Engineers Jump To Save Lives In Coast Line Freight Crash
Engineer Will Hardy and Fireman M C Flanders leapt from Coast Line freight No 251 as Southern railway extra freight No 290 collided at the north end of the scale track during a heavy electrical storm. No one injured. Coast Line engine heavily damaged. Southern engine slight damage. Traffic diverted to another track overnight.
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Will Hardy
M. C. Flanders
Coast Line
Southern Railway
Brunswick
H. T. Burgay
Monday
Calhoun
Fearrington’s Drug Store Replacing Old Soda Fount
Fearrington’s Drug Store to install a new soda fount starting Monday with the old unit being retired after today. Installations will suspend cold drinks for two to three days while the modern, handsome fountain is set up. The proprietor emphasizes quality service and anticipates continued patronage from the public.
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Fearrington
Princess de Sagan's difficult union bears a newborn heir
Paris reports a son born yesterday to the Princess de Sagan formerly Miss Anna Gould of New York. The couple, Prince Helie de Sagan and Mme Gould, wed July 7 1998 after her divorce from Boni de Castellane.
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Paris
Princess de Sagen
Anna Gould
New York
Helie de Sagan
Mme. Gould
Boni de Castellane
Regiments Arrive as Georgia Troops Encamp at St Simons
Brunswick welcomes Five Georgia regiment troops arriving this morning in two train sections. They are transported to St Simons Island by steamer after baggage loading. Next Sunday more units from Macon and Griffin regions prepare for the annual encampment.
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Brunswick
St. Simon
Georgia
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
Macon
Second Georgia Regiment
St. Simons
Southern
Southern Depot
Griffin
Barnesville
Forsyth
Milledgeville
Tennille
Hospital Corps
Macon Volunteers
Hussars
Floyd Rifles
Jackson
Perry
Harris
Regiment
Gingles Trial Expensive For Ella Gugles Case
Chicago July 17 Ella Gugles charged with lace theft valued at 50 dollars has already cost the state 10 000 dollars to prosecute. Crane Lodge of Illinois has subscribed 1 500 dollars to appeal to the supreme court if convicted. If cleared the money will fund her return to Ireland.
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Chicago
Ella Gugles
Crane Lodge of
Illinois
Supreme Court
Ireland
Automobile Contest Nears Close at Bruce's Drug Store
The little automobile contest at Bruce's drug store ends Tuesday night at 9 o clock. Dillon Raffo leads with 27412 votes, Harry Haym has 18680, and Frank Wilburn 18259. All candidates reportedly hold unpolled votes that may tip the result at the last moment.
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Bruce
Dillon Raffo
Harry Haym
Frank Wilburn
Curtiss Sets Faster Flight Record Over Hempstead Plains
Glenn H. Curtiss piloted an aeroplane 24 710 miles in 52 minutes and 46 seconds over Hempstead Plains, Mineola, New York, breaking all previous American aeroplane records for the year and winning a Scientific American cup.
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Mineola
N. Y
Glenn H. Curtiss
Hempstead Plains
Scientific American
Curtiss
Electric Storm Flashes Through Brunswick Causing Damage
A severe afternoon electrical storm hit Brunswick damaging electric and telegraph wires. Chief Taylor was shocked near the fire department when a transformer exploded. the bolt struck the city hall and a schooner offshore. Lights and telegraph service were disrupted. repairs proceeded with crews and one horse affected.
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Brunswick
Taylor
Fire Department
Mutual Light & Water Company
Armstrong
Anderson
Newcastle
Brunswick Lawyers Favor Circuit Division Bill
Local Brunswick attorneys expressed satisfaction with a favorable judiciary committee report on a bill to divide the Brunswick circuit. They expect passage in the house and senate and the new law to take effect January 1. Jeff Davis replacing Pierce in the county caused little change in the local bar’s stance.
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Brunswick
Judiciary Committee
House
Jeff Davis
Pierce
Senate
Zelmenovitz Summer Clearance Begins This Week
Zelmenovitz announces a two day summer clearance sale starting Monday and ending Tuesday evening. All summer goods including ready to wear ladies suits men and boys clothes shoes hats and fabrics like lawns silks voiles and poplins will be offered at sacrifice prices with many items at half first cost and regardless of previous reductions.
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Zelmenovitz
Taft Predicts Victory in Fight for Lower Tariff
President Taft is expected to win the battle for lower raw material tariffs as conferees propose free list access for iron ore and oil. Hides and coal rates are cut, lumber duty set at 1.25 dollars per ton, while the Senate plans remain unfinished. Taft says the party platform and public opinion demand downward revision.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
The Medicine Man Announces Home Formulary System
J Sidney Roberts proprietor of Roberts pharmacy known as the medicine man will start a home distribution for Hobare Home Formulary books. A canvasser will explain the book at each home. The $5 book is free to families and covers simple remedies and household health.
