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Newspaper
Charlotte News
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1911
Page
5
A fragmented newspaper credit block shows City Editor A. W. Burch and Advertising Mgr with unclear lines and figures. The garbled text includes partial names like PATTON and CALDWHLE and references to a newspaper office and circulation figures.
Taft frames reciprocity as a cross party issue with opposition from lumber and paper interests while farmers are used as cover. Editorials accuse New York firms of shaping anti reciprocity public opinion and warn against weakening the bill. Also notes transit fare practices and a water crisis amid regional tensions and Nicaragua adopting Mexican style rhetoric.
A collage of comments and observations links figures from Castro to Ellis Island and water restrictions. A Birmingham paper cites laughs about a pitching staff, mentions Estrada dividing an island, Castro's return, Whitla and Dr. Cook, and jokey critiques of public figures. It notes water limits and questions Hornets' comeback with a Baltimore Evening Sun quote on Bryan.
Thomasville observed Jefferson Davis birthday with veterans at G A Thompson residence. A chamber of commerce meeting and smoker followed at the armory where Mr Kuykendall of Winston-Salem spoke on chamber benefits. Davidson county population rose by 6001 between 1900 and 1910, with Thomasville contributing 3126 of that increase.
At a June board of aldermen meeting in Asheville the tax on drug stores selling whiskey was raised from 100 dollars to 1 009 dollars after protracted discussion and objections from several aldermen and attendees.
The H. J. Cathey Construction Company of Asheville began work on the 1.5 mile road around the lake of the Methodist chautauqua at Waynesville after being awarded the contract. The work started this morning.
The New York World critiques Standard Oil and the Tobacco Trust for seeking legal shelter from Judge Gray’s testimony on Roosevelt’s approval of Tennessee Coal and Iron absorption by the Steel Trust. It argues they should have sought the White House blessing rather than lawyers, noting they now face the Supreme Court.
Major Claude 3. Smith was elected president of the Officers Association of the National Guard of Georgia at the annual meeting in Atlanta yesterday afternoon. He succeeds Col. E. E. Pomeroy of the fifth regiment.
Two 17 year old youths armed with rifles and ammunition seized a fishing schooner in Cuxhaven Germany. They shot and killed the boat owner when he resisted. Police in a government steamer then overpowered the pirates as other vessels tried to intervene.
The News reports a plan to build a horseback trail from Asheville to Mt Mitchell within 40 days. Dr Joseph Hyde Pratt says tents at Craggy fields will host surveys, with extra cots for tourists and sightseers as work begins.
Mrs. B. Shivers was killed and her son Will and daughter Miss Alabama Sampley were injured when a vehicle they occupied ran away in Flomaton Alabama last night. All occupants were thrown to the ground and Mrs. Shivers died within minutes.
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