jury is yet at large Sheriff D S Allen of Pike county is making efforts to arrest him in the vicinity Patton is believed to be hiding in Pike county.
Atlanta March 23 Letters from across the country reach the Governor urging commuting the death sentence of Mrs Ida Hughes set for hanged April 24 for murder of her mother in law Mrs M C Hughes. Atlanta attorney Marie Smith and about eight hundred signatories in Atlanta and Montgomery petition for life imprisonment.
A petition signed by 770 Atlanta citizens and 30 Montgomery residents asks The Prison Commission and the Governor of Georgia to commute Ida Hughes’s death sentence to life imprisonment. Supporters cite limited education and opportunities, extreme provocation, and a witnessed conversion. The document includes endorsements from Atlanta’s Mrs. C A Ridley and Macon’s James Callaway, noting historic cotton seed fertiliser discovery by Henry C. Fuqua of Laurens County.
Washington March 28 Controller General McCarl rules that members of Congress must accept the recent pay raise they voted. He says only one check can be issued per pay day and a member may remit back any amount not desired, treated as a gift to the United States.
Five people including two women and two children died in an early Sunday blaze that consumed a tenement on East Forty seventh Street housing eleven families. Four were injured as investigators blamed a pyromaniac who started a baby carriage fire. another fire followed a block away ten minutes later.
Valdosta Ga March 23 A rattlesnake bit T J Price keeper at the Ocean Pond Club while moving bricks. He received immediate medical attention but remained seriously affected by the bite as the snake struck his little finger and coiled.
W B Bouknight of this place attributes relief from indigestion after meals to Thedford's Black-Draught. He notes rapid relief from bloated feelings and drowsiness and claims it also helps with colds and biliousness.
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