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Roberts Pharmacy
J. Sidney Roberts
Wm. A. Hobare
Bloodhounds Track Suspect After Farm Killings Near Steel
Posses and bloodhounds scour the Steel Missouri woods for Archie Williams, a white man who yesterday shot and killed a well known farmer. The shooting followed a earlier affray over a land rental, and a lynching is feared in the incident.
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Steel, Mo
Steel
Archie Williams
Treasury approves 60 year bonds for Panama Canal cost
Washington July 17 The secretary of the treasury was authorized to issue 60 year bonds at percent to cover the Panama canal cost, estimated at 375,201,600 dollars.
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Panama Canal
Washington
The
Treasury
Three Families End Long Standing Feud With Pitched Battle
Diamonds valued at 10 000 to 15 000 were lost by Mrs. Charles M. Cole of Bridgeport Connecticut. Police in New York Boston and other cities were asked to locate the gems and the person who obtained them. Mrs. Cole, in illness, rode a trolley car then waited for an auto to her summer home. She had pinned the jewels to her clothing for safekeeping and they vanished upon reaching home.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Charles M. Cole
New York
Boston
Cole
North Main Street
Anutomobile
Taft Diaz Bridge Summit Planned At Rio Grande Center
Ambassador de la Barra and Secretary Knox arranged a Taft Diaz meeting for the fall at the exact center of the Rio Grande on the El Paso Juarez bridge. An amphitheatre will be built along the bridge for spectators from both nations to view the event.
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Washington
Ambassador de la Barra
Mexico
Knox
Taft
Diaz
el Paso
Texas
Juarez
Rio Grande
Jury Disagrees in Doctor Boyajian Murder Trial
Detroit July 17. The jury in the murder trial of Dr. G K Boyajian who shot and killed his nephew Haroton Gostanian disagreed today and was discharged.
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Detroit
Mich
G. K. Boyajian
Haroton Gostanian
Fine Flight By Wright Shatters Test Limits
Orville Wright achieved the most successful flight of his recent tests, staying aloft for 16 1/2 minutes. He circled the drill grounds fifteen times at about ninety feet, then rose gracefully to level the grounds with the machine under perfect control throughout.
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Washington
Orville Wright
Mr. Wright
Richardson misidentified as one of the delegation
Washington notes say Representative Richardson of Alabama met President Taft at the White House while he planned a Florence Alabama trip. Amid a tariff talks gathering twenty three republicans, his name was mistakenly listed as part of the delegation though he plans to present his raw material views from a democratic perspective.
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Washington
Richardson
Alabama
White House
Taft
Florence
Ala
Quick Justice in New Mexico
Santa Fe reports Policarpo Jaramillo Jara millo killed Jose de Los Angeles Martinez near Tierra Amarillo and was tried convicted and sentenced to ninety nine years in the penitentiary within twenty four hours after the crime.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Policarpo Jaramillo
Jaramillo
Jose de Los Angeles
Martinez
Tierra Armarillo
Ownership of a Cow Sparks Mississippi Feud Killings
A feud among three Mississippi families near Meridian over cow ownership escalated into a one hour battle. D. J. McDonald and Pete McDonald were killed. Cornelius Chisholm and Joe Miller were dying. Murphy McDonald wounded. The McDonalds Chisholm and Miller families were involved. relatives said they would drop the matter.
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Meridian
Miss
D. J. McDonald
Pete McDonald
Cornelius Chisholm
Joe Miller
Murphy McDonald
McDonalds
Cornelius Chispolm
Miller
Chispolm
Wall Street Opens With Measured Muted Trading
The July 1 opening showed no clear market tone with small shifts and dull activity. Union Pacific rose to 197 38 during the first hour with over 40 000 shares traded, while United States Steel held steady around 73 amid active trade and London bankers rumored to be supporting past stock positions.
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New York
United States Steel
Union Pacific
Stock Exchange
U.S. Stel
London
Violence Flare at Standard Steel Car Plant Lyndora
In Butler Pennsylvania on July 17 violence broke out at the Standard Steel Car plant in Lyndora injuring several foreigners, one seriously. Sheriff Calliwell sought state help as rioting loomed, while American workers entered the plant against strikers. Saloons in Lyndora closed.
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Butler
Standard Steel Car Company
Lyndora
Calliwell
Harrisburg
Drugist Thomas A Smothers Dies by Own Action in Lamperts
Norfolk July 17Thomas A Smothers a Petersburg Va drug merchant committed death by own action in Lamperts the coroner jury cites ill health from overwork as the cause. Smothers formerly of Petersburg is named in the report.
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Norfolk
Thomas A. Smothers
Petersburg
Lamperts
African bishop sails from New York to Europe
The Right Rev. Hugh MacSherry bishop of Eastern Cape Colony South Africa has left New York where he has been since last winter and sailed today for Europe.
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New York
Hugh MacSherry
Eastern Cape Colony
South Africa
Europe
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Randsome New Soda Fount
Princess DE Sagan
the Medicine Man
Missouri
Chas. M. Cole
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Wright
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Mississippi
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