World Fair hotel deal offers $1.00 a day lodging
C B Dorn & Co advertise seven brick and stone hotels within one to three blocks of the World’s Fair central entrance. Comer contract promises rooms for 1,500 daily at $1.00 with 50 cent registration, refundable on hotel bill. Meals priced 25 to 50 cents and rooms at $2.00 include meals. certificates issued for advance reservations. Also notes New York Clearinghouse Loan committee added $500,000 in certificates, total $37,780,000 outstanding.
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Tur Corner
C. B. Dorn & Co
World's Fairgate
Columbian Union of Hotels
Comer
Eb, Dorn & Co
E. Dorn & Co
Tuk Comer
Tim Comm
Dorn & Co
Chvne
62D Street
Chicago
MES Frank Leslie to Wed His New Husband
Frank Leslie reportedly to wed actor Myron Calico, a heavy villain in Lillian Lewis’ company. Calico allegedly offered resignation to join Mrs. Leslie after she returned from Europe, with manager Lawrence Marston confirming attendance at rehearsal August 27.
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Myron Calico
Lillian Lewis
Migs Lewis
Lawrence Marston
Chicago
Marston
New York
Rehersal
Myron Gale
Mra
Leslie
Stabbing at Elizabethton Ends With Severe Injury
A Thursday night stabbing at an Elizabethton house of ill repute left Mrs Curry gravely wounded after Monroe Mast stabbed her in the throat during an affray sparked by neighbors and a sought after girl named Curry. The blade likely pierced to the lung as her husband intervened and struck Mast with a chair.
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Elizabethton
Curry
Gangers Appointed By Washington Nominations Named
Collester Easury received notice that two nominations had been made appointments by the department at Washington. W. H. Cloud was named internal revenue gauger and W. B. Peek of Olliver Springs for storekeeper and ganger. Robert Cleveland of Powder Springs Gap was named for a similar position.
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Collester Easury
Washington
W. H. Cloud
Internal Revenue
W. B. Peek
Olliver Springs
Robert Cleveland
Powder Springs Gap
Bread on the Waters
Fourteen years after leaving Bakersville North Carolina Sidney Heptonstall owed W R Stuart a 125 guard bill. Stuart received a reminder in a check for the full amount after many years, and the young man later stopped in Erwin making many friends there.
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Sidney Heptonstall
Bakersville
N. C
W. R. Stuart
Stuart
Erwin
Bakeraville
Erwin Magnet
Reduction Sale on All Wool Fabrics in Johnson City
Bargain prices on Charlies 65 cents, 45 and 25 cent Brandenburg Cloth, 18 to 17 cents Satinos, 12 to 18 cents Satines, 32 cent Latin-Striped Gingham. Limited stock, first come, first served. Finest, newest goods not shelf worn. Satin-Striped Ginghams scarce in town. Come early for best selection.
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Johnson City
G. Kirkpatrick
Adjutant General Fite Plans Guard Increases At Coal Creek
Adjutant General Fite returned to Nashville from Coal Creek and outlined a plan to bolster guards at Big Mountain and Coal Creek while moving soldiers to Clinton. The lynching of Drummond remains unsettled with no arrests likely. Work on Coal Creek tower halted as guards would be stationed to secure the stockade and hold lessees financially responsible. The past eight months saw 6597143 paid for military expenses, mostly from the Buchanan administration.
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Fite
Nashville
Coal Creek
Big Mountain
Clinton
Drummond
Coal Créek
Vite
Buchanan
Tennessee Members Share Roles in Key Committees
Tennessee members hold several chairmanships and key positions across committees. McMillin leads Expenditures in the Navy, Patterson heads Toterature and Foreign Commerce, Enloe and Taylor sit on War Claims, Snodgrass chairs Pension, McDearmon handles Levees and the Mississippi, Cox leads Banking and Currency, Richardson chairs Printing, Enloe leads Education, and Washington joins the Appropriations panel.
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McMillin
Ways and Means
Tennessee
Navy Department
Patterson
Toterature and Foreign Commerce
Messrs
Enloe and Taylor
Snodgrass
McDearmon
Mississippi
Cox
Richardson
Enloe Olairman
Washington
Carrier Pigeons in Knoxville Reported Key to Deliveries
Pigeons from Standard Oil of Knoxville were used for a delivery to Johnson City but did not arrive as scheduled. The trip, expected to take about two hours, extended past six o'clock last night before the drive was closed.
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Standard Oil Company
Johnson
Diberaud
Tribune
Cabinet Officials Endorse Arctic Bering Sea Regulation
Secretary Gresham and cabinet members pressed themselves into a policy backing Bering Sea regulations. The rules imply the United States will police the area without benefiting American sealers, while Russia, Japan, and others gain. Canada views the move as a U S victory.
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Greshany
Bering Sea
United States
Rusia
Japan
Great Britain
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Julius Zeidler
Brooklyn, N
Hood
Yana Tor
Toad
Joop
New York Clearinghouse Loan Committee
Mes
Frank Leslie
Myron Calica
Willie Wilde
Heaven
Mia
Gangers
Ious
A Knoxville Carriers
W. W. Kirkpatrick
Main Street
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