Waters Recede Threatening Elizabethton After Flood Devastation
Reports from upper east Tennessee describe receding rivers easing the flood crisis in Elizabethton and nearby towns. Widespread destruction includes Allentown and Butler, with 1010 people left without food in Allentown and a destroyed Miller & Savage mill. Relief funds are being raised in Knoxville and other cities are urged to provide aid while rail service resumes on the Johnson City line.
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Penn
Upper East Tennessee
Elizabethton
Johnson City
Elzabethton
East Tennessee
North Carolina
Allentown
Butler
Miller & Savage
Milligan
Miller
Ellanbethton
Tennessee
Carter County
Upper East
Enza
Pethton
Charlotte
Bakersville
Quinter Moore
Magnetic City
Mitchell County
Roan Mounain Station
Big Rock Creek
John WeKinney
The Praise of Pie Crust Charm In Delicate Harvest
A concise musing on pie crust praise. Readers celebrate crust texture and flavor, noting crisp, flaky edges and a well balanced filling as secondary. The piece invites reflection on the essential components of a perfect pie crust beyond flour and water.
White Cottolene Preview Advertisement
An advertising note promotes White Cottolene as a pure vegetable shortening made from beef suet and vegetable oil. It claims to be odorless, tasteless, and neutral, preferable to hog fat, and suggests a pair proves its superior merits as a shortening agent. PS No Hog Fat in COTTOLENE.
O Connell Plans Nine Hour Day Strike Expansion
President James O Connell of the International Association of Machinists proposes at Toronto to set a nine hour day with no wage cuts on all railroads. If ignored, a strike will mobilize about one hundred thousand workers, including forty thousand machinists, bolier and pattern makers and other skilled trades.
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Washington
James Oconnell
International Associaion of Machinists
Toronto
Boler Makers
Connell
Conneil
Memphis
Tonn
O Condell
Pittebore
Buffalo
Summer hotel swept away in Carolina flood near Hickory
News from Columbia indicates the Cliff hotel six miles from Hickory North Carolina was washed from its foundation by the Catawba floodwaters. The resort hotel with $6300 in furniture vanished as the river rose to unprecedented levels. Bridges and telegraph lines were destroyed and communication cut off. In Tennessee a separate wind storm hit Trenton, felling trees, damaging roofs and knocking out power and telephone lines plunging the town into darkness.
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S$ C
Cliff
Hickory
N C
Carolina and, Northwestern
Catawba
Catawza
Chester
Seaboard
Trenton Tenn
Trenton
Taylor Ramari Willing Company
Birminghams Carriage and Machine Repository
Louisville Appeals for Aid After Elizabethton Disaster
Mayor Weaver announces a county wide disaster with at least 1000 homeless and destitute, costs expected to reach one million dollars. Relief efforts mobilize. Miller names Relief Association president and plans to seek donations from the Board of Trade, Commercial Club, and City Council. Aims to organize furniture, provisions, and money for Tennessee sufferers.
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Louisville
Weaver
Elizabethton
Charles P Weaver
Charit
Louisvile
Miller
Board of Trade and Commercial Club
General Council
Beauty of Voice and Mouth Exercises by Albert Gerard Thiers
Instruction on facial mobility and labial exercises to enhance beauty of face voice and speech. Emphasizes repeated facial muscle drills ten times daily and explains how articulation and expression develop through controlled lip and mouth movements.
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Albert Gerard Thiers
Engle
Evry
Tax Reform Conference Debates Interstate Tax Rules
The National Civic Federation taxation conference in Buffalo resumes talks on mortgages and military and local option taxation. Delegates advocate a permanent interstate tax reform organization, with a 15 member executive committee and broader national representation to promote comity and prevent double taxation between states, ending with a study report next meeting. Lavon Purdy of the New York Tax Reform Association presented a key paper.
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National Civic Federation
Garfield
Ohio
Frederick N Judson
St Louis
Sppke
Lavon Purdy
The
New York Tax Reform Association
Council of Golden Cross Adopts Constitutional Changes
The supreme council of the Golden Cross approved material changes to its constitution. A total abstinence pledge is now required for eligibility, excluding routine medicinal or scientific liquor use. The insurance feature allows minimum policies of 20 dollars, and railway employees previously barred may now join.
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Knoxville
Supreme Council of the Golden Cross
Committee On Laws and Apperis
Havana merchants aid Jacksonville orphans relief drive
On May 24 Havana merchants donated generously to a relief fund for Jacksonville sufferers. Prominent in Havana social circles led a benefit program, with proceeds to aid Cuban orphans and Jacksonville productions. A total of $500 was subscribed to support the cause.
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Jacksonville
Havana
Heana
Perfect Enunciation Aids Vocal Health And Expression
The text argues that steady precise lip use yields clear tone and reduces fatigue. It emphasizes mobile lips, intelligent practice, and directing thought to the lips over the eyes. Poor enunciation reveals character traits and hinders understanding of songs.
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Ips
Masive explosion traps miners at Senghenydd colliery
At the Universal colliery in Senghenydd Rhondda Valley an explosion killed about one hundred workers. Rescue efforts amid low air supply reported only five bodies recovered so far with seventy eight miners missing entombed underground.
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Universal Coliery
Senghenydd
Rhondda Valley
Universal Colvery
Women Guardianship Rights Marked by Illinois Law
Chicago Journal notes the latest general assembly action granting mothers equal guardianship of minors. It praises Mary Wollstonecraft’s early advocacy, highlights Catharine McCulloch’s Springfield efforts, and cites a July 1 effective date. It mentions a Shuilsburg, Wiss., resident visiting John E B Scarratt in Shuilsburs.
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Woman’s Rights
Chicago Journal
General Assembly
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fineis
Catharine Waugh McCulloch
Chicago
Springfield
Sex
Shuilsburs Wiss
John EB Scarratt
China to Pay Indemnity or Face Unabated Claim
Washington May 9 Count Cassini Russian ambassador spent an hour with Acting Secretary Hill regarding China indemnity negotiations. Russia views bonds as unacceptable without international guaranty and the United States will not concede. With the indemnity set at 337 million dollars and no reduction, Chinese action in opposing ministers’ demands weakens hopes for abatement, prompting talk that China may earn authority to raise customs duties.
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Washington
Cassini
Hill
Russia
Wll
United States
China
American Lady as a Looter at Pekin Conference
Diplomatic observers dispute a claim that Lady McDonald looted during a visit to the Forbidden City. Witnesses say she remained with the diplomatic corps and left with only a yellow rose, while a American wife and an curio dealer allegedly opened cupboards containing valuables.
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Pekin
McDonald
Chaffee
Toscan
Empresss Garden
Curlo
Ota
Independents Entered New York May Trial Races
The New York Yacht Club today sent a letter to Thomas W Lawson of Boston owner of the Independence clarifying that it is entirely possible for the Independence to enter the trial races upon qualifying to sail under the Cay of the New York Yacht Club.
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New York
New York Yacht Lab
Thomas W Lawson
Boston
Independence
New York Yacht Club
Cuba Learns From U S How To Keep Well
Cuba adopts American health practices as Havana shows marked improvements in streets sewers and stores. Prominent Cubans endorse Paine’s celery compound for energy, nerve and brain vigor, urging use for husbands sons and brothers unable to eat sleep or work.
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U. S
Havana
BF Molina
Wells & Richardson
Paines
United States
el Molina
Malfiit
Emong
Paine
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