Hope to Get in Light Opera
In Atlanta the Municipal Light Opera Company trains over a hundred young people for a six week season at the City Auditorium beginning June 15. The chorus of sixty includes 24 men and 36 women with principal singers drawn from the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway. They aim to stage a 360 show with top prices of 2 and many seats at 50 cents, rehearsals underway for The Mikado opening June 16.
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Atlanta
Municipal Light Opera Company
City Auditorium
Dians
Metropolitan Opera Company
Excellent Argument on Wisdom from Thomas a Kempis
A line from Thomas a Kempis argues that wise conduct avoids rash action and obstinate fixed opinions, praising measured restraint over impulse. The citation frames wisdom as patience guiding judgment rather than haste or stubbornness.
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Thomas A Kempis
Owen D Young backs world court to ease global peace
New York May 15 Owen D Young urged America to join a world court to enable practical peaceful decision making while the world seeks peace. He accepted the National Institute of Social Science gold medal and pressed for concrete action in world affairs and limited but meaningful experiments.
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New York
America
Owen D. Young
Dawes
National Institute of Social Science
Mr. Young
Publicity Declared Deterrent of Crime
Philadelphia officials and police experts advocate newspaper publicity as a crime deterrent. General Butler says publicity spurs investigation, keeps authorities honest, and speeds solving crimes by sharing details as soon as they develop.
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Philadelphia
Public Safety
Butler
Stand-patter term born in Hanna era in tariff debate
The phrase stand-patter originated with Senator Hanna in 1902 to describe Republican leaders who would not alter their tariff stance. It derives from stand pat a poker term meaning keeping initial cards without drawing new ones.
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Hanna
Lynching of John West in Florida after train abduction
John West a Black man was taken from a train near Sanford and lynched by an unidentified mob near Longwood. A coroner's jury found he died from a group’s bullets after an apparent operation, amid earlier charges of breaking and entering and alleged child sexual assault.
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Sanford
Fla
John West
Here
Orlando
Longwood
Seminole County
Thurrday
West
Cairo elects new school superintendent
Mr. O. H. Hixon of Decatur Georgia was elected by the Cairo Board of Trustees to lead Cairo Public Schools succeeding C Haddock who moves to Bradenton Florida. Hixon a Decatur High School principal and math teacher with sixteen years of teaching experience is a Mercer University graduate and will join Cairo pending board plans. He is a widower but plans to remarry after starting the new post. The board faced several applications and vacancies remain for summer hires. There are nine U S climate zones and Georgia has eight.
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O. H. Hixon
Decatur, Ga
Board of Trustees
Cairo Public Schools
C. Haddock
Bradenton
Fla
Hixons
Decatur High School
Mercer University
Cairo
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Dunn’s Garage
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