SUT Lines of Sly Company in Carthage July
The Cumberland Telephone Company reports vandalism and theft of service as non subscribers used rented boxes to talk across exchanges. A rule denying free talk to non subscribers sparked friction with local towns. Fourteen lines were cut at Riddleton and seven more last night in the same area, with investigation and prosecution expected.
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Carthage
Teun
Cumberland Telephone Company
Jewsal Dave
Subnes
Privie
Riddleton
Ths
Dixon's Springs
Hartsville
Alleged Forged Notes Shake Gallatin Bank
Rumors fly in Gallatin Tennessee that forged notes totaling about 24000 were found at the Peoples National Bank. The notes allegedly served as a reserve fund and are not part of the reported 40000 deficit. Investigators and business leaders expect further developments as the bank’s situation remains unsettled and rumors of a larger shortage circulate.
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Gallatin
Tenn
Peoples’ National Bank
Holler, Brown & More
W. G. Schamrberger & Co
General Biennial Registration Dates Announced
The general biennial registration will run August 12 through August 22. Citizens cannot vote in subsecuring or municipal elections unless registered during this period or a later update, regardless of moves since last registration. Also notes that Alaska winters are hard more for mosquitoes than cold.
Thought Cox an Enemy Could Run for Senate If Carmack Runs
Bristol Tenn July 23 Temperance forces debate Cox stance toward former Governor as a political pivot. They oppose Parks Worley while drys back Carmack for senate and Millard against Worley for the house. Carmack’s Bristol popularity stands out in East Tennessee politics as a regional power broker.
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Bristol
Tenn
Cox
Parks Worley
Senate
Pendleton
Carmack Funs
Joseph H. Burrow
James A. Millard
Worley
House
Senator Carmack
Sullivan County
Upper East Tennessee
Bob Taylor
Memphis Heat Claims One Life from 98 Degree Day
Three people were prostrated and one died in Memphis Tennessee as the city endured the hottest day in six years with the thermometer reaching 98 degrees. The incident centered on groceryman H J L Mitchell and followed bystander reports of heat distress across the city.
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Memphis
Tenn
H. JL. Mitchell
Maury County Boy Climbs Fast to Civil Engineering
Blair Hughes, son of ex Postmaster J W Hughes and a Tennessee boy, has been appointed division engineer on the Southern railway. Though young, he is on a fast track in civil engineering after work with the Alabama Great Southern railroad and a recent acceptance with the Southern. He is related to the Hughes family of Columbia.
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Birmingham
Ala
Blair Hughes
J. W. Hughes
Tennessee
Southern Railway
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
The
Southern
Hughes
Columbia
Carmack Denies Coalition Accusations in Senate Race
Senator Carmack calls repeated charges false and malicious and says he never formed a coalition with J Isaac Cox. He notes Patterson and Cooper privately commended his campaign and asserts anyone saying otherwise is repeating old calumny with no honest basis. He declines further remark on the matter.
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Nashville
Columbia
Carmack
West Tennessee
Patterson
Mr. Carmack
Malcolm R. Patterson
Duncan B Cooper
George H. Armistead
Col. Cooper
Woman Takes Husband’s Job In Animal Training Story
The manager questions her claim as wife steps in to manage the trainer. She asserts she can handle him, noting her husband runs the show at home. The exchange reveals a humorous shift in responsibility and the light tone of the snippets.
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Chicago Tribune
Pardon Granted for Mrs Angie Birdsong in MississippI
Governor Vardaman pardoned Mrs Angie Birdsong after a hearing on petitions for and against the pardon. Birdsong, sentenced to five years in the penitentiary by the Copiah Circuit Court for the killing of Dr Butler in Lawrence County, had a largely signed pardon petition.
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Jackson
Miss
Cure of Scaly Eruptions After Many Remedies
In a 1906 testimonial from Vermillion South Dakota B Hiram Mattingly recounts years of severe scalp itching and hair loss. After trying iodine, sulphur, salves, and baths without relief he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, reporting complete cure and hair restoration after three boxes and fourteen years of suffering, with expenditure of about 60 dollars.
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Elea
Hiram Mattingly
Bkin
Abd iMood
Tennessee Republican Pushes Constitution Prohibition
Hon. T. Asbury Wright of Rockwood, a leading Tennessee Republican, predicts Tennessee will be dry within two years. He favors writing prohibition into the state constitution, urging a constitutional amendment to ban manufacture storage or sale of intoxicants. Wright cites antijug laws, court rulings, and momentum toward statewide prohibition supported by 1907 campaign experience.
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Tennessee
T. Asbury Wright
Rockwood
Wright
Tennensee
Congress
Nashville Tennesean
Hearst Boom Arrangements Reach Tennessee and South
Chattanooga reports a confidential letter from A. Walsh former DNC secretary seeking to organize a Hearst Independence League network in Tennessee Georgia and Alabama. Fry dislikes involvement yet Walsh aims to convene delegates at the Gilley House New York to plan a National League in the South for a Hearst presidential bid.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Henry Peck Fry
A. Walsh
Democratic National Committee
Hearst Independence League
League
Tennessee
eGorgia
Alabama
Walsh
Memphis
Fry
Hearst
Gilley House
New York
Lan
National League
Mr. Fry
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Knoxville Sentinel
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Peru
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Angie Birdsong
Gov. Vardaman
Mississippi
Ashbury Wright
Taft
Cc. A. Walsh
Chamber of Commerce
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