Local option debate shapes Tennessee gubernatorial race
Nashville coverage notes Benton McMillin backs local option in the Democratic primary and expects a fight over prohibition as party lines sharpen. It highlights Governor Hooper's statewide ban stance, Roosevelt era local option echoes, and Patterson’s looming senatorial bid with independents aiming to block reform.
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Nashville
Tenn
Benton McMillin
Memphis
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Patterson
United States Senate
Seaboard Announces Wrightsville Excursion for Aug Six Day Trip
Seaboard offers six day Wrightsville excursion with six round trip trains on Saturday August 10 leaving from ald depot at 7. Reservations can be made at city Ticket office. Alphonse L Sherburne, a Boston financier, retires after $150000 gain tied to Major Higginson who advised King on copper stock and guaranteed against loss. Sherburne still holds 1000 shares bought at $6, now valued at $126000.
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Seaboard
Wrightsville
Ald
City Trcket
Alphonse L. Sherburne
Boston
Henry L. Higginson
King
Sherburne
Revivalist Rev Bob Jones Attacks Governor in Cartersville Sermon
In Cartersville Georgia a vast crowd filled the Tabernacle to hear Rev Bob Jones deliver a fiery sermon denouncing Governor Brown and legislators over the Tippins bill. He likened Brown to a liquor governor and labeled supporters of compromise as cowards, urging abolition of prohibition.
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Cartersville
Sam Jones
Bob" Jones
Brown
Evangelist Jones
Great Tabernacle
Atlanta
Rev Jones
Kansas votes Tuesday on Taft and Roosevelt
Topeka August 4 Unusual interest marks the Kansas state wide primary as progressives and Republicans clash over presidential electors. Roosevelt electors hang in balance as a U S Supreme Court decision delays final ruling. Progressives aim to capture the state Republican organization and push their nominees in multiple House districts and for governor.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
National Progressive Party
W R Stubbs
Charles Curtis
United States Senate
Congress
W J Stuart
D R Anthony
J L Brady
W M Gray Progressive
P P Campbell
F S Jackson
R R, Rees
J D. Young
Victor Murdock
Richard J Hopkins
G L Finley
Arthur Capper
Frank Ryan
J B. Bittard
George H Hodges
A. M Jackson
Winfield
Jno I Moore & Sons Eyeglass Frames Adjustment Service
Expert Jpileian snuwe ve uuseu offers frame adjustment not frame type. Jno I Moore and Sons invite customers to bring prescriptions to prove it at 42 North Broad Street.
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Jpileian Snuwe Ve
Jno I, Moore & Sons
North Broad Atreet Eee
W A Schoepel Killed While Coupling Freights
Brunswick Ga August 4 Special Foreman W A Schoepel age 50 was crushed to death while coupling two freight trains near Scale Track He was found beside the track ten minutes after the accident with his clothes entangled in the coupling pins He leaves a widow and five children all residents of Brunswick except two relatives in Augusta The remains will be taken to Waycross for interment Tuesday
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Brunswick
Schoepel
Foreman Schoaepel
W H Loyd
Robert Bosch
Augusta 1
iToss
Merchant Killed Jumping From Moving Train Near Franklin
Nashville August 4. J Mc Kee a Nashville merchant was instantly killed when he leaped from a moving train near Franklin and struck a telephone post, breaking his neck. The fatal accident occurred during a fight aboard the train and authorities were notified.
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Merchant
Tragedy on Tennessee Central Freight Train
Raymond Chester McPherson a brakeman on the Tennessee Central railroad died after being crushed between railroad cars today near Lebanon Tennessee. He fell between the cars of a freight train and was fatally injured.
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Nashville
Tenn
Raymond Chester McPherson
Tennessee Central Railroad
Lebanon
Brewster the Giant Killer a Braves Park Fixture
Howell Foreman profiles Erskine Brewster of the Crackers as the Braves fans’ famed booster. The piece recalls his legendary onfield clashes with Giants figures like Myers Mathewson and McGraw, earning him the nickname Brewster the Giant Killer. Brewster remains a genial, conspicuous spectator whose loyalty fuels local rallying as the Crackers chase a first division spot.
