Two Destructive Fires in Cullman and Huntingdon Blaze
Fire in Cullman Ala destroyed the saw mill aria mill cotton gin and stable owned by J Keaton, endangering the town. An unknown man found burned in ruins with lower body burned, property loss estimated around 4000 without insurance. In Huntingdon Tenn a mill and Hancock residence were burned around 9:30 am, value about 12000 with some insurance. Special to the Herald.
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Huntingdon
Tenn
Atwood
Here
J. Keaton
Pr. Break
Herald
Cullman
Ala
Anhast & Hancock
Hancock
Sensational testimony in Berry Howard case from former Bell sheriff
Frankfort Kentucky April 22 Henry Broughton former Bell county sheriff testified on the Berry Howard case witness stand. He claimed he helped assemble mountain men to go to Frankfort with intent to kill Goebel on January 25. He said he passed three names to Caleb Powers for possible execution and asserted he pressed his pleasure at the time and protected Berry Howard from arrest until a Franklin Circuit Court rule was issued.
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Frankfort
Henry Broughton
Bell County
Teitenday
Berry Howard
Goebel
Caleb Powers
Frank Cecil
Zach Steele
Jake van Bibber
Hnallaealee
Franklin Circuit
Nashville Strikers and Trades Tighten Building Trade Ties
Nashville carpenters strike and bricklayers lock out over hiring nonunion workers, delaying projects. Contractors say enough men will arrive soon to resume work. a general strike rumor looms, with unions demanding cheaper contracting terms. Elsewhere, assorted anecdotes and advertisements appear, including a testimonial for Ballard’s Snow Liniment and scattered notes on players, politics, and prices.
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Nashville
Building Trades Council
Bank Robbery at Goodlettsville Tolled in Early Hours
Special to the Herald reports the Goodlettsville Tennessee bank was robbed last night of all vault money, about 2,000 dollars. An explosion woke residents as the assailants blew the vault. No clues yet, but officers are pursuing the case.
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Nashville
Goodlettsville
Tenn
Toone Excursion Tragedy Kills Four Near Bolivar
In Toone seven miles north of Bolivar, a wagon crossing the railroad was struck by a Dallas excursion train. Dolph Erwin his wife and daughter Sarah and George Marley his wife were killed or mortally wounded. the daughter died later. In Bolivar a jury failed to agree in the murder case of William Strother, charged in St. Louis with killing millionaire A Dean Cooper.
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Bolivar
Tenn
Toone
Dolph Erwin
Sarah
George Marley
Thirteenth
Dallas
William Strother
A. Dean Cooper
St. Louis
Scott's Emulsion Ad Targets Thin Folks
An old advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as a fat-building medicine, claiming it doesn't tire the user and works naturally to increase appetite and weight. It warns fat people would not want it, while strong people supposedly do not need it. Free samples offered by Scott & Rowke in New York.
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Scott
Scott & Rowke
Chel
Paarl St
N.Y
Powder Explosion Kills Two Boys in Hartselle Alabama
Terrific powder blast in Hartselle injures two boys, ages 9 and 13, when they ignited gunpowder in a keg in a merchant’s store. The keg exploded, destroying part of the building. one boy thrown across the room, clothing burned off before help arrived. Also notes a poison ad and a sinkhole incident near Lynnville describing two animals swallowed by a 15 foot hole.
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Hartselle
Ala
Rarette
James Evans
Holdy
Cocy
Relief in Six Hours From Kidney and Bladder Disease
A historic advertisement claims a Great South American Kidney Cure provides rapid relief for bladder and kidney pains and backache. It states the remedy relieves water retention and offers quick cure for both men and women, sold by A. B. Rainy, druggist, on February 7.
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A. B. Rainy
Droggtat
Simple Edwin Booth Poster Sparks Printer Debate
A London Tid-Bits item recalls a dispute where a printer, asked to drop the phrase eminent tragedian, produced a poster simply calling the actor Edwin Booth. Booth approved the simpler billing, confirming the change to the upcoming event.
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Booth
Ita
Ind
Edwin Booth
London
Fires at Dallas devastate Elm Street mill and city
Fire alarms flood Dallas as flames from the Worsey printing plant ignite multiple districts. Chief Magee collapses and is rescued. Fireman Will Spurr suffers severe injuries. A second portion recounts Wade Hampton and his four thousand enslaved people, highlighting the era’s slave ownership lore.
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Dallas
Texas
Lower Elm Street
Magee
Will Spurr
Chinese Typesetting and Word Structures in Printing
The Scientific American notes Chinese has 214 root words expanding to daily use 4 000 to 5 000 words and 80 000 in common pact canis it wires 11 000 spaces for nine font types Large cases split into small spaces by radicals or roots About the space around the word wood holds derivatives plum tree box bad and similar terms
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Scientific American
Pact Canis
Uring
Steels
Forty years later five veterans meet by chance in Atlanta
Five former First Tennessee regimental comrades who served under Col George Maney and fought with Gen Robert E Lee in Virginia and at Shiloh met by chance yesterday in the Austell building in Capt Henry H Smiths office. The reunion brought reminiscences of war days and paths that dispersed the men from Kranklin to Murfreesboro Atlanta Rome Nashville and Atlanta.
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Anatell
James Hunter
Kranklin
Tenn
William Leeper
Atlanta
Murfreesboro
Robert Scales
Nashville
H. H. Smith
Thos, Helm
Rome
Columbia, Tenn
Tenneskee
George Maney
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Shiloh
Smith
Scales
Helm
Austell
Henry H. Smith
Reward Offered for Murder of Decatur Insurance Man
A reward of 8500 has been posted for information leading to the arrest of the killer of Will J. Polk an insurance man from Decatur Alabama who was found dead last Saturday with a crushed skull central authorities and local residents await tips to solve the crime
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Lynnville
Tenn
Chiles
Wan
Will J. Polk
Decatur
Ala
Announcements for Judicial and Chancellor Races in Tennessee
Authorized notices announce Walter Bearden and others as candidates for Chancellor of the Fifth Chancery Division across multiple counties. Judge Sam Holding seeks re election as Circuit Judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. B H Bowell, J B Garway, Ben Childers, and others announced for Attorney General of the Eleventh Judicial District. All subject to Democratic party action.
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Ounce Waler & Bearden
Shelbyville
Fifth Chancery
Maury
Lawrence
Lewin
Wayne
Meahinlly
Lincoln, Moore, Bedford
Rutherford
Democratic Party
Yor
Sam Holding
Eleventh Judicial Circuit of
Tennessee
BH. B. Bowell
Lawr County
Biheriegeneral
Eleventh Judicial District
J. B. Garway
Lawrence County
Ben Childers
Giles County
Anguat
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