Move to disfranchise Negroes stalls in Florida House
In Tallahassee fin May 3 the Florida House indefinitely postponed action on the Smith suffrage bill, delaying a clause like the Mississippi grandfather clause. The Beard disfranchisement bill, deemed more drastic, faces Senate concurrence after House amendments. A special committee recommended dropping probes into alleged overpayments to former Gov W S Jennings by internal improvement fund trustees, with a minority urging condemnation and possible suit.
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Tallahassee
Fin
House
Senate
Internal Improvement Fund
Jennings
Committee On Action
Ewing denies forced adoption of tobacco journal
Guthrie Kentucky May 7 Felix G Ewing general manager of the Planters Protective Association says erroneous reports circulated that the Tobacco Planter was forced on the association. He says adoption was by a 20 to 2 vote with little opposition and will be mailed to about 15 000 members at 25 cents a year.
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Guthrie, Ky
Felix G. Ewing
The
Planters' Protective Association
Planters’ Protective Association
Guthrie
Ewing
Planters’ Journal
Wrights pupil falls forty five feet in crash in Rome
May 7 in Rome Lieutenant Caldera of the Italian navy, a pupil of Wilber Wright, was injured when a Wright aeroplane dived during a sharp turn. He was knocked unconscious, suffered a dislocated shoulder, facial injuries, and a damaged right eye, then revived and moved to a military hospital.
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Rome
Calderara
Leutenant
Wilber Wright
Doan's Kidney Pills Helped Mrs. F. Alexander
Mrs. F. Alexander of Lewisburg Tennessee describes years of kidney pain backache and fatigue. After using Doan's Kidney Pills she slept well and felt improved. The ad claims Doan's sold by Foster Milburn Co. New York are sole U.S. agents and warn to remember the name.
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Bright
Tia
F. &. Alexander
Lewisburg
Temnsaya
Dean
Foster-Milburn CO
Butee
New York
Pride and pension case shocks Brooklyn veterans circle
James Cunningham a longtime Brooklyn Grand Army of the Republic member faced a federal charge for improper pension funds. Though well off, he sought a small pension to gain recognition as a Union fighter, claiming Civil War service with the One Hundred Sixth New York Volunteers though he was never officially enrolled. He became Devin Post commander, marching on Memorial Day for years.
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New York
James Cunningham
Grand Army
Cunningham
Ruston
One Hundred and Sixth Regiment of
New York Volunteers
Brooklyn
Devin Post
Foley's Honey and Tar Cures Throat Troubles
Hoarseness bronchitis and other throat troubles are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar which soothes and heals the inflamed throat and bronchial tubes and ends obstinate coughs. Insist on genuine Foley's Honey and Tar GEO. 5 ALCORN.
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Foley
Geo
Alcorn
Knoxville Votes Dry Yet Expands Public Works Budget
Knoxville Tennessee May 7 reports the city as the first major southern town to go dry and despite croaker forecasts shows vast public improvements this year. Budget includes 828000 for improvements with bids planned for nine miles of street paving at about 500000. Concrete sidewalks, widening streets, a 67000 viaduct, a 100000 high school plan, a 50000 lot cost, a 10000 primary school, 5000 for a negro school, 5000 from school funds, an 8000 ward fire hall, and 3000 extating hall addition. Tax rate 5 cents lower than in 1907. Saloon closings began 1907 November 1.
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Knoxville
Tenn
South
Asylum Avenue
Ward
Cecil Palmer gets a one month reprieve
Nashville Governor Patterson grants Cecil Palmer a one month reprieve from execution. Palmer, condemned to be hanged on May 11, is respited to June 8, 1909 in Wilson County. The delay follows a new law requiring future executions to occur on penitentiary grounds, noting lack of a ready gallows enclosure.
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Nashville
Tenn
Patterson
Cecil Palmer
Wilson County
Palmer
Tate
Decatur Man Under Arrest in Federal Probe
Decatur Alabama May 8 Postmaster William A Warner of New Decatur was arrested by a Deputy U S Marshal and taken to Huntsville. The indictment was returned by the Federal grand jury at Huntsville. Warner faced an old charge and the case ties to a money order department shortage. Ex-Postmaster E P Jennings and several clerks were summoned to appear before the grand jury. The arrest surprised locals who believed the matter had been settled.
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Decatur
Ala
William A. Warner
New Decatur
United States
Huntsville
Huntaville
Warner
E. P. Jennings
Federal Grand Jury
Warenr
Would Impeach Federal Judges Oppose Missouri Judges
Washington May 7 Formal charges of impeachment against Federal Judges Phillips and McPherson of the Western District of Missouri are to be filed by Representative Murphy after the House adjourned Thursday. He accused the judges in connection with Missouri rail rate laws and denounced their conduct in a high tone.
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Washington
Phillips and
McPherson
Missouri
Representative Murphy
House
Wickersham
Frank Hagerman
Hagerman
Murphy
Rucker
Phillips
Foraker Attacks Wirz Memorial Inscription At Banquet
Former Senator Joseph B. Foraker denounces proposed Wirz monument inscription during Loyal Legion banquet in Cincinnati Ohio. He links the issue to a Jefferson Davis tribute in the Mississippi battleship silver service, warns against further honors, and says old patriot might plant dynamite under the monument rather than blame southern veterans.
