Len K Hart passes away in Tennessee obituary and indictments
Len K Hart dies at 65 after a heart attack amid a life of local leadership in Davidson County. The report lists his public roles, family, and church work, noting his long service as County Trustee and as a delegate to the General Conference. The same page details indictments for perjury against Foster Voorhees and Frank Combes tied to Bankers Life Insurance Company before 1906.
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New York
Golpet
New Jersey
Foster M. Voorhees
Frank H. Combes
Bank
Rs' Life Insurance Company
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company
Voorhees
Combes
State Insurance Department
Je Foure
Grand
Senate
Suit in Circuit Court for damages against L N
Andrew Cox, colored, sues the Louisville and Nashville in the circuit court for $1,999. Attorneys Hopkins and McKnight represent Cox. He says while unloading a box car near Dark's Mill the car was moved by a backing engine through a bottom hole, throwing him through the hole and bruising him when the train passed.
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Andrew Cox
Hopkins
McKnight
Cox
Dark’s Mill
Covington Woman Fights Burglary Suspect in Kitchen Yard
Mrs Charles Myrick of Covington awoke to a burglar in her bedroom. She grappled with the intruder who fled toward the back yard after a scuffle in which she struck him with a poker and a teapot and he knocked her unconscious.
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Covington
Charles Myrick
West Third Street
Senator Engle's Lobby Ejection Resolution Sparks Mississippi Senate
In Jackson Mississippi on February 14 senator Engle of Natches introduced a resolution directing the sergeant at arms to eject lobbyists tied to the Cumberland Telephone Company from the Senate chamber. He charged lobbyists used influeces to defeat a bill mandating physical connections. The measure was sent to the Committee on Ruler for consideration.
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Jackson
Miss
State Senate
Engle
Natches
Senate Chamber
Cumberland Telephone Company
Committee On Ruler
Unrequited Love Triggers Death by Suicide in Chicago
CHICAGO Feb 13 Mrs Mabelle Guild 20 years old widow killed herself at her home 3351 Indiana avenue after a string of visits from Harry Aksen 26 traveling salesman and a quarrel over a trivial matter police say unrewarding love led to her act.
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Chicago
Mabelle Guild
Indiana Avenue
Harry Askern
Esleeman
Polles
Bachelor Gives Last Warning
Hugh De Witt, a 93 year old Mexican War veteran at the Indiana State Soldiers Home, will be buried tomorrow with a tombstone he carved the epitaph for. The line warns bachelors who disobey divine law, “Don’t live a bachelor as I did.”
Centenarian Dr E M C Neyman to celebrate 100th birthday
Lived near New Albany Indiana for more than seventy five years Dr E M C Neyman reputed son of Marshal Ney Napoleon’s famed general will mark his hundredth birthday at his Saltillo Washington county home forty miles north of New Albany The Methodist church in Saltillo will host a large banquet with friends from across the country Monon railroad officials will halt trains to allow attendees to reach the event Neyman born in Paris came to the United States as a boy and has lived in Washington County Ind for 75 years He is esteemed as a physician and surgeon with a kind heart and affable manners Nearby Mrs Parmella Turley also recently celebrated her hundredth birthday.
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Nashville
Tenn
Leo K. Hart
Eltlkena
Dickerson Turnpike
Hart
Henry Hart
Davidson County
Samuel Hart
Louisville
Thomas M. Hart
Cartwright
J. A. Cartwright
Misa Lucy
Eastnas
Carthc Duncan Hart
Leonard Hart
Methodist Church
E. M. C. Neyman
Marshall Ney
Napoleon
Saltillo
Washington County
New Albany
Loulaville Courier Journal
Monon
Neyman
Paris
France
United States
Ind
Tadinna
Mra
Parmella Turley
What the kidneys do and a testimonial for Dean's Kidney Pills
Blood passes through the kidneys to filter impurities and maintain health. When healthy they remove about 500 grains of impurity daily. when unhealthy, toxins remain causing back pain headaches and various ailments. A Franklin Tennessee resident testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble and backed the claim with continued endorsements over five years. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
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B. A. McCaul
Main Street
Franklin, Tenn
Dean
Immense Trade in Chinese Crackers Headed from Canton
Canton exported Chinese crackers totaling 45 197 hundredweight last year, slightly up from 45 104 hundredweight in 1906 and well above the 23 063 hundredweight average of the previous five years.
