Prominent Bristol Lawyer Faces Bar Rule In Bristol
Knoxville reports W. B. Page of Bristol is in town and will answer a rule issued by Judge Dana Harmon ordering him to show cause why he should not be disbarred from practicing law. Page contests the action and may seek an injunction to block enforcement. The rule stems from a chancery court filing that Harmon says contains unfounded charges against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
W. BR. Page
Bristol
Jerome Templeton
Page
Dana Harmon
Harmon
Chancery Court
Appalachian team may drop from Southeastern League
It is rumored the Appalachian Base Ball Association which kept a team in the Southeastern League last year may sever its connection and not field a team in 1911. A decision on the season is expected soon, with grave danger of Knoxville having no baseball this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Appalachian Baseball Association
Appalachians
Gen Gordon Seeks War Dept Report on Confederate Grave Work
Gen Gordon of the Tennessee district introduces in the house a joint resolution directing Secretary Dickinson to report what work has been done under the 1900 act to mark the graves of Confederate soldiers and sailors who died in Northern prisons. He says there has been sufficient time to allow a congressional report on progress.
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Washington
Man
Gordon
Tennessee
Dickinson
Congress
Street Scenes Feature From Leslie's Weekly
The board of trade publishes three Nashville street scenes sent by Leslie-Judge. Cort Square shows courthouse market house and city hall with wagons, the wholesale district covers Second Avenue to Broadway and Union, and the retail shopping district focuses on Fifth Avenue.
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Board of Trade
Leslie-Judge Company
Nashville
Uest
Leslie’s Weekly
Cort Square
City Hall
Second Avenue
Broadway
Union
Fifth Avenue
Watauga Notes Host Guests and Local Appointments
Watauga Tennessee notes record Rev J E Wallen of Johnson City visiting W B Reynolds family and others visiting local residents. James Blevins named new postmaster succeeding long serving J C Robertson. A homicide case near London Tennessee involved Charley Dobson. his body found by rail line November 23 1910 and identified by C C Crawford a Bristol resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watauga
Tenn
J. E. Wallen
Johnson City
W. B. Reynolds
C. L. Harmon
Bristol
B. N. Edwards
Mary Price
Virginia
A. R. Johnson
J. W. Hunter
Comppany
Crawford
Dobsop
Walter Lilly
Sumpter
B. Rumbley
Bluff City
Mattie Gibson
Washington County
Tennessee Senate Sees Seventh Ballot Without Choice
In Nashville the joint convention failed to elect a U S senator on the seventh ballot as McMillin Enloe and Fowler vie for votes. Key lawmakers withheld support causing no candidate to reach the required sixty six votes amidst shifting allegiances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
United States
Jas.b. Frazier
B. A. Enloe
West Tennessee
James A. Fowler
Knoxville
Enloe
Representative Farmer
Jas. A. Fowler
Farmer
Houk
McMillin
Nat Raster, Jr
K. D. McKellar
Memphis
Eugene H. Williams
Hamilton County
Frazier
Frasier
Enlee
United States Senate
McMillan
J. A. Fowler
Mr. Fowler
Mission of Union Talks Among Methodist Denominations
Cincinnati January conference gathers five million members as a joint committee from the Methodist Episcopal, Protestant Methodist, and Methodist Episcopal Church South meets to draft plans for consolidation. Attendees include bishops Craston and Waldo, Dr. R. T. Miller, Bishop E K Hoss, Dr. F M Thomas, Judge M J Walton, President T H Lewis, Dn ML Jennings, and LT Morris.
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Cincinnati
Methodist Episcopal
Protestant Methodist
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Craston
Washington, D
Waldo
R. T. Milkler
E. KE. Hoss
Nashville
FM. Thomas
Louisville
M. J. Walton
Woodstock
Methodist Hepiscopal Church, South
T. H. Lewis
Westminster
Dn ML, Jennings
Pittsburg
LT. Morris
Henderson
N. C
Protestant Methodist Church
Hotel Bristol to Open in Bristol This Spring
G T Alexander of Chattanooga reports the new Hotel Bristol, costing 125000 dollars, will open between April and May. He travels to New York today to arrange furnishings and purchase.
