Three Good Talks On The Negro Problem At Convention
Booker T. Washington and William H. Councill spoke to delegates at the Southern Industrial convention in Huntsville Alabama on October 18. They urged education and suggested limits on voting for the illiterate, while Governor McCorkle backed an educational qualification for negro voters.
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Huntsville
Ala
South
Hunteville Opera House
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Normal School
William H. Councill
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Normal
Washington
Councill
McCorkle
G. W. Dabney
Knoxville
University of Tennessee
Kyle's Opinil on Boers Draws Broad Civilizing Lesson
United States Senator Kyle of South Dakota argued that British policy toward the Boers reflects a civilizing mission seen in Cuba and Porto Rico. He urged Boers to teach English, warned against war, and praised England as protector and mother to the Boers while noting Japan's quick adoption of ideas and China's resistance.
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Africa
Chicago
England
South
Philippines
Cuba
Porto Rico
United States
Kyle
South Dakota
Great Britain
Germany
Washington
Johannesburg
Japan
China
Poers
Local Bryan paper cites Atlanta figures on manufacturing gains
The column discusses home-made materials boosting Bryan growth, citing Atlanta data on a $2.50 to $42.50 article where $40 stays locally. It argues factory presence multiplies housing and commerce and mentions a cotton-mill push via the Navasota Tablet. It notes Anna Gaines Atwood the psychic healer visiting the Exchange Hotel in Bryan October 16–17 and Odlo Lang at Carr's Hardware.
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Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta
Bryan
Hom
Pittsburg
Navasota
Anna Gaines Atwood
Exchange Hotel
Odlo
Will Not Testify in Mrs Street Witness Case
Mrs Cornelia Street refuses to testify in the Alexander Jester murder trial. Prosecutors argued she would betray a brother, so the state accepts her decision. The piece recalls her role in Jester’s arrest years earlier in Oklahoma. Other brief items note Admiral Dewey’s Vermont visit and local shocks from an earthquake in Santa Rosa with subsequent injuries and a jail escape attempt.
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Cornelia Street
Alexander Jester
Gilbert Gates
Chicago
Paris
Nashville Elects Head Mayor Amid Light Turnout
On October 1 Hon J M Head won the mayoralty of Nashville as the full Democratic ticket swept statewide. Voter turnout was light with few ballots cast in the city.
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J. M. Head
Nashville
Rates Cut By Pacific Lines In Central American Route
On the Central American coast a rate war begins as Pacific Mail reduces fares 50 percent from Panama to Ocos Guatemala and to immediate points in Costa Rica Nicaragua Honduras and San Salvador. Pacific Steam Navigation and South American Steamship cut 26 percent for the same ports. Rumor says they will run to San Francisco next month amid broader competition with the Hamburg line already serving the route.
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Panama
Pacific Mail
Pacific Steam Navigation
Ocos
Guatemala
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
San Salvador
Sanrancisco
Hamburg
San Francisco
Extradition Sought for Mexican Murderer in Texas
Joaquin Duras secures extradition from Governor Sayers to return Matias Chavarria to Mexico. Chavarria, who killed a Saltillo man, escaped death row, murdered his wife after returning to Texas, and has influential friends in Mexico. Separately, cattle syndicate renewals struggle as plans shift operations from Texas to Montana and Wyoming ahead of anti trust laws.
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Austin
Joaquin Duras
Coahuila
Mex
Saltillo
Sayers
Mexico
Matias Chavarria
San Antonio
Chavarria
Texas
Rio Grande
Panhandle
Montana
Wyoming
Indictment in Worth Bottorff Murder Case
Pine Bluff Arkansas October 13 Worth Bottorff indicted for murder in the first degree and jailed without bail. He fatally stabbed John Klein at Dermitt months ago in a case described as one of the state’s most cold blooded. Both men worked for the Missouri Pacific railway telegraph corps and were known in railway circles. Mo October 13 Burglars entered the Farmer's Bank in Si near here and blew open the safe taking 8500 dollars before escaping.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Worth Bottorff
Bottorff
John Klein
Dermitt
Klein
Telegraph Corps
Missouri Pacific Railway
Arkansas
Nevada
Farmer’s Bank
Sinear
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Gilmore’s
Ter Footwear
Booker Washington
the Daily Eagle
Connelly
Palmer & Carnes
Malcolm Carnes
Emmel
Emmel’s Prescription Pharmacy
Montpelier
Vermont
Dewey
State House
Smith
Northfield
California
Santa Rosa
Pete Littlefield
John Brown
Sulphur Springs
Pearl Hart
Tucson
A. T
United States Court
Augusta
John McElmurray
Goodale
J. A. McElmurray
Ladies Shoes
The
Ladies of
Krippendorf-Dittman
Webb Bros
Eeoel
Lenolium
Draper
Levy Bros
Doghhael
Kodak
Tyler Haswell
Ourtown
James
Allen
James McDowgall
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