Trial fever grows over Baker Gilmer case at Abingdon
Intense public interest surrounds the Baker Gilmer murder indictment as Dr. Baker faces jurors. testimony from Mrs. Gilmer reveals alleged criminal intimacy and poison plots, with Dr. Taylor's autopsy potentially shaping the verdict and a wave of local spectators filling the courtroom.
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Antyapox
Eliza Campbell
Gordip
Abingdon
Dr. Baker
Baker
Taylor
Commonwealth
Tuk Comer
Colasde Hotel
Tie
Mra. Baker
Trigg Brothers
Frank 8
Blair
Jnc. A. Buchanan
Old Dominion
Wysor
Hutton
Bailey
Summers
White
Burson
Ward
David Cummings
Wyndham Gilmer
Mrs. Gilmer
Comet Scintillations and Local Happenings
Mrs. M. J. Berry yields fine apples and a corn stalk fifteen and a half feet tall. Hart and McNees on Market Street boast they will not be downed, while thieves who stole their kitten for upcoming bologna sausage face a rush to flee with kitten No 3 growing fat and sleek for soon sale.
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M. J. Berry
The Contract Let For School Foundations
A city council meeting yesterday awarded the contract for laying the school buildings foundations to A. R. Wing. The committee promises rapid progress on the project and a steady push to completion.
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A. R. Wing
Bonding Coal Production Jump Across Five States
An official bulletin reports 1889 coal output in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina totaling 11,049,226 short tons valued at 10,049,089 dollars. Detailed by state, the census shows sharp gains from the tenth to eleventh census years, with West Virginia and Kentucky leading the rise. The bulletin also covers capital invested, employment, and wages in each state, plus notes on natural coke in northern Virginia and mortgage-encumbered farms nationwide.
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Wasiixetos
Otfier
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Pasal
James River
Richmond
Personal notes from Johnson City daily visitors and arrivals
A stream of visitors and residents are noted in Johnson City. Geo Callahan of Knoxville and others from Bristol Leesburg Limestone Telford Lexington Elk Park and Knoxville are in town or traveling. Col Parsons and Capt Jones travel to Knoxville for Tron Belt Land Co. Mrs Dickens from Connecticut now resides here. Judge Palmetier Wisconsin ex-Senator visits with Winegar family and may relocate. The Commerade offers a cordial reception.
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Iron Belt, Land Company
W. A. Kite & Co
W.S. Jones
Alabama
West Park
Col. W. B. Wren
Iron Belt
Col. Parsons
Capt
W. 8. Jones
Knoxville
Tron Belt Land Co
Chas. Palmetier
Wisconsin
Mr. Palmetier
E. F. Winegar
Lake Geneva
Johnson City
Mortgage debt figures rise amid farmer home foreclosures
Porter says the nationwide mortgage investigation far surpassed expectations and will interest the nation. the first volume on recorded indebtedness may be published this year. Incomplete western state returns show farms and homes mortgaged for about one third of owner-assessed value.
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Census ‘Office
United State
Jpulation
Iowa
United States
Porter
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Baker Gilmer
the Comet
Special Star
Mrs. Baker
Maple Grove
The
Iron Belt Land Co
Geo. Callahan
Frank Britton
Jones
EB. Dilworth
Bristol
W. A. Hansher
Telford
John W. Crumley
Leesburg
Sanford Crouch
H.C. Remine
A. B. Bowman
C. B. Armentrout
Limestone
H. L. Cooper
Jonesboro
M. B. Martin
Unaka Springs
J. W. Boring
Lexington
N.C
Ed. Berkley
F. A. McCorkle
Sam Stuart
T. W. Berkley
Judge Hart
Market Street
Mildred Smith
Chatham, Va
Mra
Charlie Seehorn
Nat. W. Taylor
Elk Park
Fletcher White
Live Oak
Fla
Mountain City
Benjamin Stratton
Ind
H. B. Wilson
Babe
Chattanooga
Mr. Farr
Carnegie Hotel
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian Church
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