Southern Cotton conference opens in Memphis with leaders named
The Southern Cotton conference convened in Memphis with W. J. Crawford elected temporary chairman and Harvie Jordan named permanent president. Governors Patterson and Noel delivered welcome addresses as S. M. Williamson R. B. Bryan and others spoke. Bishop Gailor closed the morning session. Thomas Turner, a hegre, was convicted of horse theft and given five years in prison in Lockhart, Tex.
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Memphis
Southern Cotton Conference
Patterson
Malone
Tennessee
S. M. Williamson
Business Men’s Club
Bryan
The
Cotton Exchange
W. A. Percy
Merchants’ Exchange
Charles Gay
Montgomery Ala
Harvie Jordan
Cotton Growers’ Association
W. J. Crawford
George Hoppe
W. H. Gilbert
Chicelot
Ark
Gailor
Episcopal Diocese of
Noel
Mississippi
Lee Richardson
American National Bank of Vicksburg
Lockhart
Tex
Thomas Turner
Warning From Black Race War Threats Endured
Dallas detective J P Alexander has in hand a signed five sheet threat letter alleging white oppression of blacks and predicting a violent massacre if actions proceed. Chief Bran denburg holds the unsigned document as peace officers fear race war.
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Dallas
J. P. Alexander
Brandenburg
Kentucky
Gulf of Mexico
Tremendous Sensation Over Carmack Killing
Tennessee and the South reel after ex senator Carmack is shot by Robin Cooper in a street duel in Nashville. Col Duncan Cooper and his son arrested after a pistol is surrendered and warrants issued for accessary to murder and carrying a pistol. Carmack’s remains sent to Columbia for interment as Mayor Wharton dies in Mississippi.
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Carmack
Nashville
Tennessee
South
Senator Carmack
Robin Cooper
United States
Duncan Cooper
Frank Lander
The
Tennesseean
Columbia
Coopers
Coper
Cooper
James Bradford
E. M. Carmack
Vaughn
Colonel Cooper
Flynn Seeks Interior Post in Taft Cabinet
Dennis T. Flynn of Oklahoma City, Republican nominee for the U S Senate against Gore, is proposed for a Taft cabinet seat, likely Secretary of the Interior. The current holder is James R. Garfield, son of the late president.
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Wish Flynn
Guthrie
Dennis T. Flynn
Oklahoma City
United States Senate
Gore
Taft
Interior
James R. Garfield
Deed of Trust on New St. Anthony Hotel
A deed of trust securing a 180000 loan was filed in Bexar County for the new St. Anthony hotel under construction. B L Naylor and A H Jones appear as grantors to Mississippi Valley Trust Company as trustee.
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San Antonio
St. Anthony
B. L. Naylor
A. H. Jones
Mississippi Valley Trust Company
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Holland Fruit Cake
Bluff City
Hon
Warning
Black
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
House
Speakernon
Cannon
Jackson, Miss
Wharton
G. M. Ramsey
Vienna
Novy
Culberson
Senaor Carmack
G. S. Parker
A. W. Wilkerson
J. W. English
E. H. Astin
J. K. Parker
J. N. Cole
Texas
Hattieville
Kinsane Dr
Mason
Wilson
Drew Selby
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