Women Clubs Build Library and Community Park
Bill Arp writes about Cherokee Club women in a town who created a park by the hotel block, funded a circulating rural library, a sewing society, and a planned Club Library building. They host lyceums, plan home talent entertainments, and aim to elevate local women and youth while inspiring elsewhere. He notes railroad funds, bazaars, and community pride, then shares found speeches and letters, and ends with remarks on Civil War memory and Teddy Roosevelt.
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Atlanta
Rene
Dalton
Professor Proctor
Man
Lord Bacon
Johnson
Frank
Ohio
Huntington
London
Henry R. Jackson
Daniel Webster
Capon Springs
Union
North
Senator Mangum
North Carolina
Congress
Wiley Mangum Turner
Greensboro
N. C
Ed Holland
Jackson
Joseph M. Brown
Col
Methodist Conferences Near Tupelo Open Sessions
A large number of Methodist clergymen and lay delegates are en route to Tupelo for the North Mississippi conference session led by Bishop J. S. Key. The meeting will run five or six days, with the Mississippi conference at Natchez set for December 10 to close the circuit. The agenda focuses on routine business and the prohibition issue.
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Tupelo
Miss
North Mississippi
J. S. Key
Happenings in Brief Across Nations and Regions
A collage of short items notes a Knoxville fire costing 100000 dollars, Cuba’s Nationalists clashing with Palma, Balfour eyeing education reform, and the Mississippi cotton sale totaling 110000. Other items cover Virginia politics, Marconi, Virginia election certificates, naval drills, football attendance fears, tax policy shifts, and foreign affairs including England, Trinidad, Venezuela, and looming smallpox in the Farni Islands with 1000+ dead.
Panama Canal: Cullom favors starting work without treaty
Washington reports Chairman Cullom of the Senate foreign relations committee discussed with President Roosevelt the possibility of beginning Panama canal construction without a treaty with Colombia. He questions whether a treaty is essential and suggests that purchase of the property and Panama Company concession may allow U S. work to proceed.
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Washington
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Colombia
Panama Company
United States
New Kind of Coon Found in Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi December 1 Brant McAlpin of Newton county reports a curious new kind of coon. The animal is normal in size and shape but has skin that is pale yellow to almost white. Tail shows a yellow tint. Skin length from tip to tip measures 42 inches when stretched.
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Jackson, Miss
Brant McAlpin
Newton County
Pittsburg Homicide at Disorderly House on Coleweel Street
A yet unidentified man shot and killed Lizzie Wilson, 28, in a Coleweel Street disorderly house at 3 50 this morning. Ruth Stein, 20, was probably fatally wounded and taken to Mercy Hospital. A passerby alerted a policeman but entry was refused and the detectives had to force the door open.
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Pittsburg
Lizzie Wilson
Coleweel Street
Ruth Stein
Mercy Hospital
Negro Masons to Convene in Grenada Mississippi
The Grand Lodge of Negro Masons in Mississippi meets in Grenada for a three day session starting Tuesday. A key topic is the erection of a Masonic Temple in the state with about $18,000 already raised. Grand Master Rev. R W Lampton of Greenville leads the organization.
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Grenada
Miss
Grand Lodge of Negro Masons
Mississippi
R. W. Lampton
Greenville
South
Williams Declines Scramble for Minority Leader
Jackson Mississippi December first Congressman John Sharp Williams of this district says he will not seek the minority leadership in the next Congress. He will accept if offered but will not solicit support from Democratic members. Williams has many letters from prominent Democrats urging him to allow his name and promising strong support. The letters and their writers are highly notable.
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Ed Holand
Atlanta
Live Oak
Fla
F. W. Angus
General Sickles
Virginia
John S. Reid
Mr. Davis
Longino
Memphis
Davis
Teddy
Cunningham
Newcome
Trackeray
Mississippi
Bill Arp
Atlanta Constitution
Jackson
Miss
John Sharp
Williams
Mississippi suffragists plan December convention in Jackson
Mississippi women’s suffrage advocates call a December 12 meeting in Jackson to reorganize old forces and launch new fields of work in executive sessions led by state president Mrs. Hala Hammond Butt of Clarksdale. Separately the U S Geological Survey studies whether polluted water can purify itself after travel, with tests in the Midwest amid litigation between St Louis and Chicago over drainage into the Mississippi River.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Hala Hammond Butt
Clarksdale
United States Geological Survey
Middle West
St. Louis
Chicago
Strange Robinson Crusoe on island terrorizes two Japanese fishermen
Two Japanese fishermen blown to a Korean island by a typhoon report encountering a longhaired stranger who claimed to be shipwrecked six years ago. They fled in fear as the man fetched fruit. A Osaka rich man suspects the castaway may be his piloted son from a 6 year old wreck. A Yokohama steamer is sent to rescue the missing man.
