Nation to Dabble in Journalistic Work
Mrs Nation plans to enter journalism and will edit a Negro paper. She aims to apply reform methods to reporting and editorial content, seeking to raise standards and broaden readership.
22 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1901
Page
1
Mrs Nation plans to enter journalism and will edit a Negro paper. She aims to apply reform methods to reporting and editorial content, seeking to raise standards and broaden readership.
In Topeka on February 22 Mrs. Carrie Nation plans to enter politics and edit the Smasher's Mail a paper to be published by Nick Chiles a negro saloonkeeper. David Nation will assist with the enterprise and the paper will serve the special needs of the Negro community. Mrs Nation will write the editorials.
Geneva Ohio February 22 1901 Mrs Carrie Nation will tour with the Walter L Main shows for the season. Negotations secured her engagement and she will be featured nationwide before show audiences. She appears for thirty minutes daily with a fifteen minute temperance talk in the menagerie tent and a tableau wagon in the street spectacle.
In Bessemer on February 22, Mrs Charles Foote was found dead in a case that remains unsolved and shrouded in mystery. Investigations have yielded no clear cause or suspect, fueling speculation of foul play and a deliberate act by the deceased.
Tuskegee February 22 Yesterday morning about five o'clock T Y Conner's oil mill caught fire and was almost entirely destroyed. The fire started from linters with a loss between five and ten thousand dollars and insurance of five thousand.
Dr J L McClintock died at his home on Eighth Street after a week long illness from pneumonia. The 53 year old physician moved from near Delta three months ago and joined Good Hope Baptist church. He will be buried at Delta Sunday. He is survived by four children and a wife who died four years ago.
February 22 report from Tuscaloosa describes the Hospital mines disaster where thirteen miners remain trapped as water floods the shaft area. Pumps struggle to lower water levels while a rescue effort led by Professor Wilkens and Archie Durie continues as air sufficiency diminishes.
Montgomery Feb 22 The General Assembly adjourned until Monday at 10 o clock after a day of revenue and local bill debates. Senate focused on Mobile quarantine bill while the House worked on the general revenue measure and mortgage tax exemption amendments. Speaker Pettus reportedly ill as many bills await his signature.
The Supreme court overruled applications for a rehearing in Calhoun county cases. John Doe ex dem Anniston City Land Company et al versus W J Edmondson appeal from Anniston City Court. Pioneer Savings and Loan Company versus Charles Nonnemacher appeal from Anniston City Court.
Mrs. J M Roberts died about 6 o clock last night at 1820 Walnut street after a long illness. She was 48, a Methodist, mother of Naval Constructor T Gaines Roberts stationed at Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, and several other children. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow morning by Rev W W Scott with interment at Oxford Cemetery at 10 30 o'clock.
Southern railway will inaugurate through sleeping car service Birmingham to Jacksonville Fla via Atlanta leaving Birmingham 1 40 p m November 27 arriving Jacksonville 8 50 a m first class in every respect for information contact your ticket agent or C E Jackson T P A Birmingham Ala
A major Pennsylvanian railroad wreck near Trenton New Jersey leaves ten dead and over twenty five injured as the Nellie Bly express from New York to Atlantic City collides with a Camden Trenton passenger train at Kusting's Siding. Also notes increased Choctaw Route service with three daily trains Memphis to Hot Springs and double daily runs to Indian and Oklahoma Territories.
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