Boy Falls From Steamer. Rescue By Captain Berrie
Major Catron's 1 year old son narrowly escaped drowning when he fell from the Attaquin steamer at Brunswick Georgia as Fifth Georgia troops departed from St Simons Captain Harry Q Bartle saved the child from between the vessel and pilings. The act drew three cheers for Captain Berrie and the encampment closed after a day of routine. Major Duncan reported no local sickness among troops.
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Brunswick
City‘dock
Harry Q. Bartle
Attaquin
Catron
Georgia
St. Simons
Berrie
Atlanta
Birmingham
Tatlantic
Southern
Tiger
Duncan
Splinter causes death in Albany boy
Albany July 24. Park Davis seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. R T Davis died after tetanus developed from a splinter wound in his foot inflicted in Jacksonville three weeks earlier. A operation revealed a large splinter still embedded in the foot.
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Albany
Jacksonville
Park Davis
R. T. Davis
Brides of Quinby Family Pursued by Nemesis
Cleveland July 24 1924 a strange fatality follows the Quinby family Mrs Roger Whinfield a member. Her husband died of cholera at Koenigsberg during their honeymoon similar to Peopy Sturgias of Zanesville who married Louise Quinby and died weeks after the wedding. Roger Whinfield wealthy plrobe trotter had one prior wife Bilas Ann Harrison of Xenia who died at the end of their Africa honeymoon. Edward M Quinby father of Mrs Whinfield died in Dresden three weeks 260 ago. He was son of Ephraim Quinby a Cleveland real estate man though his home was Wooster. Koenigsberg July 24 Mrs Whinfield shows symptoms of cholera with Keenast sympathy from officials and people.
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Cleveland
Otho
Quinby
Roger Whinfield
Koenigsberg
Prussia
Peopy Sturgias
Zanesville
Ohio
Louise Quinby
Bilas Ann Harrison
Xenia
Africa
Edward M. Quinby
Shaw to Visit United States Before Year End
New York July 23 It is believed George Bernard Shaw the Irish playwright will visit America before the year ends A cablegram from J Eads How head of the International Association of the Unemployed says Shaw is coming The plan includes a lecture tour to major cities and a campaign reaching the Pacific coast Kansas Fights Locker Clubs Topeka July 24 Two suits filed against the Topeka Club test the right to keep liquors in lockers at the club house to challenge the state s absolute prohibition law
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New York
George Bernard Shaw
America
J. Eads How
International Association of the Unemployed
Shaw
How
Hobo
London
Charles Frohman
Europe
Frohman
Pacific
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Water Rent Notices Misrouted To Homes
Water department explains that rent notices are addressed to the residence, not the occupant. If new residents receive the card, they should disregard the recipient and investigate the water bill with the carrier, preventing unnecessary service cuts and saving time.
Son kills father in Woodstock shooting in Somerset Ky
James Starnes county surveyor and prominent local figure was shot dead at his Woodstock home by his 16-year old son after an argument. The youth reportedly seized a shotgun and fired, killing Starnes as the incident occurred last night.
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Somerset
James Starnes
Woodstock
Starnes
Aged Woman Found Murdered Near Greensboro
The 75 year old Mian Lida Newman was found dead with a crushed skull near her home, suspected robbery as she kept large sums at the house. She was last seen heading toward her cow Tot last Monday. Her residence had burned months earlier in an attempted theft of $1,000.
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Greensboro
N. C
Mian
Lida Newman
Liquor Ban Enforced On Kansas Trains
Toneka July 24 The state board of railroad commissioners will begin enforcing the law prohibiting drinking intoxicating liquors on passenger trains in Kansas. Railroads must post notices in passenger coaches. Conductors may arrest violators and deliver them at the next station for sheriff or police action.
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Toneka
Kan
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Kansas
Dr Cowan Dead Surviving Staff Member of Forrest’s Force
The article notes the death of Dr. Cowan aged 11, a surviving member of General N. B. Warren’s staff and long associated with Forrest in the Civil War. It recounts his service from March 1861 as a surgeon on Forrest’s staff until the war’s end and mentions his role as a notable Confederate surgeon and participant in campaigns.
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Forrest's
Nashville
Cowan
Tullahoma
Tean
N. B
Chalmér
Forrest
Forristts
Advertising War and the Stakes of Outselling
A business credo proclaims that contracts are abandoned and only outselling matters. The firm touts its top Copy Staff as the best, with potential earnings higher than elsewhere, but competition is fierce. Men must rise by victory or fall by defeat, as no contracts are sought from brilliant staff or clients.
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Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Rogers, Peet & Co
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la Shore
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Mth
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Remus
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Nhews Pav
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