County Court 15 Routed By Tit Robinson
John W. Jackson appears before the court seeking a yearly appropriation of 50 for three inmates at the Tennessee Orphan's Home, as magistrates debate funding denominational and city-supported homes while the adjournment is moved to next Monday morning. The session is briefly punctuated by parade noise and a disrupted quorum.
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Tit Robinson
John W. Jackson
Tennessee Orphan's Home
Hardin Thomas
Nashville
Tennessee Orphan’s Home
High Hayes
Julie W. Jackson
Esq
Ross
Esq. Hayes
Denton
Racket Catalog Mentions Various Supplies And Prices
Fragments describe talcurs powder paper and rubber items with uncertain pricing and notes about weather. Mentions White Mount Triple Mansion and a carilles item with vague measurements. The garbled text lists colors and brands like Rubbare and Japaneer, reflecting a damaged product listing from a period catalog.
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Joe Croart
Anid
Mahismardine
White Low Aener
Swawberty
Este
Carilles
R S Hardison Wins Board Seat In County Election
Official returns from the Third and Fourth districts show R S Hardison elected to the County Board of Education with 147 votes to M A Green 144. Green carried Green son 6 Caldwell's Store 22 Rock Spring 3 Neapolis 1 Rally Hill 18 Kedron 30 Park's Station 0 Leftwich 18 totals 144. Daniel Williams 104 votes and D C Kinnard 56 votes are listed in precinct totals.
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R. S. Hardison
M. A. Green
County Board of Education
Green
Leftwich
Hardison
Herd
Green Son
Caldwell’s
Rock Spring
Neapolis
Rally Hill
Kedron
Park's Station
Sebeeee
Daniel Wiliams
Spring Hill
Caldwell’s Store
Rock Springs
Bally Hill
D. C. Kinnard
Caldwell's
Tennessee man shot without warning in Murphy hotel
Ashe ville N C Aug 7 News of a deadly shooting in Murphy NC near the Jenkins hotel reports Lex Battles of Murphy under liquor entered a group of young men and opened fire killing Benjamin Hyde of Cadiz Ky and J J Simpson of Rogersville Tenn instantly and mortally wounding J J Simpson Hugh Johnson of Marble NC was wounded but expected to survive Battles was arrested and jailed in Murphy.
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Asheville
N. C
Aragedy
Murphy
N.C
Lex Battles
Jenkins Hotel
Benjamin Hyde
Cadiz
J. J. Simpson
Rogersville
Tenn
Hugh, Johnson
Marble
Hyde
Battles
Directors of the Tennessee Orphans Home to be Increased
Tennessee Orphans Home directors to rise from five to eighteen with a five member committee to propose the new board. First Monday in September chosen for director elections and home opening with a public dinner and speeches. Rules establish strict inmate discipline under superintendent and matron, daily Bible reading, designated visiting hours, and staff oversight.
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Tennessee Orphan's Home
W. T. Boaz
First Christian Church
Board of Managers
Sige Henner Mipi
Will Howard Passes Away at Pulaski Pike Home
William Jordan Howard died Saturday at 4 40 p m at his Pulaski pike home from a pulmonary ailment after weeks of illness. He was thirty years eight months and twenty eight days old and considered among the state’s wealthiest men though not active in business due to health. He is survived by his parents and several relatives. Funeral service was held Monday at 2 a m at the residence conducted by Rev A G Dinwiddie and Rev W T Spears with interment at Lawrence cemetery Mt Pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jordan Howard
Pulaski Pike
Mr. Howard
J. W. Howard
Gerald
Lawrence
A. G. Dinwiddie
W. T. Spears
Lawrence Cemetery
Mt. Pleasant
Insurance firm formed by Dr Hardison and W Morgan Jr
Dr R Hardison and W P Morgan Jr establish a new insurance partnership with offices in Hardison's dental rooms. The firm will handle life fire plate glass tornado and wheel insurance. They promote enterprise and business skill. An unrelated advertisement for Thomas Electric Oil ends the notice.
Two Die in Birmingham Auto Wreck at West Lake Crossing
Birmingham August 7 two were killed outright three fatally injured and two may die after a railway crossing collision near West Lake below Bessemer. Chauffeur Roden and Miss Augusta Kiser die early, while Mary Fitzpatrick Mamie Crenshaw Lew Crenshaw V Leo Hart among the injured. The auto carrying eleven passengers was struck by a fast Southern Railway passenger train around 4 pm. Garner escaped unhurt. Ambulances rushed the injured to hospital. the car was nearly demolished.
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Birmingham
Ala
West Lake
Basssemer
J. Roden
Augusta Kiser
Mary Fitspatrick
Mamile Crenahaw
Robert Blagk
Lou Crenshaw
Vernon Lee
G. ©. Dobbs
Bessemer
Southern Railway
Governor grants murder respite to M. B. Cook
Nashville dispatch reports Shelby County inmate M. B. Cook, sentenced to death for a Shelby county murder, will not be hanged on August 23. The Governor has respited the execution until September 19 to review the evidence and consider further clemency.
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M. B. Cook
Shelby Countian
Herald
Nashville
Tenn
Shelby County
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Gamble Building
Gordon
America
Hester
Miamond
Hite
Allie
Joe
H. Cliff-Hendley
Gavril
Ting
Frank Swansburg
Prop
Tennessean
Murphy, N.C
Dean
The
the Orphan's Home
Sap
Will Howard
Another Insurance CO
Hardison & Morgan
Roden
Mise Augusta Kiser
Mary Fitzpatrick
Mamie Crenshaw
A. Black
Lew Crenshaw
V. Leo Hart
Studebaker
Harlan, Porter
Walker
Andrews Building
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