Traveling Men Seek Reappointment of State Chemist Brown
A delegation of traveling salesmen asked Governor Hooper to reappoint Dr. Lucius P. Brown as state chemist food and drug inspector to enforce the hotel law improving sanitary conditions in Tennessee hostels. Retailers, including the Retail Grocers Association, endorsed Brown and pledged support to stop frauds in weights and measures.
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Sasmilgl
Tenn
Hooper
Executive Mansion
Lucius P. Brown
Brown
Swat
Tennessee
M. F. Herron
Tennessee United Commercial Travelers
R. J. Cowan
Geo. A. Gowan
The
Travelers Protective Association
Dr. Brown
Retail Grocers Association
G. Hill
H. G. HI Grocery and Baking Company
Royal Court Kneels for Miserere of Lully Request
The King Louis XIV and the entire court knelt throughout the Miserere of Lully. The monarch remained on his knees until the hymn ended. He asked Court de Grummet for feedback and was told the music sounded sweet but was hard on the knees.
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Louis XIV
de Grummet
Crazy Prisoner Captures Guard at Fort Kilby
Sergeant George Land of the Thirteenth cavalry was confined in the guard house for two hours on a murder charge after an insane prisoner Sergeant P C Souder ordered him to march and escort into custody. The error was discovered and Land released by the commanding officer.
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Fort Kilby
Kan
Hovse
George Land
Thirteenth Cavalry
P. C. Souder
Land
Souder
Kansas considers dropping fool graduate label education survey begins
The Kansas educational commission meets in Topeka to study school efficiency and costs across all classes. William Allen White defends the phrase while urging practical schooling over advanced math and abstract geography for working youths. The panel seeks data on whether education should emphasize local knowledge of crops trees and streams.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Educational Commission
William Allen White
Emporia
America
Kansas
Kamchatka
Cordell Hull Chairs Session on Deficiency Bill
Washington D C December 18 Representative Cordell Hull presided over the house during the emergency deficiency bill debate. For hours yesterday Representative Joseph Burns wielded the gavel. Representative W C Houston of the Fifth district was reelected to the Congressional Reampaign Committee from Tennessee.
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Washington, D. C
Cordell Hull
House
Joseph Burns
W. C. Houston
Tennessee
Maury County Teachers Paid. Supt Graham Busy
Superintendent John P. Graham handles end of year pay for Maury County teachers. About fifty colored teachers receive roughly 1250 dollars monthly, white teachers pay around 3500 dollars next Saturday. Total monthly payroll nears 5000 dollars for about 150 teachers over eight months, highlighting low per person earnings despite dedication to teaching.
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John P. Graham
Maury County
Bound volume of The Politician from 1845 46 found in Memphis
A Nash ville bound volume of The Politician covering April 1845 to April 1846, with three columns per page, recently turned up in Memphis. It advertised news from around the world and city notices, including an October 1849 sale ad for South Memphis and a map display at Gayoso House.
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Memphis
Tenn
Nashville
South Memphis
Robertson Topp
Nathaniel Anderson
W. L. Vance
Gayoso House
Henry Clay
Time
C.be
Newport
Rochmond Avenue
Youre
Halls Tonn
C. G. Young
Hoxlan
Profitable Dairy Farming Missive Advocates Soil Renewal
A lecture by Capt. T. F. Peck and R. M. Murphy argues dairy farming can reclaim depleted soils, cut fertilizer use, and boost profits through feeding and manure management. Wisconsin’s dairy scale is contrasted with Tennessee, urging careful record keeping, cattle culling, and emphasis on a sustained dairy herd as the path to regional prosperity.
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R. M. Murphy
Wisconsin
Tennessee
Wisconsii
South
Peter
Sweater Coats and Underwear Prices Hit List
The Racket catalog notes sweaters for boys Girls and ladies priced from 25e to 3.00 and men from 2.50 for heavy fleeced underwear to 1.25 for ribbed unions. Infants children and misses knitwear plus gloves and lined garments listed with varied pricing.
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Wright Health
Mitchell Case Is Affi rmed In Real Estate Fraud Suit
Special to The Herald Nashville Tenn December 16 The Supreme Court handed down several opinions including Wheeler Realty Company and Blocker Company vs John T Mitchell Maury County Court in a dispute over commissions on thousands of acres in Lewis County and east Nashville real estate The court affirmed that the defendant was not liable for commissions due to misrepresentations and bad faith by the complainants.
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Herald
Nashville
Tenn
Supreme Court
Wheeler Realty Company
Blocker & Company
John ‘T, Mitchell
Maury County Court
Lewis County
East Nashville
Deafness Cured by Constitutional Remedies Claim
An advertisement claims deafness arises from inflamed Eustachian tubes treated by constitutional remedies. It asserts catarrh causes nine of ten cases, offers $100 for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation, with address to P. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo.
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Hall
P. J. Cheney & C0
Toledo
Dregetete
Pation
Bootlegging crackdown leads to April federal court bonds
Deputy Marshal Shirley reports arrests in Columbia as revenue officers raid bootlegging rings. Sing Lockridge and the Cockrell brothers were bound over for the April federal term on liquor sale charges after undercover work coordinated with Nashville revenue, while officers were recalled to raids in DeKalb and Coffee counties where the Anderson brothers were captured.
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R. L. Shirley
Sing Lockridge
Gus
Richard Cockrell
Sub Rosa
Nashville
Shirley
DeKalb
Coffee Counties
Anderson Brothers
Coffee County
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound touted as cure
K J Howell Tracy reports Foley's Honey and Tar Compound relieved his wife’s coughing and chest symptoms after three bottles, claiming it cured a illness described as worst yet with consumption feared. The ad urges against substitutes and cites Wolrdidge Co. as supplier.
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K. J. Howell Tracy
Foley
Jess
Woldridge CO
Hyde Juror Returns From Escape In Hyde Case Trial
Kansas City reporters note second hearing for Dr. B Hyde on murder in the Swope case ended with juror Harry Waldron escaping confinement and returning home. Judge Poss says Waldron is mentally unfit and the jury remains intact. Dr Hyde’s third trial set for January 2 1912 with state’s continuance likely. court delays to April.
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Kansas City
Dr. B. Hyde
Murner
Thomas H. Swope
Harry W. Waldron
Poss
Waldron
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Tennessean
Cardus Woman’ Tonic
Advienry
Amd
J.P. Graham
Northern Dairymen Markets
T. F. Peck
of Agriculture
F. Swansburg
Prop
Mitchell
Deputy Marshal
Columbia
Sam
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