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Bristol
G. T. Alexander
Chattanooga
New York
Remarkable Full Recovery From Broken Neck in Boy
In New Orleans at Charity hospital Philip Hoffman aged 14 is declared to have fully recovered from a broken neck after a plaster cast was removed. An X Ray shows the vertebrae knitted and the boy can turn his head without pain. He had broken the second and third cervical vertebrae when attempting a backward somersault after seeing a circus.
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New Orleans
Charity Hospital
Philip Hoffman
Letter S Destroyer of Female Loveliness
New York reports The Wo man’s Professional league, a society of business women, proposes replacing the letter s with z to prevent neck wrinkles and hissing sounds. They claim pronouncing s strains the neck, and suggest using 7 to smooth hollows and restore a round throat.
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New York
Woman's Professional League
New York Society of Business Women
Tax Assessor J. W. Weeks Begins Property Valuation
Tax assessor J. W. Weeks starts work assessing real and personal property in Washington county. If you want a valuation increase, contact him. Beware of Avarlew. The text warns that increasing wealth leads to tyranny weighing on the soul.
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Washington County
A. R. Johnson
W. F. Carter
Johnson City
A. J. Tyler
J. B. Cox
Austin Springs
Judeth D. Hewitt
H. D
L. D. Gump
J. F. Johnson
John A. Swadley
W. A. Hunter
Hattie K. Hunter
Walter J. Hunter
D. R. Smalling
J. H. Smalling
Rooner Booher
W. A. Correll
J. W. Crumley
M'f'g Co
Lot
W. B. Franklin
Samuel Litchtenstine
Isaac Harr
R. J. Lusk
M. T. Silvers
Joseph Jackson
D. W. Williams
James Caesary
Harrison Osborne
J.D. Allison
W. J. Barton
J. D. Painter
Mrs. Mattie Foreman
D. J. Stover
John Sanders
W. D. Gray
W. F. Kearney
G. W. Burkhead
GW. Burkhead
Ida ‘Tipton
David L. Lovegrove
EB. N. Moore
Tracts
C.G. Hannah
T. W. McCown
J. M. Micon
Chas. K. Lucas
J. W. Weeks
Jobbers Seek Top Southern Baseball Manager
Morristown January 18 An effort is under way to hire one of the Souths best baseball managers to run the jobbers in the Southeastern league this year Negotiations have progressed for days and a contract seems likely soon Several players have been signed for the season Local fans praise the managements move and expect Morristown to witness its best ball year yet
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Morristown
South
Life Is a Funny Proposition by von F Wren
A blunt reflection on the paradoxes of human life from birth to death. The speaker catalogs the changing judgments people place on a person across infancy childhood adulthood and old age. The piece ends with a wry note that life remains a humorous yet baffling proposition.
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Foreigo
von F. Wren
Locust Swarm Expected Along Atlantic Seaboard
New York reports a 7 year locust swarm due this year as the 17 year pests emerge from Virginia to New York. Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars of the Bronx Zoo believes the Hudson River may help curb the invasion.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Virginia
Raymond L. Ditmars
Bronx Zoo
Hudson River
New Postmaster Named for St. Clair
Washington January 18 Sherman Davis has been appointed postmaster at Saint Clair Hawkins county replacing J W Portum who resigned. Chairman Flensley spent yesterday in Jonesboro on county court business. Tanac Hart and Deputy Circuit Court Clerk Barnes attended court in Bristol yesterday.
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Washington
Sherman
Davis
Saint Clair
Hawkins County
J. W. Portum
Flensley
Jonesboro
Tanac Hart
Barnes
Bristol
Hooper’s Inauguration Day Set for January 25
Nashville January 18 Capitan Ben W Hooper will be inaugurated as governor of Tennessee Wednesday January 25 This date was agreed upon last night at a conference between Speaker Baxter of the Senate and Hon Newell Sanders chairman of the state Republican executive committee
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Nashville
Capitan
Ben W. Hooper
Tennessee
Baxter
Senate
Newell Sanders
Republican Exective Committee
Canvass of Governor Vote Counts Released
Nashville January 18. The November governor ballot was canvassed in a joint legislature session. Hooper Republican 133 976 votes Taylor Democrat 121 694 McCallen Socialist 1 707 votes.
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Nashville
Hooper
Taylor
McCallen
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