Jeffries Triumphs Over Corbett In Heavyweight Fight
Jeffries defeats Corbett in a decisive heavyweight bout at Mechanics Pavilion in San Francisco. The champion leveraged superior power and speed, while Corbett's training showed physical gain but slower responses. Gate receipts reached $54,000 with about 10,000 in attendance amid a high-priced, orderly crowd.
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Mechanics Pavilion
Corbett-Jeffries
Coney Island
Corbett-McCoy
Madison Square Garden
New York
Protection Tailor Dialogue Between Mother and Boy
A tailor asks a mother buying a guitar for her son if shoulders should be padded. The boy interrupts, telling her to pad the knickerbockers instead, in a playful exchange about tailoring and child’s attire.
Court martial in Monastir condemns gendarme to death
A Monastir court martial executed Halim the gendarme for killing M Rostkovky the Russian consul. Another gendarme received fifteen years penal servitude. Dispatches report insurgent activity near Monastir and Krusheve. Consuls demand protection while Turks fortify. Mussulmans seek arms amid rising tension.
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Halim
M. .Hostkevaki
Porte
Gumenije
Grand Visier
Krusheve
M. Rostkovky
Russia
Alabama Farmers Clubs Commissioner Poole analyzes growth
Commissioner Poole reports wide Alabama farmer club organization with hundreds of members in Selma and Marengo. He notes truck grower associations and favorable profits from pooled investments, urging county clubs to form a state body and detailing recent speeches and meetings with local officials and agronomy leaders.
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Poole
Montgomery
Ala
R R Poole
Selma
Farmers’ Club
Farmers’clubs
Alabama
Farmers’ Alliance
South
Atlanta Constitution
Commissioner of Agriculture
Marengo
Louisville and Nashvile Railroad
Lister
Thia
Lester
Bank men sought for securities sales in Atlanta
Bank men who know the value of securities and the demand for good investments may find it advantageous to write for references. R. F. Shedden, Manager, The Mutual Life Tosaranes Company of New York. Atlanta, 04.
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R. F. Shedden
The
Mutual Life Tosaranes Company of
New York
Atlanta
Lord Salisbury Condition Shows No Change
London August 14 Lord Salisbury passed a fairly restful night with no material change in his condition this morning. Lord Robert Cecil said his father seemed slightly stronger after consultation. At 5 o clock p m the physicians announced the condition remained unchanged.
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London
Lord Salisbury
Robert Cecil
Jeffries Wins in Tenth Round Match Summary
In a tense ten round bout, Jeffries overwhelmed Corbett with strong body and head combinations. Corbett showed flashes of old technique but could not break through Jeffries defense as the referee halted after Corbett failed to rise from the knockdown, with Ryan stopping the fight as he went down. The report closes with a note on coinage and currency melting.
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Corbett
Jeffries
Bob Fitzsimmons
Jack Jeffries
Joe Kennedy
Billy Delaney
Cornett
Tommy Ryan
Sam Berner
Yank Kenney
Pop Dare
Fitzsimmons
Jims
Bully Delaney
Fitzalmmona
Jim
Ife
Jeffres
Jefferies
Ipea
Jeff Strong
Jlow
Corbetta
Big Man
Tammy Ryan
Georgia preacher Bridges in Texarkana troubles again
Rome Ga August 14 Special Rev W M Bridges once pastor of the North Rome Baptist church and former Floyd county embezzlement convict faces new trouble in Texarkana Texas where he has been preaching. Authorities say he denies past prison time and church expulsion while Texarkana residents seek an Rome inquiry into his credentials and conduct.
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W. M. Bridges
North Rome Baptist Church
Georgia Penitentiary
Texarkana
Tex
Floyd County
Georgia
Bridges
Texar Kana
Lfe
Second Baptist Church
M. A. Reece
Texas
Reece
B. 8. Cole
Bridges 8
Baptist Association
Cole
Baptist Church
Atkinson
Tilia Fatary
Rail route from Rutherfordton to Spartanburg eyed
August 14 Spartanburg Columbia report that engineers survey a Rutherfordton to Spartanburg line reaching Broad River, promising Seaboard Air Line access and boosted cotton mill goods exports. A Bavarian chemist claims a methane hydrogen rectification to illuminate, with costs at 1.5 cents per heat unit versus electricity.
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N. C
Spartanburg
Rutherfordton
North Carolina
Broad River
Seaboard Air Line
Railways opening southern routes to Pacific coast growth
A Atlanta analyst predicts the Seaboard Rock Island and Frisco deal will shift cotton and mill goods toward the Pacific via a direct southern trunk line through Atlanta. The change could lower freight costs and boost exports to China Japan and other Asian markets, reshaping the southeast cotton trade and reinforcing Atlanta as a railway hub for the Far East. Local rail executives and agents from ACL Queen and Crescent SP New Orleans and North Eastern were in Chattanooga and Atlanta discussing the implications.
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Kansas City
Texas
Atlanta
Rock Island
Frisco
Pacific
Develo
Pacifc
China
Cape Horn
Americas
Canadian Pacific
Japan
Vancouver
Tezau
Ananta
Great Cotton Mill District
Southeast
Porte
Nagasaki
Hong Kong
Shanghai
India
Egypt
Far East
Crime of an Old Negro Man Shocks Harmony Grove
A combination of garbled OCR reports a case in Harmony Grove Georgia involving a seven year old Black child and a plea of guilty by a Black man. The record mentions sentencing to one year in the chainging facility and references confinement, but the exact details and dates are unclear due to corrupted text.
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Chug
Harmony Grove
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Ie” Jeffries
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