False charges explode in West Tennessee political fray
Jackson Tenn May 2. Amid a heated temperance battle Senator Carmack denounced charges against Alexander as baseless. Carmack read a telegram and an affidavit from Dr. William E. Thompson supporting his claim that Alexander misrepresented facts and had admitted no injustice. Local editor Askew led temperance efforts in Jackson and opposed Memphis charter reforms.
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Mr. Alexander
Jackson
Senator Carmack
Nashville
Waverly
Governors
Mqyor
Alexander
R. F. Spraggins
Spraggins
Carmack
Eve Hint
Cormack
Alexan
Alex
Alexander i
Petterson
A. M. Hughlett
First Methodist Church
Tenn
Memphis
Thompson
Axkew
Inez
Jackson, Co
E. W. Carmack
Askew
Representative Askew
A. H. Askew
Land
Senate
William E. Thompson
Central Methodist, Church
Bluff City
Friends of Temperance
Bryan Urges Public Campaign Funds Law
From Lincoln Nebraska William Jennings Bryan likely Democratic nominee urges Secretary Taft to seek a Congressional bill requiring public disclosure of campaign contributions. He suggests all candidates unite to press for this reform before elections.
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Bryan
MR. Taft
Washington
Lincoln
Nebraska
William Jennings Bryan
Taft
Gress
W. J. Bryan
Storm Strikes Cannon County Court House Damage Readjusted
Severe rain and a 40 mph wind hit Woodbury Tennessee for about 30 minutes. A Columbia poplar fell in the courthouse yard lightly damaging the law office of W Walter Hancock. Town streets were heavily wooded and crops in the country suffered damage.
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Cannon County Court House
Woodbury
Tenn
Columbia
W. Walter Hancock
New Haven Road Alleged a Trust
Washington May 22 The government seeks to block control by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad over the Boston and Maine railroad to separate the New Haven line from its trolley system. United States Attorney French filed in the federal court at Maston a petition against the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company and others alleging a combination in restraint of trade and monopoly under the Sherman act.
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Washington
New York
New Haven and Hartford Railrout Company
Boston and Maine Railroad
New Haven
United State Die Inlet
French
United States
Treaty Court
Maston
Liberal Entries in Early Purses Across Tennessee Circuit
The Tennessee Fair and Racing Circuit boosts early closing purses with 500.00 stakes for 2:38 pacers and 2:30 trotters closing June 1, 1908. Winchester and Columbia add 500.00 for two-year-old trotters and 300.00 for two-year-old pacers, attracting breeders to enter across the circuit.
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Tennessee
Winchester
Columba
Usual Decree in 400 Divorce Vanderbilt Case in New York
Mrs. Eilen French Vanderbilt was granted an interlocutory divorce from Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt by Justice O Gorman after referee McClure's report. Custody of son William H. Vanderbilt awarded to Mrs. Vanderbilt. no alimony ordered. The decree allows Mrs. Vanderbilt to remarry during Vanderbilt's lifetime.
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New York
Virginia
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt
England
Tobacco Case Arguments Progress in Sherman Suit
New York May 21. Counsel for the American Tobacco Company continued arguments before the United States Circuit Court in the Sherman antitrust suit. Delancey Nicoll addressed differences between the Nortehit Securities case and the tobacco action, noting the tobacco defendants acted in good faith as bona fide purchasers of multiple constituent concerns and carried on the business within their chartered powers.
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New York
American Tobacco Company
United States Circuit
Delancey Nicoll
Junius, Parker
Nortehit Securities
Securities Company
Widening River Tragedy Claims Danville Tycoon
Thom as Aleander a wealthy Danville businessman and member of a society party drowned after falling into Dix river while fishing near Lexington. The search for his body continued with the river still running high.
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Lexington
Thomas Aleander
Danville
Dix
Union Trend Dominates Methodist Bishops Vote
In Baltimore on May 26 the seventeenth episcopal ballot yielded Dr Wilken F Lewis and Rev Edwin H Hughes as winners on the fifteenth ballot while Rev Robert McIntyre led the sixteenth with 614 votes. Other favored candidates followed, and a commission from the Methodist Protestant church urged unity among American Methodists including United Brethren in Christ. Amusements debate was postponed amid concerns over slander and factional divisions.
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Baltimore
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wilken F. Lewis
Sioux City
Edwin H. Hughes
Deputiw University
Robert McIntyre
Los Angeles
McIntyre
Frank M. Bristol
Thomas C. Stunt
David G. Downey
McIntyre, Lewis and Hughes
Wiliam H. Anderson
New York
John L. Nuelson
Nast Theological Seminary
Berea, O
William
Pittsburg
Dr. Lewis
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Protestant Churches
South
United Brethren In Christ
United Brethren
Goodell
Michigan Battleship Michigan Launched At Camden
The steel hull of the battleship Michigan was launched into the Delaware River at Camden New Jersey built by the New York Shipbuilding Company. It is over 60 percent complete and slated for delivery to the government in about a year. The launch drew a large crowd with guests including Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry Secretary Garfield and Governor Warner of Michigan. Sponsor was Miss Cerol Barnwell Newberry.
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Camden
N. J
Delaware River
Michigan
New York Shipbuilding Company
South Camden
South Carolina
Cramps
Philadelphia
Delaware
Brebetary
Nave Newberry
Searstory
Garfield
Gov. Warner
Mies Cerol Barnew Newberry
Dero
Nowherry
Down's Ointment touted for quick relief of all ills
Advert describes Down's Ointment as a universal remedy for tumbling conditions. It claims rapid relief from various afflictions and notes that druggists sell the product.
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Alexqloer
West
Samuel J. Stockard
Tennessent
Old
Madison
Fxuwvell Farm
John ER. Gentry
McEwen
Teonasee
Ewell Farm
Spring Hill
Onoqua Gentry
Maxie Gentry
Hwell Farm
John R. Gentry
Joe Patchen
Ane
Star Pointer
South Side Park Stud
Walter Direct
Alice
Evelyn W
Alice L
Chaffin Bros
Lieved
Shelby County
Farmer
Frankfort
N. B. Hazelipp
Franklin County
Adjt
Johnson
Tuscumbia
Ala
Cothert County Court House
W. B. Ethridge
Chattanooga
NEW Haven Road
Alfred G
Northern Securities Company
New Jersey
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