Dibrell to push suits in West Tennessee court actions
Comptroller Frank Dibrell arrived from Nashville and met John B. Thomason revenue agent for West Tennessee. They discussed continuing suits started by Bate Bond. Thomason said Rhea Dibrell, Dibrell’s son, will remain as his assistant. Dibrell plans to review all cases with Col. Carroll and return to Nashville tonight.
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Memphis, Tenn
Frank Dibrell
Nashville
John B. Thomason
West Tennessee
Bate Bond
Willam H. Carroll
Bond
Thomason
Court House
Rhea Dibrell
Dibrell
Col Carroll
Trustee McCann of Nashville Dead
Major John J. McCann longtime Trustee of Davidson county died Sunday after weeks of illness. Known as the Lame Miller he founded many Nashville milling ventures and was a popular, generous public figure in Davidson county. He was serving his third term as Trustee.
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John J. McCann
Davidson County
Major McCann
Old Way For Men And Wives In Pioneer Custom
In Greenfield Indiana a walnut pin driven into a felled oak log held a foot long coil of black hair believed to be placed there seventy five years ago. Neighbors say the lock of hair was part of a pioneer custom to bind troubled couples by hair from both spouses. Local accounts note the practice was used to keep families together rather than split.
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James Webb
Greenfield
Ind
New York Tribune
Ministers Beaten After Frontenac Liquor Court Release
Rev. Primrose and Rev. A F Berkstresser, freed from jail after arrest on liquor selling charges, were attacked by twenty saloon sympathizers while boarding an electric car. They had been gathering liquor for evidence against keepers and were beaten in Frontenac Kansas.
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Frontenac
Kane
Primrose
A. F. Berkstresser
Rev. Berkstresser
Preserve Cut Flowers With Tea Infusion and Glass Bell
Keep cut flowers fresh by covering with a bell glass. Use tea water from previously used tea leaves for a strong infusion to prolong life. Tepid tea revives ice damaged blooms. avoid cold water as it kills them. Ferns benefit from tea water. maidenhair fern shows notable growth. Cover and shield from air drafts, especially at night.
How Chinamen Feel Now How Chinamen Feel Now
The Chronicle reports Li Hung Chang warned that foreign aid quelled the Boxer uprising but may fail next time. Canton unrest grows with antiforeign sentiment despite claims of anti dynastic motive. Rumors of Mongolian capability against Caucasians in China spread, raising risk.
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Ching
Li Hung Chang
Canton
China
Manchuria
San Francisco tensions strain US Japan relations
Washington reports irritation in Japan over petty crimes and insults in San Francisco. Officials acknowledge unusual conditions there beyond state authority. The Japanese government resents criticism and protests as the United States handled California school questions and ongoing anti Japanese outrages draw debate.
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Tribune
Washington
California
Japan
United States
San Francisco
Apice
Count Okuma
Amercans
A New Use for M. D.'s
This Harper's Weekly anecdote spotlights Raymond Hitchcock during a west tour. After a show he convinces a country club guest of a physician to accompany him to a distant suburb near San Francisco. The physician’s fee is four dollars, contrasting with cabmen asking fifteen.
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Raymond Hitchcock
San Francisco
Country Club
Hitchcock
Tor
Harper's Weekly
Russia's internal turmoil grows with terrorism
A St Petersburg dispatch reports rising unrest in Russia as murder and pillage spread among peasants discontent with landowners. The week ending Saturday records 158 victims, 80 killed and 78 wounded, with organized gangs attacking travelers and numerous incendiary acts reported nationwide.
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London
St. Petersburg
Telegraph
Russia
Judge Caldwell Is Improving in Atlanta Georgia
Former Supreme Justo W. Caldwell of Tennessee, visiting Atlanta to argue a Cumberland Presbyterian Church union case, has been bedridden since his arrival. At John H. McCord’s home he is reported improving and expected to leave his room in about a week.
