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Newspaper
Vidalia Advance
Location
Vidalia, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
3
Local residents and visitors are listed with movements from Vidalia and nearby towns. Multiple entries note engagements, trips to Savannah, Macon, Davisboro, and Havana, plus arrivals from Brunswick, Tennille, Sandersville, and Montgomery county. Memberships, church events, and business ads accompany notices of rentals and sales.
The 1920 census shows 2.5 million farms with telephones, about 38.9 percent of all farms. States like Nebraska Iowa Williams Indiana Kansas Ohio exceed half farm telephone coverage, with nine more states matching this trend. The article notes U S rural service surpasses Britain’s system by a wide margin and highlights a balloon race anecdote underscoring telephone usefulness.
Sandersville November 27 Judge Bennett Rawlings died this afternoon at his brother's sanitarium after months of illness He was a leading Middle Georgia attorney former solicitor general of the Middle Circuit and judge He ran as a Tenth district congressional candidate six years ago He was Emory educated aged 66 survived by two brothers a sister a wife three sons and two daughters Funeral will be held from the residence Monday afternoon.
Atlanta reports the Hawkinsville and Florida Southern Railway joins two others, the Georgia Coast and Piedmont and the Valdosta Moultrie and Western, in discontinuing operation due to rising costs and sparse patronage. Enhanced public support and potential federal notice requirements are discussed as remedies for sustaining smaller lines.
A fragment notes Brom Quinine tablets branded with E W Groves signature on the box. It mentions that colds cause grip and tabsenza laxative use. The text is an incomplete ad style snippet from a medicine label.
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