Tennessee Temperance Plan Moves to Ban Saloon Network
A Tennessee statewide appeal issued by the executive committee of the temperance conference urges all parties to unite for abolishing saloons. It outlines using Mississippi local option style petitions, calls for legislative pledges, and urges clergy merchants and temperance groups to organize anti saloon leagues across counties. The plan seeks to leverage a four mile law and municipal action to secure prohibition.
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Tennessee
Temperance
Nashville
Tennescoe
Mississippi
Sons of Temperance
Good Templars
L. Bannwick
A.D. Revsonis
T. M. Heares
W.M. Wilsox
Tas
A. Taty
Jés
EB. Carlton
Atlant
Tyner
The Chicago Record Ad Slogan and Address
An advertisement extols The Chicago Record as a first class metropolitan daily with broad world news, independent politics, and large circulation. It invites readers to buy at newsdealers and to subscribe via postmasters, listing 181 Madison Street as the address.
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Chicago Record
Chicago
West
J. T. Hatfield
Northwestern University
Daily Journal
Madisonsi
Tennessee Tragedy Marks Two Fatal Shootings
Multiple reports from Nasugrune and Shelbyville detail fatal shooting incidents. James Fitzgerald, 26, a grocery and saloon keeper, was fatally shot by P. M. Westbrook, a carpenter, after a quarrel over a saw. Westbrook, 60, was arrested for murder, claiming self defense. In Shelbyville, William Posey was killed by his father in law, John W. Trollinger, during a family dispute near Trollinger's gate. accounts conflict over self defense versus straight quarrel, with a preliminary hearing postponed and grand jury expected to act.
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James Fitzgerald
Stevens Street
Kayne Avenue
P.M. Weatbruk
Fitzgerald
Westbrook
Fitzzgerald
Shelbyville
Tenn
William Posey
John W. Trollinger
Trollinger
Posey
Notorious Baker Shot Dead in Copper Ridge Killing
In Bristo Texas on April 7 Bill Baker once acquitted of Dr Crockett’s murder was killed near Nicksville Virginia by Dad Minton after a quarrel over Baker’s relations with Minton’s stepmother. Three shots struck. Baker’s head and body were hit as the assailant fled. The feud stems from Baker’s intimate connection with the stepmother and Minton’s surrender to authorities.
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Bristo
Texas
Bill Baker
Dr Crockett
Copper Ridge
Nicklesville
Dad Minton
Baker
Minton
Knoxville Doctor Charles Cawood Dies Amid Ankle Operation
Knoxville April 7 Charles Cawood prominent physician dies suddenly at 9 tonight from chloroform while preparations were made to operate on his ankle. He died before the operation began. Cawood, a young man, had served two years as city physician of Knoxville and was of great promise.
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Knoxville
Charles Cawood
Cawood
Meyers Second Trial Set With Poor Fund Support
New York April 8 the district attorney says the second trial of Dr Henry O Fyfe the noted poisoner will begin Thursday next The prisoner has no funds and the county must pay his defense Recorder Smyth assigns Meyers former counsel Brooke O Sullivan Brooke Jr and Chanler to lead the defense All expert witnesses from the first trial have been subpoenaed and state costs will be large.
Draughons Practical Business College ad promises quick bookkeeping training
In Nashville this ad touts 4 equal weeks by their method equaling 12 weeks old style with guaranteed positions under certain conditions. It highlights 500 students, 11 teachers, home study and no vacation, invites applications for free 80 page catalogue, and offers 5 cash to reporters for vacancies.
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Business College
South
Nashville
Novacation
J. F. Draughon
Draughon
Practical Business College
Tennessee
N. B
Bright Spring Days and the Promise of Health
A speech extols spring as a season of contentment and prosperity while noting common bodily ills from age to liver and nerves. It advocates Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy to restore harmony with nature, claiming widespread benefits and practical value for the nation and business world.
Contagion in a Book Sparks Diphtheria Fear
Indianapolis reports a sensation over diphtheria linked to a circulating library book. Dr Hurty says a March 17 loan showed teeth marks and diphtheria bacilli, with cultures from a boy and the book identical. Librarians and health records deny recent cases in the same families.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hurry
Burry
Hurty
City Board of Health
Girls Wed in Secret Marriage in West Virginia
Sallie Stringer and Mary Stallinger, two women living in Pankersuure, West Virginia, married after a period of travel and concealment. They faced pressure and threats, with one man claiming kinship to Coronet, Obie, trying to take them home, while noting a potential broader scandal involving a convent.
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Pankersuure
W. Va
Sallie Stringer
Mary Stallinger
Ti Wax
Stringer
Misa Stallinger
Ohio
Ana
Possible silver convention debated by bimetallic league
In Memphis area notes, Washington April Ree Coventity reports President A J Warner of the bimetallic league denying any plan for a convention in Washington tied to Coxey’s army. He cites no firm arrangements or date, though a sizable silver convention in the South, perhaps Memphis Town, has been considered.
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Memphis
Washincrox
Coventity
A. J. Warner
The
Bimetallic League
Washington
Coxey
Mempie Town
Serna
Brazilian Insurgents Capture Canarie Surrender Reported
From Buenos Ayres April 8 dispatches state the Brazilian government gunboat Canarie has surrendered to the insurgent fleet at Rio Grande do Sul. insurgents field 6000 well armed men and ample provisions. Portuguese warships Mindello and Alfonso de Albuquerque with Admiral da Gama have sailed. destination unknown.
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Buenos Aerra
Rio Grande Do Sul
Mindello
Alfonso de Albuquerque
Rio Janeiro
Admiral da Gama
Uheir
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