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Newspaper
Waycross Weekly Journal
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1914
Page
3
Miss Isabella Smith to organize a winter piano and music history class under Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at Studio No. 33 Tebeau St with phone 691. References note the program includes harmony and pipe organ studies.
Notice to voters states the city voters book will be open between 8 p m and 5 p m from October 20 to November 20 for the purpose of registering voters.
In a piece from the Atlanta Journal of Labor Thomas F. Kearney urges every union member to work for the common good. He warns against knocker culture and praises boosters who promote education, fair pay, and unity. With the biennial convention near, the article emphasizes cooperation, sacrifice, and mutual support as essential to the union’s future and strength.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston told the National Dairy Show Association convention in Chicago that farmers benefit from wartime prices, urges Southern cotton growers to diversify crops, and outlines three paths to increase meat supplies. He emphasizes livestock, swine and poultry, and tick and hog cholera control as vital efforts. The speech notes rural life, distribution issues, and unequal attention in the South to food and livestock production.
In Columbus on October 29 a hosiery mill reportedly received an immediate shipment order from England for 60,000 pairs of heavy socks. The report added that the order would be reposted shortly.
Macon residents form a Stop-Talking War society led by hotel owner Tom Hooks who is elected president. The group, now over a hundred members strong, prohibits discussion of the war among members and with customers and friends.
A livery stable touts its fleet as smart and modern promising superior road appearance. It claims you avoid high ownership costs by renting, paying only for the time you use the horse or buggy.
Savannah reports a double marriage as Ruth Levison becomes Mrs Mitchell after divorcing Henry Schwarzbaum, with the ceremony in the courthouse won by a license to woo. Also noted are Savannah’s push to halt Southern Express removals, missionary traveler Holloway’s business hopes, grand jury weights inquiry, and bank aid to county payrolls ahead of tax receipts. Captain Casey Morgan of the Navy, soon to command the Minnesota, plans a visit to his mother and brother.
Albert Reiss, Metropolitan Opera tenor, recounts his wartime ordeal after his family vanished in Paris and he was sent to a concentration camp. He describes forced stone breaking from early morning to sunset, followed by relocation to a shoemaking factory before his release.
President E P Ripley of the Santa Fe outlines government control of railroads with sane management as the only solution besides outright government ownership. He urges a federal bank style plan and a lines and equipment committee under government oversight to cut costs and stabilize the system.
Fort Gaines Ga Oct 29 After consuming fifteen pints of liquor in one night Ben Hickman an Alabama resident living across the river from Fort Gaines died Sunday morning He began Saturday evening and finished the last drop before noon He leaves a wife and nine children.
The city clerk announces extended hours until 9 p m on the 29th 30th and 31st to receive tax payments and register votes A C Lowther Clerk of Camell Atlanta Oct 3 costumes stored for a century will be worn at a D A R Masquerade ball next Monday eight descendent descendants of revolutionary heroes plan to wear gowns worn by their great great grandfathers
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