Municipal Board backs Military Academy over Normal school plan
In Columbia the Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously blocked using fifty thousand dollars for the Normal school location to buy grounds or buildings now used by the Columbia Military Academy. The move mirrors a county court resolution. Alderman W A Dale resigns after claiming his residency change vacated his seat. Dedman attends lone.
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Columbia
Columbia Sere Academy
Harry & Eggerton
Middle Tennessee Normal School
Columbia Military Academy
Quarterly County Court
Biddle
Alderman Hayes
Hayes
Academy
Arsenal
Dale
W. A. Dale
Alderman Dedman
Psent
New Feature Adds County Criminal to Mrs Hines School
Mrs Hine introduces Swedish kindergarten gymnastics to her department at the Institute. Miss Rebecca Carpenter leads the program with two summers of study at the School of Physical Education in Monongahela under Miss Baer of Newcomb College. County Criminal Court meets with Judge W C Gordy presiding. State v Will Biggers, colored, for carrying weapons, pressed, Biggers pays all costs. Remaining cases continued.
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County Criminal Court
W. C. Gordo
Will Biggers
Biggers
Boy Dragged to Death by Cow in Owensboro
An 7 year old boy, son of William Shaver, died after a cow dragged him into a deep creek while being led to pasture. His father attempted to untie the rope as the animal bolted, but could not save him. Local authorities investigated the unfortunate incident in Owensboro, Kentucky.
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Owensboro
Guy Shaver
Willian Shaver
Cowan
Mine Explosion Kills Large Group on Vancouver Island
Sixty miners are feared dead after an explosion at the Extension mine of Wellington Colliery Company on Vancouver Island. Rescue efforts continue as fire hampers access. fifty rescuers work amid a spreading blaze with few bodies recovered by nightfall.
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Nanafao
Scecuers
Tate
Vancouver Island
Swope Millionaire Thomas H. Swope Dies at 81
Thomas H. Swope, famed real estate investor and donor of Swope Park in Kansas City, dies in Independence at about age eighty one. Surviving heirs include Stuart S. Fleming and Mrs. Margaret Fleming with four potential lines of heirs. will reportedly not yet probated.
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Thomas H. Swope
Independence
Mr. Swope
Stuart S. Fleming
Middle West
Margaret Fleming
Jennie Plunkett
Nashville
Stuart
Fleming
Swope
Morse Swope
Fayetteville receives State Board of Education here
Fayetteville Tenn October 5 The State Board of Education was given an enthusiastic reception as Gov Patterson and members arrived from Shelbyville by automobile. An escort of Fayetteville citizens and a hundred school children greeted them at the Hope Hotel. Col J N Tillman welcomed them at the opera house while Gov Patterson spoke. Professors Williams Morgan and Bryson urged Lincoln County’s bid with a 100000 offer and four site options valued at 25000 each. The party will proceed to Columbia after Fayetteville shows the sites.
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Fayetteville, Tenn
State Board of Education
Patterson
Shelbyville
Fayetteville
Fayetteville Corner
Hope Hotel
J. N. Tillman
Gov. Patterson
Lincoln County
J. W. Williams
R. K. Morgan
H. K. Bryson
Bryson
Fayeteville
United States
Columbia
Very Rough On Young America
Petersburg Virginia reports a sharp drop in the peanut crop across Virginia and North Carolina. Harvested yields are down about seventy percent due to prolonged dry weather and late planting delaying seed sowing.
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America
Virginia
North Carolina
Petersburg
Prohibition Campaign Opens in Westchester County
Westchester towns begin anti liquor drive ahead of county election with speeches from wagons and boxes in front of saloons and hotels. Yonkers Vernon and New Rochelle exempt as cities vote on liquor. speakers pledge continued effort to keep county dry. Kansas City dispatch notes Sunflower Refining receiver bid for reorganizing, Judge Pollock grants time for proof.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Westchester County
Mit Vernon
New Rochelle
Kansas City
Mit
Hermann Kaessman
Rochester, N
Sunflower Refining Company
Niotuxe Kan
Fort Scott
Kan
Ark
Pollock
Kaneasely
Miss Knessmann
Poch
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Normal School
L. Barker
H. Cliff Hendley
Notary Public
Stete Surety
Rapitt
H. G. Roskind
Columbia, Tenn
Hoosier
B. A. Satterfield & Co
Eigty
Maur County
Lincoln
New York
Our Millinery Department
Sea Island
South Main Street
Empire
Nesses
American Dental Parlor
Tenn
Woldridge Building
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