Women seek legal protection for separate property in Texas
Delineator staffer notes Tennessee and Texas moves to shield married women from creditors. Judge Speer drafts bills to recognize women's separate property and prevent herd or cattle from passing to husbands through marriage. Cherokee Club Greenville supports petition to protest unjust laws, citing Georgia precedent on marital property and gifts within marriage.
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Wiliam Hard
Delineator
Nashville
Hard
Texas
State Bar Association
State Federation of Women's Clubs
State Congress of Mothers
Ocie Speer
Court of Civil Appeals of
Fort Worth
Tennessee
Joan
Chubs
Cherokee Club of
Greenville
Mra
LeRoy Brown
G. W. Doughty
Rena Brown
W. W. Har- Man
J. A. ‘Rim
Laughing to death and magazine hype in Taylorsburg era
Obie Abe Skinner reports a man laughed himself to death while reading The Great American Magazine of Fun Biff. The clipping promotes a Dayton Ohio publisher offering subscriptions costing 500 annually and notes Gay Wilson will sail to New York on the Bermudian arriving December 16. It also quotes political predictions on W. J. Bryan and the next cabinet as the president-elect seeks Democratic leaders but will act independently.
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Taylorsburg
Obie
Abe Skinner
BIFP
Biff
Biff Publishing Co
Dayton
Ohio
Gay
Wilson
New York
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Democratic Party
Southland Heroine to Publish Book on War Service
Washington reports Mrs. Ella Newsome Trader, famed for nursing Confederates and Union prisoners, to publish a book about her Civil War service. She gave $75,000 early in the war and later worked in the pension office after losing sight in one eye and becoming nearly deaf. A Union soldier she nursed plans to write the volume after gathering years of data.
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Washington
Ella Newsome Trader
Dixie
Florence Nightingale
Trader
Ella Newsome
Confederacy
Governor Wilson Announces Plans After Vacation
Hamilton Bermuda via Kingston December 9 reports President-elect Wilson will end his vacation on Saturday and return to duty. His decision follows a recent conference and signals a forthcoming itinerary and activities for the new administration.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Kingston
Wilson
Blame Piracy for High Living Costs Cited at Conference
New York December 9. Producers and consumers condemned business piracy as driving up living costs. Long Island farmers testified that Lima beans selling for 40 cents a bushel were found at 15 cents a quart in Washington, while cauliflower fetched 45 cents a barrel and netted 26 cents in advance at New York markets.
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New York
Commission
Board of Trade and Transportation
Long Island
T. B. Tuttle
Washington
Fullerton
Special Building for Forestry at Conservation Exposition
Washington December 9 a special building is to be devoted to forestry at the National Conservation Exposition to be held at Knoxville Tennessee during September and October for 11a. The building is completed and sits amid a grove of trees aiding outdoor forest display and activities.
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Washington, D
Knoxville
Tennessee
Forest Exhibition Plans At Knoxville Show Federal Conservation Efforts
A Knoxville exposition will feature an imitation national forest display to illustrate Southern Appalachians forest administration fire prevention erosion control and logging methods. Don Carleg Eile leads the forestry exhibits and plans include cooperation with Gifford Pinchot and federal bureaus to show erosion control and wood production improvements.
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Southern
Appalachians
Don Carleg Eile
U.S Forest Services
Forstry
Knoxville
Willis
Gifford Pinchot
Rester
U.S
Congress
Federal
Geological Survey
Bureau of Nines
Children's Bureau
Bureau of Education
Department of Agriculture
U. S. Forest Service
Vandal Destroys Hedge Along Holston Avenue
Tuesday night a vandal pulled up the hedge along the front of Captain Abe Hyder's premises on Holston Avenue. Police will seek the culprit and prosecute to the full extent of the law.
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Abe Hyder Hiad
Holston Avenue
Massey to contest Sells victory despite hospital post
Dr Massey a Nashvite physician at the state pen will file a contest against Congressman Sells in the First district. Leaders say he can lose nothing and might be seated later. Massey faces GOP allies and opposition from Hooper supporters amid party realignments and county irregularities. Sells asserts Massey may contest but claims a 600 vote majority and no fear of loss.
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Brintal
Dee
Th Massey
Nashvite
Lan . Sella
Wrst
Massey
Maj
Paul 1. Dievine
Maskey
Ben W. Hooper
Sells
Ttis
Hooper
Congressman Bells
Dr. Massey
Congressmn
Dr . Massey
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Georgia
Black
Ley
Georgia Supreme Court
Johnson City
Mountcastle-Phlogarl Hardware Co
Johnson City, Tennessee
Unaka National Bank
Southland
Forestry
Wm. Silver
Will
Royal Boxing
Prescott
University of Michigan
Pure Food Committee of
City National Bank
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