Georgia Weekly Press Association Meets in Cordele
About one hundred members travel to Cordele for the annual Georgia Weekly Press Association convention opening at the opera house. Program includes prayers, welcome by Cordele official, introductions, minutes, membership applications, committee reports, and papers by Shackelford of Lexington Echo, H Mlington of Ellijay Courier, and Thad Adams of Moultrie Observer.
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Georgia Weekly Press Association
Opera House
City Hall
W.S. Coleman
Cedartown Standard
A. B. Campbell
The
Fist Baptist Church
J. W. Bivins
Cordele
W. N
Ellijay Courier
the Foreign Advertiser
Thad Adams
Moultrie Observer
Body of an infant found in creek near Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald Ga June 19 Officers have no clue to the infant’s identity or guardians. The body was fished from a creek early this week, tied in a sack with brick shards and sand. Sheriff McInnis and a detective investigate as efforts to find the responsible party continue.
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Fitzgerald, Ga
Three Mules Killed by Electrical Storm in Griffin
Electric storm hits Griffin and nearby areas causing three mules to die in town and five additional fatalities on a Southern train. Police report eleven African Americans dead from a crash and riot related to a craps game on the way to Atlanta. No clear details on exact locations or full casualty list yet.
Electric Bitters Recoup My Health After Typhoid
Mrs Annie Hanter of Pittsburg writes she suffered four weeks with typhoid and kidney troubles and was bent double. After using Electric Bitters at Vienna Drug Co she regained health and strength and can walk straight again. Cures stomach liver and kidney disorders, price 60c.
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Pittsburg
Vienna Drug Co
Hodoo Number in Crap Game
In Americus Georgia on June 19 sheriff Bell and a police squad surprised thirteen gamblers in a cotton field. The group sat in a circle of lighted candies and paid no heed to the approaching officers as they continued gambling in the early hours.
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Americus
Sheriff Bell
Fragmentary memorial verse misreads bilious bill
Fragmented OCR style lines describe a sleepy figure named Bilious Bill and a mysterious figure in a surreal, dreamlike passage. The text appears as garbled couplets about sleep, waking, and a question involving a necromancer. No clear news event or entities emerge.
Folk warns militia to enforce Missouri anti betting law
Governor Folk said he would call out the militia if needed to enforce the new anti betting law in Missouri as two arrests were made at Delmar race track despite instructions to the sheriff of St Louis county to arrest all violators.
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Folk
Missouri
Nashville
Tenn
St. Louis
St. Louis County
Delmar
Boys to Run the Country Farm Acknowledged in Georgia
The Constitution editorial urges agricultural education to keep youths in the countryside. W H Kilpatrick of Walden criticizes urban schooling and calls for seven month terms to train boys in farming, noting Georgia cows and farms require skilled managers. Immigrant farm labor and demand for trained experts are highlighted as the state seeks practical agricultural education.
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Acon
Manon
W. H. Kilpatrick
Walden
Chamber of Commerce
Georgia
Bibb County
Kilpatrick
Macon
Jersey
Northwest
Special Term of Court Called at Valdosta in Carter Murders
Valdosta Ga June 18 a special term of court will be held early in July for the trial of J G Rawlings his three sons and two Negroes linked to the Carter assassination case The state is ready and Alf Moores confession was made public He says the elder Rawlings employed him and the group planned to kill parents and children set fire to the house and shoot those who fled including Carrie Carter and the boy as he cried for water
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Griffin
Phelps
van Mitchell
West Chunn
Suapecta
McDonough
Atlanta
Terminal Station
Flimt River
Valdosta
J. G. Rawlings
Carter
Tudge| Mitchell
Thomas
Alf Moore
Willie Carter
Rawlings
Moore
Valdosts
W. L. Carter
Carters
Carrie Carter
Buddy
Dying of Consumption Compared to Tubercular Decline
A reader notes the torment of consumption and cites a testimonial from William Myers of Cearfoss Maryland praising Dr Kings New Discovery for prompt relief and cure of coughs colds and bronchitis. The ad asserts prevention of pneumonia and offers 60c and 1.00 bottles with a Vienna Drug Co trial guarantee.
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Wm, Myers
Cearfoss
Dr. King
Vienna Drug Co
For Sale A Williams Typewriter in Vienna Ga
No. 4 Williams Typewriter for sale at a bargain for cash. Address News Vienna Ga.
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Williams
Addreas News
Vienna
Japanese and Russian Front Lines Report From Manchuria
Dispatches from Dechapudzy and St. Petersburg describe Japanese center and western advances near Palitun and Liao Yang Wopeng. Reports cite 50,000 infantry columns moving toward Obutsumi Kenshan and lines from Korea toward the Mongol frontier, with Russian detachments evacuating and Japanese squadrons occupying Simiaochen.
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Dechapudzy
Manchuria
Palitun
Korea
Obutsumi Kmegad
Kenshan
Oyamé’sa
Tian Frontier
Sea of Japan
St. Petersburg
Linevitch
Yang Wopeng
Ithe
Luigos Yang Wopeng
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D.A. R. Crum
South Dooly Territory
L. W. Mobley
Dooly County
Crisp
Attrac
Fitzgerald
Storf
G. L. Bush
Joe Shackelford
J. P. Heard
J. W. Smith
Annie Hanter
Bilious Bill the
Sleepy Head
TUL
Thain
Atlanta Constitution
Famie
Con
Movement Fruit Center
Linavitch
Zora Carns
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