Panama Exposition, Potash Row and Clark Mule Drive
Washington notes discuss a bill extending Morrill act support for agri cultural and home economics education with $10 to $20 million yearly state investments. It highlights Georgia aims to boost crop yields and cotton output, Panama expo battles between New Orleans and San Francisco, a German potash tariff dispute, and Champ Clark's mule ride to the speaker’s chair. Local fatality: Robert Muntz, known as Bob the Trapper, dies in a Lake Pontchartrain incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Champ Clark
John Corrigan
Washington
Atlanta Constitution
Washington, D. C
Senate
Committee On Agriculture
Dolliver
Terrell
Georgia
Congress
Friends of Education
United States
New Orleans
San Francisco
Golden Gate
California
Crescent City
Taft
Germany
Club
Adamson
Roddenberg, Lee
Hughes
State Department
Robert Muntz
Bob the Trapper
Lake Pontchartrain
St. Charles Parish
Muntz
Christmas Night Robbery Aboard Missouri Pacific Train
A bandit robbed more than a hundred passengers on Missouri Pacific Train No 112 from St. Joseph to St. Louis, looting money and watches. He boarded at Leavenworth Junction, threatened crew with a revolver, and escaped at Kansas City Junction after shooting a man who resisted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Pacific
St. Joseph
St. Louis
Leavenworth Junction
Leavenworth
Northwestern Junction
Kansas City
Kansas
Kansas City Junction
Resurrection claim shocks Christian Science world
Augusta Stetson, excommunicated leader of the First Church of Christ Scientist in New York, declares Mary Baker Eddy will rise from the tomb in a visible form. She asserts Eddy is not dead, predicting Christ and the Millennium will follow, ending the gospel age and proving there is no death to believers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta H. Stetson
First Church of Christ, Scientist
New York
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Newton
Mass
John
Patmos
SCHOONER CATCHES FIRE
A 60 gallon gasoline drum exploded aboard the schooner Lillie White of Key West at Tampa Gulf Refining docks killing two seamen and injuring two more. The schooner sank but the low tide kept it from submerging as firemen fought the blaze and rolled nearby drums to safety. Assistant Fire Chief Torres led a rescue crew to pull the wounded men from the hold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie White
Key West
Gulf Refining Company
Tampa
Torres
Christmas Slaughter Stuns South Carolina and North Carolina
A spree of Christmas violence across the Carolinas leaves twelve dead in three days and many injured. In North Carolina, Oscar Clark killed D. J. Calhoun and wounded A. H. Calhoun near Bryson City after a whisky fueled celebration. Clark, 30, fled toward Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Wain County
Asheville
N. C
Oscar Clark
D. J. Calhoun
A. H. Calhoun
Mission Hospital
Bryson City
Clark
OD. J. Calhoun
Tennessee
Grew Rich Stealing Suspect In Bank Accounts
Lilly McDowell, jailed in St. Louis on stealing jewelry valued at about $75,000 from multiple homes of attorney H. Chateau Dyer, has $12,000 in a Pittsburg bank. Dyer attached the account. Ira J. Mix of Chicago aided the arrest and also filed an attachment. Detectives seek further national bank ties as inquiries extend countrywide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis
Lilly McDowell
St. Louis
H. Chateau Dyer
Pittsburg
Bank For Savings
Dyer
Ira J. Mix
Chicago
Starvation on the rise in Chinese provinces amid famine
A report to the state department from the American consul at Nanking describes severe famine across parts of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. Floods ruined crops, creating vast refugee flows and incidents of theft as people hunt for food and money in devastated villages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
State Department
Nanking
Shanghai
Anhui Kiangsu
Train Engineer Dies at Speed Near Bird-in-Hand
H C Beck, engineer of the Pittsburg Express from Philadelphia, was found dead in the cab as the train neared Bird in Hand Pa. Fireman Walter Moore halted the nearly 60 mile an hour express after discovering the engineer slumped by the window. A on board physician attributed death to heart disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Béck
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Birdin-Hand, Pa
Walter Moore
Americus Ga Cadet School Seeks Dormitory Vacancies
The spring team of the Tuion Free describes three companies a battalion of cadets and a new home for girls with well equipped shops and laboratory. It offers a high school course associate relation state colleges and a board of seven dollars per month. All dormitory places are occupied but a few vacancies exist after January 1. Write Principal J M Collum Americus Ga for catalog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Collum
Americus
Cotton Warehousing Offer From Local Broker
A local broker pledges to weigh insure store and market cotton as cheaply as any county warehouse. He asserts the interests of his patron will be protected and signs as Harley RRR in a formal note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
Farmers Union
J. R. Harmon
Butler
Harley Rrr
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. E. Jarrell
Butler, Georgia
Alio
General Merchandise
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Jivcer
M. T. Chapman
H. J. Peagler
W. S. Witham
Fine
I. F. Peebles
Ass’t Cashier
L. F. Montfort
Incial
Horton’s Drug Store
J. L. Williams
Buena Vista, Ga
Pennsylvania Avenue
William Booth
Salvation Army
Mrs. Eddy
First Church of Christ
Mother Eddy
Palmetto State
North Carolina
J. F. Cox
H. H. Pierce
COX & Pierce
Harmers Union Warehouse CO
Butler, GA
Agricultural
Fountain Warehouse
J. C. McCants
Scalesman
Rutter, Sa
Harley Riley
A. C. Chancellor Co’s
A. Chanellor
Company
Columbus. Ga
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