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Tacoma
Wis
Korea
Hoe
Osaka
Robinson Crusoe
Yokohama
Miss Burns Weds New York, Nov.28
Florence Burns the Brooklyn woman once accused and then exonerated in the murder of her sweetheart Walter Brooks at a city hotel reportedly married last week to Charles Wildeck. Wildeck had been held on a bad check charge since April, and he was escorted by Mabel Strong of Cleveland who remained with him until his release. Strong later died in a hospital of consumption.
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New York
Florence Burns
Brooklyn
Walter Brooks
Charles Wildeck
Miss Burns
Wildeck
Mabel Strong
Cleveland
Ohio
Miss Strong
Austrian Kills Woman Then Jumps Seven Stories
New York Nov 28 An Austrian named Max Lukawatzky believed a revolver shot killed Mia Julia Gerber after she refused to elope with him He leaped from her East 74th street apartment seven stories to the sidewalk and died instantly He wounded Mrs Gerber in the arm and shoulder before his death The tragedy ends a violent pursuit of the woman by the man.
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New York
Mia
Julia Gerber
Max Lukawatzky
East 74Th Street
Death from dreams a coroner's verdict in Kell case
In Boston on November 28 Timothy Kell, 32, formerly of Boston and raised in Illinois, died in a Philadelphia boarding house in a kneeling, supplicant pose. Doctors attribute death to fright from a dream, calling Kell's case one of the most remarkable in medical annals.
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Boston
Mass
Timothy Kell
Illinois
Kelly
Philadellhia
Railroad Wreck Wrecked Rail Causes Serious Injuries
Indianapolis Nov. 28 The S J Louis flyer on the Big Four wrecked at 1 30 this morning at a high embankment a half mile west of Avena Indiana. Three passengers were seriously injured and a dozen more slightly hurt. A broken rail caused the crash as the New York sleeper rolled over twice down the embankment.
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Indianapolis
S J. Louia
Avena Indiana
New York
Melba Gives All Proceeds to Charity in Melbourne Wing Plan
New York reports note Mme Melba faced criticism over spring returns but Australasian advices praise her. She plans to devote all tour proceeds to charity, starting with three $2,500 boxes and funds exceeding $75,000 from five Melbourne concerts. Her donation would fund a new Melba wing at Melbourne Hospital.
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New York
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Mme. Mebal
Australia
Mme. Melba
Melba
Mme
Melbourne
Melbourne Hospital
Meba
Responsibility of Parents Proclaimed by Northwestern Professor
Chicago news reports Professor J Scott Clark of Northwestern University arguing that no man or woman should bear more children than they can support and that even a $300 yearly salary can sustain a family in comfort and allow savings. He urged workers that financial independence is not only possible but a duty.
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Chicago
J. Scott Clark
Northwestern University
First Congregational Church
Evanston
Revolution Threatened as Nord Demands Haiti Deputies
Gen Nord, former war minister, with 10000 men from the Canaries, issues an ultimatum to Haiti's provisional government from Port au Prince on November 18. He demands invalidation of deputies allied with M Firmin in a rebel party. If rejected, another civil war seems likely. defense preparations for the city are under way.
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Nord
Haytien
Port Au Prince
Gene Nord
St. Marie
Canaries
M. Firmin
General Nord
Minister Hunter Cables Testimony Request in Guatemala
Minister Hunter in Guatemala City reports his son Godfrey who shot Fitzgerald, age 15?24, is not under legation protection and runs his own business. He requests Bailey, Secretary of the Legation, be allowed to testify in Guatemalan courts. department grants permission.
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Washinon
Hunter
Guatemala City
State Department
Godfrey
Fitzgerald
Legation
Bailey
Mont Pelee Again Violent Volcano Eruption Reported
St Thomas reports that the steamship Yare passed Mont Pelee in Martinique early Wednesday morning and observed the volcano erupting violently with heavy ash and lava activity.
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Mont Pelee
St. Thomas
Mont Pelle
Martinique
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Southern Baseball League
Fuller
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Corbett
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Marconi
German Fleet Society
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England
Ritchie
Trinidad
Germany
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Venezuela
Snyder
Okla
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New York Chamber of Commerce
Farni Islands
Harvey Logan
Montana
Texas
Panhandle
German Agricultural Society
Cobden Club
Canon Hensley
Westminster Abbey
Edward Clarke
Edmund Gosse
London Spectator
Rabbi Glazer
New Orleans
Vatican
Nator Elkins
West Virginia
Negro Masons
Grand Lodge of Mississippi
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