Train Crew Blamed for Loss of Life in Soo Wreck
In Enderlin North Dakota on December 25 a coroner jury blamed the freight train crew for a Soo wreck that killed 11 and injured 40. A lagman testified he placed torpedoes and signalled ahead, but no attention was paid. The jury censured the Soo for placing inexperienced men in positions where errors caused large losses.
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Enderlin
N. D
Soo
James Walsh
Lagman
Soo Road
Man Drops Dead At Family Reunion In Waterloo Visitor
Wayne McAdoo of Waterloo collapses at his parents home in Mason City during a Christmas family reunion. With his hand on the door knob he is stricken by paralysis and dies. The gathering had just arrived for the holiday visit.
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Mason City
Iowa
Wayne McAdoo
Waterloo
Wayne
Sheriff and Others to Be Tried for Lynching Contempt
Washington December 25 Sheri ff Shipp and 26 others from Chattanooga Tennessee charged with contempt of the supreme court after the lynching of a Negro named Johnson are to be tried before the high court Justice Holmes ruled the lynching a contempt and ordered proceedings to preserve the case jurisdiction and potential testimony preliminary steps include possible appointment of a commissioner to take testimony.
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Shipp
Chattanooga
Fenn
Supreme Court
Johnson
Hales
Holmes
Prohibition Advocates Cite Maine and Other States on Saloons
A speaker quoting Hon. Clinton N. Howard argues prohibition yields benefits. He cites Maine’s absence of saloons, strong schooling, savings deposits, and growing prosperity in towns like Long Beach Pasadena Monrovia and Fargo after saloons left. He contrasts with license regimes and wartime growth in Ohio New York and California.
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Clinton N. Howard
Rochester
N. C
New York
Ohio
Portland
Howard
California
Long Beach
Cal
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Pasadena
Ocean Park
Whittler
Monrovia
Hollywood
Santa Anna
Wilmington
Cambridge
Mags
Inder
Tennessee
Jeriico
Tenn
Johnson
Fargo
Draughon's Colleges Pay Over 95000 Annually to Teachers
Draughon's Practical Business Colleges award more than ninety five thousand dollars each year to teachers across twenty eight campuses. The system claims this network of educators shares valuable ideas instantly, giving students access to the combined knowledge of all campuses.
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Draughon
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Draughon's Shorthand System Promises Superior Speed
Supreme Court reporters and educators tout Draughon’s shorthand as 50 percent faster than rival systems. The 48 page booklet promotes courses in bookkeeping, shorthand, and night school specials with low rates.
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Sa Eaportaciel Ho
Bite Catee Oe
United States
Dranghon
Three Cate
Draughon
Stina
Draughon's Colleges Promote Diplomas Like Harvard Yale
Draughon offers written contracts to secure positions with reliable firms or to refund tuition. The catalog claims Draughon's Practical Business Colleges are the best, inviting readers to write call or telephone for details.
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Draughon's
Practical Business Colleges
Practical Business College
Harvard
Yale
Draughon's Account Guarantees Bookkeeping Trial Offer
A bank certifies Draughon's Practical Nursing College offers a trial in bookkeeping. Two students may study three and six months respectively at U S colleges. After exams judged by three bookkeepers, if the three-month student lacks knowledge, Draughon pays tuition and exam expenses. Signature appears from a Savings Bank in Nashville, Tenn. October 2, 1906.
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Draughon
Practical Ness College CO
On’s Colleges
Business College
United States
Copartnerships
Cormeena
Copartnership
Ata
Nashville
Tenn
Draughon's Colleges Offer 28 Schools In 16 States
A damaged ad copy touts $300000 capital and 17 years of success for Draughon's Colleges with 70 000 students across 28 colleges in 16 states. It promises international reputation and nationwide endorsements and invites calls or catalogs with home study options and price details.
Campaign to End Saloons and Promote Prohibition
The author extols prohibition over licensing, citing Mississippi dry county gains, rising assessed valuations, and bank surges. Vermont shows licensing costly and ineffective, while Kansas reports prosperity post prohibition. He laments liquor influence, urges widespread temperance literature, and calls Georgia to join the anti liquor movement to reform voters and schools.
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Sam
Hiquor
Five Thousand Dollars Destroyed in Blazing Home
Special to The Georgian Columbus Ga December report describes a fire that consumed a residence near J. W. Paw Wyneton. The blaze destroyed furniture and cash totaling five thousand dollars, with investigators seeking the cause as residents suffered loss.
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Columbus
Dec. S
J. W._ Paw Wyneton
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