16 Sep 1931
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1931
Page
1
The column surveys national and state issues including gold reserves, tariffs, a proposed sales tax, wage cuts, school openings, and highway funding. It mentions figures such as Babson and Norman Mack, hints at Dunlap’s leadership for the American Legion, and notes Aimee McPherson’s personal life. It questions road projects for Cairo and Monticello.
A column discusses builders seizing low costs to create homes and civic structures in Thomasville and elsewhere, urging timely building for community welfare and profits. It contrasts simple weddings and funerals with cash gifts and notes Gandhi’s U.S. visit, a sales tax debate, and The New York Times turning eighty with lengthy daily editions.
The piece argues that Georgia smokers increasingly buy cigarettes out of state to dodge local taxes. It condemns the practice as wrong, unfair, and unbusinesslike, urging support for local dealers who are taxed and highlighting the impact on home merchants and the community.
At a Hawkinsville luncheon the Highway Board chairman presented 1932 figures showing about seventeen and a half million dollars in revenue with over eight million already committed leaving less than nine and a half million for new construction. The group urged roads be built without political interference, noting progress and unemployment relief ahead. The piece adds commentary on Mexico’s League entry and domestic welfare work programs.
Mrs Muriel Vanderbilt, now Mrs Henry D Phelps, ties the knot in a ceremony described with social pomp and significance. The wedding marks a notable union reported amid community society notes and ongoing discussions of helping the unemployed.
United States Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau reports fair weather for Thomasville and vicinity with unsettled conditions from atmospheric disturbances over the Lake region. 8 am observations show 75 degree temperature. last night’s low 69, high yesterday near 39, later high 90s in many towns, humidity 94 percent.
Washington notices how widow succession and family names shape Congress. The La Follette and Kyale lines in Wisconsin Minnesota feature sons carrying on for deceased fathers. North Carolina Kerrs Ka with John Hosea Kerr and his third in line show multi generation congressional service.
In Pittsburgh on September 16 two armed men robbed a southside polling place stealing 600 of 652 ballots cast in yesterday’s primary. They forced four election officers to surrender, scattered ballots, and fled by car amid a chaotic, bitter contest tied to Mayor Charles H. Kline’s allied candidates.
Short line railroads filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission arguing it would be possible to exclude agricultural products from a 15 percent rate increase and still provide relief. About 150 carriers, via attorney Ben B. Cain, urged the commission to grant added revenue, while 350 firms representing 110 commodities opposed any rise beyond eastern class rates active since December 3.
Former Vice Squad officer James J. Quinlivan was sentenced by Federal Judge Anderson to three years at the Atlanta penitentiary for defrauding the government by failing to file income tax returns. An alternative two year sentence in the federal detention was allowed if the appeals court ruled the indictment invalid on fraud counts.
Berlin reports that about twelve million German wage earners are women and roughly one in three women there is employed. The statistic highlights women's participation in the workforce and the economic role of female labor within the nation.
The passage notes John Kerr of Yancyville as a minister and Whig elected to Congress. It mentions there have been two other John Kerrs in Congress beyond the North Carolina Kerrs, and Maryland has had two individuals with the same name serving in the House at different periods.
A testimonial claims Vinol boosts sleep, appetite and weight for a tired, thin individual. It cites iron, lime and cod liver peptone as key ingredients and urges readers to buy from Thomas Drug Store with a bold promise of amazing results.
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