Brownlow G O P Support for Independent Ticket
Hon T Asbury Wright, a leading Tennessee Republican figure, spoke for free judiciary support. Chairman Newell Sanders denied Brownlow Republicans backing the administration ticket, calling reports deceitful to Brownlow supporters in Middle and West Tennessee. East Tennessee’s most prominent GOP figure backs the Independent judicial ticket.
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Herald
Nashville
Tenn
Newell Sanders
State Republican Executive Committee
Brownlow Republicans
Administration Judiciary Ticket
Sanders
Tennessee
Independent Judiciary Ticket
Patterson
Administration
Middle
West Tennessee
Hon
T. Asbury Wright
East Tennessee
Jo Dietary
Prison Reform Plans Outlined By Churchill In Commons
London July 20 Winston Spencer Churchill Home Secretary outlined sweeping prison reforms to be started by administrative orders and new bills in Parliament. He said aim is humane treatment and to curb degradation. proposals include longer fines payment time, avoid imprisonment for nonpayment, shift to disciplinary or curative methods for youth and minor offenders, grant privileges to political offenders, reduce solitary confinement, abolish ticket of leave, end police supervision of released prisoners, and hold winter lectures and concerts in convict prisons.
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London
House of Commons
Winston Spencer Churchill
Home Secretary
Churchill
Convice
Government bans women as stenographers in civil service
The Civil Service Commission announced that examinations for government stenographers and typists are to recruit only men. The move follows a flood of inquiries from women seeking information about the exam, with officials saying departments aim to replace women with men who are deemed more amenable to discipline.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Race meet attracts local officials and enthusiasts
J T McKnight sheriff of Rutherford County and N L Clardy clerk of the Circuit Court attend the South Side Park race meet. Both are noted as enthusiastic horse men and observers of the event.
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J.T McKnight
Rutherford County
N. L. Clardy
South Side
Pam
Monster Cabbage Head Grows Record in Maury County
P. G. Gray, 66, of Santa Fe, produced a champion cabbage head weighing twenty one and a half pounds with a forty four inch circumference. The prize cabbage was sent to Gray’s son-in-law R. W. Hight, who delivered it to The Herald office.
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P. G. Gray
Maury County
Governor Campbell Indicted for Criminal Libel
Des Moines Iowa July 20 Gov B F Campbell was indicted for criminal libel by the Polk county grand jury over a Des Moines Capital article of May 24. The indictment stems from the Iowa Industrial School for Girls at Mitchellville affair and targets statements about John Crownie former chairman of the State Board of Control.
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Des Moines
B. F. Campbell
Iowa
Polk County Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Iowa Industrial School For Girls
Mitchellville
John Crownie
State Board of Control
Crownie
Maury National Bank Seeks Postal Savings Depository
Washington July 21 The Maury National Bank of Columbia Tenn applies to be designated a depository for postal savings funds in Maury County and the surrounding area.
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Herald
Washington
Railroads plan to shed red lights at state fair
Plans for a Bureau of Railway Economics to collect and diffuse data on railway rates, costs, and transportation matters were announced from Chicago. In Nashville on Sept 18, J H Pennypacker will lecture on road building, supporting the Memphis to Bristol highway as 3,500 Tennessean automobilists commit to organizing.
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Chicago
Bureau of Railway Economics
Washington, D. C
Washington
Burns
J. H. Pennypacker
Department of Agriculture
Nashville
Pennypacker
Memphis-to- Brisol
Tennessee
Sylvania mob fatally harms Black man after alleged attack
In Sylvania Georgia on July 18 a Black man named Hvan Roberts, accused of an attempted crime against two white women, was seized by a mob after an arrest by Constable V. ReWe. He was dragged from custody, then shot multiple times. The women escaped in a buggy as the incident unfolded.
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Montrose
Ark
Marvin Watson
Watson
Dermot
Little Rock
Lake Village
Sylvania
Hvan Roberts
V. ReWe
Roberta
Ice Cream Supper at Theta School Planned
An ice cream supper will be held at the Theta Schoolhouse next Thursday night. Local residents invited to attend the community event at Theta for an evening treat and social gathering.
