Roosevelt Addresses Firemen Brotherhood in Chattanooga
President Roosevelt visited Chattanooga for two days attending executive sessions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and delivering speeches at the Auditorium and court house lawn. He toured Chickamauga Missionary Ridge Orchard Knob and Lookout Mountain with enthusiastic crowds. He later attended First Baptist Church services before departing for Knoxville and Asheville.
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Chattanooga
Roosevelt
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Knoxville
Asheville
Court House
Chickamauga
Missionary Ridge
Orchard Knob
Lookout Mountain
First Baptist Church
J. W. Brougher
Oxford College Opens Its Doors for New Term
Oxford Sept 8 The oxford college opened this morning with about 125 pupils present and expect numbers to double in a week. Several students left for Auburn to enter the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. A benefit for the Oxford Library is announced for Sept 9 at Mr Sexton’s summer theater at Oxford Lake to aid the library.
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Oxford
Oxford College
Messrs
Paul Leichelberger
Floyd Smith
Joel S. Thomason
Auburn
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Train wreck near Glasgow robs Roanoke crew of life
Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 3 on the Shenandoah division wrecked at Glasgow Virginia a mile before Roanoke. Engine and several cars left the track tumbling down an embankment. Engineer C M Swine and Fireman M A Anderson of Roanoke were fatally hurt while other crew and passengers escaped serious injury. Passengers will be moved to Roanoke for assistance.
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Roanoke
Norfolk and Western
Hagerstown
Glasgow
C. M. Swine
M. A. Anderson
Arsenic Water Poisoning Hit Mapimi Four Hundred Ill
Reliable reports from San Antonio describe arsenic springs in Mapimi Mexico mixing with drinking water. The reservoir is contaminated and thirty are dead with over four hundred seriously ill. Physicians were warned from distant camps as the source was identified. Citizens lack usable water amid the disaster.
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San Antonio
Pex
Mapimi
Mexico
German Gunboat Sinks Haitian Gunboat in Caribbean Harbor
In Cavae Haiti the Crete-a-Pierrot, a gunboat allied with the ferminist party, was sunk at the harbor entrance of Gonaives by the German gunboat Panther. The Paloma's officers report Panther arrived at Port au Prince, then set course to sink the firmnist vessel, with crew abandoning ship before it went down. No international fallout expected.
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Cave Haitien
Haiti
Crete-a-Pierrot
Ferminist Party
Gonaives
Panther
Paloma
Port Au Prince
Crete
Nist
Preacher Killed in Mortal Combat Near Durant
A bloody battle ten miles east of Durant last night left Rev. W. F. Whaley dead. His son Alf lost both arms, and Ernest Whaley injured. J. H. Richardson J. A. Richardson and Wattenberger also injured, following months of local feud.
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Durant
Fortune Favors a Texan With New Life Pills
W P Whitehead of Kennedale Texas reports distressing pains in head back and stomach and loss of appetite. He began using Dr King s New Life Pills and soon felt like a new man. The pills are infallible in stomach and liver troubles and cost 25 cents at Miller Drug Co.
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Dr. King
New Life
W. P. Whitehead
Kennedale, Tex
Miller Drug Co
Sunday Law In Montgomery Province
Montgomery ends its longtime Sunday permissiveness as mayor enforces a new prohibition order. Clerks' union request leads to enforcement of a long standing Sunday trading ban affecting saloons and clothing shops. The change aims to standardize Sunday use and curb open commerce.
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Montgomery
Clerks’ Union
Not Doomed For Life
W A Greer of Mc Connellsville Ohio writes that after three years of treatment by good doctors for piles and fistula nothing worked, Bucklen s Arnica Salve cured him in two weeks. It also cures burns cuts corns sores eruptions salt rheum piles or no pay. 25 cents at Miller Drug Co.
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W. A. Greer
McConnellsville
Bucklen
Miller Drug Co
Publicized Jewish Colonization Accounts Show Large Expenditures
The Jewish World publishes a detailed 1901 balance sheet of the Jewish Colonization Association funded by Baron de Hirsch. It shows 2,019,597.30 spent, with seven eighths from interest and one eighth from capital, highlighting regional grants from Argentina, Russia, Roumania, Palestine, and Asia Minor, plus a notable loan to Dabroyna weavers and land purchases in Galicia. Administrative costs run about 74 percent of total outlay.
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New York
The
Jewish World
Jewish Colonization Association
Baron de Hirsch
Co. Religiouists
Russia
Association
Vilna
Roumania
Palestine
Asia Minor
Dabroyna
Galicia
Anniston Defeated as Rome Triumphs 12 to 4
Rome took an early lead and extended it to a 12 to 4 victory over Anniston. Blankenship hit a left field homer while Matthews Segars pitched well for Rome and Matthews Segars teamed up on the mound for Anniston in a high scoring game.
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Rome
Anniston
Matthews
Segars
Blankenship
Patton
Osborn, Patterson and
Branham
Kidney Trouble Relief After Foley's Kidney Care
J. J. Cox of Valley View Kentucky suffered severe kidney trouble with feet swelling and bedridden confinement. He credits Foley's Kidney Care prescribed by his doctor with a significant improvement and return to health. Miller Drug Co endorses the product.
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J. J. Cox
Valley View
Foley
Miller Drug Co
Biggest Tree in World Found Near Fresno
San Francisco reports that a massive Sequoia discovered east of Fresno in the Sierra Nevada measures 109 feet around at ground level and 97 feet at four feet high. The tree exceeds the circumferences of the General Sherman and General Grant, previously the largest known. John Muir visited and confirmed the measurements.
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San Francisco
Fresno
Sierras
John Muir
General Sherman
General Grant
Dyspepsia Sufferer Reports Benefit From Herbine
A Salt Lake City reader claims 21 years of indigestion ended after using Herbine. He says one bottle cured him and he is tapering off the second while recommending it to friends in Oxford Alabama.
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H. Foster
Salt Lake City
Noc
J. L. Wikle
J. B. Privett
Oxford
Ala
Fragmentary ad copy about local cars and cigars
Uneven text fragment mentions Water’s Hand Made cars and a five cent cigar. References Postel's F E event flour not fully clear. Context suggests an old newspaper ad or reader notice with promotional phrasing.
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Warter
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Firemen's Brotherhood
Chickamauga Battlefield
Cooper Whiteride Agent Model Laundry
Carrie Ingram
Dr. Allen
Joe Morgan
White Plains
Jim Hayes
Rocky Mount
Model Laundry
Cooper Whiteside
Gunnels Bros
Corner Main
Choccolocco
Roy Cunningham and
Mont Davenport
DeArmanville
John Brog
Birmingham
Lenard Thomas
B. A. Boyd
South Snow
Gus Miller
Sylacauga
T. A. Anderson
Yester
Patally Hart
Sterne’s Grocery
Mexican City
Pierrot
Noble Institute
Newnan H. Athoe
Josef Codek
Blanche E. Shat
Tuck, Reader
Preacher
Hirsch
Rams
Postel
Rieht
Sterne
Huyler
Miller Drug Company
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