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Cincinnati
United States
Joseph B. Foraker
Loyal Legion Department of
Ohio
Wirz
Anderson
Ville
Foraker
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Wirt
New Industrial Negro School Planned Near Shelbyville
President W G Frost of Berea College announced that the new industrial school for Negroes will be built near Shelbyville Kentucky with buildings to start soon. A dedicated railway station and post office for students will be named Lincoln Ky funding from Andrew Carnegie and Mrs Russell Sage among others totals about 250000 dollars for an adjustment fund. Foley's Kidney Remedy ad follows.
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Lexington
W. G. Frost
Berea College
Shelbyville
Prost
Lincoln
Andrew Carnegie
Russell Sage
New York
Henry Pickering
Boston
Kidnapper Is Found Guilty in Mercer Trial
James Boyle was convicted in Mercer Pennsylvania of kidnapping Willie Whitla after a brief trial. The jury deliberated only a few minutes and the penalty ranges from one year to life. His wife Mary Doe, indicted with multiple aliases, faced trial on aiding and abetting the kidnapping as the case began.
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Mercer
James Boyle
Willie Whitla
Murs
Letter writer admits to prank threats against boy
Philadelphia May 7 police say a 13 year old confessed to composing letters threatening to kidnap Albert Apt and blow up his house with dynamite. The boy allegedly disclosed the ransom tale of ten thousand dollars and a schoolmate of Albert. The police have not yet publicly named the boy.
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Philadelphia
Max Apt
May Over T. C. Railways Rumors Stir Kentucky
Reports near July 1 say Tennessee Central Rail road may again be united under one management from Princeton to Hopkinsville and on to Nashville. Engineers map a direct route to avoid back up, with track upgrades and new telephony. Cairo & Norfolk line plans to cross southern Kentucky with start within weeks and trains to Hopkinsville by 1910. Foley's Kidney Remedy ad closes the piece.
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Hopkinsville
May
Tennessee Central Railroad
Nashville
Princeton
Louleville Memphis
Evansville
Corps of
Civil Engineers
Ine
Ilinois Central
Tennessee Central
Cairo
Norfolk Road
Kentucky
Wickliffe
Cumberland Gap
Adets Show Fine Showing In Inter School Rifle Event
Acting Secretary of War Crater congratulates Morris High School New York City for winning the first Inter school gallery rifle shooting championship of the United States with a 95 percent average 195.3 per boy. Garfield Larsen of St Paul High School led individual scoring with 99 of 100. Other high scores came from Manual Training High Brooklyn Culver Military Dewitt Clinton New York Kemper Military Columbia Military.
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Washington, D. C
Morris High School
New York City
United States
Morrla High School
Garfield W. Larsen
St. Paul, Minn
Manual Training High School
Sprooklyn
Culver Military Academy
Culver
Ind
Dewitt Clinton High School
Kemper Military School
Boonville
Columbia Military Academy
Columbia, Tenn
Woman Fined For Selling Liquor in City Court
Ann Thompson, a Black woman, was fined $25 and costs in City Court for selling, giving, procuring, or furnishing intoxicating liquor to another. It developed that she had been buying liquor for certain residents in East Columbia.
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Ann Thompson
East Columbia
Chancery Court Notice in Columbia Tennessee 1909
In a proceeding to protect land in Columbia Tennessee the complainants allege service on defendants including Jan N Stockard Bash Gonopia Bullock and others. Defendants must appear before the Chancery Court on June 7, 1909 or face default. Public notice to run four weeks in The Columbia Herald. Akin, Clerk & Master’s Sol’r for Complt. May 7, 1909.
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Ino
F. Stockard
Chancery
B. Griffin
Keaton
Ge» Duryson
Sallie Bille
Tom Bie
Seay Keaton
W. H. McKennet
State of
Tries
Gald
Royy
Chanver
Columbia
Tennessee
Columbia Herald
A. N. Akin
M. H. P. Sol'r
Non-Resident Notice in Columbia Chancery Case 1909
Clerk and Master in Columbia Tennessee orders non resident Mary Moseley and husband Robert Moseley to appear within three days of the next term and plead to the bill in the case R T Dooley by Next Friend v John Carr et al. The order, published in the Columbia Herald for four consecutive weeks, names A N Akin as Clerk and Master and J A Dinning as solicitor for the complainant.
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John Carr
Mary Moseley
Robert Moseley
Tennessee
Chancery Court
Columbia
Columbia Herald
A. N. Akin
J. A. Dinning
Robbers Loot And Then Run In LaPorte
Four men robbed FP Sonneborn’s store in LaPorte Indiana, blowing the building with dynamite and taking firearms, phonographs, and sporting goods worth about 1001 dollars. A stallion named Humming Bird 2:14 was stolen from a nearby stable. A resident Mrs Augusta Sonneborn was injured by the blast. Sheriff Anstis and Chief Cochrane pursued the robbers, one captured after a gunfight in Galena woods. plunder recovered. crowd threatened lynching. prisoner named Joseph Sobesky claimed to be from Chicago.
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Laporte
Ind
Sonneborn
Humming Bird
Augusta Jonas
The
Ploston
Galena Woods
Michigan
Anstis
Cochrane
Joseph Sobesky
Cago
Patten Not Back At Home Denies West Vacation Reports
Chicago May 7 Reports James A Patten the bull leader in wheat had returned to his home from a West vacation were denied Thursday by his brothers George and Harry Patten They said Patten has not returned and there is no private wire to Bart Runeh nor any word from him for days confirming the report
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Chicago
James A. Patten
George
Harry Patten
Mr. Patten
Bart Runeh
George Patti
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