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Atlanta
Justo W. C. Caldwell
Tennessee
John H. McCord
West Peachtree Place
Cumberland Presbyterian Church Union
Supreme Court
Mr. McCord
New Territory Scandal Faces Creek Nation Land Frauds
Muskogee Oklahoma Territory June 9 A new territory scandal is on the tapis with expected suits by the Interior Department against many prominent in Muskogee Tulsa and Wagoner political circles and two national banks. Special townsite attorney W L Sturtevant says suits will be filed to recover property or cash value from those accused of fraudulently acquiring Creek Nation lots through appraised values and backdeeds by dummies.
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I. T
Tapis
Interior Department
W. L. Sturtevant
St. Louis
Garfield
M. L. Mott
Tulsa
Wagoner
Sturtevant
The Financier Rudolf Cashtboy Cries of Wealth Gap
A scene shows Rudolf Cashtboy lamenting inequality as his family debates riches. His father notes Henry Jabba’s inland and lake holdings, while Rudolf mourns lacking the toys and wealth he imagines. He weeps and shatters porcelain in despair.
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Rudolf Cashtboy
Rudolf
Henry Jabba
Henry Jabb
Alrof
Roosevelt at Jamestown presses federal control of resources
At Jamestown exposition President Roosevelt urged federal ownership of coal oil and ranch lands remaining under government control. He called for radical tax laws on incomes and inheritances and hinted at naval buildup while urging safer labor laws. The talk drew mixed reactions from the National Editorial Association and locals who filled the vast exposition grounds. In Lexington Dr Arnold W Frank representing Germany secured a year long term to breed horses at the We Fields farm, 158 acres once home to Imp Wagner, planning extensive thoroughbred breeding.
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Img
Roosevel
Congress
Ehica
Japan
National
Roosevelt
Jamestown
Bullock Hall
Bagwell
Georgia
Tao
Urmont
Lexington
Arnold W. Frank
Imp. Wagner
Framk Hue
Three Bargains on Satterfield Co Offers
One survey priced at $110.00 now $90.00. A $90.00 Surrey marked to $70.00. An $85.00 Surrey reduced to $67.50. Hurry before they are gone. 721 B. A. Satterfield & Co.
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Surrey
B. A. Satterfield & Co
Big Lion Leaps Upon Keeper at Central Park Zoo
James Coyle, a Central Park Zoo keeper, was badly injured when Dewey the lion slashed his right arm through the cage bars. Coyle was hospitalized after arm cauterization and doctors warned of possible complications. Dewey, born in captivity, had previously been considered harmless.
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Dewey
Central Park Zoo
New York
Jime G
James Coyle
Coxe
Ion House
Coyle
Dillon
Presbyterian Hospital
Pat
Paving Decatur Streets to Start Soon
Decatur Alabama June 9 contract for paving 57 000 feet in length of Decatur streets awarded to Southern Bitulithic Company of Birmingham Alabama. Work slated to begin within days and includes nine miles of cement sidewalks plus extensive street work this summer. New sidewalks totaling over twenty miles in the past year law and street projects completed.
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Decatur
Ala
Bitullithie Qommy
Birmingham
New Decatur
Old Slave of Jeff Davis Becomes Wyoming Mining Millionaire
Sam Davis a former enslaved attendant of Jefferson Davis rose to wealth as a mine owner on Wind River’s Warm Springs Creek. The 1840 Mississippi-born man acquired machinery worth about 10000 dollars for a ten horse power engine and air drill plant after moving to Cheyenne and then cattle work, marrying a hunter’s daughter, and developing the Wyoming property into a thriving mining empire.
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Sam Davis
Wart Springs Creek
Wind River Mountain
Shoshoni
New York World
Lemuel Jefferson Davis
Briarfield Plantation
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Colonel Davis
Mississippi Rifles
Buena Vista
Sam
Mr Davis
Samuel Jefferson Davis
Millidgeville
Confederacy
Davis
Cheyenne
Edmond le Claire
Whispering Wind
Arapahoe
Warm Springs Creek
Wind River
Wyoming
The June Bridegroom in a Family Album
A three year old girl curiously shows her baby brother a family album. She points to their young mother in a wedding gown and to their father, humorously remarking on the groom. The vignette mirrors a magazine’s light tone on marriage.
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Waldron
Marrie
Magazine
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