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Newspaper

Vidalia Advance

Location

Vidalia, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1927

Page

6

Vidalia Advance Classified as Second Class Mail

Vidalia Advance is filed at the Vidalia Post Office as second class mail matter under the Act of Congress.

Vidalia Act of Congress

Electricity Tans Hides in Germany and Tax Facts Stir Debate

Hides are now tanned by electricity in Germany in half the time formerly required. The Insurance department of the United States Chamber of Commerce finds that only $1 out of every $27 in taxes on insurance premiums goes to maintain state insurance departments. The rest funds general taxes and prompts discussion of southern migration influenced by climate and commerce networks.

Germany Insurance Department of the United States Chamber of Commerce

Georgia Dairy Farm Expansion Would Boost State Economy

The Atlanta Journal envisions Georgia adding 300000 dairy cows with banker merchant and farm group cooperation. The dairy sector is praised as a path to prosperity, independence, and emancipation from cotton debt, comparing dairy wealth to gold discoveries.

H. C. Antrim Georgia Georgia Association Atlanta Journal

A Quick Brisk Start This New Year Twenty Seven

A brisk start marks the first business day of 1927 with workers and traveling salesmen hitting the ground early. The industrial index notes enthusiasm, energy, and enterprise across business circles as the year opens with strong momentum.

South Georgia towns push tax breaks to attract industry

The Hawkinsville Dispatch notes that progressive South Georgia towns use tax exemptions and abundant cheap power to lure industry. Those actively pursuing investment will win, while dormant communities will miss out on the coming industrial development.

South Georgia Hawkinsville

Unfair to the South on Muscle Shoals Power Debate

The piece argues Muscle Shoals power project burdens the South with political schemes delaying benefits. It links ship operations of the federal government to the same issue and criticizes Congress for eight years of postwar wrangling and slow, unbusinesslike handling.

Muscle Shoals Congress

Try Other Remedies First For Safer Crossings

Opinion urges traffic safety through driver education at crossings and stricter license standards rather than costly grade changes. It argues most accidents occur on streets, not at crossings, and prevention should start with stopping looking and listening before crossing and preventing licenses for impaired drivers.

South’s Industrial Dawn Realized by Veterans Dreamers

An Industrial Index tribute honors veterans who built the South’s wealth and institutions. It notes water power, mills, railroads, public utilities, roads, diversified farming, education, and rising living standards transforming the region into a thriving industrial center.

Toduy Moses Nebo South

Indicted and Policing Practices Propose Remedies

The article argues that proper policing will prevent most abuses and that remedies should avoid extra tax burdens unless other approaches have been tried and failed. It emphasizes using tax levies only after proven ineffectiveness of alternative measures.

Newspapers and Farmers in the Community

The piece notes how country weeklies and small city dailies engage farmers with editorials, market news, ads, and social events. It argues that family readers, from parents to children, all find value in editorials and local content.

Country Weekly Towwn

The Telephone Idea

Arthur Pound extols the nationwide telephone workforce for prompt messaging and risk taking. He lauds operators and linesmen who battle danger to keep the wire system alive, noting a shared devotion across diverse workers to get the message through.

Telephone Army of America Arthur Pound

Vidalia street assessment notices header several parcels

Assessments for paving and improving Church Meadows and Jackson streets in Vidalia Georgia are issued to multiple owners. Each notice lists frontage length cost per foot total charges and installments with seven percent interest and due dates from 1926 27.

L. B. Keebee Vidalia Church Street First and Church Streets Georgia Railroad Avenue First Street Council W. B. Herring City of W. L. Wiggs Medows Street Church and Meadows Streets Matt Lar Scoof Meadows Street Jackson Street E. O. Meadows Ead City of Mor Calience Entin Wv. B. Herring Towit L. B. Godbee Church and Meadley Gigia City of Puopres Ser Cscs Aber Ft Sah Era Street Jackson and First Streets Nfer D. W. Riddle PVR

Clerk Title Appears Incomplete Coupon Staging Note

Fragmentary OCR line hints at a procedure with coupons and a clerk. No clear names, locations, or dates are readable. The readable fragment suggests administrative action related to issuing or counting coupons.

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