High Waters in Marshall County and Rising Duck River
Reports from Marshall County describe widespread flooding as Rock Creek and Duck River tributaries surge. Willhoute’s mill rises 20 feet, three feet per hour, Hardison’s Mill river climbs five feet in an hour, with more rise expected for 24 hours and beyond.
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Marshall County
Rock Creek
Dock River
Willhoute's Mill
Hardison’s Mill
Mansy and Marshall Line
Duck River
Big Shoot at Franklin Gun Club May Day Event
The Franklin Gun Club holds an all day merchandise shoot on Tuesday May 1 1905 inviting all Maury county shooters regardless of club membership. More than sixty prizes include a suit of clothes and Stetson hats with no entrance fee. W J Polk is listed as organizer.
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Franklin Gun Club
Maury County
Gan Claoke
W. Jd
Polk
Vaughan Manufacturing Co. Building Materials Ad
Vaughan Manufacturing Co offers posts shingles and all builders materials rough and dressed timber sash doors blinds mouldings felt roofing iron roofing tin and gutters hardware and tools in Gola Yools ete bia Tennessee.
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Bia
Tennessee
To Clean Gilt Frames
To freshen up get frames wipe with a cloth moistened in oil of turpentine and let the frame dry without rubbing. Or the frame may be carefully dusted and then washed with the whites of three eggs, into which an ounce of soda has been beaten. If the frame is nicked touch these spots up first with a good quality of gold paint.
Burglars' Codes Supposed Superstitions Named
A writer researching burglars' superstitions reports beliefs that no thief will raid a home with a squinting female servant. He notes an omen about three horses seen in a day leading to a pause, and confessions that burglars avoid houses numbered 22 9 111 and 444.
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Ovemas
One Way of Paying a Debt in Penang
A Malay money lender faced a brutal repayment method as a debtor used force to secure a padlock through his ear. The lender, unable to collect, tore up the promissory note in exchange for the key to the lock, ending the dispute with the attacker escaping punishment.
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Zoat
New York Sun
Ursus
Abby
Penang
Immigration Foe Chas Lane Urges Against Foreign Import
Chas P. Lane president of the Alabama Commercial and Industrial Association speaks against importing foreign immigrants at a Birmingham meeting. He warns of future race tensions and favors preserving Americanized natives, asserting Alabama should shelter the virtuous and governing citizens while closing doors to perceived foreign outcasts.
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Huntsville
Ala
Chas
P. Lane
Alabama Commercial & Industrial Association
Birmingham
South
Alabama
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Farmers and Merchants Bank
Columbia Tennessee
Farmers & Merchants Bank
J. W. Fry
J. P. Brownlow
Joe F. Brownlow
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Columbia
Harlan & Evans
Marshall
Dr. Wood
Franklin
Vaughan Manufacturing Co
A. L. Blocker
W. P. Moore
Bell Telephone
Brown Block
Charles P. Lance
Peter Hinch Bitters
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