Sensational testimony at Enterprise National Bank case
Pittsburg May 31 Geo L Ralston former bookkeeper for Enterprise National Bank testified he sought explanations from Cashier Clarke about irregular bank dealings with the Pennsylvania Company and W H Andrews before the bank failure Clarke later killed himself and the bank failed Ralston claimed notes from the Pennsylvania Development Company were recorded as cash and Clarke had to cover many of them.
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Pittsburg
Geo. L. Ralston
Enterprise National Bank
Clarke
Ralston
Pennsylvania Company
W. H. Andrews
Pennsyyvania Development Company
Lynnville High School Closing in Tennessee Commencement
Lynnville Tennessee May 30. Robert B Jones high school closed with graduation exercises. Monday saw two declamation contests with juniors Reeves and Wagstaff and seniors Brown and Orr earning medals. Dr Allen G Hall of Vanderbilt gave a lecture. Certificates were awarded by Prof J C Herbert Walker.
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Lynnville
Tenn
Robert B. Jones High School
Masters
Justin Ewing Knox
Ned Bills McCloud
Frank Nolan Braley
Andrew Raymond Reeves
William Bodenheimer Wagstaff
John Bryant Orr
Willie W. Collins
Maurice Bledsoe
Willie Thomas Martin
Robert Hutton Brown
Messrs. Reeves
Brown
Allen G. Hall
Vanderbilt University
J.C. Herbert Walker
R. 8. Brown
Board of Trustees
Comptroller directs Thompson to prosecute Memphis cases
State Comptroller Frank Dibrell issued instructions to newly appointed West Tennessee revenue agent John B. Thompson to prosecute designated Memphis figures. The list includes Jerome Richards Criminal Court Clerk of Shelby County, the Memphis Street Railway Company, and various book companies. Thompson is also to investigate Richards' predecessors.
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Herald
Nashville
Tenn
Frank Dibrell
John B. Thompson
West Tennessee
Memphis
Bate Bond
Jerome Richards
Bhelvy County
Memphis Street Railway Company
Richard
Richmond Hosts Largest Confederate Veterans Reunion
Crowds fill Richmond as the United Confederate Veterans hold a vast reunion. Estimates place 12,000 to 15,000 visiting veterans and 50,000 to 60,000 sightseers, with Camp Gordon serving meals for 12,000 yesterday. Gen Stephen D Lee presided as a program opened with school choir music and prayers from Rev J W Finley. Credential committee announced. 1,259 camps represented, 2,267 total votes.
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Richmond
United Confederate Veterans
Camp Gordon
Grand Camp Hall
City High School
Dixie
Entau i
Stephen D. Lee
J. W. Finley
Birmingham Gets Next Reunion for Confederate Veterans
June 1 reported the next grand reunion will be held in Birmingham Ala with Nashville losing the bid after a three-city nomination. San Antonio and Birmingham contended with Birmingham prevailing as Gen Gordon supported the Alabama choice. Col John W Apperson of Memphis was elected commander in chief and Clarence J Owens of Alabama led the Army of Tennessee department.
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Richmond
Birmingham
Ala
Nashville
San Antonio
Gordon
Mobile
John W. Apperson
Memphis
Song of Veterans
Clarence J. Owens
Alabama
Army of Tennessee
Man Ends Life by Jumping in Front of Train at Brooklyn Station
At the St Mark's Avenue elevated station in Brooklyn on June 1, an unknown man leaped before a northbound train, was killed instantly, and traffic was halted for about an hour. A note in Norwegian found on him offered no identity clues.
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W York
St. Mark's Avenue
Brooklyn
Tribute to Their Chief at Richmond Davis Monument Unveiling
Thousands witness ceremonies in Richmond for the unveiling of Jefferson Davis monument during United Confederate Veterans reunion. Governor Swanson, Mayor McCarthy, and General Evans speak. Mrs Hayes to unveil statue. Treasured floral tributes placed by Confederacy affiliates. General Lee praised as future head of veterans. life tenure endorsed for several department commanders.
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Richmond
Virginia
Jefferson Davis
United Confederate Veterans
Association
South
Smith Bolling
Ninth Street
Franklin
Stephen D. Lee
The
Gordon
Claud A. Swanson
Carlton McCarthy
Clement A. Evans
Georgia
Evans
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Edward W. Carmack
Tennessee
Davis
Ihs
J. A. Hayes
Webb
Hayes
Hodgson
Stephen PD. Lee
John B. Gordon
Veteran's Organization
Ge. Lee
Nashville
W. L. Caball
Texas
Roasts Move to Anti Patterson at Chattanooga Dinner
At a Democratic executive dinner in Chattanooga hundreds gathered for a satirical roast of Governor Patterson. The event featured a Carmack gubernatorial bid resolution, jokes about Patterson, and a lemon at every plate signaling the non‑appointment of Frawley and Fraidley to the county election commission.
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Chattanooga
Tens
Praidley-Fawley
Hamilton County
Tennessee
Mesars
Frawley
Pratdhey
Gov. Patterson
W. B. Royster
Memphis
A. J. Glenn
Mr. Patterson
Mr. Johnson
T. P. McMahon
East Tennessee
Walshes
Senator Carmack
Henry Peck Frye
Messrs. Frawley and
Fraidley
County Election Commission
Lack of Drapery Rejects Venus Statue Gift
Kansas City State Senator Wm J Buchan donated a reclining Venus Genetrix statue for the public library but the Kansas City Kansas School Board rejected it for lacking drapery. The statue, purchased in Rome, is valued at several hundred dollars and was intended for display at the library.