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Theta School
Theta Om
Train wrecked by small boys near Tolar Texas dies enginejeopardy
Fort Worth Texas July 18 Following yesterday s wreck on the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad near Tolar Tex Engineer Dreamp was killed two boys Harvey Davis 12 and Daniel Gage 14 confessed they drove spikes in the ties to see what would happen Both jailed under 1000 bonds Wireman Percy Hamilton was also injured not expected to live Passengers paid tribute to Dreamp who saved their lives by staying with the engine
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Fort Worth
Texas
St. Louis
Dreamp
Ice Cream Supper at Rees Chapel Friday Night
There will be an ice cream supper at Rees Chapel on Friday night. Proceeds may support church activities and community fellowship.
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Rees’ Chapel
Colored Baptists in Session Here at Mt Lebanon
Delegates from across Teenesace gather in Mt Leba for Tennessee’s first independent colored Baptist church. Sessions open with devotionals by Holliway and McKee, Rev. Searcy presiding, over two hundred delegates enrolled. Notables include Dr. Waytes Townsend and Prof. Johnson, with $30,707.94 raised for education and missionary work.
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Teenesace
Mt Lebanon Church
H. M. Holliway
Covington
A. McKee
Jackson
T. J. Searcy
D. D
Memphis
William Haynes
Nashville
E. M. Lawrence
Savings Bank
J. W. Johnson
Roger Williams University
T. C. Fulles
Howe ‘Institute
Thomas Williams Nelson
Merry College
Jefferson City
J. Neal
Carnes Public School
First Baptist Church
M. EB. Hamilton
Knoxville
The
Colored Baptists of the United States
R. H. Boyd
Allen Boyd
C. H. Clark
Home Mission Board
Mt. Lebanon Church
J. H. Kelly
A. M. Townsend
Kitty League Game Promised In Columbia Monday
One of the best ball games in Columbia in days is promised as Mt Pleasant Kitty Leaguers face Lewisburg at 3:46 PM. Mt Pleasant, the Henderson Kentucky Kitty League club, is a fast team while Lewisburg is a salaried outfit known for solid play. The game will be played at the Columbia Military Academy field.
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Columbia
Mt.Pleasant
Lewisburg
Mt. Pleasant
Henderson
Columbia Military Academy
Gold Dollar and Athlone Overtake in Local Race Day
Mid-summer raco meet features fast times in 2:24 trot won by Gold Dollar ahead of Dorothy Hansboro. Athlone takes final heat in 2:19 trot with Red Maggie and Fire Ball among contenders. road race canceled for lack of entrants.
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Gon
Pursue
Athlone
Red Magesie
Mike
Jon
Gold Dollar
Dorothy Hansboro
Pulsus
Aola Dottar
C. G
Pubeus B. Thomas
Onward Silver
Lee
Fred Patchen
Patphen
Boy
Reaves
Seseeeens Bal
Byron Sylvester
Rythmic Taweey
Abdel! Harri
Birdie Gallant
B. m
Gallant Boy Tansey
Fire Ball
B. G
Arfon Beavers
Chicago tops 2,000,000 in 1910 school census
Chicago reachs a population estimate surpassing two million based on the 1910 school census with minors totaling 814,115 and total population around 2.1 million. German parentage leads in the child group with Poles Russians and Irish following. Other census figures appear for Jackson Mississippi Bartlesville Oklahoma Corpus Christi Texas.
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Chicago
Victims Bid Fair to Recover from Lightning Strike
Paris Ky July 18 The principal victims of the bolt that struck Silas Baptist church Mrs James Thompson Miss Elizabeth Thompson Miss Bettie Sparks Roger Allen and Jos Thompson under Paria physicians bid fair to recover. Sparks is badly burned about body face and neck. Mrs Thompson though seriously injured is not beyond recovery and doctors say the shock to her nervous system was the worst part of the experience. In the excitement following the stroke many who were slightly injured went home and their women could not be
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Paris
Silas Baptist Church
James Thompson
Elizabeth Thompson
Bettie Sparks
Roger Allen
Jos Thompson
Paria
Mise Sparks
Mra.Thompson
Half a Million for Kindly Deed in Macon
In Macon Georgia on July 19 a mortorman named W V Miller of Atlanta aided J F Gurley who was stranded and short of funds. Gurley later died in Dawon City and left an estate estimated at 500000 dollars. Dawon City authorities contacted Atlanta police chief Jennings who identified the miner as Miller. The Herald carried the news.
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Macon
W. V. Miller
Atlanta
Miller
J. F. Gurley
Birmingham
Curley
Jennings
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