Knoxville Prohibition Debate Highlights Economic Impact
Knoxville and Chattanooga bank clearings in January show Knoxville ahead by 586 023 over Chattanooga with Knoxville up 6 4 percent from January 1907 while Chattanooga falls 12 percent. Southern railway freight shipments rise 2 58 in Knoxville in the third week of January.
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Chattanoogs Timmer
Rocxville
Knoxville Sentinel
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Financial Chronicle
Nic BA
Southern Railway
Herald Pub Subscription Rates for Columbia Tenn Weekly
The notice lists subscription rates for the Columbia Tenn Herald Weekly. It provides yearly and monthly pricing details, shows mail handling by post office entries, and identifies Lander as editor. The fragment notes entry as second class mail at Columbia Tenn and mentions the publication name.
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Fapietent
Ue Herald
Htebing Orapanyeet
Postamice
Columbia, Tenn
Editor Lander to take post at Taylor-Trotwood Co
The Herald editor F D Lander accepts the treasurer and general manager role at Taylor Trotwood Publishing Co in Nashville. He will maintain ties to The Herald while delegating daily duties to James I Finney Ernest R Farrell Walter D Hastings and Charles G Sims to ensure steady management of Tennessee newspaper property.
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Herald
FD. Lander
Taylor-Trotwood Publishing Co
Nashville
Taylor Trotwood
Lander
The
James I. Finney
Ernest R. Farrell
Walter D. Hastings
Charles G. Sims
Landor
Tennessee
Worley urged for Speakership amid pledges claim
Representative Worley of Sullivan County asserts his renomination and Speakership are assured. The piece doubts his claim, saying voters must see pledges from a House not yet elected and warns he should abandon politics for finance.
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Worley
Sullivan County
Tennessee
Sullivan
Grand jury urged to summon City Recorder for docket
A state attorney general proposal urges reconvened grand jurors to summon the City Recorder to disclose docket entries. The aim is to reveal pistol and liquor law violations and secure indictments. Emphasis on pursuing city law offenders under state authority to strengthen prosecutions.
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Garner
Bell
Gallatin Examiner-Tennessean
Judge Bell
Supreme Court
Patterson
Chattanooga
Maury County Cattle Quarantine Urged to Stay Above Line
The article argues Maury County should remain above the cattle quarantine line to protect valuable cattle and prices. It warns that crossing the line would halt shipments during the close season and reduce value by up to 2 percent per head, with spillover losses around ten dollars per animal. Citizens are urged to report violations and support strict enforcement.
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Maury County
Revenues and Tariff Fear of Reckless Expenditures
Lassie's Weekly warns Republicans in Congress about looming deficits and vast spending plans for 1909 from military naval ventures canal and waterways projects. Tawney objects to large expenditures while warning that tariff revision fears are unfounded given past Republican practice of raising schedules.
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Lassie
Congress
Tawney
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Department
Panama Canal
Leake’s
Cleveland
Sixtieth Congress
Dingley Schedules and Reform Demand After Election
The speaker argues it is untimely to revise during the election period and predicts Republicans will claim no demand for change if reelected. They assert genuine tort reform for consumers awaits Democratic control of the government.
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Dingley
Democratic Party
Supreme Judges Death Reflects Tennessee Court History
The death of Judge Wilkes highlights rare incumbency deaths on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Since Justice Fowlkes in 1890, no sitting justice has died in office. Governor Taylor’s appointees of 1890s era, like W. Beard and Benjamin J. Lea, show how justices served until the next general election, a pattern likely repeated this year.
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Wilkes
Supreme Court
Justice Fowlkes
Tennessee Supreme Court
Deaderick
Gov. Taylor
W. Beard
Beard
Benjamin J. Lea
Lea
Senate
Haywood County
Legal technicalities shake California judiciary in graft cases
The California Court of Appeals reversed the graft convictions of Schmits and Ruef, ruling extortion law did not apply as licenses to sell wine were not property. Critics, including Judge Dunne, lament the decision as a perversion of justice and warn it erodes public confidence in the judiciary. Some judges, they say, favor legal form over substance.
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California Court of Appeals
Dunne
California
Inferior Courts
Republic
Gibson county mob backs clemency for white bootlegger
Report notes likely support from Gibson county mob for a white bootlegger seeking clemency after a court and jury convict. The piece frames the act as a stubborn challenge to the law and its enforcement by those involved in the earlier outrage on negro bootleggers.
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Gibson County
Law
Governor's Veto Power in States Explored
An analysis shows North Carolina and Rhode Island lack final legislative authority, as pushies rise to grant veto power to governors. The piece compares methods across the states, noting thresholds to override vetoes, from simple majorities to two thirds and three-fifths in various jurisdictions.
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Savera
North Carolina
Rhode Island
Georgia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Tennessee
Delaware
Nebraska
Maryland
Vermont
Virginia
Anarchy in the South claim cited as nonexistence
The piece contrasts the South’s pride in lawfulness with Northern cities and asserts no organized anarchists exist in the South. It frames anarchy as unfamiliar and denies visible groups openly defying government. It emphasizes regional harmony and obedience to authority.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Covemubhont
Searo
Ladies coats and spring goods sale at discount store
Store advertises ladies silk rain coats priced 18 to 25 dollars with 7.90 value, 14 left. Also 50 cent wool dress goods at 2 cents per yard, spring fabrics in ginghams madras cotton suitings and new rugs carpets marting and axminster. Free 1908 Merchants' Magazine tickets with cash purchases.
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Ingram
Axminster
Anarchy in the South Warned By Editorial Call
An editorial condemns night riders in Tennessee Kentucky and Mississippi calling mob rule a threat to democracy. It urges government action to restore law and order, arguing census and civil rights rely on courts and constitutional protections rather than vigilantism.
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South
Tennessee
Kentucky
Army of
Mississippi
West Tennessee
Nwn
Baby girl cured by Cuticura treatment after eczema
A caregiver recounts severe eczema on a five year old girl and painful scratching. After medical care failed, she used Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Scrub. Within three months the child's skin cleared and improved dramatically.
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Han
Hair Growth Promised by Cuticura Dandruff Remedy
An old advertisement touts Cuticura products for removing dandruff and itching scalps. It promotes daily washing with Cuticura Soap and nightly dressings with Cuticura Ointment to stop thinning hair and hair loss, claiming restoration of scalp health.
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Guseure Bose
Renee
Ape Sera Seeeney
Pry
Saba
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