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Kansas City
Wm. J. Buchan
School Board of
Kans
Buchan
Rome
Memphis Barister Wins Unique Suit
W A Duncan attorney sued Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company for 5000 dollars after a client failed to reach his office by phone. A four juror court found for the plaintiff but assessed damages at one cent, noting Duncan did possess a working phone and paid rent in advance.
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Memphis
Tenn
W. A. Duncan
North Main
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company
Unite States Court
Duncan
Jfail
Justice Creagan
P. R. Friedel
Wight to Confer With Roosevelt on Internal Revenue Post
Col Pearl Wight of New Orleans Republican National Committeeman from Louisiana arrived in Washington. He will spend Monday at Leesburg and return for a conference with President Roosevelt on Tuesday about the offered Commissionership of Internal Revenue. He declined to say if he would accept before the talk. An announcement likely then at the White House.
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Washington
Col
Pearl Wight
New Orleans
Republican National
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Internal Revenue
Wight
Leesburg
White House
Quadruples Born to Roanoke Woman in Indiana
Mrs. Frank Croxton, 43, wife of a section foreman on a mine line near Roanoke, Indiana, gave birth to quadruplets last night. There were three girls and a boy, weighing a combined 11.5 pounds. Two of the children have died since birth.
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Huntingdon
Ind
Frank Croxton
Roanoke
Irle
Tennessee Pearl Hunter Talks Tennessee Pearl Hunter Talks
Stringfellow of this place has spent twenty years promoting the fresh water pearl industry of the South. He toured Georgia rivers and sees great prospects for the state becoming a top pearl producer. He urges locals to search home streams along the Flint Ocmulgee and Oconee for the Muckett and Washboard mussels. Pearls from Tennessee Arkansas rivers have sold for 1000 to 3000 dollars, with Arkansas White and Black Rivers producing the richest harvest in recent years. The tale notes that many people, even the poor, occasionally exchange sizable sums for pearls in a single summer day.
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White Bluff
Tenn
Stringfellow
South
Georgia
Flint
Ocmulgee
Oconee
Tennessee
Arkansas
Caney Fork
United States
Struck by Lightning While Telephoning
Owensboro Kentucky May 31 In the act of telephoning President Arnold was struck by lightning and is expected to die before morning The lightning burned his face scorched clothing tore a shoe from his foot and blackened one side of his body Joe Mattingly who was in the room was rendered unconscious but will recover The telephone was reduced to splinters
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Owensboro
Preston Arnold
Arnold
Joe Mattingly
Biggest Person in Kentucky dies after heat failure
Martha Johnson of Louisville, aged 62, weighing 517 pounds, died early today of heat failure. Believed to be the state’s largest person, the undertaker said embalmation needs were unusual for ordinary corpses. The casket measures six feet by three feet and twenty one inches deep, with twelve stout pallbearers selected.
Carmack Denies Governor Candidacy Bid
Senator Carmack stated he has never declared himself a candidate for governor and will not commit until he decides. He left for Richmond to speak for the Daughters of the Confederate at a Jefferson Davis monument unveiling ceremony.
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Senator Carmack
Kentucky
Herald de Memphis News-Scimitar
News Scimitar
Menta
Carmack
Scimitar
Mr. Carmack
Richmond
Daughters of the Confederate
Jefferson Davia
A Sure Cure for Cut Worms
Adams June 1 The rains welcomed by tobacco planters allowed setting out plants with over fifty percent of the 1907 crop now in. Cut worms have been bad, but a dead sure preventative is offered: mix two gallons of water with one tablespoonful of turpentine, dip the plants halfway, then set out. The remedy works for cabbage and other garden plants.
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Adams
Bristol Pendleton law test case heads to chancery docket
Bristol Tenn June 2 The case of E Gougem v Burrow recorder to test constitutionality of the Pendleton law will be called at the chancery court term beginning Monday morning Whisky interests have engaged former Republican gubernatorial nominee Judge H T Campbell and ex Attorney General E K Bachmen and will appeal to the Supreme Court if defeated below.
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Bristol, Tenn
E. Gougem
T. J. Burrow
Recorder
Pendleton
Chancery Court
Whisky People
H. T. Campbell
E. K. Bachmen
Supreme Court
Locusts in Henry County Marked with Initials W. J. B.
Paris Tennessee May 30 Locusta or 17 year locusts appear in Henry County in scattered spots. Reports from one locality that the initials W. J. B. are seen on them. A. G. Cherry of Paris says he saw one with these initials and suspects a future president with that name.
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Paris
Tenn
Locusta
A. G. Cherry
Lebanon Jug Law Trial Sparks City Debate
In Lebanon Tennessee talk runs high over state amendments to the anti jug law as citizens and the Board of Aldermen press to uphold the measure. The matter is referred to City Attorney J D Glenn who will state his opinion by June 10 in the case that unsettles the town.
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Lebanon
Tenn
Board of Aldermen
Atorney
Jr J.D. Glenn
Glennis
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J. Ie Gartner
Bell Phone
Enterprise Bank
Thompson
Memphils
Confederate Veterans’ Association
Faidley-Frawley
Kansas City, Kan
Memphis Barister
Roanoke, Ind
Ging To
Patterson & Major
Lynnville, Tenn
Tennessee Pearl Hunter
MR. Stringfellow
Martha Johnson
Louisville
Bristol
Henry County
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