Insurance Cancellations Hit Tobacco Warehouses
Night riders and arson fears drive insurers to cancel leaf tobacco policies across Indiana Kentucky and nearby Ohio warehouses and barns. Aetna Fire Insurance cancels all policies in southern Indiana Hopkinsville area and Kentucky near by while insuring some American Society of Equity owned warehouses. Other insurers reportedly follow suit amid rising risk.
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Cincinnati
Indiana
Kentucky
Aetna Fire Insurance Company
Hopkinsville
Corpany
American Tobacco Company
American Society of Equity
Aetna
Royal
Ohio
Forty Two Bodies Recovered in Yolande Mine Disaster
Rescue teams pulled 42 mangled corpses from the Yolande mine in Yolande Alabama as 19 more bodies were found, bringing total victims to 81. Fire and smoke hindered lower-entry access while crews, some overcome by heat, ferried to the surface for air. Twenty six men escaped, including Steve Storke the Scotchman, who charted a perilous exit. Initial reports say the bulk of the dead were black and the rescue path remains blocked for five others.
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V . Yolande
Ala
Dee
Yolande
Steve Storke
Fort
Stofke
Dr Shoop Restorative Ad Claims Kidney Benefit
A damaged ad fragment promises Dr Shoop’s Restorative to strengthen kidneys and relieve back pain and urinary issues. It asserts help for Brights disease like symptoms and urges purchase of tablets or liquid form.
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Shoop
Shoo
Dr. Shoop
First keel plate laid for North Dakota battleship
Quincy Massachusetts December 18 The first keel plate of the battleship North Dakota the largest in the world except its sister ship the Delaware was laid at Fort Rivers Shipbuilding Co The ship will be four times as large as the current largest in the US Navy. Construction began with the first plate laid November 10 There are twenty plates each twenty four feet long and weighing 3000 pounds Frames go on after plating The contractor has three years to finish subject to material delays with launching planned in ten months
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Quincy
Mass
Admiral Evans
Fort Monroe
Delaware
Fort Rivers Shipbuilding Company
North Dakota
Culberson Seeks Financial Relief Plan in Senate
Senator Culberson on December 18 called up a resolution directing the finance committee to probe current financial stringency and report relief. Senator Aldrich suggested referral to his committee but left it on the table for Culberson to speak later. Culberson gave notice of forthcoming remarks.
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Washington
Culperson Tfuesday
Finnce
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
Culberson
White man sought as vigilante mobs form in Alabama
A Columbus Georgia report says a posse of negroes is organizing at Oswichee Alabama to pursue and capture an unknown white man who robbed three negroes after an apparent bid to kill them. The attackers wounded two then fled on a buggy. A separate note from Oak Ridge Louisiana reports Homer Rogers a negro killed in a personal encounter. coroner's jury cleared Arthur Eason of wrongdoing. In New York Edmund Phinney, a bark, broke apart 500 yards from shore and life savers rescued his eleven crew members.
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Montgomery
Advertiser
Columbus
Oswichee
Alabama
Oak Ridge
Homer Rogers
Rogers
Arthur Eason
Eason
New York
Edmund Phinney
Changing the Tune and the Thirsty Butler Tale
A detective laments the evolving tricks of detection and recalls the thirsty butler story. A new butler is hired to guard beer, whistles to mask actions, and the master discovers only a change of tune as the ruse.
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James
Washington Star
Letter Writing In Ancient Babylon
Friedrich Delitzsch notes that literacy was not common though scribes abounded in cities. Babylonians used clay tablets and flexible writing material, with a high volume of letters from the ninth century BC. Writing in commerce was legally required and witnessed to be binding.
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Babylon
Christ
Babylonia
Friedrich Delitzseh
Harper's Magazine
Champagne From Sponges and Bottles
A wholesale dealer explains that champagne makers in Reims use sponges to catch leaking wine during production. They reportedly squeeze out up to 1,000,000 bottles of champagne yearly from this method. The recovered wine is re clarified and bottled as a second quality drink.
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Reims
Cincinnati Enquirer
The House Not For Rent Yet Not Empty Either
A brief exchange on a Chicago porch shows a young mother awake with a baby as an elderly woman asks if the house is for rent. The mother explains blinds down for cleaning, and the visitor departs, apologizing for the trouble. The note ends with musings on utilitarian value of the ox and a library catalogue example.
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Chicago Tribune
Jokes From The Street: Counting, Flattery And A Phonograph Suit
A collection of humorous quips about a man who counts to ten before speaking and a dyspeptic household, a convict flattered to imitate a signature, and a friend who raises airs as a phonograph store demonstrator.
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Haswell’s Book Store
Wittman
Joma
Insuranc 2
Dallas, Tex
Texas
Joe B. Reed
Joe
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W. Buckhaults
Harder & Buckhaults
Mak
B. Hudson Bryan
W. W. Wilson Franklin
Tex
Hudson & Wilson Attorneys-at-Law
Bryan and Franklin, Texas
Brazos and
Robelrean Counties
Moses Hughes
Edge
Roger Boyle
Main Street
Bryan
Sandy Point Road
Vv. B. Hudson
J. W. Batts
Taliaferro Building
Court House
Brazos County
M. H. James
Waxahachie
C. W. Davis
Here
Yolande Mine
Lad
Denison
George L. Patrick
Fry’s Magazine
Natal
Publisher and Register
London Mail
Phonograph
China
Evan
Cale
James & Nunn
Liqurors
Higgs Market
Guy M. Board
W. B. Hudson
Bryan, Texas
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
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Louisiana
Mississippi River
Dallas
New Orleans
Houston
Silesiociust
C.K Dunlap
M.l.robbins
Gen. Pass
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