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Canton
Texas Students Go On Strike At A M College
Texas A M College faces a student strike with over 300 of 500 possible attendees. Directors met to receive grievances while classes were halted. Seniors returned for duty. upperclassmen did not report and were suspended. President Harrington is fully vindicated amid ongoing campus tensions. Alumni groups in Houston intervene to urge resolution.
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College Station
Tex
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
H. H. Harrington
Senor Clase
Harrington
Alumni Ansociation of
Houston
Married Women Where He Went
Bristol England February fourteen Arthur Hyne the man with many aliases on trial for bigamy and fraud in matrimonial advertisements was sentenced to seven years for bigamy and five years for fraud, to run concurrently. Hyne pleaded guilty. He is believed identical with George Witzhoff Albert Bessemer or A C Weston who married several women in America then vanished after taking money. Witzhoff left the United States in 1905 and was arrested in England last month, having lived in Baltimore Chicago St Louis and elsewhere and married women he met.
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Bristol
England
Arthur Hyne
Hyne
George Witzhoff
Albert Bessemer
A. C. Weston
America
Witzhoff
United States
Baltimore
Chicago
St. Louis
Tel
Evans Denies Tillman Backing for Governor Bid
In Chattanooga on February 15 Hon. H. Clay Evans denies Nashville reports that he backs G N Tillman for governor against John H Early. He says he is not in on any secret candidate and will support whoever the state convention nominates. He reiterates support for Taft for president and notes Davidson County Republicans endorsed Mr Barly for reasons tied to local balance.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
H. Clay Evans
Gener
London
United States
Nashville
G. N. Tillman
John H. Early
Bryan
Evans
Taft
Tillman
Newell Sanders
Davidson County
Barly
Brownlowtes
Pavia
Wallace Puts Missouri Governor Bid on Sabbath Law
Kansas City Feb 14 Judge William H Wallace Criminal Court declares candidacy for Democratic Governor of Missouri on a platform of state wide and permanent enforcement of Sunday and Minor laws He has closed many poolrooms cigar stores barber shops and other small businesses on Sundays and has bonds totaling near 100000 He supports local option and seeks a constitutional amendment for statewide prohibition and enforcement if elected.
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Kansas City
William H. Wallace
Criminal Court
Missouri
Wallace
Sabath
Repubile
Battle of the Trenches Forty-Second Anniversary at Fort Donelson
Letter to the editor recalls the February 16 1862 Battle of the Trenches at Fort Donelson with Tennessee troops, Grant, Foote, and Nat F Cheairs bearing the flag of truce. It notes cold weather, supply issues, and Confederate evacuation toward Bowling Green as ironclads engaged on the Cumberland.
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the Herald
Fort Donelson
Maury Light Artillery
Grant
Foote
Federala
Nat F. Cheairs
Maury County
Albert Sidney Johnson
Bowling Green
Cumberland River
Ironciads
Jail Sentence for Killing Child
St Louis February 13 Judge Muench sentenced chauffeur Jeane Watson to one year in jail and fined $1,000 for the killing of Ute Christine Musick, who was driven by Watson's employer, Clay Arthur Pierce, son of Henry Clay Pierne, chairman of the Waters-Fierce Oil Company.
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ST. Louis
Muench
Jeane Watson
Imposed & Ave
Ute Christine Musick
Watson
Clay Arthur Pierce
Henry Clay Pierné
Waters-Fierce Oil Company
Sheriff Sale of Land In Maury County Tennessee
A chancery court execution in Maury County directs Sheriff Love Webb to sell at the courthouse door in Columbia Tennessee on March 2 1908 the right title and one eighth undivided interest in a tract formerly known as the Dr Bedem tract and bounded by the Gordon Green and Murphy lands containing about 187 acres more or less for cash to the highest bidder.
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Chancery Court
Maury County
Tenn
Og Dee
A. N. Akin
J. M. Hodge
Cordelia Exel
Columbia
Tennessee
Gordon
Dr. Bedem
H. P. Pigners
W. E. B. Green
J.H. Murphey
Love Webb
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Len K. Hart
Circuit Court
Mathediet Church
General Conference
Mississippi
Cumberland
Bachelor
Hugh Dewitt
Great Marshall Ney
Indiana
Texas
Kentucky
Judge Wallace
Joe Folk
The
Herald
Sheriff's
Amun
Arkansas
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