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Erskine
John J. McGraw
Dixie
Giants
Gate City
Erskine Brewster
Atlanta
New York
Neva
Muggsy McGraw
Matty
Meyers
Christy Mathewson
Brewster Christy
Pimion
Mathewson
Gadzooks
McGraw
Felder
Texas
Otto Jordan
al Bridwell
Chief Meyers
Crackers
Whitey Alperman
Satanic
The Biggest Stone Ever Quarried in Ancient Syria
The Baalbec monolith in Syria is said to be the largest quarried stone, about sixty nine feet long fourteen feet wide and seventeen feet high with an estimated weight of fifteen hundred tons. It is tied to the Temple of the Sun ruins where walls show massive yet precisely squared and polished stones nineteen feet above ground level, with joints so tight a pocket knife cannot fit.
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Wide World Magazine
Baalbec
Syria
Temple of the Sun
Napoleon News From June Amid Baltic War Reports
An Anholt mail brings May 24 letters from Gotten burgh describing Poland, 300,000 Russian troops in strong condition with daily reinforcements, Wilna as headquarters. Napoleon at rear directs from behind lines with Bennigsen, Kutuzov, Barclay de Tollang, Bagration commanding wings. Norway Finland subsidy talks fail. Colburg not yet entered by June 4. If no swift blow, French army to suffer severe provisioning distress.
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Poland
Wilna
Bennigsen
Kutasow
Barclay de Tollang
Bagration
Bonaparte
Norway
Finland
Sweden
Colburg
Sister Susie’s Beau. A schoolhouse ballad from August Lippincott’s
The verse describes Sister Susie’s beau Randall White visiting often and changing family routines. The speaker laments shifts from parlor lessons to upstairs primping, noting poorer school marks and a sense the house is disrupted as Sister Susie prepares for her beau’s arrival.
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Susie
August Lippincott
Randall White
Slater
Alabama Boy Wonder Becomes Young Life Certificate Candidate
Montgomery August 4. A teenage teaching prodigy from Central Alabama is poised to claim a life grade teaching certificate after passing the state examination. At 21 he has seven years in classrooms, having first earned a second grade at 14 and a first grade at 16. The state education department notes him as the most youthful life grade aspirant in its history, with names withheld until statewide examiner results are released.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
John Studrt Mill
Macaulay
State Department of Education
Nvas
Central
W. Hodges
State Board of Teachers' Examiners
Department of Education
Engagement announced for Johanna Crawley and L Clarke
Mrs Willam Crawley of East Brady Pa announces the engagement of their daughter Johanna to Mr L Clarke of Georgia with the marriage set for November 14.
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Willam Crawley
East Brady
Johanna
L. Clarke
Georgia
Pope to Receive 238000 Dollar Legacy
Rome reports that the pope will obtain a legacy of one million marks equivalent to 238000 dollars from the estate of the late Cardinal Anthony Hubert Flacher of Cologne.
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Rome
Anthony Hubert Flacher
Cologne
Girl Cures Odor Fear By HID Deodorant Claim
A testimonial tells of stopping perspiration with a harsh resin that ruined complexion and caused pimples and boils. It extols HID deodorant as odorless and non clogging, claiming it keeps skin fresh without harming health. The ad urges refined people to use HID, 25 cents postpaid from Jacobs' Pharmacy, Atlanta.
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Jacobs
Atlanta
Congress Faces Last Fortnight of Session and Veto Threats
Washington August 4 Congress to begin tomorrow in what is expected as the last fortnight of the present session Adjournment by August 17 hangs on final action on appropriations and tariff bills The Archbald impeachment trial delays cleared the decks for Senate action while battles over the commerce court civil service tenure and veto threats shape the week’s agenda The House and Senate plan 12 hour days to push remaining measures including the Panama canal bill and the naval appropriations through before adjournment.
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Congress
Senate
House
Commerce Court
Civil Service Law
White House
Am Cane
Taft
Democrata
Atlas Oil Co. Promotes Per fecto Auto Oil Quality
The Atlas Oil Co. urges customers to call today to order a barrel or half barrel of their Per fecto Auto Oil The Oil of Quality. Faucets are installed in every barrel for easy drawing of the oil.
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Atlas Oil Co
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